On the day of the Feast of the Valley, Egypt once again ushered in a grand parade.

This colorful event, like the Opate Festival, starts from the Karnak Temple on the east bank of the Nile.The only difference is that on this day, people in Egypt will put the three holy images in the Karnak Temple in the shrine on the top of the holy ship, and then cross the Nile River, and the monks will tie the holy images to the lifting pole of the holy ship and carried them to the west bank of the Nile.

The Opate Festival is held on the east bank of the Nile.

The Feast of the Valley takes place on the west bank of the Nile.

The former is more to thank the great gods and celebrate the harvest, while the latter is a ceremony to express awe to the gods.

During the River Valley Feast Festival in previous years, the three sacred images carried out from the Karnak Temple on the east bank were the main god Amon, the wife of Amon, Mut, and the child of Amon, Kong.

This is the tradition of the New Kingdom of Egypt, which has not changed for a hundred years.

But today, when the monks lifted the three holy images from the holy boat and lifted the white cloth covering the holy images, the holy image that appeared was not the Amon that the Egyptian people who had been waiting on the shore had thought. God's family.

The middle one of the three icons is both familiar and unfamiliar to these Egyptians.

It was the sun god Aten, who was highly praised by Pharaoh Akhenaton.

Almost half of the people couldn't understand this result, they didn't understand why Pharaoh changed the sun god from the god Amon they had always believed in to the god Aten.

In these years, the former envoy of the gods and the current queen Nefertiti has been in the temple of Aton, and the pharaoh Ekhnaton strongly admired the god Aton, and even tried his best to establish the god Aton as the only main god in Egypt. .

This is undoubtedly a huge change. The ordinary people in Egypt cannot understand the twists and turns. Although the nobles and royal families of Egypt tried to stop the persuasion, it was of no avail.

The conflict between the priesthood of Amon and the royal power of Egypt became more and more intense, and the nobles, as a third party, had little effect after intervening.

The nobles present looked at the icon of Aton in the middle of the three icons, and couldn't help sighing in their hearts. This time, Akhenaton might really want to disregard public opinion and completely change the main god Amon they believed in to the god Aton.

Ekhnaton, who was standing in front of the icon, glanced at the Egyptian people below, and he turned a blind eye to the surprised, puzzled or angry faces of these people.

In eight years, compared with the 15 years old, Ekhnaton in his 20s has more mature experience and the elegance of a king. He is dressed in gorgeous clothes and the golden crown on his head symbolizes the power and majesty of the pharaoh. .

The eagle with outstretched wings and the cobra king represent protection and conquest.The pale golden eyeshadow on his deep and sharp eye sockets perfectly connected with the thick long eyelashes, making him extravagant and handsome.

If we say that Ekhnaton eight years ago was a precious sword just out of its sheath, with a cold light bursting out, wild and fierce.Then the current pharaoh has accumulated a calm spirit and a strong sense of hierarchical oppression.

Even if he didn't say anything, he just stood there quietly, and with a glance of his eyes, the people who were arguing about the appearance of the icon of Aton were instantly silenced.

For these people's reactions, Ekhnaton didn't think it was mean, these were what he had already expected.

Now that the icon of Amon was replaced by the icon of Aton, he considered various consequences and prepared countermeasures.

In order to weaken the rights of the priests of Amon and re-centralize the divided royal power in his hands, he has prepared for nearly 12 years, so no matter how these people do not understand and object, they cannot change his decision.

Ekhnaton withdrew his gaze, lowered his deep eyes slightly, and glanced at the thin golden thread on his wrist.This is a bracelet made of Nefertiti's hair. It was a few strands that Ekhnaton insisted on cutting from Nefertiti's hair eight years ago.After he ordered craftsmen to weave it into a bracelet, he sprinkled it with antiseptic powder, and it has been worn on his hands for so many years.

He had been preparing for today for a long time, and probably his only regret was that Nefertiti was not by his side, so he couldn't see this grand event.

Standing ten meters away from Ekhnaton was a handsome boy. The boy was in the process of development and his body had already started to twitch.He was wearing the same gorgeous costume, his complexion was fairer than ordinary people, and he had a blue ear-like pendant on his hair.

The rope of this pendant is on the left side of the young man's head, and after being tempered with a layer of light gold, it extends all the way to the young man's forehead.

And in the center of his forehead, there was another gem-shaped thing hanging. If you took a closer look, you would find that it was a small golden mask made of gold.

Beside the boy, there was a tall man standing. The man's hair was a little special, and the end of his hair was an unusual red color, like the surging red river in the setting sun.

"Gary, is father going to announce today?" The boy turned his head and looked at the head of the guard beside him.

"Yes." Gary replied truthfully. He was Ekhenaton's confidant and Pharaoh's right-hand man.

When the teenager, Tutankhamun was four years old, he was sent by Pharaoh Akhenaton to be Tutankhamun's mentor.

But at that time, both Chia and Tutankhamun knew very well that the chief guard Gary was not only a teacher who came to teach His Royal Highness martial arts, but also a supervisor who monitored the movements of the prince and Chia, the mother and child.

But even if Tutankhamun knew this very clearly, it did not prevent him from liking Gary.

Of course, this kind of liking is just a kind of respect for those who can improve their abilities and become powerful.

"Father, he should be opposed by many people." Tutankhamun first glanced at the crowd watching, then at the Pharaoh who was calm and discreet, and said casually, as if Just like watching the excitement, he didn't care about Ekhnaton's appearance at all.

Gary didn't speak.

For this pair of father and son, he himself has no right to consult.The pharaoh still cared about Tutankhamun because of the queen, but this kind of caring is not the father's caring for the child, but more like caring about a useful commodity after weighing it.

Tutankhamun is not stupid, on the contrary, as His Highness, he is quite smart, and he saw the clues of this very early on.The feelings for Ekhnaton also gradually became dull from the initial reverence.

Seeing that Gary was silent, Tutankhamun glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and guessed what Gary was thinking at the moment.

He raised his eyebrows, but didn't make another sound.

He knew what Gary was thinking. In fact, at the beginning, Tutankhamun expected to get his father's love.At that time, he couldn't understand his father's indifference towards his mother, let alone why his father looked at his mother with a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

Tutankhamun couldn't understand why he made his mother his concubine since his father didn't like his mother.

What made Tutankhamun even more puzzled was that his mother also disliked his father, even with disgust, and looked at his father as if he was looking at an enemy.

At that time, Tutankhamun was puzzled by this more than once. It was not until later that he grew up and learned more and more that he realized that there was a person between his mother and father.

And the existence of this person is the root of all this.

Queen Nefertiti is known as the most beautiful person in the world.

Tutankhamun never met the queen, but there is a vague picture in his memory.He has an amazing memory since he was a child. In the blurred picture in his mind, there is a man wearing a golden mask.

Blonde hair, blue eyes.

Like the sun and the sea.

But Tutankhamun remembered that when that person touched his cheek, the cool and delicate fingertips, and the calm and indifferent coldness in the blue eyes.

Tutankhamun heard a lot of rumors about Nefertiti, all of which were praises without exception.It is said that he is an irreplaceable existence in Egypt, and that he is a gift from the sun god to Egypt.

For Nefertiti, Tutankhamun's senses were complex.He thought of the golden mask carefully kept by his mother in the room, and his mother's intoxicated and joyful expression every time she mentioned Nefertiti, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

Because in the mother's eyes, what floats out is the love and longing for her lover.

Tutankhamun knew that his mother used to be a dancer, and when his father was going to give his mother to the prince of the Hittite country, Nefertiti stopped him and took her as a maid by his side.

Later, Tutankhamun used some means to learn the story of his mother and Nefertiti from other people, as well as the forbidden history of his father, mother, and Nefertiti.

After knowing the ins and outs, Tutankhamun's perception of Nefertiti became more complicated.

On the one hand, he instinctively hates Nefertiti, who seems to be a perfect existence in the eyes of everyone. As a child of his mother, he hates Nefertiti, in the name of punishment, making his mother miss her for a long time.Out of selfishness, he even thought that if it wasn't for Nefertiti, his mother and father wouldn't be as enemies as they are now.

But on the other hand, Tutankhamun knew very well that nothing would exist without Nefertiti.His mother may have been sent to the neighboring Hittites, and it is impossible for him to come into this world.

Moreover, Tutankhamun still had a subtle and hazy closeness to Nefertiti deep in his heart.

He himself could not say why.

Maybe it's because Nefertiti took his name, or maybe it's because of the blurred picture in memory.

Thinking of this, Tutankhamun couldn't help raising his hand, and touched the golden mask pendant on his forehead with his fingertips.

It was given to him by his mother when he was four years old.He could have declined the gift, but instead let his mother wear it on his forehead.Even after that, he would always touch this delicate and hard coldness from time to time.

"Gary," Tutankhamun asked the chief guard next to him again, but this time it was not about Pharaoh Ekhnaton, but about Nefertiti.

"What kind of person is the queen?" Although Tutankhamun had countless conjectures about Nefertiti, this was the first time he asked.

Gary heard the words, but did not answer immediately like the last question, but remained silent for a long time, until Tutankhamun looked at him with puzzled eyes, Gary's lips moved a bit, and said: "It is a very Charismatic people."

"Very charming..." Tutankhamun chuckled, with a look of coldness in his eyes: "This is really an expected answer, but you know, Gary, what I want to know is not just asking someone casually. A perfunctory and exaggerated answer that can be said."

Gary shook his head slightly, "It's not perfunctory or exaggerated." He paused for a moment before continuing, "When you see the queen, you will understand the meaning of my words."

"See?" Tutankhamun seemed to have heard a joke, "The queen has stayed in the Temple of Aten for nearly eight years, and no one except the pharaoh can go in. How can I see him?" , Tutankhamun's volume could not help but be raised a little, even revealing an aggressive meaning.

"There will be a chance." Gary replied, and then he seemed to suddenly think of something, and gave Tutankhamun a weird look.

Tutankhamun met Gary's eyes, and he paused for a moment, as if he also realized that he was a little emotional.

He calmed down a bit, and quickly restrained his expression.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and the people who were looking at Pharaoh Ekhnaton looked in another direction.

And in this direction, at this moment, several people exclaimed, and they called out a name in an extremely excited tone.

"Nefertiti!"

"It's Nefertiti!"

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