Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Magnificent Shwedagon Pagoda
Back at the hotel, it was evening again.
Lin Fang's life in the past few days can be described clearly in a very simple sentence, that is, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating, and if this continues, Lin Fang is a little worried about whether he will gain ten pounds.
But apparently his worries were unfounded, and the next day before dawn there was a knock at the door.
Sleepy-eyed opened the door, looking at the neatly dressed girl in the next room, and her face faintly revealed an excited girl, Lin Fang was speechless for a long time.
After glancing at his mobile phone, the corners of Lin Fang's mouth twitched slightly: "Vigorously, it's only less than six o'clock now, as for so early." β
"Uncle, the sooner you go, the better, so that we can have more fun in the past two days, and when it's late, there are people everywhere, I don't want to run so far, just to see the people's heads." β
Dali said with some coquettishness.
Well, since the beauty has an appointment, what else can Lin Fang say, so he had to nod helplessly and agree.
"Then you go wash up, get dressed and come out quickly, I'll give you ten minutes. β
"Hmm. β
Lin Fang nodded, ten minutes is indeed too much time for a boy to get up, but after only two minutes, Lin Fang knew that he was too naΓ―ve.
"Uncle, it's been almost twenty minutes. β
After hearing the sound outside the door, Lin Fang couldn't help but have black lines on his face, if it weren't for the fact that only two minutes had passed on his watch, he would have wondered if he had crossed again.
When I went out and bought some special breakfast from MD, Lin conveniently and vigorously set off towards the destination.
"Uncle, I have long wanted to go to the Shwedagon Pagoda, I heard that it is similar to our Emei Mountain in China. β
Hearing the words of some excitement, Lin Fang pouted slightly, these two can not be compared at all, the altitude of Mount Emei is several thousand meters, the golden top on the mountain is a strange flower in the world, and the Shwedagon Pagoda is said to be built in the highest place in Yangon, but with all due respect to Lin Fang, purely in terms of altitude, it is not even qualified to be a younger brother.
MD is one of the few countries in the world dominated by Theravada Buddhism, as the country's largest religion, naturally domestic Buddhist believers account for the majority of the country's population, because of this, in the streets of MD, you can see buildings and monks full of Buddhist atmosphere.
It is worth mentioning that the hotel where Lin Fang and Dali stayed was very close to the Dajinding, and it didn't take long to walk.
"Richard is indeed very delicate. β
After the gap reached this point, Lin Fang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it is not difficult to imagine that the location of this hotel is definitely not a coincidence, Richard must have thought that Lin Fang and Dali would go out to play before they would arrange it like this.
But even if he realized this, in Lin Fang's heart, he still couldn't have the slightest good impression of Richard.
"What does Uncle think? β
The words made Lin Fang turn around, and he didn't know how to answer, Lin Fang said casually: "I'm thinking, why is the monk of MD different from our Huaxia monk." β
"What's the difference, it's not all bald. β
Some pouted in confusion, and said vigorously and inexplicably.
"Aren't all our Chinese monks wearing robes, and why do they show one side of their arms to show that they are strong? β
After hearing Lin Fang's words, he looked in the direction of his finger and vigorously saw a monk dressed in red with his right shoulder leaking.
A trace of black line appeared on his vigorously white forehead, a trace of blush flashed on his face, and he patted Lin Fang angrily: "Uncle, this is people's custom, as the Buddhist scriptures say, favoring the right shoulder, showing the highest respect, every time the Buddhist scriptures ask for the Dharma, the Bodhisattva has to favor the right shoulder, and the right knee touches the ground, indicating respect for the Buddha, so those monks will show their right shoulder." β
"I see, it's not a hooligan. β
Lin Fang nodded a little incomprehensibly.
Zhuge Dali: "........."
I thought that so early, no one would be idle and come to visit any attractions, but when they arrived there, Lin Fang found that he was wrong again, although when they arrived at the Shwedagon Pagoda, the sky was not yet bright, but there were really a lot of people, dense people were distributed on the stairs, from Lin Fang's point of view, at a glance, it was a human head.
"Well, it seems that in this case, we only have to look at people today. β
Spreading his hands, Lin Fang couldn't help but say helplessly.
"Uncle, it's all your fault, I already let you get up, you can't afford it. β
After hearing the girl's complaining words, Lin Fang's eyes couldn't help but straighten a little: "How can you blame me, I'll delay for five minutes." β
"Why don't you blame you, how many people can we surpass in five minutes, maybe we have all reached the Shwedagon Pagoda by now. β
Well, having said all this, how Lin Fang didn't understand that he had made a serious mistake, that is, never to reason with a woman, no matter how reasonable this woman usually became.
Seeing that Lin Fang was silent, he waved his little fist with a victorious look.
Walking on the steps, along the way, Lin Fang had to sigh in his heart, it is not unreasonable for MD to be poor, he was busy worshipping the Buddha, and the country's economic construction was put aside.
In Lin Fang's gaze, the steps were full of monks wearing Buddhist robes, bowing in three steps, and exuding a fanatical gaze in their eyes.
seemed to see the surprise in Lin Fang's eyes, and vigorously explained: "MD is like this in this country, eighty percent of the people in the country are Buddhist believers, so this kind of scene can be said to be commonplace. β
After a pause, Dali suddenly said, "Uncle, do you know what the nickname of this Shwedagon Pagoda is?" β
"What?"
Lin Fang asked a little puzzled.
According to rough statistics, this pagoda has more than 80,000 pieces of gold and silver jewelry used for decoration, and the small pagoda group next to it uses countless gold. β
When the girl said this, her face couldn't help but flash a dreamlike longing, for shiny things, women are always difficult to resist, let alone such a big lump.
"This thing, if you take a little bit of it, you will get rich. β
Lin Fang also nodded, in line with the Dao.
"You... Don't you think it's romantic, your mind is full of money. β
"It's really romantic, but it's been a waste, a country so poor, with so many resources to build a tower, if you build more roads, how much GDP will have to be added. β
Zhuge Dali: "........."
In fact, you can't blame Lin Fang for being a straight man, it's really the education he received, and his lack of religious beliefs, he can't figure out the reason for doing this.