sbdcsierra Chapter 502: The Emperor and Empress Worship Buddha
Chapter 502: The Emperor and Empress Worship Buddha
A moment later, a ferocious-looking bearded man walked out of the cave.
The man had a hideous face, with a scar extending from his left forehead to his right chin, like a giant centipede coiled on his ugly face.
This man is none other than the former famous local bandit, Hu Dadao, who is now the head of the Longmen Town Security Corps.
"What are you making so much noise for? Can't you see we are doing something big?"
Hu Dadao clapped his hands and was about to slap the unfortunate guy who was watching the wind in the face when he felt a chill on his neck.
A delicate dagger was pressed against his neck.
Hu Dadao's body froze, and his right hand quietly reached for the revolver on his waist, but who knew that a pair of strong hands directly pinched his wrist.
"If you want to see whether my knife is faster or you can draw your gun faster, then just move!"
A cold sweat broke out on Hu Dadao's forehead.
He has been struggling in Longmen Town for more than ten years, from a small-time gangster to a bandit leader in charge of more than a hundred people, and then transformed himself into a militia. He has seen everything and encountered all kinds of storms!
However, this time he felt an unprecedented danger.
At this time, a tinkling sound appeared in the Binyang Cave behind them.
"Let's talk it over nicely, my good man. We are here to make money, right? Once the master pays, I'll give you half of it and we'll be friends!"
"Okay, let your people come out first!"
Seeing that there was a way, Hu Dadao blew a sharp whistle, and the jingling sound behind him stopped.
Then five men sneaked out of the cave, two of them holding pistols and three of them holding knives, and surrounded the two soldiers.
"Hu Dadao, is this how you make friends?"
Hu Dadao's expression at this moment was no longer the timid one just now. Now he was extremely arrogant and domineering.
"This is a different time. I have more people than you now! I advise you to be smart and kowtow three times to Master Hu, then cut off a finger and get out!"
The two soldiers from the reconnaissance company of the 201st Airborne Regiment had never heard such a joke before and smiled at each other.
"What if we don't?"
Hu Dadao's expression changed slightly and he completely forgot about the dagger around his neck.
"Master Hu has at least seven or eight names of people in his hand, if not a dozen. It would be easy for him to kill you two little thieves. Since you don't know what's best for you, don't blame Master Hu for being ruthless! I will try to be quick and let you suffer less!"
"After listening to what you said so brilliantly, I just want to ask you, why?"
Hu Dadao laughed loudly towards the sky, and the sound was particularly piercing between the two mountains.
"Why? Because I have more people than you! Because I have more guns than you!"
"Really? Then take another look?"
Hu Dadao shuddered and looked around. He saw that black smoke had surrounded them at some point, and there were at least seventeen or eighteen spears.
"now what?"
Hu Dadao fell to his knees with a thud, his head pounding like crazy.
"My dear, my dear, I didn't recognize the real one. I don't know which mountain you are from. Why don't you tell me your name? Maybe we were all one family decades ago. Don't let the flood wash away the Dragon King Temple and hurt the harmony!
Everything in this cave belongs to you, and tomorrow I will set up more than a dozen tables at the best restaurant in Longmen Town to make amends to you all!"
Hu Hansan said this, but he didn't think so in his heart.
He thought that as long as he could get out, everything in the cave would be his! As for the restaurant with more than a dozen banquet tables, that was where the group of people were buried.
Because, in this area, he had never heard of any bandits or militia groups stronger than him.
If it was a "monk" from outside, there would be no problem. In this small piece of land, even if it was a dragon, it had to coil up, and if it was a tiger, it had to lie down!
"That's enough, you two have had enough fun, let's get down to business!"
Wang Meng ordered the soldiers to tie up the seven men, and the swords and guns were put aside.
"Hu Hansan, no, Hu Dadao, right? Let me ask you, what are you doing in this cave so late at night?"
Hu Hansan looked up at Wang Meng, who looked a little stern, and then looked at the attitudes of these people, and knew that he was the backbone of this group.
"Good man, we are from the Longmen Town Militia, and we are here to make a little fortune."
Wang Meng gave Monk Wei a look and threw five or six hammers and chisels in front of Hu Dadao.
"Carving a mural? Is this how you made your fortune?"
Hu Dadao laughed and looked nonchalant.
Wang Meng kicked him to the ground and spat at him fiercely.
After this series of actions, Wei Heshang and others were dumbfounded, because they had never seen their Chief of Staff Wang lose his temper so much.
Wang Meng was so angry that his teeth were itching because these bandits and robbers destroyed the Longmen Grottoes for money.
Many Buddha heads were chopped off, statues were dismembered, and even the reliefs were smashed and stolen, and those that could not be taken away were simply destroyed.
Even the arms of the largest and most beautiful Vairocana Buddha were cut off and stolen, and all the classic Buddha statues were not spared.
And Wang Meng just took a look and saw that the Binyang Cave behind him was the "Emperor and Empress Worshiping Buddha" that made all Chinese people angry and ashamed in the last world!
In the memory of the previous life, this "Emperor and Empress Worshiping Buddha" was knocked down and sold to the people of Country M!
There was a U.S. man named Pu Ailan, who was the director of the Far Eastern Art Department of the U.S. Museum in New York at the time. He was a well-known cultural figure, but to China, he was nothing more than a real antiquities dealer.
He saw the exquisite "Emperor and Empress Worshiping Buddha" in the photo, so he wanted to bring it back to Country M.
So they hired an antique dealer from China to break the exquisite relief into more than 6000 pieces and ship them abroad.
The relief sculpture "Emperor and Empress Worshiping Buddha" is divided into two parts. The relief sculpture "Emperor Xiaowen of Wei Worshiping Buddha" is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States, while the relief sculpture "Empress Wen Zhao Worshiping Buddha" is housed in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in United States.
Later generations of researchers on the Longmen Grottoes can only travel across the ocean to Country M to see the cultural relics that originally belonged to China!
Therefore, Wang Meng would never let the tragedy happen again. Since he had encountered this matter, he would never ignore it!
These antiquities dealers who buy and sell Chinese cultural relics should all be killed!
Wang Meng suppressed his anger and walked to Hu Dadao's side.
"I heard that you made a name for yourself here with a big knife. You don't stick to your old job, but try to make a fortune abroad. Isn't that courting death?"
Hu Dadao swallowed his saliva, his eyes full of fear. He did not doubt the truth of Wang Meng's words at all.
"Brother, brother, I won't dare to do it again! From now on, I will only rob, kill and burn people, and never knock on stone statues. Please forgive me this time, and I will give you all the property I have worked so hard to save over the years!"