Chapter 3 Learning Ancient Egyptian
Port of Giza, Cairo.
There are dilapidated shops everywhere, and horse-drawn carriages are running around, bargaining, shouting and scolding, which can be described as a loud crowd.
"Can you tell me, where did my money go?" The prison warden looked at Chen Xu's empty hands, and saw Evelyn carrying two boxes, looking left and right, but he didn't see the camel he said, and immediately became angry, "You shouldn't be lying to me, warn you, even here, I can arrest you and throw you into the gallows." ”
"When the time comes, your neck will be broken, your head will fall off, and you will go to hell and see God."
"I don't believe in God, Your Excellency." Chen Xu said, "I'm an atheist, no, I'm a pantheist. ”
"What is a pantheist." The warden asked, confused.
"Uh...... Pantheists are probably the people who don't believe in anything, but don't believe in anything, simply put, they are egoists, and they believe in whoever is good for them and good for them. Evelyn said cautiously, "I don't know if I'm right?" ”
"Yes." Chen Xu clapped his palms and shook his head, "Those who know me, Evelyn." ”
Evelyn was immediately dumbfounded, "What does this mean?" ”
"Uh......." Just after being happy for a while, Chen Xu, who played the role of an ancient scholar, forgot that Evelyn was a Westerner and did not understand the ancient words of the East.
"Don't interrupt." The warden intervened, "You have to give me an explanation why I didn't have the planned camel, but I gave you all the deposits." ”
"Don't worry, your money is still there, I want to buy camels, but I can't buy them here, no, we still have to get on the boat, and when we get to the place, we can buy camels, so that you can save a lot of freight, you say no!"
"What about the money?" The prison warden didn't listen to Chen Xu's nonsense, "You take out the money and show it to me, if it's still there, I'll believe you, if it's not, hum!" ”
"Evelyn, take out the money and show him." Chen Xu said while complaining: "Nowadays, people who want to make money but refuse to trust others are really a Grande, no, it's even more annoying than Grande." ”
Evelyn endured Chen Xu's nagging and the prison warden's shouts, silently opened the suitcase, revealing a dozen dollars.
"Wait." A hand grabbed Evelyn's hand and pressed back the box that was about to be opened.
"What are you doing, damn O'Connor, you gallows bastard." The warden scolded, "That's my money, my money." ”
"If you want to be robbed of money, then you can open it here, I don't care." O'Connor raised his hand and stepped aside, "Your Excellency the Warden of Prison should know the environment in Cairo better than I do. ”
The warden thought for a moment, but still felt that it was a little inappropriate to open it here, "Okay, I trust you, wait until you get to the ship." ”
"By the way, O'Connor, can you assure me that what you say is true?" Evelyn asked suddenly.
"What guarantees, what did he say?" The warden leaned over and asked curiously.
"It's none of your business." O'Connor slapped the warden in the face, pushed the warden away, and then said solemnly to Evelyn: "It is because of faith that my troops will cross Libya to Egypt to find that city, but what awaits us is not gold and precious stones, but blood and sand." ”
O'Connor turned and walked up, "If you don't believe me, you can choose to go back, I won't force you." ”
"No, I ......." Evelyn wanted to explain, but found that she didn't know how to explain, so she had to stomp her foot and said angrily: "Forget it, I will believe you." ”
A group of mermaids rushed in and poured into the big ship.
……
Night falls, and the stars shine.
"The word is pronounced death."
"Dead?"
"Yes, it should be read as death, nothing wrong." Evelyn said seriously.
"Thank you, these words are really hard to learn." Chen Xu stretched out his hands and leaned back on the chair, his body crackling, this is because he has been sitting for too long, and his body needs to move.
After getting on the boat, Chen Xu found an excuse to learn ancient Egyptian with Evelyn, he wanted to get the magic power contained in the Black Book of the Dead, and learning ancient Egyptian was a must.
And Evelyn, as Evelyn who understands the Black Sutra of the Undead and the Golden Sutra of the Sun, is the best teacher, at least here.
"Actually, ancient Egyptian is not difficult to learn, but it is difficult to learn without your Chinese characters." Evelyn reassured.
"Oh, thank you for the compliment, I think I should be glad that my country was complimented by such a beautiful lady, shouldn't I?" Chen Xu picked up the beer, banged, and opened it, "Then let's celebrate." ”
"Oh, I don't drink, ladies shouldn't drink, at least not that." Evelyn instinctively lay back.
"Okay." Throwing the beer aside, Chen Xu said: "Then continue to teach me, I don't have much time." ”
"What do you mean time is running out?" Evelyn asked curiously.
"It's not interesting, just ask you to hurry up and ......."
Bang!
A bag of things was thrown on the table with a thud that startled Evelyn.
"Sorry to scare you, but what are you two doing here?" O'Connor swam between the two of them with an unkind gaze.
"It's just learning." Chen Xu said helplessly, he knew that this was O'Connor, a man who liked Evelyn but was jealous, was jealous of him.
"Chen Xu said he wanted to learn ancient Egyptian, so I taught him." Evelyn explains, "He's a good learner, he basically memorizes it after a few lessons, and he's a language genius." ”
"It's Evelyn who compliments me too much." Chen Xu touched the back of his head and smiled innocently.
He didn't know what was wrong, he learned ancient Egyptian very quickly, no, it shouldn't be said that he learned ancient Egypt very quickly, but he learned any script very quickly.
In his previous life, it took him 11 years to reach English level 8, he was familiar with the use of spoken language, and often helped others translate works to earn extra money, but in this life, it only took him one day to learn a rough idea of the ancient Egyptian language that Evelyn taught him, and he was able to use simple words to converse.
And the rest of the French, German, etc., are learned very quickly, like robots, just need to enter the words and their corresponding vocabulary into it.
"Maybe it's a perk for me to cross." If he doesn't understand, Chen Xu doesn't want to.
"So powerful?" O'Connor was also taken aback by Chen Xu's learning speed, "I think you should go to translation, and being a translator is not much slower than going to Hamnata to make money." ”
"I'm not in it for gold." Chen Xu explained: "I said, I want the Black Book of the Dead, in ancient Egypt, the Black Book of the Dead is a collection of poems praising the Egyptian pharaohs, representing the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Egyptians, I want to find it out and contribute it to the world." ”
He had already searched for it, and there was no Black Scripture of the Dead in this world, and there were no poems in praise of Ra, so he could talk about it.
"Your idea is great." Evelyn felt how despicable she was in front of Chen Xu's thoughts, and she wanted the spells in the Golden Sutra of the Sun to satisfy her curiosity, not the great idea of contributing to the world.
"Not great, the real greatness is the pharaohs of ancient Egypt and the ancient Egyptian people who created these magnificent poems." Chen Xu said with a smile.
Of course, he would not tell these people that the Black Book of the Dead is not only a magnificent psalm in praise of Pharaoh and Ra, but also a collection of spells, spells, and true names and sayings of the gods, which contain the magical power of ancient Egypt and are the true wisdom of the pharaohs and priests.
"Compared to you, I feel like a vile and shameless woman, bent on satisfying my curiosity." Evelyn said ashamedly, "I came here to find the Golden Sutra of the Sun, a book containing Egyptian rune spells, I have been obsessed with this book since I was a child, it is my dream. ”
Evelyn jerked to her feet and shouted.
"But now I've decided that I'm going to find the book and put it in a museum, and I'm going to study the book and contribute the contents to the world."
"Wow, that's a great idea." Chen Xu applauded wildly on the side, "It's worthy of Miss Evelyn, the dream is so great." ”
"Thanks for the compliment, thank you for the compliment." Evelyn bowed shyly in acknowledgement.
"The performance of the two of you reminds me of a play." O'Connor said sourly, "By the way, you're going to shoot." ”
"No, it won't." Chen Xu shook his head, he is a person who lives in a peaceful era, let alone learning to shoot, he has never even seen what a real gun looks like, the only thing he has seen is the gun that snapped and snapped in the TV station.
"Then it's an honor, you'll need to learn how to shoot next." O'Connor threw a revolver full of bullets to Chen Xu, "It's simple, that's all. ”
O'Connor opened the safety, pulled the trigger, and then spat out a 'snap', "So the enemy is dead." ”
Chen Xu thought for a moment and knew that he would face some danger next, so he decided to accept O'Connor's kindness, "Then can you give me some bullets?" I need to practice how to shoot and how to aim. ”
"Yes." O'Connor spread out his bag, revealing the guns and bullets inside, as well as the dagger, "You can take your pick, but you'll need to pay me then." ”
"Yes." Chen Xu readily agreed, took out the dagger from his bag, and then took out another bullet, "I'm going over there to practice shooting, if there's anything, you can come to me." ”
Chen Xu pointed to the back and said, because he paid enough money, he got a separate room, and he didn't need to be crammed into the same small room with O'Connor and Jonathan Jonnason.
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