Going there in the summer didn't seem like a good choice. Gao Xu and Miao Jin had just gotten off the plane and were waiting for a car outside Cairo Airport. He immediately felt like he was in a big steamer and sweat broke out all over his body.
The person he admired most at this time was Miao Jin, who was beside him. She was dressed very tightly, wearing lace-up leather shoes, canvas trousers, a loose cotton long-sleeved shirt, a sun hat, sunglasses, and a mask, with almost no skin exposed except for her hands.
"Are you okay?" Gao Xu asked kindly.
Miao Jin glanced sideways, facing him with sunglasses, and said weakly, "If you calm down, you will feel cooler."
Gao Xu seemed to have said this many times.
Finally, a Ming-made "Mountain Tiger" off-road vehicle arrived. When we contacted the hotel by phone, they said that the person picking us up at the airport was driving a Mountain Tiger off-road vehicle. Sure enough, a sign was extended from the w
There was an air-conditioned tea room next to the restaurant downstairs. Miao Jin, who was wearing long-sleeved clothes, suggested drinking some tea until dusk. Gao Xu naturally followed her wishes.They both ordered a kind of black tea that the locals loved to drink. After a while, a black girl came over with a few ceramic containers. She should be Nubian. Gao Xu was not sure, but those with darker skin were most likely Nubians.She first put a dish of white sugar on the table, and the sugar in it stood out. Gao Xu then said to Miao Jin, "It seems that people like to eat sweets.""Dang!" Suddenly there was a crisp sound, and Gao Xu turned around, only to see a teacup falling to the ground, causing pieces to scatter and tea to spill all over the floor. The black girl immediately froze on the spot, then she put the other tea cup on the table, trembling all over and knelt on the ground to pick up the pieces. Come to tears.After a while, a tall white man
The next day, Gao Xu finally realized why the tour guide named Mona spoke tentatively about the daily wage. It turned out that the daily wage of ordinary people in the area was between three and four yuan, and this was the income of people with jobs.When Gao Xu was a clerk in the company, his daily salary was about 170 yuan. He neglected the exchange rate of Ming yuan and did not realize that the Ming people could easily earn more than 40 times that. No wonder Mona said that she only served Ming people, and it was hard to determine whether the reason was because "Ming people are polite."The local prices were not necessarily low. For example, the price of the Shanhu brand off-road vehicle driven by Yang Kui was more than double that of the Ming Dynasty. The only low-priced item was food, which was said to be heavily subsidized by the government every year.Yesterday, the French couple complained that the locals were unpunctual and lazy, and they probably th
After leaving the pyramids, most tourists from various countries will continue to go south along the Nile River, where there are several famous temples, or go north to Alexandria, where there are Greek cultural relics.However, Gao Xu and his group of four gave up the ancient attractions and headed east to the Suez Canal, preparing to go south along the canal to the ruins of the "East Port Fortress". This is a very unpopular route because there is really not much mystery.Along the way, Miao Jin began to tell the history before and after World War I, as well as the story of the canal. Gao Xu combined the information he read from books and gradually understood all of this in a systematic way.In the early days of steam engine application, that is, in the late Wude period, Gao Xu was still alive (the second half of the 15th century AD). During his half-century-long rule, he invested many years of financial funds in the development of industrial technology and
The border generals who rebelled under the banner of "clearing the emperor's side" were eventually wiped out by the imperial army composed of the Beijing camp and local troops. However, the problems of the Ming Dynasty were far from being solved, and they had just begun.The rebel is dead, but the manifesto he left behind is still there and has a huge impact.Just like all the wars in the Ming Dynasty, those who started the war had to find "righteousness" first and have a legitimate reason. The general and his entourage, of course, understood these things, so they launched the campaign to clear the emperor's court, pointing out that the emperor was surrounded by treacherous officials. The direct evidence was the emperor's curse that "the whole court is full of treacherous officials." They also listed the crimes of those "treacherous officials" in detail.The gist of the manifesto is that the treacherous and corrupt officials relied on their power to deceive
Today, the Donggang Fortress has long been abandoned, and the modern garrison no longer needs such fortifications. After going through vicissitudes of time, it has been preserved and has become a relatively unpopular tourist attraction.The bunker was mottled with bullet holes from the past, and even the world's largest fortress cannon at the time became a must-see exhibit here. Gao Xu touched the pits and dents on the wall, and, under the guidance of the tour guide, climbed up the fortress along a narrow stone staircase.There were indeed few tourists, and there were only a few other white people who came up to visit.Finally, I saw the fortress cannon. The tail parts had long been rusted, and the cannon body had turned brown, without any metallic luster. But its posture remained the same. The huge cannon barrel tilted towards the sky, as if telling of its former majesty.Gao Xu seemed to see thick smoke rising and the earth shaking, and seemed to hea
I remember that more than 400 years ago, Gao Xu and his civil and military officials sat in a tent, eating dry steamed buns and drinking wild vegetable and meat soup with only salt. Gao Xu said: The key is not what to eat or where to eat, but who to eat with. There was no lack of laughter and wonderful and sharp conversations during the camping.Although the food we had this evening was sumptuous, the experience was quite poor.Gao Xu disliked Amen more and more.When we first met, this guy was okay. Although he was wearing a lot of gold and silver, it was not a problem. Some people are just sanguine and extroverted and like to show off, but it doesn't necessarily mean they are difficult to get along with. It doesn't affect anything. Amen was still very warm and friendly at first.However, gradually Gao Xu began to feel unhappy in various ways.Through the translator, Amen boasted about the fact that he had slept with female tourists from various
Yang Kui said on the phone, "I learned about this after receiving a call from the local department. They should have obtained Mona's cell phone and notified the nearest contact. Mona is now seriously injured and is receiving treatment in the hospital. Mr. Liu didn't receive the call?"Gao Xu glanced at Miao Jin and turned on the speakerphone, "No. Didn't you send her back to her residence last night?"The voice on the phone said, "Of course it was delivered. Something happened to Mona at her residence. The perpetrator might be her classmate. The suspect probably knows where she lives.""Amen?" Gao Xu asked."It should be." Yang Kui said. He paused and then said, "The police are investigating the case, just leave it to them. I think I should inform Mr. Liu about this, so I called to tell him. The money you gave her last night was also stolen."Gao Xu asked what hospital Mona was in. Yang Kui then offered to pick up Gao Xu and the others, and the d
Miao Jin was making a long distance call to China. Judging from the way she spoke and the address she gave, the person she was talking to at first should be Wei Zhongming. Then she hung up the phone and answered another one, which was another person calling. While she was answering the call, she picked up a pen and started writing on paper.Gao Xu sat in a chair in the living room of the suite, waiting, thinking about this matter in his mind. Currently in a foreign country, he was unfamiliar with the place, so the most efficient way should be to find a way through the introduction of the Wei family.Miao Jin finished the call, walked over to Gao Xu, sat sideways opposite him, and handed him a note, "Someone will call in a while."Sure enough, after waiting for a while, Miao Jin's phone rang. She took a look and handed the phone to Gao Xu.A man's voice came from inside. It should be an official from the embassy. He said without further ado, "I have a g