Chapter 11 The tenth section has no prophecy: "Flower monk"?

After Chu Feng bid farewell to Fatty, he went to the hospital.After thinking about it last night, he became very interested in the birch bark document and the stele, and decided to go to Lop Nur to see the spot where the stele was discovered.After all, this also involves the deciphering of the wolf-skin document in his family. It would be a lie to say that he has no curiosity at all. Besides, this is also the wish of the teacher. Chu Feng pushed open the half-closed door of the ward, and saw that the teacher in the ward had already woken up and was sitting on the bed working, but Ling Ning didn't know where he had gone.

Professor Ling was so focused on his work that Chu Feng walked to the hospital bed and called him a few times before he heard him. "Oh, it's Chu Feng, you didn't make a sound, you scared me!" Professor Ling could not help complaining when he saw his disciple's face clearly. Chu Feng had no choice but to say: "Teacher, you are too focused, I have called you several times!" "Oh." Professor Ling didn't care about him at all, and continued to stare at the computer and keep typing on the keyboard.Soon, his face showed joy: "Chu Feng, come and see, look at this!"

Chu Feng leaned forward. It turned out that Professor Ling had already scanned the birch bark document into the computer. Professor Ling’s computer was connected to the electronic library of many university libraries. At this moment, the birch bark document had been deconstructed. Basically, the corresponding translation has been made, and the part that is similar to the Lu language is looking for the same word word by word.Professor Ling asked Chu Feng to read it, and found several identical words. It can be said that Chu Feng's mastery of Lu Wen has long been better than blue. When he saw it, he knew that these should be the key components of a spell: "Teacher, this should be a spell."

"Yes, you are right." Professor Ling was very excited. He continued to search and compare, and soon connected to the stack of another library.He compared each word word by word, and Chu Feng was deeply influenced by it, so he accompanied him to make a careful comparison. The most difficult part of translating ancient texts is the beginning. It is necessary to find the most critical common words and decipher them, so that the context can be combined and translated bit by bit.It may take others at least a few months or even a year to translate the document, but Professor Ling has mastered the key to deciphering this document in just a few hours.

Professor Ling nodded in satisfaction, and took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose: "Well, it's exactly as I expected." Chu Feng didn't see it yet, and asked in bewilderment, "Teacher, what did you see?" "You see, this is something like a scripture, but not quite a scripture. According to my estimate, it should be from the 4th to the 5th century AD, but I still want to make a carbon copy of this birch bark document. 14 to determine the final, I have asked Ling Ning to send the original to the Xinjiang archaeological team for testing. As long as its age is determined, this thing will be closer to my guess." Professor Ling has obviously obtained some useful information , Said very confidently.

"Teacher, what guess do you have?" Chu Feng asked. Professor Ling pretended to be mysterious again: "Chu Feng, do you still remember the monk Tan Wuzhen?" Chu Feng knew that the teacher's habit of testing people could not be changed. However, this famous monk who lived in the Western Regions during the Northern Wei Dynasty knew a little bit: "Teacher, do you mean that the flowery monk has no prophecy?" Professor Ling reprimanded him as soon as he heard it: "What kind of flower monk? Don't believe in hearsay easily. Tan Wuzhen can still bear the words of a good monk."

This Tanwu prophecy is very interesting. He was originally a virtuous and eminent monk as famous as Kumarajiva, but he was rumored to have had an affair with others. Therefore, although he was the leader of the Liangzhou Group, one of the five largest scripture translation groups in China at that time, , but its reputation is far less than that of Kumarajiva in the same period. Tan Wuzhen is a Kashmiri in the Northern Wei Dynasty, a Brahman.He practiced Hinayana Buddhism since he was a child, and later it is said that he changed to Mahayana because his master gave him a "Nirvana Sutra" written on birch bark.He can be said to be the direct fuse of Loulan's destruction of the country.

Tuoba Tao, the leader of the Northern Wei Dynasty, heard about Tan Wuzhen's various techniques, and sent people to Beiliang to welcome Tan Wuzhen.Juqu Mengxun was afraid that Wei would not be able to refuse if he was too powerful, but also that it would be bad for him after Tan Wuzhen went to Wei, so he conspired to get rid of Tan Wuzhen.It's just that Tan Wuzhen had the intention of going to the Western Regions to ask for the next part of "Nirvana" at that time.Juqu Mengxunming assisted him to set off, but secretly sent assassins to kill him on the way. Then Tuoba Tao added troops to Juqu, and the Juqu clan lost to the Northern Wei army. A defeated army of 5,000 people crossed the desert and went to Loulan.King Bilong of Loulan organized several resistances and was victorious, but for some reason, he suddenly fled with 4,000 main residents of Loulan.As a result, he and the fleeing residents disappeared, leaving his son Zhenda "face bound and surrendered".

"Teacher, why did you think of him?" "Think about it, Tan Wuzhen was a famous monk who translated scriptures, and he was the representative of the Wuwei Translation Group, the most important center of translation studies in China at that time. The great curse master of the entire Western Regions. Judging from his translations, it mainly strengthens the ghost system and forbidden spells, and preaches animism and polytheism. As famous as him is his birch bark scripture. I I have always suspected that the birch bark document called "Nirvana Sutra" is actually not a sutra at all, but a mantra book, or a combination of the two." Professor Ling became more and more excited as he spoke.Chu Feng hurried to bring him the teacup.

After taking a sip of tea and calming down, Ling Rukai continued his thoughts: "His death is also a big mystery. Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao was famous for being a tough Buddhist monarch. Shamen'—buried alive all the monks in the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty. But why is he interested in the monk Tan Wuzhen? He sent a special envoy to Wuwei to pick up people. He definitely didn't ask Tan Wuzhen to teach Buddhism. What he valued is definitely not his The identity of the master of scripture translation! So what does Emperor Taiwu want from Tan Wuchen?"

After contemplating for a while, Professor Ling continued: "What on earth is in Tan Wuzhen? Let one of these rulers kill him at the expense of his own life, while the other will not hesitate to use his sword for it. There must be something in it. Secret! Chu Feng, this secret must be quite big.” At this time, Chu Feng was also aroused by Professor Ling's words: "This is indeed a bit strange. Some people perish for beauties and treasures, but because of monks, I am afraid this is the only one. If it is said that the Northern Wei Dynasty was only famous for being a teacher, it is also There should be other excuses. Moreover, after Tuoba Tao conquered Wuwei, someone found out that Juqu Mengxun had tortured him before killing Tan Wuzhen, and Tuoba Tao killed the whole family of Juqu Mengxun who had surrendered. .These just confirm your suspicions." "Yeah, there is a secret in Tan Wuzhen, and this secret is very likely to be related to Loulan, and it is likely to be hidden in the "Nirvana Sutra" written on birch bark that he never leaves his body. .” While talking, both master and apprentice were staring at the scanned birch bark documents on the computer, and remained silent for a while.Afterwards, someone seemed to be connected to Professor Ling's computer. Professor Ling turned back to Chu Feng and said, "Chu Feng, I saw that you had a headache yesterday, so I connected with my old friend Professor Xu, a well-known authority on brain science in China." .Tell him about your situation, and he said that your situation is likely to be a kind of compulsive amnesia, that is, you subconsciously force yourself to forget something, but you are stimulated by something in the end. A little bit, but this memory will hurt the brain, so your brain will activate its automatic defense ability, which will give you a headache. However, he also said that this is just his guess, and it will take some time to confirm the diagnosis. Sophisticated inspection." Chu Feng didn't like hospitals since he was a child. When he heard about the examination, he immediately thanked Bumin: "No, teacher, I am in good health, so I don't need to be checked. As for memory loss, maybe it is possible!" Chu Feng said , A serious face appeared in my mind.That was his father.When he was young, he was terribly afraid of his father, which is why he chose to serve in the army. He just wanted to exercise his strength in the army so that he would no longer be afraid of his father. Later, although he was taller than his father, his fists were also bigger than his father's. Powerful, but for some reason, every time he stood in front of his father, he would unconsciously be afraid.Later, he also studied psychology, and felt that it was very likely that he had this abnormal fear because of what his father did to him when he was a child. If so, why did he deliberately forget something at that time? very normal. "Who? Who has amnesia?" Ling Ning just came back at this time, and was very surprised to hear Chu Feng's last words. "No one has amnesia, we are just discussing the topic of amnesia." Chu Feng didn't want this little girl to know about his problem, so he quickly distracted him. When Professor Ling saw Ling Ning came back, he was eager to know the result: "How is it, the test result is out?" Ling Ningyang raised the documents and a report in his hand, and said proudly: "Uncle, you have lost this time!" Professor Ling was surprised when he heard this: "Why? This thing is not real?" "True! Why isn't it true! However, its age is several hundred years earlier than what you deduced. Nuo, this is the measurement report. You can check it yourself!" Professor Ling took a look, sure enough.It says that after careful determination, the reference date of this document should be between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. Professor Ling's astonishment didn't last long, and soon he figured out the key point: "That's right, this should be the so-called "Nirvana Sutra" that Tan Wuzhen once had." "Uh, uncle, isn't it the wrong age?" Professor Ling shook his head: "I thought wrong before. When Tan Wuzhen was 20 years old, he argued with his master once, and his master couldn't win him. He said that if the master could show him the original text, he would He agreed with his master's theory. As a result, his master showed him a volume of "Nirvana Sutra" written on birch bark, and gave the book to him. Where did his master come from? If I didn’t show it to him, it must be regarded as a treasure, maybe it was passed down from the previous generation, so it seems that its age is earlier and just right.” "There is a conspiracy, there is a conspiracy in it." Ling Ning shouted loudly, "Perhaps this Tan Wuzhen knew that his teacher had this volume of scriptures, and deliberately used the aggressive method to ask the teacher to show him, and then He took it away. It was an elaborate plot of his." Chu Feng and Professor Ling looked at each other when they heard this, and thought, this is definitely possible! "And then?" Ling Ning seemed to be addicted to the story. "Then he abandoned the Hinayana and practiced the Mahayana." Chu Feng said, but soon he found something wrong: "Strange! It stands to reason that Tan Wuzhen was in Loulan at that time, and the Loulan people at that time were loyal to Theravada Buddhism." Believers, how could he get Mahayana Buddhist scriptures here and reform Mahayana?” Hearing what he said, Professor Ling nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, that's a good question! Also, after he obtained the scriptures, he soon became a famous great curse master in the Western Regions. There is a legend about his spells—— It is said that the King Loulan at that time was very kind to him at times, but at other times he was very frivolous. So he wanted to recite a mantra to cause a severe drought in the world, and then let the dragon rain when the king asked for the mantra, so that the king could see his ability, but this idea was rejected by people. Reported, the king wanted to arrest him, so he had to flee first to Kucha and then to Wuwei—what does this mean?" "This shows that the volume he got is not a scripture book but a curse book." Ling Ning spoke quickly. "It's not entirely true. What he got was indeed a scripture. Later, he translated it into Chinese in Wuwei. Unfortunately, he can't find it now. This shows that his volume of scriptures is both a scripture and a mantra. Just like the ancient classics in our country. This can be proved by the fact that he had to learn the "native language" for three years before translating the scriptures. When he translated the scriptures, he "held Sanskrit and spoke Qin dialect". The dialect is the ancient Shaanxi dialect and Sanskrit. For spells to work, they must be pronounced accurately, which has almost become the consensus of modern witchcraft researchers. Such a translation is enough to prove that there are spells in this scripture. This It also shows that the pronunciation of ancient Sanskrit is similar to the pronunciation of ancient Qin dialect." Professor Ling denied Ling Ning's statement and put forward a bolder idea. At this time, not only Chu Feng, but even Ling Ning fell into deep thought. Professor Ling looked at the two of them who were concentrating on thinking in relief, smiling and not making a sound. Chu Feng was the first to come back to his senses: "Teacher, do you think there is such a thing as magic in the world?" "In ancient times, before doctors were born, witches appeared first. At that time, when people got sick or faced disasters that could not be solved by manpower, they immediately used witches to deal with them. People all over the world All witches have one thing in common, that is, when they cast spells, they usually have to say words in their mouths. This is usually called a "curse". As for whether this "curse" can work and how effective it can be, I have never seen it with my own eyes. , It’s hard to say. However, in ancient mythology, witches usually have the same status as gods. They can also travel freely between heaven and earth through the building trees planted by the Yellow Emperor.” Professor Ling took the opportunity to sell his own views to students . Chu Feng's resistance to myths and legends is not so strong at this time. Although he still doesn't fully accept Professor Ling's views, he also feels that there are some things that can only be explained in this way. Ling Ning is also a girl with her own opinions. Although her knowledge is not as good as the two present, her analytical ability is very strong.After she learned about Tan Wuzhen's life from Professor Ling, she connected him with the demise of the Loulan Kingdom: "Uncle, Tan Wuzhen was hunted down by the Loulan people because he knew the Loulan people's secret! So he I had to flee to Wuwei! This matter got leaked out somehow, he was missed by others, Tuoba Tao actually wanted the secrets of Loulan Kingdom, not this person himself." "No!" Chu Feng interjected, "According to the historical records, Tan Wuzhen fled because of his affair with Mantouyulin, the younger sister of King Bilong of Loulan at that time, who was revealed." "That's right! Let's first assume that Tan Wuzhen had indeed had an affair with the Loulan king's sister, then could it be that he got this birch bark scripture from the Wang sister, which is the big secret about the Loulan kingdom? In order to deceive others, he assumed that it was given by his master. At the beginning, no one found out, but later when the matter was revealed, King Loulan chased and killed him, so he escaped to Wuwei." The more Ling Ning analyzed, the more he felt that this was the case! "I don't think you are suitable for historical research, but for writing novels!" Chu Feng has always been disgusted with such baseless speculation. "You—" Professor Ling interrupted the unconvinced Ling Ning, and he said to the two of them: "You are all right, we are scholars who must be rigorous, Chu Feng, it is better to have no books than to believe in books, but Ling Ning also has to remember that it’s good to make bold assumptions about anything, but be careful to verify it carefully! If there is no evidence to prove it, don’t jump to conclusions!” After hearing this, the two glared at each other and didn’t speak again.