Chapter 13 prince of athens

On the day of departure, the boundless Aegean Sea still unfolded in front of my eyes like a dream, with a touch of blue, slightly undulating in the endless sea.Not far from the shore, there is a magnificent ship docked. I looked around, there were men and women, besides me, there also seemed to be children in their teens, they should all be sacrifices, but I don’t know which one of these people is Sika? I was just about to casually ask the boy next to me, when I suddenly heard a commotion not far away, and saw a group of soldiers walking towards here.The boy who was leading the way had short brown hair, a pair of warm pale green eyes, and a green silk ribbon tied across his forehead, with olive leaves on the ribbon. This was a common dress for young Greek men.His sunny face, his calm eyes, his demeanor like a king... Could it be that he——

Only someone shouted: "Your Royal Highness!" Sure enough, it was the Prince of Athens who volunteered to join the sacrifice and went to the Labyrinth of Crete to kill the minotaur-human monster——Theseus, the future King of Athens. He walked up to us, examined us for a while, and kept his eyes on me: "I heard that there is a girl who is the same age as me among the people who have won the lottery this time, and it should be you." Someone said behind him: "His Royal Highness, I heard that Miss Reina is a fool." My face twitched, and I suddenly wanted to beat that person.Why do I have to tell the prince... In this way, don't I have to play a fool all the time!

There was a hint of pity in his eyes: "So it is like this!" It's more important to mix in the boat now, so I opened my mouth and gave him a silly smile.Alas, it's really unlucky, and I, Ye Wan, will be reduced to this field. The tough lines of Theseus seemed to soften a bit: "Don't worry, I will go with you this time, and I will kill the monster with my own hands and bring you all back safely." After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked towards the big ship. go. "Wait!" An old man came staggeringly from not far away. Hearing this voice, Theseus leaned over, turned back, and supported the old man with red eyes: "Father , Didn’t you tell me not to send me off?”

The king put the olive branch entwined with white wool on his head, and motioned his men to take out a white sail, and handed it to Theseus with his own hands: "My child, if you come back safely, take the black sail on board Change sails to white sails, if you still hang black sails, it means failure." Theseus took Bai Fan and nodded, "Father, I will never forget it. Believe me, when you come back, you will see Bai Fan." The king, already in tears, touched his son's face with trembling hands, but could not speak.The corners of Theseus' eyes were also moist, and the hands supporting his father trembled slightly. In the end, he stood up and walked towards the big ship without looking back.

"My child, may God bless you!" the king shouted, waving his hands as the boat slowly left the shore. Theseus nodded with a smile on his face, shining brightly in the sun.I couldn't help feeling secretly in my heart that he really deserved to be the future King of Athens, not because of his incomparable handsome appearance, but because of his calmness and firmness. The boat sailing in the Aegean Sea is like sailing in the sky, as far as the eye can see, it is full of bottomless blue.The white seabirds hovered low over the sea, and the sea breeze brushed across the cheeks with a hint of coolness, carrying a damp and salty taste.For some reason, looking at the sea, I always have an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

I glanced at those children, and saw that they all had sad faces, and some girls had tears on their cheeks.It's no wonder, who wants to be the food of that monster? At this time, a little boy of seven or eight years old came to my side. He had a pair of bright blue eyes, and, surprisingly, there was no sadness on his face. "Are you really a fool?" he asked curiously. I gave him a silly standard smile. A wicked smile suddenly appeared on his face, he quickly took the bread from my hand and stuffed it into his mouth, and winked at me: "Idiot, your food is mine." This kid... the corner of my mouth twitched, it's too cunning.

"What are you doing?" Theseus' voice suddenly came from behind him, and he stepped forward and understood what happened at a glance. He ordered the attendant to bring a piece of bread, put it in my hand, and smiled slightly: "Eat it." Then, he turned to the little boy again, bent down, and whispered: "Remember, never Bully people who are weaker than you, and don't call her "fool" anymore, he is just a little stupider than others." I took a bite of the bread, and was a little surprised that this prince was more gentle than I had imagined. The little boy nodded with a vague understanding.

"By the way, what's your name?" Theseus asked casually. The little boy rolled his eyes: "My name is Sika." Sika?My ears immediately perked up.Well, it turns out that this brat is the target person this time... Hehe, after I rescue you, let's see how I punish you. After sailing for many days, finally arrived in Crete. According to the usual practice, there will be special attendants to welcome us into the palace first, and then send us to the place where the monster Minotaur lives when the sacrificial day comes. At this moment, I couldn't help being a little excited, and I was about to see the famous Crete maze.

In front of the gate of the palace, the road is paved neatly and flatly, forming a spacious square, and there are no walls around the palace.This is also easy to understand, after all, Crete relies on its powerful naval protection - that should be regarded as its invisible "wall". The guards who came to greet us took us into the palace from the north gate, and encountered teams of patrolling soldiers along the way.This is the only way to enter the palace. There are large and small towers and sentries along the road. The guards inside can easily shoot random arrows at the invaders.Along the way, there are many beautiful maids with slender waists and fluttering skirts, graceful and beautiful. Standing in front of such beautiful scenery, I feel that I am not in the palace of Crete. It seems to be a salon where ladies who were popular in Paris in the nineteenth century came and went...

Until I stepped into this palace, I finally understood why it was called a labyrinth by later generations.The middle of the palace is divided into several parts by many "corridors", forming countless intricate passages with thousands of turns.There are countless rooms along the way, and the rooms in the palace are connected one by one. Without the guidance of the attendants, it is simply difficult to return to the exit smoothly through the winding corridors. The attendants first took us to the bathroom to wash up.Due to fear and fear, several children couldn't help crying.Theseus comforted them with gentle words. The handsome guy is indeed a handsome guy, with infinite charm. Several maids of Crete are looking at him affectionately, showing their affection for him unabashedly. It's a pity.

After bathing, we changed into the traditional costumes of Crete. The men's costumes were similar to those of Athens, while the women's costumes were corseted on the upper body and flared skirts with long and bare bones, and several layers of ruffles or folds lace.The surface of the skirt is a mesh pattern, with many horizontal lines drawn on the upper half of each grid, so the effect is a bit like the small plaid that people often wear today... The maids then took us to the Xipei Hall and told us to stay here temporarily, waiting for the day of sacrifice. I sat in the corner, secretly thinking about what to do next.It would be convenient to just rescue Sika, but to bring back Theseus's sword stained with the blood of the Minotaur, he would have to wait until he killed the Minotaur.That's strange, why did Si Yin ask me to bring back that sword? Thinking of this, I glanced at Theseus.As if he noticed my gaze, Theseus also looked up at me and smiled at me. I grinned too.Your Highness, I am waiting for you to kill that monster. It seems that this task will be much easier than my previous ones.It's just that another important figure in this legend, who also played a decisive role, hasn't appeared yet.However, according to the trajectory of historical development, this person will soon appear on the stage. In the middle of the night, I was about to get up and sneak out to explore the way, but unexpectedly, a small figure slipped out of the room like an arrow before me.I immediately followed that figure to catch up, and saw him turning around in the palace, suddenly shrank in a corner, hugged his head and began to cry softly. "Hello!" I patted that person lightly, and saw that person jumped up in fright. The moment he raised his face, I could see his face clearly under the bright moonlight. "Sika? Why are you here?" I blurted out. When he saw it was me, he seemed relieved, but the tears still hung in the corners of his eyes; "I, I want to go home, I don't want to be eaten by that monster." My mood was a little complicated, I thought he was a heartless child, but I didn't expect him to be more scared than anyone else. He continued, sobbing: 'Do you know how terrifying that minotaur is?My sister was eaten by it, I, I tried my best to tell myself not to be afraid, but being afraid is just being afraid..." "This is a maze, just because you can escape?" I bent down and reached out to wipe his tears, "Are you afraid of cows?" He shook his head. "Are you afraid of people then?" He continued shaking his head. "That's it. You are not afraid of the whole thing, and there is nothing to be afraid of half of it." He froze for a moment, then burst out laughing suddenly, and then exclaimed: "Aren't you a fool?" I showed an evil smile: "Do you regret it now?" There was a look of fear on his face.Well, very good, just like this effect. "Okay, come back with me first." I took his hand and walked a few steps forward, suddenly felt something behind me was watching us, turned my head suddenly, but didn't see anything.Am I being too sensitive? When I went back, I found that I seemed to have forgotten that this is a maze.I don't remember the way we came here for a long time. After turning eastward and westward, we didn't know where we turned to, only that we seemed to turn to a room.With the faint moonlight, I can clearly see the huge pattern of double axes on the wall. "Sister, what is this?" Xika asked, pointing to a depression under the double axe.Following the direction of his finger, I saw a shallow trough with slate walls.Just as I was about to reach out to touch it, a very low sound suddenly came from a distance, which felt a bit like the growl of a wild beast. "Sister, let's go back quickly!" Shika trembled in fright, and firmly held my hand. Although I wasn't afraid, I was a little nervous, not to mention there was Sika by my side. I nodded and hurriedly dragged him out of the room. "Sister, are we lost? You don't know the way, do you?" He asked in a low voice. "How, how is it possible?" I replied with a guilty conscience, isn't it just a maze?Could it trap me? It would be great if the little hole appeared at this time... Just as this thought flashed through my mind, I suddenly saw a sparrow fly in from the window and land on my shoulder affectionately.It didn't speak, just spread its wings and flew forward. It really is—Xiao Kong!I couldn't believe my eyes, and suddenly felt that this little sparrow was simply the cutest animal in the world, and then I dragged Sika to follow it without saying a word.When it was about to reach the room, it turned around suddenly, flew in front of me, rubbed my face with its small head, and flew away quickly.Thanks, Kong! I finally breathed a sigh of relief. I just took a few steps forward when suddenly a black shadow suddenly stopped in front of me. I immediately realized the danger, and punched the black shadow hard almost reflexively until I heard After a low cry, I realized that it was Theseus. "Ah, why are you here?" I rubbed my sore hands. He covered his right face, and said helplessly in a low voice: "This is what I want to ask you, who are you?" I looked around and lowered my voice, "Don't care who I am, anyway, I don't want to be eaten by Minotaurs." He seemed a little surprised: "Why pretend to be a fool?" With a sigh, I told him that I had been cheated by the couple, my version of it, of course, except that the drug would restore normalcy in a few days.Anyway, now that I am here, I have nothing to fear even if I am exposed. There was a skeptical expression on his face: "So you were tricked, but why did you sneak out at night?" I immediately betrayed Sika: "I just saw Sika slipping out, and I chased it out of curiosity, but it took me a long time to go around this maze before I came back." I glanced at Sika with a half-smile, "Isn't that right? Ah, Sika?" He nodded immediately. Theseus' face gradually softened: "Don't worry, I will take you all back safely." He paused, and then asked: "Your real name is..." "I come from an ancient oriental country, so please call me Xiaowan." I smiled relievedly. ~ cocoa editable! !~ The sunshine in Greece is as famous as the Aegean Sea, and I am deeply touched on the island of Crete.The bright and bright sunshine sprinkled unobstructedly on the grass, in the pool water, and on the mottled small stones.The young grass is shining with golden light, and the clear water is flowing with broken gold, dazzling and intoxicating. "I heard that the day of sacrifice will be thirty days later." Theseus suddenly said next to me. I frowned, and blurted out, "How many more days?" "Originally we came early, and the voyage was very smooth this time, so it was more than ten days earlier than the originally planned date." Theseus walked in front of me, with a look of surprise in his eyes, " Xiao Wan, are you not afraid?" I smiled: "Didn't His Royal Highness say that he would take us all back safely?" He froze for a moment, then laughed again. At this moment, there was a pleasant sound of playing a musical instrument not far away, and the melodious tune made people yearn for it. Theseus and I looked at each other and walked in that direction curiously. Going forward along the sound of the music, what appeared in front of me was a huge garden surrounded by fences, where exotic flowers and plants were planted all over the garden.The olive trees are straight and straight, the figs are connected in clusters, and the grape vines are reborn in bunches.Plenty of fruits are plump and plump, and the branches are within reach... In the depths of the garden, the fragrance is overflowing. Among the thousands of flowers, two clear springs gushes out, one surrounds the garden, and the other moistens the ground, entering the courtyard of the palace. Several beauties with bright eyes and kind eyes are dancing, their slender arms are full of movement to the beat of the music.Not far away, there are musicians who play and play, but seeing all the beauties singing and dancing, their toes are tapped and their figures are flying around. When they move, they are as sensitive as rabbits, and when they are together, they are like wild geese. The current scenery is like Konoso in the past. The reincarnation of the famous Sri Lankan craftsman Daedalus. But when I saw the beauty under the fig tree, everything around me seemed to be in the background. The beauty lying sideways on the fluffy wool couch was dressed in a yellow shirt, revealing her forearms as delicate as bamboo shoots, her long golden hair like sunshine almost fell to the ground, her pair of translucent emerald Color's eyes were half-opened and half-closed.That kind of her is not only infinitely charming, but also hides a bit of secretly noble relaxation and laziness, as if even a god would indulge herself into such a peerless elegance in an instant. It took me a long time to come back to my senses, and I looked sideways at Theseus, only to see him staring at the beauty without blinking. "Bold! Why don't you be rude when you see Her Royal Highness?" A maid yelled, and the dancers were startled and stopped. Princess? My heart skipped a beat, the person who played the decisive role finally appeared on the stage!If you guessed right, this must be Princess Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos!Then everything that follows, isn't it exactly the same as in the legend? Theseus, a beautiful man from Athens, fell in love with the king's charming daughter Ariadne at first sight. The princess secretly confided her love to Theseus, and gave him a ball of thread, and taught him to tie one end of the ball of thread. At the entrance of the labyrinth, follow the rolling thread until you reach the residence of the Minotaur.In addition, she gave Theseus a sword with which to kill the Minotaur.Theseus defeated the Minotaur with two treasures, and took the remaining boys and girls along the thread to get out of the maze and took the princess away. Thinking of this, I quickly looked at the princess again, and saw her gracefully raised her eyes, just in time to collide with Theseus's gaze, seemed to be slightly stunned, and immediately asked displeasedly: "Who are you?" Only then did Theseus come back to his senses, and stepped forward to salute in an unassuming manner: "Your Highness, my name is Theseus, and we came all the way from Athens to be chosen for this sacrifice. Just now We lost our minds for a moment and forgot etiquette, please forgive me, Your Highness the Princess." The princess frowned: "Then why did you come here and leave immediately?" "Wait a minute!" I blurted out without caring so much. The princess glanced at me, and a strange look suddenly flashed across her face: "Are you also the one who was chosen as the sacrifice this time?" I replied, feeling a little anxious, didn't it mean that the two fell in love at first sight?Why did the princess not only fail to show affection, but seemed to be very upset.This is how the same thing? Theseus is personable, he is really a first-class handsome man——When my gaze rested on Theseus's face, my face twisted instantly.what!I haven't noticed all this time, why is Theseus' right eye swollen like a rotten egg? There was a chill on my back, this couldn't be caused by my punch last night, could it? It's over, such an embarrassment, how can the princess fall in love with him at first sight!I, I accidentally ruined the whole thing again... What can I do?If the princess hadn't fallen in love with the prince, then she wouldn't have helped him, and wouldn't have given him the sword, so wouldn't my mission be in vain? No, absolutely not, God, let me immediately transform into a little Cupid!