Chapter 1210 There Is Something Wrong with the Temple

After spending three days in Santorini, Shi Lei also paid the installment of 20 million yuan that should have been paid to the Qian family.

Since he had an additional 12 million yuan of independent funds, Shi Lei did not expect to pay all the money to Ding Yu with non-income investments. He directly paid with his own independent funds, which was considered to be a complete fulfillment of his promise to Ding Yu.

And Shi Lei decided to give the proportion of 30 million yuan of non-income investments in this quota cycle to Kong Fandong.

To complete the remaining 200 million yuan of investment within a year, it is obviously not enough to rely on the current amount of non-income investments. Shi Lei must take out his own independent funds.

Therefore, he naturally would not be stingy to take out money from his independent funds to give to Ding Yu.

However, Shi Lei was not in a hurry to give the 30 million yuan to Kong Fandong. He would wait until he returned, anyway, the time was quite wide.

With the experience of the last credit cycle, Shi Lei felt that it was easy to say that the 10 million yuan for collection consumption was easy, but it seemed not so easy when the time came. Therefore, he decided to pay close attention to various collections from the beginning of this credit cycle, hoping to spend the 10 million yuan as soon as possible, so as to avoid the long night and many dreams, and to rush to find suitable collections at the last moment, which would obviously be more difficult.

On the third night in Santorini, Zhang Jingjing said that it was not very meaningful to just stay at the beach. She suggested that since they were already in Greece, they should go to Athens for a stroll. She also said that the economy of Greece is very bad now, and they can support the economic development of Greece by visiting more places.

Shi Lei didn't care, so he waited for Sun Yiyi's opinion.

Originally, if there were only two people, Sun Yiyi would of course be willing to stay on Santorini with Shi Lei and not go anywhere. As long as she was with Shi Lei, let alone Santorini, a picturesque place with a gentle sea breeze, she would not feel bored even if she stayed in a deserted desert.

But since there is Zhang Jingjing, the sweet journey of the two will not be so quiet after all, so it is better to take advantage of this holiday to visit more places.

So Shi Lei called the charter company temporarily, but they said that it might not be possible to make temporary arrangements. Their planes have been chartered, and the route application must be made at least during the daytime on weekdays, which is obviously not convenient.

However, the charter company said that it was no problem for Shi Lei to change the return flight to depart from Athens and return to London.

Fortunately, there is still a ship to take from Santorini, which is just a little longer.

I asked the hotel, and the hotel said that there are three types of ships from Santorini to Athens, divided into fast, medium and slow. The slowest is the cheapest, but it takes more than eight hours.

After discussing with Sun Yiyi and Zhang Jingjing, they generally felt that they had seen enough of the sea these days and there was no need to take a slow boat, so Shi Lei asked the hotel to help book a morning speedboat, which would arrive at the port of Athens around 12:30.

The next day, the three of them set off and rushed to Athens.

After lunch in Athens, Shi Lei checked in at the hotel. He asked the hotel's concierge to rent a car. The concierge also helped Shi Lei apply for a temporary driver's license in Greece. The three of them went straight to the Greek temple.

The name of the Greek temple should actually be the Parthenon, which was built more than 400 years before Christ and has a history of nearly 2,500 years.

Of course, it is not a complete temple, but a place similar to a museum built on the basis of the ruins of the original temple.

However, although the Parthenon has experienced more than 2,000 years of wind and frost, and has also been destroyed by the Crusaders, it is still well preserved.

This temple was originally built to worship the goddess Athena. Of course, there would be a statue of the goddess Athena in the temple.

This statue is said to be made of gold and ivory, and is twelve meters high. The head and limbs are made of ivory, the armor on the body is made of pure gold, and the eyes are inlaid with gems. The manufacturing cost alone is amazing.

However, this statue was abducted by the emperor of the ancient Roman Empire and its whereabouts are unknown. Now, what is enshrined in the temple is just a small replica.

Even if it is a replica, it is completely in accordance with the design of the original statue, but it is not so tall. All parts are carved and made according to the original materials.

Driving up the Acropolis, you can see the Parthenon towering on the top of the mountain along the way. Even though only the columns on the exterior are left, and the interior has long been blown up by the Turks, you can still see the magnificence and majesty of the year.

The temple does not cover a large area, only about three acres, and only a circle of columns on the outside remains, and there is not much to see.

It is said that the reliefs promoting Athena's deeds in the original temple are stored in the UK. There has always been a legend that the UK promised to return these reliefs, but it is unknown when it will happen.

It took half an hour to finish the tour. The three of them went to the Temple of Erechtheion again.

This temple is even less interesting, just to see the six famous Greek goddess columns.

Going down the south side of the Acropolis, there are the remains of the Temple of Zeus, which is much more than the previous two temples, because only a few pillars are left.

Shi Lei was not particularly interested in these things, but Sun Yiyi and Zhang Jingjing seemed very interested.

Then the three of them went around most of the Acropolis Mountain and arrived at the Temple of Hephaestus in the northwest of the mountain. This is the most well-preserved temple in Greek history, and the three of them stayed in it for the longest time.

Shi Lei was just fulfilling his duty and accompanying Sun Yiyi and Zhang Jingjing. Seeing that the two little girls looked very happy, Shi Lei kept following them with his hands behind his back and a smile.

However, as he walked, Shi Lei felt something was wrong. He always felt that the internal structure of the temple was somewhat out of tune with the exterior of the temple.

There were college students in the temple who were volunteering as interpreters. Shi Lei leaned over to listen. Although it involved many Greek mythology terms, his English level seemed a little insufficient, but he generally understood what the interpreter said.

It turned out that this temple was once converted into a church by an architect sent by the Byzantine Empire. The inner hall was demolished, a new circular hall was built in the east, and the current vault was poured with concrete.

Shi Lei suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he always felt that there was something wrong with this temple. The reason turned out to be here.

When Shi Lei, who majored in architecture in college, learned that the vault of the temple was actually cast in concrete, he couldn't help but be curious.

For this reason, Shi Lei specifically asked the tour guide to learn about it, and then he learned that this temple was converted into a church in the seventh century, and this vault was also cast at that time.

This shows that the Greeks actually mastered concrete technology in the seventh century, which is really an amazing achievement.

China, also an ancient civilization, obviously did not reach such a level of construction technology in the seventh century. Moreover, China is one of the four ancient civilizations, while ancient Greece was not so civilized.

When he learned this, Shi Lei couldn't help but be particularly interested in the vault of this building. He stood outside and looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't see anything, so he went back to the temple and looked up at the vault.

For some reason, Shi Lei always felt that this vault was a bit strange. Sun Yiyi and Zhang Jingjing went to find a place to rest, but Shi Lei was still studying this vault.

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