A young gray-clothed monk stepped forward to open the door for the two, and the group walked along the stone path in the courtyard, and when they reached the front of the inner courtyard, Ulu spontaneously knelt down, and Ah Zhai was stunned for a moment and quickly understood that not all places were allowed to enter slaves.

"Come in! My baby. "Elishya was a respectable old man, dressed in plain white chunik, with a curly coat of the same color, and the sleeves of which were embroidered with the emblems of the Sirushsaurus, and he was very old, tall and thin, with a long beard, and an equally snow-white hat, and he knelt lovingly behind his desk.

"How have you been?" Ah Zhai took off his shoes, stepped on the plush carpet and walked forward, and a few steps away from the old man, he bowed reverently, and then sat cross-legged opposite the old man, and spoke affectionately and respectfully.

"Not bad." Elishya looked at the young man in front of him gently, his gray eyes filled with all the insight, "What about you?" Jin, how are you doing? ”

"I've tinkered with something new, maybe you'll like it." Ah Zhai smiled slightly, many years ago he was actually a little afraid of this kind of wise old man, they have insight into the world, they have experienced too many ups and downs, so they can easily see through a person's thoughts, but now he is the opposite, he feels that he is no longer afraid to communicate with them, on the contrary, he can benefit a lot from the total.

"You're a lovely kid, and I can tell you've changed a lot lately." Elishya smiled happily, "Let me guess it's wine?" ”

"There's something new besides good wine." Ah Zhai smiled, he was not afraid that the old man would see the difference between him and the original owner, and he was not willing to pretend, because he believed that his frank attitude could make people find the reason for themselves, so he naturally ignored the old man's first half of the sentence, stood up and walked to the door and waved to the foyer, and a monk stepped forward to take the gift from Ulu and sent it over, "Do you like it?" ”

"It's a beautiful drinking vessel." Elishya stretched out his hand to take the wooden box with very beautiful carvings and polishes, and when he saw the beautiful silverware inside, the old man raised the corners of his mouth, "I have always regretted that you did not join the temple to become a priest, your creativity in craftsmanship is incomparable. ”

“…… What if I say I've changed my mind? Ah Zhai didn't expect the opportunity to fall from the sky like this, he hesitated for a moment and followed the old man's words.

"This isn't a kid's house wine, are you really sure?" Elishya put the wooden box aside, and looked at the young man in front of him with a little surprise, this child can be said to have grown up with him, he did not choose to marry a woman in his life, which is rare among the priests of the temple, this old man who was born in the nobility of the original Assyrian dynasty, dedicated his life to the temple, he is the earliest priest of the Maduk temple, and the most devout believer of the god Maduk.

"Yes." Ah Zhai nodded, but said sorry to the old man in his heart, he actually didn't have such pure faith, and he couldn't fully understand why anyone would attach so much importance to faith and value the kind of gods who might not exist at all, in fact, in the end, he was obsessed with the last world after all, and he never understood why he lost to the wood carving hanging on the wall!

"I don't know exactly why you changed your mind, but I hope you can think about it again, and I don't want you to regret the decision you made today in the future." Elishya actually loves this child very much, although he is a slave girl's child but he is wise and sensible, but over the years he has also become more and more worried, because he found that this child's temperament has gradually become gloomy, although this time he has changed a lot, but he still hopes that this child can live a healthier and happier life, "You see I have been a priest all my life, I love the gods I serve, so I wake up every morning and feel very happy, because I can serve the gods I respect." ”

"You know I'm not really a pure person, and I can't even understand why you feel so happy serving the gods." Ah Zhai stared at the old man in front of him, he didn't know if he would be able to get an answer from the old man, but he desperately wanted someone to listen to him, give him strength, let him persevere, "In a sense, I might be called a rebel, because I have no faith, or what I believe in has always been me, and if I can't do it, then I can't pray to the gods." ”

“…… What happened to my child that made you so sad? Elishya looked at the child in front of him gently, but the eyes of the seventy-year-old man were as moist as a spring. In the records of later generations, the temple of Babylon has never had a good reputation, so that the world mentions it, and most of the priests in it are regarded as the chief sins, and the house is also very resistant to these people because of the experience of the previous world, and he also sees these people as hypocrites in his heart, but now when he faces the old man in front of him, it is like a traveler who has finally found an oasis after trekking in the desert for a long time, a kind of kindness born from the bottom of his heart, which makes him count his nose in an instant, and almost cry.

"Master." Coming out of Elishya's residence, the sunset was already hanging in the west, Ah Zhai waded in with Ulu and waded away, and when he arrived at the ferry, he looked back, the brown wall stretched like a giant dragon in the glow of the sunset gave birth to a magnificent momentum, as if a god appeared in the mortal world, Ah Zhai never thought that he could cry so presumptuous in front of a stranger, as if he had been wronged and hid beside his mother as a child, and the depression in his heart disappeared cleanly.

"Uru, I have decided to be a disciple of Master Elishya." Looking at the tall slave who was following him, Ah Zhai smiled slightly.

"Master, is there anything wrong with Ulu?" As a slave who depended on his master to survive, Ulu was naturally very happy that his master was able to join the temple, but when he thought that this was after he was promoted to the superintendent, Ulu was very frightened, and he was worried that he was not attentive to his own service, and that his master would abandon them after joining the temple.

"No, Uru, you have always been my most loyal servant." Seeing the pitiful appearance of the sturdy man, Ah Zhai only felt goosebumps all over his body, "I hope you can help me take care of the winery, I will serve the god Marduk after entering the temple, I want to pass on his will, worship him, and respect him, so as my slave, I don't want you to act recklessly and shame me." ”

"Master, please trust Ulu, Ulu will take care of the wine shop for you." Ulu knelt down in front of the young man, and he kissed the young man's robe reverently, with an indescribable humility and loyalty.

"I have never doubted your loyalty." Ah Zhai gently raised his hand and touched the top of the man's head, he had to admit that his adaptability was strong, in just a few months of coming here, he had been able to see these slaves with a master's mentality, although he couldn't treat their lives like grass and mustard like cattle and horses, but he would no longer look at each other at the same height, "From tomorrow onwards, I will follow the teacher every morning to study the course, and I will go back in the evening, I need you to help me take charge of the shop, so you don't have to follow me to the temple every day." ”

"Do you still live in our house?" Ulu smelled the problem and there was a look of frustration on his face, as a slave he was too presumptuous, how could he interfere with the decisions made by his master!

"I shouldn't stay for too long, you know that I'm going to move around the temple after I pass the Guò temple exam and become a priest, but I won't sell the house, I'll give it to you, I hope he still has the same appearance, but that should be a few months later." Otaku wasn't angry at Uru's question, after all, he wanted a smart and assertive helper, not an echo worm who could only respond to promises.

The master and servant talked while walking through the alley and returning home, in the house A house followed a few slaves to briefly confess, after crossing several worlds and then began one-on-one lessons, this feeling is the same as many years ago when he was in elementary school, he went out in the morning and came back in the evening, he needed to learn a lot of astronomy, geography, painting, mathematics, and even a very magical divination, here they used clay tablets in class, and a special pen was used to depict cuneiform characters on the clay tablets, Ah Zhai deeply felt that cuneiform writing was not as simple as imagined.

Tasting a character represents more than one meaning, although he has a brief connection with the memory of the original owner and himself, but he still can't say that he has fully mastered it, but with Master Elishya is different, he not only needs to understand, but even needs to be proficient, and at the same time he also realizes how immature his previous idea of wanting to take lessons with the little fat man was, not that his strength is not enough to be a teacher with the little fat man, but that many of his ideas are actually so incompatible with this era, And if these attitudes towards people and things affect the little fat man, then for children who have not yet formed a specific outlook on life and values, it is really hard to say whether it is a gift or a disaster.

Maybe it was after crying in front of Master Elishya that day, Ah Zhai suddenly found that he was a lot closer to this teacher, and he didn't care if he would expose some untimely ideas in front of the old man, because the old man had the broadest mind of this era, and he would support the experience he had accumulated for a lifetime to help Ah Zhai quickly integrate into this society, even those practices that were too advanced and seemed terrifying could be really used in this era with the help of the old man, although they have been changed a lot.

"Napo Parasar knows that I have taken you as a disciple, and he wants you to enter the palace and accompany his eldest son, the future monarch of Babylon, in his lessons." After the morning prayer on this day, the old man took the house and walked through the courtyard, "It is God's will to tell me that the great prince will be the most incomparable king of Babylon, so I want you to be by his side, to honor him, to love him, and to assist him." ”