[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god
Chapter 99 1755 BC
"Miss, Miss Ishtar—"
Apu's voice sounded outside the door.
Yinan said with a smile: "These are all married people, and their temper hasn't changed at all."
Apu, who had been dressed as a married woman, lifted the glass bead curtain outside Yinan's house, walked into Yinan's house, saluted with a smile, and said, "Miss, Herod is presiding over at the 'Gate of Justice' today." Ceremony, unveiling of the king's code. Will you go to see it?"
Apu is married to Abu, a middleman from Uruk.Before the two got married, Yinan redeemed Apu.The young couple is a freeman to a freeman, and the family is right.Both were very grateful to Miss Ishtar.
"Go, of course, but I need to talk to Abu first."
"That's great!" Apu still had the startled temper he had when he was a maid before, "It would be great if you can instruct Abu to help you with something. In this way, I can also urge him all day long to help you. You urged him to..."
"Then I have to thank you first." Yinan smiled, and came to Abu's shop with his former maid.
Now Abu not only works as a glass middleman, but also helps people take care of some movable and real estate.
Seeing Abu, Yinan smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, how are you thinking?"
Abu got up quickly, welcomed Yi Nan into the shop, and said respectfully, "I'm doing something for you, so why should I think about it?"
Apu stomped his feet: "You talk, I'll go to the 'Gate of Justice' to grab a seat for the lady to watch the ceremony." Then he went out.
Yi Nan looked at Abu and smiled helplessly: "I mean, don't you think the exaggerated conditions I put forward are too bizarre?"
But Abu looked at Yinan sincerely: "Miss Ishta, before getting your business, Abu was a penniless middleman who never made any business. But you chose to trust Abu."
"Without you, there would be no Abu today."
"Besides, didn't Apu mention it to you? No matter what you do, we will never feel weird." The young man said with great firmness.
Yi Nan couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and thought to herself that she has always acted unexpectedly.Those people who are familiar with him should have already gotten used to it.
"I want to use the property under my name to set up a 'fund'." Her language has an automatic conversion function, but "fund" in Abu's ears means "a pile of money that can generate money"— — a little puzzling.
However, Babylon's commerce was developed, and after wandering here for a long time, and then traveled in the kingdom, Abu's knowledge has long been different from what it used to be.He nodded and said, "You want to keep the principal, and then use the accrued interest to maintain expenses, right?"
Yinan praised: "Exactly."
"The principal is kept, and the accrued interest is used to pay for your management of these assets. If there is any surplus, you can decide on your own to use it for charity or establish education. I believe in your and Apu's decision."
"However, I hope that this 'fund' can be preserved for a long, long time, and this time span may even exceed human lifespan. That is to say, in the future, you and Apu's grandchildren, or even great-grandchildren, may meet I... my junior, came here and asked to withdraw the money deposited in the fund."
Hearing this, Abu puffed up his chest immediately, and quickly said, "You can rest assured about this."
"Apu and I, since we have inherited this property from you, we will definitely take good care of it, and tell our descendants to take good care of it... Our children and grandchildren will spare no effort to protect this property until you His descendants came to extract it."
"I think we need to agree on a mark. When I...my descendants come here, both parties can check this mark to determine their identity."
Yi Nan felt a little embarrassed: Is she too ahead of the times, thinking of Abu as a Swiss bank?
Unexpectedly, Abu readily agreed, and said, "Okay. You name a mark, and I will write it down. In the future, as long as I can match this mark, I, or my descendants, will return all the property kept on your behalf to you... ..."
"However, this mark must be complicated enough, otherwise, if someone hits it by mistake, or someone falsely claims it..."
Abu scratched his head, imagining various situations that might happen in the future.
"Very well said!"
Yi Nan thought: Isn't this the password system of later generations?A sufficiently complex password must be provided to withdraw the property from the Swiss bank.
She looked left and right, just in time to see a twenty-sided dice in Abu's hand.The twenty-sided dice are marked with numbers invented by the Sumerians.
"With that, we will be completely random... It is entirely up to the gods to decide what this mark is!"
Abu quickly took out a pair of clay tablets for recording.Yi Nan weighed the twenty-sided dice lightly in his hand, threw it out, waited for it to fall, and then pressed it lightly on the clay board with the fallen side—the number thrown "randomly" was became the first digit of the password.
She rolled eight times in a row and got a combination of eight Sumerian numbers—in fact, this combination is much more complicated than ordinary password combinations, because it is a combination of twenty-sided dice in her hand, which is marked are the Sumerian numbers from one to twenty.
Now these eight numbers have been printed on the clay tablet in front of Abu.
Abu carefully picked up the things, ready to burn them, and keep them well after burning.
Although he didn't really believe that Miss Ishta would not plan to use this property in her lifetime, but since she promised, he planned to do what the other party said.
At this time Yi Nan turned around and was ready to leave.
Abu suddenly thought of something and said, "Wait a minute, I have to make a copy for you, so that you have a copy in your hand."
Yi Nan smiled and shook his hand: "No, I will remember."
Eight consecutive numbers within [-], this is not a problem for her.
Abu waited to persuade, Miss Ishtar had already gone far.He was horrified: Miss Ishtar's memory is about to catch up with Lord Herod, right?
But think about it again, it’s not right, Miss Ishta said, the period of time she needs to keep this property may be a long, long time, this property may be reserved for her sons, grandsons, and future generations—but she Why does it seem that she will be the one who comes back to extract this property in the future?
Abu imagined it out of thin air. He and his wife, who were very old, solemnly handed over the property to their sons, and then to their grandsons, and entrusted them to preserve it from generation to generation... Afterwards, the person who came to claim the property was actually Miss Ishta herself.
Thinking of this, Abu felt a chill down his spine, and when he looked again: Miss Ishta had long since disappeared.Abu walked out of the shop, came to the street, looked around, but there was no sign of her at all.
Abu was dumbfounded, and thought: No way, could it be that the rumors are true?Miss Ishtar...is it true that a god has sneaked into the human world?Is she really related to the Patronus... of Uruk?
The property in Yinan's hands is quite huge.In fact, relying on glass workshops and ceramic tile workshops alone, she has accumulated wealth in a very short period of time that an ordinary woman can't spend all her life.
But these wealth are also the basis for the survival of many craftsmen.
Yi Nan was considering that after she left this era, she hoped that these industries would still exist so that the artisans could continue to survive.At the same time, the wealth generated by these industries can also do more for the world.
At the same time, she also wanted to do an experiment to see if the property in her hands could be preserved well into the next era after she handed it over to Abu.
At this time, she rushed to the "Gate of Justice", and Apu had already helped her seize the favorable terrain for watching the ceremony.
Today is the day when the "Code of Hammurabi" was officially promulgated.But because the king of Babylon was ill, the whole ceremony was presided over by Herod.
An earlier basalt codex engraved by order of Hammurabi, this is the first to be fully completed.Standing in front of the "Gate of Justice" early on, it is covered with a large blue linen cloth, which complements the "Gate of Justice" and is very harmonious.
At noon, Herod saw that the shadow of the Gate of Justice was level with the side of the gate, so he announced the beginning of the ceremony.
Under the solemn gaze of the Babylonians, Herod pulled the linen away with a slight twitch.Tall basalt pillars appeared in front of people.
It was an unusually tall basalt stone pillar. According to Yinan's visual inspection, the height should be about two and a half meters. It was an elongated oval stone pillar.
On the top of the stone pillar is a remarkable relief.Hammurabi, wearing a round crown, is standing in front of the sun god Shamash, receiving the scepter symbolizing power and justice from the sun god.
Yi Nan remembered that she seemed to ask Hammurabi once why it was Shamash, the "God of the Sun", and not Marduk, the "God of Jupiter".
Hammurabi's answer at the time was: the sun god Shamash's main business includes maintaining justice in the world, and he is the "god of justice", so he chose to engrave the image of the sun god Shamash on the code.
At the same time, Hammurabi also mentioned: The reason why the image of the "God of Jupiter" was not engraved was that other gods would resent because of jealousy and would no longer protect Babylon.
Yi Nan thought it was very funny: Sure enough, in people's minds, the image of gods is actually the same as that of people, with joy, anger, sorrow, love and hatred, and even jealousy, love breeds hatred.
Next, Herod read aloud the preface to the Code of Hammurabi.Every time he read a sentence, the people crowded in front of the "Gate of Justice" and watched the ceremony would shout "yes" loudly.
Especially when Herod recited that passage: "Let the light of justice shine on the earth, destroy all crime and evil, so that the strong cannot oppress the weak." Everyone in the square applauded vigorously and applauded loudly.
Although the "Code of Hammurabi" was just unveiled today, in fact, the code compiled by Herod has already been put into use. In the past year, this code has been improved little by little to solve many people's problems Disputes have resolved the grievances of many people and allowed many people to get the fairness they want.
In addition, the code is like a huge weight hanging over their heads, which may fall at any time-this is to remind people that if they do not act within the boundaries stipulated by the law, they are considered princes , will definitely be punished.
"Fairness!" Herod finished reading the preface, and the Babylonians in the small square shouted together, "What we want most is fairness!"
Herod's eyes scanned the crowd in the square calmly.With just one gesture, he silenced everyone, and the whole square fell silent.
"Punishment clauses for judges have been added to the law code." Herod stretched out his hand, shaking the black robe he was wearing with his white fingers. "If the judges are unfair, they will also be punished."
"it is good--"
"We must believe what Lord Herod said!"
Herod's hope seemed to have reached its peak by this time.The Babylonians were extremely convinced of him, firmly believing that with him, there would be fairness and justice.
Inan was really happy for Herod.But she suddenly felt an annoying gaze staring at herself.
Yi Nan turned his head to look, and happened to see Prince Samiye.
Back then, the prince was kicked and broken the femur of his right leg by Yi Nan using the principle of "revenge in the same state". Although the injury was healed later, he walked with a limp and his gait was very unnatural.
Of course Samier hated her, and hated Herod too.
But no one of them was afraid of Samiyeh—King Hammurabi asked the queen to adopt two young princes, even though he had already chosen an heir, and would rather help his youngest son to the throne than Samiyeh as heir.The elder prince had lost everything, and there was nothing left to threaten Inan or Herod.
After the ceremony ended, the people in the square dispersed.Yi Nan still stood where he was.
Herod saw her, and saw her looking at him with a smile.
Now Herod couldn't pretend he didn't see it, and turned around and walked away.He hesitated for a moment, then walked towards Yi Nan.
Apu, who had been by Yinan's side all the time, said "Ah", and said, "Lord Herod, miss, you talk, you talk, Apu is going home first."
This leaves Herod and Inan alone—in fact, the two of them haven't been alone for a long time, since Herod himself expressed his unwillingness to get rid of the identity of Mushchenu.
The sapphire blue tiles of the "Gate of Justice" reflected strong sunlight, and Yinan stretched out his hand to cover it, using this little shadow to secretly look at Herod's expression.
"Miss Ishtar, Herod came here to say goodbye to you." Herod looked at the woman in front of him, and said this out of nowhere.
He wanted to say that he might bury his head in the files in the future, and he might keep patrolling the kingdom—he was a humble Mushchenu, and it was inconvenient to disturb Miss Ishtar's bright future.
It's just that once the word "farewell" was out of his mouth, he felt that the tip of his tongue was extremely bitter, and he couldn't say anything more.
"What a coincidence! I'm also here to say goodbye." Yi Nan also said to him with a smile.
Herod: ...
When he heard the word "farewell", he immediately felt his heart tremble - so, in the same way, didn't he say the word "farewell" before that also hurt people in general?
Just can't hurt her.
She was made of copper and iron... She didn't know what it was to be sad.
"By the way, your residence is nearby, right? I haven't seen your budgie for a long time. I miss it. Take me to see it."
Where was Yi Nan "begging" Herod to take her, now Yi Nan directly grabbed Herod's sleeve, and went straight to Herod's "single dormitory" familiarly, without making a wrong turn.She never forgot where Herod lived, and the time they spent together, but she would not come here on purpose until it was time to say goodbye.
Herod let Inan pull him, and staggered back to his residence: there were only two words in his mind - "Farewell".
She is leaving, and she will never be seen again, and her voice will not be heard... Herod felt stupid, as if a voice in his heart said to himself: remember, remember——remember her Look, remember her voice, remember every word she said.
In this way, in the long years to come, as long as he thinks of her, it's like seeing a star in the dark night, tasting a drop of honey on the tip of his tongue when life is bitter...
Herod's heart was tightened suddenly, as if being torn severely by someone, the pain was so painful that he couldn't even breathe.
A star in the night.
Taste honey when life is bitter...
You should have remembered!
He stayed there, looking at the woman in front of him.
His heart was crushed alive by the huge roller.
But she had already let go of her hand and went into the house to tease the parrot.
"Miss Ishtar, Miss Ishtar..."
The cheerful cry of the budgie came out instantly.
Herod was completely dumbfounded by the sudden flood of memories in his head.
He instinctively reacted: This is not him, not him... He, Herod, the humble Mushchenu, an orphan without father and mother, cannot experience these things-this is not him, it is the memory imposed on him by others .
But those subtle emotions are common.
Don't you regret it?
--Regrettably.
He obviously had so many pasts with her, but he never had the courage to take that step.
What's worse, he still doesn't have the courage.
The older he was and the more he experienced, the more he understood himself—he didn't deserve her.
He used to be fickle, hypocritical, selfish and boring, arrogance and insignificance all in one.He is no different from men, who are merely higher animals.
But she said: Once people can build order and restrain the whole group with order, people are different from beasts.
He believed her and he did what she said.This world has just improved a little bit, but now she is leaving.
Herod stood outside the door for a long time, finally mustered up the courage, and walked slowly into his own room with a pale face.
She was still teasing the bird, the budgie stretched out its neck generously, letting the woman use her jade-like fingers to fiddle with the thin down on her neck.
"You just said...you came to say goodbye..."
Poor Herod, when he spoke he felt that his soul was no longer his own.
Inan didn't stop, and nodded with his back to Herod.
"I've done everything I wanted to do in Babylon, and now I'm going back to Uruk."
"I will stay in Uruk for a while, and then I will travel around and never come back. So I came here to say goodbye to you."
"By the way, you also said goodbye just now, where are you going to travel?"
Herod felt his teeth chattering, and tremblingly he called out a name.
"Yinan..."
He exhausted all his strength, his eyes were red, and he was going to cry bitterly in the next moment.
The woman stopped her hand suddenly at this moment, and turned to look at Herod.
The parrot hopped and yelled, "Miss Ishtar, Miss Ishtar!"
"You really...remember?" Inan looked at Herod.
She is also sad.
In this era, not only did she and him meet, but the two of them once faced each other, were very close, and looked at each other.
But they looked at each other helplessly like this, and then passed by each other, walking in the direction they should go.
"I originally hoped that you wouldn't be affected by the magnetic field and won't get memories that don't belong to you."
"I have always been willing to believe that you are an independent person, although you are very similar to..."
They all have the spirit of being indomitable and never giving up, but there is a trace of... cautiousness hidden in their bones.
Herod suddenly let out a miserable howl like a wounded beast.He jumped up abruptly, and directly tore off the black robe on his body, revealing his muscular but fair-skinned upper body.
"Look at me, look at me..."
If he had a knife in his hand, he would cut open his chest and give her his heart.
Words can't express it, so how on earth can he let her understand himself—he is also a complicated animal, he is indeed himself, but he walked the exact same path as the previous people...
He really regretted it - why didn't he get this memory sooner?
But even if he recognized her early in the morning, what could he do, what would he do?
Or... as it is now, the two of them also missed it, each walking forward in their own way.
Yi Nan walked up directly without saying a word, opened his arms, hugged Herod tightly, and buried his head in the socket of his neck.
Herod couldn't break free, and couldn't resist.It has nothing to do with how strong she is, but the moment Herod was embraced by her and wrapped in tenderness, his boiling heart finally calmed down, and he understood——
In fact, all this cannot be changed.
It made no difference whether to remember early or to remember late, he was always Herod, and she was his god.
Herod would never refuse or resist anything she wanted him to do, he would just accept it willingly... She was a powerful god in the first place.
He stopped struggling and slowly changed from a lump of coal to a lump of ice.He clearly felt that he was getting cold little by little, so he hugged the woman in his arms with his back, hoping to get a little bit of warmth from this woman.
"I'm sorry—" Yi Nan whispered in his ear.
Inan also felt that he needed to manually tear off Herod's heart.She thought: Maybe she could ask Daniel to show mercy, let her stay in this era for another few decades, and be with this man for a while.
But she also felt that it might actually be better for her to withdraw decisively from this man's world.
He is so important.
This thriving country, this rising civilization, needs him more than she does.I am afraid that he is the only one in this world who is not qualified to indulge in love and cannot extricate himself - as for her, she does not belong to this world in the first place, even if she is reluctant to part with her, she can't help but get out of it.
Such thoughts are cruel and selfish, but... useful.
Rapid footsteps sounded.
"Lord Herod, Lord Herod!" An anxious voice sounded, "Are you here?"
Herod replied in a deep voice, turned around, and put on his black robe of ceremonial officer again.Herod in the black robe seemed to be wearing a mask. He was still the unsmiling, gloomy and solemn official Herod.
No, it's Judge Herod now.
"The king is critically ill, and now you are sent to have an audience with him urgently. The king wants you to find Miss Ishta as soon as possible..."
"Oh, Miss Ishtar is here too, that's great."
The person who came to summon him breathed a sigh of relief.
Herod and Inan looked at each other, and they both had no distractions in an instant.
Once Hammurabi died, Babylon may usher in a period of turmoil.
Apu's voice sounded outside the door.
Yinan said with a smile: "These are all married people, and their temper hasn't changed at all."
Apu, who had been dressed as a married woman, lifted the glass bead curtain outside Yinan's house, walked into Yinan's house, saluted with a smile, and said, "Miss, Herod is presiding over at the 'Gate of Justice' today." Ceremony, unveiling of the king's code. Will you go to see it?"
Apu is married to Abu, a middleman from Uruk.Before the two got married, Yinan redeemed Apu.The young couple is a freeman to a freeman, and the family is right.Both were very grateful to Miss Ishtar.
"Go, of course, but I need to talk to Abu first."
"That's great!" Apu still had the startled temper he had when he was a maid before, "It would be great if you can instruct Abu to help you with something. In this way, I can also urge him all day long to help you. You urged him to..."
"Then I have to thank you first." Yinan smiled, and came to Abu's shop with his former maid.
Now Abu not only works as a glass middleman, but also helps people take care of some movable and real estate.
Seeing Abu, Yinan smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, how are you thinking?"
Abu got up quickly, welcomed Yi Nan into the shop, and said respectfully, "I'm doing something for you, so why should I think about it?"
Apu stomped his feet: "You talk, I'll go to the 'Gate of Justice' to grab a seat for the lady to watch the ceremony." Then he went out.
Yi Nan looked at Abu and smiled helplessly: "I mean, don't you think the exaggerated conditions I put forward are too bizarre?"
But Abu looked at Yinan sincerely: "Miss Ishta, before getting your business, Abu was a penniless middleman who never made any business. But you chose to trust Abu."
"Without you, there would be no Abu today."
"Besides, didn't Apu mention it to you? No matter what you do, we will never feel weird." The young man said with great firmness.
Yi Nan couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and thought to herself that she has always acted unexpectedly.Those people who are familiar with him should have already gotten used to it.
"I want to use the property under my name to set up a 'fund'." Her language has an automatic conversion function, but "fund" in Abu's ears means "a pile of money that can generate money"— — a little puzzling.
However, Babylon's commerce was developed, and after wandering here for a long time, and then traveled in the kingdom, Abu's knowledge has long been different from what it used to be.He nodded and said, "You want to keep the principal, and then use the accrued interest to maintain expenses, right?"
Yinan praised: "Exactly."
"The principal is kept, and the accrued interest is used to pay for your management of these assets. If there is any surplus, you can decide on your own to use it for charity or establish education. I believe in your and Apu's decision."
"However, I hope that this 'fund' can be preserved for a long, long time, and this time span may even exceed human lifespan. That is to say, in the future, you and Apu's grandchildren, or even great-grandchildren, may meet I... my junior, came here and asked to withdraw the money deposited in the fund."
Hearing this, Abu puffed up his chest immediately, and quickly said, "You can rest assured about this."
"Apu and I, since we have inherited this property from you, we will definitely take good care of it, and tell our descendants to take good care of it... Our children and grandchildren will spare no effort to protect this property until you His descendants came to extract it."
"I think we need to agree on a mark. When I...my descendants come here, both parties can check this mark to determine their identity."
Yi Nan felt a little embarrassed: Is she too ahead of the times, thinking of Abu as a Swiss bank?
Unexpectedly, Abu readily agreed, and said, "Okay. You name a mark, and I will write it down. In the future, as long as I can match this mark, I, or my descendants, will return all the property kept on your behalf to you... ..."
"However, this mark must be complicated enough, otherwise, if someone hits it by mistake, or someone falsely claims it..."
Abu scratched his head, imagining various situations that might happen in the future.
"Very well said!"
Yi Nan thought: Isn't this the password system of later generations?A sufficiently complex password must be provided to withdraw the property from the Swiss bank.
She looked left and right, just in time to see a twenty-sided dice in Abu's hand.The twenty-sided dice are marked with numbers invented by the Sumerians.
"With that, we will be completely random... It is entirely up to the gods to decide what this mark is!"
Abu quickly took out a pair of clay tablets for recording.Yi Nan weighed the twenty-sided dice lightly in his hand, threw it out, waited for it to fall, and then pressed it lightly on the clay board with the fallen side—the number thrown "randomly" was became the first digit of the password.
She rolled eight times in a row and got a combination of eight Sumerian numbers—in fact, this combination is much more complicated than ordinary password combinations, because it is a combination of twenty-sided dice in her hand, which is marked are the Sumerian numbers from one to twenty.
Now these eight numbers have been printed on the clay tablet in front of Abu.
Abu carefully picked up the things, ready to burn them, and keep them well after burning.
Although he didn't really believe that Miss Ishta would not plan to use this property in her lifetime, but since she promised, he planned to do what the other party said.
At this time Yi Nan turned around and was ready to leave.
Abu suddenly thought of something and said, "Wait a minute, I have to make a copy for you, so that you have a copy in your hand."
Yi Nan smiled and shook his hand: "No, I will remember."
Eight consecutive numbers within [-], this is not a problem for her.
Abu waited to persuade, Miss Ishtar had already gone far.He was horrified: Miss Ishtar's memory is about to catch up with Lord Herod, right?
But think about it again, it’s not right, Miss Ishta said, the period of time she needs to keep this property may be a long, long time, this property may be reserved for her sons, grandsons, and future generations—but she Why does it seem that she will be the one who comes back to extract this property in the future?
Abu imagined it out of thin air. He and his wife, who were very old, solemnly handed over the property to their sons, and then to their grandsons, and entrusted them to preserve it from generation to generation... Afterwards, the person who came to claim the property was actually Miss Ishta herself.
Thinking of this, Abu felt a chill down his spine, and when he looked again: Miss Ishta had long since disappeared.Abu walked out of the shop, came to the street, looked around, but there was no sign of her at all.
Abu was dumbfounded, and thought: No way, could it be that the rumors are true?Miss Ishtar...is it true that a god has sneaked into the human world?Is she really related to the Patronus... of Uruk?
The property in Yinan's hands is quite huge.In fact, relying on glass workshops and ceramic tile workshops alone, she has accumulated wealth in a very short period of time that an ordinary woman can't spend all her life.
But these wealth are also the basis for the survival of many craftsmen.
Yi Nan was considering that after she left this era, she hoped that these industries would still exist so that the artisans could continue to survive.At the same time, the wealth generated by these industries can also do more for the world.
At the same time, she also wanted to do an experiment to see if the property in her hands could be preserved well into the next era after she handed it over to Abu.
At this time, she rushed to the "Gate of Justice", and Apu had already helped her seize the favorable terrain for watching the ceremony.
Today is the day when the "Code of Hammurabi" was officially promulgated.But because the king of Babylon was ill, the whole ceremony was presided over by Herod.
An earlier basalt codex engraved by order of Hammurabi, this is the first to be fully completed.Standing in front of the "Gate of Justice" early on, it is covered with a large blue linen cloth, which complements the "Gate of Justice" and is very harmonious.
At noon, Herod saw that the shadow of the Gate of Justice was level with the side of the gate, so he announced the beginning of the ceremony.
Under the solemn gaze of the Babylonians, Herod pulled the linen away with a slight twitch.Tall basalt pillars appeared in front of people.
It was an unusually tall basalt stone pillar. According to Yinan's visual inspection, the height should be about two and a half meters. It was an elongated oval stone pillar.
On the top of the stone pillar is a remarkable relief.Hammurabi, wearing a round crown, is standing in front of the sun god Shamash, receiving the scepter symbolizing power and justice from the sun god.
Yi Nan remembered that she seemed to ask Hammurabi once why it was Shamash, the "God of the Sun", and not Marduk, the "God of Jupiter".
Hammurabi's answer at the time was: the sun god Shamash's main business includes maintaining justice in the world, and he is the "god of justice", so he chose to engrave the image of the sun god Shamash on the code.
At the same time, Hammurabi also mentioned: The reason why the image of the "God of Jupiter" was not engraved was that other gods would resent because of jealousy and would no longer protect Babylon.
Yi Nan thought it was very funny: Sure enough, in people's minds, the image of gods is actually the same as that of people, with joy, anger, sorrow, love and hatred, and even jealousy, love breeds hatred.
Next, Herod read aloud the preface to the Code of Hammurabi.Every time he read a sentence, the people crowded in front of the "Gate of Justice" and watched the ceremony would shout "yes" loudly.
Especially when Herod recited that passage: "Let the light of justice shine on the earth, destroy all crime and evil, so that the strong cannot oppress the weak." Everyone in the square applauded vigorously and applauded loudly.
Although the "Code of Hammurabi" was just unveiled today, in fact, the code compiled by Herod has already been put into use. In the past year, this code has been improved little by little to solve many people's problems Disputes have resolved the grievances of many people and allowed many people to get the fairness they want.
In addition, the code is like a huge weight hanging over their heads, which may fall at any time-this is to remind people that if they do not act within the boundaries stipulated by the law, they are considered princes , will definitely be punished.
"Fairness!" Herod finished reading the preface, and the Babylonians in the small square shouted together, "What we want most is fairness!"
Herod's eyes scanned the crowd in the square calmly.With just one gesture, he silenced everyone, and the whole square fell silent.
"Punishment clauses for judges have been added to the law code." Herod stretched out his hand, shaking the black robe he was wearing with his white fingers. "If the judges are unfair, they will also be punished."
"it is good--"
"We must believe what Lord Herod said!"
Herod's hope seemed to have reached its peak by this time.The Babylonians were extremely convinced of him, firmly believing that with him, there would be fairness and justice.
Inan was really happy for Herod.But she suddenly felt an annoying gaze staring at herself.
Yi Nan turned his head to look, and happened to see Prince Samiye.
Back then, the prince was kicked and broken the femur of his right leg by Yi Nan using the principle of "revenge in the same state". Although the injury was healed later, he walked with a limp and his gait was very unnatural.
Of course Samier hated her, and hated Herod too.
But no one of them was afraid of Samiyeh—King Hammurabi asked the queen to adopt two young princes, even though he had already chosen an heir, and would rather help his youngest son to the throne than Samiyeh as heir.The elder prince had lost everything, and there was nothing left to threaten Inan or Herod.
After the ceremony ended, the people in the square dispersed.Yi Nan still stood where he was.
Herod saw her, and saw her looking at him with a smile.
Now Herod couldn't pretend he didn't see it, and turned around and walked away.He hesitated for a moment, then walked towards Yi Nan.
Apu, who had been by Yinan's side all the time, said "Ah", and said, "Lord Herod, miss, you talk, you talk, Apu is going home first."
This leaves Herod and Inan alone—in fact, the two of them haven't been alone for a long time, since Herod himself expressed his unwillingness to get rid of the identity of Mushchenu.
The sapphire blue tiles of the "Gate of Justice" reflected strong sunlight, and Yinan stretched out his hand to cover it, using this little shadow to secretly look at Herod's expression.
"Miss Ishtar, Herod came here to say goodbye to you." Herod looked at the woman in front of him, and said this out of nowhere.
He wanted to say that he might bury his head in the files in the future, and he might keep patrolling the kingdom—he was a humble Mushchenu, and it was inconvenient to disturb Miss Ishtar's bright future.
It's just that once the word "farewell" was out of his mouth, he felt that the tip of his tongue was extremely bitter, and he couldn't say anything more.
"What a coincidence! I'm also here to say goodbye." Yi Nan also said to him with a smile.
Herod: ...
When he heard the word "farewell", he immediately felt his heart tremble - so, in the same way, didn't he say the word "farewell" before that also hurt people in general?
Just can't hurt her.
She was made of copper and iron... She didn't know what it was to be sad.
"By the way, your residence is nearby, right? I haven't seen your budgie for a long time. I miss it. Take me to see it."
Where was Yi Nan "begging" Herod to take her, now Yi Nan directly grabbed Herod's sleeve, and went straight to Herod's "single dormitory" familiarly, without making a wrong turn.She never forgot where Herod lived, and the time they spent together, but she would not come here on purpose until it was time to say goodbye.
Herod let Inan pull him, and staggered back to his residence: there were only two words in his mind - "Farewell".
She is leaving, and she will never be seen again, and her voice will not be heard... Herod felt stupid, as if a voice in his heart said to himself: remember, remember——remember her Look, remember her voice, remember every word she said.
In this way, in the long years to come, as long as he thinks of her, it's like seeing a star in the dark night, tasting a drop of honey on the tip of his tongue when life is bitter...
Herod's heart was tightened suddenly, as if being torn severely by someone, the pain was so painful that he couldn't even breathe.
A star in the night.
Taste honey when life is bitter...
You should have remembered!
He stayed there, looking at the woman in front of him.
His heart was crushed alive by the huge roller.
But she had already let go of her hand and went into the house to tease the parrot.
"Miss Ishtar, Miss Ishtar..."
The cheerful cry of the budgie came out instantly.
Herod was completely dumbfounded by the sudden flood of memories in his head.
He instinctively reacted: This is not him, not him... He, Herod, the humble Mushchenu, an orphan without father and mother, cannot experience these things-this is not him, it is the memory imposed on him by others .
But those subtle emotions are common.
Don't you regret it?
--Regrettably.
He obviously had so many pasts with her, but he never had the courage to take that step.
What's worse, he still doesn't have the courage.
The older he was and the more he experienced, the more he understood himself—he didn't deserve her.
He used to be fickle, hypocritical, selfish and boring, arrogance and insignificance all in one.He is no different from men, who are merely higher animals.
But she said: Once people can build order and restrain the whole group with order, people are different from beasts.
He believed her and he did what she said.This world has just improved a little bit, but now she is leaving.
Herod stood outside the door for a long time, finally mustered up the courage, and walked slowly into his own room with a pale face.
She was still teasing the bird, the budgie stretched out its neck generously, letting the woman use her jade-like fingers to fiddle with the thin down on her neck.
"You just said...you came to say goodbye..."
Poor Herod, when he spoke he felt that his soul was no longer his own.
Inan didn't stop, and nodded with his back to Herod.
"I've done everything I wanted to do in Babylon, and now I'm going back to Uruk."
"I will stay in Uruk for a while, and then I will travel around and never come back. So I came here to say goodbye to you."
"By the way, you also said goodbye just now, where are you going to travel?"
Herod felt his teeth chattering, and tremblingly he called out a name.
"Yinan..."
He exhausted all his strength, his eyes were red, and he was going to cry bitterly in the next moment.
The woman stopped her hand suddenly at this moment, and turned to look at Herod.
The parrot hopped and yelled, "Miss Ishtar, Miss Ishtar!"
"You really...remember?" Inan looked at Herod.
She is also sad.
In this era, not only did she and him meet, but the two of them once faced each other, were very close, and looked at each other.
But they looked at each other helplessly like this, and then passed by each other, walking in the direction they should go.
"I originally hoped that you wouldn't be affected by the magnetic field and won't get memories that don't belong to you."
"I have always been willing to believe that you are an independent person, although you are very similar to..."
They all have the spirit of being indomitable and never giving up, but there is a trace of... cautiousness hidden in their bones.
Herod suddenly let out a miserable howl like a wounded beast.He jumped up abruptly, and directly tore off the black robe on his body, revealing his muscular but fair-skinned upper body.
"Look at me, look at me..."
If he had a knife in his hand, he would cut open his chest and give her his heart.
Words can't express it, so how on earth can he let her understand himself—he is also a complicated animal, he is indeed himself, but he walked the exact same path as the previous people...
He really regretted it - why didn't he get this memory sooner?
But even if he recognized her early in the morning, what could he do, what would he do?
Or... as it is now, the two of them also missed it, each walking forward in their own way.
Yi Nan walked up directly without saying a word, opened his arms, hugged Herod tightly, and buried his head in the socket of his neck.
Herod couldn't break free, and couldn't resist.It has nothing to do with how strong she is, but the moment Herod was embraced by her and wrapped in tenderness, his boiling heart finally calmed down, and he understood——
In fact, all this cannot be changed.
It made no difference whether to remember early or to remember late, he was always Herod, and she was his god.
Herod would never refuse or resist anything she wanted him to do, he would just accept it willingly... She was a powerful god in the first place.
He stopped struggling and slowly changed from a lump of coal to a lump of ice.He clearly felt that he was getting cold little by little, so he hugged the woman in his arms with his back, hoping to get a little bit of warmth from this woman.
"I'm sorry—" Yi Nan whispered in his ear.
Inan also felt that he needed to manually tear off Herod's heart.She thought: Maybe she could ask Daniel to show mercy, let her stay in this era for another few decades, and be with this man for a while.
But she also felt that it might actually be better for her to withdraw decisively from this man's world.
He is so important.
This thriving country, this rising civilization, needs him more than she does.I am afraid that he is the only one in this world who is not qualified to indulge in love and cannot extricate himself - as for her, she does not belong to this world in the first place, even if she is reluctant to part with her, she can't help but get out of it.
Such thoughts are cruel and selfish, but... useful.
Rapid footsteps sounded.
"Lord Herod, Lord Herod!" An anxious voice sounded, "Are you here?"
Herod replied in a deep voice, turned around, and put on his black robe of ceremonial officer again.Herod in the black robe seemed to be wearing a mask. He was still the unsmiling, gloomy and solemn official Herod.
No, it's Judge Herod now.
"The king is critically ill, and now you are sent to have an audience with him urgently. The king wants you to find Miss Ishta as soon as possible..."
"Oh, Miss Ishtar is here too, that's great."
The person who came to summon him breathed a sigh of relief.
Herod and Inan looked at each other, and they both had no distractions in an instant.
Once Hammurabi died, Babylon may usher in a period of turmoil.
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