Chapter 107: Night
Qiao Zimo helped her choose a long green dress, and the long headscarf could almost wrap her whole person. Yunxi couldn't help but look at his white robe: "Don't you think I'm dressed like a Christmas tree?" "It's just a few lucky bags to hang on my body.
He smiled slightly, and chose a black robe to change into. All green, all black, gloomy, there is a tacit understanding just contained in it.
The owner of the clothing store only felt that his eyes lit up, and a long list of local dialects poured out directly, Yunxi looked at him very innocently, in addition to smiling, he still smiled, and felt more and more that he not only cosed a Christmas tree today, but also tactfully learned the skills of the Statue of Liberty.
When Qiao Zimo was paying, she saw him pay another dozen tips to the other party, and bent down slightly, as if making a gesture of thanks. This action made a trace of surprise flash in Yunxi's indifferent eyes, and I don't know if it was because of the long list of dialects of the person just now or what, when she turned around and picked up the corner of her clothes, she seemed to be unintentionally said: "I think the boss seems to be a little too enthusiastic, isn't there too many tourists in country Z now, and he says such things to anyone?" ”
"No, it won't." Qiao Zimo casually took her palm, and the corners of the long skirt gently rubbed in the intertwined wrists of the two: "They will never praise a person like this casually." The shopkeeper looked at Yunxi kindly, not knowing what she meant by the Chinese she just said, but there was endless amazement and joy in his eyes.
Yunxi sighed faintly: "You even know Arabic." With his answer, I am afraid that he not only understands Arabic, but also understands the local customs and living habits.
Qiao Zimo paused, and a joy slowly oozed from his eyes: "Do you want to know what he just said?" I'll translate it for you. She was willing to think about his behavior, which made him can't help but feel agitated.
"Your morning and the boat of twilight meet in the breeze;
In front of you, the goddess Matu exalts her fateful "feathers",
Anu's temple is full of voices, and your name is spoken. This is a poem of pride of the Egyptians, and for the pure natives of faith, there is no praise like such an ancient text.
Yunxi was stunned, but he didn't expect that he would really tell her the words of the shopkeeper just now. Around the fingertips, a tingling sensation slowly spread, she looked at the brilliant touch of his eyes, and chuckled sideways, under the sun, gorgeous and dazzling, people couldn't take their eyes off it for a long time.
The two walked along the ancient city for nearly half an hour, and he suddenly looked down at the time, and then leaned into her ear, almost close, and said quietly: "Come, follow me to a place." ”
Yunxi let him take him through the small streets, walked past the rows of houses, listened to the noise of the streets, and slowly remembered a sentence he saw in the book back then. - "Whoever has never seen Cairo is equal to someone who has not seen the world." So says in "One Thousand and One Nights".
Cairo is an attractive ancient capital of civilization, where modern civilization and ancient traditions coexist. In addition to a handful of traditional crafts, it is also a famous city with a strong Islamic culture. Mosques are the first to represent the achievements of Islamic architecture and art. Cairo's mosque is the oldest mosque built in the early days of Islam, dating back more than 1,300 years. Tall and upward, high-spirited, simple structure and brilliant colors.
It's a pity that apart from a few famous mosques, which have become tourist attractions, are open to tourists. Other mosques, which do not allow non-Muslims to visit, or even take pictures outside, are kindly discouraged.
Therefore, when Qiao Zimo led her to a mosque that had just finished the prayer, and someone personally welcomed them inside, Yunxi had to sigh softly in his heart, this man really prepared too much for this trip.
Yunxi didn't know the name of this mosque, but when she took off her shoes and walked in, she saw that there were small windows all around, the top of the windows was facing the direction of the holy city of Mecca, and the chandeliers on it were lit at the same time, as if the sky was full of stars, and with her eyes closed, she could almost imagine the pomp and circumstance of devout Muslims kneeling here to pray on every important day.
Qiao Zimo didn't interrupt her, let alone introduce anything more. Sometimes, in this solemn and solemn atmosphere, the language seems so thin. Only by quietly experiencing it can people truly integrate into it.
Regarding life and death, Yunxi was once very confused. In her previous life, she never believed in "past life", did not believe in "gods and Buddhas", and lost her mother at a young age, so that she had already learned to comfort herself over and over again when she was scared and trembling at night when lightning and thunder roared, there was no soul and ghost in this world. However, when she was reborn in Leng Yunxi's body, not only did she receive her body, but even her memories slowly came into her mind and engraved in her body, she no longer dared to say anything about life and death.
There are some things, when she has not been exposed to it, she can arm herself with what science, and when science and theory can no longer make sense, she is willing to sink, only when there is really a doomed existence of "fate" in this world.
Qiao Zimo stood quietly by the wall, looking at her standing solemnly in the center, her black pupils were so deep that there was no trace of waves, the whole person was like floating clouds and flowing water, her eyes were silent, her eyes were far away, and it seemed that the mirror was Bodhi, which made people feel quiet at the same time, but also felt like a mystery, as deep as a cold pool, which could never be solved.
Someone in the temple walked gently past her, looking at her white forehead and high nose, and couldn't help but pause. He bowed to her slightly, and actually made a bowing posture.
Yunxi was immersed in his past thoughts, and looked at the stranger with a surprised face, and was about to speak, but saw that the person had already left with a smile.
An inexplicable calmness is born from this.
She suddenly felt that what she had been chasing for a long time, at this moment, in this mosque, she could see more clearly. Was it because of the man's soft smile, his devotion to faith, or something else? She closed her eyes indifferently and took a deep breath. The incense in the temple has the smell of adulthood, and there is a kind of stability and richness after precipitation.
She smiled and turned to look at Qiao Zimo, who let her indulge herself: "Let's go." ”
He didn't seem to see the momentary vibration of her just now, with a smile on his eyebrows, he walked up to her leisurely and calmly, and held her wrist firmly: "Go, go feel and love, the nightlife here." ”
Yunxi realized that when she was just immersed in her thoughts, time passed quickly, and it was already six o'clock in the evening, although it was not completely dark, but indeed, this ancient city was about to start its unique nightlife.
Walking out of the mosque, Yunxi's footsteps were obviously much easier, Qiao Zimo didn't seem to notice her unusual behavior, but took her through a variety of famous restaurants, bars, nightclubs, live bands, or shisha cafes, Yunxi found for the first time that the country that everyone considered poor, the nightlife here is also everything.
From a distance, the restaurants and cruise ships on the Nile are known to be places where all kinds of second-generation and wealthy and handsome people gather, in fact, most of them are the rich Egyptian class and foreigners. The entrance of the Moroccan restaurant "Elmoro" and the Japanese restaurant "Fusion" is crowded with people. Further into the Zamalek area, Yunxi saw more bars and nightclubs, L'Aubergiereight, and even Cairojazz Club.
"Pick any one." Qiao Zimo lifted her headscarf and exposed her facial features to the air, Yunxi only felt that it was suddenly much cooler, and the whole person breathed a lot easier, and had to sigh, the "pitiful" of the woman here.
Yunxi couldn't understand these Arabic words, so he casually pointed to a bar that was pleasing to the eye.
Who knows, Qiao Zimo looked at the door of the store and paused for three seconds, and then looked at her deeply, deeply: "You really ......." The latter words were a bit similar to muttering, Yunxi didn't hear clearly, and just wanted to ask what he said, he was pulled by one hand and walked to the door of the bar.
Unlike other bars that are crowded with three or five bars, this one is actually lined up in twos and twos in front of the store. Yunxi's eyes were misty, and he still seemed to be a little ignorant, Qiao Zimo couldn't help but kiss her eyelashes, and the soft touch just made him feel that the mood of the day today was indescribably better.
The woman standing in front of Yunxi was dressed in a trendy manner, and she was talking to someone on the phone in fluent English.
This was the only lone guest in the long queue outside.
She didn't care, combed her bright purple hair with her hands, and continued to talk on the phone with people to pass the time. Listening to the accent, it seems to be Irish.
When the line reached her, the clerk standing at the door stopped her with a smile.
The woman looked at the clerk in surprise and even pulled out the dollar, explaining in English that she was an adult while indicating that she had spending power.
But the clerk shook his head again and again.
Yunxi frowned, looked back at the others around him, but saw that everyone looked like they had expected it, and they were all indifferent.
Thinking of Qiao Zimo's unfinished words just now, his face suddenly turned weird.
Qiao Zimo seemed to know what she wanted to ask, and before she could speak, she pointed to a sign next to her.
Suddenly, Yunxi's face was a little strange.
“onlyforlovers”。
Couples only......
It turned out that no wonder it turned out to be .......
A column of words flashed in Yunxi's mind, and he looked up, just in front of Shang Qiao Zimo's shining black eyes......
------Off topic------
Some nightclubs in Cairo are only accessible to couples, or a man and a woman pretend to be a couple. Islamic culture does not allow a group of single men to go to a nightclub to "flirt", so if they are not a couple, they will be politely turned away. Well, this chapter update is ten minutes late, sorry.