Chapter 55 chapter 2

Prince Chambord slowly drove the Wrangler onto Beijing East Road in Lhasa, trying to find a hotel near the Potala Palace, but he stopped suddenly when he passed by the Chongsaikang Alley behind the Jokhang Temple.The reason he gave himself was that Chongsaikang was the place where Cangyang Gyatso met his lover, and he could see the shadow of this lover's past at a glance.But what he saw was a girl soliciting guests. The girl wore the Ramche fairy costume on the stage of Tibetan opera, held the signboard of "Saffron Hotel" in her left hand, came to the front of the car and said in Chinese: "Sir, do you stay at the hotel? We have authentic highland barley wine, buttered tea, air-dried meat, milk skin , are all free." Prince Chambord lowered the car window and looked at the girl, his eyes were cloudy.

He said, "Let's stay at the Saffron Hotel, the name sounds nice." "I'm afraid it's a good-looking person?" Mesa said, "Look at her right hand." The girl's right hand was held in front of her chest. Judging from the degree of stiffness, the upturned index finger and little finger, and the color of the soil, it was a rough artificial limb. "An overly beautiful disabled person? It's extra uncomfortable," Mesa said. Prince Chambord said: "Aphrodite is also disabled, does that make you uncomfortable?" "That's a work of art, what about her?" Mesa said.

Prince Chambord said: "Yes, beauty should be taken care of, and beauty plus disability should be taken care of even more." Mesa said, "Why don't you hurry up and sing the love song of Tsangyang Gyatso?" Prince Chambord was stunned for a moment, but he didn't speak, apparently lacking confidence. The girl said: "We buy air tickets, bus tickets, and train tickets on behalf of us, and provide all services as much as possible. Our room can see the Lhasa River and the Drepung Monastery. Among hotels of the same level, we are the cheapest." Prince Chambord said: "Needless to say, get in the car and take us there. What's your name?"

The girl smiled and said, "Yin Chao Ma." Prince Chambord took a breath: Citing Chaoma?Citing Chaoma means the soul-robbing girl. The Saffron Hotel is a five-story flat-roofed Tibetan-style building. The colorful appearance makes people looking at it suddenly feel that they are facing a huge wall of painted art.The courtyard in front of the hotel is in a "concave" shape, with irregular stone slabs laying out the ancient green in the evening sunlight.The stairs are wooden and a bit steep, old fashioned and traditional.Going up the stairs is a colorful umbrella-shaped wooden door. The spacious sun hall inside the door makes people dizzy, as if all the Tibetan people's sense of color has been accumulated here.

What puzzled Prince Chambord was that the Saffron Hotel is located by the Lhasa River at the end of Luding South Road in the west of Lhasa, but Yinchaoma girl wanted to attract guests in Chongsaikang, which is in the east of Lhasa. When she asked her why, she said: "Where are you going?" There are many tourists.” Yin Chaoma took the keys at the service desk, took them directly to the room on the fourth floor, opened the door, and let them in as if to invite them in. Mesa stretched out his head to glance into the room, and immediately retracted: "Why do we live in such a luxurious place?"

Prince Chambord looked at Yin Chaoma and said with a smile: "Even the girls here are very luxurious." After that, he went into the room to look around, and came out and said, "Maybe we can't live together?" "Of course, we have vows," Mesa said. Yin Chaoma opened another room.Mesa went in, put down her bag, and went into the bathroom. Yin Chaoma came to the door and said to Prince Chambord: "Give me your ID card and the deposit, and I will help you register. The deposit is 2,000 RMB per room." Mesa rushed out of the bathroom and said, "Two rooms are worth four thousand, so I can't hold it anymore."

Yin Chaoma said: "You have already lived, and you have used the bathroom to count." Mesa narrowed her eyes and said, "You want to blackmail?" Prince Chambord said, "Forget it, since we're here, let's be generous." A quarter of an hour later, Yin Chaoma returned the ID card and the deposit receipt to Prince Chambord's room.Prince Chambord stared at her right prosthetic and said, "Don't go, girl." Yin Chaoma smiled and said: "What's the matter, sir, please tell me." Prince Chambord said: "Your prosthesis, I have never seen such a prosthesis."

Yin Chaoma hid the prosthesis behind her back and said, "Sir, haven't you had dinner yet?" Dinner was eaten by Prince Chambord and Mesa in the restaurant on the first floor.Authentic and simple Tibetan food, even the tableware looks authentic: tsampa in a wool woven bag, ghee and qula (milk dregs) in a goat belly bag; buttered tea from a copper pot needs to be poured into a wooden bowl to taste, There is thick highland barley wine in the barrel, which needs to be scooped into a silver bowl with a wooden spoon to drink freely; air-dried meat is wrapped in sheepskin, milk skin is held in a wooden plate, and Tuba (tsampa paste) is served in a clay pot.Prince Chambord immersed himself in his enjoyment, without saying a word, as if the food that his grandmother fed him when he was a child would disappear when he spoke.

Suddenly he raised his head and asked Mesa: "Are you used to eating?" "Be used to eating, what kind of food you like is genetic." Prince Chambord greedily grabbed two sticks of air-dried meat and was about to stuff them into his mouth. Mesa said: "Vow: quit drinking, quit smoking, quit meat, quit all impure habits and problems." Prince Chambord swallowed, put down the air-dried meat and said, "It's uncomfortable, it's uncomfortable, it's uncomfortable, I don't want to eat it. What about the highland barley wine?" "You can drink some of the highland barley wine made by the hotel itself. It's not wine, it's a drink."

Prince Chambord took a silver bowl for himself from the barrel with a wooden spoon, and he was about to drink it up when he brought it to his mouth, then he put it down suddenly: "Forget it, it still smells like wine. I must strictly abide by my oath, and I cannot Be a rebel because..." He looked at Mesa, "because now I have two goals, both sacred, one is to discover the terma of the 'Gate of Seven Tara', and the other is to finally get the beloved girl." Prince Chambord drank some more Tuba, looked at the copper pot on the table and said, "It's so beautiful."

Mesa took a sip of buttered tea and said, "I've been thinking, why do you want to study Tsangyang Gyatso and have published two books? Why do you call yourself a love saint Tsangyang Gyatso? Apart from arrogance and inflated personality, you can also Can't find another reason?" Prince Chambord was noncommittal, belching and searching on the table: "Why is there no yogurt?" Mesa was not interested in yogurt, and said: "You are neither a living Buddha, nor a leader. You were born at an untimely time. Tsangyang Gyatso is probably just a mud pit that attracts you deeply. And this mud pit has another name It is the 'Seven Tara Gate' that you cannot extricate yourself from." Prince Chambord shouted: "Waiter, waiter, serve yoghurt." Yin Chaoma walked over quickly: "Today there is only butter tea, no yoghurt." Mesa said, "Why can't you even eat yogurt in a hotel that has paid a deposit of 4,000?" "There is no yoghurt in Lhasa today, and the yoghurt is reserved for tomorrow." "I left it for tomorrow, why?" Before Yin Chaoma could answer, Prince Chambord jumped up, "Oh, I forgot, Mesa, tomorrow is the Shoton Festival." Mesa said coolly, "Shoton Festival? I know that Shoton Festival is very lively, but we're not here for the festival." Prince Chambord said warmly: "We are here to celebrate the festival. Think about it, the Kumbum Monastery's 'Guidelines' is the method of making yogurt, and the 'snow' in the Shoton Festival is 'yogurt' and 'cheese' means, 'Dun' means a banquet, Shoton Festival - a feast of yogurt, or, a festival of eating yogurt." Mesa suddenly said: "Oh, that's right." Prince Chambord said: "'Shoton' was a purely religious activity before the 17th century. In June and July in summer, the weather is warm and hot, and all life begins to emerge and enjoy activities. The monks of the Gelug Sect do not want to unintentionally During the period from June to July in the Tibetan calendar every year, I shut myself in the monastery, practiced quietness, and kept the long net, which is called "Xia Anju". The monks came out of the temple one after another, and the secular people have already prepared the most beautiful food of this season waiting for them. The most beautiful food is yogurt, because the milk of cows and sheep is the thickest and thickest in summer when the grass is green and fat. In addition to giving yogurt, there are also Perform Tibetan opera in Drepung Monastery to celebrate the end of "Xia Anju". Tibetan opera is the condolences of believers to monks. In return, Drepung Monastery will hold the activity of "showing the Buddha" to pray for the safety and happiness of all living beings, so the earliest Shoton Festival is called " Drepung Sholton'. Later, the 'Xia'anju' where monks kept the Changjing disappeared, leaving only the activities of eating yogurt, watching Tibetan opera, and showing the Buddha, which became a festival that monks and lay people participated in together." Mesa asked, "The Kumbum Monastery 'Guide to Grant' asks us to go to Drepung Monastery?" Prince Chambord stared at the beautiful copper pot and said: "This is the only reasonable guess, because besides the revelation of 'Yogurt', there is also 'Jicailuding': 'Jicailuding's yogurt is the best in Tibet. Yoghurt.’ There are many places in Tibet, and many people are called Jicai Luding. But if we are sure that the ‘Guide to Grant’ is pointing to the Drepung Monastery, then there may be only one choice. Near the ancient Drepung Monastery, There is a garden named 'Jicai Luding', which is the only place to go to Drepung Monastery. When the monks of Drepung Monastery greet distinguished guests, they often walk out of the temple and come to 'Jicai Luding' to wait. So it It is also regarded as the periphery of Drepung Monastery, or the front garden of Drepung Monastery." Mesa glanced at Yin Chaoma warily.Yin Chaoma left quietly. "We shouldn't be saying this in front of her," Mesa said. Prince Chambord said: "I just told her to see her reaction. Let's go, we can't stay in the hotel, and go to Drepung Monastery overnight. After the sun rises tomorrow, we will see the largest Buddha in Tibet." And the first Tibetan opera of the Shoton Festival." Mesa slapped the table and said, "Did you pay the four thousand deposit for nothing?" But Prince Chambord could hear that she was happy.