"Nefertiti, let's play the next game, the one with a bet." Amenhotep IV's eyes showed obvious interest.

Fu Zhenhong paused her hand holding the chess, and said without raising her eyelids, "I'm not in the mood to go along with your tricks."

After the words fell, the black chess in his hand fell on the board.

Then he picked up another white chess piece.

Fu Zhenhong's hands are very slender and fair, with clear bones, and every joint is very delicate and beautiful.

With such hands, the pure white Senet chess is sandwiched between the thumb and the middle finger, and the skin is attached to the hollow of the round hose at the upper end of the Senet chess. A very pleasing beauty.

Even comparing the white chess piece with the skin of his hand, Amenhotep IV couldn't tell whether the Senet chess piece was whiter or Nefertiti's skin was more pure and flawless.

Amenhotep IV watched it for a few seconds, then blinked his eyelashes lightly, and refocused on the conversation with Nefertiti: "Nefertiti, are you afraid that you will lose to me? "He said inexplicably.

Fu Zhenhong replied calmly: "Even if you say that on purpose, it won't do anything to me."

Amenhotep IV was also not angry. He asked back: "Playing Senet chess alone, the fun of clearing the level will be reduced by at least half?"

Fu Zhenhong heard the words, but did not speak again, obviously not intending to pay any attention to what Amenhotep IV meant.

Amenhotep IV didn't care about Fu Zhenhong's indifference, he continued: "Nefertiti, you should know that we are already partners. The relationship between you and me should not always be as indifferent and alienated as it is now .”

Hearing what Amenhotep IV said, Fu Zhenhong didn't speak yet, but the weak chicken system kept complaining in his mind.

[Xiao Hong, just for the enthusiasm that Amenhotep IV wanted you at night, how dare you say that the relationship between you two is indifference and alienation! ]

[Be quiet. ]

[oh!okay. ]

"Neftiti, I am the pharaoh of Egypt, and you are my queen, you should try to accept me."

Fu Zhenhong's tone was cold: "One game of Senet Chess can't change anything."

Amenhotep IV shook his head slightly: "That's not necessarily true." He paused, then smiled: "Isn't there still a bet?"

"So Nefertiti, let's go to the next game." Amenhotep IV once again issued an invitation.

This time, Fu Zhenhong did not refuse, "Okay." He replied, "What is the bet?"

"The loser has to agree to a condition for the winning side."

"En." Fu Zhenhong responded without further words.

Hearing this, Amenhotep IV raised the arc of his lips a little. He took the initiative to arrange the chess pieces on the chessboard according to black and white, and then pushed the box containing the white chess pieces to Fu Zhenhong, and he himself Choose to use black pawns.

"You come first." Amenhotep IV said to Fu Zhenhong. Obviously, he was quite confident in his chess skills.

Fu Zhenhong didn't shirk it either, and took the lead in picking up a white chess piece and placing it on the grid, and started the first pass.

Senet Chess is not a difficult game. Egyptians often play Senet Chess to express their memory of the dead.However, if Senet Chess is further refined, once it is used as a strategic chess game, it requires very careful thinking.

Amenhotep IV has studied the emperor's strategy in depth since he was a child, and he is quite excellent in terms of insight and overall thinking.There are ten moves in the next move, and every move he makes is extraordinarily sharp, without any sloppy euphemism.There is hardly any room left for the opponent.

Amenhotep IV, who was playing Senet chess, was very focused, his face was calm, his thin lips were lightly closed, but there was a natural strength and sharpness between his brows.

At this moment, it seems that what he is playing is not just a game of Senet chess, but a well-planned overall situation.It was as if everything was in his hands, and everything was under his control.

Compared with Amenhotep IV's chess style, Fu Zhenhong's chess style was gentler. In the end, Fu Zhenhong lost to Amenhotep IV by three moves.

Of course, there was also a reason why Fu Zhenhong retained some of her strength.From the very beginning, Fu Zhenhong had no intention of winning this chess game.But this loss, he did not lose deliberately, and Amenhotep IV did not feel it.

"Neftiti, you lost." Amenhotep IV was in a good mood, and even the oppressive feeling between his eyebrows and eyes dissipated a lot.

Fu Zhenhong didn't speak, but looked at Amenhotep IV with her eyes, and signaled Amenhotep IV to tell him the conditions of the bet that he needed to fulfill.

"...Well... I thought about it for a while," Amenhotep IV said with a smile in his eyes, "Nefertiti, I hope you can promise me that when I stretch out my hands to you , you can take the initiative to put your hand in my palm."

What he said, of course, was not just for simply holding hands, but meant that from now on, Nefertiti would respond accordingly to his approach.

They are partners and there should be no estrangement or suspicion.

One should trust each other and then move Egypt to a better future together.

Although Amenhotep IV did not say these words clearly, he knew that Nefertiti understood what he meant.

Fu Zhenhong didn't answer yes or no, but lowered her eyes, as if she was thinking.

Seeing this, Amenhotep IV lowered his tone and said slowly: "Is it possible?" He used a questioning sentence pattern, although he knew that it was unlikely that Nefertiti would break the contract and refuse.

At this time, Amenhotep IV did not have the inviolable and strong appearance of sitting on the throne at all. Instead, he looked like an ordinary man who was waiting for his lover to give him a positive response.

The emperor's brief tenderness is probably like this.

Fu Zhenhong raised her eyes, looked at Amenhotep IV and said, "Why are you doing this?"

After hearing what Fu Zhenhong said, Amenhotep IV breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that Nefertiti had agreed.

"It doesn't make any sense." Fu Zhenhong said again.

"Whether it is meaningful or not, no one will know until the end." Amenhotep IV was surprisingly stubborn on this matter.

Fu Zhenhong said with a cold face, "I don't like you, and that won't change."

Amenhotep IV smiled. He stretched out his hand, and gently brushed Fu Zhenhong's blond hair with his warm fingertips. Then, after seeing Fu Zhenhong's frown, Zhenhong withdrew her hand before avoiding it.

He put his finger on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, as if the fragrance of Fu Zhen's red hair still lingered on it, "Nefertiti, it's too early to say this now."

After finishing speaking, he walked up to Fu Zhenhong and held Fu Zhenhong's hand.Fu Zhenhong didn't withdraw her hand because she only agreed to Amenhotep IV's bet.

Amenhotep IV smiled at Fu Zhenhong, and then interlocked his fingers with Fu Zhenhong's.

"Let's go, I'll take you to a place." Amenhotep IV said mysteriously.

Fu Zhenhong subconsciously asked, "Where are you going?"

Amenhotep IV kept his secret: "You will know when you arrive."

After Amenhotep IV finished speaking, he led Fu Zhenhong out of the Queen's Palace, all the way to the center of Thebes Palace.

After passing through a long corridor, what Fu Zhenhong saw was a sea of ​​flowers that was two meters high.The colors of these flowers are all uniform goose yellow, and the shape of the petals is similar to that of a lotus flower, but the stems are very long and look very slender and soft.

This is Qizihua, a flower specially used to make antipyretic medicine, and it is also a flower that priests need. It can be crushed into juice and sprinkled on the divination plate as a key for divination and blessing for the people.

Looking at these Qizihua, Fu Zhenhong remembered an incident two years ago, the seeds of Qizihua in Thebes were purchased in large quantities by unknown people, which caused the priests of Amon to fail to purchase the corresponding supply, and finally because of this A large number of believers who went to pray for blessings were lost.

At that time, Fu Zhenhong remembered that Kahler had sent someone to thoroughly investigate the unknown person, but the final result was not satisfactory, and then the matter was left alone.

Perhaps Kale, the high priest of Amon at that time, suspected Amenhotep IV, but due to various reasons, he could only suspend the thorough investigation.

Fu Zhenhong probably guessed the reason why Amenhotep IV did this. The ever-expanding Amon priest class had seriously affected the Pharaoh's consolidation of the kingship.

The information obtained from the Time Management Bureau also clearly records that Amenhotep IV has been trying to find ways to weaken the priesthood of Amon since he succeeded the Pharaoh.

"You want to re-centralize the divided kingship in your hands?" Fu Zhenhong withdrew her held hand and looked at Amenhotep IV.

"Yes." Amenhotep IV replied, and he looked back at Fu Zhenhong, with a flash of appreciation in his eagle-like sharp eyes: "Nefertiti, you really know everything."

Fu Zhenhong did not respond to Amenhotep IV's words, but turned her gaze away, looked at the large sea of ​​flowers in front of her, and said, "Just these flowers alone can't change anything."

Amenhotep IV also looked at these flowers: "I know," he said, "so I want to change the essence."

"Essentially..." Fu Zhenhong paused.

Amenhotep IV asked back: "Nefertiti, don't you think the name Amenhotep IV is too cumbersome?" Speaking of which, Amenhotep IV's voice became a little Light, as if recalling something: "I inherited the position of Pharaoh from Amenhotep III, and at the same time inherited the weakening of the royal family's real power."

"So? You want to change your name?"

"Well." Amenhotep IV asked Fu Zhenhong: "Neftiti, what do you think of Akhenaton? From Amon's servant to Aton's glorious soul."

Fu Zhenhong said: "Aren't you worried that I will tell Kale all this?"

"Will you?" Amenhotep IV asked, and before Fu Zhenhong could answer, he said to himself, "My intuition has always been accurate, even if you don't like me now, But you are queen, and your philosophy will be the same as mine."

"Nefertiti, I need your trust, that's why I brought you here to confess my thoughts."

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