Chapter 750: The Village in the Mountains (Part I)
Seeing that Long Wanda was confused by Peng Bin, Fang Yi couldn't help but snicker. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
His eldest brother is also a genius, he doesn't like to learn but has a talent for language and writing beyond ordinary people, he was born extraordinary, he could have stepped into the circle of high society, but he likes to enjoy the feeling of being born and dying, in Peng Bin's words, at that moment, he can feel that he is alive.
"Okay, old dragon, no kidding, you haven't told me how you found Long Potuo's hometown?"
Peng Bin suddenly put away his smile and said seriously, but the old dragon's salutation still made the corners of Long Wanda's mouth twitch, obviously not suitable for Peng Bin's affectionate way of calling the relationship between the two sides.
"We're a cooperative relationship now, you can't lie to me anymore......" Peng Bin hugged Long Wangda's shoulder, making Long Wanda push away, let him hold it, he felt that the embarrassing things he had encountered in the past few decades were not more than a day today.
Peng Xian...... No, Peng Bin, I really didn't lie to you, the allusions to Master Long Po Tuo that I gave you before were also collected by me. ”
With a wry smile, Long Wanda pointed to a person outside the window and said: "This is my disciple, he likes to read very much, and he is well-read and memorized, it is he who found out the birthplace of Master Long Potuo, if you want to deceive, you deceive me first." ”
Speaking of it, it was really Peng Bin's first deceived Long Wangda, and he had to have a classic book about Long Po Tuo's life and deeds, and the reason Peng Bin gave was that he could better interpret Long Po Tuo's handwriting, but it did not reveal the slightest hint that he wanted to find Long Wangda's relics.
And Long Wangda was suspicious after discovering that Peng Bin and Fang Yi went to Cambodia, so he asked his disciple to verify Long Wanda's place of birth.
"Haha, I just want to have a good luck, Lao Long, I didn't say you, if you had told me about it earlier, wouldn't we have come over sooner......"
Peng Bin's face is so thick, after being said to Long Wangda's face, he just laughed and revealed the matter, and also bit back and blamed Long Wanda, even Fang Yi next to him couldn't listen to it.
Although Long Wanda has profound Buddhism, he can't finish talking about Buddhist scriptures for three days and three nights, but when he encounters a scoundrel like Peng Bin, it is really a show that he can't explain it clearly.
Cambodia's world-famous Angkor miracle is the ruins of the Angkor Dynasty centered on Angkor Wat, within a radius of dozens of kilometers, were once the royal capital of this ancient civilization.
With the discovery of the miracle of Angkor, this desolate area, which was originally not a few villages, has also become lively, and now the existence of villages can be seen almost every distance, as is the village where Fang Yi and Peng Bin lived, they migrated from other places decades ago.
"The building is still there, and all the millions of people are gone, I wonder what happened back then?"
Looking at the traces left by the vicissitudes of time outside, Fang Yi said in a low voice, with the passage of time, no one can unearth the history of the past, and no one knows how the glorious Angkor Dynasty declined thousands of years ago.
What makes Fang Yi even more puzzling is that for hundreds of years, no one has discovered the existence of the Angkor Dynasty, if it weren't for foreign explorers to explore in the forests here, I'm afraid that the miracle of Angkor would have been hidden.
"Maybe they all went to the Buddha Kingdom?"
Long Wanda folded his hands and recited a Buddha name, although he has the identity of a descending master, but he is also a Buddhist disciple with deep attainments in Buddhism, a heart devout to serve the Buddha, like those Jesuits, when encountering unexplainable things, he will always attribute the credit to God.
"What the master said is reasonable......" After hearing Long Wanda's words, Fang Yi's heart moved, maybe these people who disappeared back then really went to another space, maybe it was the place where Long Potuo had been.
However, there are also some things that Fang Yi can't figure out, according to Long Potuo's records, he has not met anyone in that space, if the two go to the same space, those people who entered back then don't know where they went.
"The Buddha's Compassion ......"
Long Wanda recited the Buddha number again, and his face actually showed a compassionate look, and Peng Bin, who saw it, couldn't help but pout, this old guy was a ruthless when he was a killer, and obviously he was once a murderer and didn't blink an eye, but he would pretend to be a good person again.
The car drove to the designated village of Long Wangda, which was inaccessible and forested more than 100 years ago, but 100 years later, there are hundreds of villages and villages around the Angkor area.
Along the way, there are villagers setting up roadside stalls selling local products such as fruits, and no one can imagine that this place has been re-established on the ruins of a powerful dynasty, but the glory of the past will never be restored.
"Old Dragon, this village is not as close as you say, right?" After the car drove for more than ten minutes, it entered a mountain road, which was very difficult to walk, and the road was not endless, Peng Bin estimated that there were at least twenty or thirty miles, just twenty or thirty miles, and their car drove for nearly an hour.
Fortunately, there were three off-road vehicles, otherwise I was afraid that I would have to lie on my stomach halfway through, and after more than an hour, the convoy came to the head of the village, looking at those low wooden houses and some thatched houses, Fang Yi finally understood that it was not a lie to mention that Long Potuo was born in poverty in many classics.
This village is built on the mountain, the road into the mountain is rugged and difficult, so it has also cut off contact with the outside world, compared to those villages outside that rely on Angkor Wat to survive and reproduce, this village is undoubtedly congenital conditions are insufficient, and many people still live a life of relying on the mountains to eat the mountains.
The arrival of the convoy attracted a burst of dog barking in the village, several old people, women and children appeared at the head of the village, and a few half-grown children stared curiously at the cars.
"Get out of the car!"
Sitting in a car with Peng Bin, Long Wanda was uncomfortable all the way, and when he saw that he had arrived at his destination, Long Wanda hurriedly pushed the car door and got out of the car, and at this time, Yun Hao, who was sitting in the car in front of him, had already walked towards several old people.
"Let's go and hear what they have to say. ”
Peng Bin followed Long Wanda out of the car, stretched his somewhat sleepy body in the car, Peng Bin looked around, shook his head and said to Fang Yi behind him: "Grandma, if you let our brothers find it, I'm afraid we won't be able to find it here for three or five years......"
Friends who have been to Thailand, Burma, Cambodia or Vietnam may know that in these areas, the trees are often very tall, not to mention the mountains and forests, even in the plains, many villages will be hidden by tall trees, even if you pass by, you may not be able to find it.
For example, in the village in front of them, they did not build a road to the outside world, and the mountain road of twenty or thirty miles made them confined to the mountains, and perhaps many people here have never been to the outside town in their lives.
"This village has existed for a longer time than the ones outside......"
Fang Yi nodded, he was also looking at the surrounding environment, Fang Yi found that the wood used in the wooden house built by a family at the head of the village turned out to be a lot of red acid branches, and there were even rosewood in some places.
After following Yu Xuan to learn miscellaneous knowledge of literature and entertainment for so long, Fang Yi knew that red sandalwood and red sour branches were both precious woods, and it was difficult to produce large materials, especially sour branch trees, most of which grew in relatively dark and damp places in dense forests and ravines.
Because the growth rate of sorrel trees is very slow, most of them are covered by other tree species, and their torso is easily bent and deformed in difficult and resistant growth environments, so most of the sorrel branches seen on the market are small-sized wood.
But Fang Yi found that 80% of the wood used in that house was actually red sandalwood and sour branch wood, and estimated the price of this wooden house in his heart, Fang Yi was taken aback, not to mention anything else, all these woods can be worth millions.
Fang Yi's eyes were very sharp, although there was still a distance of more than ten meters, but he could tell from the degree of corrosion and damage to the wood that the age of this wooden house was a hundred years old, and it was the use of these precious woods that made the wooden house still usable.
"Luang Po Tuo may have really been born here. Fang Yi whispered to Peng Bin.
"No matter how much, look around first, and if you find anything, we'll get rid of them. ”
Peng Bin nodded when he heard this, he didn't have the intention of sharing with Long Wanda, if he couldn't find that space, forget it, if he found it, Peng Bin would never take Long Wanda and them in together.
"Well, I understand...... Fang Yi nodded slightly, "What's going on, what are they arguing about?"
Fang Yi suddenly found that Yun Hao and Long Wangda, who were facing the old man, didn't seem to be talking very happily with the people in the village, and the two sides didn't know what they were talking about, Yun Hao's face looked a little excited.
"Poof!" Peng Bin beside Fang Yi suddenly let out a laugh, and seeing him like that, he couldn't help laughing.
"Big brother, what's wrong?" Fang Yi asked puzzled.
"The local brought by the old dragon can't speak their local language at all, and the two sides can't communicate ......"
Peng Bin laughed out loud as he spoke, this village uses a very obscure Cambodian native language, although Peng Bin does not understand this native language, but he knows another language that is very similar to its pronunciation, and can basically listen to this native language.
But Yun Hao, who communicated with the people in the village, didn't know anything about this language, the more people on both sides talked, the more excited they became, and they used their hands and feet, but they still didn't understand what the other party was saying, let alone Long Wanda and his party, going up could only add to the chaos.
"Big brother, do you know what they say?"
Looking at Peng Bin, who was watching the excitement on the side, Fang Yi said with a wry smile: "If you know how to communicate, it's not a way to spend so much, and Lao Long will definitely not be good at resting, he will definitely find a translator from outside." ”
"Okay, look at big brother mine. Peng Bin smiled proudly, walked to the middle of the crowd, and said to Long Wanda: "Old Long, you guys are back, I'll talk to them." ”
Changing the language, Peng Bin chattered and communicated with several old people in the village, hearing that someone understood their language, the faces of several old people also eased a lot, after a few words, they actually smiled, and one of the old people also took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Peng Bin.
"Old Long, take some money to use ......," Peng Bin turned back to Long Wanda and said.
"How much?" Long Wanda was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he still signaled to the disciple next to him and asked him to take out a stack of dollars from his bag.
"These are almost enough...... Peng Bin snatched the stack of dollars and stuffed it into the hands of an old man, but what Peng Bin didn't expect was that the old man actually threw the dollars back to Peng Bin, and said something with a dissatisfied expression.
"Grandma's, this is US dollars, 4,000 times more expensive than his mother's Cambodian riel!"
After receiving the stack of dollars, Peng Bin almost cried, because this old man actually only needed the Cambodian riel, that is, the currency of Cambodia, and he didn't know that the purchasing power of this dollar was four or five thousand times that of the Cambodian currency.
Obviously, the old man rarely communicated with the outside world, and he didn't know that the stack of dollars he threw out was several times more than the annual income of their entire village, and the old man was stubborn about the coins he knew.
"Cambodian riel? Is it Lells? How can I have that kind of money?"
Hearing Peng Bin's words, Long Wanda shook his head, in Thailand and Cambodia, including some places in Myanmar, the US dollar is the best hard currency, so they go out with US dollars, where will they exchange worthless currencies like Cambodian riel.
"Yun Hao, do you have any there? Give me a little first...... Long Wanda turned his head to look at Yun Hao.
"Take all the money out of your body......"
Yun Hao, a person of this status, naturally does not bring money, asked the entourage around him at the moment, and got a thick stack of banknotes with a portrait from him, Fang Yi glanced at it, the amount on it was written 100,000, and there was a long string of five zeros behind the 1 word in front, and I am afraid that this stack is at least 10 million Cambodian riel.
After receiving the money handed over by Peng Bin again, the old man suddenly had a smile on his face again, and hurriedly beckoned the group into the village.
"Big brother, is the exchange rate between the Cambodian riel and the US dollar really one to four thousand?"
Fang Yi, who was walking behind Peng Bin, opened his mouth to ask, he had just roughly calculated, the value of this stack of Cambodian riel was about 5,000 US dollars, and the US dollars that Peng Bin gave to the old man just now were 10,000 or 20,000, and the old man obviously suffered a loss.
"This is the terrible thing of not having knowledge. ”
Peng Bin shook his head and said: "I have met such natives in Myanmar before, don't give US dollars, you have to ask for Burmese currency, grandma's thing is worthless, Lao Tzu has to carry a sack on his back, I am most afraid of trading with those natives." ”
"Money is easy to do, even if you want Cambodian riel, we can give as much as he wants. ”
Long Wanda suddenly interjected from behind: "Mr. Peng, I don't know what you just said, where is he taking us?"
"It's called Peng Bin, Lao Long, you're so naughty, you forgot my name again. ”
Peng Bin glanced at Long Wanda dissatisfied, and said, "I told him that we are archaeologists and need to stay with them for a while......
Peng Bin paused for a moment, and said hypocritically: "Well, the money just now is considered rent, and I and the third ...... The share of the three guns, I'll give it to you later, it's just a few hundred dollars, yours is indispensable, don't be so stingy. ”
"I ...... I didn't ask you either!"
Long Wanda was crying and laughing by Peng Bin, what is his identity, in addition to the title of Thai national teacher, Long Wanda himself is still a billionaire, and he is embarrassed to ask Peng Bin for such a little money.
"That's good, old dragon, it's not that I don't give it, it's that you don't want it. Peng Bin and Long Wanda argued and followed the old man towards the village.
This village is a village built on the mountain, walking on the road paved with rocks, you can see some sculptures on both sides from time to time, but in Cambodia, a Buddhist country, these sculptures are not Buddha statues, but some strange human figures and animals.
"Brother, what kind of carvings are these?" Peng Bin looked a little strange, and touched Xia Yi with his elbow, he knew that Fang Yi was very proficient in Buddhism, and he probably knew the origin of these statues.
"I don't know, there are no such sculptures in Buddhist texts. Fang Yi shook his head when he heard this, and said, "You go and ask the old man, they should know about the things in their village, right?"
"That's right. Peng Bin grabbed the old man who was walking in front and communicated with him.
"Big brother, what is he talking about?" After the exchange between Peng Bin and the old man came to an end, Fang Yi asked.
"What he said was......" Peng Bin suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at Long Wangda, and said, "Old Long, you are not kind!"
"Why am I not kind?" Long Wanda was inexplicable when Peng Bin said it, even if he had profound knowledge of Buddhism, he would almost be angry and angry.
"You knew about this place in advance, didn't you send someone over, how did your people come over and communicate with them?" Peng Bin looked at Long Wanda with a smile.
"This ......"
Long Wanda's face, which seemed to be only in his forties, also turned red at this moment, and after smiling bitterly, he said, "I did let people come, but they didn't disturb the people in this village, and they didn't communicate anything with them. ”
In the few days of waiting for Yun Hao, Long Wanda not only found out the location of this village, but also really sent people to search here, and the people he sent came at night, and they were very skillful, and they did not alarm the residents here.
Of course, Long Wanda didn't gain anything from that search, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to Peng Bin and Fang Yi to cooperate, Long Wanda believed that there must be something hidden in Long Potuo's notes that he didn't know.