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Chapter 48 Uncle's Gift

Eunice didn't speak, looking at him eagerly.

The reason why Alsibidas is popular among children is that he brings all kinds of gifts to the children every time he comes.

"Of course I'll bring you all gifts this time. But don't worry, line up first and get them one by one." Alsibidas smiled and touched Briantes's little head.

"Line up! Everyone line up!" Eunice immediately took out the style of her elder sister and, according to her age, commanded her younger brothers and sisters to line up quickly.

"Awesome, Eunice!" Alsie Bidas praised and waved to his subordinates.

The slave immediately brought a pure white pony.

"Oh, she is so beautiful!" Eunice's eyes were stuck and could not be separated from the little white horse.

"This is a pony I bought from the Bedouin, a nomadic race east of Canaan. It is said that it is particularly good at running. Eunice, she is yours now." Alsibidas said with a smile.

"Really?! That's great!" Eunice was extremely excited and hugged Alsie Bidas and kissed him hard: "Uncle, thank you so much!" After that, he ran over and led the pony.

The slave hurriedly handed the reins to Eunice's hand, and the pony sniffed, then gently licked Eunice's hand, and Eunice screamed excitedly again.

Alsibidas touched his face, smiled, and looked back at his nephew: "Apox, do you want a horse, too?"

Apox tilted his head and showed a hint of cramped smile: "Uncle, if I want a white pony, can you take it out?"

This little guy with a keen observation! Alsibidas patted his shoulder lovingly and smiled: "I don't have a second pony, but I have this-"

With a wave of his hand, the servant brought seven or eight tied sandpaper rolls.

Alsibidas pointed at them and said seriously: "There are poems written by the Egyptians, stories about Egyptian gods, and some of the history of Egypt in the past... I spent a lot of time and finally bought them from Greek scholars in the city of Naucratis in Egypt. If you don't like it, I will be very sad!"

Apox immediately excitedly gave Alsibidas a powerful hug: "Thank you uncle, I like it very much!"

"Uncle, where is mine?" Briantes asked impatiently.

"Don't worry, you are indispensable." Alsibidas said, and the slave came over again.

"Ah, puppy!" Briantes croaked excitedly, and saw a milky white puppy barking in the arms of the slave.

"This is the Saruki, known in Egypt as the 'Pharaoh's Hound'. They are very good at running and are loyal to their masters. They can catch geese, hares, and dare to fight with crocodiles and hippos. When you grow up--" Before Alsibidas finished speaking, Briantes was already excited to pick up the puppy and ran away.

"This kid!" Alsibidas smiled and looked at his niece Aviya who was standing in front of him.

Aviya, who had always been quiet, opened her eyes wide and looked straight at a little black cat in the arms of another slave.

Alsibidas didn't say much and immediately put the kitten in her arms.

Aviya hugged the kitten in a hurry.

The kitten "meowed" and rubbed her hand lightly with her beard.

Aviya thought it was so cute, so she looked up and asked Alsibidas: "Uncle, what is its name?"

"It has no name yet. From now on, you will be its master. Of course, its name will be taken by you." Alsibidas smiled.

So, Aviya gently stroked the kitten with her hands while lowering her head to think.

"Brother, I heard that the black cat in Egypt is the incarnation of the god..." Aegens, who had been watching, said with some concern.

"In the hearts of Egyptians, not only black cats, cows, crocodiles, eagles, leopards... many animals are objects of their awe, but they do not prevent them from raising cats, raising dogs, catching crocodiles and hippos. What's more, this is Dionia, the land blessed by Hades, and the children are descendants of Pluto, so what's there to worry about!" Alsibidas said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Agris relieved his concern and asked, "Are you going to Egypt this time?"

Alsibidas nodded: "Yes, I brought you a set of high-end cosmetics specially for Egyptian princesses and princesses, and also a set for Princess Cristoya."

Following the direction of Alsie Bidas' finger, Agenis saw many large wooden boxes with exquisite appearance carefully removed from the cart by slaves.

Agenth did not refuse, and said with a little joy: "Brother, you are so worried!"

At the age of nearly 40, she felt her skin began to loosen and her hair gradually lost its luster, and she really needed to dress up and take care of her well. As far as she knew, in the Mediterranean, the country she was best at in this area was Egypt.

Thousands of years of history, wealthy life, and special environment (desert area, strong wind and sand, sunlight are exposed to the sun), Egyptian women regardless of wealth and poverty, attach great importance to beauty and dressing. Over the long period of time, they designed a large number of cosmetics, skin care products and decorations.

Just like the Egyptian cosmetics purchased by Alsibidas, two large boxes of ingredients are filled with various formulas composed of various ointments and protective oils, mixed with some plant-based juices and various flavors and balms configured for moisturizing and covering up the odor of flowers and fruits and grasses are carefully installed in bottles of large and small sizes.

This does not include cosmetics on the face, such as very finely ground mineral stone powder with raw materials such as cats, hippos or crocodile fat, used to apply eyeshadows and eyebrows, outline eyebrows, blush, lips... This is enough to fill a large box.

There are more accessories, and wigs are the most important one. Egyptians generally believe that gray hair and natural baldness are extremely indecent, so they invented the wigs and even tried to make various formulas to help gray hair restore their true colors. These wigs are made of human hair and plant fiber mats, long, short, thick, dense... all kinds of wigs filled a large box.

As for those exquisite earrings, necklaces, anklets, hair needles... there are all kinds and dazzling. Alsibidas also carefully bought a lot of Egyptians' tools for makeup, such as small tweezers, clips, small razors, and eyebrow pencils made of ivory...

So Agenus said he was not wrong at all.

"Have Cloto not come back yet? I have brought him a gift, too." Alsibidas asked casually.

"He and Adoris have been summoned to participate in military training. This time the training is two days, and they will spend the night in the military camp at night and will not be back the day after tomorrow. Alas, wars are always going on! I hope Cloto will not be sent to the battlefield." Agent said with some concern.

Crotokataks is almost 19 years old. As an adult citizen of Dionia, he has been in military training for more than a year and is now a reserve soldier of the First Legion. And in other times when he does not have to participate in military training, Davers arranged for him to go to the Military Affairs Department to do odd jobs to get familiar with all aspects of the entire military affairs department.

As for why Adoris also conducted military training in Turiyi? That was because Davers discovered that the original transfer of Adoris to Crotone was to hide his identity. In fact, the effect was not obvious. Instead, it made Adoris's life and training very inconvenient, so he simply transferred him back to Turiyi, now a soldier in the Second Legion.

Alsibidas was a little disappointed when he failed to see Clotokatax. He wanted to get closer to Davers's biological eldest son. Judging from the signs that Agentine told him in the past, Davers may have regarded Clotokatax as his heir. Unlike his father Atili Cruise, Clotokatax was not worried about this. He knew that Clotokatax had a deep relationship with Agentine's mother and son, even surpassing his biological mother Cristoya.

When Cristoya heard that Alsie Bidas had arrived, she immediately asked the chef to prepare the dinner.

Cristoya didn't like Atelic Cruise. The embarrassing scene two years ago made her very angry. Fortunately, it was just a family gathering, and Davers later controlled it and did not promote it.

With Cristoya's noble image of the Ten Thousand Family Buddha among the people of Dionia, she did not think that Atelic Cruise's words would damage her image. What's more, Davers said privately many times that Crotokatakus was his heir to the throne and was also working hard to cultivate him. In addition, Agents has always felt guilty about this and has more respect when they get along with her, which makes Cristoya still get along with Agents as usual.

Agenth's brother Alsie Bidas is completely different from his father. Through Cristoya's long-term observation: every time he comes to the mansion, he not only respects himself, but always keeps giving gifts. He also likes every child very much, without obvious bias.

Therefore, Cristoya certainly had to repay her kindness and welcome her warmly.

"Your Majesty just sent someone back and said that he has some important political affairs to be busy today, so he will come back later. Entrust Agent and I to treat you well as the hostess!"

Cristoya smiled and looked at Agenis, then raised the wine in her hand and said to Alsibidas: "Thank you very much for bringing us so many gifts, and it is exactly what we need! Agenis and I toast you to express our gratitude! At the same time, we warmly welcome you!"

Alsibidas immediately expressed his gratitude. He took a sip of wine and heard Cristoya say again: "Because of this drought, not only did the wheat seedlings die, but all kinds of fruit trees were also seriously affected, and even the wine production dropped sharply. So the food tonight is a bit simple, I hope you don't mind!"
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