Chapter 92: Traveling to Ancient Egypt (10)
The pharaoh always meant what he said, and as soon as the news of Ninira's marriage came out, he did what he said. No, just a week has passed, and everything is ready, and it is time for Princess Ninila to get married.
Speaking of this day, it is still an auspicious day calculated by the high priest of Turatu!
Early in the morning, a long procession set off from the palace. They are going to a large gathering place, where the annual festival is held, and if there is something big in the country that needs to be announced, they will order people to go there and preach it, and when the gongs and drums are beaten, they can hear it for a hundred miles, and when the people have gathered, they will tell the important things, and in an instant everyone will know about it, and it will be clear to everyone.
The High Priest Tratu was at the forefront, because he had to pray for the smooth and complete flow of prayers, and for God to bless the bride and groom with love and harmony. He was followed by the Pharaoh King, who sat down in a palanquin with a serious face, and several of his subordinates carried him along. After that, there was a succession of priests of different ranks, all of whom walked on foot, just like the high priest, but after walking a certain distance, they all danced like gods.
Immediately after, in a fancy big palanquin behind is the groom Gukla and the bride Ninila!
They shared a sedan chair, and six or seven tall, fat, dark-skinned men carried their sedan chair underneath. In the faint sunlight, they were sweating profusely before they could lift it.
Behind the bride and groom were officials second only to the priests, and even some women dressed in linen and white robes followed closely in the procession, some of them were the chief of the garment production team, some were the chief foreman of the medicinal herb department, and some were the president's chief chef in charge of the kitchen. In short, all the higher officials left the palace and followed the procession behind the pharaoh to celebrate the wedding of the pharaoh's princess and prince.
In the middle, there are some people who specialize in holding gongs and drums, and the big gongs and drums are beaten heavily, making a loud sound, and the aftermath keeps spreading, as if it is transmitted beyond the clouds, so that some birds flying in the air are afraid to flutter their wings, and they fly away without a trace in three or two times, and there is not even a little black shadow left.
It takes an hour and a half to walk from the palace to the center of ancient Egypt.
Today, it's as hot as ever, and it seems to have a more normal feeling. After only half an hour of marching, the whole team began to collapse a little, and had to stop to replenish some water.
Everyone stayed where they were, and the sedan chair stopped. Sitting cross-legged on the desert, even the ground felt hot.
"I'll go untie my hands and I'll be back in a moment. ”
Prince Gukra dismounted from the palanquin, paced to the Pharaoh, and then left. There is a woman in the team, and it is not good to solve it nearby, so it is convenient for him to leave and go to a farther place.
Today is the wedding day of Princess Ninila, and she is very happy.
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It wasn't until the smoke rose above the Xu family's stove, until the wind blew the fire more and more fiercely, until it extended to the entire Xu house, and until he heard everyone inside shouting "fire fighting", that the old man laughed madly and staggered away.
The fire grew bigger and bigger, and spread from the stove to the other rooms, and when the sleeping men on duty awoke from their dreams, they hurried to the well, carrying buckets of water, and rushed to put out the fire. However, when the fire is raging, how can it be doused by a few buckets of water, and they are burning more and more with the wind, and the scope of their "occupation" is becoming more and more extensive.
At first, those people tried to extinguish the fire, until later those people ran out of the house without saving the fire, because the raging fire had a tendency to be extinguished.
Xu Heliang woke up and didn't see Xu Yindi beside him, but he only saw the spreading blazing fire, and he couldn't help but "chuckle" in his heart. Seeing that the fire seemed to be showing signs that it could not be extinguished, he didn't have time to think so much and rushed to Xu Yixi's house.
Even if the fire destroyed everyone, he could never lose his son!
However, Xu Yixi's house had also burned to the inside, and as soon as he entered, he was hit on the head by a burnt wooden stake, fell to the ground and never got up again.
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"Koi, koi, don't be afraid, I'm here to save you!"
At this time, Xu Yixi was enduring the pain on his fart-strut, striding towards the back garden. As soon as he arrived in the garden, he panted and said to the koi in the chiseled pond.
When he saw that there was only one koi fish left, he was subconsciously stunned, and then returned to normal.
Scoop the koi from the chisel pond and put it into a wooden utensil in his hand, and there is a little water in it, just enough to submerge the koi's body.
"Childe, sir... Sir, he never came out of your house again, I'm afraid he has... It's already ......," Zhaocai said intermittently soaking wet.
Just now, he was fetching water to save the fire in the courtyard, but he happened to see Xu Heliang enter Xu Yixi's house, and was just about to go in to bring Xu Heliang out, but the house collapsed as a whole, so he hurriedly found the back garden.
As soon as Zhaocai's words fell, Xu Yixi stuffed the utensils in his hand to him, and he limped to the residence comically.
"Childe, the house has collapsed, and it won't help if you go, let's get out quickly!"
Looking at the koi in his hand for a moment, Zhaocai hurriedly said to Xu Yixi, who had already run away.
Standing in place, looking at Xu Yixi's swaying back, Zhao Cai couldn't help but shake his head, and then followed.
When they arrived, all they saw was burning ruins.
Xu Yixi screamed inside, ignoring the pain in his buttocks, and knelt on the ground to look at the fire in front of him.
The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, just because he hasn't reached the sad place. At this moment, Xu Yixi's tears couldn't stop flowing out, and he couldn't tell whether he was heartbroken by his father's death or because of the tearing pain on his fart.
For him, there should be both!
"What are you doing in a daze, calling someone to put out the fire!"
Standing up from the ground with difficulty, he shouted at Zhaocai. He didn't believe that his father was gone like that, even if it was true, he would not dare to believe it completely until he saw Xu Heliang's body!
Zhao Cai wiped the sweat on his face, he didn't know if it was the water he got when he was fighting the fire or the sweat on his body, and then looked around, his tone seemed a little helpless, "Son, let's leave this Xu Mansion quickly, this fire is too big to be saved, and those subordinates have already fled for their lives." ”
Seeing Xu Yixi glaring at him with red eyes, Zhaocai quickly changed the topic, "Son, you have to face reality, I saw the master go in with my own eyes." Stay in the green mountains and don't be afraid of no firewood. ”