Rebirth of India: Superior

Shakru, who felt a little more comfortable, suddenly turned around and asked Zeta beside him: "Priti, don't you really think this place is dirty and disgusting now?"

Zeta thought for a long time and then said: "From a common sense point of view, it is difficult to say that the Ganges River is hygienic, but this does not affect the status of the Ganges River in the minds of Hindus. On the contrary, it strengthens their beliefs. Looking at the burning nearby The green smoke of the corpse, and the thought that they would turn into such an invisible thing, would inevitably leave them with a sigh of disillusionment with life. This made them become more pious. They hoped to wash away the sins of the past life and let their souls enter life safely. of reincarnation.

Moreover, Hindus believe that the Ganges River can clean itself, and believe that the Ganges River water is the only one in the world that does not breed infectious bacteria, so they drink the Ganges River water here with confidence and take the water home in containers so that they can spray it on themselves on some grand occasions. On the body. Because all the attention is focused on the afterlife, so that the surroundings of this life are ignored, the Ganges seems to me rather like a sacred, but not so gorgeous, shabby cassock. "

Zeta's words were quite reasonable, but Shakru still couldn't understand or accept it. Because of this blow, he lost interest in Sarnath, the place where Buddha had his enlightenment, so he left Wa in a hurry. Rennersi.

When he returned to New Delhi, he happened to catch up with Ashfakyu who came to him to discuss the next batch of orders. After hearing his experience, he laughed and said: "Little Shakru, you are still too young. Okay, it’s normal that you can’t accept this. How about this? A friend of mine is in Assam. The scenery there is very nice and the people are simple. How about I introduce you to go there for a few days to relax your mood? ”

Originally, Shakru wanted to refuse Ashfakyu's invitation, but when he heard about Assam, he immediately thought of the famous Assam black tea and Assam milk tea, and wanted to go there. It should be good, and you can also experience the real rural life in India.

Assam is the northeasternmost state in India. In the past two years, it has been clamoring to break away from India and join China. Shakru's trip was to a small local tea-producing village. Mr. Sanyi Viyas, who was in charge of receiving him, was the largest landowner in the area and was also an important customer and raw material supplier of Ashfakeyu, so The two had a very good personal relationship, so he readily accepted Ashfakyu's commission and promised to do his best to take good care of Shakru.

Since there was no airport in the area, Shakru was forced to take a train for a while. Shakru always thought that New Delhi's railway station was already the best in the world, but when he got here, he found that New Delhi's railway station was actually pretty good. The scene in the station hall here is so "chaotic"! The flow of people and large luggage are enough to make the small ticket hall noisy and overcrowded. However, there are actually many old people in groups sleeping or sitting on the ground. Their faces are dusty and their eyes are dull, allowing others to follow them. Their bodies rubbed against each other, as if they were a pile of dispensable garbage.

Fortunately, Shakru has Brahmin status and can buy tickets for first-class carriages. Although this class of carriages is not luxurious enough, it is at least clean and pure, because this kind of ticket cannot be bought by you if you have money. Only Brahmins and Kshatriyas can buy it. Only high castes and foreigners like this can buy it, but low castes cannot buy it even if they are rich (the same is true for airplanes, low castes cannot fly first class). Of course, foreigners have to pay several times more to buy tickets. of.

India's trains and railway stations are world-famous. Not only are the trains full of people, but there are also many people sitting on the roof of the train, and there are even many people hanging outside the car. I believe many friends have seen this scene in pictures or I have seen it in reports, and because of this, India has been nicknamed the Cheating Nation, but this is because the Indian trains drive very slowly. If the trains in China were going at the speed of the Chinese trains, they would have thrown off these Asans long ago.

Another strange thing is that trains in India, especially those in Mumbai, do not have doors, and there are no fences on the platforms, so you can often see people jumping off the train before it has stopped, or the train has started and is still on the platform. Scenes of running and chasing. Whenever someone is chasing a train, people hanging on the doors of the train will stretch out their hands, hoping to give them a hand. Not only men do this, but many women do it too. In particular, there are people who cross the railway before and after the train enters or leaves the station, and then jumps on the opposite train in time. Because of this dangerous maneuver, 6,000 people die on the railways in the Mumbai area every year.

Many people have raised questions about trains in India. Why can’t we have doors on the trains, and why can’t we have fences on the platforms to prevent passengers from crossing the tracks? People in India will tell you that trains are deliberately left without doors to ensure they run on time and efficiently. If Mumbai trains were equipped with anti-trap doors like the subways in many Western cities, the train might not be able to leave the platform for half an hour in extremely crowded conditions. The current dangerous scene of people jumping up and down is already the optimal design summarized by countless Indians over many years of practice.

The people who came to the station to welcome Shakru were not only Mr. Sanyi-Vyas who had made an appointment in advance, but also his younger brother Guta-Vyas. Sanyi was the largest landlord and tea plantation owner in Chawa Village, and Guta was the director of the largest private hospital here. Since he had to stay at Sanyi's house for some time, Shakru brought a lot of gifts, but he didn't expect that the most popular ones were a few packs of Japanese soft seven-star cigarettes and Hangzhou silk. Hangzhou silk was especially loved by Mrs. Sanyi. The next day, she asked someone to make silk into saris, and then wore it to visit almost all her relatives and friends...

As for cigarettes, it was because few people in India smoked in public places. They almost smoked secretly in the corners, and they were not as free and easy as when they went to the street to relieve themselves. It seemed that they felt that smoking was more shameful than peeing. In New Delhi, many cigarette vendors sell cigarettes by the stick. First, it is cheap, and second, it is not conspicuous to put on the body. In addition, many people like chewing tobacco, which is to wrap betel nuts and selected spices with leaves. It tastes astringent and bitter when chewed, and the whole mouth is red, even the teeth are dyed red.

Perhaps she was particularly satisfied with the silk brought by Shakru, so Mrs. Sanyi specially assigned a maid to serve Shakru. At first, Shakru didn't take it seriously, but he collapsed within an hour! Mobile users please visit http://m.piaotia.net