my days in ancient egypt

23

Ramses' army arrived at Houst, and a new round of confrontation resumed.

On the one hand, Hittite did not expect that Ramses' army would arrive so quickly. On the other hand, after the previous two fierce battles, the troops were no longer enough to fight against Ramses' army, and the reserve materials were somewhat insufficient.

General Hittite weighed in for a long time, and finally, under the oppression of Ramses' army, he waved his hand unwillingly, and the whole army retreated overnight.

Upon hearing the news of Hittite's retreat, Ramses did not show much joy, but frowned slightly.

Mu Xiaomu shrank to one side, his bright black eyes rolling around.

Ramses put the official letter aside and rubbed his temples with both hands. Seeing Mu Xiaomu looking at him without blinking, he smiled slightly and said to him, "What are you looking at?"

Mu Xiaomu hurriedly shook his head.

Ramses hooked his hands at him, and Mu Xiaomu walked over.

"Turn around."

Mu Xiaomu looked at him suspiciously upon hearing this, but still turned his back obediently.

Lifting off the clothes on Mu Xiaomu's body, the scarred wounds on his back were shocking.

Touching the healed wounds with his cold arms, Ramses had a gloomy face, and after a while, he said, "We'll go back the day after tomorrow."

Mu Xiaomu nodded, and suddenly asked: "This is a good opportunity to attack Hittite, why did you give up?"

"Mu, don't be fooled by performance. It is not easy to defeat the Hittites in a short period of time. Besides, the official letter was delivered late this time, and the army arrived here overnight. If we really fight, our advantage will not be Big. Moreover, I only brought less than half of the army, what that stupid general Hurt saw was just an illusion, but the truth is, I don’t have enough troops to stop him.” At this moment, Ramses was dull There was a sly smile on his face, which made Mu Xiaomu a little dazed.If you read correctly, this is the first time he has shown some playful eyes in front of him.

"Aren't you afraid that Hittite will really call?" Mu Xiaomu asked in surprise. Although he knew that Ramses was very cunning, if he didn't have full confidence in this way, he would be dead.Let's talk about how the king of a country can casually bet his own life.

"First of all, the official letter was sent really late. I have already told Moore about this point. Secondly, if you bring a large army, it will take at least a month. By then, the city of Hurst must have been destroyed. Take it. Again, if the Hittites really don’t intend to give up, that’s okay. The army I brought is not vegetarian. It’s absolutely no problem to resist for a while. When the rear army comes, the result will still be the same. Hittite land Kuang Kuang, the deployment of troops this time is already a plan for a steady victory. The victory lies in the surprise attack this time, and there are not many soldiers in the city. If they know that my army has arrived, they will not take the risk of risking the entire army to be wiped out. The consequences strike rashly."

Mu Xiaomu sighed, and really wanted to say, in fact, you are taking risks like this, in case, that Hittite general is a fool who can't weigh.

Putting down his clothes, Ramses suddenly turned around and said, "Mu, are you still running around?"

Mu Xiaomu paused, then lowered his head slightly, "I won't run away..."

Ramses smiled in satisfaction, and rubbed his hair lovingly, "It's so good, it's not a good thing to always want to run away from me."

"Ramesses..." Mu Xiaomu paused, looked at Ramses with bright black eyes, and blinked slyly.

"I know."

It was rare for Ramses to see Mu Xiaomu's eyes like this, so he asked amusedly, "What do you know?"

"I know you like me..."

Ramses paused, his bright black eyes instantly softened like water, and the corners of his thin lips lifted.

"It's good to know."

***

On the third day, as Ramses said, as soon as the Hittite army withdrew, Ramses sent [-] soldiers to guard the city of Houst, and still let Moore be the general in the city, and Fata was also left behind. Lieutenant here.

After learning about this, Moore approached Ramses and proposed to let Fata be the general, and he could be a lieutenant general, but Fata refused.

"General Moore has been on the battlefield for a long time and has more experience than my junior. Horst should be handed over to General Moore, not me, a junior who has just had two battlefield experience."

When Fata spoke, his tone was sincere and his eyes were earnest, which made Moore sweep away his previous prejudice against him, and felt more and more that this kid was a man to be made.

Ramses looked at Fata with undisguised admiration in his eyes.

"As Fata said, Moore, you don't have to be humble. You are still the general."

Seeing that he was stubborn, Moore nodded and accepted the order.

Mu Xiaomu is a good-for-nothing, and after three days he was finally able to sit firmly on the horse.

Walking back with Ramses' army, Mu Xiaomu sat on the horse and kept fanning his hands in front of his eyes.

Ramses walked in front with him, saw Mu Xiaomu's hot look, so he said, "Be patient and drink some water."

Mu Xiaomu nodded, grabbed the water bag on the horse's back, unscrewed the lid and took several sips.

Ramses looked at him but smiled silently.

When they arrived at Thebes City, after half a month, Mu Xiaomu finally saw the beautiful Nile River again.

Along the emerald green river, Egyptian farmers planted seeds on the silt after the river receded, and their dark spines were greasy in the hot sun.

In November in Egypt, the flooding period of the river has passed, and the silt on the river bank has become the best nourishment. Farmers sow seeds on it. Some naughty children rolled and rolled in the silt, and some got up and looked at the mud with their small faces. , Catch a loach with one hand.Whenever mothers see this, they grab their children by the ears and throw them aside.

Looking at the happy scene in front of him, Mu Xiaomu smiled unconsciously.

Back in the palace, a thunderbolt news reached Mu Xiaomu's ears.

The Mafils were killed, and Feeney's whereabouts are unknown.

Ramses listened to Ferm's report, glanced at Mu Xiaomu, and said with a serious expression, "Have you found the murderer?"

Ferm shook his head, "No, the murderer did it very cleanly at the scene, and there is no clue to find out who did it."

Just as Ramses was about to speak, suddenly Mu Xiaomu's figure flashed in front of him, and he quickly ran towards the door.

Ferm stood aside, waiting for the king's reply.

"Go ahead and keep checking."

After getting the order, Ferm nodded and retreated.

Mu Xiaomu ran out of Ramses' bedroom, pulled past the guard's horse at the gate of the palace, turned over and sat on it surprisingly neatly, and quickly ran out of the palace.

The guard guarding the gate looked at the shrinking figure in bewilderment. He recognized Mu Xiaomu, that was the young man brought by Wang's side, so he couldn't just stop him.After thinking for a long time, the guard asked another person to watch the gate while he ran to the palace to report to Ramses.

When Mu Xiaomu rushed to Ma Feier's house, he pushed open the brown door.A faint smell of blood still wafts through the room.

After closing the door, Mu Xiaomu walked a few steps into the house. The empty front hall was tidied up, and there was no sign of the owner's struggles during his lifetime.Going forward again, turning around some narrow corridors, in the small yard, the blood has dried up, and the soft ground is stained red.But I can already imagine the struggle of the Mafeier couple during their lifetime, and Du Lisha's pointy fingers struggled to grab the ground, leaving small pits.

Who is it, the enemy of the Mafier family?

What about Feeney?Ferm said she was missing, did she escape?

Mu Xiaomu stood up and looked around in every corner of the room, but he didn't find anything suspicious. The murderer really did it very cleanly. Except for the bodies of the Mafier couple, there was no trace on the ground at all.However, judging from the squeezed surface of the soil, the Mafier couple had struggled. It must be in this yard that the murderer killed the Mafier couple.

Thinking of this, Mu Xiaomu turned around and went out, now he had to go to see the bodies of the Mafier couple.

Mu Xiaomu didn't like the Mafier couple very much, but after all, he was adopted, so maybe that's the only thing he can do for them.What's more, Mu Xiaomu just wanted to find Fei Ni, and Fei Ni disappeared, maybe he was still alive, but thinking of the accident that happened to that pure girl like a lily, he couldn't calm down.

Ma Feier's body was placed in a desolate place outside the city.Here, there are poor people everywhere. Because they have no money, they will be wrapped in a layer of straw mats after death, and they will be thrown aside casually, without even a tombstone.

The Mafeier couple were extremely face-saving people during their lifetime, but now they have fallen into the end of a straw mat, and they must not rest in peace after death.A short old man took Mu Xiaomu to a place, pointed to the two corpses wrapped in a small straw mat, and said, "This is it."

After finishing speaking, the old man glanced at Mu Xiaomu and asked, "Do you know them?"

Mu Xiaomu nodded, squatted down and lifted the straw mat, and suddenly, a foul smell came over his face.

Holding his nose, Mu Xiaomu picked up a tree branch and turned it over on the Mafier couple.

The old man on the side watched Mu Xiaomu's actions, and admired that a young man would come here to find someone, so he kindly said: "It's so pitiful, after being bitten by a poisonous snake, he was chopped like this again."

Mu Xiaomu used a branch to jump away from the Mafier couple's legs and feet, but did not find any bite marks from the poisonous snake.

The two had large and small stab wounds, whether deep or shallow. It must have been such stab wounds that caused the two to bleed to death, but the old man said that the two were bitten by a poisonous snake.

The old man saw Mu Xiaomu's doubts, so he said: "Old man, I once raised snakes and worked as a snake charmer. Look here."

The old man opened the Maffei couple's abdomen, where the knife was heavier, and the intestines inside could almost be seen.Mu Xiaomu frowned and looked at the old man puzzled.

The old man pointed to the waists of the Mafier couple, and said with some pride: "There, do you see it?"

Mu Xiaomu looked along the old man's fingers, and there were two inconspicuous dark wounds on the bloody waists of the two who had been scratched by the knife. They were so small that they would never be noticed if one didn't look carefully.

The two wounds were very narrow. It seemed that he was indeed bitten by a snake, but what happened to the knife wound on his body?

The old man was still talking there with relish.

"Did you see that the wound is smaller than the bite wound of ordinary poisonous snakes. This kind of snake is not common, and it is the most poisonous one among cobras. Not to mention the whole body is pitch black. Those blood-red eyes make people shudder when they look at it. I think it was the first time , I almost caught that one..."

Blood-red eyes, all black, cobras—

Mu Xiaomu's heart paused, and the nightmare of that night suddenly came before his eyes.

"Do you know what kind of snake that is?" Mu Xiaomu asked the old man urgently.

The old man nodded, "You are asking the right person. When I was a snake charmer, I saw such a snake. This kind of snake likes Yin, and it is generally not easy to find. It is very poisonous, but it doesn't like to bite, unless you provoke it." It's here."

"Great God Aceite, bless this poor man." The old man raised his hands to the sky, praying sincerely.

Mu Xiaomu stared blankly at the bodies of the Mafeiers, Aceite——

Is it another god?