swear to love heaven

Shiling Shiling Museum

Just entering May, the temperature has been soaring all the way, as if spring has just turned around and summer is coming.

Today is a rare cloudy weather. Thick clouds block the scorching sun and bring a little bit of coolness to this hot end of spring.The weather forecast said that there will be thunderstorms today, and the thick clouds are very low. Looking up at the sky, it seems that there must be a heavy rain in the afternoon.

With a huge schoolbag hanging on her left shoulder and her other hand not empty, Xia Yuebai walked quickly into the gate of the museum, carrying a bulging eco-bag.

"Xiao Xia, you're here!" Lao Wang in the guard room opened the window, poked his head out and greeted loudly.

He stopped and smiled back. "Master Wang, aren't you on night shift today? Why are you here so early?"

"Tomorrow my nephew is getting married, and today I'm changing shifts."

"Congratulations, you have to pack a big red envelope." Lao Wang will spend money tomorrow, and now this kind of favor gift money is soaring, you are embarrassed to give it without one or two thousand.

Old Wang nodded, smiling full of air, and at the same time there was a hint of helplessness on his face. "Haha, yes! That's my nephew, he's indispensable."

"I'm going to find my dad first."

"Okay, okay, you go quickly."

Weighing the heavy environmental protection bag, he quickened his pace and walked towards the office building of the museum.

A week ago, the cultural relics from the Cairo Museum in Egypt arrived in Shiling City, where they will hold a one-month exhibition. It took a lot of trouble to get Egypt to agree to exhibit important cultural relics abroad.

Her father, Xia Huatian, as the deputy director of the museum, in order to make this rare exhibition perfect, these days he temporarily lives in the staff dormitory of the museum, and personally supervises the preparations before the exhibition every day. It was to send him a change of clothes every few days, and take the dirty clothes home by the way.

This museum is not unfamiliar to her at all. Since elementary school, she has spent almost all her winter and summer vacations in this historic museum.While other children used their holidays to travel, she spent the entire holiday with a bunch of antiques behind glass covers.

In fact, she really likes this quiet place with a bit of mystery. Antiquities that have gone through thousands of years of wind and rain have bloomed with vitality again in another era. This is a wonderful and indescribable feeling.

"Dad." Putting the clean clothes in Xia Huatian's dormitory, Xia Yuebai came to the hall specially prepared for the exhibition of Egyptian cultural relics on the right side of the museum. When he entered, he saw Xia Huatian and the staff inspecting the cultural relics.

"Yuebai, come and see, come and see!" Xia Huatian waved to her, with an excited expression like a child who found a treasure.

Walking to his side, I saw an oval copper mirror the size of a magazine in his hand.It is said that it is a mirror, but in fact, it can't even clearly see the faces of people, it can only vaguely reflect some distorted figures. "Bronze mirror?"

"Exquisite, exquisite! This is a bronze mirror of the Twelve Dynasties. Look at the workmanship and carving skills. This is the craftsmanship of craftsmen more than 3000 years ago. It's amazing!" Xia Hua said in admiration. Tian tutted down the bronze mirror in amazement, and asked the staff to carefully place it on the mirror frame.

Laughing, my father is always full of infinite love and pity for cultural relics, as if those things covered with the dust of time are all living things that can speak.

Glancing around, she saw a huge glass cabinet lying in the center of the hall. She hadn't seen this thing when she came to deliver the clothes three days ago, and Xia Yuebai walked over curiously.

The three-meter-long transparent glass cabinet is covered with a shining golden coffin. Ancient Egyptian characters are carved on the golden coffin wall, and several lifelike portraits are carved on the inner side of the coffin wall.

Xia Yuebai stuck to the glass cover, stood on tiptoe, and looked inside the golden coffin, but found no mummy, but a pair of slender and exquisite golden armor lying quietly inside the coffin.

Under the strong light of the spotlights all around, the golden armor glowed with a hard and cold luster. It was obviously a dazzling golden yellow, but there was an indifferent cold light flowing, which made people feel chills on the back.

For some reason, Xia Yuebai felt a little cold, probably because the air conditioner in the hall was turned on too strongly.

Unable to move his eyes, he continued to stare at the armor.

With the help of the light, some shallow scars could be vaguely seen, extending from the breastplate all the way to the waist. These imprints of different depths and lengths should be caused by sharp weapons.

It is conceivable that the owner of this piece of armor used to gallop on the battlefield of swords, lights, swords and shadows, the bloody battle of thousands of troops, the magnificent sky full of gunpowder... It is a picture scroll that modern people can't imagine at all, and one in the long history. Moments full of victory and death, tragic but desolate.

"It's a pity, there is only one clothes tomb." Xia Huatian walked to his side at some point, and sighed regretfully.

"Cloth tomb?" He was stunned for a moment, then repeated.Thoughts were a little chaotic, Xia Yuebai stared at the armor with scattered eyes, unable to concentrate immediately in a trance.

"Well, when it was excavated from the Valley of the Kings, there was only this armor in the golden coffin, and no king's mummy was found." The intact tomb was not looted by tomb robbers.Therefore, when archaeologists opened the golden coffin, they were disappointed and surprised.

Cloth tombs are quite rare in the tombs of ancient Egyptian emperors, and this well-crafted golden armor belonging to the pharaoh is definitely the most intact and unique among the few ancient armors in Egypt.

"What a beautiful armor." Admiration, born from the heart.Suddenly, he found an inconspicuous little thing, which was placed near the wrist guard of his left hand. "Dad, what's that?"

Following her fingertips, a small bright red thing came into Xia Huatian's eyes. "Oh, it's the scarab. The ancient Egyptians believed that this insect was the messenger between humans and the sun god Amon. They were regarded as holy insects and often appeared in the tombs of emperors."

"Dad, I remember you said that this exhibition is all cultural relics from the Twelve Dynasties of ancient Egypt. Which pharaoh of the Twelve Dynasties does this gold museum belong to?"

"It didn't belong to a pharaoh, it belonged to a queen... Tusahita I."

"Queen? There was a queen in ancient Egypt?" Although his father was a senior historian, Xia Yuebai, like most people, knew very little about history.

Adjusting his glasses, he said with a smile: "Of course, there were two queens in the history of ancient Egypt. One is the well-known Cleopatra, the last queen Cleopatra; and the other is this golden pavilion Owner, Queen Tusasita I of the Twelve Dynasties."

"..." My historical knowledge was really returned to the history teacher intact, Xia Yuebai lamented helplessly.

"Although she was in power for a short time, it was the most prosperous period of ancient Egypt. Her father defeated the Nubians and expanded the territory of ancient Egypt to Nubia. From agriculture to military affairs, it has entered an era of incomparable glory." I really don't understand that Xia Yuebai has been influenced by himself since she was a child, but she still has no interest in history.When filling out the volunteers for the college entrance examination, I actually chose a design major that was completely incompatible with history.

Faintly, with a hint of disdain. "From this point of view, she is an out-and-out second-generation emperor."

"The second generation of the emperor? Yuebai, thank you for thinking of this." Laughing, she patted her daughter's shoulder lightly.

"Father's generation conquered the country, she sits and enjoys the success and inherits the throne, what is it if she is not the second generation of the emperor?" It seems that fighting father is not the patent of modern people, it has become popular thousands of years ago.

Shaking his head, he denied it. "Wrong, her throne was not inherited, but snatched."

"Root? With whom?"

"Her half-brother, she killed him and got the throne."

"She killed her half-brother!" Surprised, and a little... lost, strange emotions that I can't explain clearly.

"Not only the elder brother who was designated to inherit the throne, but also several other adult princes were killed by her. At the beginning of her ascension to the throne, she wiped out the dissident forces in the country. In the second year of power, after she quelled the civil strife in Egypt, she sent troops Cracked down on the Sinai Peninsula and Syria, won a complete victory, and once again expanded the territory of Egypt." Although the unknown Egyptian queen, although her hands were covered with blood, she lived in such a turbulent era. Egypt has brought unprecedented power and wealth, and it can be called a female hero.

After pondering for a while, he turned his face away, not looking at the set of fierce golden armor, and sighed the moment he frowned. "She... killed so many people for the sake of a throne, it's too ruthless and cruel."

"Yuebai, that era is completely different from ours. If she wants to survive in the royal family, she has to face conspiracy and bloodshed. If she doesn't do this, maybe her end will be worse than those killed by her. "A pertinent explanation is that no matter how highly developed civilization is, it is nothing more than a society between people. Power is always the center of human life. For a crown of power, anyone will lose their heart.

"What happened later? What happened to this queen?" Desperation, accompanied by a ray of sadness that I don't know where it came from, lingered in my suddenly heavy heart.

"There are not many records about her in Egyptian history. She was in power for ten years and died less than 30 years old. Since no mummy was found, it is impossible to determine the exact age and cause of death. We can only guess from the limited literature. She may Died in a domestic coup, or in war."

silence.

Unexpectedly... still couldn't escape the same fate, being swallowed by the vortex of power and the battlefield.

The sudden silence attracted Xia Huatian's sideways glance. He looked at Xia Yuebai who was beside him with his head down, who was thinking about something, and shouted a few times.

"Huh?" After a while, Xia Yuebai came back to her senses in a daze, and turned her face away, only to find that Xia Huatian was looking at herself suspiciously.

"What's the matter, you didn't respond when I called you?"

"It's okay." He smiled softly.

The staff took a document to Xia Huatian for verification, and after taking the document, he exhorted Xia Yuebai with concern. "Yuebai, hurry home, it's going to rain soon, don't get drenched."

"Okay, I'm leaving. Go to bed early at night, and don't stay up late when you are old."

"Understood, be careful on the way, go home and lock the door." Don't forget to say a few more words, looking at Xia Yuebai's back.

"Got it!" Turning back while walking, winking at Xia Huatian, he answered loudly.

Just as he walked to the door of the hall, a muffled thunder exploded in the gloomy sky. With a rumbling sound, a bolt of lightning pierced through the clouds and fell to the ground. More and more gray clouds accumulated.

Really, it's going to rain.

He carried his schoolbag on his back and was about to step out the door, but suddenly, he didn't take a step.

Looking back, in the brightly lit hall, the golden coffin was shrouded in bright light, shimmering and blooming with dazzling light, exquisite, luxurious, and beautiful.

However, it was nothing more than a cold and gorgeous coffin, containing a piece of exquisite armor that was also too cold to have the slightest temperature, and a piece of history that had long been left behind by the world...

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"Is it all arranged?"

"Okay, boss, don't worry."

"The day after tomorrow, success or failure depends on it."

"Boss, there will be absolutely no problems. Since we got the news that those treasures are coming to Shiling City, we have started planning and deploying them. Such a perfect plan cannot be missed."

"Brothers, after the night after tomorrow, everyone can sleep on money to live. From now on, everyone must cheer up, do you hear me?"

"Yes." Dozens of people gathered in the hut couldn't suppress their excitement in unison.

"Okay, you guys go first." The man waved his hand, watching the belongings leave the room one after another.

I picked up a brochure from the table. The cover of the brochure was a photo of a golden coffin. His eyes stared straight at the photo, revealing an incomparably greedy look.

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Sitting in front of the computer, typing a few words in the search bar, the index finger rested on the top of the Enter key, hesitating not to press it.

I'm a little confused as to what I'm hesitating about.

Suddenly, the phone rang cheerfully, awakening Xia Yuebai who was absent-minded.

"Yuebai, it's me." A clear female voice came from the phone.

"What's the matter?" I scanned the clock on the wall, it was 23:[-], it would not be a good thing to receive a call from this woman at this time.

"The design draft, have you finished it yet?" He asked cautiously in a soft voice.

Sure enough, he knew that the person knocking on the door in the middle of the night would not be a normal person. "Hurry up, make a final adjustment tonight, and it can be handed in tomorrow."

"Are you finished too?" The last voice was deliberately pulled by the elder.

Leaning against the back of the chair, exerting force on the toes, the swivel chair slowly turned half a circle, and stopped facing the bookcase. "Hui, you haven't finished it yet, have you? It's due tomorrow."

"I know I have to hand it in tomorrow, but I don't have any inspiration. I've been up all night and I've got a black thread. What should I do? Yuebai, please save me!" The girl cried pitifully, but this One trick really doesn't work against Xia Yuebai.

"Save your ass, you've gone out to club again, haven't you?" She knows Ji Hui too well, she will never be fooled by her nonsense, who told her to know this stinky girl for almost ten years.

From elementary school to high school, and then to university, this energetic Ji Hui will only cause all kinds of troubles.

"Yuebai...Xiaobai, isn't youth just for squandering? If we're not crazy now, we'll be old, right?" Pouted into the phone, knowing that Xia Yuebai couldn't see, Ji Hui still acted like a fool .

"Yes, that's right, go crazy, you won't be able to hand in your homework tomorrow, and Lao Li standing in front of you with Bao Gong's face will make your madness continue to escalate." Walking to the bookcase, the phone is sandwiched between the shoulder and the ear, She rummaged back and forth on each shelf, and finally found the book she wanted, pulled it out, and went back to the chair to sit down.

"Little Baibai, my little Baibai, you have to save me! The scores for this design will be included in the evaluation. If I fail to hand in, Lao Li will eat me. I don't want to be a pawn in this class." Lesson! Please, please, Xiaobaibai!" Lao Li was their teacher, known for being strict and rigid.

"Got it, got it, don't howl, I'll send the homework to your mailbox in a while. Miss Ji, I trouble you, please revise it and print it, don't hand it in intact like last time, I will I was killed by you." Rolling his eyes, he thought that the design Ji Hui submitted last time was exactly the same as his own, and the teacher taught them a lesson, don't copy each other, and the work should have its own ideas.Hell, Ji Hui's beautiful head, besides storing the faces of a lot of beautiful men and the addresses of all the bars in the city, she doesn't have any extra space for design and creativity.

"Yeah, don't worry, I'll definitely revise it this time. Yuebai, you're the best, I love you so much!" Ji Hui kissed fiercely and laughed sweetly from the phone.

Helpless, shook his head. "Bye."

"Bye." Ji Hui hung up the phone contentedly.

Put down the phone and let out a long sigh.

Raising his eyes, his eyes returned to the computer screen, the flashing cursor stopped behind a few words, beating regularly and diligently, accompanied by the ticking of the clock on the wall, the room fell into silence again.

Tap the Enter key, a bunch of search items occupy the screen, move the cursor to select one, and click to enter.

"Tusahita, the third pharaoh of the No.12 dynasty and the first queen of Egypt."

"Launched a coup, killed his half-brother, and took the throne at the age of 17. In the same year, many adult princes were killed or exiled."

"In the early days of her reign, she swept away the alien party and quelled the civil strife in Egypt. In the second year, she launched a surprise attack on Syria. As the first queen in Egyptian history, she won the victory in a year and a half, and regained the control of Syria in one fell swoop. the Sinai Peninsula occupied by humans."

"In the ten years of her reign, there have been several small-scale civil wars in the country, but they have not affected her rule. The tough ruling methods and almost violent ruling style have made Egypt under her rule continue to prosper and prosper. , also shrouded in the shadow of the black kingship."

"In ancient Egypt, captives would be reduced to slavery and become the main source of labor for large-scale construction sites. Tusahita did not take the practice of taking prisoners of war, but executed them all. The most serious bloody massacre of prisoners of war was nearly 5 People were killed. According to literature, because there were too many corpses of prisoners of war that could not be disposed of, some of the corpses were thrown into the Mediterranean Sea, causing the floating corpses to stretch for several sea miles, and their appearance was miserable."

"In the golden coffin in the Valley of the Kings, there is only a pair of iron and gold-plated armor she wore during her lifetime, which makes it impossible for historians to correctly deduce her cause of death and her age."

"The records about the reign of Tusa Sita stopped at XXXX years before the public. According to the year at that time, it can be judged that she was less than 30 years old when she died."

"The successor is Tusahita's general when he was in power... Hawkhermos, since ancient Egypt has entered the No.13 dynasty."

"As the queen of Egypt, Tusahita fought against the outside world for several years, expanded her territory, and strengthened her national strength. Her outstanding achievements are indelible, but because of her brutal and iron-fisted style, her reign was cast in the shadow of a gloomy tyrant. .”

A lump of hard-bound air blocked her throat, making Xia Yuebai's breathing slightly sluggish, she exited the page and closed the screen.

She sat at the table for a long time.

The simple words describe a vague history, and Xia Yuebai can't restore the appearance of that era with only this narrative of nearly a thousand characters.

However, for this Egyptian queen, I scribbled a mixed image of fiction and reality... Vicious, courageous, cruel, and despotic.

It was hard for Xia Yuebai to tell whether her impression of Tusasita was good or bad, maybe apart from awe, there was also some disgust.

Suddenly, I felt that my thoughts were ridiculous. For a person more than 3000 years ago, no matter what I thought of her, it was no longer important.

Stretched and smiled.

The raised arms have not been put down, and suddenly remembered that the email to Ji Hui has not been sent, and turned on the screen again with a bitter face, and quickly slid the fingertips on the keyboard...