Hida [Daughter of the Nile] being picked up

"Izmi, are you listening to me?" King Bitedo's dissatisfied voice could almost lift the roof off.

"Father, King Lagash of Babylon proposed to Queen Isis of Egypt." Izmi rubbed his brows, "I'm listening, Father."

"Izmi, what's the matter with you these days, you're listless at every turn, like a boy who has just been abandoned by a woman, you are my son, why are you so spiritless!" King Bitedo scolded, "Izmi, You are the king of the future, you won’t get what you want, I can’t see you having the same virtue as those literati, I shouldn’t let you follow your teacher since childhood.”

Izmi hesitated, and continued unhurriedly: "Father, Teacher Rabalu has taught me a lot."

"So what, men are supposed to belong to the battlefield." King Bitedo stared at him, "Egypt is eyeing us. Once you form an alliance with Babylon, have you never thought about what will happen?"

"Father, I don't think it will do us any harm whether Queen Isis agrees or not."

"How to say?"

"The previous king of Egypt had a very good idea, to give half of Egypt to his son and half to his daughter, and then they would combine to give birth to a pure blood heir, but he never thought that things would evolve to this day. Because of the marriage between the daughter of the Nile River and Memphis , Queen Isis and Memphis have long been estranged, and once a rift arises, the siblings will never be the same as before." Izmi pondered, "I still remember that Isis hijacked me before Do you want to borrow more troops than Taido?"

"Remember, that stupid woman."

"She has not hesitated to introduce Bitedo's army for the position of Princess of Egypt. I don't think she can provide any help to Egypt after becoming Princess of Babylon. A hypocritical ally will only add trouble, and King Lagash is another Ambitious people."

King Bitaido stroked his beard, "According to what you said, it would be better to find a way to facilitate this marriage as soon as possible?"

"No, not necessarily." Izmi said enthusiastically, "Although Memphis is irritable and domineering, he is not completely ruthless to his sister who supports him, and Isis has a solid foundation in Lower Egypt for so many years. If she stays in Egypt, then the upper and lower Egypt must be divided, and it would be more interesting to collapse from the inside, wouldn't it?"

"Izmi, your opinion is very good." King Bitedo nodded approvingly, "But I think Isis will agree this time, and Memphis will join forces with the ministers of the court and China to put pressure on her, unless she She has the determination and courage to completely retreat to Lower Egypt and break with Memphis, otherwise she has no choice."

"Then we might as well wait and see what happens." Izmi said comfortably, "Memphis will regret putting a jealous and hateful woman into the hands of King Lagash."

"Speaking of women, Izmi, I want to ask you something seriously. You have to tell me the truth." King Bitedo coughed twice and asked solemnly, "When do you plan to marry the princess?"

"Father, I'm not in a hurry now." Izmi said helplessly.

"But your mother and I are very anxious! And those old men in Punkus are almost reading my ears out of my ears. You don't want General Nullah's daughter, you think the prime minister's daughter is stupid, and you think the princess next door is someone else. Talk too much, Izmi, when are you willing to meet Bitedo’s future heir?” King Bitedo yelled, “You are a prince, not an insignificant farmer in the country, Izmi, you What kind of woman do you want to marry?"

how is it like?Izmi is silent, he knows what the person he loves looks like, but he will never be able to marry him.

They should have set foot on the land of Babylon by now, or should he have left this world——

Because of the plan of visiting by the way, the three of Xida and the others stopped and stopped along the way, not in a hurry, and finally stepped into the gate of Babylon after dawdling for more than a month.

"Xilda, the houses in Babylon are not as beautiful as Tido's house, and a bit more magnificent than Tido's house." Bisang lay on her chest and bit his ear.

"I think so too," Hilda said, "Bisang can build a room like that when he grows up."

"Well, I'll reserve the biggest room for you." Bisang nodded seriously.

Kim led them to a Babylonian official to register first. The official documents were very cumbersome. Kim took out a stack of large and small documents, and it was almost an hour after everything was finalized.

At the place where the Bitaido envoys lived, they saw the person Kim was going to take over. He was a man with a short stature and a chubby acorn sausage. As for Xida, the position the prince arranged for her was clearly for her to fill the gap. It was for this reason that everyone in the embassy looked at her with an indescribable caution.

Taking them to their respective houses, the maids carefully arranged things and presented fresh fruits.

"Xila, are we going to be here in the future?" Bisang lay down on the table, grabbed a fruit and bit it.

Xida paused, smiled and said, "Yes, it's not bad here, right. I'll take you to the street to play later. I heard that Babylon has a very grand festival these two days, and it should be very lively around the temple."

"Just now at the gate of the city, I saw many people cleaning and hanging ribbons. What are they going to do?"

"I heard that their king is getting married, and they are preparing to welcome the bride."

"Who is the new bride? Is she beautiful?" Bisang looked at her curiously.

"It's the queen of Egypt, she should be very beautiful." Xida said, "I haven't seen her either."

"Egyptians..." Bisan muttered, lowering his head to eat the fruit.

After packing up, Xida took Bisang out for a stroll, and Kim also took the initiative to join in.

"Kim, what's that place?" Xida pointed to the front. It was a rectangular building like a temple, with tall stone pillars surrounded by statues of gods of various shapes. The posture of the vegetable market during the festival is crowded by the crowd. Men in robes and women in headscarves, no matter the nobles with a group of servants and the poor in rags, are all piled up nearby.

"That's Babylon's annual celebration." Kim mumbled, "Girls sit in the temple here."

"Sitting in the temple? What is that?" Xida asked, "Why are those girls sitting on the ground in rows? Let's go and see, it seems very interesting." She said as if to go inside.

"It's just a ceremony." Kim hurried forward to pull her back, hesitantly hesitated for a long time, "We should not go with Bisang, it's the place where women are picked by men."

"Choose? You mean—" Xida blushed and verified.

"Girls in Babylon have to go to the temple to get married. As long as a man gives her money, she can't refuse, but after this night of fun, no one can force her." Kim explained in a low voice, pulling Xida and Bisang , "So let's change places."

Bisang didn't understand why, so he kept asking Kim why he didn't go to that interesting place just now, which made him very embarrassed, but soon Bisang's whole mind was attracted by a tall tower that went straight into the sky in the distance.

"What's that?" He pointed to the tower and shouted excitedly, "It's so tall."

Although many skyscrapers have been built in modern times, Xida was also shocked when he suddenly saw a tall tower with more than ten floors in such an era when the houses with simple tools were generally low.

Kim stared at the tower, "That is the Tower of Babel. It was built by the previous generations of Babylonian kings. There is a temple of Marduk on the top. The Babylonians hope to be closer to the sky so that the sky can hear them." Voice, this tower is the symbol of Babylon."

"I'll go over and have a look first—" Bisang yelled while running forward.

Seeing that Bisang was running away, Kim suddenly said, "Xila, do you—do you want to leave? Along the way, you looked at Bisang very reluctantly, as if you would never see him again."

Xida was startled, and then smiled wryly, "Kim, you can see." She looked at Bisang's back, "I'm going to go home soon."

"Your Highness knows you are leaving?"

Xida nodded and said softly: "This is what I agreed with him before. He will take care of Bisang for me and stop forcing me, and let me go home."

"So that's how it is." Kim let out a deep breath, "I have never figured out why His Highness assigned you such a position."

"Kim, I—" Xida didn't dare to meet Kim's eyes, "I'm sorry."

"I'm not angry with you." Kim hesitated, reaching out to pat her on the shoulder, "I know you don't want to lie to me—it's just that some things are hard to say, I know, I have been too At times like this, it's not something to apologize for."

"Xila, I know everything you want to say." He looked at Xida seriously.

In the study room, Izmi and Noura were discussing with the map. An urgent secret letter was presented, and Noura opened it.

"What did you say?" Izumi asked.

"It came from Luca." Noura said in a strange tone, "Queen Isis agreed to the marriage, but she made a condition that the daughter of the Nile River should go to Babylon to marry her. After a few days of quarreling in the Egyptian royal palace, she still agreed to send the daughter of the Nile River Go to Babylon as a messenger with the dowry of Isis."

"The eagle actually wants to be friends with the rabbit, and Isis also wants to marry the daughter of the Nile River. It's really strange." Izmi knocked on the table, "What else did Luka say?"

"He said that he would report back to Daughter of Nile at any time. This is the best time to take away Daughter of Nile."

Izmi remained silent, "Send the letter to the king and let him decide who to send there."

"Okay, Your Highness." Nula got up and was about to call someone.

"Wait—" Izmi suddenly called out to Noura, who stared at the letter with a hesitant expression.

Finally, he hesitated and said, "Tell Father, Babylon—I should go there myself."

This day, Xida and Bisang still had a great time, but when they came back, they found that Kim was waiting for them at the door.

"Brother Kim, we brought you something delicious, which was just picked from the tree." Bisang ran to him holding the fruit.

Kim took a fruit and touched Bisang's head, "Thank you, Bisang, you can go back and rest first."

He raised his head and looked at Xida, "Xila, I want to talk to you, can you come to my room?" He looked dignified, a bit elusive under the dark sky.

Sensing his seriousness, Xida nodded involuntarily, "Okay."

Bringing Shida to the edge of the table, he lit the oil lamp and sat opposite Shida, and the jumping lights cast changing shadows on his face.

He took a few deep breaths and said slowly, "Xilda, His Royal Highness is coming to Babylon."

Izmi is coming?Shida didn't know so she looked at him.

"Go before the prince notices you, Xida." He lowered his head to avoid Xida's sight, and said quickly.

"I—knew you were a woman."

The author has something to say:. . .Happy Zongzi Festival everyone. . .

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