I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 8 The Pandiones Choose to Concede
After nightfall.

Looking down at the ground from a high altitude, you can see that the land is plunged into darkness, and only a few places are flickering with the light of the bonfire.

The Great Hall of Pandion's Stone House.

Industrious maids added firewood to the copper furnace, and the light from the fire illuminated the hall.

Pandion and his wife sat together to discuss matters, while their son Erechtheus and their two daughters Procne and Philomela sat around and listened.

"Darling! Even if that outsider—Priest Loi serves a real god, we don't need to make concessions to him, and let him threaten our authority over the Athenian tribe."

As a couple who have lived together for more than ten years, Pandion's wife has seen that her husband wants to regard Metis as a patron saint, and even considers accepting Roy as a priest of the Athenian tribe.

Hearing his wife's words, Pandion said with a complicated smile.

"My dear wife! Now our Athens tribe is the strongest tribe in the Attica peninsula, you and the children must feel that we can be content with the status quo, because other tribes cannot pose a threat to us. But you only consider the immediate situation , did not take into account the future situation. Those Mycenaeans who migrated from Crete, using the bronze weapons they brought with them, continued to expand in the Peloponnese Peninsula and have now conquered the Argos region. Next They may conquer the Corinthian region, or they may invade the Attica peninsula directly from the Isthmus of Corinth, and become the enemy of our Athenian tribe. To be honest, even if we have the Acropolis that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, I have no chance of defeating the Mycenaeans confidence."

At the end, Pandion had a look of fear on his face.

Pandion's wife frowned and said.

"You want to accept new gods in order to deal with the threat of the Mycenaeans?"

Pandion nodded and said.

"Besides, Priest Loy is just a lonely outsider. I don't think he can really pose a threat to our ruling authority. If he really has thoughts that he shouldn't have—we can also kill him, so that you or It is our children who will be the new priests."

Pandion's wife nodded and said.

"Then we will make a concession first, let the goddess Metis become the patron saint of the Athenian tribe, and let the priest of Loy become the priest of the tribe of Athens. If the priest of Loy wants to fight for the power of the leader, we will kill him. At that time The goddess Metis is already the patron saint of the Athenian tribe, I believe she will not abandon us for a dead priest."

No sooner had Pandion's wife finished than the two maids crawled into the hall on their knees.

Seeing the two maids, Pandion's wife said with a displeased expression.

"Aren't you supposed to serve distinguished guests now? Could it be that Priest Loy is dissatisfied with you and wants to change to other maids?"

The two maids hurriedly shook their heads and said.

"The distinguished guests are not dissatisfied with us."

"The distinguished guest said that he is a priest who serves the goddess, so he can't act in disorder."

Knowing the reason why the two maids failed to complete the task, Pandion couldn't help laughing.

"He's such an interesting young man."

Of course Pandion could see that it was an excuse for Roy to refuse the service of the two maids.

In this era, when faced with a young and beautiful woman, young people with vigorous blood rarely make the same choice as Roy.

Click - click - click -

The crisp sound of splitting wood came to his ears, and Roy suddenly opened his eyes, waking up from his sleep.

Sitting up, he saw himself lying on a stone bed with two woolen blankets made of sheepskin under his body, and a layer of weeds under the woolen blankets, Roy suddenly said.

"I almost forgot... I have come to Athens 600 years ago, and there are still gods in this world."

When going to bed last night, because he was in a strange environment, not only did Roy not take off his clothes, he didn't even take off the socks on his feet.

At this time, Roy got up and walked to the door of the guest room, and saw in the courtyard of Pandion, a group of young servants were chopping wood and making a fire, and the young and beautiful maids were also busy making barbecue, bread, oatmeal and other food.

After scanning the courtyard, Roy walked up to a young maid and asked.

"Hello! I want to wash my face and brush my teeth. Where can I get water? What tools do you use to brush your teeth?"

The maid who was approached by Roy looked at Roy with eyes like seeing a monster, then bowed her head to salute Roy, and then left from Roy as if she was running away.

Roy scratched his head inexplicably, and didn't know where he said something wrong.

"Hahahaha……"

Just then, there was a burst of cute laughter.

When Roy turned his head, he saw the two noble daughters of the leader of Pandion—Procne and Philomela, who were as lovely and beautiful as elves, were whispering and laughing at him.

Roy took a deep breath, walked up to Procne and Philomela and said.

"Princess Procne! Princess Philomela! Good morning, both of you! Now I want to wash my face and brush my teeth. You Athenians should also have the habit of cleaning your face and teeth!"

Procne and Philomela looked at each other, and Philomela bumped Procne with her shoulder, and Procne, the older sister, said shyly to Roy.

"Priest Loi! There is no well in our Acropolis, so the servants use water to wash their faces. Only the male servants share a basin of water, and the maidservants share a basin of water. The servants can only use branches, salt or sand to clean their teeth. "

After listening to Procne's words, Roy noticed that there were two basins of dirty water in the corner of the courtyard.

Thinking that it was water used by a dozen male servants or maidservants, Roy shook his head, preferring not to wash his face, rather than washing his face with such dirty water.

At this time, four maids came to Procne and Philomela. The first maid was holding a basin of clean water, the second maid was holding two pieces of clean cotton cloth, and the third maid was holding a pottery pot. The jar contained what appeared to be bone meal, and the fourth maid held a bronze jar of water.

One after the other, Procne and Philomela washed their faces with clean water, then cleaned their teeth with a cotton cloth covered with bone meal, and finally rinsed their mouths with water from a bronze pot.

After the whole set was over, Procne ordered to the four maids.

"Throw away what we've used!"

The four maids were about to leave, Roy said hurriedly.

"Wait a minute! I haven't washed my face or brushed my teeth yet."

After speaking, Roy leaned over directly, first used Procne and Philomela's face wash water, then used Procne's used cotton cloth, glued bone meal to clean his teeth, and finally rinsed his mouth with water from a bronze jar .

After the whole process was over, Roy said with a bitter face.

"I really use bone powder to clean my teeth! It's fine to wash my face with water, but I can't do without toothpaste. Princess Procne! Princess Philomela! In order to thank you for helping me wash, I will invent toothpaste and give it to you."

After speaking, Roy saw Procne and Philomela staring at him with wide eyes, as if he had done something very rude to them.

But these are all things that they have to throw away after they use it!
(End of this chapter)