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Chapter 459 Obelisk

I stayed for a few more days.

Ye Kai found a group of people on the west bank of Luxor who were probably of ancient Egyptian descent. Their appearance, figure and dress still retained many characteristics of the pharaoh era.

If Egypt also had nations, they could be called the Pharaohs.

The pharaohs reject interracial marriages. Their blood relationship is stable, their lives are simple, and their thinking is simple. The few pharaohs Ye Kai knows are engaged in hand-carving and cultural relic protection work.

They protect the tombs and temples throughout the west bank of the Nile.

In many movies about Egyptian pharaohs, you can always see a group of Egyptians guarding the tombs for generations. Their existence seems to be to protect the peace of the pharaohs after death.

I didn't expect such a group of people to exist in reality.

The entire palms of these 'Pharaohs' are very rough, the cracks in the fingertips are full of stone powder, tall and thin with dark faces... Ye Kai thinks that maybe the people who built the pyramids looked like them.

As soon as he set foot on the west bank, the Pharaoh friends he met two days ago warmly greeted Ye Kai.

"Ye, where do you want to go today?"

The pharaohs are very dull, basically they don’t have too much contact with tourists, and few people do business. They have stayed in the tombs on the West Bank for thousands of years, but they are not the managers of the scenic spots today.

Perhaps the most contact they have with tourists is to give directions to some tourists, and Ye Kai only discovered this group of people when he was asking for directions.

"I'll just come over for a stroll, Buster, didn't you go to the mausoleum to repair cultural relics today?"

"There are so many people here, I'll come out and take a rest,"

Butters smokes, and he is an old smoker. Looking at his yellow teeth, he can tell that this person must have been smoking for a long time, and he is very addicted to smoking. He should also come out to smoke now.

There's nothing stopping you from smoking inside the attraction, but Buster stayed out of the crowd anyway.

It's polite.

Things that modern Egyptians don't understand or don't care about have been passed down in this forgotten race. Etiquette is the symbol of a civilized country. Many Egyptians have forgotten it, but some people remember it.

Ye Kai was about to leave, he was going to take a boat to visit the distant desert today.

At this time, another Pharaoh whom Ye Kai knew came over. His name was Aria, and he was four years younger than Ye Kai, very young.He is not engaged in the protection and restoration of cultural relics like the older generation of pharaohs, but as a tour guide in scenic spots.

Aria loves Egyptian cultural relics very much. He told Ye Kai a story that when he was young, his teacher would take them to travel around Egypt and saw many cultural relics discarded in the wilderness.

At that time, no one paid much attention to cultural relics. Students would even urinate on cultural relics, pick up stones on the ground and smash the ears of a statue until they knocked off the ears of the sculpture.

Aria later learned that the statue was more than 3000 years old.

The general emphasis on cultural relics only happened when Egypt's tourism industry rose later, and he hoped that more tourists would come to Egypt to travel and attract more economy to make the government pay more attention to cultural relics.

In Aria's view, he is also protecting cultural relics, but in another way.

Seeing Ye Kai, he began to complain: "The group of Korean tourists did not follow the rules just now, they wanted to enter the temple with their shoes on."

Most of the temples in Egypt are mosques. You have to take off your shoes when you enter the mosque. Everyone lifts the shoes on their own hands. When sitting on the carpet, they should put the soles of the shoes on the bottom side instead of unzipping the soles on the carpet. .

If you put your shoes directly on the carpet, what is the difference between not taking them off?
Ye Kai went to the Saladin Castle Mosque once a few days ago, but he only went to this one temple. Because he had to take off his shoes to enter, there was a very strong smell in these temples.

Needless to say, everyone knows what the smell is.

"Tourists like you are really rare. It would be great if everyone could seriously appreciate the cultural relics."

Ye Kai asked: "Why do you say that? Is there anything special about me?"

Aria blurted out: "It's so special!"

He wrenched his fingers and pointed at the current tourists:
"First, they don't listen to my explanation very carefully, they only think about shopping and taking pictures! Oh my God, I have told you many times not to buy things in scenic spots, but they don't listen!

Second, every night I feel full of energy, I don’t know what to do, drink or play cards, and when I go out the next morning, I look sleepy... Is this a tourist? "

Yes, isn't this just for tourism?

Do you really think that everyone who travels to Egypt is an archaeologist because they want to know the history of Egypt?
Naive.

However, he is very grateful to the current Chinese people. The reason is that the proportion of Chinese people visiting Egypt has greatly increased in the past few years. In the past, when people mentioned Asians, people would only think of the island country of Korea. Now when they see Asians, many people will think, this Could it be a Chinese?

It's hard to guess whether they like Chinese people because of their arrogance.

Aria pointed to a small bell tower on the church of Saladin Castle and said:

"This thing was sent by the French. We gave them a beautiful obelisk, but they sent such an outrageous thing. I regret it now. I think it's better to give the obelisk to the Chinese."

"It turns out that the French obelisk was sent by you."

When Ye Kai lived in Paris, he liked the Place de la Concorde very much, and he had a profound influence on the obelisk there. Now he knows that the French obelisk was actually sent by Egypt...Ye Kai took it back because the French snatched it back.

There is also an injustice against Egypt.

However, exchanging the obelisk for such a thing that has no ornamental value and no historical significance, Egypt has indeed done a loss-making business. If the obelisk is really given to China, what will China give in return?

No matter how you say it, with the atmosphere of Huaxia, you will definitely not give something less valuable than the obelisk.

In fact, Huaxia also has its own traditions. The development of the style of a big country does not depend on overnight. In ancient times, many small countries around the country relied on the rewards they received after offering sacrifices to Huaxia.

Ye Kai said with a smile: "You can give the remaining obelisks to Huaxia."

There are only two obelisks in Egypt, one of which was given to France. If the last obelisk is given to China, the significance of it may be intriguing.

If there is such a thing, Huaxia will definitely accept it.

It is a vast country, inclusive of everything, and you, Egypt, want to send me something to show your favor, and I, China, naturally have no reason to push it away... But Ye Kai doesn't know if he can see it this day.

He also very much hopes that the Egyptian obelisk will appear in a certain square in China one day.

(End of this chapter)