From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

Upper and lower Egyptian border, Assiut.

Lower Egypt's embargo against Upper Egypt is in effect.There are ships from Lower Egypt patrolling the river every day, and the road is also blocked.

The soldiers enforcing the blockade meticulously carried out the pharaoh's order: "Not a single grain of wheat can be transported into Upper Egypt."

However, in a small border town, it is impossible to divide them so clearly and strictly.

Some families lived in Upper Egypt, but family members and friends lived half a day away in Lower Egypt.

Lower Egypt can exchange for food, so they want to secretly send some to their relatives in Upper Egypt.

In addition, there are even some desperate desperadoes who want to smuggle a large amount of grain and wheat to Upper Egypt in exchange for gold and jewelry from the Upper Egyptians.They are delusional to use this to obtain amazing wealth.

Therefore, outside the city of Asiut, on the side of the border of Lower Egypt, the defenders of Lower Egypt captured the food transporters.

Whether it is ordinary people or desperadoes, they all show their heads to the public.The head of the deceased was lifted high and hung on a wooden pole, but the body was thrown into the river to feed the fish.

The people of Asiut looked at this scene with great distress, not only because of their family members and friends involved, but also because of the bleak prospects of Asiut City——

Grain storage has almost bottomed out, and the recent period coincides with the flood season.Whether it is a big river or a tributary, the water is turbid and turbulent, making it impossible to fish.

If this continues, everyone will go hungry.

There are not only Upper Egyptian civilians in Asiut, but also Lower Egyptian spies.

They may have been officials sent by Pharaoh to various places in Upper Egypt. They learned the local accent and understood the psychology of the local people. The state of mind of the Siut people made this important trade transit and supply station on the border, and the political orientation quickly shifted from Thebes to Memphis.

This provocation was somewhat effective at first.

After all, the spies had good eloquence, and the first time they opened their mouths, they were eloquent: "When we went to Egypt before that woman, we didn't need to worry about food at this time. If we didn't have enough food, we asked Pharaoh for it. A little bit, we won’t watch us go hungry.”

"But now..."

"That woman just stays in Thebes by herself, and doesn't come to other nomes. We cry louder, can she hear me?"

That woman, of course, refers to Erich.

The people of Asiut generally have a good impression of Ailixi: "But... the first princess once saved the whole city, and now the pharaoh is targeting the whole of Upper Egypt, and we can't... blame her for it all. Bar!"

"Besides, without her, Asiut wouldn't have the current council. Aren't the nobles in the city the ones who have the final say?"

The deliberative system established by Elyse in Thebes also spread to Asiut, giving the dull city a new look and allowing more people to participate in the city's decision-making.

"But aren't we still hungry now?"

The spy made a sarcasm, and the Asiuts immediately lowered their heads.

A grain of wheat can't beat a hero, and people can't eat enough. Even if people have a thousand hearts and ten thousand hearts, it's useless to defend Elyse.

In the end, the spy gained the upper hand, and he said with a smile: "Anyway, don't blindly trust that woman, don't listen to what she says, and worship whatever god she leads you to believe in, just in case it's an evil god..."

At this time, there was a sudden rolling of thunder in the distance, followed by a rumbling sound——

An incomparably dazzling electric light flashed in front of everyone's eyes.

When everyone woke up, they suddenly smelled a burnt smell.There seemed to be countless electric snakes running up and down on the head of the Memphis spy. Most of his hair was burnt, his face was blackened with smoke, and his eyes were straight, as if he was regretting why he had to speak nonsense and accuse someone he didn't understand. The gods are evil gods.

Immediately there was a deafening roar in everyone's ears: "Cow dung!"

The person who came was Nanna, the envoy of the God of War. She carried a few electric discharges given to her by Elyse, and she happened to try her hand on this Memphis spy.

"Everyone, I am Nanna, the envoy of the God of War Mengtu, and I am here in Asiut in the name of the priest of the God of Amon, Mrs. Elixi."

The Asiut people heard the words of the God of War God Envoy, and slowly woke up, and asked one after another: "Are you going to lead us to challenge Pharaoh's soldiers and grab food from them? But... there are already many people Because of this, I was killed..."

The Asiut people who were related to the victim immediately shed tears.

Nanna scanned the crowd, slowed down her tone, and said as softly as possible: "I am not here to lead you to grab food from Pharaoh, I am here to assist the priest of Amon God, Master Elyse, to complete all the missions that Amon God gave to you. The promise of the people of Egypt."

"She swore before God that she will give food to the hungry and water to the thirsty... People who never do evil, God Amon will never sit back and watch your suffering."

The spirits of the Asiut people were in a state of flux, but the spies who had just recovered from the thunderbolt were stunned: there is no grain-producing area in Upper Egypt, what would the priests of the gods use to give food to the hungry?Could it be... is divine power really helping her make cakes to satisfy her hunger?

But Nanna untied the bag of wheat seeds she was carrying on her back and said loudly, "Take it—"

"Plant it anywhere you can think of, and after three days, three days, you can get the food you want!"

"Anywhere?"

"Three days?"

Looking at the handful of golden-yellow wheat seeds in his hand, the Asiut people thought in their hearts: Isn't this a joke?

Nanna nodded with certainty: "Yes, in front of the door, in the backyard, in front of the stove, under the bed... any place, no matter what soil it needs, no need to water and irrigate, three days, I promise, after three days , you will be able to eat bread made from the new harvest.

"The premise is that you really plant all these wheat seeds, instead of eating all the wheat seeds in a moment of greed."

"God Amon cares for those who believe in Him."

"As long as you are willing to believe in the wishes made by God, believe that God will eventually give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothing to the naked, and boats to the needs... After three days, you will witness it with your own eyes and taste it with your own mouth. God's favor for you."

Therefore, every Asiut received a handful of wheat seeds from Nanna and took them back carefully.

Even the spy who tried to make trouble was no exception. He returned with a handful of wheat, but made up his mind to see the jokes of the Asiut people.

"Wheat that grows into bread in three days? This is a dream!"

Without any hesitation, the spy directly threshed the wheat seeds, ground them into flour, kneaded them into wheat cakes and baked them to satisfy his hunger.

He knew that sooner or later the famine would cause riots in the city of Asiut, and before that, he had to make all possible preparations, let alone let himself be hungry casually.

Nanna saw with her own eyes that people took the wheat back with a suspicious look, turned around with a smile, and took out a huge, pod-like seed from the bottom of the bag. When she turned her head, she planted it directly on the Asiut was in the middle, on the square where the boundary stone was placed.

Three days later, the Lower Egyptian spies, whose grain jars had finally bottomed out, walked up the streets of Asiut with their chests on their backs.He was ready to complain with the whole town.

But the sight in front of him stunned him.

He clearly saw that the Asiut people were holding long ears of wheat one after another in their hands. The ears of wheat were hanging heavily, and the golden-yellow wheat grains were full. It seemed that the harvest was quite good.

"It's amazing—I planted this wheat under the vines in the backyard. There is no sunlight, and there is no special irrigation. When I woke up this morning, the backyard was full of wheat ears, and I could hardly get my feet off..."

"You are not special, like me, I planted it in my bedroom, and when I woke up today, I felt as if I was sleeping in a wheat field..."

"You guys are nothing, you know, the Abu's house in the west of the city took all the wheat seeds on the wall of his small building..."

Everyone was stunned now, and it took a while before they asked, "Is this okay?"

"That's not right!" Abu's neighbor who spoke earlier waved his hands to describe to the Asiut people gathered in front of him, "When the morning sun shines on the wall of his house, the whole wall is covered with a The whole piece is golden!"

Everyone imagined in their minds, a whole wall covered with golden ears of wheat, and the heavy ears of wheat were neatly hanging down towards the ground, and the air was filled with the smell of wheat... Will there be a shortage of food?

"Let us thank the gods for their care!"

The Asiut people, who could no longer believe in this miracle, knelt down and worshiped the God Amon they had imagined in their minds.

"Thank you, God Amon, for giving us food with such miracles to satisfy our food and clothing."

The spy who came down to Egypt is so regretful that his intestines are green at this moment. If he had known this, he should not have ground those wheat seeds into flour and eaten them early in the morning. He should have kept them and secretly sent them to Lower Egypt to tell Pharaoh this. Information that matters.

But fortunately, every family planted this kind of wheat according to the oracle. The spies in Egypt thought that there was a way to get the wheat seeds grown from these wheat. You can steal it from a special person's backyard, and you can always steal it.

These wheat seeds should be sent to Lower Egypt as soon as possible, as evidence that the Upper Egyptians have received food.

At this moment, Nanna, the envoy of the God of War, was leaning against a big tree with her mouth slightly raised, waiting for the Asiuts who made a fuss.

"Master Nanna!"

"We... succeeded!"

"Thank the gods for their care for the Asiut people..."

After everyone was feeling emotional, someone finally noticed the tall and sturdy tree behind Nanna, with a towering canopy. According to visual estimation, the height was at least forty to fifty cubits, and it was a giant.

It was so huge that it directly became Nanna's background board, and the Asiuts didn't even notice it for a while.

"This... this tree doesn't seem to have..."

Finally someone whispered a question.

You know, three days ago, this place was still a small square with a flat ground, and such an eye-catching towering tree must have never existed.

But once people have experienced the three-day process of planting a wall of wheat, they will not be particularly surprised by the appearance of such a stalwart tree behind Nanna.

"This is also what God Amon specially bestowed on Asius—"

Nanna responded sternly.

"The promise made by the gods is to give food to the hungry and water to the thirsty—three days ago, the gods gave you the wheat seeds that can grow fast. And this is what the gods gave to the Asiut people when they were extremely short of water. source of drinking water.”

Can such a big tree also become a water source?

Also, why is Assiut, which is located on the bank of the big river, short of water?

The Asiut was puzzled for a while.

And Nanna explained with a straight face: "Recently, do you consume a lot of beer and wine? If you don't drink alcohol, people who drink directly from the river or stream will get sick?"

The people of Asiut suddenly realized: it turned out that the envoy was talking about the time when the river was flooding.

Immediately someone answered: "Yes, during this period of time, the river was flooded and the water was turbid, even the wells that the Asiuts dug themselves. We really... rely on wine for a living, so some people always say something crazy You have neglected the envoy of God with your stupid words, and I hope you will forgive me."

Nanna immediately turned around, reached out and patted the huge tree trunk behind her, and said, "It's not a problem to use wine as water, but it is the water storage device given to you by the gods."

"There is a lot of water stored in this giant tree. Just dig a hole in the bark, and you can use clay pots to receive the sap. Its sap can be drunk directly..."

"In addition, its fruit tastes very good, the fruit can be squeezed for tea, the seeds contained in the fruit can be squeezed for oil, and the squeezed oil can be used for cooking..."

"In addition, many parts of it can be used as medicine to treat common injuries..."

As Nanna spoke, the Asiuts listened intently—you know, this is a tree bestowed by gods.

Unexpectedly, Nanna became slower and slower as she spoke, and scratched her head from time to time——

"The only shortcoming of this tree is that the name is too hard to remember..."

At the end, Nanna patted her head in embarrassment.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she finally remembered the name of this towering giant tree that Ailixi had told her.

"It's called—the baobab tree."