The river is like time, and it is time for the Nile to set again.

I watched from afar as the sun slowly set over the horizon, feeling unusually calm.

It doesn't matter who the person sitting next to you is at this moment.

It's just that...... His calmness seems to melt into the river, into the wind, and into the brilliant sunset that people can't look at.

"I, Ansuna, have known each other since I was very young, she is the princess of the clan, and I am the son of a shaman."

He whispered, his voice sounding ...... Ethereal, yes, I couldn't describe it before. His voice always makes me feel ethereal, but it really passes through the ears, a feeling that is both full and full, and smooth as a gossamer.

"Ansuna and I didn't actually talk to each other when we were kids, and we weren't close, so I was ...... The person she met was her sister Polly, who was a good girl, gentle, attentive, and beautiful...... But we can't, though I'm the son of a shaman, I can't marry a princess of the tribe. However, this difficult decision was not made by me, but by our neighboring tribes. They asked the patriarch to marry Polly. ”

"On the day of the wedding, the army of the previous pharaoh had brought down two tribes, and all of them, except those who had died in battle, were reduced to slavery. I...... But he was absent on that day. ”

He said it calmly, but he liked that Polly very much, right? So she avoided it on her wedding day.

"I had no home and wandered around, but then the priest of the temple took me in, and I became his disciple, and day by day I grew up, he taught me many things, and praised me as a genius. I went back to my hometown to see it, and it had changed. ”

I'll look at him.

"It has become the valley of the king's family, the land of death."

I was a little surprised.

It turned out that his hometown was there.

It was turned into a cemetery by the pharaoh, and no matter who it was, it would never be good to see that the hometown where you grew up became a cemetery for someone else.

Speaking of which, I still have a feud with him, well, a feud.

"Our tribe is not very large, and even if we are not the Pharaoh, there will be other large tribes that will invade us, and the reason why the neighboring tribe wants to marry us and marry Polly is because they want to unite with each other. But this is a move that the big tribes will not tolerate, and even if it is not the pharaoh that day, he will probably encounter other enemies...... These are things that I only learned later, so I don't feel hateful. Pharaoh killed some of the prime of life, but he left most of them behind and did not turn them all into slavery. I also met my father, who died of illness, and he didn't hold a grudge. ”

I didn't say anything and poured him a glass of water.

He didn't touch it: "Later, my master became a great priest, but he was poisoned in less than a year." I took his place, although the name is right, but there are many people who are not convinced, saying that I am of unknown origin and that my divine power is not enough, and when I sort out all these things, I find that I have become a man who is almost thirty years old. Pharaoh asked me to move into the palace, first to pray to the gods, and then to stay there forever. I met Polly and Ansuna again at the Pharaoh's banquet. ”

What should I say? It is a small world?

"Polly is not too young, and the pharaoh is no longer fond of her. Ansuna, who was just a little girl, is now in her prime, and they recognize me, and Polly says that she may have been poisoned by the other women in the harem and asks me to help her. I got some medicine for her, but Polly was still weak...... That's how I got to know Ansuna again. ”

I still didn't interject.

In fact, the current situation is equivalent to his confession to me, or confession.

You can describe it however you want, anyway, he said, I listened.

If you want me to forgive and accept it, he can't hide it anymore.

"Ansuna wanted to be with me, but that didn't work, I used to be the shaman's heir to the clan, and now I'm the high priest of the Egyptian temple, and I told her that even if I liked her, we couldn't be together, and she wouldn't give up, and she didn't want to marry Pharaoh. Later, she figured out a way to be your sidekick. ”

I nodded, "I guessed she was hiding from the Pharaoh, but then I thought I was wrong. ”

"No, she was hiding from Pharaoh, remember? When you came to the temple, Pharaoh also came and said that he would choose a female companion for you, but in fact...... That's what I proposed to him. ”

I turned to look at him.

This guy actually calculated me at that time?

"I said you were too lonely, and it would be better to have a female companion, so Pharaoh said so. I was just...... I just want Ansuna to have a place to hide, to buffer, without having to face the pharaoh's gaze directly. She is no longer young, and if she stays in the harem, she will definitely become a Pharaoh's woman. I hope that she will have another way, to avoid Pharaoh first, or to leave the court, or to marry......"

Then she became my daddy's woman again?

When Immorton held both of my hands in the palm of his, I didn't even notice.

"Because...... Later, Ansuna told me not to approach you, to ignore you...... I couldn't say yes to her. She got angry and said I lied to her, that I was unfair. Why can I refuse her like that, yet be close to you. I can't explain it, I used to like Polly, and then, when I met you, I couldn't control my emotions. But for her, I always thought of her as a little sister, and when I was a child, I couldn't walk steadily after me and Polly, and I really didn't feel that way for her. Then after that quarrel that day, she suddenly became Pharaoh's woman. ”

I said, "You lied, you and her...... In her dwelling, I saw it with my own eyes. ”

"I guessed it was seen later, but I didn't expect you to see it with your own eyes." He said, "Call a guard."

I said, "What? ”

"You call here, I'll explain it to you."

I looked at him and called one of the guards closer.