Chapter 3172 Holy Madness
The fire ignited the warships, and the flames shot into the sky, lighting up the Nile River at night.
This was a very strange thing. She clearly remembered that the water level of the Nile River was very low at that time, and all the wells were dry. Not only could the French not get water when they advanced to Cairo, but they could not transport supplies from Alexandria.
But if you look closely, the draft of these ships is very shallow. Although they are filled with all kinds of treasures, the ships look like they will sink them.
The style of the ship was not European, so she remembered something Bonaparte had told her. Near sunset, Muradebei led 3,000 cavalry to retreat after the failure of the Battle of the Pyramids. The remaining infantry who had no time to run threw themselves directly into the river under the cover of darkness, or took a small raft or swam to force the Nile River.
The darkness caused inconvenience to Beyi's counterattacks and communications, causing several of his counterattacks to fail. These burned fleets contained the treasures of the Mamluks.
Due to the rush and limited number of ships, most of Bei's wealth was not transported away, not to mention the most important "finance source" that could not be transported away.
There is no one in Bey's villa, the slaves have all run away, the garden is covered with the most beautiful trees, the vines are full of fruitful grapes, the dining room is filled with jams and candies, blankets, gold and silverware , there are also a lot of porcelain, but the most eye-catching thing is the silk from Lyon. They were embellished with golden tassels and covered sofas and some luxurious art pieces.
They stayed in Bey's villa for the night. When they arrived in Cairo at dawn, they found that people in the city were panicked, and some residents were robbing Bey's houses.
After Napoleon issued a peace notice, met with all the famous figures in Cairo, and received the title of "Sultan of Kebir", he met the Mamluk wives in the garden on the outskirts of the city.
They were terrified, and Napoleon asked Eugene to comfort them with the order.
According to local customs, men outside a woman's boudoir are not allowed to enter. Even if he is a slave, he is the "master" in his own inner chamber.
Because the French adhered to this custom, even though they knew that a large amount of treasure and guns were hidden in women's boudoirs, it was because of this that Muradebey began to favor peace.
But they didn't know at that time that after those frightened women left, a noble woman would be left behind.
This woman was the wife of Muradebey, and before that she was the wife of Alibey. She was very wealthy and highly respected in Cairo.
It's just that her age was too big for Eugene. He gave the edict to Bey's wife, which mentioned that all the villages under her control were still owned by her.
The wealth of the Mamluks was in the hands of their wives, and the French army's funds were difficult to meet the needs of the soldiers, so they had to follow "custom" and pay the amount of wealth.
Muradebey's wife wanted to please Eugène, so she took him to the harem and let all kinds of young and beautiful slave girls receive him, and also prepared a sumptuous dinner.
None of this interested Eugène, who insisted that Bey's wives pay enough military taxes and ransoms to redeem their husbands.
So Bey's wife took out a very precious ring and gave it to Eugene, using it to offset half of Bey's property.
After all, Eugene was not Jack who bought the magic beans, but he still brought the ring and Bey's wife's request to Napoleon.
It would be fine if it were a ruby, but the stone was a red opal.
This gemstone originated in Hungary during the Middle Ages. To keep it secret, Byzantine merchants said it came from the East and was very valuable in ancient times because it looked like a palette that had been accidentally knocked over, changing color brilliantly as the angle changed. .
Later, with the discovery of Australia and the discovery of opal veins, opal was no longer valuable by the 18th century.
But for some reason, Napoleon actually agreed.
Then it came to Georgiana.
In fact, recalling the day she met Brick, although she threw the handkerchief on the ground, she still had the ring on her hand.
That day they encountered a group of disguised robbers who wanted to rob her of her jewelry, and she wrote to Bonaparte.
She was in the same mood as before going to bed, uneasy and thinking about the guards, and then her "knight" appeared.
Before she could figure out what was going on, a strange cry came from the sky. She followed the sound and saw a golden-winged bird with gorgeous wings swooping towards the mouth of the sea.
There was a "dragon" writhing in the water. It was not a fire dragon with wings. It had a slender body like a snake. When it saw the Garuda, it immediately dived into the deep sea.
However, the water surface parted at this time, revealing the body of the dragon. It had nowhere to hide, so it had to fight with the Garuda.
Garuda is the mount of Vishnu in Indian mythology. Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva are listed as three-phase gods.
In the story of Mahabharata, Vishnu rescued the wise man Morgan Deya, who accidentally got into Vishnu's belly and found that it contained the entire universe.
When Vishnu rides on Garuda, it may represent the sun god. When the end of the world comes, he will lie on the back of a giant snake and sleep soundly, floating with the giant snake in the sea.
When he wakes up and wants to create a new world, a lotus will grow from his navel, and Brahma will appear in the lotus to complete the task of creating the new world with him.
This goes on and on and on.
Plato believed that in addition to the cycle of life and death, there is also an essence of life in the world, which ensures that the world will not die or be reborn after it is destroyed.
In the prophecy of the cave, people are tethered to a "nature" and the shadow of the cave appears to be real.
Most people think of shadows as black, but those on the screen in the cinema are also produced by light.
In the era of Aristotle and Plato, Sakyamuni had already been born.
The "self-grasping" of Buddhism and the "nature" that binds the people in Plato's cave are all about the perception of happiness. The difference is that Buddhism hopes to go to the Buddha's land and never come back through nirvana, while the man Plato said had seen outside the cave. The people of the world are back.
Only when living is happy, people want to live; when living is painful, death is a kind of relief.
She didn’t know whether the world had the essence of life that Plato said. She only knew that a person who had accepted death would not necessarily feel ecstatic when he came back to life.
So the girl who was resurrected by the Resurrection Stone died in the end. Her lover didn't understand why. What made her suffer was not that her lover and brothers left their hometown to work outside.
At this time, the snake that was being chased by the Garuda spit out a bead. When the bird ran away after the bead, it immediately hid in the sea, like a gecko with its tail cut off.
Vishnu is also known as the King of Illusions. If drinking water soaked in beads spit out by Garuda can cause hallucinations, what about the "Dragon Balls"?
The beads spit out by the snake were blue-black. The Garuda swallowed them and then flew away.
She seemed to understand somewhat, but she still couldn't figure it out. Maybe it was because her half-asleep mind was not clear enough.
She needs a clearer head.
Then she suddenly remembered that there was also a sapphire on Ravenclaw's crown. Didn't the violent Garuda calm down after eating the dragon ball?
"you're awake?"
She slowly opened her eyes and found Bonaparte sitting on the chair beside the bed, his eyes bloodshot.
"Have you been up all night?" asked Georgiana.
"How can I sleep with it!" He pointed at the Sphinx and said angrily, "Is this you becoming magic?"
Georgiana looked at the Sphinx, napping like a real lion.
"Usually the sphinxes I encounter are female." Georgiana said cautiously. "This is also the first time I've seen a male."
"Did you manipulate my mind?" He stood up excitedly. "You want me to go crazy, right?"
Maybe she didn't understand what he said because she didn't wake up in the morning.
"What?" she asked in confusion.
"It's a British conspiracy..." and then he started rattling off various hypotheses.
She felt that he really thought too much.
Then she wanted to write down the content of her dream before she forgot it, so she got out of bed and ran to the desk. Later, I felt that doing so would cause forgetfulness, so I used a magic wand to take out that "memory" from my mind.
"What are you doing?" He came over and closely monitored the name in her hand.
"Did it scare you?" Georgiana pinched Madu's nose.
The French gave Muggles the right name, he was like a frightened bulb.
"It doesn't scare me." He pushed her hand away angrily. "These are all fantasies."
She seemed to understand what he was going through.
"You think the Sphinx in Egypt is..."
"Fake, fictitious!" He interrupted her excitedly, "It only exists in human imagination, a fabricated monster! It doesn't even conform to..."
The Sphinx yawned, and Bonaparte fell silent.
"I understand," Georgiana said quietly.
"What do you understand!" he asked excitedly but with suppressed excitement.
"You won't believe what you see with your own eyes." Georgiana comforted him, "It's like seeing an oasis in the desert."
He sat down in frustration, covering his big head, as if "digesting" the matter.
"You don't need to accept it." Georgiana said softly, "Do you remember what I told you last time about how the International Statute of Secrecy was born?"
He didn't answer.
"William III ignored the wizard's request and legislated to protect wizards. I know many wizards are dissatisfied with this, but I think this is good." Georgiana sat opposite him. "If wizards are recognized to exist, laws must be used to protect them. Mark the wizard, the law sometimes has no control over people."
"You want me to pass the same law?" he asked wearily.
"I don't know." Georgiana thought, "One day in the future, there will be a person who will bring disaster to the whole world."
"Is he a bad man?" asked Bonaparte.
Georgiana was about to speak.
'Do you want revenge? ’
She seemed to have heard someone ask her this question somewhere, and she couldn't say no either.
"Is this a prophecy?" asked Bonaparte.
"I don't know." Georgiana scratched her hair. She was now thinking about how to not act like a conspirator.
He wrote it in his letter last time, even though the object of his hatred was not her.
He likes women who are tolerant, kind and kind.
"You are not sure whether this future will happen?" Bonaparte asked.
"I don't know, Leon, it is irrational to admit that magic exists. Others will question whether you still have the ability to rule this country." Georgiana said.
"That's not necessarily true." He stood up and paced the room in annoyance. "Since the day I became the First Consul, many people have opposed me."
She felt they were talking about two different things.
"Do you think it's more crazy to believe this, or to treat the strait as a ditch and jump from the shore?" he asked with a twisted face and a smile.
"Are you going to have a wake-up call?" asked Georgiana.
"Keep everything simple outside, come here." He called her to go to a sofa.
Then she sat up consciously, and he lay on her lap skillfully.
He let out a long sigh and stared at the ceiling.
"I thought none of this was true." He sighed and said, "You don't exist, and neither does the lion."
"It's the Sphinx," she corrected.
"None of this is true." He ignored her and continued, "Muradbey felt that he lost to us because of firepower. His army was like a wave."
"It's all over." She stroked his forehead.
"Maybe we lost."
"You want to discuss Descartes with me now?" Georgiana asked.
His attention fell on her.
"I died then, so I met you." He raised his hand and touched her face, "You look so real."
"The same goes for you." She kissed his palm, "This tour is so unsatisfactory, why aren't you angry?"
"What if I say, I'm used to it?" he said with a smile.
This smile is so beautiful, if he were a beauty, he would definitely turn all living beings upside down.
"Kiss me, Georgiana, I want to go to your secret garden." He said in a strong, almost commanding tone.
"How did I get that feeling when you ordered me like that?" she said half-jokingly.
Then he stood up and became self-reliant.
She touched the ring on her hand, which had been in Bey's garden full of grapes, and there was also a room full of jams.
These things are nothing in Italy where supplies are abundant, but for people who have been thirsty and marching for a long time in the desert, even the water of the Nile River is sweet for them to drown in.
She thought of the painting again. The beautiful boy who fell in love with his reflection planned to kiss the reflection in the water, like a person thirsty for water.
"As long as you want to see me, you can summon me at any time." A black wizard handed her a snake-shaped ring.
She quickly pushed away the person on her body.
"What's wrong?" the French man asked breathlessly.
"He told me that if I want to see him, I can summon him at any time." Georgiana looked straight ahead, "But I always felt that I shouldn't disturb his business."
He was completely out of mood now, but he didn't walk away immediately.
"Lucien told me not to mention this matter, but I ask you now, does Eugene really have no chance at all?" She said looking at his side face.
"Lucien is right, you shouldn't mention it," he said expressionlessly, as if wearing a death mask.
She touched the trembling flower bracelet and felt that some words were inappropriate to say now.
"I can give you my loyalty, will you give me yours?"
"I won't be angry anymore, and you don't need to give me your loyalty." She sighed and stood up.
"Because he is still alive?" Bonaparte asked. "Do you believe he will come to you again?"
"It doesn't matter whether he comes to me or not." She said tiredly, "I just think bigamy and divorce will bring disaster. Think of Henry VIII."
He snorted coldly.
"Respect the Pope, even if you don't intend to have friendship with him." Georgiana said weakly.
"Didn't you say you wouldn't let your child become an illegitimate child?" he said questioningly.
"I can't have children." She said as she backed away in the direction of the Sphinx. "I'm cursed, Leon."
He glanced at the napping Sphinx, noncommittal.
Then she pulled the rope, letting the servants in, and cast an invisibility spell on the Sphinx.
This way everything is "normal".
