[Egyptian doujinshi] The legend of flattery and misfortune

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the annual production of spices is so high, how can it be possible to stop the supply from various countries?

The average height of the Arabian spice tree is three meters, and it produces three times a year, and the workers who harvest it will be busy all year round.The dark green leaves on the spice tree and the purple-red stamens in the golden flowers are just a foil. The real value of the spice tree lies in its brown bark. Workers only need to scrape the bark lightly with a special copper sheet, and the resin will flow out. Made into granules by the spice merchant's secret recipe, it can emit a charming aroma after being burned.

Although frankincense is precious, the output is astonishing, and the consumption in various countries is also astonishing!The pale creamy balsam that gushes out of the Arabian peninsula also heralds this golden age of all-encompassing prosperity.Frankincense can be used as antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, and can be made into oil, ointment, powder and even beverage.

The Egyptian prescriptions mastered by Montali alone include the use of frankincense to treat malignant tumors, ulcers, pustules, eye diseases and ear infections. It is also indispensable for stopping bleeding and healing wounds, and it can also be used for detoxification.In addition to frankincense, Egypt also imported the green paste of gourd, dark brown labdanum, and the common myrrh.

The priests used spices to create a solemn atmosphere of green smoke curling up in the temple. In the strong fragrance, the whole person would be sublimated.Spices are almost as valuable as gold, and what could be more noble than burning incense all day long?Nifanara told Akenami in a calm tone that the temple in Egypt was facing a shortage of spices. In fact, judging from the fact that she came to inform Her Royal Highness in person, the high priest of Luxor was obviously a little anxious.

Akenami knew that Nifanara was a just and pious person, but Norman, the most powerful high priest of the Karnak Temple, was completely different. If they were completely ignorant of the spice shortage situation, then Senasa The triumph will be cast a shadow.Nifanara was right. Victory in foreign wars was certainly worth celebrating, but in a country like Egypt that believed in gods, pharaohs would not be exempted from criticism just because they won.

And for the pharaoh couple, or for the pharaohs of all ages, the temple will always be more difficult to deal with than foreign enemies.

Akenami took a deep breath and forced herself to digest this shocking news slowly, so as not to affect her body with intense emotions: "Pharaoh was fighting in Asia, but someone attacked the route of the Red Sea." She immediately felt He made a decision: "Nifanara, the pharaoh will return soon. But I need you to go back to Thebes to stabilize the situation for me, and hand over my handwriting to the empress dowager. I request to open the spice warehouse in the palace. As for Lu Kesuo, because of the physician group, there should be plenty of spice reserves."

This is to hope that the Empress Dowager and Nifana will lend a helping hand, at least to withstand the time before the pharaoh couple return to the country.

The stock of frankincense is almost the lifeblood of Luxor's group of enshrined physicians and its transcendent status, but since Nifanara has chosen to board Akenami's ship, she will naturally not give up halfway. For the first time, her face showed a slight With a tangled expression, but in the end he still respectfully said: "I am waiting for your orders, Your Highness the Imperial Concubine."

Akenami was greatly relieved, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. For Nifanara's safety, she could not leave any obvious souvenirs.After thinking for a while, she asked Apsu to untie the royal golden beetle amulet hanging from her amethyst bead string, and handed it to Nifanara: "Give this thing to my queen mother!" She will definitely believe you." The next words, Akenami said a little awkwardly: "Please be sure to convince the empress dowager that the pharaoh has captured a lot of spoils, and we will not only make up the amount after the triumph, but also make a certain amount of compensation. .”

This is almost implying that it is too early for the empress dowager to be unprofitable, and this is not a good quality for a person in power in a country.But for a widow from a foreign country who has given birth to six daughters and lost her husband's favor, and is young and widowed, only money and power are the best comforts.Nifanara respectfully said yes, although she couldn't help muttering a few words in her heart, how could she not know about the mutual benefits between the Empress Dowager and the Temple of Amon?

It turned out that she and the Pharaoh couple also care about it.

Nifanara suggested: "I will do my best, Your Royal Highness, but this matter must be resolved fundamentally." She was referring to the blockage of the trade route from the Red Sea to Upper Egypt. Whether there is no ability or no willingness, no one goes to solve it: "There are only land trade routes there. The ancient canal has already dried up 2000 years ago. I really don't understand what is worth coveting there?"

Not to mention that Nifanara didn't understand, and Akenami didn't understand either, but since something is wrong, it must not be left alone.Akenami hesitated for a long time, and before Nifanara set off, she found Anubis who was pretending to be an ordinary soldier in the port of Bibros, and asked him to protect the high priest and return to the country, and investigate the reason why the trade route was blocked.

Anubis has always been by her side. He witnessed the period that the princess had never experienced when she was with the former pharaoh—pregnancy. , and then grow up day by day.He watched it fascinated, and then told himself that Pharaoh Tutankhamun was watching this joyous scene. It wasn't until Akhinamei asked him to protect the high priest to return to his country that he realized that he really shouldn't watch it anymore.

He gladly took the order and went.

At this time, in a residence in an upper-class community far away in Thebes, the person sitting at the head looked very sullen: "I told you, don't come to Thebes to look for me, if I have any plans, I will look for you .”

Glancing at the submissive man beside her, the woman with a frosty face said, "We really have nowhere to go. Originally, everyone was lurking in the deserted Sun City, but... that hateful Pharaoh, in order to please his woman, put The ruins have been demolished cleanly, and only one palace remains, which is now used as a temple, so where do we have a place to stay and hide?"

It's not that the person above doesn't understand the plight of the two people in front of him: "Then follow the demolished ruins and go to Egypt with the boat. You have worked for a lifetime, don't you know how to do it now? I have risked At great risk, we set up footholds along the Red Sea, and it won’t be long before our people will be liberated.”

The woman hesitated for a moment. She was born in a mud-brick shed when she was young. She has been digging mud, drying bricks and moving bricks since she was born. It has been more than 30 years since she was born.The days were hard, and the Egyptians paid meager wages, just enough to fill their stomachs, but apart from that, her family had no other way of making a living in this ancient kingdom, so she betrayed a message: "I really want to Go to work, but the prisoners of war that Pharaoh brought back from Nubia last time robbed us of our work, and the foreman said that we are dirty people and are not worthy of touching the new building that the new Pharaoh will start."

The person above narrowed his eyes slightly: "Where is it?"

The cowardly man who had been silent for a while received the woman's instructions, and said calmly, "Yes...it's the Fayoum Oasis not far from Lower Egypt, near the canal."

The person who gave the orders used to be in charge of a large number of documents and knew the information on every inch of Egypt, but now he is wasting time in legal disputes day after day of stealing cattle and goats. He has long been dissatisfied, but since he took office, that Seeing that the stupid concubine made the police force independent by accident, it almost made him beat his chest.He immediately sketched the landform of Fayoum Oasis in his mind, and couldn't help but start to despise the pharaoh. He couldn't think of any other reason for what he did except to flatter that beautiful woman.

"Fayoum Oasis..." He stroked his beard, "There is the Great Princess of Amenhotep III, which is the former residence of Princess Taiyi, the grandmother of the current queen. It seems that the pharaoh intends to expand and repair the beautiful and rare harem. I can’t think of any other reason than to please his astonishingly beautiful wife.”

So the value of this message is negated?The woman thought that the pharaoh had changed, so she couldn't help being disappointed. She licked her lips: "So, we can leave soon? Go to the rich land of honey and milk that God promised?"

For someone who has worked with mud bricks all his life, this is certainly enough.But for those with big ambitions, it is definitely not enough.Yargubai made a silent gesture to the Milian couple. It turned out that outsiders had joined the room they were in, and the limestone mud tablet held in Musa's arm fell off.

He was shocked to see his father talking with a group of low-class people in a room. Both he and his father were clerks, and they were high-class Egyptians who mastered the noble script. Looking at the two strange, low-class people face, he couldn't figure it out anyway.

"Musa, go back to your room!" Yargubai ordered: "I have guests."

"This kind of person deserves to be called a guest?" Musa noticed that the woman was looking at him with a faintly sad look, felt awkward, slammed the door and turned away.

Milian asked Yargubai with reproach: "You never told him?"

"A person can never deny the blood he shed." Of course, he will not let unrelated people know that he shed ordinary blood. , Another great recovery of the ethnic group, and it is unprecedented, and Yargubai thought that he was also qualified enough to be called a prophet, and this son was his best weapon: "Musa could not be an Egyptian, but He's going to be great."

Milian didn't dare to speak, she felt that Yargubai had gone crazy a long time ago.

Akenami fully thought that she would welcome the Pharaoh who had won a complete victory, but she did not expect that there would be a large group of children coming. Senasa jumped off the chariot, and explained while unbuttoning the cloak: "It doesn't matter Whether it is a city-state tribe that submits or resists, their heirs will be directly designated by the Pharaoh in the future. In order to ensure their loyalty, I selected the children with the best qualifications and let them be hostages. Deeper feelings, and will not betray lightly in the future."

This is really a good solution once and for all, and receiving education from the suzerain country directly from childhood will save Egypt a lot of trouble.There are more than a dozen children ranging from three or four years old to their teens, and they will be released back to their hometown only when their father dies.They huddled together in fear like lambs, but they had clean faces and neat clothes, and it was obvious that they were well taken care of during the march.

Akenna Mei sighed: "They are not very old, so they have to hire some nannies."

Sai Nasha stared at her belly closely, wanting to hug her, but he was afraid to move, and said indifferently: "Don't worry about the expenses, their father's family has been emptied."

These children all stared at the big beauty with a gentle expression, and the beauty smiled at them from time to time. If it wasn't for the terrifying lion-like pharaoh dominating the beauty, the children who were terrified among the rude men all the way would have died. They surrounded me, and one of the youngest said secretly: "When I went out, my mother's belly was like this. The nanny told me that there would be a little brother or a little sister."

So the children all looked over curiously, Akenami blushed all of a sudden, Senasa raised her eyebrows, and helped Akenami into the room.

He felt quite at a loss, afraid that his recklessness would hurt the weak Akenami, but obviously the pregnant woman was beyond his imagination.Neither Senasa nor Ramses expected that Nefert would be here. She rushed in front of the stunned Sid Haller at a speed that ordinary people could not reach, slapped him hard, and then started Pulling his clothes, he finally burst into tears: "Didn't you say you'll be back soon?"

Then Sid Haller began to comfort Nefert with all kinds of words that were too nasty to listen to.

Meng Dali said "hehe": "Did you see it, Your Majesty, so you don't have to be so careful."

Sai Nasha wanted to say: Hey, you have a big belly too!But he didn't dare, offending anyone can't offend the Chief Physician. Instead, Ramses took a second look and asked depressedly, "What's going on recently?"

But this is not unusual for him, he has so many women and children, such scenes are common in his family.

So Sai Nasha put his hand on Akenami's stomach, and slowly touched it around the exciting arc, and finally he was not willing to take his hand away, and asked dryly: "Are you okay?" ?"

"Okay, me and..., we are fine." Akenami didn't know what happened. Although she had occasional sorrows over the past two months, she did not shed tears. Instead, when she saw Sai Nasha appearing, Eye sockets turned red involuntarily.

The author has something to say: the beetle amulet of the Egyptians is still very famous, because the Egyptians believe that the beetle pushes the sun to run from east to west every day, and is the little partner of the sun god... Hey, are you really talking about beetles? Dung beetle...

This big beetle ring is really beautiful (well, the author hates bugs...)

I accidentally discovered that Google used to commemorate the day Carter discovered Tutu's tomb. Google really loves me. Did you see the bed with double animal heads I posted?