"Don't be so rejected! How could I have any evil thoughts about Caesarion, a child who really had Julius blood in his veins? I am going to renovate and expand the Temple of Great Love in Cyprus, and let Caesarion be the high priest there, and the annual incense money and the treasury gifts are all his. Li Bida began to prescribe a package of conditions.

"Caesarion was the heir to the Ptolemaic royal family of Egypt, he was born king, and Cyprus is the inherent territory of Egypt, aren't you going to establish a province somewhere?" Cleopatra always refuses to eat soft and hard.

"You're right, Cyprus must become a border province, and there should be a barricade, a military port, and a garrison on it to spy on Asia Minor and Syria."

"Isn't there Egypt as the object of surveillance?"

Li Bida laughed a little embarrassedly, and said Don't always guess in the unpleasant way, say what I have swallowed the territory of Egypt, I can swear: Egypt will always enjoy independent status, but the army and fleet must be appropriately reduced, in short, as long as Egypt can enter the Roman vassal system obediently, I will want to treat the kingdom of Eubertnia, you mother and son are good, every year Egypt brings wheat, porphyry and papyrus, I will provide the guarantee of the Ptolemaic royal family, Your mother and son can also take a part of the Ponte Red Sea to Seris, which is very large.

"Gold, you have made a sword, a palace, a cage out of this yellow and clear thing, and imprisoned other people's ideas and ambitions. Caesarion and I will not be able to think of anything for the rest of our lives. Nothing can be done. Just like that in a birdcage made of gold. When two canaries delight you with their chirping. Egypt will henceforth be your abstinence, nay, even the whole republic - in that case, you have defended the throne of the House of Julius, and now you have made your authority rampant across the seas by destroying it, and I have become your instrument and consumer goods in the meantime. Cleopatra felt that today, at the moment of the meeting, even if the country was destroyed by the wrath of Lypida. But as long as you vent the words that have been suppressed in your heart for so many years, it will be worth it.

But the high priest looked at her silently on the other side, like an inviolable but lifeless idol, and only replied after a long time, "You mother and son may build a new magnificent and beautiful palace in Ponte, with rivers and waterfalls, and jungles and seas, and decorate the lintel of the temple with the most precious foreign goods, and Caesarion can devote all his wisdom and energy." I think what's wrong with spending on it? ”

"Again. These words again! Cleopatra covered her face and began to weep, then she sobbed twice, lifted her face, and suddenly changed her flattering attitude, and despite the presence of outsiders, she actually raised her waist and hips, and climbed straight in front of Li Pida, put her hands on the high priest's legs, and gently rested her head on it, and raised her face, "If now I bear you a son, and send Caesarion to Cyprus to be a priest of the Temple of Love, and make your blood like the queen of Asia Minor, the heir of Ptolemy, If you completely cut off your blood ties with the Julius family, how will you treat me? ”

"Don't have such stupid thoughts, you should be a smart girl, I can be responsible for suing you, Egypt and Ptolemy can still survive until now, it is precisely because you have the flesh and blood of the Julius family, if you and I have offspring, after my death, you and this child who does not exist will die miserably, and Egypt will also perish completely." After saying this, Li Bida's voice was actually a little shaky.

Cleopatra continued to climb up until she could hold Li Bida's cheeks with both hands, and cried softly, "Will you die too?" ”

"Yes, of course I'm going to die."

"You hesitated, you hesitated just now, you shouldn't have refused to really accept my love in your heart, but based on realistic considerations, you still gave up before. Actually, what does it matter now? Caesar is dead, and your army can come and go in the land of Egypt, and you can come and go as you like in the carcass of the goddess Isis, how about it? Let's make our covenant stronger, and if you're really scared, let me bring crocodile eggs that I don't have to carry a baby with. "Cleopatra, like a pervasive, intelligent, beautiful, and terrible red spotted serpent, stroked the sleeve of the high priest, and continued to speak in a fanatical and low manner like a victorious general, as if he had been stricken with a fever.

"I need seventy ships with decks and sails, and four hundred ships with flat bottoms that can be transported. In addition, I still have to take the three legions of Lufio. Within a year, Egypt must provide me with three hundred and fifty talents, and Cyprus will remain a province. ”

"I'll give you everything, but you'll have to pay the price. That is to bring Rome and Egypt together tonight, to conclude a truly unbreakable covenant. ”

The starlight in the desert night sky shrouded the earth, the torches in the camp outside were transparent, the patrolling cavalry kept changing shifts along the sides of the river, the lights in the temple curtain flickered vaguely, and after the slightest sound of wind or gasp, the high priest slowly walked out of it in his robes, but he saw Caesarion standing in the small hall of the front nave, surrounded by several eunuchs and slave girls.

Li Bida stood beside the bonsai and looked at Caesarion like this, while the other party, obviously a little frightened and cowardly, took two steps back, until an old eunuch plucked up his courage and said to the prince of Egypt, "You need not be afraid of this figure in front of you, for you are equal to him." ”

In this way, Caesarion steadied his heels, and then he looked up, and saw the black iron gaze in Li Pida's slitted eyes, and suddenly his whole body seemed to be cut in half, and it was no wonder that he was only a child of seven or eight years old at the time—and then, in an irresistible tone like a blade, asked, "Why don't you go back to the camp and go to bed, what awaits you here?" ”

"Your Excellency, you don't have to answer his question." But before the old eunuch could finish his sentence, Caesarion replied obediently, "I am waiting for my mother." ”

"If there is a rumor in the court that your mother has lost her virginity tonight and has exchanged the security of you and Egypt with me, how will you respond?" Li Bida's second inquiry caused all the slaves and eunuchs present to cover their ears with shameless faces, and they crouched on the floor and shivered.

Although Caesarion was not really old enough to understand this inquiry, the obvious hint in the other party's words still made him feel humiliated and embarrassed like a fire, but he couldn't muster up the courage to attack the adult man in front of him, so he could only swing in place, shaking like a sieve.

But Lybida stepped forward, and suddenly put his sword into Caesarion's hand, "Then I sue you—if anyone says so, you will use this sword to cut off his or her tongue." (To be continued......)