[comprehensive] dear king

"Is that her?"

"Seems to be……"

"Ah... look here."

The maids whispered, and when they saw the person they were talking about turned their heads to look at them, they immediately turned away and pretended that they had never looked at her. Kaori blinked and looked blankly at Bibi who saw her running The maids who are faster than little rabbits, "What's going on?" She couldn't help muttering.

Li Xin looked at her silly look, shook her head and sighed, "It's nothing, Ninua asked you to try the dishes, how do you feel after eating?" She smiled and reached out to touch Kaori's hair, showing a loving expression Come.

"Hmm... the foie gras is a little greasy no matter how you handle it, I think the king will be angry after eating it." Xiangori said while holding a stack of clay tablets in her hands, "And he also wants to make dessert, and he is almost exhausted. "

"...It's really hard work for him." Li Xin sighed under great pressure, and Xun Er took two steps forward holding the clay tablet, and then felt someone pointing at her back, so she turned her head and happened to see Several maids turned their heads suddenly, and one twisted her neck because she turned too fast, and she was rubbing with a painful expression.

"What the hell is going on here?" Kaori wondered, since two days ago, she felt that people were watching everywhere she went, and this feeling became more obvious these days.

"Don't worry, they're just curious." Li Xin laughed.

"Curious?" Kaori turned her head to look behind herself, "Is there something strange about me?"

"Not really, but it's not a big deal." Li Xin walked side by side with her, and he couldn't bear to tell Xiangori that the maids' curiosity came from the king's frequent calls to her bed during this period, "By the way, Why don't you go to the market? Although the palace has the freshest ingredients from all over the world, they are all prepared for the king. The servants eat bread bought from the market. If you are lucky, you will find fresh dates. .”

"Okay." Xiangori smiled and nodded, "I haven't eaten dates yet." She followed behind Li Xin, but saw several veiled women walking towards her, Li Xin hurriedly took the incense Zhizhi retreated to the side to make way for them. One of the women who was the leader glanced sideways at Kaori, but she didn't stop and walked straight forward.

"Who are they?" Xiangori waited until they were far away before she dared to ask Li Xin. The head maid looked at their backs, "Once every three years, think about it." She frowned, "This They are the priestesses of the White Temple, probably here to discuss the holy marriage with the king."

"Holy marriage?" When Xiangori heard this term, her heart skipped a beat, "Is the king going to get married?"

"Every three years, the king is going to marry the priest of the goddess Ishtar. You didn't catch up with it before. This is the busiest time. What's wrong with you?" Seeing that her expression was not right, Li Xin couldn't help but hold her hand Putting it on Kaori's shoulder, she is also someone who has experienced it after all, and she is not indifferent to these things, "Don't tell me you are against the king—"

"Ah, ah, no—" Kaori blushed, "I'm not. I didn't—uh..." She didn't know what to say for a while.

Li Xin frowned with a headache, "Son, it's not that I didn't warn you, Wang won't love anyone, don't pour your affection on him, otherwise all you have to do is cry bitterly."

Xiangori hugged the clay tablet, lowered her head, her lips were tightly pressed together, "I've already cried." When she lowered her head and raised her face to look at Li Xin, her eyes were sparkling.

"I have cried already." The princess repeated again.

The child's eyes were filled with so much more than just a single tear.

Li Xin didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only change the subject abruptly, "By the way, besides seeing if there are any dates, let's go a little further and go outside to see what the herdsmen produce from goat milk. What's the matter, it can be used to make milk cakes." The way she smiled made people hate to say that her way of changing the subject was too blunt.

Kaori could only narrow her eyes and nod.

The herdsmen living outside the city are a little far away from the royal palace, and this is also the first time for Xiangori to ride in a donkey cart. This little thing with long ears has to scream "ahhh, ahhhh" and wants to rub her lips against Kaori's. The calf was so small that the princess had no choice but to stroke its ears, "Let's go well, when you reach your destination, I will feed you the vegetable leaves." As if understanding, the donkey, encouraged by the princess, raised its hooves and ran briskly stand up.

"It's really amazing," Li Xin couldn't help laughing, "How does it seem to understand what you're talking about?"

Kaori stuck out her tongue, Moe passed the test.

"But why do you put so much wheat on the donkey cart?" Xiangori couldn't help asking Li Xin while sitting in front.

"Of course it is used to exchange goat milk and dates? Most people don't use wool thread, so what can they exchange for instead of wheat?" Li Xin patted the donkey's butt, feeling strange about Xiangori's question.

"...Really?" There is no concept of money in this era, "Isn't that very troublesome?" Every time I have to ask someone to help carry wheat to the car, in case the other party wants to exchange goats, sheep, or calves. Such creatures are even more troublesome.

"I'm used to it, but I don't find it too troublesome. You can also exchange salt and spices. Compared with wheat, salt and spices are slightly more expensive." Lixin counted the prices of various commodities for Xiangori with his fingers. How many bushels of oats are worth dates, and how many lambs are worth a cow.

Kaori felt dizzy hearing this, and explained it in one sentence: the market price is actually quite chaotic, and it is still on the commercial basis of bartering.

Seeing her tangled face, Li Xin knew that she didn't understand much, and thought about teaching her after a while. At this time, they had already crossed the wide main road of Uruk and walked towards the outer ring city. After going out of the gate of the outer ring city is the place where the herdsmen live together. They welcome Lixin very much. After all, the head maid brought the wheat and flour they welcome, which is enough to make bread for food. their food source for the winter.

Recently, the milk production of dairy goats has increased a lot, and there is still a lot of wealth to drink and make milk cakes by themselves. In addition, the annual flood period will come in a few days, and they will also bring their flocks to raise their milk. The family moved to the wall of the outer ring city to avoid the flood, and came out to graze and cultivate after the flood period. Wheat was the best trade.

"These are all high-quality barley." The herdsman Adad held a handful of wheat to test the plumpness, and couldn't help sighing, "As expected of the wheat dedicated to King Gilgamesh, I have never seen such good barley." of it."

"It's just that the wheat harvest has been good recently, so it looks a little fuller." Li Xin smiled, "I don't dare to exchange the wheat dedicated to the king for goat milk. These are all set aside by the king for business."

Kaori watched curiously from the side as they bargained with each other, but a little lamb bumped up to Kaori's feet and bit her skirt. Feeling soft-hearted, Kaori was immediately attracted to the attention, the little thing bit the hem of the skirt, and yelled "baa-baa", and Kaori didn't know where to put her hands and feet.

"Oh." She knelt down and touched it twice, the little guy was even more out of control, "baa, baa~" She stuck out her tongue and licked Kaori's fingers.

"Hahahahaha, the little girl you brought really pleases the little animals?" Adad laughed, "But the lamb can't be sold, I have to keep it for the second half of the year's business."

"Of course, this kid just likes the little animals." Li Xin was overjoyed to see Xiangori being at a loss by the little lamb.

"By the way, it's rare to come here. Come in and have a cup of hot goat's milk before leaving." Adad was very satisfied with this business, and boldly planned to invite the two maids from the palace to drink some goat's milk before leaving. After drinking a glass of beer, he started chatting, "Have you heard that the herdsmen in the east have encountered some troubles recently." His face flushed a little because of the beer, "A trap was set up to keep wild animals. But I don’t know what kind of troublesome things destroyed it, and the hunters often complain that someone deliberately destroyed their traps, maybe it’s not a dystocia devil?”

"Didn't someone see it before? It's a monster with horns growing on its head, standing as tall as three people. It's so ugly—"

Kaori hugged the coquettish little lamb and listened to them mentioning "a certain terrible monster" back and forth. For some reason, she felt as if she had heard this story before.

While chatting like this, the bell in front of the shepherd's tent rang suddenly, and Adad stood up, "What's the matter today, the guests are really frequent." He walked to the front of the tent and rolled up the reed curtain, and saw Standing outside was a muscular young man with curly brown hair and honey-colored eyes, "Sorry," said the strange young man, "my convoy is outside now, because it is moving a little faster, and it is slower than expected. Arrived early, but we can only enter the outer ring city of Uruk tomorrow, can we temporarily stay here overnight?"

He had a scimitar with a black scabbard on his waist, and he looked like a high-ranking officer. Of course, Adad didn't dare to refuse, and said with a smile on his face, "Okay, sir, there's no problem, sir," he rubbed his hands , "Let me send off my previous guests first, and then I will prepare a tent for you."

The young man smiled, he was still young, and his smile was very childish.

"Let's go." Lixin took Xunori's hand, and Xunori put down the little lamb in his arms, and the latter still refused to give up entanglement with the princess, bleating around her feet, "Oh, I can't I'll take you away." Xiangori touched two handfuls of the lamb in embarrassment, and it circled around Xiangori's feet and began to lick her ankles.

Adad came up directly and took away the bleating lamb, who sounded aggrieved like something.

"This is a young ewe, and it will be able to produce milk after another year of breeding. Come and drink then." He likes this girl very much, and welcomes her to come and sit in the tent often.

Xiangori bowed her head to thank her, and followed Li Xin out, just bumped into an unknown young man head-on, the princess apologized vaguely, got on a donkey cart and left with Li Xin.

And he was still watching, his eyes chasing the girl on the donkey cart.

It wasn't until his companion called his name, "Mesang Nepada? Mesang Nepada?!" He didn't react from his stupefaction.

"Who is that girl?" He looked blankly at the sunset glow outside the tent that dyed the sky red, as if something was missing in his heart, "That girl—"

"What girl?" His partner didn't see his girl, so he was confused by his reaction, wondering if he had bumped into a demon and had his soul taken away.

"She is the star in the sky, the pearl in the water." Said Mesangepada.

"I want to know who she is."

He must know.

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Go check the Sumerian King List and you will know who Mesang Nepada is...

Give up, boy, you can't beat【】

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