Chapter 0481 – Change of Eyes

The poorer the place, the more unsound the laws were, and in a country ruled by a military-run government like Burma, it was too easy to press some charges on someone. Compared to Hu Rong, Wen Cha was like a mole cricket, one finger could crush him.

So Wencha to Hu Rong words do not dare to slow down, after spending a sum of money to send away the team of soldiers with guns, Wencha called the ground staff under his command, opened a meeting of the most tangled in his life, that is to talk about the construction of honesty, not to collect tips, Mandalay Airport’s morale, in a short period of time to get a great deal of improvement.

Of course, these things Zhuang Rui and Hu Rong naturally will not know, at this moment, Zhuang Rui sat in a caravan driven by Hu Rong, and was driving towards the hotel.

“Brother Hu, can’t we go to the mine today?”

Seeing Hu Rong’s meaning, he wanted to let himself stay in Mandala for a day, to be honest, Zhuang Rui’s schedule was really tight during this time, and he really didn’t want to be delayed any further.

Hu Rong smiled. Said: “Tomorrow! Driving to the mine from here, the road isn’t very good, besides there isn’t much to see at night, I’ll have someone bring the helicopter tomorrow, it won’t be much of a delay.”

“Alright then! Brother Hu, I wonder which place your mine is in?”

Zhuang Rui pretended to be careless and asked, but in his heart, he was a little nervous, if Hu Rong’s mine is far away from the treasure location, Zhuang Rui can only give up this treasure hunting trip, after all, he has limited time, there are still several things waiting for him in the country!

“Well, I’ll point it out to you ……”

Hu Rong said from the car took out a drawing, finger along the drawing to find the orientation, and finally stopped at a place, said: “It is here, this was originally an old pit, but in a few decades ago has been filled in, and then I looked for people to explore a little bit, said there are still veins of minerals, and this is re-exploited, did not think that it is actually a waste of mines, which is the loss of a big one. ”

“Brother Hu, this is a mountain range, right? You don’t have to worry, maybe if you dig a little deeper you can see the vein!”

Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei glanced at each other with a hint of joy in their eyes, they had been comparing the map of Burma with the one on the digital camera for the past few days, and had found that the bearing marked on the map with the small Japanese flag was in the Degang area, which was exactly where Hu Rong had pointed out just now.

According to Peng Fei, it was a place where tropical jungles and mountain ranges were rampant, the roads were very difficult to travel, and it was not particularly far from Ruili, the border of China, so Peng Fei was making preparations for the past few days, and in the big one-meter-long backpack he carried on his own back, all of them were the equipments that needed to be used this time.

“Forget it, let’s not talk about it, this time it’s just to bring you here to have some fun, let’s put it this way! I’ll accompany you around Mandela in the afternoon, this is where Myanmar’s palace used to be, there are quite a few ancient buildings.”

No matter in which way, Zhuang Rui is considered his honored guest, Hu Rong naturally won’t slow him down, wait until after Zhuang Rui puts his things in the hotel. Hu Rong then took Zhuang Rui to the old site of the former Burmese king’s palace, while Peng Fei was surprisingly did not go together, but quietly went out of the hotel alone after Hu Rong and the others left.

Along the moat of the Royal City, Hu Rong’s caravan to the foot of Mandalay Hill, the Royal City quietly to the Mandalay Hill, the last palace of the Burmese dynasty, as the Forbidden City in Beijing, buried a highly developed agricultural country, in the colonial era hundreds of years ago, was crushed by the Western industrial civilization of the vicissitudes of the story.

Hu Rong first take Zhuang Rui to go to the place, is the golden palace teak temple, the original is the king of Myanmar Min Dong’s bedchamber, after the death of the king of Myanmar Min Dong, his successor tin robe king for avoiding the taboo, the whole building moved to the present place, will be turned into a monastic temple, this teak building is obviously complicated in the ordinary heavy eaves temple.

Myanmar is not only rich in jade, teak is also a specialty of Myanmar, teak is also known as rouge tree, purple teak, blood tree, in China’s Yunnan also has a few teak exists, known as the purple oil tree, is a deciduous or semi-deciduous large trees, the tree is up to 40 to 50 meters high, diameter at breast height of 2 to 2.5 meters, the stem is straight.

Native to Burma, Thailand and Laos, teak is the main afforestation species in Southeast Asia, but also one of the world’s valuable timber, known as “the king of all trees!” It is also known as “the king of all woods!” In Myanmar and Indonesia, it is called “national treasure”.

The teakwood temple is very beautiful. Looking far away, the building is a square roof heavy eaves structure, but this building seems to be more complicated than the general heavy eaves building, inside and outside the doors, windows and walls have a lot of fine wood carvings, the entire temple is located on hundreds of thick teak pillars, the periphery of the teak pillars also have teak pillars to protect.

The visitors in Mandalay, obviously much less than in Yangon, in addition to Hu Rong and Zhuang Rui, is that the driver and an entourage, the large temple, almost no tourists, only a few local children, running up and down the high steps of the temple.

Children in the playfulness of the “giggle” laughter, penetrate in the temple, crisp and clear, echoing for a long time, that kind of children’s voices in the ears of Zhuang Rui, in the solemnity of the temple in the midst of this, as if the Sanskrit chorus, so that Zhuang Rui anxious to find the treasure of the mind, actually became calm.

Hu Rong is also a devout Buddhist, after entering the temple, took off his shoes, kneeling at one end of the long corridor of the Buddha statue niche. After spending some time at the Teakwood Temple, Hu Rong took Zhuang Rui to the most prestigious Kudu Pottery Pagoda in Mandalay.

The Kudu Pagoda is proudly called by the Burmese as the “World’s Greatest Pagoda of Merit”, and the so-called merit is that King Mindon gathered 2,400 monks from all over the Central and Southern Peninsula in 1857, held the fifth assembly for the revision of the Buddhist scriptures in this place, and finally engraved the revised scriptures on 729 square stone tablets in the clouds.

Outside of each stone tablet, a white stupa was constructed, so that the entire temple is a succession of white stupas. According to Hu Rong, if a person reads eight hours a day, it would take a total of at least 450 days to read all of these steles under the white pagodas.

Burmese people seem to like gold, in the middle of the Goodyear Tao stupa, there is also a golden stupa, around the four directions, full of eyes, are as white as snow white stupa, the whole layout, the four directions are basically symmetrical, as a rolling white square.

The people here are even more rare, Zhuang Rui and others walk in this white as snow in the tower forest, a traveler did not encounter. Drill into a pagoda, looking at the completely unintelligible text of the scriptures, Zhuang Rui suddenly felt the eyes of the aura, seems to stir up.

Can’t say what kind of feeling, but the golden-colored aura in the eyes, in this white tower, there is a warm feeling, like being surrounded by warm water, very comfortable, so Zhuang Rui can’t help but moan, even Hu Rong’s shouts outside, were deliberately ignored by him.

Sitting quietly in the pagoda Zhuang Rui, feel the pagoda in the ubiquitous kind of pure breath, the mind as if by a belief in the wash, there is a return to the emptiness of the feeling of indifference, it seems that the world’s irritability are away from him.

The elephant is formless, great love has no desire, great virtue has no words, great goodness has no trace, at this time in Zhuang Rui’s heart, there is no desire, the aura in his eyes, also seems to be undergoing a slight change.

“Zhuang Rui, Zhuang old brother ……”

I don’t know how long it took, but Zhuang Rui was finally awakened by Hu Rong’s voice, and after awakening, he hurriedly walked out.

Looking back to this pagoda, Zhuang Rui actually felt a little reluctant in his heart, the aura inside this pagoda was very thin, but it made people feel very comfortable.

Raising his hand to look at the table, Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but be startled, when he first came here, it was only more than 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and now it was already past 4 o’clock.

“Older brother, I didn’t expect you to still have Buddhist roots ah? You’ve been in the pagoda for quite some time, what, do you have any intention of becoming a living monk? I’ll find a high priest to help you convert ……”

Hu Rong looked at Zhuang Rui’s eyes a bit strange, young people are always impatient to stay in this kind of place, he didn’t expect that once Zhuang Rui went in, he actually stayed in there for more than two hours, he himself was about to get impatient waiting.

“Don’t, don’t ever, Brother Hu, I’m not married here!”

Zhuang Rui had just come out of that ethereal realm at this time, and was startled by Hu Rong’s words, this great life buddy hadn’t enjoyed it yet! How could he go and become a monk.

“Oh, the living monk converted, and do not shave, marriage and children are allowed, just the pursuit of a realm of the mind ……”

Hu Rong laughed, he knew that Zhuang Rui was about to get engaged to his cousin, this time he also prepared a gift for Zhuang Rui, just not the time to take it out yet.

“Let’s go! I’ll take you to eat authentic Burmese snacks, and then at night, I’ll take you to Mandalay’s raw stone market to see, there might be some good things there, many people collect decades of old pit kind of material, and often put it up for sale there.”

Hu Rong looked at the sky, it was already late, greeted Zhuang Rui, and led the way to the mountain gate.

Zhuang Rui turned back to the white tower forest, the setting sun shines in the west above these white towers, showing a golden color, making it appear more solemn, and in which diffuse a kind of indescribable breath.

At this time, Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but feel a little strange about what just happened, could it be that there is really faith and the existence of gods in this world?

“Hmm, the distance of the aura has gotten farther?”

Just as Zhuang Rui retracted his gaze, he inadvertently felt that the aura that could only be released at a distance of more than ten meters could now actually sense the weak but very special aura above the white tower thirty meters away, and could see the subtle lines above the white tower clearly.