Chapter 746: The Miracle of Angkor

Walk into Angkor Wat, a mirror-bright rectangular moat surrounds a rectangular oasis full of lush trees, surrounded by a temple wall, and the building in the middle of the oasis is the Hindu Hindu altar of Mount Meru at the Angkor Wat Temple. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Angkor Wat Temple sits on the east and faces west, a long causeway from due west to due east, crossing the moat, leading to the west gate of the temple wall, passing through the west gate, and another long road, through the verdant meadow, to the west gate of the temple.

Although it was still early in the morning, there were already a lot of tourists in Angkor Wat, and most of them were Chinese, they deliberately went to Angkor Wat early to watch the sunrise, listening to the familiar language in their ears, making Fang Yi feel an inexplicable cordiality.

Fang Yi has been living in the Peng family for the past few months, although many people in the Peng family can speak Chinese, but almost all the conversations between them are Burmese or English, and after staying in these months, Fang Yi's level of spoken English and Burmese dialect has improved by leaps and bounds.

"I'll buy a ticket, you wait here for a while......" Peng Bin said hello to Fang Yi, followed a group of domestic tour groups to the ticket office, and five or six minutes later, a dark-skinned teenager walked back behind Peng Bin.

"I bought a ticket that I can enter and exit for seven days...... Peng Bin handed a ticket to Fang Yi, who did not think that he and Fang Yi would be able to discover the secrets of Angkor Wat on the first day.

"Big brother, is he?"

Taking the ticket handed by Peng Bin, Fang Yi glanced at the young man, who was about sixteen or seventeen years old, probably in a sun-exposed environment for a long time, his complexion was very dark, and his white teeth were particularly conspicuous when he smiled.

"This is our tour guide, let him explain to us the ...... of Angkor Wat"

Peng Bin glanced at Fang Yi, the tour guide he invited was a child who grew up locally, and he could enter and leave Angkor Wat freely, with such a person following, Peng Bin could ask a lot of things that regular tour guides didn't know.

"My name is Alai, and the two gentlemen are from China, right?" The young man who liked to laugh introduced himself in Chinese, and although his pronunciation seemed a little jerky, his words were very clear, and there was no problem in communicating at all.

"Yes, we're here for a tour, Alai, do you know anything about Angkor Wat?"

Peng Bin took out a dollar with a face value of 100 yuan from his pocket, thought about it for a while, Peng Bin took out two more, and handed them to Alai together.

Peng Bin had been to Angkor Wat before, and knew that the price of a regular tour guide was only 30 US dollars a day, and as long as he gave him 10 or 20 US dollars to such a local, they would explain it to the guests very carefully, and he took out 300 US dollars at once, which could almost make the young man in front of him kill people and set fire.

"Thank you, no...... No need for so many ......."

Looking at the three green bills in his hand, Alai looked a little overwhelmed, although the guests who came to visit often gave him a tip, but no one had ever sold hundreds of dollars, which was a lot of money in the local area.

Cambodia is one of the least developed countries in the world, and its per capita annual income is a few hundred dollars.

"Don't worry, gentlemen, I grew up in Angkor Wat, and I know every stone here......

Ah Lai patted his chest and assured Peng Bin that they locals do not need to buy tickets to enter and exit Angkor Wat, and Ah Lai's brother is a staff member in Angkor Wat, otherwise Ah Lai's identity as a black tour guide will be investigated.

"I'm going to be here for seven days, maybe longer. ”

Peng Bin waved his hand and said, "The two of us need a place to stay, and the two of us can live in one room, and I will give you the cost of the room separately, and the three hundred dollars are just used as the cost of the tour guide for these seven days......"

"I ...... I can stay at home ......"

After hearing Peng Bin's words, Alai suddenly became excited, and hurriedly said: "My house is very close to here, it only takes five or six minutes to walk, the two gentlemen can rest assured, my inn at home is the cleanest in the neighborhood, and there are flush toilets in every room, so I guarantee that the two of you will be satisfied." ”

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will think about change, and in the villages around the tourist attractions of Angkor Wat, they also rely on Angkor Wat, a world-famous monument, to carry out many industries, in addition to food and lodging, many people in the village also weave some handmade artworks for sale, so the average income in this area is higher than the per capita income of the whole Cambodia.

"Okay, after today's tour, I'll go to your house to stay ......"

Peng Bin nodded when he heard this, took out a fifty dollar bill from his pocket, and said, "Alai, the two of us haven't had breakfast yet, can you help us buy some food......?"

Although there are compressed biscuits in the backpack behind him, and they are also marching biscuits of the U.S. military, there are several flavors, but Peng Bin can't stand it after eating it for a few days in a row, and now Peng Bin wants to eat Cambodian curry spring rolls, which is also a kind of breakfast unique to Cambodia.

"Yes, yes, and the curry beef rice...... "Taking the bill, Alai turned and ran backwards, and said, "Two gentlemen, wait for me, I'll be back soon......"

Immediately, it was not very long, that is, after seven or eight minutes, Alley ran back with a basket.

After beckoning Fang Yi and Peng Bin to sit down on the edge of a corridor, Alai took out two servings of beef rice from the basket, as well as a curry spring roll and two servings of soup powder in a plastic bowl, and Alai carefully prepared a bottle of water for each of them.

"Sir, here's the rest of the money...... "There are more than 20 dollars left in the basket, and the more poor and economically backward the place, the stronger the purchasing power of the dollar, and this basket of food only costs more than 20 dollars.

"Alai, that's your tip......"

Peng Bin waved his hand and didn't take the money, but took out a box of beef rice and devoured it, Peng Bin found that after coming into contact with the body refining exercises, his gastrointestinal digestion ability seemed to be much stronger, and sometimes even if he had just eaten, he would feel hungry again after a while.

"This soup powder is good, what's it called?"

Fang Yi opened the two plastic bowls and found that the soup powder in the bowl was covered with mint leaves, bean sprouts, mung beans, banana blossoms, cucumbers and seven or eight other vegetables, plus some green curry, just smelling it made Fang Yi's appetite work.

"This is our local specialty breakfast, it's called soup rice noodles......" Seeing that Fang Yi liked it, Alai hurriedly said: "If Mr. likes to eat, I'll buy you another one." ”

He had just received a tip of more than twenty dollars, and Alai's heart was about to explode with joy, he knew that he had met the legendary high roller today, and if he served the two of them well, he was afraid that he would earn his usual year's income in a few days.

"No, it's enough to eat......"

Although he had also cultivated the body refining technique, Fang Yi's demand for food was not as great as Peng Bin's, and he didn't know if it was because he absorbed and fused that trace of aura, Fang Yi felt that his true qi seemed to have some changes, and when it was running in his body, he was always nourishing his physical body.

Therefore, compared to Peng Bin, the increase in body refining exercises for Fang Yi's cultivation was not so great, but it only increased his physical strength and strength a lot.

Peng Bin and Fang Yi ate something, it can be called a whirlwind, no matter what the two brothers stuffed into their mouths, and swallowed it into their stomachs after chewing a few times, the two of them almost looked at Alai dumbfounded, if they didn't know, they thought that the two of them hadn't eaten for many days.

"Let's go!"

That is, in three or four minutes, the basket of food was swept away by Peng Bin and Fang Yi, and some unfinished smacking his mouth, Peng Bin said: "Let's have a good meal in the evening, Alai, let you roast a sheep at home when the time comes, by the way, use red pepper and salt as a seasoning, don't put Khmer curry......"

Although Peng Bin is not a foodie, but under the conditions, he is still very particular about eating, the last time he came to Angkor Wat, he also lived in a villager's inn, for the roast sheep, Peng Bin has always been worried about it.

"Okay, sir, I'll have someone send a message to the family in a moment and ask them to kill a sheep......"

Hearing Peng Bin's words, Alai nodded hurriedly, and when he entered Angkor Wat, he only needed to say hello to the staff, and he could notify his brother who was managing in Angkor Wat.

After such a delay outside, the number of people coming to Angkor Wat has also increased, and some groups of local children shuttle among the tourists, and from time to time they will ask for some coins or sweets.

However, these children are very polite and do not pester tourists after being refused, some of the younger children are playing and chasing, and the children's crisp laughter adds a lot of life to this solemn atmosphere of the thousand-year-old temple.

"Brother Alai ......"

When Alai took Peng Bin and Fang Yi to enter Angkor Wat, four or five children of six or seven years old surrounded him, but they were a little afraid of Peng Bin, who was bare-headed and round-waisted, and was just greeting Alai.

Ah Lai took out a handful of sugar from his pocket and gave it to the children, who immediately ran away with cheers, and when they looked back, Ah Lai smiled and said, "That's how I grew up, Angkor Wat is like our own home to us......

"Alai, you believe in Buddhism, right?" Peng Bin said seemingly casually: "Angkor Wat is a holy place of Buddhism, I don't know what miracles have been revealed?"

"Miracles?" said Alai, shaking his head, "sir, what do you mean by miracles?

"No, when I say miracles, do I mean that there has ever been a god who has descended, or is there anyone who has gone to the realm of the Buddha in it?" Peng Bin was inducing Alai step by step, and this question was also a skill, and asking too bluntly would make people suspicious.

"No, maybe we are too ignorant and the Buddha is unwilling to save our ......"

Alai still shook his head, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "I once heard the elders say that when Angkor Wat was not a tourist attraction a few decades ago, sheep were often herded in the village, and for some reason, sheep were often lost here......

There are still some legends about Angkor Wat in the surrounding villages, and the loss of livestock is only one aspect, and some people say that there is a country under this land, but it is no longer found.

"Are there any sheep missing?" Hearing Alai's words, Peng Bin's eyes couldn't help but light up.

"No, sheep herding is long since Angkor Wat. ”

Ah Lai shook his head, took Fang Yi and Peng Bin into the city gate of Angkor Wat, which was very characteristic and showed a Buddha face, and said to the two: "Two gentlemen, do you want to visit Angkor Wat or go to the Queen's Palace first......?

"The Queen's Palace will go in a few days, and I will play in Angkor Wat these days, brother, the Queen's Palace he said is also a nearby attraction......"

Peng Bin explained to Fang Yi that he had been to Angkor Wat and knew that the Queen Palace was one of the three holy temples in Cambodia and was known as the "pearl of Angkor monuments".

"Alai, let's stay at Angkor Wat first. Fang Yi thought for a moment and said, "I studied history and archaeology, and I may be more detailed in the investigation of Angkor Wat, and it will take a little longer......"

According to Fang Yi and Peng Bin's prior discussion, they will gradually rummage through Angkor Wat inch by inch, in order not to arouse Alai's suspicion, the two came up with such an idea, in Peng Bin's words, many experts and scholars will come here every year to study and investigate.

"It's okay, if the two gentlemen don't understand anything, just ask me......"

As Peng Bin said, Angkor Wat attracts archaeologists from all over the world, and some even stay here for years, so Fang Yi and Peng Bin's behavior does not seem abrupt.

Playing Angkor Wat, divided into large circles and small circles, its practical two days, you can play the entire Angkor Wat, but for Fang Yi and Peng Bin, this time is far from enough, from the time after entering the city gate, the two are almost moving forward with the speed of moving.

Angkor Wat has a lot of pyramid-like temple buildings, you can stand at the door and you can see the five pagodas standing, such as the dice five-point plum blossom, four of which are smaller, row four corners, a large pagoda stands majestically in the middle, similar to the layout of the Indian Vajra throne pagoda, but the spacing of the five pagodas is wide, and the verandah is connected between the pagodas and the pagodas.

In addition, each floor of the Vajra Altar on Mount Meru is surrounded by a cloister, a characteristic feature of Angkor Wat architecture, where the steps are so steep that Fang Yi sees that many people climb them with both hands and feet, which in Alai's words means that people have to go through many hardships to reach heaven.

Sinking down, Fang Yi found that Angkor Wat is indeed a place worthy of careful taste and study, almost all the buildings here have extremely exquisite and detailed reliefs, although all the buildings have been dilapidated, but this dilapidation is to give people a sense of the vicissitudes of time.

From the initial purposeful search, Fang Yi gradually immersed himself in the vicissitudes of history and culture, rubbing the carved lines with his hands, Fang Yi seemed to be able to feel the scene when the craftsmen worked hard.

Unlike Fang Yi, Peng Bin had no interest in the culture of this place, and he didn't know where he found a branch to pretend to be a walking stick, and knocked it in some places from time to time, and almost every piece of ground was knocked by him all the way away.

At noon, the two did not leave Angkor Wat, but Alai went outside to buy food and brought it in.

Ah Lai, who originally had some doubts about the two of them, would have no doubts at all, because the two of them, especially Fang Yi, were really like those experts and scholars in the past, and their obsession with Angkor Wat could be seen at a glance.

It wasn't until seven o'clock in the evening that it was time for Angkor Wat to close the door, Fang Yi and Peng Bin walked out under the leadership of Alai, compared with Peng Bin's somewhat disappointed expression, Fang Yi's face was much more indifferent, although he was a cultivator, but this ancient temple still brought Fang Yi a lot of shocks.

The culture is the same, whether it is the pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the Terracotta Warriors of China, or the Angkor Wat in Cambodia, they all represent civilizations that transcend that era, and they also leave many mysteries to the world, which makes Fang Yi very obsessed.

In the evening, Peng Bin and Fang Yi really ate roast sheep, and the Alai family expressed the warmest welcome to their arrival, and also organized a bonfire dinner for this purpose, together with a few Western tourists in their family inn, singing and dancing until late at night before they went to rest.

The appearance of the little devil also brought a lot of laughter to the dinner, everyone was very interested in this little guy who understood humanity, and the two Westerners also took a photo with the little devil, of course, it was done when the little devil was drunk.

"Did you find anything?"

Back in the room, Peng Bin and Fang Yi discussed, "Grandma's, what kind of mysterious space is there in this place? Let's not be fooled by Long Po, these guys will always associate a lot of things with miracles......"

"Big brother, we've only been here for a day, can you be restless for a while?" Fang Yi looked at Peng Bin speechlessly.

After coming here, Fang Yi knew that the Angkor area is not only an ancient building in Angkor Wat, but also places such as the Queen's Palace Holy Sword Temple are part of the Angkor Miracle, in addition, there are many undeveloped ruins, and no one knows how large the entire Angkor Miracle is.

And there are many villages scattered around, maybe Luang Po Tuo was born in those villages, and now Fang Yi thought of two possibilities, one is that Luang Po Tuo was born before the Angkor Dynasty, and in the era when he lived, Angkor Wat did not exist.

There is also a possibility that when Luang Po Tuo was born, the miracle of Angkor had disappeared, and the Lung Po Tuo, who lived in the surrounding villages, did not know where he had touched it, and only entered that mysterious space.

"If we look for it inch by inch like you, we won't be able to find that space even if we look here for ten years?"

Hearing Fang Yi's analysis, Peng Bin almost didn't cry, but he didn't have a better way, because the results deduced from Long Potuo's life deeds were not accurate, and could only be roughly determined within this range.