This season, few people come to visit the Tibetan area. Apart from monks, only three or four tour groups visit the huge Potala Palace.
In order to avoid being found out, Ji Yunxi and I went in and found a group with the largest number of people, mixed in with them, and followed the little sister of the tour guide.
After the introduction of the guide''s little sister, I learned that there were 1000 rooms in the Potala Palace.
The 1000 rooms are divided into the White House and the Red Palace because of their different functions.
The White House is named for its white exterior wall.
It is said that it used to be the site of ZF institutions in Tibetan areas, and only senior monks and secular officials were allowed to enter.
Therefore, even if we have tickets, we are not allowed to visit the White House. We can only let the guide take us to the direction of the Red Palace.
The Red Palace is located in the center of the Potala Palace. The outer wall of the palace is red. The whole palace adopts Mandala layout. There are huge gilt buildings and red prayer flags, reflecting a strong Tibetan style.
In these palaces, people''s mood will unconsciously become solemn.
After all, this huge palace has been standing here for more than a thousand years.
It is like a kind old man, quietly watching the rise and fall and honor and disgrace of the Tibetan land, also quietly watching all the vicissitudes of thousands of years.
As if, no matter how the vast land changes, it can''t be shaken at all.
Xu is afraid that we are tired of visiting. After visiting half of the Red Palace, the guide will show us to the corridor outside and let us have a rest. We will continue to visit later.
The people in the tour group put down their backpacks, squatted or stood, and began to drink or eat, so as to replenish their strength for the next visit.
Ji Yunxi and I are the only two people, from the beginning to the end, have hidden their thoughts.
I looked not far away and saw that no one noticed us, so I poked Ji Yunxi''s arm and asked, "we''ve been walking around half the time, but we haven''t even seen the shadow of the corpse. Do you think it''s my wrong judgment?"
Ji Yunxi shakes his head and answers in a deep voice: "wrong should not be wrong, but I feel that it is very likely that we have found the wrong direction."
"In the wrong direction? What do you mean
"If you think about it, what an important thing the corpse of that woman is. Do you think this kind of thing might be put in the visiting area? No matter how stupid the person guarding the corpse is, he will not make such a low-level mistake! "
When I heard what he said, I seemed to understand something.
"Do you mean that the corpse of the woman is likely to be hidden in the white house where outsiders are not allowed to enter?"
"I always feel that if the White House is only a former ZF organization, it seems a little unreasonable to let outsiders in. If you think about it, that place used to be a ZF organization, but it''s not any more. It''s totally unreasonable that outsiders are not allowed to enter! Unless it hides something more secret than ZF''s office space, because it''s afraid of being known by outsiders, it can''t refuse outsiders to visit all the time! " Ji Yunxi said solemnly.
"There is something in what you say! However, the place is guarded all around, and we are not familiar with the terrain. How can we slip in? "
Ji Yunxi was silent for a while, lying on the railing and looking at the other side, then he spoke again: "steal the day for another day!"
Then he took advantage of the Miss guide''s inattention and dragged me to the west corner.
There, near the restroom, there''s a staircase next to it.
The two of us ran down the stairs and the cat was under the steps next to the White House.
I don''t know how long I waited, but two lamas in red robes passed by.
Ji Yunxi and I didn''t delay much, so we rushed up and covered the handkerchief with overpowering drugs on their mouths while the two lamas didn''t respond.
Soon, the two of them fell asleep.
We took off their robes, put them on ourselves, put on the hat of Lama, disguised as them, and went to the entrance of the White House.
Fortunately, the two lamas we stunned were not at a low level. After seeing the cards we showed, they soon let us into the White House.
In a word, the White House and the Red Palace are totally different worlds.
Although both of them are typical Tibetan buildings, the Red Palace is more strict and ethnic.
The White House, on the other hand, does not have as many Tibetan decorations as the Red Palace. On the whole, it looks more peaceful, and there are not so many religious things, just like the homes of ordinary Tibetans.
However, when I came in, I carefully observed that there were several statues around the White House.
Their style is different from that of the traditional statues in Tibetan areas. What they carve also has obvious Central Plains color.
In terms of appearance, they are Cong Ling, Ying Zhao, di Jiang, Zhi Bian, he Luo and Zhu Xun in Shan Hai Jing.
The appearance of these statues further proves that Ji Yunxi''s conjecture is probably correct.
After all, when telling me the story of Princess Wencheng''s entering Tibet last night, brother dengba once said that after Princess Wencheng moved into Potala Palace, there was no daytime in the whole Tibetan area for three months.
In those three months, every night, there will be beasts flying in the sky.
Now, it''s no coincidence that there are so many statues of the beast!
However, after confirming that the female''s body is hidden in the White House, we still have to find a specific hiding place.
There are hundreds of rooms, big and small. It''s not easy to find them.
To save time, the two of us found a layout of the entire White House room on the corridor wall on the second floor of the White House.
"Can you find the specific location through this layout?" Ji Yunxi asked.
I looked at the layout, nodded and said, "it should be almost the same! At that time, in order to build the Potala Palace, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty sent people to the Tibetan area to inspect for several months, and then determined the specific location of the palace. This shows that they are very concerned about this site, and they are not looking for it casually. In general, if you don''t look for any place, you may follow the theory of Yin Yang geomantic omen! "
With that, I carefully observed the plan.
"There are 50 rooms on the left and 50 rooms on the left. They are long in the East, arc in the west, a gap in the north and a depression in the south. The shape is like... A bit like a fish, an irregular fish!"
"What''s the point of this being like a fish?" Ji Yunxi was puzzled.
"Do you remember the statues we saw when we came in?"
"Remember, they seem to be Cong Ling, Ying Zhao, di Jiang, Zhi Bian, he Luo and Zhu Hong. But what does it have to do with the location we''re looking for? Aren''t they used to guard the corpse of the female
"They are used to guard the corpse of the female, but at the same time, they are also used to mark the specific location of the female corpse! Because he Luo, in the book of mountains and seas, is a fish with one head and 10 bodies! Ten bodies represent ten different directions, just like the idiom "ambush on all sides"! If you want to gather 10 directions into one head, is there really no moral
"So, you mean that the statue of holothurian we saw before, the direction of its mouth opening, is the place we are looking for?"
"That''s right!"
I leaned on the railing and looked out at the statue of the fish. I found that its mouth was in the same direction as we are now.
But its mouth is a little bit up.
That is to say, the real hiding place of the female corpse is in the room on the first floor where we are!