Chapter 9: A Thousand Brilliant Suns (7)

Xiao Baiyu gritted his teeth and eliminated the scones in his hands, not feeling the slightest excitement because he finally ate the food of the "human world".

"Bai Yu, do you have a grudge against this scone?" Looking at Xiao Baiyu destroying the food in his hand, Xu Minhan asked with some confusion.

Hearing Xu Minhan's inquiry, Xiao Baiyu immediately reacted, couldn't help scratching his head a little embarrassed, and ate the cake in his hand "gently......

"By the way, how much foreign currency do you have?" Xiao Baiyu suddenly asked while eating.

"Huh?" Xu Minhan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly took out several of his bank cards, which were Bank of Communications, Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Rural Commercial Bank and Bank of China.

"Don't tell me you're ready to travel abroad with these cards. Xiao Baiyu couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"It seems to be ......," Xu Minhan lowered his head.

"Just like you, you still want to go to Jerusalem? After leaving the Chinese border, how many steps can you take? What else can you do besides Chinese and Pashto?" Xiao Baiyu was completely dumbfounded, "If you hadn't met me, even if you took a detour out of the country, you would have to go home if you couldn't walk a few steps." ”

"I didn't think about it so much at the time......" Xu Minhan still wanted to argue something, but his confidence was obviously insufficient, and his voice became smaller and smaller. Originally, he saw that Xiao Baiyu paid for two naan cakes, and he wanted him to pay for today's dinner, but then he realized that he might have to rely on Xiao Baiyu all the way to Jerusalem.

"You haven't prepared these basic things and still want to go abroad, you shouldn't have been temporarily about going to Jerusalem, right?" Xiao Baiyu asked with squinted eyes.

"Actually, I was prepared for a long time......," Xu Minhan's face was a little hot, "I was originally going to go after graduating from college, but unfortunately I didn't do well in the college entrance examination this time, and I didn't even get into Tsinghua University and Peking University, so I advanced this time, and I was going to go to Kabul first, and then repeat my year to take the university entrance examination after I came back." ”

Xiao Baiyu took a deep breath and cursed for a while at the description of "I didn't even get into Tsinghua University and Peking University". It seems that those students who were admitted to Zhejiang University and Fudan have become idiots, and my Jiangsu students don't want to say more, and they are all tears if they talk too much......

Although at present, Xiao Baiyu is not blessed to go to high school, but he has heard of the heroic deeds of those predecessors, Jiangsu is after all the hell for Chinese candidates, the nightmare of students, here every unyielding soul has the noble spirit of "help me up, I can still learn".

"Can you be more funny, just don't go out, it's good to travel to Jerusalem in a vain," Xiao Baiyu was a little helpless, "In the future, you will follow me, don't worry, if I have a bite to eat, you will have a bite to eat." ”

"Thank you, big brother......"

Xiao Baiyu rolled his eyes, this dialogue made him feel the same as the underworld brother in a Hong Kong movie......

In the evening, the two found a travel agency and felt very cordial when they saw the two white beds in the double room. I can finally sleep in bed, I don't have to find a flat ground to set up a tent anymore, and at the same time, the two of them have taken their first hot shower in two months for a long time. It's not that they haven't bathed in the past two months, but bathing in the snow melt water from the foothills is really a cool but not heart-warming thing.

"I almost forgot that there is such an amazing thing as shampoo and shower gel in the world. Xiao Baiyu was talking to himself while smearing the shower gel in the bathroom.

The two of them slept very comfortably this night, and Xiao Baiyu slept until after nine o'clock the next day. Xu Minhan was still asleep, but Xiao Baiyu didn't mean to wake him up, after all, this guy had been desperate for a long time, and he was tired with the physical fitness of a god clan, let alone ordinary people.

Fortunately, the most difficult road has been walked, and a little relaxation for a day is also for the combination of work and rest. Xiao Baiyu said to himself in his heart.

Xu Minhan slept for nearly two hours, Xiao Baiyu went out to buy a magazine, because he only knew a little about the Indian language, so he could only read it for a general pastime. Most of the Indian languages are quoted from Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit, Xiao Baiyu has a certain understanding of Persian and Semitic languages, Arabic belongs to the Semitic language family, so in addition to the Sanskrit part, he can also read part of the Indian language.

"Are you awake, are you hungry? It's past eleven o'clock, and I think it's time for lunch." Xiao Baiyu stretched his waist and looked at Xu Minhan lazily.

"Have lunch and keep going. Xu Minhan rubbed his sleepy eyes.

"Yo, my consciousness is quite high today, I was going to rest here for a day. Xiao Baiyu flipped through the book with a smile.

"Let's rest in New Delhi, and then go shopping for something, out of India is the Middle East, although terrorist attacks in Afghanistan have not been as rampant in recent years, but the road is still very dangerous. Xu Minhan walked to the bathroom and said while washing his face, "I can't compare to you in terms of survival ability in the wild, but I have to eat three years longer than you, don't you?" ”

"Ha!" Xiao Baiyu smiled, "Didn't you forget that someone ran out with a few domestic bank cards, and now I am in control of the finances." Although the renminbi is also in circulation in the Middle East, there doesn't seem to be an Agricultural Bank of China, a China Construction Bank or anything there. ”

Xu Minhan's old face turned red: "What's wrong with you holding the financial power? I have the administrative power in my hands, and you have to use the economy as you want! In other words, do you have enough money to bring?"

"As long as money can solve the problem along the way, it is not a problem. Xiao Baiyu glanced at him lightly, not to mention how huge the economic system of the Divine Clan's Xiaozhi Tiandu was, just some families' respective belongings were immeasurable, so he naturally wouldn't save for Han Luan.

"However, when the time comes, we will have to change some euros or dollars to carry with us, and we will have to have some currency in circulation in the Middle East. ”

"Okay, I don't have the money in your backpack. ”

"Hehe, don't you want to take control of the finances? Xu Minhan flicked Xiao Baiyu's forehead.

"If you have financial power, you have to carry money? I have never heard that those who hold military power must carry guns. Xiao Baiyu pouted and slapped Xu Minhan's hand away. If this is the case, the dictator of the Heavenly Dynasty has all the power of administration, military, legislation, justice, culture and education, etc., and he has to carry money, guns, and books...... Don't you die of exhaustion?

"To be serious, although we have arrived in India, there is still a long way to go in New Delhi, and I estimate that it will take about ten days to walk. Fortunately, all the way is in the Ganges Plain area, and the altitude is low, so you don't have to work as hard as on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. ”

"It seems that although you are a science student, you are quite good at geography, and you deserve to be a top student. ”

After lunch, the two returned to the road. As in the Brahmaputra River, they went uphill along the Ganges.

The Ganges is the holy river of India and the soul of India, and Hindus must go to the Ganges at least once in their lives. For thousands of years, pilgrims have traveled along both sides of the Ganges, and countless bards have often walked along the river's banks, adding to the river's poetic and mystical color.

Of course, Xiao Baiyu and they are also pilgrims, but they are completely different from the pilgrims on the riverside, they pass by the Ganges River without so reverence, simply to enjoy the rippling ships, the bright lights at dusk, and the starry scenery at night.

Since ancient times, India has been a country with a strong preference for sons, and today, it has not changed much because of the progress of civilization. So, like along the road along the edge of the Ganges, it is difficult for the two to see Indian women, surrounded by young men with dull eyes and nothing to do, and the scenery is thriving but accompanied by lifeless life.

"Buddhism in India is actually quite revered, but since the merger of Brahmanism into Hinduism, the caste system has prevailed, except for the ruling class of Brahmins (sacrifices) and Kshatriyas (nobility), most of the slaves and commoners live in water and fire, and India's more than a billion people, most of them are concentrated in this Gangetic plain, and the population density is far greater than that of China's coastal areas. Add to that the fact that the poor live in the slums, plagues and diseases haunt people like demons, not to mention those who have no human rights, and the ecological environment is even more shameful. Xu Minhan sighed, "It's really a heart-wrenching country." ”

"India is in a period of social transition, and culture shock, demographic explosions have plunged the country into crisis, but you have to know that if the rulers don't bring peace to the people at the bottom, they will eventually turn into ashes of history. There is never absolute superiority or inferiority in the same creature, but those who have been in high positions for a long time will always have a sense of superiority from the depths of their spirits, and the sense that they think they are superior to others is just their delusion, and when they are pulled down from the throne, I am afraid that they are more ugly than anyone else. Xiao Baiyu lazily yawned and scooped up the river, "Looking at the long river of history, how many of the blooming and annihilating civilizations and domination such as the sand of the Ganges River can survive forever in the torrent of the times without the courage of a benevolent person? Emperor Taizong has a good saying: 'Water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat', when more than three-quarters of the people of a nation are illiterate, even if it is a big country, it will never be able to ascend to the mainstream stage of the world. The water can't be changed, sooner or later the boat will be changed. ”

Xu Minhan looked at Xiao Baiyu quietly and was silent for a long time.

"It seems that you know more about human life than I thought, and you do know a lot about the domestic situation in India, but your opinions contain too many personal feelings. ”

"Maybe in your opinion, these international situations should not be commented on by you and me, but I am just expressing my personal opinion, and the life and death of those people have nothing to do with me, and I am just not used to the class system in the human world. Xiao Baiyu thought to himself, even the Protoss didn't have any three, six, nine, etc., even the genetic activation rate grading was just to reasonably distribute the tasks to members with different abilities when assigning tasks, and the division between the so-called nobles and untouchables of the human race seemed a little ridiculous.

However, Xu Minhan's focus is not here, he only vaguely captures Xiao Baiyu's tone and way of speaking, and does not seem to divide himself into the group of "humans".

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In India, a place where water is extremely scarce, it costs a lot of money to stay in a travel agency where you can take a shower at night, but this is not a problem for Xiao Baiyu and his wife, who have more money.

The next period of time was a relatively "pleasant" journey for the two of them, not only did the "march" speed speed go much faster, but they no longer had to worry about food and clothing. As for the winter suit that wrapped them like Eskimos, it had long since been thrown away, and the tent was no longer useful, so the backpack was much lighter and no longer bloated. It's just that weight loss doesn't make much sense for Xiao Baiyu, and the purple box is still forty-five kilograms......

They didn't stay here too much, they were just passers-by after all, and everything in this country didn't have much to do with them. After purchasing the necessities for the next leg of the journey in New Delhi and exchanging some euros, the two set out on their journey again.