Chapter 592: Winning the hearts of the people
The banquet began, and several men and women entered, who were musicians. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info took the plucked instrument, knelt on the mat, and began to play.
Looking at this scene, Cheng Qianxun couldn't help but sigh. At this time, most of the inhabitants of this world still lived in caves or simple shacks, naked everywhere to pick fruit to eat, and the Sumerian civilization already had tall temples, three-story houses, beer, writing, and music. The only comparable is Egypt.
After eating some and taking a few sips of beer, Snead couldn't help but say, "The queen is really different, and even the meal is ingenious, which is an eye-opener for us." ”
Cheng Qianxun didn't answer, smiled slightly and then glanced at the maid again. The chief maid glared at the six musicians kneeling on the other side, one of them, who played a pipa-like instrument, and immediately accelerated his fingers and played a few syllables.
With a slightly cheerful music, a woman's prayer sounded outside: "O gods, goddesses, please listen to our voices, please pay attention to us humble people in heaven... ”
Then a group of priestesses ran in through the door and danced to the slow, melodious music that had returned to its original beat.
Sure enough, the priestesses were as beautiful as flowers, and the treatment of the priestesses was much better than that of the commoners, so they were all raised for nothing. Their bodies were as plump as ripe fruit, full and smooth. The linen dress she wore was the same as that of a normal woman, except that she wore a golden armband around her arm, her hair was combed more beautifully, and she had a wide striped headdress.
The dance is also very simple, that is, the hands are neatly raised, the legs of the wives, and the movements of farming and raising animals, but with their proud and proud expressions, as if these imitations of stabbing seeds with sticks and whipping animals are arranged by God.
When the production was done, the movements were different, with sweet smiles on their faces, they walked in circles, whether they lifted their skirts like crossing a river, and pulled the skirts that were dragged to the ground to their knees. Suddenly, one of them raised his legs high in front of Prince Erica, but there was no such thing inside, which did not exist in this era.
Suddenly, Prince Erica's eyes widened, and his eyeliner was rounded. Before he could come back to his senses, those priestesses raised their legs at the men from time to time, but even if they were smiling, their well-defined faces did not have a trace of ** and color. On the contrary, she was as pure and innocent as a girl, who was crossing the river by the river where there was no man, lifting her skirt and crossing the river, and from time to time playfully picking up the water with her feet, making a splash and ripple on the water.
Cheng Qianxun glanced left and right a few times, and sure enough, these men couldn't take their eyes off it, without exception. Don't say it's a man, even the first time she saw it, she couldn't come back to her senses for a long time...
"That's how the sacrificial dance is?" Cheng Qianxun finally returned from his shock.
A priestess stooped and saluted: "This is only for the king, a dance of prayer and blessing before the union of the king and the goddess." ”
Tian~, the corners of Cheng Qianxun's mouth twitched: "The priestesses of other countries are dancing like this before the king, oh, the king and the goddess are combined?" ”
"Every country dances are different." The priestess had apparently been to more than one city, and she proudly held her usual noble head, even with grace and poise in front of the queen: "But the sacrificial dance of Ekash is guaranteed to win the king's heart the most." ”
Looking at the appearance of the four men on the left and right now, it is indeed the deepest win in the hearts of men. Female priestesses serve the goddesses, so their status is as noble as that of the high priest, and naturally they will not make too worldly actions. It is impossible to dance while undressing, and the belly dance is said to have been invented by an Egyptian woman, and it may be hundreds or even thousands of years before the founder is born. Dancing like this, it's also thanks to them that they can think of it,
Two priestesses came in with baskets of grass, and the eyes of the four men became hot at the grass. The priestess walked out after a circle of grass, while the other dancing priestesses followed suit, smiling at the four of them and smiling with a bandeau motion.
Cheng Qianxun said leisurely: "During the banquet, you can be as free as you want. As soon as these words came out, the one who couldn't sit still the most was Prince Erica.
。。。 A handful of grass was thrown by the priestesses on the mats, and even when they sprinkled the grass, it felt like they were sprinkling flower petals.
"Cattle and sheep can only grow fat when they eat grass, and the country and its people can be rich. The goddess will be united with the king on this grass, and the king will find pleasure and satisfaction in the goddess as a labor on behalf of the king in the human dominion. The priestess was beside her, and let Cheng Qianxun explain while watching how the whole process was carried out.
Such a big basket of grass is enough to hint at everything. Prince Erica fidgeted as one of the priestesses turned back to him and smiled softly, and put her hand on her full breasts, and he would have almost stopped if the king next to him hadn't stood up.
Rudolph didn't smile: "It seems that the queen really wants to entertain us well." ”
It doesn't matter if you're not fooled, the best is still to come anyway. Cheng Qianxun picked up the wheat stalks and took a sip of sweet beer that tasted like fruit wine, and said lightly: "You are too restrictive, there have been priestesses among the queens, and there are countless princesses. Aren't they beautiful enough? ”
Once you have taken the oath of a female sacrifice, you are to dedicate your whole body and soul to God. Naturally, you can't get married, and of course, there is no shortage of men in ordinary life. The only one who could bring a priestess into the palace and become a concubine was the king, because the king himself was a god.
"They're all beautiful, so beautiful. Then I... Prince Erica's ass just lifted, but he put it down a little worriedly: "Let's not go." ”
"Go ahead!" Cheng Qianxun smiled and instigated: "Otherwise, when they return to the temple, the prince will only go by car, and the temple of the goddess is far away." ”
The other kings still didn't move, and Prince Erica was ruthless, as if he gritted his teeth and sat down, and forced a smile: "It's still the queen who matters." "With the queen, there is one, you can come at any time, and after the queen is satisfied, those priestesses are not just going whenever they want.
The music continues, the eating and drinking continues. Gordon looked over: "It seems that the queen has used all the gifts of other kings." ”
"Thankfully, the gifts from all of you have allowed me to have a face today. A group of ministers said that I would have to make clothes again in a few days, and that I would be extravagant and wasteful. Cheng Qianxun turned over the meat on the plate with his hand, lightly took out a knife from the waist pouch decorated with a small piece of gem, as if the meat was larger and cut it with a knife, picked up a piece and put it in his mouth.
Gordon saw clearly now that his gift was also used.
Sneijder said with some appreciation: "The queen's clothes are as special as the queen, chic and beautiful. ”
Cheng Qianxun smiled: "Thank you!" "Don't say anything, the less the better.
"Queen!" Prince Erica came out at this time, in fact, he had wanted to ask this for a long time, and he held it for a long time: "My brother doesn't know how the queen searched. ”
Cheng Qianxun raised his hand, and Lagacsi, who had been standing next to him as a guard, said: "In the past few days, we have searched up and down the city, and we have also placed notices in the temple and at the gate of the city, but there is no news yet. ”
Nonsense, even if the clay tablets with notices were spread all over Ekash, no one would go to the palace and search Regel out.
"I saw the notice, too." It's no wonder that you can't see such a large clay tablet. Erica didn't know if it was a temptation or if he had already grasped something: "But some say that he is in the palace. ”
"Really?" Cheng Qianxun still kept a smile at Erica, he was used to telling lies, only Rudolph should be able to see it, but Rudolph was on the other side. So she was relieved to tell a lie boldly: "I spend the most time in the palace, and it's such a big place, how can I not see strange men?" Even if I don't know someone, there will be someone I know. Someone else told the prince and asked him to come and identify him. ”
Whoever dares to come and identify him will be slaughtered, either as a traitor for glory or as a spy. As the supreme ruler, it is not easy to kill a person. You can fall to your death from the mud roof on the third floor, choke to death while eating, and even die with a priestess when you go to ask God for a hexagram because of anxiety in your heart.
Erica was silent, and Rudolph threw out another difficult question: "Does the queen already have an intention to court?" ”
Cheng Qianxun said what he had thought of: "Of course I want to find a neighboring country, otherwise someone will call, if he is far away, when he comes, Ekashi and I don't know if he is there." "At the moment, the territory of the four neighboring countries is exactly surrounding Ekash, so they are the most likely ones.
Gordon raised his eyebrows: "Then choose me, the rich queen of your should know." It's no problem to send 20,000 people, it's the closest, and it's enough to run over for a day. ”
Rudolph sneered: "It doesn't seem to be the closest, Uluna and Urs are about the same distance, but my soldiers are more capable of fighting!" ”
Prince Erica, of course, took the initiative: "I have the most soldiers, and I can draw 30,000 men!" ”
"You'd better ascend to the throne first!" After Snead laughed, he also threw out excellent conditions: "As long as you want, I will immediately ask someone to dig a canal to the border, and move 3,000 people to graze sheep there, and rescue them at any time." ”
It's really the same as what Ragassi said, the people of this era are very direct, some kings want to fight, and they just say: You, it's you, that land is good, if you don't give it to me, I'll fight.
Or: the gems from your country are beautiful, so I'm going to beat you up and take the mines.
It's like primitive tribes fighting each other, after all, it was 5,000 years ago. It is said that a month ago, half of them directly said that they wanted to take Ekash as a transit point for attacking other countries. It was Rudolph who used the matter of the city wall to say that the former king had offended the gods before attacking, so that the other kings used this as an excuse.
couldn't stay any longer, Cheng Qianxun stood up: "I'm tired, please continue to eat, whether you leave or stay tonight, treat the palace as your own home." And when he had finished speaking, he departed, and the other kings did not hinder him.
The reason is that as it was said later, the people who stayed behind regarded the palace as their own home, their own home... (To be continued.) )