[Egyptian doujinshi] The legend of flattery and misfortune

Chapter 9

The fleet of Xitai set off from the southeasternmost port of the empire near Syria. After half a month of sailing, it crossed the entire Great Green Sea and entered Memphis, the largest city in the Nile Delta.At the same time, it was also the capital of the ancient kingdom of Egypt. It is currently the largest city and the administrative capital of Egypt. It was founded by Menes, who unified Egypt.

Thebes near the south followed the tradition of worshiping the god Amon, while Memphis, located at the junction of upper and lower Egypt in the north, accepted the baptism of Asia and the Great Green Sea civilization.

People from all over the world gathered here, including Nubians, Syrians, Assyrian merchants, and even Senasa could see a few Mitanni who fled. Therefore, after a foreign ship like them entered Memphis, No one on board felt uncomfortable at all.Except that they took off their cloaks, their upper body was naked, and they were still wearing cross wraps underneath. At first glance, they were from Mesopotamia in the north, because Egypt was too hot.

When passing through the Delta River Valley checkpoint, the soldiers at the checkpoint read their mission documents several times, and then looked at the crowd headed by Sai Nasha, and then put the clay board into their waist pocket: "We The captain is waiting for everyone to come, please go to the captain's official residence to rest for a while."

Senasa was a little surprised at the soldier's self-assertion, but this was on the territory of Egypt, he was not easy to get angry, and Irbonni watched him deal with it, so Senasa had to put on a cold expression and said: "Shouldn't it be your captain who came to meet me, and then we go to Thebes to meet Pharaoh as soon as possible?"

"Your Highness of the West Terrace, it's because you don't know Egypt well, and the time was chosen too badly." The young soldier grinned and showed his white teeth: "You will understand soon."

Outside the three-story white house of the Memphis Chief Executive, an old man in a linen robe grabbed a young man dressed as a soldier. Although the old man was old, he was powerful and muscular, holding the man hostage. The young man couldn't break free, he yelled: "Ramsus, shouldn't you go to meet the prince of Xitai? Why are you still in the tavern in broad daylight? Before your father died, he finally spent money to buy this position for you. Do you want him to have no peace after death?!"

"Hey, Uncle Rhodes, you are too loud!" The young man poked his ears, "Are you trying to let everyone in the city know that I, the captain of the Delta Garrison, was paid for?"

Rhodes slapped Ramses on the back of the head: "You, hurry up to the port and bring Prince Xitai back!"

"Got it! Got it!" A passing girl saw Ramses, and yelled at her companions with a flushed face. Ramses blew a kiss to them, wrapped the Names turban hastily, and was bored Going towards the port, God knows he has already sent Joshua under him to do this, but it is really not an easy task for Prince Xitai to pass the checkpoint he is guarding, so I specially prepared a copy for him. Dali, do you think the job of the captain is easy for him?

However, after discovering the group of people, Ramses immediately greeted them with an exaggerated smile: "Ah, Your Royal Highness, it is a great honor for me to welcome you to Egypt! I am Nile Delta Defense Captain, Uther Ramses."

Sai Nasha instinctively felt that he was not the same as the team leader. This person was exaggerated and hypocritical, and you knew it was fake, but the smile on his face was impeccable.This man's complexion is slightly brown, with blond hair fluttering, and his stature is not shorter than his own. He has a pair of wonderful eyes, one golden and one brown, like a wild cat in the desert waiting for an opportunity. Stretch in the shade.

"Captain Ramses, it's a pleasure to meet you. I am Senasa Muwatari, the fourth son of Emperor Supiluluma I of Western Taiwan." When Senasa looked at Ramses, Ramses Also judging the young prince.

Like a vigorous antelope growing up in the mountains, it keeps jumping and vigilant all the time. Although it is young, it is not afraid of danger. In the end, everyone will be amazed because the antelope climbed the cliff.But can the antelope avoid the traps on the flat ground? Ramses touched his chin and smiled secretly. He made a "please" gesture: "Please follow me to the place where I stay, prince!"

Sai Nasha stood still. Now that the Lord Ramsera has come, he will make his request: "I don't want to delay any longer, I want to go south to Thebes immediately."

"That's it, what a pity, Memphis is a very old city!" Ramses pretended to be sorry, but without any ambiguity, he immediately made people prepare to set sail: "In that case, I will respectfully send the prince off Bar."

It was not until the sun completely sank into the desert that Sai Nasha understood what the soldier said "you don't understand Egypt". After entering the river valley, they sailed for half a day, because the resistance against the current was too great, they walked faster than those on the shore. Still slow, Sai Nasha involuntarily turned dark.

In particular, Ramses greeted and flirted with the girls on the bank as if nothing had happened. Seeing Senasa approaching, he pretended to point into the distance and said, "Prince, look, this is the flooding of the Nile River."

The river has flooded the original arable land, and the idle farmers are sitting on the bank fishing.At the southern end of the delta and Memphis, the Nile flooded twenty miles across.The tributaries in the north can rise more than two hundred miles wide, and the whole river flows to the sea after converging.Papyrus and lotus bloomed on the surface of the river, and the water drowned all the pests, and after four months it completely receded, leaving only fertile and soft wet mud.

Ramses pointed to the joyful crowd on the bank and said, "Today is the day with the biggest flooding this month. Every day there will be a special person measuring the water level in Memphis. Because of your arrival, today the river has reached an unprecedented 'sixteen ancient' level." Got', a perfect water level only appears in the records of the Old Kingdom. So the boat can't go fast, but you are really a lucky person!"

The news would come back to Thebes in a few days, causing heated celebrations, but to Senasa's ears, it was full of irony.The welfare of Egypt and the Nile has nothing to do with him, except that his boat is as slow as an old horse.

As night was approaching, everyone was hungry. After eating dried salted fish and air-dried meat strips at sea for 20 days, Sai Nasha ordered the ship to stop and eat ashore. Irbonni voluntarily chose to stay and guard the god iron.Ramses led the way without hesitation, but he didn't know that Rhodes, the chief of Memphis, was furious at this time: "What?! Ramses took the prince away? You bastard!"

The proprietress of the tavern was an old acquaintance of Ramses, and Senasa clearly saw that when the proprietress twisted her waist and left, Ramses slapped her butt vigorously.

The dinner was very sumptuous, and the top fishing boat provided a few mullets. Then, according to the practice of Egyptian caviar, the fish eggs were taken out and washed in slightly salty water, and then pressed between two small wooden boards and left to dry.The flavor of this mullet roe was excellent, and the proprietress also provided some roast beef, seasoned with hummus sauce, and a mountain of figs and pastries.

There is no shortage of wine on this occasion. If Ramses hadn’t commented on the dancing girl, everything would have been wonderful. This man, who obviously has a special interest in women, dragged Senasa to look at a Babylonian dancing girl: " Look, look at her breasts and buttocks, like a small island in the middle of the lake after the river recedes..."

Sai Nasha thought that the foreign-related banquet should be more advanced and formal. Who will tell him why he would eat country food in a country tavern and watch the country Dancer's performance?

Covered with light and transparent linen veils, these more than a dozen dancers twisted their bodies in the center of the hall. They all wore heavy makeup, thick bright blue eyeliner, vermilion lips, and lotus flowers pinned to their loose hair. , there are heavy rings on the wrists and ankles, all of which are relatively cheap brass.Whichever one the guests like, they drop enough money on the plate, and take the contraceptive pill with strong acidic acacia wood thorns at will, and then they can go to the small room with the dancing girl.

Ramses also apparently met one of them, saying that he would come as soon as he went, and it was hard for Senasa to say anything, so he could only drink with his attendants.However, the wine in Egypt is still very pleasant. Even in such a tavern, the beer brewed with Nile water is also unusually strong and thick, and there are honey flavors, date palm flavors, etc. to choose from.

While drinking, Sai Nasha's eyes closed involuntarily.

There were cold drops of water dripping on Sai Nasha's forehead, sliding down his sharp face and to the corner of his mouth. Sai Nasha suddenly opened his eyes and found that his tall body was curled up and sleeping in a narrow wooden box .

He leaned on the outer wall to get up with difficulty, shook his dazed head, and gradually got used to the darkness, he found himself lying in a coffin.

The author has something to say: Popular science time: Senasa, the son of Emperor Xitai, disappeared on the border between the two countries for no reason on the way to get married. Wikipedia’s official translation name is Chananzha (whether it is so ugly...)

How could the mandarin duck-eyed Persian cat, Ramses, not appear?Of course, the character with the official translation name Ramses must appear. I feel that he is a patriotic and angry youth. Is he so unrestrained at the beginning because he has nowhere to serve the country (the fog)?

In short, the mascot Persian cat welcomes you warmly and proudly_(:з」∠)_

Thebes is the political, religious and cultural center of inland Egypt, equivalent to Beijing?

Memphis is a city close to the port, it is open to all rivers and rivers, and has a developed economy. Shanghai?

The management table found something good again, Tutu's golden stamp, really 24K