Around midnight, the shopkeeper said they could go, so the two walked out of the shop and climbed the stone steps of the Shwedagon Pagoda.

The Shwedagon Pagoda is said to have been built only six or seven zhang high when it was first built, and has been repaired many times by generations, and more than 200 years ago, King Debin Ruiti had renovated the pagoda with gold and a large number of precious stones equivalent to four times the weight of him and the princess. Now the Shwedagon Pagoda is more than 30 zhang high was built by King Xin Piaoxin a few years ago, and installed a golden umbrella on the top of the tower, which has become the symbol of Myanmar, and is as famous as the Taj Mahal in Tianzhu and the Futu Pagoda in Borneo.

The two of them walked along the marble corridor to the entrance of the Shwedagon Pagoda, and sure enough, they saw a yellow-clothed monk in his fifties waiting there, and the shopkeeper introduced him as Maung Xun.

Maung Xun was a taciturn man, and without saying a word, he led the two of them into the Shwedagon Pagoda through the side door.

The tower is resplendent with gold, copper and jade Buddha statues, inlaid with red and green gems everywhere, which is dizzying. Descending the stone steps, there was a secret room in which a stone box was placed, and the shopkeeper whispered, "The crown of Ayutthaya is treasured here." ”

Maung Xun took out two long-handled copper spoons from his arms, handed one to the shopkeeper, motioned for the two of them to insert the keyhole at the same time, and then slowly opened the stone box.

Under the light, a golden crown lay quietly in the stone box, the red sapphire on it shimmered with a charming luster, and a fist-sized earthy yellow orb on the top of the crown emitted a faint dark light, which was indeed no different from the imitation in the store.

"How's it going, is the guest satisfied?" said the shopkeeper proudly.

Mo Yan nodded, smiled and said, "I want your imitation." ”

"Very good, then we will go back to the store and pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with one hand, and the other hundred taels of silver, which together will be nine hundred taels. The owner breathed a sigh of relief.

"Nine hundred taels is no problem, but you must answer me a question, and you must not hide anything, otherwise it will not be sold. Mo Remnant's face was pale.

"Of course, we have always been honest with people and will never hide it. ”

Mo Yan said coldly: "Where is the real Ayutthaya crown?"

The shopkeeper's face changed when he heard this, and he hurriedly said, "Guest officer, this is the crown of Ayutthaya." ”

"It's a replica too, just tell me where the real crown is, and I'll pay for it right away. ”

"That's true. The shopkeeper was adamant.

Mo Yan sneered in his mouth: "First of all, when you go to the store today and talk about seeing the real crown, you happen to have a distant cousin in charge of guarding, and it happens that you are on duty again tonight, and it is too much of a coincidence." Second, two guards should be present at the same time to open the crate, and one person should never have two keys in his hand. You also said that the caretaker of the crown is the responsibility of the twelve best warrior monks in Burmese kung fu, but your cousin Maung Xun, as one of the 'Twelve Heads of Tuo', does not show the slightest martial arts, he is just an impostor. You two have sold a lot of replica crowns this way, am I right?"

The shopkeeper who said this was speechless, Mo Yan had already seen it with his soul eyes, and the jewel on the crown of Ayutthaya in the stone box did not have a trace of aura at all, it was definitely not something from the spirit world, and it was probably also a glass bead.

"Alas," said the shopkeeper, knowing that he could not conceal it, he had to admit, "the guest's eyes were like torches, and if he really had a good insight, he did not hide that this Ayutthaya crown was indeed an imitation, and it was also from his own hand." In fact, since the beginning of obtaining the crown from the Ayutthaya Dynasty 20 years ago, the king asked the store to make a copy of a fake crown and enshrine it in the Shwedagon Pagoda as a trophy for people to visit, and ten years ago he took it down to avoid provoking the Siamese state. Later, when I saw that this matter was profitable, I made some more copies of the crown and sold it to merchants from the Great Qing Kingdom, and no one ever doubted it, and I didn't want to be exposed by the guest officials today, which was really embarrassing. ”

"Well, just tell me where the real crown is, and the nine hundred taels of silver will be paid. ”

The shopkeeper looked at Maung Xun and pleaded, "Cousin, just tell him." ”

Maung Xun pondered for a moment, and finally spoke: "Lao Qu is a monk of the Shwedagon Pagoda, and the monks don't speak, so every time someone comes to see the crown, he keeps his mouth shut and never speaks. Now that the guest officer asked about the whereabouts of Ayuthaya's crown, the old man could only tell the truth. ”

"Master, please speak. Mo Yan felt that this appearance seemed to be quite honest.

"The crown was indeed stored in this stone box in the Shwedagon Pagoda twenty years ago, and since there was a replica, the Twelve Heads took the real Ayutthaya crown away, and it has never been found again. What the old man said is true, and there is no lie. Maung Xun said with his palms folded.

Mo Yan believed the old monk's words and muttered, "So where are the twelve heads now?"

Maung Xun shook his head and said: "I really don't know, I heard people say that two years ago, someone saw the twelve heads when they passed through the waters near Mingzhen Island, and I don't know if it was a misinformation." ”

"Where is Myeongjin Island?"

"In the Amanda Sea at the southeastern tip of Myanmar, there are more than 200 islands, including Minh Trin Island, also known as the 'Mergui Archipelago', which is famous for its pearl production. Maung Xun replied.

"Okay, I bought the replica crown in the store. Mo Yan took out the 1,000 taels of silver tickets and said.

The shopkeeper took Mo Yan back to the store, carefully wrapped the fake crown and put it in a wooden box, and then retrieved the Burmese lead coin equivalent to one hundred taels of silver, kept thanking him, and then respectfully sent Mo Yan out.

Mo Yan went out with the wooden box all the way back to the inn, and the little mountain ghost followed silently.

Back in the inn room, Mo Yan opened the wooden box and took out the imitation crown, and looked carefully at the glass fake bead, it was inlaid in, surrounded by gold support, he could completely remove and install it by himself, and he could be careful to leave no traces.

If he can steal the real Ayutthaya crown, he is going to use this fake glass bead to mix the bag, the real bead comes from the spirit world, and he can't bother to get it for nothing.

The next day, the two of them settled the bill and hired a carriage to leave Daguang City, and went around Madaban Bay and went straight to the Mergui Islands in the Amanda Sea.

Along the way, the coast is full of twists and turns, and the scenery is beautiful, and Mo Yan from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is shocked to see such a vast and boundless sea.

When staying at night, Mo Yan asked the store to find out, and learned that there are a small number of Moken people living on Mingzhen Island, who have been good at diving since ancient times, picking pearls from giant mussels under the sea, fish and shrimp as their staple food, and their surnames are fierce and bold.

Since the twelve-headed Buddha appeared in this area, it means that the Ayutthaya crown is also here, and there are a lot of places on the land of Myanmar that can be hidden, and I don't know why they just came to the sea, and they stayed for twenty years.

After a few days, they finally came to the small town of Tanah Salin on the seaside, overlooking the vast blue sea, and in the sea hundreds of miles to the west is Mingzhen Island.