Chapter 18 Energy loss

Pyramid near the edge of several layers of stone on the ground, sitting a pair of lovers from all over the world.They rely on greatness and eternity. Even if they sit for a while, they seem to be swearing or making a wish. Then, they jump off and rejoin the world. There is a lively side street in the desert beside the pyramid, where people related to tourist spots live.This reminds me of the judgment of some historians that the earliest cities in Egypt were the working quarters of the pyramid builders, and the pyramids are the conveners of human cities.To this day, the pyramids still gather people from near and far.

We found a Chinese restaurant on this small street. It was a man named Nuha from Inner Mongolia.Mr. Hu Tinggui opened it.We also have many tourist attractions in China. Mr. Hu didn't want to squeeze there, he just moved the bowls, pans, pans and spoons to the foot of the pyramid.Most of the Chinese who dare to do this kind of thing are from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, but Mr. Hu is from Inner Mongolia and came here from Hohhot. I asked him to talk about the feeling of being in another civilization, and he smiled and said: I don't know why the Egyptians take life so casually, so casually.

He said that here, people go to work at 9:00 am and leave work at 2:00 pm every day. In between, they drink black tea, eat lunch, and pray once. How much time do they really have to do things? Except for one-fifth of Western-educated people, most people don't care about time appointments at all. No matter how urgent it is, it is not easy to meet within half an hour after an appointment to meet within two hours.Find a worker to repair the house. If you pay him a lump sum, he will probably not come to repair the next day. He spends the money and comes back when the money is spent.Even the peasants cultivated the land casually, and planted randomly according to their temperament. Fortunately, the land in the Nile River Basin is fertile and sunny, and there is always a harvest to make a living.

We may not have to laugh at their attitude towards life. Compared with the large number of people in the world who are busy working like machines every day without knowing why, the attitude of the Egyptians may not be so absurd.What confuses me is that if the pyramids are basically built by this race, then their ancestors once endured the heaviest, most meticulous and precise long-term labor in the world. Could it be that the opposite ecology today is just the labor of that labor? The last big gasp, can't come back to God after a gasp? I said to Mr. Hu: A person's overwork will deplete his vitality, and so does a civilization.

Egyptian civilization used to spend unduly both internally and externally, and finally chose a low-consumption principle, which can also be called the low-entropy principle, a concept I used when studying the aesthetic characteristics of oriental art.But different from oriental aesthetic features, the modern ecology of Egyptian civilization is a helpless choice.It is indeed exhausted physically and has yet to find a cultural basis for revival. This principle of low consumption sounds good, but it is really jaw-dropping when you see it on the ground.There is an area in Cairo City dedicated to the placement of the dead. In order to allow the dead to live, there are actually small houses and small streets. Now there are a large number of poor people living in it. It can be said that life and death are shared, but there are also a large number of escapees.There are also strange scenes in the normal residential area. Most of the brick buildings are not capped, and bundles of steel bars are densely pointing to the blue sky, but they are not new buildings, and those steel bars have long been rusted.Why are so many residents living in half-built houses?Did it cause half of all funds to be interrupted?When I asked if it was not, they said that it doesn’t rain a lot here, so it’s fine to live in, and it’s a new house only if it’s not finished, how grand it is.In the future, if the children and grandchildren have money, they will finish the construction. What's the rush?

They were not in a hurry, but the landscape of the whole city was ruined, which made us foreigners anxious. The street was full of cars, but there were also people riding donkeys in the middle, and some people were riding on donkeys and hugging two sheep.When the bus was moving, the front and rear doors were not closed, and some gray-haired old men jumped up and down skillfully, not to mention young people. A local driver told me that if there is no policeman at the intersection, you don’t have to pay attention to the traffic lights; when you see a policeman, you have to check his rank and decide whether to follow his instructions.

I asked: How do you judge his level in a speeding car? Look fat and thin.He said that thin people have a low grade and fat people have a high grade, which can be seen from a distance. You cannot ask for directions in Egypt.It's not that the Egyptians have a bad attitude, but they are too nice.We've tried it at least a dozen times, and it's the same every time.No matter who you ask, he always stops immediately, looks sincere, and starts talking.He will first talk about the area of ​​the place you asked about, which you will think is right, so listen patiently; but as soon as he changes his tone and talks about the local characteristics and urban planning of that area, you will start to get impatient , wait for him to abduct him; however, he has already said a word, and it is hard to follow him. He is already introducing the history of Cairo and the latest presidential election. You decide to flee, but he has put his hand on your shoulders and repeatedly said that Egypt and China are Good brother, in the end, you emphasized the urgency of the matter with a big gesture, and asked how to get to that place. He hesitated a few times and finally said that he didn't know at all.You raised your wrist to look at your watch, and he talked for half an hour.

The first few times we thought it was someone who was drunk, but after repeated repetitions, we became distressed and wanted to find out the reason.An Egyptian friend said: We Egyptians just like to speak and are good at speaking, so it is very strange to see your Chinese officials still reading the manuscript while speaking on TV.Egyptian ministers were inexplicably excited whenever they had the opportunity to speak, and they eloquently spoke brilliantly.Of course, there may also be a fundamental reason. Everyone is idle and has nothing to do, and they use talking as a pastime. It turned out that we had given our Egyptian friends a dozen occasions to entertain them.This is of course very pleasant, let alone a good brother.

It's also Pharaoh's fault, they didn't leave any words behind, and as a result, the tongues of future generations were completely relaxed. October 10, 1999, Cairo, Egypt, overnight at Les 3 Pyramides Hotel