Chapter 16 sky garden

Although there was no fast transmission channel at that time, the gossip about my concubine Aymis fighting the python quickly spread throughout the palace. In a corner of the Nangong Palace, a faint white mist filled the gorgeously decorated bathroom, and the fragrance of lily sesame oil evenly spread in every trace of the air, making people drowsy involuntarily.I lay comfortably in the white marble bath, enjoying Alina's skilled massage skills.From time to time, I would take a sip of my favorite date palm wine with a straw. "Princess, you really scared me. How could you be so calm? If it was me, I would have fainted from fright." Alina said with lingering fear, "Fortunately, nothing happened, otherwise..."

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." I smiled and closed my eyes, "I'm lucky." "However," she suddenly became happy again, "this time the king must be impressed with you, princess, maybe tonight..." I stuffed the straw into her mouth very accurately, and stopped what she was going to say in time. After taking a bath, all the fatigue of the day disappeared without a trace.When I fell asleep in the middle of the night, I suddenly felt as if I had entered a long passage, surrounded by endless darkness, I was walking in the passage in a daze, walking, walking, as if there would never be an end...

I don’t know how long I’ve been walking, but suddenly my eyes open up… What is this place? Pink, lavender, and blue poppies bloomed all over the valley, and the petals were slightly transparent like chiffon.Each flower is very simple, but they merge into a melancholy; the bright colors are warm and bright, but there is a mysterious charm and strangeness in the boundless.The petals of various colors are flying all over the sky in the gray and dark sky, which is even more imaginative. Under the rain of flowers, stood a boy about seventeen or eighteen years old. His rare silver-blue hair danced gently on his shoulders like waves, and there was a smart light in his thin, transparent light green eyes...

"Who are you? Where is this place?" I murmured. He looked at me quietly, "This is the dream I created, I am An Ti, God of Dreams." Anti!I'm impressed with this name!Didn't mother say this name before she disappeared? By the way, what did he say?Oneiroi ----- Antioch? god? ? ?god? ? ? ? No way…… "What's going on? Do you know about my mother? Don't you?" At this moment, I couldn't care whether he was a god or a ghost. I just felt that he must have something to do with my mother's disappearance. He looked at me with a sad face, "Yes, I met Xiaoyin in a dream before and told her an important matter, but she didn't listen to my persuasion, and went to that place without authorization..."

"I know! Now I went to that place just to find her!" My emotions became inexplicably agitated, "Then can you tell me what happened? What happened?" He shook his head, "I can't tell you now." "Then why did you appear in my dream!" A trace of anger welled up in my heart. It turned out that it was because of what this Oneiroi said that my mother left us! "I know you're going there on that train, and I know God—Si Yin is with you. But, you know, when you get to where you're going, maybe it's not the end , but the real beginning.”

I suddenly felt that his words were a bit familiar, as if I had heard them from Si Yin before. "Whether it's the beginning or the end, I just want to find her." I looked at him firmly. A gentle look gradually appeared in his pale green eyes, and he stretched out his hand to stroke my hair, "You and Xiaoyin really look alike, especially the look in your eyes. .” "How could my mother know you? Aren't you the Oneiroi?" I looked at him in surprise. The Oneiroi is the god of the underworld. I know this very well, so I was very confused how my mother knew him.

His eyes were more gentle, "We have known each other since a long time ago..." "We've known each other for a long time?" Just as I was about to ask, he waved his hand at me, and a puff of light green smoke enveloped me, and suddenly I lost consciousness... only vaguely I heard his last voice, "Xiao Yin, please..." When I woke up again, I couldn't fall asleep anyway.I always feel that something is wrong, but my mind is as messy as a weed, as if there are many clues, but I can't figure it out no matter what.After tossing and turning on the bed for a long time, I finally decided to go out for a breath.Was everything real just now, or was it just a dream?Maybe I think too much, so I can achieve such a dream?

"Bang!" As I was walking, I suddenly felt as if I had bumped into someone. When I looked down, I saw that black figure also raised its head just in time. It turned out to be the little boy I saw that night! "Why are you here?" I looked around, "Where's that guard named Mama?" He didn't answer my question, but just glanced at me, "I heard you escaped from Shekou today?" I smiled, "Your news is quite well-informed, but escaping from Shekou sounds a bit useless, it's better to say that fighting the big snake bravely is more majestic."

The corners of his mouth curved slightly, he took a few steps forward, sat down on a rock, and motioned for me to sit down too.Although he really looks like a grown-up to me, I can't fall asleep anyway, so it's good to chat with him to pass the time. "Aren't you afraid?" He asked in a deep voice. "What are you afraid of?" I pointed to my head, "I can use this to think about saving myself. When danger comes, it is useless to panic and scream. Only by keeping extremely calm can you save yourself. At this time, You are on your own." He turned his head and stared at me unblinkingly with those silver-gray eyes.

Seriously, his eyes, even the expression, are exactly the same as his father's. How could they be so similar?Logically, he should be very favored, but why have I never seen him in the daytime, and never heard anyone mention this prince? "By the way, brat," I smiled and sat down beside him, "Why do you come out to wander around in the middle of the night?" There was a strange expression on his face, "This is my habit. What about you? Why do you come out at this time?" "I can't sleep." I replied casually. He looked at me with a half-smile, "Could it be because of being sleepless alone?" As soon as he finished speaking, I had already hit him hard on the head.

"Little devil, you are so precocious, did you say that!" Anger flashed in his eyes, but he suppressed it again, just snorted and stopped talking. "I said, why don't you look like a child?" I looked up to the sky, "When I was your age, I was lively and cute, praised by everyone, loved by everyone...Ah----ah, Kid, look, that shiny place!" I suddenly became excited, pointed to a corner of the sky and said, "Look, look, what does that look like!" He glanced there and said disapprovingly, "It's just a constellation group." "Oh, you bastard, that's Lyra!" I rolled my eyes, "Do you know the legend of Lyra?" He shook his head, "We Babylonians divide constellations for the needs of astrology. I haven't heard of any legends or legends." "I heard from my mother that a long time ago, there was a luthier named Olufis who fell in love with the fairy Yulishi in the world, but one day Yulishi was bitten to death by a poisonous snake. Lu Feisi went to the underworld alone, and Pluto was moved by the sound of his piano, and agreed to let Yulishi go back, but only put forward a condition, before taking her away, he must never turn back..." When I said this, I paused. He snorted coldly, "Needless to say, he must have turned around." I couldn't help laughing. My mother stopped talking at this point, and my reaction was exactly the same as his. "Wrong! As a result, no one expected that Oulufesi walked out with Yulishi in his arms. Of course he didn't need to turn back, because there was no one who was worthy of turning back. The person he loved the most was right there with him. in my arms." He didn't speak, just glanced at the constellations in the sky. "Could it be that the twelve constellations in the zodiac also have corresponding legends?" He finally showed a curious expression. "Of course, do you know that according to the date of birth, everyone has a zodiac sign, and their personality and hobbies will be affected by their zodiac sign." I looked at him sideways and accidentally found him There is a cross-shaped scar on his neck.But I didn't care, and continued, "Not only that, there are twelve different animals..." He suddenly interjected, "Twelve Holy Beasts, I know this." I was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that by the way, Babylon seems to be the first country in the world to use the twelve beasts to name the years and months in the calendar. "Cats, dogs, snakes, rams, bulls, donkeys, lions, falcons, monkeys, flamingos, crocodiles, dung beetles, these are the twelve beasts." He uttered the twelve beasts of Babylon. When I heard him talk about the last animal, I burst out laughing, dung beetle ----- isn't it a dung beetle?Although the dung beetle was a mascot in ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt, but if the Chinese zodiac is also like this, then whoever belongs to the dung beetle... The more I thought about it, the more amusing it became, and I turned around alone and couldn't stop laughing. "What are you laughing at?" He looked at me puzzled. "No, it's nothing..." I turned my head and shook my hands and smiled.He didn't ask any more, just looked at me quietly and smiled, and suddenly said, "Can I call you Aymis?" I froze for a moment, then laughed again, "Okay, but in exchange, you also have to tell me your name." He glared at me, "You won't suffer at all." "Oh, it's okay if you don't say anything, then I'll call you kid, kid, little guy..." "Okay, okay, you can call me Ni--" He paused, and I smiled at Mimi's interface, "Then I'll call you Xiao Ni." "Xiao Ni?" The veins on his forehead twitched. "Aymis, what kind of person do you think the king is?" He asked suddenly. "Wang, if you say he is one of the greatest kings of Babylon, it shouldn't be too much." I'm not stupid enough to criticize his father in front of him. Sure enough, after hearing what I said, a smile appeared on the corner of his stern mouth. The Queen has been bedridden ever since her fright.Although I think she seems a little too fragile, but thinking about it, this appearance may not be a bad thing for her.At least, it will be safer. After a few days, I was summoned by the queen to her palace. She didn't seem to have recovered from the fright, and she was still lying on the bed sickly.When she saw me, her face was obviously less hostile, but she smiled at me politely, "Aymis, thank you very much. In fact, I was... but I really didn't Thinking that you would actually save me...Aymis, I don't know what to say..." She took my hand lightly, "I swear in the name of the goddess Ishtar, I will treat you as a Sisters look at it." "Queen, in fact, this is what I should do." I lowered my head, showing a terrified look. "You saved the queen's life, she should thank you." Nebu's voice suddenly came from behind, the queen's eyes lit up, and she called out in a low voice, "My king..." Neb took a few steps forward, bent down and looked at her, "Do you feel better?" The moment he bent down, the long brown silky hair slid over his shoulders like flowing water and fell onto the bed. My eyes suddenly focused on his neck. I think I read it right, there is a clear cross-shaped scar, exactly the same as Xiaoni's.Not only the shape is the same, even the location is exactly the same. Even father and son, it's impossible for them to be so alike... Even the scars on their necks are exactly the same. It feels... so weird... "My lord, I don't feel well all over. I'm afraid I won't get better..." The queen took the opportunity to act coquettishly. A complicated look flashed across Nebu's face, and he said in a low voice, "Don't say such things again!" The queen seemed taken aback and dared not say anything more. He looked at me and said in a deep voice, "Aymis, come with me." I followed him out in a daze, and when he walked into the courtyard, he stopped suddenly, "I'm afraid I'm going to die. This sentence, my queen mother from Medes also said , As a result, she really didn't get better, and died in depression in missing her homeland. I'm afraid it's not an option for the queen to continue like this." When he said this, there was a hint of melancholy on his cold face. It turns out that Nebu's queen mother also came from Medes. Is this why the queen is favored?The so-called Aiwujiwu? "It's useless for Wang to tell me, I'm not a doctor." I replied lightly. "Last time you saved her even at the cost of your life, I thought you would come up with some way." His tone was flat. "Last time it was a strange accident. I don't know what happened. In fact, I was terribly scared. Fortunately, Wang rescued me in time." I pretended to be terrified. As soon as I finished speaking, my jaw hurt, and I was pinched by him suddenly, and when I was forced to lift my face, I just saw his angry eyes, "Aymis..." The corners of his mouth curled up. With a mocking smile, he let go of me and pointed to my head, "Didn't you use it to save yourself?" I was taken aback, didn't I say this to Xiaoni last night, did this brat leak our conversation to his father? Or ----- I suddenly thought of an idea, which was immediately rejected by myself, impossible, impossible, how can there be such absurd things... It must be Xiao Ni talking nonsense! In the middle of the night, I deliberately came to the old place where I often met Xiao Ni.Sure enough, he was there, and he seemed to get along well with Xiao Kong. "Don't think I don't know, you are the king's son, you can tell by your appearance, how can you tell your father what we talked about, isn't this a betrayal of me! I am unlucky today." Him, I'm a little depressed. "Unlucky? I just said something casually, I won't do it next time," he didn't deny it, and a slightly sarcastic smile inadvertently curled up on the corner of his mouth, and my heart trembled slightly. Exactly the same as Nib's. "Forget it, forget it," I rubbed my chin, which was still a little red and swollen, "Your father is really violent, look, the place where he pinched it is still swollen." His eyes darkened, and he suddenly reached out and touched my chin lightly, and said in a low voice, "It seems to be a little heavy." It's just a child, so I let him touch it, "It's like, it's just like that. In fact, most of the queen's illnesses are heart problems, so just make her happy." "Be happy?" "Yeah, as long as Wang goes to spend more time with her." "The king doesn't have that much time." "Then, do something for her and let her know that he cares about him, it's fine if not." "For example..." "For example, the queen mother missed her home country and died in depression. For a foreign princess who left her home and married, isn't the most memorable thing about her home country? If the king can share some things related to Medes , such as some Midi food, clothes, or imitating Midi’s layout, so that she feels very kind when she sees them, and at the same time, she can feel Wang’s concern, then it must be done.” "Imitating the layout of Medes..." He seemed to be thinking about it with great interest, and looked around, "I heard that Medes is full of lush greenery, with mountains and green trees, which is completely different from Babylon." "Isn't it possible to imitate the scenery of Midi..." I also suddenly became interested. "I heard that Tire has the same scenery?" He asked suddenly.I nodded. Fortunately, Sith made amends to me. I raised my hand, "We have very high mountains in Tire, many forests, and many springs in the forests." He looked up in the direction of my finger, and suddenly laughed, "If you build a very high platform here, surround it layer by layer, plant trees and flowers on it, and introduce the water supply system, it's not like Is it the scenery on the mountain?" I nodded, and a strange feeling suddenly surged in my heart, why did I feel that his description was so familiar... "It's like a..." His eyes were full of luster, "----hanging garden." I just felt a bang hit my head, and I finally knew why it felt so familiar. One of the Seven Wonders of the World --- Hanging Gardens, was actually born in this way... I actually forgot about this. Isn’t it clearly recorded in the book that the Hanging Garden was built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his queen Medes who missed her homeland. "You will definitely tell your father again, won't you?" I asked weakly. "It's a good idea. I think he will be very happy if he finds out. Wouldn't it be good for you?" His brows were full of maturity that didn't match his age, "Maybe, soon you won't have to be alone. asleep." "Uh------Xiao Kong, go and peck his ass!"