Li Shun hurriedly walked out of the hotel, and sure enough, he saw a woman wearing a black dress wrapped in a headscarf to cover her face, and seemed to know Li Shun, and she said hello very nervously and softly and then took Li Shun to a happy house not far away.

He was nervous and expectant, and the person he wanted to see might be the concubine of Antiochus III with big sapphire eyes.

This concubine Li Shun had already inquired casually when he was having a banquet with the nobles of Anxia a few days ago, and her name was Althea, and she didn't dare to ask more details, for fear of being beaten if she asked too much.

Secretly going to meet the wife of an emperor is exciting to think about, so the fewer people who know about it, the better.

The closer he got to Leshe, Li Shun felt that his little heart was beating more and more, and he even had a dry mouth and wanted to pee

The Le She, similar to the Qu Garden of Daqin, was controlled by aristocrats and merchants, and many of the women in it made a living by selling their flesh and complexion, and these women were trained all year round and sang and danced to provide entertainment for the aristocratic and wealthy who came to entertain.

In Anxi, the status of women was even lower than that of China, and the Western countries were still in a slave society, the slave trade was very prosperous, and the purpose of war was to conquer the enemy and seize wealth and population. Although the commoners of the Rest Empire were basically Persians, most of the nobles were descendants of Greek soldiers who stayed after Alexander the Great's crusades, which caused a great difference in class status between the two people, and the pure-blooded Persians were actually at the bottom of social life, all doing the hardest, most tiring and dirtiest labor to maintain their basic livelihood, and a large amount of wealth was plundered and controlled by nobles and officials.

After Alexander the Great conquered the mighty Persia, he held a large-scale group wedding in the capital city of Susa, not only did he marry the beautiful daughter of the Persian king Darius III, Princess Statella, but even let his eighty officers marry the most noble noble women of the Persian Empire, these noble women were the daughters or granddaughters of the Persian royal family or provincial governors, and then he also rewarded more than 10,000 Persian noble women of the second class to his soldiers. This large-scale group wedding lasted for five days and five nights, and this special group wedding also completely changed the blood structure of the Persians, and the descendants all had Persian and Macedonian blood, reaching Alexander the Great's ideal of merging Persia and Macedonia.

It is a pity that Alexander the Great did not get the support of the soldiers, wearing Persian clothes, practicing Persian etiquette, and marrying Persian women, these activities led the soldiers to think that Alexander the Great had degenerated into Persians and had abandoned the Macedonian people, so the soldiers began to be dissatisfied, and when Alexander the Great conquered India in the second year after the conquest of Persia, he fell ill and died, and the powerful Macedonian Empire fell apart in an instant, and many high-ranking officials rebelled against Macedonia in the Middle East, West Asia, Europe, and Africa.

The Seleucid kingdom is one of the largest countries, ruling the vast area from Asia Minor in the west to the Pamir Plateau in Afghanistan in the east, in fact, it is the predecessor of the Rest Empire, and later Seleucus lost the war with Egypt for the holy land of Palestine, and the Parthian province became independent, which is the real origin of the current Rest Empire, after three generations of emperors continued to expand, the rest has occupied most of the original Seleucid country, becoming the largest empire in West Asia and the Middle East.

This is actually similar to the process of Great Qin replacing Great Zhou, it is still those people, or those things, but it is just a change of emperor.

But now the people in Persia no longer have the pride of the Persian Empire, Persia is no longer a pure-bred Persia, in fact, at this time, except for the Great Qin Empire in the east, the races of Central Asia, West Asia, Europe, North Africa and other places After hundreds of years of all-out wars, the races of all countries are no longer pure.

In the music house, you can hear the sound of suona from all afar, as well as the thumping thumper and the sound of ding-dong gonghou plucking.

Listening to such noisy and complex music, after Li Shun stepped into the music house, his mood suddenly became a little irritable.

The music of Western countries is too noisy, especially this suona, which sounds worse than the huqin, and the sound of killing pigs in the sky can be called a big killer, just like being in a noisy mule and horse market, far less melodious and elegant than the music played by the bamboo bell chime in the Quyuan of the Central Plains.

But the so-called following the local customs, in the past few days, Li Shun has slowly become accustomed to this kind of high-pitched music like mournful music, howling and crying, listening to the magic of the suona, stepping on the drum beat of the tambourine, following the palace maid in the music house through several noisy courtyards where men and women are mixed and filthy, opening one after another low doors with exquisite blanket curtains, the suona and drum music lingering in the ears finally slowly faded away, and finally came to a quiet courtyard under the leadership of the palace maid.

The layout of this courtyard is obviously much more elegant, not only flowers and trees, but also a small pond, and even a statue, a burly man riding on a monster, wearing armor and holding a long sword in his hand, the monster's mouth is open and roaring, but the mouth is spewing out a spring water, which keeps falling into the pond.

Next to the pond stood a beautiful woman in a snow-white dress, about twenty years old, with brown and yellow hair tied behind her head with a red ribbon, tall and full breasts, although not as delicate as the Central Plains woman's skin, but much fairer, her facial features were exquisite, especially a pair of sapphire-like beautiful big eyes, which made people feel like they were going to sink and couldn't extricate themselves.

Sure enough, it was Althea.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and then Li Shun secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva and surrendered, and politely arched his hand and said, "I don't know what the princess ordered when she summoned the envoy to come?" ”

Althea obviously didn't understand Li Shun's words, hesitated and walked in front of Li Shun, looked Li Shun up and down a few times, and said: "%#@......"

The voice is very good, but Li Shun has countless erha in his heart barking wildly in the sky.

Nima only understood one word, and that was Daqin.

"Princess, we need a few interpreters to communicate!" Li Shun didn't care whether the woman could understand or not, and put forward his own suggestions.

Althea frowned slightly, there was a slight hesitation on her beautiful cheeks, she probably guessed what Li Shun was talking about, but after a moment she shook her head slightly, and handed Li Shun an ancient parchment scroll that she had been holding in her hand.

Li Shun took it inexplicably and opened it, and it looked like a map, and he didn't know any of the Persian characters that looked like a nail rake had been dug out.

Looking at Li Shun's bewildered look, Althea slowly walked to Li Shun's side and stretched out her snow-white slender finger to one of the positions.

Li Shun: ......

This finger is so tempting, Li Shun felt that his heart was fluttering and began to beat again, and his mouth began to dry.

“%￥#@……”

Althea said a word to Li Shun again, and found that Li Shun was still puzzled, so after hesitating for a long time, she took out a piece of soft sheepskin from her pocket again and stuffed it into Li Shun's hand, looking at him with a pair of beautiful big eyes full of pleading.

"Gift ......"

Seeing that Li Shun had not yet understood what he meant, Althea thought for a moment and took off a delicate ruby pendant from her neck and put it in Li Shun's hand, and gently held Li Shun's hand.

Li Shun was trembling and understood, this woman seemed to want to exchange gifts with him and make a private agreement for life.

But...... But you are the wife of the Emperor of the Rest Empire!

Li Shun instantly felt that there was blood flowing in his body, and at the same time, his temples also jumped suddenly, and his hands were not only white, but also soft and smooth.

"Gift...... Gift ......"

Looking at the woman's expectant eyes and beautiful cheeks, Li Shun came back to his senses and touched his body a few times, and found that he didn't seem to have anything valuable on his body, and the jade pendant that he was used to hanging in Daqin on weekdays had been stored in the suitcase since he set off, because the distance was far and the situation was complicated, and the jade pendant was easy to lose on his body, but under Li Shun's rummaging, he still found a small object that he carried with him, a glass mirror the size of a palm, and the wooden handle was broken, and he put it in his pocket after washing in the morning.

"Hehe, there is no other gift in a hurry, this mirror that accompanied me for tens of thousands of miles will be given to you, you must not underestimate and dislike it, this is the invention of the Zuo Prime Minister of the Great Qin Empire and the Marquis of Qinghe......" Li Shun smiled awkwardly and gently put the mirror with the broken handle in Althea's hand.

"Ah~" Looking at the clear face presented in this mirror, Althea was completely attracted by the mirror in an instant, and quickly covered her mouth after exclaiming, staring at the mirror with a pair of big eyes, and her beautiful cheeks were full of unparalleled shock.

It was something more magical and mysterious to her than silk and porcelain glass, and she was sure that there would be no second mirror in the whole world for its clarity.

Althea seemed to be afraid of attracting the attention of others, and after saying a few words to Li Shun, she hid the mirror and left with the palace maid.

What does this mean, Li Shun stood in the courtyard for a few minutes with two sheepskins, and then a spirit came back to his senses, put away the two sheepskins and hurried back from the same way.

If Antiochus III found out that he had a secret tryst with his beautiful wife, he would probably be buried with three legs in a discounted manner soon.