Pharaoh

The gate of the royal city of Thebes, the capital of Egypt, was wide open at this moment, and a long group of chariots and horses were passing through the gate and walking on the central avenue of the royal city, showing the majesty of the royal family in a solemn and solemn manner.

The Central Avenue leads directly to the Royal Palace of Egypt.

The people on both sides of the road were still cheering while waiting, but when the long-awaited chariots and horses finally arrived, they knelt down and knelt down, with their foreheads pressed against the stone ground, not daring to raise their heads.

Their eyes could only look at the gray stone ground, and they could hear the rush of horses' hooves whizzing away.

Then, there was the sound of countless Egyptian soldiers stepping on the ground.

After all the noises had passed away, they dared to raise their heads and gazed at the departing convoy with gazes of admiration and fear.

The gate of the royal palace was also wide open, and great priests such as Seth and Isis stood at the gate to welcome the return of the pharaoh.

In the sky, the sun is vicious and shines directly on the earth.

Among the ministers waiting at the door, there were a few who were weak or overweight. Their foreheads were already sweating, but they didn't dare to move. They just stared into the distance helplessly.

When the rapid sound of horseshoes came through the vibration of the earth, everyone's spirits were lifted.

Soon, in the eyes of everyone who was looking forward to it, a snow-white horse rode Juechen came first, and within a few breaths, it had arrived in front of everyone from afar.

As soon as the young Pharaoh reined in, the snow-white horse under his crotch raised its front hooves, let out a neigh, and stopped on the spot.

Isis stared at the young king, a look of surprise appeared in her slender and charming eyes.

Beside her, the expression on the handsome face of the great priest Seth looked a little ugly.

Isis: Huh?Where's brother Wang?

Seth: What's wrong with that guy again!

The above are the questions that the two great priests raised in their minds after seeing the pharaoh return alone, but the direction of thinking is completely different.

But on such an occasion, they could only bury their doubts in their hearts, and went straight to greet the young king who was patting the horse's neck.

They had only taken a few steps forward when there was another sound of galloping hooves.

This time, the voices appeared to be many and mixed.

Everyone looked up and saw a group of cavalry not far away surrounded by a chariot.

As he got closer, he could clearly see that the person sitting in the chariot was the highly respected old high priest.

Seth was stunned for a moment, and didn't come back to his senses until the team of horses and horses arrived.

The high priest Mahat, who was riding next to the chariot, got off his horse, stepped forward and respectfully stretched out his hand to help the old priest down.

Seth's frown, which he had frowned just now because he only saw the Pharaoh returning, gradually relaxed, because he had already seen the king's younger brother who was getting off his horse beside Mahat.

It's probably just that Brother Wang doesn't want to be carried by the king to ride a horse and wants to ride a horse by himself.

As Seth thought so, the previous unhappiness in his heart gradually dissipated, and he turned to follow the pharaoh who had strode up the huge palace steps.

Instead, Isis at the side hesitated for a moment, and glanced at Wang Di, but the sun was a little farther away, and the sun was too vicious and bright, making it difficult to see the expression on the other party's face.

Isis showed a thoughtful look, turned around and followed Seth's pace.

When the young prince stood under the huge granite steps, the young pharaoh had strode half way up the stairs.

You Yu raised his head, and the bright sunlight pierced straight into his eyes, making his pupils tremble slightly as if due to pain.

At first glance, the huge steps that seemed to be soaring into the sky with no end in sight opened up the distance between each other, and the flying bright red cloak gradually disappeared into the brilliance and disappeared.

His brother Wang has already reached the far end.

He can no longer catch up.

"Brother Wang?"

A soft call close to the ear woke up the young Wangdi from his trance.

It was Mahat standing beside him who sounded the reminder in his ear.

Behind them, there are still many Egyptian ministers and priests. They are waiting for the old priest and the prince to go first, and then they can follow up the steps.

Mahat followed Simon for two steps, and seeing Brother Wang staring up in a daze and motionless, he had no choice but to remind him.

Yugi retracted his gaze and lowered his head slightly.

The golden hair on his forehead hung down, although it reflected a bright brilliance, it also reflected a deep shadow on his face and engulfed the color of his eyes.

He lifted his foot and walked up without saying a word.

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"What? Let the prince go to Lower Egypt to succeed Osiris as the high priest?"

"Yes."

"Wang, why is it so sudden..."

"I just granted my brother's request a while ago."

"Is this a bit too hasty a decision..."

"The high priest of Osiris has submitted several official documents asking for his successor this month."

The young pharaoh sat on the throne in the government affairs room, looking straight down with his cold bright red pupils.

Below, several great priests looked at each other in dismay, or showed incredulous expressions or were puzzled or dumbfounded, all of which did not react to the shock of the young king's words just now.

The reaction of the great priests made the young king sitting on the throne frowned, and there was a hint of displeasure in his eyes.

"The younger brother will leave for Lower Egypt immediately after attending the memorial ceremony for his father eight days later. Mahat, you will accompany him and send him to the Temple of Osiris."

Yatum issued the order directly, and he had no intention of discussing with his great priests at all.

A word from the Pharaoh is the law of Egypt.

He never needed to ask anyone's opinion, cared what anyone thought.

"Huh?... But, but..."

Mahat, who just came back to his senses, hesitated for a second, looked up and saw the cold gaze from the bright crimson pupils of Old Wang Shangfa, and immediately shut up, not daring to have any more questions, and bowed his head to obey the king's orders.

The priestess standing beside Mahat frowned slightly, glanced at Brother Wang, and then lightly passed over the boy king.

Her eyes were full of doubts, but she still stood quietly, not stepping into this muddy water.

The young prince stood under the throne, one step ahead of the great priests.

As the younger brother of Wang, it was only natural to stand there.

However, this time, the white-skinned Wangdi stood there, which made the other people who often went in and out of the government office quite uncomfortable.

For so long, they have gone from protesting to compromising to being completely used to Wang Di sitting next to Wang. Now that Wang Di is standing below in a regular manner, they feel uncomfortable because they always feel that something is wrong in the house.

Seth was standing on the lower side, but it was the closest to Wangdi.

The high priest with green pupils turned sideways and raised his head slightly to look at Wang Di who had been standing there silently.

The bright sunlight from the skylight fell on Wang Di's slender eyelashes, as if the eyelashes were carrying sunlight, the light came through, and the eyelashes shone brightly one by one.

But the shadow of the eyelashes fell into the half-covered violet pupils, making the eyes that should have been brighter a bit unclear.

From the beginning to the present, he stood like that, without saying a word, the right half of his face fell into the shadow.

From the beginning to the end, he never raised his head to look at his brother Wang.

He lowered his head and looked calm, but Seth could clearly see the corner of his tight left lip trembling slightly like a twitch.

Seth withdrew his gaze from Wangdi and looked at his feet.

The atmosphere in the whole room was very depressing, perhaps this actually improved the efficiency. Several important matters were quickly discussed and the decree was issued.

The young pharaoh stood up and walked away from the throne.

The moment the bright red cloak flew up, it floated softly past Wang Di who was standing on the other side.

It didn't gently envelope Wang Di at the moment of flying and falling as usual.

It passed by, one corner touched Wang Di's arm, and then separated without a trace.

The great priests who once again showed astonished expressions opened their eyes to see that the younger brother did not follow the pharaoh, but left from the gate, and walked towards the exclusive bedroom of the younger brother who had not been there for a long time.

It wasn't until Wang Di's back disappeared from sight that they looked away and looked at each other.

Then, Seth and Isis immediately shot at Mahat with an aura that could almost be described as menacing.

Even the great priest, who had been through battle for a long time, felt a little weak at the moment when he was looked at by the piercing eyes of the two.

"This is how the same thing?"

"Why did the king suddenly let the king's brother go to Lower Egypt?"

"What happened to you at the temple?"

After asking one sentence after another, Mahat hesitated for a while, remembering the instructions of High Priest Simon, and finally shook his head.

"do not know."

In fact, he really didn't know what happened. He just saw the king, the high priest, and the younger brother talking in the room for a while, and when they reappeared, they each had their own expressions.

After that, Wang's attitude towards his younger brother became completely indifferent.

It doesn't seem like the king is angry with the younger brother again, because the king's every move doesn't seem to be angry at all, but treats the younger brother as an ordinary courtier.

Mahat was originally a little annoyed at the fact that Wang Di used Wang's life to threaten him. Every time he saw Wang's special treatment of Wang Di, he felt a little sullen, but Wang's attitude suddenly changed 360 degrees. Let him be a little at a loss for a while.

Looking at Mahat's blank expression, he knew that it was impossible to get any useful information from him. Isis didn't continue to ask. Instead, Seth thought about it, turned and walked towards the gate.

"Seth."

Priestess' cry made the big priest with blue eyes stop in his tracks.

"Are you going to find Brother Wang?"

Facing Priestess' question, Seth nodded casually.

"Why go?"

Isis continued to ask, "It is most appropriate for the king to succeed the great priest of Osiris. At the beginning, we all knew that the king would not let the king leave, so we didn't talk too much about it, but now that the king took the initiative to let the king go. What's wrong with going down to Egypt?"

She said, every sentence was aggressive, but there was a hint of confusion in her eyes.

What she said by herself didn't seem to be asking Seth, but more like asking herself.

"What do you want to stop?"

"I didn't want to stop anything."

Seth replied with a dignified expression, "I just don't like this inexplicable situation!"

After he finished speaking, he stopped talking nonsense and turned to leave.

Isis looked at Seth's back and shook his head, but did not catch up and left on his own.Mahat, who was left behind, pondered for a long time in distress, and finally let out a long breath, turned around and walked towards the side room where the king was.

"What are you doing again?"

When the high priest Seth who entered Wangdi's bedroom frowned and asked this sentence, Wangdi, who had been looking a little dazed, raised his head and glanced at Seth.

Then, he asked Tia to retreat from the room with the maids, and the door closed, leaving him and Seth alone.

"It was you who proposed to go to Egypt?"

Seth continued to ask, still frowning.

The game made no sound, just shook his head.

As soon as he shook his head, Seth's sky-coloured pupils showed a complex look.

"...Does that mean High Priest Simon?"

Looking at Seth's complicated eyes, he knew that Seth had misunderstood the game and shook his head again. This time, he answered directly.

"It's what Brother Wang meant."

"how is this possible?"

The young high priest reflexively denied the moment he heard the answer.

Seth remembered very clearly the pharaoh's furious demeanor when his younger brother asked to go to Lower Egypt to become the high priest of Osiris.

The king would never allow his younger brother to leave the palace.

"Seth, up to now, I don't need to lie to you."

Yuyu held a white ceramic cup with both hands, as if he wanted to take a sip of hot water, probably because the water was too hot, he just touched the edge of the cup lightly, and put down the cup in his hand.

He raised his head and looked at Seth, his expression looked calm.

"I made Brother Wang angry. He didn't want to see me again, so he asked me to go to Egypt."

"Anyway, this time it will be nothing like before—"

Seth said in a cold voice, seeing Brother Wang's absent-minded expression, he couldn't help but slapped the table heavily with one hand, and even the cup on the table jumped, tilted and overturned, and steaming water dripped onto the table. It hit Seth's hand on the table.

Youyou quickly pushed Seth's hand away, but before he could avoid the splash of a few drops of hot water on the wrist of his left hand, an abnormal bright red appeared on his white complexion.

Seth was taken aback, and gave Yuyou a hard look.

"have a finger in the pie!"

"I also subconsciously..."

Brother Wang, who was stabbed a few times by the priest's sharp gaze like a knife, looked innocent. When he stretched out his hand, he really didn't think too much, it was completely reflexive.

"I'm going to call the doctor."

Seth turned around and walked towards the gate. After taking two steps, he slowed down.

"Don't think too much, it will be fine when Wang calms down."

Perhaps to hide his discomfort when he said this, he snorted heavily with his nose.

"Which time was it not like this before!"

He finished the sentence as if complaining impatiently, quickened his pace again, opened the door and left in a hurry.

The younger brother who was left in the room looked at the back of Seth leaving in a hurry, with a vague smile in his eyes.

The tingling pain from his wrist dispelled the faint smile in his eyes, You You bowed his head, the dazzling crimson spots on his wrist slightly swelled, and the thin burning pain came from passed over the arm.

He stretched out the slightly cold fingers of his right hand to cover the scorching and tingling wrist of his left hand. He lowered his head, his golden forehead softly spread out with the incoming wind, and fell on his white cheeks.

The shadow of that hair originally covered up some of the emotions in his eyes, but at this moment, it suddenly swayed with the fluttering hair on his forehead, which made the trace of pain hidden deep in his eyes embedded in a deeper dark tone. middle.

"...It's different from before."

The last weak rebuttal was not heard by the great priest who had already left.

But maybe, that's not a rebuttal, just a soliloquy.

【I don't need you anymore. 】

he knows.

He just didn't know how to face it... The things he thought would always belong to him were getting away from him little by little.