Chapter 107 chapter 2

Prince Chambord woke up. He saw Mesa first, and then Skeleton Killer. He was stunned for a long while under their stares before he became conscious, like a window was pushed open by memory, and a bright light appeared Now, more and more, and then the whole world, all the past.He wanted to sit up, his body was so heavy that it seemed to be glued to the whole earth.He opened his mouth, wanted to speak but didn't speak.With a soft sound, a spoon touched his teeth.The warm liquid flowed down the spoon to his tongue. He thought for a while, remembered that it was milk, and swallowed it with a thud.Then there was a series of gurgling sounds, he drank a teapot of milk, blinked his eyelids a few times in doubt, and fell asleep again.

After a while, Prince Chambord talked in his sleep: "Mom, mother..." He saw his mother walking from the pea field, passing the ridge of the highland barley field, and disappearing. "Mom, mom." He shouted, and found that his mother appeared in front of his wooden fence again, wearing a bright red flower on her hair, smiling, and she smiled when she saw her son.The smile of a good mother in her 80s who has only increased by one year in two or three years is like the eternal cradle where her son is sitting firmly, exuding endless milky and fruity fragrances.Then my mother spoke, her voice seemed to be mixed with alcohol, and he became drunk as soon as he heard it, and when he was drunk, his mother disappeared. "Mom, mom." He saw his mother in the kitchen, pouring the tsampa paste from the clay pot into the brown-red wooden bowl. The milk is gone. "Mom, mom." He looked for his mother everywhere, and finally found her on the kang.Mom said: "Son, sleep, sleep with me."

Prince Chambord has been asleep and has been with his mother. When he woke up again, he heard Mesa talking to Skeleton Killer. "Can you tell me where this is?" Mesa asked. The skeleton killer said, "It's not that I didn't tell you, it's that I didn't know." Mesa asked again: "Then why did you send us here?" The skeleton killer said: "A girl asked me to send it. She said that this place is what you must come to." Mesa asked again: "Which girl, what's her name?" The skeleton killer said: "I don't know. I asked her name and she wouldn't tell me. I said that in Tibet, girls without names are called Dolma. She said it should be Dolma."

Mesa said: "Dolma? There are countless Dolmas in Tibet." Skeletonkiller said: "She said she was the only Jormag, in the void." Mesa said: "It's the Buddhist language again. The most troublesome thing for me is the Buddhist language. I go around and don't talk about it." Prince Chambord suddenly said: "She has already said the truth. Dolma is Tara, the 'only Dolma' is the 'seventh Tara', and 'in the void' is the highest point where Tara travels." Both Mesa and Skeletor were staring at him.Mesa smiled.The skeleton killer got up suddenly, pushed the door and left.

Mesa said: "It seems that women are more tenacious than men. I woke up after lying down for three hours, and you woke up after lying down for three days. We change the dressing for your wound every day and give you a bottle. The fever is gone. Thanks to the help of Skeleton Killer, he said that he is an epidemic prevention officer at the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station in his hometown of Romani Grassland. There are often zoonotic diseases on the grassland, so he often prevents and treats human diseases. It seems that he is very good at treating , is not a completely fake Tibetan doctor.”

Only then did Prince Chambord find himself lying on a big Kang, which was covered with brightly colored carpets, and on the carpet were gorgeous card cushions. In the center of the Kang was a low table with lacquer paintings inlaid with copper edges.On the other side of the low table, there are a white coat, a brand new top hat, a leather embroidered medicine pouch, as well as sunglasses, masks, a stethoscope, a bottle and so on. Mesa pointed to a pointed hat and said, "He put this on his back and pretended to be a hunchback Tibetan doctor, and snatched us from Bixiu. I asked him why he did this, but he didn't say anything."

Prince Chambord said: "He doesn't want to tell the truth, but he can't tell lies." After that, he closed his eyes tiredly and fell asleep again. Mesa leaned on the other corner of the Kang, yawning and closing her eyes. After about two hours, Killer Skeleton woke them up.In fact, he moved very lightly. He tiptoed in, put down his purchases, and was about to leave. Prince Chambord and Mesa woke up at the same time, as if there was some kind of induction. The skeleton killer said: "I have prepared food and drink for you for a week. Within a week, the girl who asked me to send you here will come to you. You wait patiently and don't go out of the gate. The range of activities is this yard." If the girl doesn't come, one week later, which is the eighth day from today, you have to leave here, go out of the gate and go west not far, it is the place you are familiar with, if you are lucky, you will start the next plan , if you are unlucky, trouble will haunt you again."

Mesa said with some reluctance: "It seems that you are leaving us?" The skeleton killer said: "Someone is chasing me, I have to go. I will definitely show up again, and I will see you again. I am a killer." It seems not. confuse.Bewildered for a week.The confusion makes them no longer excited, and they seldom think about it. They spend most of their time in a lazy light sleep.Adequate sleep and food, as well as the right medicines, allowed Prince Chambord and Mesa to recover better every day.It was already the eighth day that the girl did not come.The eighth day was the day to leave. Prince Chambord got up early and walked around the yard with vigor, as if he wanted to remember all the details of the yard when he said goodbye.

This is a courtyard house of Tibetan brick and wood structure, with three floors on each side, connected by steep open-air wooden ladders.The window lattices and door lintels are all exquisitely carved. Although they have lost their former brightness and brilliance, the shapes of lotus, crane bird, blue horse and white elephant are still vivid.Except for the downstairs west room where Prince Chambord and Mesa live, the doors and windows of all other rooms are closed, and the inside is as quiet as a tomb.The doors, windows and walls are clean, and some potted flowers are neatly arranged in the courtyard, and a lush hollyhock and a few bright green mountain plums grow on the ground among the potted flowers.What about people?It's been a week and I haven't seen a single person. The owner of the house seems to be avoiding them on purpose.

Why avoid it?Questions made him curious, and he peeped in from house to house, as long as there was glass or a crack in the door, he would put his face on it.He saw the red sofa and the red pillars.I saw painted beams and colorful cabinets, and I saw a magnificent Buddhist hall, just like a temple.I saw all the furnishings and wall decorations for living at home, including thangkas, tapestries, and auspicious Pisces treasures painted directly on the walls.There are also words, rough and simple, like some ancient flowers blooming in the years that have not been dusted.Obviously this is a well-to-do family with deep family traditions, how can you leave it alone and let two strangers live for a week?

Prince Chambord backed away even more puzzled, and suddenly made a strange discovery. On the walls between all the doors and windows, there was a stone slab inlaid with the same patterns carved on the slate: messy willow leaves, chirping Chirping thrushes, a pair of geckos meeting head to head.Gecko?Why Gecko?Geckos are not totems among different types of Tibetan people, so how could they appear on the front walls of solemn and auspicious houses?Look carefully again, and suddenly I can see clearly: it is not a gecko, but a snow frog that looks like a gecko. Although the snow frog is not a totem, it is worshiped by Tibetan medicine because it is a precious Tibetan medicine that blindly treats kidney yang deficiency, performance decline, and impotence.Tibetan medicine believes that it is a love beast that emerged from the white conch in front of the lotus seat of White Tara, and sacrificed itself as a human to cure the asexual pain in the world.The male snow frog has a slender body and lives above the snow line, while the female snow frog is plump and lives in the lake and river. In March of the mating season every year, the male snow frog will jump step by step from the snow mountain to the stream below the mountain. The female snow frog will set off from the lakeside and river, and go up the stream.The male and female meet by the stream, and after mating on a moonlit night, they immediately parted. When they parted, they screamed miserably, as if to express that a year's lovesickness is long enough, and a moment's meeting is too short.Therefore, the snow frog on the grassland is a symbol of lovesickness and reunion, and it is the reproductive guarantee provided by Tibetan medical lamas for sexual love between men and women. The symbol of lovesickness and reunion - snowfrog, plus messy willow leaves and chirping thrushes?Prince Chambord frowned and thought, then suddenly shouted: "Mesa, Mesa." Mesa came out from the west room and asked, "Shall we leave now?" Prince Chambord sang: The willow forest in Qiongjie, Thrushcross Sorang Banzong, won't fly away, Destined to meet me. Then pointing to the pattern carved on the stone slab in the wall, he said: "Look, this is the 'willow forest in Qiongjie', and this is 'thrushcross Sorang Banzong', this is a pair of snow frogs from the high mountain and the low lake respectively. , they 'will not go far away', they are 'destined' to 'meet' here." Mesa said, "What do you mean?" Prince Chambord said: "I mean, it is here that Tsangyang Gyatso sang this love song facing the stone slabs inlaid on the front wall. Or, Tsangyang Gyatso sang this love song here Afterwards, these elaborately carved stone slabs were set into the front wall of the house. In either case, it proves that Tsangyang Gyatso was here. The key now is, why did he come here?" Mesa stared at him: "Tell me, why?" Prince Chambord said word by word: "Because this is the residence of Sorang Banzong." Mesa said, "Based on that?" Prince Chambord said: "I'm just looking for it." He walked over, pushed the door, and found that the old-fashioned brass lock was actually designed to prevent gentlemen and villains, so he kicked it.The door opened, he stepped into the threshold, looked around, stared at the thangkas on the wall, the tapestry and the auspicious Pisces treasure painted directly on the wall, and finally his eyes stopped on those rough and simple Tibetan characters.He sang again, the love song "Liulin in Qiongjie", still very affectionate, and then said to Mesa who followed in, "I'm right, Tsangyang Gyatso has been here, not only Come, and write the love song on the wall." Mesa stared blankly at the love song on the wall, and suddenly said: "Why do you think it was written by Tsangyang Gyatso? Even if it was written by Tsangyang Gyatso, how can you be sure that it is Sonam Banzong's?" Where is the residence?" Prince Chambord said: "Because Sonam Banzong is the target we are looking for next, it is the latest guide to the 'Gate of the Seven Tara'. If Tsangyang Gyatso came here not for Solang Banzong, the Jokhang Temple's light-transmitting text The word 'Sorang Banjong' could never have appeared in the 'Guide to Grant'. Now that it has appeared, it leads to the love song 'The Willows in the Place of Joong Knot', and we have found this love song again The place where it was born, how can you say that Solang Banzong has nothing to do with it?" "It's just your sound judgment, what I want is evidence," Mesa said. Prince Chambord said: "That's very simple, we won't go, wait for the owner of this yard to come back, and ask him." Mesa said, "Don't go to Tashilhunpo Monastery again? We almost drowned in the Lhasa River trying to go to Tashilhunpo Monastery. How can we say we can't go?" Prince Chambord said: "Do you remember what I said, if the terma of the 'Gate of Seven Tara' is not in Tashilhunpo Monastery, we will not be able to reach Shigatse, and we will be blocked by natural and man-made disasters." "It seems to have been said," Mesa said. Prince Chambord said: "Fate makes us so spiritual. The evil waves of the Lhasa River blocked our steps, and we could not reach Shigatse, which means that the terma of the 'Gate of Seven Tara' is not in Tashilhunpo Monastery." Mesa smiled wryly and said, "You contradicting yourself like this shows that you lack self-confidence. People who always deny themselves can't do great things." Prince Chambord said: "Is it a big deal to open the 'Seven Tara Gate'? I have come here correctly to show that my way of thinking is correct. I deny that I am the spirit of the Buddha. The Buddha said that there is no Buddha in the world." , but the name is Buddha. It is in this kind of complete and complete self-denial that Buddha becomes great day by day." They stayed.Skeleton Killer told them to leave here in a week, today, but they didn't listen to him.They stubbornly waited for the return of the owner, trying to find out whether this ancient house was once the residence of Sorang Banzong. If so, their continued excavation of the "Gate of Seven Tara" will start from here. A day and a night passed, not only did no one come, even the breeze and the sun did not come.It was a gloomy morning, and Prince Chambord couldn't wait any longer. He thought he should go out to see the surroundings of this courtyard, where it was located in Lhasa, and whether there were any neighbors.Maybe the neighbors will tell him, who is the master in the past and today? He called Mesa, took the things he should bring, and opened the courtyard door.It was the first time they opened the courtyard door in more than a week, and they were shocked when they opened it. On the bluestone floor under the eaves of the door, there was a dignified and beautiful girl lying on her back.The girl's body was naked, with nine stab wounds and nine blood holes, arranged in the direction of the "Gallery Meridian of Foot Shaoyin".Bloodstains spread all over the ground, and on the bloodstains, there was a beautiful white fairy dress. Prince Chambord and Mesa couldn't help but clasped their hands together and leaned closer.They heard the trembling of each other's hearts, as if the blood on the ground belonged to them, flowing down from their faces, so pale as paper. Prince Chambord's parched lips touched lightly: "I've seen her, and you've seen her too. She's the girl with Zhimei." Mesa said in astonishment: "That's the girl who let the skeleton killer send us here. This is her home, and she came to find us." Prince Chambord looked around the door and said, "But how could she die? And in such a way? She didn't appear in the Jokhang Temple's "Foretelling Guide". If she dies, it will be Solang Banzong." Mesa said: "We don't know if she appeared in the 'Guidelines'." She pointed to the kunbao on the woman's arm and said, "Why don't we look for evidence?" Prince Chambord bent down to pick up the Kun bag, opened it, flipped through it, found out the ID card, glanced at it, and was speechless with his mouth half open. The name on the ID card is: Sorang Banzong. Mesa said, "No wonder she said she was the only Jormag who walked the void." Prince Chambord was so regretful that he didn't know what to do. He said in a loud voice: "It's a pity, it's a pity. If I had known her name was Solang Banzong, I would have protected her. I would protect her with my life." Mesa said sadly: "What secrets are hidden in Cangyang Gyatso's love songs? As long as there are lovers mentioned in the love songs, we will die if we find one." Prince Chambord said: "We haven't found Sorang Banzong, she is already dead. It can be understood that she used her death to prove that our current search is correct. The next question is, where did she come from?" Suddenly realized that he had left fingerprints on the Kun bag and ID card, and was about to wipe it off, when he heard someone talking not far away, threw away the Kun bag, picked up Mesa and ran. They ran to the east alleyway, and remembered the words of the skeleton killer: "Go out of the gate and go west, it is a place you are familiar with." They turned back and ran towards the west.