After a few days, Mo Yan and the little mountain ghost finally got out of the rainforest and came to Nan in northern Siam. After resting for the night, the next day they spent twenty-five silver coins and hired a carriage to go south along Phra Phu. Since then, the two have not been harassed by any attacks along the way, and it seems that they have successfully avoided their plotters.

Siam is a country of Buddhism, with more than 30,000 temples, and the countryside is full of golden temples and robes, so it's no wonder that people call Siam the "Yellow Robe Buddha Country".

At this time, the carriage came to Ayutthaya, which was only more than two hundred miles away from Thonburi, and Mo Yan decided to rest for a few days and consider the next plan of action, after all, the closer he got to King Zheng, the greater the danger. He also sent the carriage away, and walked into the historic ancient city of Siam with the mountain ghost.

Ayutthaya is a Sanskrit word, meaning "invincible city", founded in the tenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Chinese used to call the city "big city", so the Ayutthaya Dynasty is also called "Ayutthaya Dynasty". The dynasty passed on 35 kings, which lasted 417 years, and was destroyed by Burma in the 32nd year of Qianlong, only 20 years ago.

During the Kangxi period, the Ayutthaya Dynasty paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty every year, and Siamese rice was continuously exported to the Central Plains, and more and more Chinese also migrated here to do business and multiply, and formed a large area of Chinese settlement in the ancient city of Ayutthaya. Among them, there are not all kinds of people from the three religions and nine streams, but there are also outlaws who have killed people and crossed the goods, and they have absconded here to escape from the pursuit of the Qing court.

There were also many red-haired and blue-eyed foreigners in the city, most of them merchants and missionaries from Europe, and the little mountain ghost looked through the mask and saw that the hair of those people was somewhat similar to his own, so he felt very kind.

As soon as Mo Yan entered the city of Ayuthaya, he heard the familiar Chinese dialect of the Central Plains and saw the Chinese character signboards all over the street, so he walked into a Sichuan-style restaurant. The two of them found a corner and sat down, and he asked the little mountain ghost to turn his back to the lobby, so as not to attract attention when he lifted his veil and ate.

The shopkeeper stepped forward and enthusiastically introduced: "The two guest officers are very angry, they are new from the Central Plains, right? ”

Mo Yan suddenly remembered that Ba Song had said that King Zheng had married a woman from Ayutthaya as a concubine, and he should be this lady fairy, and he also revealed that since the new concubine entered the palace, several concubines have died one after another, causing the king to be confused and suffer from madness.

"Oh, I don't know what this princess did before entering the palace?" asked Mo Yan.

"The princess is the only daughter of Zheng Khotan, a wealthy Chinese merchant in Ayutthaya City, named Xian'er, is the most beautiful woman in the city, the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all excellent, it is said that even the foreign devil king of the red-haired country has taken a fancy to her, and wants to marry her to the West. Xiao Er praised.

It turned out to be Chinese, and women in the Central Plains were generally born to be better looking than people on this side, not only with fair skin but also with much more upright facial features.

"But entering the palace is not necessarily a good thing, since ancient times, I am afraid that it is unexpected. An old man drinking alone at the table next to him said quietly.

Mo Yan looked over in surprise and saw a feng shui compass on the table, which seemed to be a feng shui gentleman.

"I don't know what Brother Tai said about this?" asked Mo Yangong.

The fortune teller looked at Mo Yan for a moment, and said: "The elder brother turned out to be a walking man, don't you hear that there is a saying in the rivers and lakes that 'the life of the living is determined by the burial'?"

Mo Yan has never been exposed to feng shui, so he doesn't know much about it.

"In Xia Mo Er, Brother Taizun's surname?" Mo Yan deliberately wanted to know a little more about Niang Xian'er.

"The old man Lai Bu, the people in the rivers and lakes call it 'Little Cloth Yi'. The old man smiled slightly.

Mo Yan still hadn't heard of it, his expression was indifferent, and the old man was obviously a little disappointed.

"Since ancient times, 'life and death are different, emotions and emotions are different', the bones of parents are the foundation of their children, and the bodies of children and grandchildren are the branches and leaves of parents, and they are intertwined with each other. Just like burying one's parents in a feng shui hole, the foundation of the tree is deep and fertile, and the branches and leaves will naturally grow and be fruitful and fruitful. If you are buried in a bad place, the foundation will wither, and the branches and leaves will inevitably wither or even die. After Lai Bu spoke for a while, he looked at Mo Yan.

"It turns out that the ancestral cemetery has such a great effect, and when I hear that people will die seventy-seven or forty-nine days, their souls will be scattered, how can they still exert influence on future generations. ”

"Brother is talking about the soul, yes, it dissipates after Qiqi, but the flesh and blood are still there, don't you hear that 'its big has no outside, and its small has no inside'?"

"I want to hear about it. ”

"Have you ever observed the anthill?" asked Raib.

"When I was a child, I used to squat next to the anthill to watch the ants busy, and sometimes I would rub the dirt balls from my body and throw them at the mouth of the hole, and it was fun to watch them fight. Mo Yan recalled the past of his childhood and said with a smile.

"They, the ants, have they ever seen you?"

"Look at me, how come? They never look up. ”

"That's right, the ants don't know that there is nothing outside them, they don't know that there is a world beyond them, and we don't know what is a bigger void outside of the world. ”

"You mean the spirit world?"

"My brother is really a person in the rivers and lakes, and he still knows the spirit world, so what about outside the spirit world?"

"Beyond the spirit realm?" Mo Ke had never thought about that.

"There is a greater void beyond the spirit realm, infinite in its vastness. Raib raised his empty glass.

"Little Er, please add wine to this brother, count it on me. Mo Yan called Xiao Er to come over.

"Why don't you and I drink at the same table?" Lai Bu swallowed as he saw more than a dozen plates of fragrant dishes on Mo Yan's table.

"I can't ask for it, brother, please. Mo Yan hurriedly gave way.

Lai Bu sat down, stretched out his chopsticks and first grabbed a large piece of Dongpo's elbow dripping with juice and stuffed it into his mouth, and then continued: "'Its small and unseen' is the opposite, there is a void smaller than the human world and ants, and it is also endless, can you understand, brother?"

Mo Yan poured Lai Bu full of wine first, and the two of them ate and chatted, while the little mountain ghost ate alone, grabbing food when they were not paying attention.

Lai Bu drank dry and filled, wiped his mouth and said: "There is a certain energy in the body of a person's dead bones and flesh that can be transmitted to future generations through another void, affecting their health or fate, even if the flesh is rotten but the bones are still there, the transmission will never be interrupted. ”

"What about cremation, can the corpse be burned to ashes and still be transmitted?" Mo Yan thought of the old monks in the Gantong Temple.

Raib shook his head: "Then it's a complete break." ”

"Brother Lai, you said that entering the palace may not be a good thing, does the red-faced and thin life refer to Ayuthaye's mother fairy?" Mo asked really.

"Exactly, I'm afraid that my life will be short, including her husband, King Zheng Xin. Raib said with a sigh.