From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

Dawn, Saqqara.

It started to rain again in the middle of the night last night, and when the sky reappeared, the rain eased, and it seemed to stop and stop.

The rain washed away the traces of Asin's demon flame burning last night, and Erich ordered her to keep her mouth shut.Except for the people who witnessed it with their own eyes, this matter has not been leaked again.

Most of the roads outside the Saqqara Palace have been submerged in the water, and the water is rising slowly but firmly, step by step, without passing one stone step after another.

Elixiso ordered people to close the gate of the palace, firstly to prevent people from panic when seeing the rising water, and secondly, to avoid animals that also ran to the heights to escape, such as jackals, rabbits, wild cats, wild monkeys... no After identifying the direction, he plunged into the palace.

In addition, it is to properly arrange the more than 600 civilians accommodated in the palace, so that they can all be busy.Lest these people be idle and troublesome, and lest they worry in vain because of the flood.

When she was looking around, she found that besides Nanna, there was another follower beside her——

Wearing a dry and clean off-white linen robe, Senmut followed Erich step by step, especially in crowded places.

Erich was speechless for a moment: It turned out that the asylum proposed by Senmut last night was actually like this.

According to Senmut's explanation, as a strong empath, he is very susceptible to the emotions of others and may amplify these emotions in himself, especially in places where many people gather.

After being infected by too many external emotions, Senmut's own emotions may lose control, undergo extremely dangerous mutations, and eventually go crazy.

Therefore, before finding a way to effectively shield other people's emotions again, the safest and safest way for Senmut is to get as close as possible to an emotionally stable person and use him/her as his anchor.Even in the midst of wildly fluctuating crowd moods, he was able to maintain stability accordingly.

Is there anything Elise can do?

Avoid being destroyed because of her.

And she also promised to find a way to make up for it.

So now Nanna and Senmut are like guardians, following her every step of the way in the Saqqara palace.

However, this guy Senmut asked a lot of questions.

He looked around the Saqqara Palace and asked in surprise, "You actually placed all these civilians in the highest place...in the Pharaoh's palace?"

Alicia asked, "Otherwise?"

The Saqqara palace has a vast area, and it can accommodate thousands of people when the pharaoh arrives.

Guards, priests, priests, civil and military officials, the harem with a large number of people... Once entering this huge building complex, it is like water being sucked by a sponge, and there is no trace of it outside.

But there is only a small piece of land on the highest ground - a main hall plus a dozen courtyards, each courtyard has two to ten rooms, and the other is the astronomical observatory not far from the palace.

Erich planned for the worst and therefore placed everyone on top.

If Delos knows this, it must be a felony of arrogance and disrespect, but Erich doesn't care about it.

Senmut was in awe: "Princess, I am sincerely pleased with your vision."

Alixi glanced at Senmut: "Isn't this also your vision?"

She believes that Senmut, who is also Asut, also has a premonition that the flooding of the big river this time cannot be completed by simply rising the water for two days.

Senmut didn't answer, his smile was slightly restrained, and there was deep worry in his eyes.

In the other corner of the small square, the craftsman leader Karam, who almost lost his son yesterday, is directing a team of craftsmen to demolish a magnificent hall.

This palace is different from most buildings in Saqqara Palace.

Most of the native Egyptian buildings are constructed by laying mud bricks between large stone pillars, and then plastering the walls with mortar.

This hall is all built with huge cedar wood imported from foreign countries, with wooden pillars, wooden walls, and wooden doors. The hall is decorated with exquisitely carved wood carvings of various colors and beautiful paintings.

Karam led the carpenters to set up the scaffolding, and removed all the wood from the roof.

The newly dismantled wood was immediately sent to another group of people, split into neat firewood, and sent to the kitchen to be dried as a fuel reserve.

In the kitchen, a mill has been installed and the bellows have been opened.The experienced women in the women's team are in charge of quickly grinding the transported grain into flour and baking it into bread as soon as possible.

Looking at the demolished hall, Nanna felt it was a pity: "These are all high-quality pine logs brought from the Phoenicians... they were chopped up and used as firewood..."

Alicia raised her eyebrows: "It's the pharaoh's palace that's being demolished, not ours."

"That's right!" Nanna didn't feel distressed immediately.

A group of them passed a courtyard when they were inspecting, and saw that the wooden door at the entrance of the courtyard was closed, and a single ear of wheat was drawn on the door panel with chalk.

Nanna: "This is probably where Team Wheat is stationed."

"Team Wheat?" Senmut didn't know the allusion.

Here's what happened last night when he used his trip to salvage food:

After accommodating a large number of civilians who had taken refuge, in order to maintain order in the palace, Erich organized the civilians into teams according to the villages where they originally lived and worked, and placed them in various courtyards of the palace.

There was some trouble when it came to naming the teams.

Elyse originally wanted to use numbers, standardized names like one team, two teams and three teams——

But more than half of the people here are civilians who don't know how to count, and they often stay where they are for a long time when they hear a number.Using numbers as team names doesn't work at all.

Alixi simply asked the teams to play freely and think of names by themselves.

As a result, the team names of each squad were surprisingly uniform——Barley team, Wheat team, Bread team, Beer team, Barbecue team...

Alicia: Look, food is the most important thing for people——it's true in all ages.

Management is also simpler now, as long as the corresponding marks are drawn with chalk made of chalk on the doors of the courtyards where the teams live, they can avoid going wrong.

What Senmut sees now is the Wheat team's residence.

Beside this door panel, a young boy with short-shaven hair was squatting by the wall, playing with a pile of dry reed stems.

The child's upper body was bare, and he was only wearing a waistcoat, but he was carrying a small rucksack on his back, which was so bulging that he didn't know what it contained.

He put the reed stems one by one in an open space at the base of the wall, and counted a number every time he put one.

"one two Three……"

Alicia asked, "Hunsu, what are you doing?"

With a cry, Hansu turned around, looked up at Ai Lixi with her clean face, and asked sweetly: "Such a beautiful sister, how do you know my name?" ?”

The innocence and cuteness of the child made Alixi laugh.

Nanna, who is the God of War's favored person, put on a fierce face, and said to the child, "Hey, boy, why are you so rude? Don't yell, this is the princess... the first princess!"

So Hansu called Ai Lixi: "Sister Wangfei!"

Nanna choked suddenly.

Erich just raised the corners of her mouth slightly, but she heard Senmut's voice beside her laugh heartily: "You really can remember everyone you've met."

Alixi only saw Hansu last night, and remembered his appearance and name, and recognized him again today.

The little boy looked at Elyse with dark eyes, and instantly became close.

This seems to perfectly explain how Ailixi appeased the more than 30 followers who were bewitched and intimidated by Asin, making them follow willingly.

Alixi ignored the interruption of the other two, and continued to ask: "Hansu, tell sister, what are you doing?"

On Hansu's dark complexioned face, a pair of big, shining eyes were full of brilliance.

"I'm helping Team Wheat count their numbers. When the count is clear, tell my father, and everyone will know."

Without waiting for Ai Lixi to continue asking, he held up the reed stalk in his hand and showed it to Ai Lixi: "Every uncle and aunt in this yard handed me a reed stalk. Hansu can count How many people were discharged from the hospital?"

Counting the total number of civilians who came to take refuge was a task that Elyse assigned to each team earlier.

In the future, whether it is managing and distributing food, or maintaining order, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the number of people in the palace.

It's just that Alixi didn't expect that these militia teams would also have difficulties in counting the number of people, and they needed the help of children like Hansu.

Obviously, Hunsu's father was the leader of the artisan team, and the child was taught by his father, so he should have mastered counting and simple calculations.

Alixi remained calm and said, "Hansu, can you tell my sister which teams have counted their numbers?"

The little boy ran with bare feet.

After a while, he ran back and reported a number: "The craftsman team has counted, including Hansu, there are 35 people."

He first put down five reed stalks on the ground, and then began to touch his bag.

Alicia watched coldly, knowing that he was looking for an aid for counting.

Hansu fumbled for a long time out of the bag, only to find a small bone.

This is a Y-shaped bone, depending on the size, it should be the sternum of a chicken or a pigeon.

Its shape is also a bit like the yoke that an Egyptian farmer put on a camel when he drove it to plow the land.

This kind of bone is called wishing bone in later generations, and it is said that it can also be used for divination of good or bad luck.

But Hansu looked extremely annoyed, with a small face flushed, scratching his head and said: "This represents ten, but I only have one, and there are 35 craftsmen in the craftsman team... I shouldn't have used the items used for counting yesterday." They all stayed in the village."

This also explains why Kalam didn't even want his son, but also brought measuring tools out of the construction site that was about to be flooded.

Ailixi handed Hansu a piece of chalk and said, "Use this to draw a few identical pieces on the ground, can it represent it?"

Hunsu slapped the back of his head heavily, as if blaming himself for being too stupid.

He placed the wishbones flat next to the earlier reed poles, and drew three like that, and adding the five reed poles, it was equivalent to writing down the number 35.The kid ran away, probably to ask the statistics of the other teams.

Ellie hoped for the bird bones, chalk marks, and reeds on the ground, propping her chin in a daze.

She knew roughly in her heart: this is decimal counting.But it is not a real decimal system, it is still an accumulative counting method①.

This way of counting does work for simple everyday needs, but it's slow to use—the bigger the number the more so.

In a blink of an eye, Hansu asked the numbers of several teams, and they were all recorded on the ground. He also found a rope to assist in painting—the Egyptians of this era used the rope to represent the concept of hundreds. .

After half a morning's work, the child actually counted the total number of people who came to the Saqqara palace for refuge: 620 and seven people.

Alicia: This efficiency is really touching——

"Hansu, do you know how to express it in numbers... Divide a bag of grain into two, three, or four equal portions...and then, one of them?" Alicia asked Hansu casually.

Hansu was stunned for a moment, his face was filled with the expression that the question was beyond the outline.

He stared at Ai Lixi for a long time, then shook his head vigorously and said, "Daddy never taught me."

Alicia asked the words out, feeling a little puzzled in her heart.

Why did she suddenly want to ask about the concept of fractions?

It is obvious that ordinary people in this era can barely count within a hundred and ten.

I don't know where this thought came from, it is really embarrassing for Hansu to ask it now.

But I heard Senmut Qingyue's voice behind me: "What the princess asked just now... I was exploring the king's Saqqara palace the night before yesterday, and found an item that can answer the princess's question."

Alice was taken aback for a moment.

an item?

Can you explain how the Egyptians expressed fractions?

She turned her head to look at Senmut, only to see that the high priest himself was a little dazed, as if the rush to answer just now was not his intention.

But Alixie had been aroused with curiosity, nodded and said yes, and expressed her willingness to check with Senmut.

Senmut also calmed down, and led Erich and Nanna to the highest and most spacious palace.

This hall has a huge bronze door, and the pattern of acacia flowers is densely cast on the door.

When the sun is shining on the two giant gates, the acacia pattern can be seen flowing in brilliance. It is undoubtedly true that the designers and builders of this palace were ingenious.

Stepping into the hall, one end of the hall has now been temporarily converted into Erich's bedroom, where her sedan chair painted with gold lacquer is placed, surrounded by papyrus screens.

At the other end of the hall is the throne of the Pharaoh.

This pharaoh's exclusive high-back chair is connected with a tall screen wall.Between the screen wall and the back wall of the temple is a narrow passage that can barely accommodate two people walking side by side.Because the screen wall blocked the light, the corridor was very dark.

Senmut brought Erich and Nanna into this aisle, facing the back of the high-back chair, Senmut pointed to the dark wall——

Alicia could vaguely see a vague figure on the wall.

"This is……"

"This is the Eye of Horus, also known as the Holy Eye, have you... heard of it?" Senmut explained to Erich softly.

Alicia: ...

Of course she had heard of the Eye of Horus, and she also had the experience of using the Eye of Horus and being bumped into by the high priest in front of her.

After a while, the pattern of the Eye of Horus lit up bit by bit.

Alicia: ...Oops!

She quickly hid her right arm behind her back, and at the same time restrained her spirituality, lest she perform a separation of the spirit body from the physical body in front of Senmut on the spot, and directly enter the Eye of Horus.

Unexpectedly, Senmut continued to explain: "Princess, I am now infusing this Eye of Horus with spirituality."

"Your question is how to express one of several equal parts."

"Here is the answer - the right corner of the eye of Horus represents half, the eyeball represents half of the right eye, the eyebrow represents half of the eyeball, the left corner represents half of the eyebrow, the eyelash represents half of the left eye, and the tear represents half of the eyelash ..."

Following Senmut's explanation, the various parts of the Eye of Horus brightened in sequence, obviously because Senmut injected spirituality into it.

艾丽希在心中默算，右眼角代表1/2，眼球1/4，眉毛1/8……

If you add up the areas of the various parts of the Eye of Horus, you can only get 63/64... What about the remaining 1/64?

Could it be that the Egyptians who invented the fractional feature of this pattern never thought of adding up these fractions to finally get a perfect and complete 1?

"Of course, adding all these symbols and the scores they represent is not complete, and it lacks the value of a tear." Senmut continued to explain.

"This is because the gods believe that everything in the world has irreparable shortcomings, and there is no perfection. Therefore, even the Eye of Horus cannot represent completeness."

Alicia couldn't help being a little sad when she heard Senmut say that.

Based on her limited life experience, she has never experienced anything perfect, on the contrary, there are always many shortcomings.

Suppressing her sadness, she glanced at the High Priest.

But Senmut was staring at the shining Eye of Horus on the wall, and there seemed to be a little crystal star shining in the corner of the eye.

It seems that the little sadness in Alixie's heart just now was magnified several times when it came to Senmut.

Sure enough, she is a strong empath - Erich thought quietly.

Before she could recover, Nanna suddenly grabbed Elich's arm, pulling her back a big step, and their backs hit the partition wall behind them at the same time.

"Be careful--"

Nanna shouted in desperation.

The volume of God of War's Blessed One was so loud that Erich could only feel a buzzing in her eardrums, and could hardly hear anything in an instant.

But the Eye of Horus in front of her suddenly burst out with a strong light.

The shock came from under the feet, and the whole earth seemed to be shaking.

At this moment, Senmut stepped forward, stretched out his arms, and tried his best to block Erich, as if he wanted to bear the consequences for his actions just now.

Erich looked over the shoulder of the high priest, and saw that the Eye of Horus was moving slowly.

Not only the Eye of Horus, but the entire wall opposite was moving.

The screen wall behind the pharaoh's throne actually began to move to the sides at this moment.

Gradually, the tremors of the earth stopped.

The intense light released by the Eye of Horus also gradually dissipated.

In front of Alixie and the others, an open stone door appeared on the stone wall.

Under the dim light, one can see a road behind the stone gate, slowly descending, leading to nowhere.

Erich glanced at Senmut's graceful side profile, and remembered what he had said: "In the palace of Saqqara, it is said that there is the tomb of Nitocris, the first female pharaoh."