Chapter 3: The Queen Mother

Looking at his outfit, I think no matter how stupid I am, I can guess who it is. The little boy's cry confirmed my suspicions: "Father! ”

"You're not Egyptian." He stared at me, the momentum exuded from his body pressed me, I felt an invisible pressure, but a little faint excitement, Ramses, the son of the sun god Amun, is this the legendary king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Ramses the Great? Sure enough, it can't be described with a handsome word......

"Father, this impudent slave bullied me!" The boy's words almost choked me up, when did I bully him. I gave him a hard look, and a wicked smile appeared on his face.

"Answer quickly, who are you?" Ramses' eyes flashed with a fierce look.

"Indeed, I am not an Egyptian, but I was brought by the vizier Asher." I looked at him squarely and said, excited to excited, don't be overwhelmed by his momentum.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, "Prime Minister Asher? ”

He was about to ask something more when the group hurried in, and I was relieved to see that the first person was Asher.

"Wang, Yin was invited by me to remove the black witchcraft for the Queen Mother." When Asher saw that Ramses and I had met, he hurriedly stepped forward and explained.

"King, how can the Empress Dowager's noble body allow a woman of unknown origin to come for treatment, in case anything happens. Her hundred humble lives can't make up for it. Suddenly a man in his thirties flashed out of the crowd, but he was also handsome, but he was bald. The words were not pleasant, and I was going to ignore him.

"Grand Priest Fekti, she is not an ordinary woman, she is the messenger of the cat god." A strange smile appeared on Asher's face.

Ah, what, the man in front of him is Fekti, alas, it is impossible to ignore it now.

"The messenger of the cat god?" Fekti seemed to froze for a moment.

"Yes, Wang, I saw with my own eyes that she could conjure a black cat at will, and it was true." What, the cat is the messenger of the cat god, that, the toad pinch.

"Even if she can turn into a cat, it doesn't mean that she is the messenger of the cat, and I haven't seen it with my own eyes." Fekti is still vigorously opposed.

"Then let her conjure it up on the spot." Asher didn't let it go.

"Alright." Ramses frowned slightly, "I saw it just now, so let her try, butβ€”" He changed his tone, a cold look flashed in his eyes, and said, "If something goes wrong, I will never spare it, including you, my prime minister." ”

"Nothing can go wrong!" I stepped forward and stared into his eyes. His black eyes flashed with surprise quickly, but he didn't speak again. The bedroom of the Queen Mother Tuya is also very spacious, as soon as you enter the door, you will see a solid ebony bed, the foot of the bed is carved in the shape of a lion's claw, and a gauze tent is set up on the bed, and the edge of the bed is also engraved with the happy face of the cat god Best who makes everyone sleep well.

I suddenly understood why Asher called me the messenger of the cat god.

I walked to the bedside, and the Queen Mother Tuya was indeed a beauty, and the years had not left many marks on her face, but had added a bit of maturity to her, but now this beautiful body seemed to be enduring great torture. I gently put my hand on her forehead, felt the unstable body temperature that was hot and cold, and looked at her face carefully, there was a faint layer of black gas, and I turned up the upper eyelid of her left eye, and a little red appeared in her eyelid. Sure enough, it was black witchcraft. There was a sense of relief in my heart, fortunately, I had learned how to crack this kind of witchcraft before.

"Someone planted black witchcraft on the Queen Mother in this palace, and if I guessed correctly, it should be witchcraft under white ash." I said slowly.

Ramses's face changed, and he said angrily: "What kind of person is so bold! ”

"So, can you find out where this witchcraft man is?" Asher seemed much calmer.

"I'll try, give me some white wax."

I took out the charm and recited it silently for a moment, and the charm turned into a black cat again, and I sniffed the wax I had brought, and said, "Go, go find that person." ”

"Send men after it." I pointed to the catwalk where I had run out.

"Not yet!" Ramses yelled at the guards beside him.

After a while, two guards came with a young maid in tow, and the maid was pale, obviously frightened.

"Wang, this is something that was found from her." One of the guards stepped forward and respectfully handed Ramses a white mass, and Ramses gave it to me at once.

When I looked at it, it was a piece of white ash carved into the shape of the Queen Mother, and the name of the Queen Mother was written on it, and it had been cursed. I put my hands on the seal, put the charm on the white ash, only to see a cloud of green light, the white ash gradually disappeared in the charm, I picked up the charm, and recited a few words of the spell, the charm burned with a bang, and immediately turned into ashes.

At this moment, hearing the queen mother's soft voice, Ramses rushed over with an arrow step, and said in a loud voice: "Queen Mother, how are you?" How are you? ”

The Queen Mother slowly opened her eyes and said softly, "Is it the king?" I seem to feel a lot more comfortable all of a sudden. ”

Ramses did not hide his joy and said to Asher: "Prime minister, thanks to you this time, I will reward you well" He turned to me again and said: "And you, a woman of different races, I will also reward you!" ”

Asher smiled slightly: "King, don't you believe it, she is not an ordinary woman, she is the messenger of the cat god, so she can lift the spell on the queen mother." She must have been specially sent by the cat god to rescue the Queen Mother. ”

When the Queen Mother heard this, she looked at me and said with a smile: "Come here, messenger of the cat god." ”

I hesitated, and Ramses suddenly raised his eyes and glared at me, and my legs immediately walked uncontrollably.

"Are you the messenger of the cat god?" The Queen Mother gently took my hand.

"What reward do you want?" Ramses' gaze swept over me, consciously or unconsciously.

"Me," I glanced at Fekti, who was standing on the side, with a strange expression, and glanced at the captured maid. "I want to work in the temple!" There is no way, maybe this is the only way to successfully complete the task.

Ramses seemed a little surprised by my answer,

"King, since she is the messenger of the cat god, it is most appropriate for her to work in the temple, what do you think, Grand Priest Fekti? She's done with the dark magic you can't solve. Asher's smile remained.

Fekti didn't speak, but his face was displeased.

"In that case, you should go to work at the temple." Ramses nodded.

"So, king, this maid?" The attendant next to him spoke.

A grim look flashed on Ramses' handsome face, and he said, "Where is she a maid?" ”

"King, this maid is from the queen's palace."

"What? Nephiltali? Ramses frowned.

At this moment, there was a noisy sound of footsteps outside, accompanied by a cry of the queen's arrival, a beautiful woman arrived, the transparent linen dress tightly wrapped around her body, you can see layer after layer, very provocative, very seductive, until the dark green eyeshadow painted to the ears reflected her eyes more graceful, red ochre powder depicted her plump lips, and the rich fragrance immediately filled the whole room.

Is this Nephiltali? Legend has it that Ramses was the favorite woman. Sure enough, it's a big beauty!

I glanced at Fekti, and saw that his attention was all drawn to Nephiltali, who quickly met his gaze and then immediately looked away.

"King, it's great to hear that the Queen Mother has woken up!" She immediately walked over to Ramses, whose eyes flashed with an elusive look, and suddenly laughed, "It's very good indeed." ”

"Are you okay?" Nephilthali asked the Queen Mother with a gentle face, and the Queen Mother seemed to be very cold, and it seemed that she did not like Nephilthali very much.

"Honorable Queen, the murderer who attempted to murder the Queen Mother has been caught, but this woman seems to be a maid in your palace." Asher smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes.

"I'm also here for this matter, my maid would do such a thing, please the king must punish her well!" Nephiltali's eyes flickered.

"But, Queen, don't you notice anything unusual about your maids?" Asher asked with a smile.

"Lord Chancellor, how can the queen know the behavior of just one of them when she has so many maids," Fekti said suddenly.

"Wang, I have no knowledge of her actions." Nephilthali turned to the maid and said, "Penny, how could you have done such a thing, how sad your parents would have been if they knew." ”

The maid suddenly trembled, and said, "The king, the queen mother, it's all my fault, I, I, the queen don't know at all." ”

I don't know if I'm mistaken, but Nephiltali's eyes flashed with a strange light.

Ramses, on the other hand, remained silent, with only the bottomless black eyes.

"If so......"

Asher was about to say anything more when Ramses interrupted mercilessly.

"Well, my queen will not do such a thing, and if anyone doubts Nephilthali again in the future, I will never forgive." He paused and said, "As for this sinner, I declare that she will be sentenced to death in both the human world and the underworld. Her portrait and name will be painted on paper, and she will be sculpted into a small figure in her dead form, and then the paper will be trampled on the figure before being thrown into the fire. In this way, she can truly disappear from the human world and the underworld. ”

The maid's face changed dramatically, and I was about to say something, but Asher stopped me with a look.

I kind of understand that Asher and the Queen Mother seem to be in the same faction, and the Queen and the priest are in the same faction, and they don't seem to like each other, and as for Asher's approval of me entering the temple to work, there must be his purpose. It's a headache for the palace relationship, everyone doesn't look simple, I'm dizzy, I'd better go to my temple, finish the task early, and leave here early.

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Asher seemed pleased with my performance, and I naturally took up residence in his house for the time being.

I'll be able to go to work at the temple tomorrow, I thought as I picked up a reedβ€”a toothbrush here dipped in some Egyptian toothpaste, a paste mixed with rock salt, dried iris flowers, mint and pepper. I have to sigh at the intelligence of the Egyptians, this is really a bit like modern toothpaste, after brushing her teeth, Nelly promptly sent a mouthwash made of alum and dill, and after using it, her mouth was full of fragrance.

After taking a shower and lying comfortably on the bed, Nelly took out a box, which was in the shape of a naked girl pushing a duck with both hands, the hollow duck body was the container, and the duck's wings were equipped with movable mechanisms. The box contained a kind of floral cream, and she dipped a little of it on my body with her hand and made it for me.

It's a fairy-like life, and this time it's really the right time to come to Egypt!

"Miss Yin, this necklace of yours is so beautiful." She said softly.

I touched the necklace on my chest, the blue gem was cold and cold, I still wore it in Egypt this time, I don't know why, maybe only in this way, my heart will be a little better.

"Did Miss Hide's lover send it?" She doesn't squirm.

"β€”not." I whispered, and a hint of melancholy suddenly welled up in my heart.

When Nelly wanted to apply me a cream mixed with honey, red natural hydrous soda and northern salt, I didn't hesitate to refuse, honey, I was afraid that the reptiles would harass my face in the middle of the night. "Thank you tonight, Nelly, and you should rest early." I smiled at her.

Seeing her out of the room, I thought for a while in bed and fell asleep in the night breeze. ====================

The next day, as I stood in front of the temple, I was once again amazed by what I saw.

Outside the temple, between the sphinxes that protect the temple, the willow branches and leaves are luxuriant. The large, heavy stone walls of the temple are dyed in warm tones, and the bronze on the gates is shining brightly.

The temples of Egypt, unlike the later Greeks, were mystical and introverted, and nothing could be seen from the outside; And the temples of Greece are all on the hills, shining outward, the space is open, and each pillar is in all directions. These are completely different times.

The ancient Egyptians, it seems, preferred layers of blocking.

Walking into the temple, the lobby with a depth of 100 meters is lined with 134 huge columns, which occupy almost the entire space, leaving only the maze alleys that twist and turn vertically and horizontally, interlaced between the columns. The rising sun was climbing over the tall tower gate, staining more than 100 large lotus columns in the hall and projecting them on the majestic temple. Gradually, the sunlight moved to the neatly arranged sphinx ram heads, one of the incarnations of the god Amun, and under each sphinx stood a small pharaoh, who was blessed by the gods.

When I looked up, I suddenly felt so small, and I suddenly understood why the ancient Egyptians built the temple so exaggeratedly, because the conceited human beings could only fear the gods if they felt their own insignificance.

In the temple, I was assigned to do some simple paperwork and organize the papers, but it was quite easy, and these pictorial hieroglyphs seemed to me as easy as reading Chinese, alas, if only I had this ability in modern times.

Grand Priest Fekti seemed to dislike my presence and remained extremely cold to me. I'm not surprised by this situation, I just hope that I can complete the task as soon as possible and go back as soon as possible, and this time, I will definitely not have more to do with the characters in history.

At the end of the night, I was enjoying the grape Hukmo figs in my room, when I looked up and saw Asher leaning against the door, as if he had something to say.

"What's the matter?" I put another grape in my mouth.

He smiled and said, "You seem to like life here." As he spoke, he walked in and said, "Is the work in the temple going well?" ”

I nodded and said, "It's all right, it's just that Grand Priest Fekti doesn't seem to like my presence very much." ”

He smiled as if in anticipation, "The woman in this temple, besides Nephiltali, you are the second. Fekti had always disliked women meddling in the affairs of the temple. ”

Oh, I've heard before that Nephilthali married Ramses as a concubine, this concubine system was very common in ancient Egypt, not all concubines were queens, concubines existed as the divine spouses of the gods on the ground, and the dynasty of Ramses the Great was a military and had no theocratic status, he married the concubine of the sun god Amun, that is, the wife of the god Amun, then he could also exist as the representative of the god Amun on the ground, consolidating his theocracy status.

But I think Ramses also loved this wife very much, otherwise how could he build a temple for her in the future.

"So does Priest Fekti dislike Nephilthali too?" I wanted to hear more from him.

There seemed to be an elusive look in his eyes, and he smiled again: "Maybe"

I kind of understand that Nephithali met Fekti when she was a concubine in this temple, so Fekti was infatuated with her at this time, maybe it was a secret crush, maybe Nephitali was also ......

Who knows?

"By the way, the Queen Mother asked you to enter the palace tomorrow to accompany her." He looked at me and said.

"Huh?" Since the last time, the Queen Mother has often asked me to come into the palace to chat with her, and she has been very kind to me. However, I was bored.

"You don't want to go?"

"If you don't want to go, you have to go, you will definitely say it."

"Oh? You know? ”

"You've got those words all over your face." I glared at him angrily.

He suddenly smiled incomprehensibly and said, "This may be a very lucky thing for you. ”

I was a little tired from talking to him, so I made a gesture of please and said, "In that case, I'm going to rest early." ”

He smiled faintly, turned and walked out.

Tomorrow will be another boring day.