I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 160 Talking at Sea
The ship Antigonus was on was the flagship frigate turret "Poseidon" of the Navy of the Kingdom of Macedonia. This huge battleship has good defense performance, but the corresponding speed will also slow down, so it is normal to be around this battleship. There will be several small warships accompanying it (usually biremes or triremes) to make up for its speed deficiency.But at this moment, even if there is only the "Poseidon" sailing on the surface of the Gilis Sea, it will not encounter even the slightest threat, because the power of the Macedonian Kingdom here is so strong that no one dares to tease her tiger beard.

Euphemia, who was captured on the flagship, and her two maids were locked in a small room in the cabin. These three Macedonian women, who had been away from home for several years, were filled with hesitation about the future. They looked at the small room in the cabin. Through the window, they could directly see the sparkling sea outside and the schools of fish jumping from time to time. They all knew what would greet them when they returned to Pella - the two maids were numb. They were leaving their hometown. They were fed up with the discrimination and bullying by the locals, especially after the Kingdom of Macedonia declared war on the Federation of Gilis. Even when they walked on the roadside, they would be spat on and cursed loudly by the aggrieved civilians of Gilis, even after the guests were done with them. Not only did they not pay for prostitution, but they were beaten severely.

Although Euphemia is not as miserable as they are, the suffering she has suffered in a foreign country is incomparable to the sum of her previous life. In the Gillies Federation, she can't do what she wants to do as she likes, even going to a tavern to sleep Drunk drunkards can spit at her contemptuously and give her hands with lewd eyes, but in order not to be kicked out by the shop owner, she can only endure all this humiliatingly until she deliberately gets herself dirty It was so shameful that the owner of the shop sent her to the kitchen to do odd jobs, so she avoided the same fate as the two maids.

"Your Highness, what kind of treatment will we receive when we go back?" A maid asked suddenly looking at the beautiful sea view outside the window.

Although Euphemia was no longer the queen for a long time, these two maids who were loyal to her still called her His Highness in private as always, and they never left her.

"I don't know." Euphemia said in a hoarse voice. Several years of fatigue and deliberate damage to her appearance had made her originally fair and delicate skin dry and full of wrinkles, and her delicate appearance was gone forever. , looked like a very ordinary middle-aged rural woman on the street. In fact, if the two maids had not been forced to identify her, the people in Evenus would not have distinguished the old woman in front of them from the impression they had. Contact that beautiful Queen Mother.

"Perhaps we might be crucified like the Gillians who resisted Antigonus," she then continued.

The two maids could not help but tremble when they thought of the Gillis people who were crucified and did not die immediately, but died slowly and painfully after being exposed to the weather and the sun. They had been mixed in with the crowd and watched the execution from a distance. The process, which left a deep psychological shadow on them.

While they were talking, the closed door was suddenly opened from the outside, and then a sailor in unlined clothes walked in with a few dark brown breads, and he glanced at the room with his emotionless eyes He glanced at the three women gathered together, then threw the black bread on the ground, and after hitting the floor, there was a bang sound of a hard object hitting the ground.

"This is your food for today." He said, then turned and walked out of the room, closed the wooden door, and slammed it into the door frame. A few seconds later, there was the sound of rustling subway chains.

Looking at the dark hard bread on the ground, Euphemia and the two maids looked at each other. One of them was stunned for a long time before going forward to pick up the six pieces of bread on the ground. As soon as she got the bread, she felt as if she had touched it. A piece of hard wood does not have the softness of bread at all. Even touching the skin of the bread, she can still feel the sharp and hard objects and pits on the surface.

"Is this bread?" Ophemia looked at the bread in the maid's hand and couldn't help screaming.

The two maids looked at the bread and were speechless. One of them swallowed, tentatively picked up a piece of bread and passed it to her mouth, and took a bite. Her whole body felt bad immediately after this bite. Oh, because she didn't even bite the surface, leaving only a shallow tooth mark on it!

"Is this bread?" the maid who boldly tried also called out.

Her cry immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the guards outside, and the wooden door was kicked violently from the outside, and then the guard's rough voice sounded: "Shut up! Or I will kill you!" Throw it out and feed the fish!"

The sudden roar made the three women shut their mouths instantly, not daring to make a sound.

If they were before the coup, they would not easily let go of those who dared to offend them, but the years of hard exile have changed them to a large extent, at least taught them to swallow their anger, which also made them eat less A lot of pain.

The three women could only continue to look at the bread in their hands with a sad expression. They had not eaten black bread as the staple food of Gillis civilians before, but although the black bread of Gillis people was also hard, it was not as black as the black bread in their hands. The bread is so outrageous, and the Gillis people always eat black bread with vegetable soup or broth, letting the soup soak up before eating.

But now... they can only eat with the water bottles they were given before.

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At the same time, Antigonus was sitting in the cabin restaurant on their upper deck, eating a seafood dinner carefully prepared by the ship's chef. There were various sea fish caught from the sea, as well as the meat of whales hunted with scorpion crossbows, such as There are countless lobster and abalone, but because of the poor cooking methods of this era, most of the cooked food is not very tasty.

Chewing the roasted whale meat in his mouth, Antigonus couldn't help but miss the various cooking skills in his previous life, and also regretted why he didn't learn cooking skills in the first place, otherwise he could cook a good meal to reward his stomach now.

While chewing, he suddenly thought of Ophemia, who was imprisoned below, the queen mother who once tried to evade and depose him.

After swallowing the meat, Antigonus said to Agnes, the captain of the guard standing aside: "Where is Euphemia? I want to see her."

Hearing what Antico said suddenly, Agnes was taken aback for a moment, but he quickly realized and said hastily, "She is locked up with two other maids, and I will send someone to bring her here right away."

"No, I'll go see her in person, see this queen mother who has 'motherly love like a mountain'." Antico said calmly.

"Ah this..."

After making a decision, Antigonus ate a few mouthfuls of other food, and asked the chef to reward the leftovers to the sailors on the ship. Although the sailors were sailing on the sea, their food except for the Except for the air-dried meat and salted fish, most of them are the most common and common sea fish, and the cooking method is also the simplest one-pot stew.So the so-called feast that Antigonus looked down upon was indeed a delicious feast in their eyes.

It was Antigonus who decided to meet Euphemia on the spur of the moment. When the sailors in charge saw the king coming in person, they quickly dropped their work and stood upright, saying hello in unison, but Antigonus ignored them. They deserted, nodded to them and waved them to leave. Agnes also opened the door at the same time, showing the scene inside to Antigonus.

Euphemia and her two maids just stared blankly at Antigonus outside the door. After two or three years, the once immature boy had grown up, and Antigonus was even taller than Euphemia. His body exuded the majesty of a superior, and as Antigonus walked slowly into the room, the atmosphere in the whole room froze.

Looking at Eupheemia, who looked very different from before, Antigonus moved his mouth and let out a soft laugh. He walked up to Eupheemia and looked down at the Macedonian woman sitting in the cold cabin. , said: "Queen Ophemiya, long time no see."

"..." The woman's lips moved, and it took a long time before she replied hoarsely, "Antiko, I was caught by you after all."

"We can only blame you for making the wrong decision at the beginning." Antigonus said with a smile, "If you had acted more resolutely at the beginning, or if the attackers you found were more responsible, then our ending would have been different." It's the same."

"Yes, if you died directly in the attack, I wouldn't be reduced to where I am now."

Ophemia said bitterly.

"It's a pity that there are no ifs in this world." Antigonus shook his head and continued: "Then, Ophemia, you are destined to pay the price for your treason, but for the sake of my father, I will give A decent way for you to die."

"A decent way to die?" Ophemia was already mentally prepared. She let out an ugly laugh and asked, "Hanging? Beheading? Or crucifixion?"

"You'll know then."

"Oh." Euphemia laughed again, looking at Antigonus's face that was very similar to his father, she suddenly calmed down, and said, "Antigonus, why don't you sit down and listen to the story of my father over the years? experience?"

"Oh, I forgot, those loyal lackeys of yours may have compiled all my experiences over the years into a book for you to read."

"Why not?" Antigonus didn't answer her next sentence. He sat down directly regardless of the dust under his feet. Agnes, who was standing outside the door, looked at Antigonus's actions and was shocked, but also Didn't walk into the room.

Seeing that Antigonus sat down, Euphemia's eyes flashed with surprise, but she quickly covered it up. She cleared her throat and spoke slowly...

After the coup, Euphemia took her two maids and fled to Liscomb, the capital of the Gilis Federation, by boat. Through the local Macedonian businessmen who did not know about the coup in the country, they directly contacted the then Nehemiah, the consul of Gilis (that is, the unlucky one who died under the firestone attack), met with her. Through her familiarity with the Macedonian Kingdom, she revealed many secrets and the actual military strength of the kingdom to Nehemiah. , and the threat of the barbarians, I hope that the Gillis can use this to send troops to attack Macedonia.

But what she didn't expect was that the Gillis Federation Council was too good at wrangling and too indecisive. When they finally decided to take action against the Kingdom of Macedonia, Antigonus had already led the kingdom's army to defeat the threat from the barbarian tribes, and the navy had also attacked the Macedonian kingdom. The Gillis Navy's tentative attack was withdrawn, so those councilors who were looking for advantages and avoiding disadvantages decided not to attack the Kingdom of Macedonia, and instead concentrated on dealing with the mortal enemy in the northwest, the Principality of Harun.

If those congressmen can predict what will happen a few years later, they will surely strangle themselves to death in annoyance.

Although she failed to encourage the Council of Gilis to send troops to the Kingdom of Macedonia, Euphemia still did not give up. She remained in Nehemiah's manor as a guest of the consul, waiting for an opportunity like a poisonous snake hidden in the dark move.

This wait is one year.

A year later, Nehemiah saw that the possibility of war against the Kingdom of Macedonia was unlikely, so he found a reason to drive Euphemia out. But she can't do anything, in this strange foreign country, she can only rely on two maids to look for work outside to support them.Euphemia still accepts the costumes of the two maids as always, and stays in the tavern she borrowed every day, waiting for the maids to bring money and food, feeling very comfortable.

However, the good times did not last long until the Matthaeus cult rebelled, and their work was affected. Like most women, they were forced to lay off their jobs. Suddenly, they lost their source of income, and Eupheemia could not continue to squander. Soon he was kicked out again.In order not to live on the street, she could only find a job with two maids. However, because of her arrogance, she offended many people and received a severe beating from the society.

After being severely beaten by the society, Euphemia also restrained her character, and worked with two maids in Liscomb City to do some jobs that she once despised, although she was often molested because of her appearance at work. and harassment, but eventually saved a small sum of money, rented a small residence and moved in.

Soon after, the war broke out again. The main force of the Kingdom of Macedonia crossed the Aegean Sea, landed on the Reese Peninsula, and fired the first shot to invade the Gillies Federation.After the war between the Kingdom of Macedonia and the Gilis Federation, many Macedonians stranded in Gilis were affected. They were hostile by the surrounding Gilis. The hostility of the Macedonians became more and more serious, and from time to time there were attacks and robberies of Macedonians-the murderers were usually not severely punished.

In Liscam, hostility to the Macedonians was the most severe, and Euphemias and others had to flee here and live in towns with less rejection, where they lived until they were caught by Evenus' people. .

(End of this chapter)