Chapter XXIII
The next day, Fira came as promised, but she came in a rage. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In front of the guards, Phila confronted Kerryn and asked, "Boss, yesterday's leather coat was broken, how can you tell me to wear it?" ”
"Eldest sister, I'm really sorry, it's my fault, it's all my fault that I didn't pay attention, you see this, I'll help you get a new one, and the coat will be treated as if I gave it to you, and I will return the money to you. In addition, in order to make up for our mistakes, I will send you another fifty jars of wine, and it just so happens that our other group is selling wine, I will take you to the place where the wine is sold, and we can deliver it to your door for free. He winked at her.
"W-what's so embarrassing?" Fira was embarrassed.
"Can you comfort your soldiers?"
"Alright then, thank you."
"Then come with me."
The crowd came to the other side of the market, where Pyrus was ready, and he had bought off a wine seller and marked the wine to be used.
"Pyrus, prepare fifty jars of good wine and help this lady take home."
"Okay! Prepare the car, load your things and go with your wife. Pyrus immediately ordered the men to prepare, and in a short time all the wine was loaded into the cart.
"It seems that you can cure your alcohol addiction today, these water and wine are enough for you to drink." Fira teased at the two guards.
The two soldiers smiled and said, "Thank you, thank you." ”
"The brothers will be happy to go back." One of them added.
"I don't expect anything else, I just hope that the brothers will treat my wife with due treatment and respect."
"Definitely, definitely."
"Show them the way!"
The two soldiers only thought about drinking, and didn't care about anything else, more than twenty people went in, but when they came out, there were obviously less than twenty people. They entered Cleopatla's room, and Cleopatra was not afraid, and let them hide, after all, the soldiers did not dare to come to the princess's room to spread wild.
Greeks drink more boldly, it is normal not to eat vegetables and drink alcohol, these soldiers are Greeks or not, but at least they are all people of the Greek world, they all have this bad habit, unscientific drinking is easy to get drunk, not to mention that the wine is also frequent, and in less than half an hour, they all fall to the ground like dead pigs. At this time, all the people who had been ambushed in advance began to act, and the two carriages drove to the gate of the manor, and a person came out of it, and the soldiers at the door drank relatively little, but because of the chronic drug in the wine, as long as it was stained with alcohol, it did not wake up, and because it was chronic, it did not arouse anyone's suspicion, and when you found out that there was a problem, you must have drunk a lot yourself, and it was too late to report. In this way, Cleopatra took all the things that had been prepared and came out with Fira, but then parting.
"Fira!"
"Princess!"
The two cried out to each other with tears in their eyes and did not say anything for a long time. Cassandros spoke: "Princess, go quickly, the faster you go, the better your chances of escaping." ”
"Princess, take care all the way!"
"You too!"
After speaking, the master and servant both burst into tears, and waved their hands to say their final goodbyes.
The two groups proceeded as planned, and Crane made his way out of the north gate, and a large group of people boarded the pre-prepared boat and headed downstream along the Gediz River. Since they were not notified, the soldiers were not alert when they saw it, and the other route was led by Cassandris, who went out of the south gate in batches after disguise, and then gathered together to climb the mountain of more than 1,500 meters. It was not until it was almost dark that anyone woke up, but he did not feel anything, and he woke up the others, until the barracks sent someone to bring food to find that Cleopatra was missing, and the people reacted and immediately reported to Ptolemy, who was furious when he heard the news, and he knew very well how serious the incident was. The gates were immediately sealed and searched, and when the news arrived, one soldier reported seeing dozens of people hurrying to get on boats on the Gediz River and head downstream. So Ptolemy sent 500 infantry and 200 cavalry to pursue him by land and water. In addition, he sent a team of no less than a thousand people to search from other directions. However, due to the delay of nearly three hours, Cassandris had already covered the distance of 80 stadia, and Krien, because he estimated that the speed of the waterway could not outpace the cavalry, so he got off the car and rushed in the direction of Smyrna, which not only avoided being chased by the cavalry, but also was much closer than from Magnesia to Smyrna, because Magnesia and Smyrna were sandwiched between a mountain range with an average altitude of more than 1,000 meters. …,
After four days of traveling, Krien and his team came to Smyrna, one of the trading centers of Asia Minor, prosperous commerce, large population, and dense ships, Krien and his party boarded a ship bound for Tyre, and the Ptolemaic cavalry that went to chase them chased straight to Magnesia and still did not find a trace, only to find that something was wrong, and quickly joined the infantry of the waterway to search for several surrounding cities, but in the end they did not see any trace of Krien and them. Five days later, Cassandrus made his way to Ephesus, and they crossed the sea to the opposite island of Samos. On the island, they heard an important message from a Macedonian merchant that Olympias had set out for Naxos. So they hurried to Naxos, but they were a little late, and when they learned that the king and the queen were going to join for Crete, they went to Crete, and in Kaidonia they learned that the king had hired three kilograms of lit archers. So they rushed to Rhodes, where they finally saw His Majesty the King after a long absence, especially when Cleopatra saw her long-separated mother, Olympias, and threw herself into her arms and cried like a child.
"Mother, I finally see you, I miss you so much!"
"Me too!" The mother and daughter hugged each other, their eyes filled with tears of excitement.
"By the way, this is little Alexander, your nephew." Olympias introduced Cleopatra to Cleopatla.
"Auntie, you've worked hard."
"You are Alexander! You're so old, the last time I saw you, you couldn't speak. You're that big in the blink of an eye. ”
"People always have to grow up, you must have lived like a year all these years."
Cleopatra smiled bitterly and said: "After the death of your father, the world will be in chaos, and we royal family members are no longer respected, Alexander, you have the same name as your father, and my aunt heard that you are very smart, you must be like your father and revitalize the royal family of Ajid." ”
"Auntie, rest assured, I will definitely re-establish the prestige of the royal family of Ajd and eradicate these rebellions, especially Antigonus, he is very ambitious and strongest, although he did not kill you, but after imprisoning you for so long, I will definitely make him pay."
"Okay, auntie is watching."
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1 Gedizrive: Originating in the Anatolian Plateau and flowing into the Gulf of Izmir in the Aegean Sea, the river confluence upstream is the famous city of Sardis (now Saliheli, Turkey).
2Smyrna: Izmir, present-day Turkey, a coastal city in Asia Minor, has been a trading center since ancient times. It was a colony of the ancient Greeks; Turkey after the 15th century; Occupied by Greece in World War I; In 1921, the Turkish bourgeois revolution triumphed and regained its territory.
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3 Tyre: a translation of "Tyre", also translated as Tyre, translated as Tyre in the New Testament, the ancient southern Phoenician slave city-state. Founded around the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C., it is located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and consists of a continental coastal strip and a small island located off the coast of present-day southwestern Lebanon. It was a good port and industrial and commercial center of Phoenicia, and its inhabitants were engaged in seafaring activities for a long time. Alexander the Great spent a great deal to conquer the city.