Mr. Tao could guess some of the ideas of these people, but he didn't say much. He continued to study the falling murals, and then paid attention to the situation around the grottoes.

At the same time, Qiao Yu asked in a low voice: "This is very strange. Who do you think did it?"

"Why must you be artificial?" Baye said softly: "After all, what are you doing to destroy the mural?"

"Who knows, it might have been broken by accident." Qiao Yu speculated: "Then just keep doing it and make the mural look like this, pretending to be hot and cold."

"Xiao Qiao, don't talk nonsense." Baye said carefully: "It's not good to be heard."

"What are you afraid of?" Qiao Yu laughed in a low voice: "If you can do it, don't be afraid of others' words, you have heard a lot about the trick of bullying the superiors and hiding responsibility, and now you finally see it."

"Don't rush to make arbitrary decisions."

However, Wang Guan had a different view: "Thermal expansion and contraction are naturally unreliable, but it may not be artificial damage, because the fragments cracked naturally, and it looks a bit like an earthquake shock and cracking."

"Earthquake?" Qiao Yu's voice became a little louder, and then shook her head directly: "Impossible."

"I just guess it casually." Wang Guan smiled and agreed: "If it was an earthquake, it would probably be not only one cave, but I'm afraid all caves will not be spared."

"That's it!" Qiao Yu nodded and said bluntly: "So your guess is even more unreliable."

"not necessarily!"

At this moment, Old Tao turned around and said, "It's really possible that it was an earthquake."

"What?"

Everyone was stunned, even a little dumbfounded. It would be fine if others were not. Such a reason, or an excuse, could it be from the mouth of the upright and selfless Mr. Tao? You should know that in the eyes of a group of managers, the reason for earthquakes is more unreliable than thermal expansion and contraction. It is absolutely impossible to fool such a reason to report to the superior department.

"Don't believe it?" Old Tao smiled and said calmly: "In fact, there are two types of earthquakes, one is a natural earthquake, and the other is a man-made earthquake."

"Hmm? An artificial earthquake?"

For a moment, many people were puzzled, and naturally some smart people reacted and hurriedly said: "Old Tao means that someone is working nearby, so they cracked these murals?"

"Who? Who is working on the construction?" The director immediately became furious when he heard this: "I have already declared and ordered that I cannot use machinery such as drilling machines in the grottoes. Whoever violated the regulations will stand up immediately."

"Director, no." At the right time, a manager scratched his head and said in confusion: "In recent times, no repair projects have been arranged."

"Yes, there are no major moves in the past two months except for basic dust sweeping and maintenance."

Other managers nodded one after another, and even asked the director to recall that this was indeed the case. After all, any project needs to be signed and stamped before it can take effect, and it is impossible to bypass him and implement it privately.

"Is there no project?" Old Tao frowned slightly, suddenly pointed to a mark on the ground and said, "What is this?"

Everyone looked at it quickly and saw that the mark was not very clear, but after careful examination, they could barely identify it. It was a trace of heavy objects falling.

"ah?"

Suddenly, someone called out.

The director glanced and immediately asked, "Do you know the reason?"

"Director, didn't a tourist report that there were many grottoes a few times ago, and he was tired of walking while visiting, but there were not many places to rest. So after everyone discussed it, they decided to place some stone benches near the grottoes."

The man quickly explained, pointed to the mark and said, "I remember it seemed that the day before yesterday, when two workers were carrying a large stone bench by this place, the rope suddenly broke and the solid stone bench fell down. I was still glad at that time, fortunately the two were not injured, otherwise they should have paid more work-related injury fees..."

"Stop pulling those that are not." The director glared and said thoughtfully: "In other words, it was precisely because of the smash that the mural fell off."

"It's almost the same." Old Tao pondered: "After all, the mural has been a bit weathered after many years. Even if there is no external force, if you don't take care of it carefully, it will crack in ten or eight years. The smash the day before yesterday accelerated the process, leaving hidden dangers, and it didn't explode until today."

In fact, there was something that Mr. Tao didn't say, but everyone knew a little. When the stone bench fell to the ground and the shock waves reached the stone wall, the mural must have cracked a little, but these people were careless and did not pay attention. To a certain extent, these managers should indeed bear some responsibilities.

Of course, I will mention the responsibility and other things later. Anyway, after finding the specific reason, the director breathed a sigh of relief. He was naturally grateful to Mr. Tao, and his attitude was even lower. He asked carefully: "Mr. Tao, the problem has been clear. Although it was just an accident,... do you see if there is still room for recovery?"

In an instant, several managers looked at Mr. Tao again, hoping to hear a positive answer.

"It's all cracked, how can I get it back?" Old Tao said angrily: "Can you stick it back?"

Several managers looked at each other and smiled bitterly awkwardly. In fact, when they found that the mural fell off, they had thought of this idea, but unfortunately they were so broken that they couldn't stick back at all, so they had to report to the director. After some worried discussion, they still went to pick up the middle-aged man who came over to ask Mr. Tao to come and help.

After looking at each other, a man understood Mr. Tao's temperament and decided to tell the truth. He smiled with a shy face: "Old Tao, actually we want to ask you to repair the mural..."

"Repair? How to repair it, it's better to re-paint one." Old Tao said.

"This is a good relationship..."

In an instant, someone blurted out, and everyone looked at him like a fool, cursing in their hearts that this guy was not sure whether it was naive or stupid, but he didn't even hear the sarcasm in Old Tao's tone.

"I just knew there was no good thing for you to invite me." Old Tao smiled and said, "It turns out that he was planning to use me to push the tank."

"Old Tao, how dare we..." A group of people shook their heads and denied it quickly. Even if they had such thoughts in their hearts, they would never admit it, otherwise, let alone remedy it, the outcome might be even worse.

However, Wang Guan was also quite surprised. Why did these people seem to be very respectful of Mr. Tao? This did not seem to be respectful of cultural celebrities, but instead seemed to be a kind of flattery.

At this moment, seeing Wang Guan’s confusion, Qiao Yu whispered beside him: “The teacher’s younger brother is the executive director of the provincial party committee…”

In an instant, Wang Guan suddenly realized and immediately understood the intentions of these people. If Mr. Tao took action to re-design a mural, even if the superior department knew something was wrong, he would probably not dare to hold on.

"I want to use the teacher, they are still very tender." Qiao Yu despised him, and then smiled, "I guess they still have to argue slowly. It's boring to stay here. Why don't we go out and have a look?"

Wang Guan agreed, and Bei Ye had no objection. Then the three of them greeted Mr. Tao, immediately left the cave, and wandered around casually.

Qiao Yu was quite familiar with this place and explained the origins of each cave to the other two people from time to time: "No, there is the most magnificent cave in Tianlong Mountain, which was renovated by the state. There are Maitreya seated statues and eleven Guanyin statues..."

"There are also many caves in the Tang Dynasty. The teacher said that the Tang Dynasty was the heyday of Chinese Buddhism, and Jinyang was the place where the Li Tang Dynasty became a dragon. Therefore, the construction of temples in Tianlong Mountain in the Tang Dynasty reached its climax, and 18 caves were carved in the east and west peaks successively." Qiao Yu talked: "However, most of the Buddha statues in the caves were cut-headed and broken hands, and there was only a body left."

"It's so miserable." Bai Ye's eyes fluttered and he said strangely: "Didn't you say it can be repaired? Why don't you just repair it?"

"If you repair it, you will not have the charm of the vicissitudes of history."

Looking at the Buddha statues in front of him that were comparable to those of the real person, Wang Guan also felt a little touched: "These things are perfect art treasures, but like many things, when they are intact, we never cherish them, and we only know how valuable they are when they are damaged. However, it is not too late to repair the dead sheep, and leaving these defects may not be a reminder, reminding us not to make the same mistake again."

"Well, it sounds quite reasonable." Qiao Yu said heartlessly: "Xiao Ye, after seeing the cave, we will go down to take a look. There is a temple at the foot of the mountain. It was originally called Tianlong Temple, but it is now renamed Shengshou Temple."

"There is a dragon pine tree in the temple. The tree is very strange. Its branches and leaves do not grow upward like ordinary trees, but rather grow horizontally and radiates around. It looks like a green cloud from a distance, but looks like a giant umbrella at close range..."

Qiao Yu seemed to be an excited bird, chirping and talking nonstop. Not long after, Wang Guan and Bei Ye came to the so-called Panlong Pine under her leadership.

After a little look, Wang Guan felt a little surprised, because the tree was not high, and it was only three meters long, but the main trunk was indeed very thick, and the branches and leaves were scattered around. Moreover, in order to support the ancient pines' continuous expansion of the crown, the managers erected dozens of pillars around it, which looked like umbrella keel bones and pavilions and corridor columns, very distinctive.

The three of them walked in, and when they were under the tree, they seemed to be in an extremely wide natural awning. Looking up, they saw that the layers of stranded branches were like dragon arms and dragon claws, circling and interspersed, like dragons and sky, so the name Panlong Pine was given.

"How is it, it's good." Qiao Yu gestured: "The shade of trees is 200 square meters, which is wider than some buildings."

"It's good." Wang Guan smiled and said, "It should be cooler to sleep here in summer."

"Dream, mosquitoes bite you to death." Qiao Yu said with a smile, then pulled Baye to walk around the temple with great enthusiasm. After burning a few incense sticks without sincerity, he left Shengshou Temple.

As soon as he left, Qiao Yu pointed to a building more than a hundred meters away and said, "Did you see it? There is Tianlong Villa, a place for people to eat, drink and have fun..."
Chapter completed!