Chapter 29 Section 1

In the early morning, the faint light opened up another day in Labrang Monastery.The bell rang, and the faith gradually became clear in the form of temples. The splendor of the spirit was smeared on the temple wall on the top of the temple, embracing the world with silent enthusiasm.Prince Chambord found a lama who was going to spend the night in the Lion's Roar Buddha Hall, and after casually inquiring about it, he found the carpenter Tashi. Carpenter Zhaxi is a monk craftsman, responsible for repairing all the wooden utensils in Labrang Monastery, and the wooden prayer wheel is naturally under his care.Because the bearing needs to be replaced, a few days ago he asked some lamas to help him unload the prayer wheel, and pulled it to the carpentry yard in a horse-drawn cart.When Prince Chambord saw him, he had just gotten up and was about to attend the morning chant.

"Auspicious carpenter, please don't leave. I found you after searching for you all night." Prince Chambord opened his arms, blocked the carpenter Tashi back into the yard, and said, "I come from Beijing and I heard that you are repairing the scriptures. The prayer wheel in the pagoda, if I can touch the 'mani' inside with my forehead, blessings will flow continuously with the rotation of the prayer wheel." There is a wooden box inside each prayer wheel, which contains the "six-character mantra", also known as the "six-character mantra". The Tibetan abbreviation of the "six-character mantra" is "mani".

Tashi the carpenter said politely: "Okay, okay, just touch it." Prince Chambord asked: "Does the prayer wheel often break down, and you often repair it?" Carpenter Zhaxi said: "Not often, once every five or six years, just change the bearing, nothing else will break." "Won't the box inside be broken?" "The box is sealed, with no cover, no seams, and a whole piece, which will not be damaged for hundreds of years or thousands of years. But this time it was completely cracked, like an eight-petaled lotus flower." Prince Chambord thought that it was because the season of karma had matured, and the signs of terma appearing in this world appeared, and he asked, "Where is the 'mani' in the lotus?"

Carpenter Zhaxi said confusedly: "It's strange, there is no 'mani'." "Impossible, why is there no 'mani' in the prayer wheel?" Carpenter Zhaxi pointed to the prayer wheel that opened like a shell in the yard and said, "It's just a blank piece of paper with nothing on it. I probably forgot to write it when I stored it." Prince Chambord was taken aback: That's right, the "translucent text" without sunlight should be a blank sheet of paper.He rushed to the prayer wheel, carefully observed the wooden box that was cracked into a lotus flower shape, and found that there was nothing inside.

"Where's the blank paper you mentioned?" Carpenter Zhaxi took out a piece of yellow silk with black "mani" printed on it from one side of the sutra tube, put it in the wooden box and said, "I went to the Sutra Printing House to ask for a new 'mani', you can try this one. " "The white paper has been spinning around the prayer wheel for hundreds of years, and I just touch the white paper. Where is the white paper? I'm sorry, I had a dream. I dreamed that the 'mani' in the prayer wheel was white. Isn't this white?" Paper? I must touch this white paper."

"Then why didn't you come yesterday? If you come today, there will be no blank paper. I lost the blank paper when I wrote the letter." "Write a letter? Where is the letter? To whom?" "I sent it to my elder brother, Dr. Jiayang of Juba Zhacang in Kumbum Monastery yesterday." Prince Chambord widened his eyes and was speechless for a while, then suddenly said: "Then I'll go to the post office to look for the letter you sent." Then he left, and stopped a few steps out of the carpentry yard, thinking in horror: It's over, I fell into a trap inside.

He saw a lot of people walking towards the long alley, including police officers from the local police station, Lama Aruo and his group, as well as several burly Lamas protecting the Labrang Monastery.Leading the way was the fat lama who twisted his arm last night and shouted, "Catch the robber." He turned back to the carpentry yard and said to the carpenter Zhaxi: "There was a fat lama who told me your name, and then brought people here to arrest me. How can a lama who was born in this world be so skilled at framing people?" "Is it the fat lama in Tsongkhapa's temple? This man, hum."

"They regarded me as a robber. I wanted to escape. Is there a way?" "Good people walk in the world, and there are roads everywhere." Carpenter Zhaxi went to the gate of the courtyard to see who was coming, turned around and patted the open prayer wheel, and said, "Lie in and try, if you can't get out, you are really a bad person." Then you can’t blame me for not saving you.” Prince Chambord curled up his legs and lay down in doubt.Carpenter Zhaxi gritted his teeth and lifted the other half vigorously, buckled it down with a bang, and punched a palm-sized tenon into the mortise with his fist.

The fat lama led people into the carpentry yard, and when he saw Tashi the carpenter, he asked, "Where's the robber?" The carpenter Zhaxi said: "Why did you come here? Hurry up, help me carry the prayer wheel to the car. There have been no prayer wheels in the prayer tower for several days. The housekeeper said that I will not install the prayer wheel today. Just let me return to vulgarity." The fat lama looked around and said, "It looks like the robbers haven't come yet." Tashi the carpenter said, "Here you are, aren't you? Help me, what are you doing?"

The fat lama and several temple guardian lamas carried the prayer wheel to a shelf cart, and helped the carpenter Tashi to push it outside the gate of the courtyard.The carpenter Zhaxi got up and left, saying loudly, "Two people, help me push me into the prayer tower." The fat lama said annoyedly: "Let's go, let's go, we are going to stay here to catch robbers." Tashi the carpenter said, "I have neither treasure nor money. Are robbers melon seeds? Can they come to me?" Walking through the streets and alleys, two temple guardian lamas helped the carpenter Tashi push the prayer wheel into the prayer tower.Tashi the carpenter said: "Go, go, catch your robbers, I will ask others for help." The two lamas who guarded the monastery were eager to hear this, and turned and left.

Carpenter Zhaxi opened the prayer wheel, released Prince Chambord, and waved his hands wordlessly. Prince Chambord wanted to leave but stopped, and asked: "How dare you save me, a robber?" Carpenter Zhaxi said: "People's hearts hang on the eyebrows, and you can tell if it's a robber at a glance." Prince Chambord said: "I'll go to the post office to check your letter first. If I can't find it, I'll go to Kumbum Monastery to find your brother Dr. Jiayang. Do you have anything to do?" Carpenter Zhaxi said: "I recited 100,000 'mani' this year and gave him 50,000. I wish him health and safety." Prince Chambord said: "Give me a few 'mani' too, I also need peace." The carpenter Zhaxi said: "I have nothing to do with you, why should I give it to you? Personal merit needs to be accumulated individually, don't you know how to recite it yourself? But since you have already spoken, I can't be stingy, so I will give you 20,000 yuan." Anyway, I am a lama, and lamas say 'mani' for the happiness and safety of all mankind." Prince Chambord bowed, said "thank you" repeatedly, received 20,000 "mani", and left with gratitude. There are very few tourists in Labrang Monastery in the morning, and there are no taxis in sight.Prince Chambord walked quickly along the prayer wheel room to Renmin West Street, then went east along the Daxia River, came to the county post office, and told the person at counter No. 1 that he wanted to check a letter, and the recipient's name and address was: Qinghai Dr. Zacang Jiayang, Juba, Taer Monastery, Xining. The middle-aged man at the counter told him that he needed a letter of introduction from the company and his personal ID card to check the letter.Prince Chambord begged and explained: "I'm a foreigner, and I didn't bring a letter of introduction from my unit." The middle-aged man repeatedly said no.Prince Chambord became anxious and quarreled with others, attracting many customers to watch.Someone suggested calling the police.Prince Chambord knew that if he yelled at this small place, the police would arrive, so he left the post office quickly. After wandering around the street for a while, he walked into the post office again, came to the No. 7 counter, and asked a girl with a pretty face inside to check the letter. The girl teased him with a glance and said, "No." "You haven't asked me if I have any documents, so why not?" "You had a quarrel with our director just now, it must not work." Prince Chambord stroked his long hair and said, "I wish I had looked for you at the beginning. I know that the more beautiful the girl, the easier it is to talk, but I was too anxious and didn't see you. Now it's too late to regret." The girl teased him again: "Is the letter important?" "It's a love letter to my girlfriend. My first love, I have no experience, so I just wrote my shortcomings into it. I said that I am a carefree person, I like to go straight to the point, and I am passionate. But someone reminded me that girls nowadays like to be subtle, euphemistic, The most important thing is that I wrote the wrong address, I wrote it to a lama, what kind of love does a lama know, and it’s not Tsangyang Gyatso, what if he doesn’t pass it on to her?” The girl smiled: "It seems really important, just wait, I'll show you." "Thank you, thank you, I said beautiful girls are easy to talk to, in case I blow up with my girlfriend, how about I come to you?" A few minutes later, Prince Chambord got the letter on the envelope that was written "To Dr. Zacang Jiayang, Juba, Ta'er Monastery, Xining, Qinghai". He immediately opened it, took out the letter and looked at it, and it was indeed a blank piece of paper. But there is nothing on it that the carpenter Tashi wrote to his brother Dr. Jiayang. Apparently Tashi the carpenter lied to him, why? The girl said: "Actually, this letter cannot be mailed out, there is no postage stamp, and it cannot be returned, and the sender's address is not written." The girl sneered, "You are really careless, and you don't know what you forgot in the letter. " If it can't be sent or returned, it can only be checked by someone.He suddenly realized: Tashi the carpenter, Tashi the carpenter, it turns out that you are also an envoy who transmits the "light penetrating text" on the chain of the "Seven Tara Gate".You definitely don't know what the blank paper in the prayer wheel is for, but you firmly believe that your mission is to give the blank paper to someone who is looking for it on a day that has long been determined by your ancestors. But why don't you just give it to me? It is dangerous to hand it over to me. Before I left Labrang Monastery, my freedom of action was actually very limited. I must not destroy the "light-transparent writing" while catching me or killing me.But if I can come to the post office, it means that I am out of danger, and "Lucid Text" can follow me very safely. Taxi rides fast.Prince Chambord looked back at the Tashi Banner field, which was as bright as yesterday, bid farewell to the auspicious Youxuanzhou of Tusita Tiangong under the guard of Longshan and Fengling, and left Xiahe County with a happy mood. Ahead, Lanzhou, is Mesa, and Zhimei.The most important thing is Zhimei, because the bet has already been made.His success will see Tomomi leave Mesa.Mesa is about to belong to him, as long as she sings Cangyang Gyatso's love song and pursues it unscrupulously, which girl can't belong to him?