Chapter VII Cairo
"Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the largest city in Africa and the Arab world, straddling the Nile River and is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of the entire Middle East, located in the northeast of Egypt. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Straddling the Nile River, it is the political, economic, cultural and commercial center of the entire Middle East. It is also one of the oldest cities in the world, and it is one of the few ancient cities in the world that has suffered the least damage from war, and has been continuously built and expanded by successive dynasties and governments, forming today's large city where ancient and modern coexistence and complement each other. ”
Reading the information about Cairo in his hand, the bald head stuffed a large piece of chocolate given by the flight attendant into his mouth, and said vaguely: "It's so nice, I don't know if the foreign girls in that place are beautiful." Old bone, how about you say that the bald master will find you an Egyptian girl to be your sister-in-law? ”
The bones were also tearing the chocolate packaging vigorously, and they asked without raising their heads: "Why do you find an Egyptian woman and give birth to a child that is half black and half white?" ”
The bald head sighed heavily: "It's not an ordinary difficulty to communicate with an illiterate person like you, even if people have black skin and I have white skin, it is impossible for the child born to be black on the left and white on the right." ”
"It's not nice to have black on the top and white on the bottom......"
Leng Qi and I sat in the back and couldn't hold back our laughter, rolled our eyes baldly, and craned our necks to look at us: "Lao Zhang, can you let Lao Gu read more books if you are usually fine, with the current level of education of the bald master, there is no way to communicate with him anymore." ”
I glanced at him: "Then may I ask, what is the cultural level of the bald man?" ”
"My level of education? This one...... That's not important, now it's about old bones......"
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Along the way, the atmosphere was quite relaxed, and after running so many places in the past year, this was the only time I felt like I was out and about.
Seventy percent of the plane's Chinese were traveling to Cairo, and the remaining small were Egyptians returning from tourism or studying abroad. Their complexion is not very dark, but a sycamore color, as if they have sunbathed on the beach, and they look very healthy and strong.
Originally, I wanted to strike up a conversation with a few Egyptians who seemed to be the same age, and I might have been able to get them to show me the way when I got there. Unfortunately, those people's seats happened to sit diagonally, and the distance was too far, so I had to give up.
After nearly eight hours of flight, the plane finally landed at Cairo Airport, and the moment the cabin door opened, looking at the surrounding characteristic buildings, a strong ancient atmosphere came to the face, surprising and making people feel magical.
Although I had looked up the relevant materials before, I was still amazed after seeing it in person, and the whole person was uncontrollably intoxicated by this ancient culture.
The only thing that feels familiar to me is the taxi drivers standing at the exit of the airport, waiting to be lived, just like the airports in China, a wave of passengers has just walked out, and a wave of drivers immediately greet them, enthusiastically asking where you are going.
We set off from Chifeng at six o'clock in the morning, and now it is already afternoon, so in order to deal with the important matters, we will divide into two routes. Bald head and bones found a hotel near the airport to solve the problem of accommodation, and by the way waited for the checked rum. Leng Qi and I took a taxi directly to the newspaper office called Sedama to find out where the crystal fragments were.
Leng Qi is right, most people in Cairo speak English, so communication is not a problem for us. I found a taxi and stopped on a street after less than half an hour, and the driver pointed to a building next to the road to signal that we had arrived.
At this point, the diplomatic interview certificate that Wang Fatzi helped me get made a big difference, although strictly speaking, this certificate is fake, but the seal and signature on it are genuine. And because this kind of thing doesn't get any benefits, no one usually deliberately fakes it.
Walking into the building, an Egyptian woman in her twenties received us, and after reading the diplomatic interview certificate, she chatted with Leng Qi. Although I knew some English, I didn't expect the two of them to speak at the same speed as a machine gun, so fast that I couldn't even make out the words.
After chatting for a while, Leng Qi took out his mobile phone and found a photo of the crystal fragment to show the woman, the woman seemed to understand what we meant after just looking at it, and there was a lot of muttering, and at the same time she took out a piece of paper and wrote a few words, and then got up and left.
I looked at Leng Qi with a blank face, and only after a while did I ask: "She...... How so? ”
Leng Qi handed me the note in his hand: "That report did come from them, but it was almost two months ago, and now the excavated cultural relics, including crystal fragments, have been handed over to the local museum, which is the address and name of the museum." ”
I nodded, took out my mobile phone and was about to call the bones to ask how they were doing, but the bald head called a second earlier, and after connecting, he shouted urgently: "Lao Zhang, are you done, come over quickly when you're done!" ”
I replied: "Even if it's over, but I still have to go somewhere else, what about you, is the hotel booked?" ”
"Order a fart! I can't speak with the old bones, my mother went to the hotel to dance for a long time, the room was not booked, and I almost let people be driven out as mentally ill! Come here! ”
After listening to this, a row of black lines flashed in my head, and I had indeed forgotten that they were both illiterate, that they had never been to school, and that they could not even recognize all twenty-six letters, let alone communicate with people. The bald head is even more, there will be a lot of mess, but none of them can be used.
When Leng Qi and I found them, the bald head was gesturing with the reception lady at the front desk: "Hello? Ahh Khonitchiva? Tashi Delek? Open me a room Smecta? ”
I slapped him on the big bald head: "Forget about speaking Japanese and Korean, what is Tashi Delek?" You went to Egypt to speak Tibetan, do you have any brains!? ”
The bald head grinned: "My name is ...... Cast a wide net to catch more fish, maybe this girl came back from studying in Tibet......"
After opening the room, it was already dark when I received Rum, and it was impossible for the museum to open again. So the four of them put those troubles behind them for a while and went to hang out in the night market in Cairo.
The nearby streets are noisier at night than during the day, with a wide variety of goods and tourists from all over the world.
The four of them walked for more than half an hour, and they bought a lot of gadgets from the bones, some for Lao Qian, some for my parents, and some for Xiao Ye's parents, but more of them were given to Li Xiaoxin.
Seeing that a noisy street market had come to an end, just as I was about to beckon a few people to go home and rest early, a burst of cheers came from a distance, the bald head stretched his neck to look, and then raised his hand and pointed: "Let's go, go over there and have a look, a street has come, not a few steps short!"
I also turned my head in the direction of his finger, and saw that in a relatively secluded place at the corner of the street, more than a dozen people were sitting in a circle and watching something intently.
When I got closer, I saw an old Egyptian woman with gray temples sitting in the crowd, wearing a gray-green robe, holding a cane in her hand, and standing next to a wooden board with Arabic characters written on it.
For Arabic, Leng Qi can only speak a few simple words, and like us, he doesn't know anything about words.
The bald head is more talkative, looked left and right, and found a Chinese man and leaned over: "Brother, come out for a trip?" Do you know what it means on that board? ”
The man said softly, and his tone was not very sure: "Translated into Chinese, it probably means 'magician'." ”
After hearing this, we all suddenly realized, and the bald head also said thank you and walked back: "What should I be mysterious, it turns out to be street magic." It's all a lie, let's go, let's go back to sleep. ”
Just as we were about to turn away, the old Egyptian lady suddenly sat down cross-legged, and then began to babble something to the gods. I can't guess her age, because she was a little too old, and her face was almost wrinkled after wrinkled. In my opinion, even eighty or ninety years old will not be this old.
Hearing the old lady suddenly start muttering words, I subconsciously glanced back, but I was surprised to find that there was an extra black mass next to the wooden board on which the words were written.
Although this thing can't be said to be familiar, it is not unfamiliar, and I immediately grabbed the bald head that was about to leave: "Bald, it's that kind of black tanuki, and there is one downstairs in us!" ”
The bald head turned his head to look at the sound when he heard the sound, and then he was also stunned: "Black big tanuki?" Where, why didn't I see it? ”
I raised my arm and pointed, "Right there, next to that board, you can't see such a big one?" With that, I pulled him a few steps closer. At this time, when I looked at it again, I was shocked!
Because it wasn't a black tanuki at all, but a black-haired fox that seemed to be still asleep! It's exactly the same as the one I saw in the Mongolian tomb!
Staring at the black-haired fox for a few seconds, I was about to tell the bald head, but the bones shouted behind me: "Float up!" It's floating! Look, it's really floating! ”
I refocused on the old lady and found that she had been sitting cross-legged on the ground, but at some point she had slowly levitated into the air, her long robe hanging down to the ground, and only one hand was holding on to her crutches.
Seeing this, the bald head hugged his arm and chuckled: "This kind of trick has already been played badly, the mechanism is on that crutch, and there are steel bars in it that are connected from the cuffs to the bottom of the buttocks, let go of the crutches, you can't kill her!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the old lady let go of her left hand and threw the cane aside, as if she had heard the bald head's question.
While everyone was applauding for this miraculous levitation, an Egyptian child rushed in and clapped as the others did. But before he could stand firm, another Egyptian woman who looked like a mother hurried away with her in her arms, and the speed was almost no different from running away, as if she had seen something terrible.
It was only then that I suddenly felt as if something was not right, and when I looked around, it was all foreign tourists. The local Egyptians hid far away, lest they be able to avoid it.
At the same time, Rum, who had always been very well-behaved and obedient, also prostrated slightly, staring at the old Egyptian lady with two rows of fangs and making a 'woo-woo' sound in her throat.
I was surprised when the old Egyptian lady suddenly tore off her gray-green robe. At this moment, I clearly saw four children of about two or three years old standing under her. Those children are red. Naked. The skin is blue and black, two men and two women, and they are holding the old lady above!
Even though there were all the people around, this scene still made my scalp explode, because those four children were so weird that it made people's hearts tremble when they saw it!
After taking a few deep breaths and suppressing the fear in my heart, I pushed the bald head next to me, and before I could speak, he took the lead in opening his mouth: "It's really fucking floating, today the bald man is really insightful, Lao Zhang, you say ......" Saying that, he turned his head to look at me, but subconsciously took a big step back, his eyes widened: "Fuck, Lao Zhang's eyes......!!! ”