Chapter 504 505. Temple of Apollo
There were no war horses available, and Lan En had to take care of Phob's leg strength, so the two people, one large and one small, did not arrive at the city-state deep in the hinterland of Megaris until nightfall. middle.
"Megara! The first stop of the adventure! Woohoo!"
Standing in front of the city-state's outer wall, which was almost three stories high, Fubai gave a small cheer.
Next to me, Lan En muttered, ‘I don’t see what’s risky in this’, but the little girl ignored him beautifully.
The city-state is the essence of a region, and from Megara we can see the tug-of-war in the Megaris region between Athens and Sparta.
The outer sea of Megaris was towed by the Athenian warship formation, while the beach was blocked by the Spartans.
The Spartans robbed the farmland and crops of the local people outside the city-state, but within the city-state, Athenians were still the consuls and were defended by Athenian troops.
The forces of the two parties are intertwined layer by layer throughout the entire area.
Lan En therefore spent a lot of time before taking Fu Bai into the city wall of the city before the night was about to get dark.
There is no doubt that before the war began, the land of Megaris could still be called the most coveted land in the Greek world.
But after becoming a see-saw point in the war, the wealth of this city-state is shrinking to an unimaginable extent.
When Lan En and Fulbo came in now, they already felt that except for the larger area, this city-state was almost the same as the Sami town on Kefalonia Island.
The road surface is exposed to rocks and dirt. People’s clothes are shabby and their faces are sallow and thin. While walking feebly on the streets of the city-state, Lan En and Fulbo could even feel the hopelessness that they had "no future."
Lan En is a promising warrior, and Fu Bai is a lively little girl who has just started traveling. The two of them can feel an obvious sense of strangeness in this city-state.
The mental state of both of them seems too 'lively' here.
However, this city-state still has its shining points.
——Temple of Apollo.
It was a longhouse style temple built of marble and red tiles. On both sides of the temple, there is a marble sculpture of a muscular male about four meters high with a golden snake wrapped around his feet. That is Apollo.
Due to the uneven terrain, the base of the temple is already two to three meters high. Coupled with the height of the marble columns, the height difference between the entire temple and the horizontal plane is more than ten meters, which is nearly five or six stories.
It seems grand and tall in today's era.
Many people with ripped and open clothes knelt down in front of the temple to pray day and night.
"Let's find a place to live first."
Lan En walked past the temple with a cold expression and said to Fu Bai.
The little girl raised her head, looking a little surprised.
"You still want to stay in a hotel? Can't we just find a place on the street?"
In fact, this is indeed the normal way for people in the Greek world of this era to rest when traveling. This is the case with the homeless people sleeping on the ground in the city-state streets.
“I don’t want to have to watch out for petty theft while I’m resting. We are different from those poor homeless people. You have to protect your property, right?”
Blue En spread his hands towards Fu Bai.
Just the bits and pieces of his equipment, such as iron buckles, small leather bags and other handicrafts, are all good things worth stealing here.
"Okay, then let's find a hotel."
Fubai said easily, looking at Lan En.
But as she looked at it, she found that Lan En seemed to have no intention of moving at all, so the little girl showed an incredible expression.
“You want me to find a hotel?”
“I will follow you.”
"But didn't I say that you take care of me?"
"I mean to protect your safety." The shameless adult made additional terms for the child. "But you also know, Phoebe. I am a foreigner, a foreigner who has come all the way from afar. I can't even figure out which is a private house and which is a hotel! No! Ever since I came to the Greek world, I haven't known anything about it at all. I’ve seen a hotel!”
“So, when I brought you out of Kefalonia, I said, ‘I need a guide.’ Do you think I was joking? I really can’t figure it out in this place!”
Lan En stretched out a finger and tapped Fu Bai’s head with an expressionless expression, reminding this kid to pay attention to his ‘guide’. identity.
"Stop talking nonsense and lead the way."
Fu Bai's fledgling energy collapsed, her shoulders slumped, and she rolled her eyes to Lan En.
"Okay, okay you come with me."
She ran errands for Marcos and Cassandra in Cephalonia for many years, just talking about life in the Greek world Experience shows that she is indeed infinitely better than Lan En.
Not long after, the little girl led Lan En into a hotel in a small alley.
Lan En couldn't figure out how Fu Bai found this place.
The hotel owner was a bald bearded man. When the two came in, he was putting one hand into the creaking nest of the toga to scratch it.
"Tongbu? Private room?"
He put his hand that had just scratched the creaking hole under his nose and smelled it, while asking inarticulately.
Fubo looked up at Lan En, meaning to let him make up his mind.
"Single room, plus two dinners."
The boss nodded, then reported a number, and then Fubo jumped up like a puppy whose tail was stepped on.
“Are you robbing?! Three drachmas? This can buy a suckling pig!”
“If you don’t have food and only have accommodation, you won’t even need a drachma. Here you go, little one."
The hotel owner said indifferently, and at the same time, several men wearing simple armor and holding short swords poked their heads out from the stairs of this small hotel.
But after they looked at Lan En, these people immediately retreated upstairs.
This should be the guard hired by this hotel.
Seeing that the hotel guard did not dare to say a word in front of Lan En, Fubai could continue to question the boss with an angry and slightly proud tone.
"Ha! Two meals are worth more than two drachmas? Did you add sea bass to the rice? Or sea lamprey? Or beef?"
"None of them , kid." Seeing that the guard he hired was useless, the hotel owner still looked indifferent.
He looked up at Lan En, whose hair almost touched the roof, and his tone became a little more polite.
“I myself cannot afford to eat fish such as sea bass and lamprey, which are only eaten by noble people, and naturally I cannot afford beef. All I can provide you are barley bread, salt-grilled sardines, and There is a small bowl of olive oil for dipping the bread."
"But this is the best hotel meal in Megara. Look at the hungry poor people outside. They are willing to sacrifice everything for food."
"War leads to hunger, I can understand that," Lan En said under Fu Bai's questioning eyes.
“But food is already scarce to this extent? I also saw a pile of flower petals as high as a person in front of the Temple of Apollo. Aren’t those things rarer than food?”
The hotel owner looked at Lan En as if he had seen a ghost.
"The pile of petals is dedicated to God! How can it be compared with human food? It can't be compared."
Lan En was silent for a while.
In the end, he shook his head, separated out three drachmas that he had taken from the one-eyed man's dock, and handed them to the innkeeper.
Took Fu Bai upstairs.
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(End of this chapter)