Bright Spring

Gao Xu and Miao Jin turned around and found that it was a young woman they didn't know, who had the appearance of a Mediterranean race, and many white people also had this appearance.She wore a turban on her head, but her face was completely exposed.

"Hi." Gao Xu nodded.

The woman said: "My name is Mona, my friend wants me to thank Mr.

"The girl from Mobia in the teahouse just now?" Gao Xu asked.

Mona nodded and said: "Yes." As she said, she glanced at Miaojin curiously and smiled.

"You speak Chinese really well." Miao Jin also smiled.Gao Xu looked at Mona's turban, and didn't take the initiative to reach out to shake hands.The religion they believe in seems to be relatively conservative, and it is best not to actively touch women.

Mona said: "I work as a tour guide part-time here."

Miao Jin asked, "Are you still a student?"

Mona nodded and said, "Yes, I'm learning Chinese."

Gao Xu was stunned, clasped his hands together and said, "Then are you free recently, why don't you be our tour guide?"

Mona hurriedly said, "Of course."

"How do you charge?" Gao Xu asked.

Mona asked tentatively: "Working as a translator and a tour guide at the same time, twenty Ming Dynasty money a day?"

Gao Xu and Miao Jin looked at each other, they both seemed to think it was too cheap.Gao Xu said cheerfully: "Okay." After he finished speaking, he took out two [-]-yen banknotes and handed them to Mona, "Starting from today, let's make an appointment for ten days."

Then the two exchanged phone numbers, and Gao Xu asked at this time: "So the women here can work?"

Mona said: "I can't do it after I get married. I'm a part-time job, and I only serve Ming people. Everyone will be more tolerant to Ming people, because you are more polite and generally don't embarrass girls' families."

Gao Xu nodded with a thoughtful expression on his face.He turned his head and said to Miao Jin, "Tomorrow, let's go to the city to see the Mummy Museum first, and then go to the Pyramid of Khufu? Come on, let's see the history and culture here."

Miao Jin nodded and said, "OK."

Arrangements were quickly made.

Chapter 44 Simple Eternal Life

It was only the next day that Gao Xu realized why the tour guide named Mona used a tentative tone when he mentioned the daily salary.It turns out that the daily salary of ordinary local people is between three and four yuan, which is still the income of people with jobs.

When Gao Xu was working as a company clerk, his daily salary was about 170 yuan.He ignored the exchange rate of Ming Yuan, and he didn't realize that the income of Ming people was more than 40 times.No wonder Mona said that she only serves Ming people, and it is difficult to determine whether the reason is because of "Ming people are polite".

Local prices are not necessarily low, for example, the price of Yang Kui and the Shanhu brand off-road vehicle is more than double that of the Ming country.The only low price should be food. It is said that the government gives a lot of financial subsidies every year.

Yesterday the French couple complained that the locals were not punctual and lazy, and presumably thought that was the case in tropical regions.But now Gao Xu thought about it, if he had a salary of three or four yuan a day, and he could not see a way to rise, he would definitely work hard at work, and his mentality was very Buddhist.

But Mona was not like this. She had been waiting in the lobby very early, and she had done her homework and brought a small notebook with explanations, and her attitude was very serious.

The four of them got on the off-road vehicle early in the morning and set off for the city.

After chatting in the car for a while, Gao Xu introduced the topic suggestively, and finally got Mona to take the initiative to tell about the black girl yesterday.So Yang Kui should understand logically that the reason why Gao Xu found the tour guide Chun by himself was a coincidence, not subconscious mutual checks and balances | supervision, or a little lack of trust.

When approaching the urban area, a large piece of wasteland appeared on the side of the road, and many small houses were built on it.Some dirty people just got up and are coming out of the little house.Gao Xu turned his head to observe the scene outside.

"The graveyard." Mona's voice said.

Gao Xu turned to look at her.She pointed to the small house outside, "That's a tomb built by a rich man, and it hasn't been used yet."

He understood immediately what it meant, that the people living inside were homeless bums.He didn't say anything, and the car fell silent.

Everyone took a bus to the urban area, as if entering another khaki world full of garbage from the civilized area on the other side of the hotel.Yesterday's parade is over. Occasionally, old-fashioned tanks pass by on the road, and soldiers with live ammunition are often seen.

But the popularity in the city is really good. There are many people on the street in the early morning. Men, young and old, are sitting on small stools by the side of the road, smoking a hookah in a large metal container, and there are black tea and sugar on the wooden board.The people chatting lazily made Gao Xu feel less nervous when he saw the tank.The locals look very friendly. When they see the oriental faces by the car window, they will smile and wave to say hello.

Miao Jin asked, "Is there no industry?"

"There are textile factories." Mona said, "In the past, the Ming Dynasty aided us with equipment and helped us train workers. But later, too many countries and regions have made textiles and garments, and the cost in some places is lower. Now the textile factories are not in a recession. "

Gao Xu said: "The lower the industry goes, the more intense the competition."

Mona echoed with a smile: "Yes, it's the same for businessmen."

Gao Xu said again: "Perhaps we still have to rely on education."

Mona shook her head and said: "Our schools and literate people may not be as good as those of the Ming Dynasty, but

higher than many countries.People with bad family backgrounds will often emigrate if they have talent and real talents.Generally, people with academic qualifications mostly go to the public sector of the government, there are about 600 million people, and their income is not good. "

In an instant, Gao Xu seemed to have forgotten that he was just a commoner. He pondered for a long time, and then said again, "There is still a lack of traditional expectations. If everyone fully believes that reading can make you an official and make a fortune, there will be a lot of people in a certain period of time." The young and middle-aged population, for the sake of their children and their families, are working hard on dirty low-income jobs to accumulate capital for social innovation, instead of smoking hookah when they are full and sinking into stagnation."

No one responded to Gao Xu's words, and Miao Jin just looked at him and shook his head with a wry smile.The silence once again brought Gao Xu back to reality, he is no longer the one who controls the movement of the world.The audience is no longer Qi Tai, Gao Xianning, Hu Wei and others who want to help the world and want to glorify the Ming Zongshe.And it's about other people's affairs, so everyone doesn't care too much.

Mona stared out the window blankly, her eyes were full of khaki unfinished buildings and slow-moving passers-by, and she had a sad face for a while.When she noticed that Gao Xu was observing her, she turned her head and showed a sweet and relaxed smile again.

Gao Xu also stopped talking about realistic topics. They came to see the relics thousands of years ago.What's more, he had just arrived at this place, so he didn't have a deep understanding at all. He only saw the surface, and it was just idle talk, which was meaningless.

Yang Kui parked his car outside the museum, still some distance from the gate, because parking was not allowed there.So Gao Xu and Miao Jin followed Mona to the museum on foot.Along the way, many people gathered around, wanting to chat with Gao Xu Miaojin.Mona told them to just ignore them.

But there are still people from the Ming Dynasty on the side of the road, sitting with the locals, gesticulating and communicating, and smoking hookah.Now some Ming people like to run around, and they are not afraid of risks.Gao Xu is not an adventurer, but because of the high level of security and defense in the past, he formed the habit of being cautious.

There are a large number of cultural relics in the museum. Gao Xu doesn't know much about history and history, so it's just a surprise to see.He looked around, and only some strange and vague images remained in his mind, including incomprehensible characters, reliefs, gold products, and so on.What impressed me most were the two mummies, because Mona said they were the mummies of the pharaoh and queen.But Gao Xu turned around and forgot the pharaoh's name, so the impression was nothing more than that.

It is said that the pharaoh queens are very young, and have a beautiful love story, carving love on the golden chair.After thousands of years, they can still appear in front of the world and hold exhibitions.

And Gao Xu guessed that the kings and nobles preserved their bodies, obviously not for the purpose of sightseeing to the whole world, they are for eternal life.This is a story about the pursuit of immortality earlier than Qin Shihuang. Of course, in the eyes of Gao Xu, who was also the emperor, this ending is rather sad.

After strolling around like a horse watching the lanterns, the four of them left the museum. According to the itinerary, they went straight to the Pyramid of Khufu and the Sphinx in the southwest.

Here is another story about eternal life.

The pyramid is surrounded by loess and sand, not a single blade of grass grows, and the sky is so gray that I don't know whether it is smog or dust.Without the backdrop of large buildings, the pyramids look very majestic and shocking.

Compared with the image of Greek mythology and the sphinx, which can only be viewed from a distance and look like bricks up close, Gao Xu is obviously more interested in the pharaoh's tomb, which pursues eternal life.

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When I first arrived, I looked up at the uniquely shaped ruins and was stunned for a while.Mona and the others didn't say much, just watched from the side.

Relying on the huge amount of stones, the pyramid makes the spire go deep into the sky, as if it is receiving some kind of energy from the universe, giving the magic power of immortality to the mummified pharaohs buried below?Relying on his guess, Gao Xu suddenly felt that the pharaohs were extremely imaginative.

But the effect is seriously questionable.

Energy from the universe or the sky, what exactly is it, electricity?gravitational?Space warp?People in ancient times couldn't figure it out, and of course they didn't know what materials could absorb.But it still does not prevent the pharaohs from building such a large tomb with the power of the whole country and making themselves into mummies.Very crazy, almost desperate.

The tourists around obviously sneered at the beliefs of the ancients, and the tourists who were sightseeing were laughing and watching with great interest.Some people climbed to the top, and peeped into it unscrupulously in a tomb-robbing stone cave not far from the bottom.

Gao Xu and Miao Jin walked slowly around and watched, they also looked like modern people.Gao Xu was wearing long trousers, a half-sleeved pullover, and sunglasses. The Miao Jin who was tightly covered by his side and his lips were smeared with bright red, his image was out of tune with this vicissitudes of history, and he was similar to the tourists around him.But the feelings in their hearts are obviously different from those around them.