"Brother, no, no!" Helen woke up, threw herself on the body and cried loudly: "Is this God's punishment for me?"
Seeing her two brothers lying peacefully on the deck, their clothes not all wet, but as if they were asleep, Helen thought of the two brothers' former voices and smiles, and her tears couldn't stop falling down.
The brothers and sisters used to be so carefree together, but they never imagined that they would be separated forever when they see each other now.
"Helen, stop crying, let us bury them properly. I believe they don't want you to be so sad!" Pei Ziyun said, but he thought to himself - you don't know that your brother is chasing us, you must be fine. I'm in danger.
Let alone being able to fight, even if he could take advantage of the storm to make the two exhausted and kill them, he would still have to face the curse of Zeus.
Gods can kill the Son of God, but mortals can kill the Son of Zeus, and no one will have a good end!
"According to Greek tradition, the result of this curse must be that one day while I was asleep, Helen gave me a knife to avenge the murder of my two brothers."
Thinking of this, Pei Ziyun couldn't help but shudder. The story of Meleager and the wild boar was too vivid - the Greek gods liked this routine of falling in love and killing each other.
This fun is really speechless.
Helen didn't know what Pei Ziyun was thinking, so she threw herself into Pei Ziyun's arms and cried bitterly: "Paris, I only have you now..."
"Don't worry, I will protect you and won't abandon you!" Pei Ziyun said, patting Helen on the back.
"Paris, my brother's funeral, everything depends on you." Helen's eyes were red. The ancient Greeks believed that it was impossible to cross the River Styx without a funeral.
"Helen, even if it's not for your sake, I have admired these two heroes for a long time." Pei Ziyun said, thinking in his heart - Castor and Polydeuces are the sons of Zeus, and they can become gods. Lian He There are doubts about Raculs becoming a god, let alone these two
Presumably it won't be an ordinary funeral.
But giving a funeral is a virtue. Thinking of this, Pei Ziyun called Gesni and Keselia: "You have taken the sesame oil and prepared two sets of clothes for the two heroes."
"Also, you go to the island and prepare two piles of pyres, and build tombs. The tombs must be well built."
"By the way, let's build a small altar nearby. We would like to offer sacrifices to the great Zeus and ask him to take care of the ghosts of the two heroes."
"Okay, Prince Paris." Everyone responded.
Pei Ziyun took out the sesame oil and smeared it on the corpses inch by inch, and put clothes on them. They looked radiant, just like before they were alive. Seeing this, Helen cried and fell on the deck again.
Hundreds of people took action and in little time, the pyre on the island was prepared and the tomb was repaired.
"Helen, come, let us give the two heroes a ride." After Pei Ziyun finished speaking, he called for the slaves to carry the bodies of Castor and Polydeuces down.
Two large firewood piles were built in the open area of the island. A large wooden bed was spliced together with wood on the firewood pile, and the two corpses were placed on the wooden bed.
Next to the pyre is a small altar, which is round and has a one-meter pedestal with a small statue of Zeus placed on it.
Pei Ziyun ordered his servants to bring a ram, tied it up and put it on the altar. The surrounding soldiers and slaves knelt down and prayed to Zeus.
After praying, the priests accompanying the army divided the offerings.
Pei Ziyun said to Castor and Polydeuces on the pyre: "Castor and Polydeuces, I hope your souls can rest in peace. I will treat Helen well. Please don't worry!"
After finishing speaking, he raised his hands in front of the statue of Zeus and prayed: "Great King of Gods Zeus, your sons Castor and Polydeuces suffered a shipwreck. At this time, I will hold a funeral. I hope you will take care of me." I hope you will continue to protect me.”
After the sacrifice, the cremation is held in front of the pyre.
Everyone remembered the two heroes Castor and Polydeuces, bowed and saluted, and the torches gently lit the pyre. After a while, the raging fire devoured the corpses of the two heroes.
Originally, cremated corpses would emit a very unpleasant smell, but perhaps because they were smeared with sesame oil, or because there were heroes in front of the two corpses, there was no strange smell when the corpses were burned, but a faint fragrance came out.
After a short time, the body and the pyre were burned, leaving only a pile of ashes. The servant divided the ashes into two parts, put the two ashes into two boxes, and buried them in the grave. Pei Ziyun was very considerate and placed a few words in each box. Ten gold coins were placed in it for them to cross the River Styx.
Due to time and material constraints, the tomb is not grand, but it is also made of stones.
Helen watched the urns of the two brothers being buried in the graves, and tears could not stop falling from her eyes.
"Honey, why are you crying? Maybe the two heroes were just taken back to Olympus by their father."
"Paris, you don't have to bother to comfort me. You have already done your best. I just feel uncomfortable thinking about never seeing my two brothers again."
"Helen, I feel your discomfort, but if the two heroes saw you like this, they might be equally unhappy." Pei Ziyun said, but he was thinking in his heart.
"Castor and Polydeuces are both dead, and they are still the sons of Zeus. They cannot escape. Is this the fate of heroes?"
"No, I must break through this fate."
After the ashes of the two heroes were buried, everyone began to cremate the ordinary sailors and soldiers. This was relatively simple, and the graves were just ordinary mounds of earth.
However, although the funeral ceremony was simple, it was still solemn.
After the funeral arrangements, everyone packed up their things and returned to the ship.
Pei Ziyun also took Helen back to the battleship. Seeing that everyone was fully prepared, he gave the order: "Set sail to Troy."
A fleet slowly sailed out of the harbor and headed towards the city of Troy.
The sky was dark and the fog was thick. There were faint sounds of crying, which made one's scalp numb. If one looked closely, gray shadows appeared in the fog.
"This is the domain of Hades, are we dead?" Castor and Polydeuces looked at all this in despair, and gradually came to their senses.
In order to quickly catch up with their sister, the two set off on a fast sail. The sky was still clear in the morning, and they observed the sky and it didn't look like a storm, but then it turned into a storm.
In the fog, more and more phantoms appeared, all of them ghosts. They looked familiar, as if they were soldiers following him, and there seemed to be terrible malice hidden in the thick fog. There were sighs, cries and screams everywhere. The two of them couldn't help but become nervous.
The two of them looked up into the distance again, and saw that a little further away, many ghosts gathered on the bank of a large river, eager to cross the river. One person came towards them in a small boat. Just seeing it, they felt it: "Charon?"
Charon cried: "Look, who do I see? You are in trouble, great sons of Zeus, for I have come to ferry you to the other side of the river."
"However, even if you are the son of Zeus, the rules are still rules. You can only cross the river if you give me silver coins. Otherwise, you have to stay here for a year!"
"No, you can take them there, but these two, the great Zeus has arrangements, so they don't have to cross the River Styx to reach the domain of Hades." At this moment, a golden light suddenly fell, and only Hearing a "boom", a goddess fell down.
Unlike the goddess she saw when she was alive, Athena's whole body was now shining with golden light, making people afraid to look at her.
"Oh, does Zeus want to interfere in the realm of Hades again?" Charon took a step back.
"Castor and Polydeuces did not cross the River Styx, and they are not counted as the people of Hades. Moreover, the great Zeus, even in Hades, has such willful authority." Athena He answered, grabbing the souls of Castor and Polydeuces, and just flew away.
It seemed that in the blink of an eye, I broke through a certain space and saw a great holy mountain, the whole thing was shining with brilliance, but I only flew to the foot of Mount Olympus and did not go up the mountain.
"Only gods are qualified to go up the mountain. Your residence is under the Holy Mountain." Athena said, knocking at the foot of the mountain, and a hole opened at the foot of the mountain. Athena went in first, Castor and Polydius Keith looked at each other and followed them in.
It turns out that the underground Athena mentioned was the underground of Mount Olympus, and the brothers were able to accept it.
After entering, I found that the bottom of the mountain was not dark, there was a faint light, and it was a different world. The underground was very large, and there were many mansions.
Athena led Castor and Polydeuces into an exquisite mansion.
Everything was there, and Castor and Polydeuces were quite satisfied with it. At this moment, Athena was startled, and she tapped lightly on the wall. The wall rippled, and the picture gradually appeared.
The picture showed the situation on Lesburg Island. The two people watched the whole process from Pei Ziyun's salvage of the bodies of the two legendary heroes to their cremation and burial in the graves, with complicated expressions on their faces.
As the sons of Zeus, the two of them actually knew that it was God's will to die, and Paris was not responsible. However, they died because of Pei Ziyun, and they felt a little resentful in their hearts.
"I hope you will be kind to Helen, Paris."
Mount Olympus · Summit
Zeus drank heavily and watched all the actions on Lesburg Island. He was very satisfied with Pei Ziyun's actions. When Pei Ziyun offered sacrifices, he took the sacrifices conveniently.
"Paris, because of your actions today, someone will bury you again in the future."
Troy
Lesburg Island on the coast of Troy is not far from Troy. Pei Ziyun's fleet arrived at Troy that day, and the lookout sent a signal to guide it into the port.
Pei Ziyun issued an order: "All attention, prepare to anchor!"
The crew immediately acted according to the order, some lowered the sail, some took the rope, and some took the anchor. Pei Ziyun looked around and saw that the order had been executed quickly, then turned to Gesni and said: " Gesne, go ahead and tell my father, King Priam, the news of my return and about Helen.”
"Coselia, go to my mansion and tell me the news of your return and what happened to Helen."
"There is no need to hide anything, as long as it is the truth, you can answer whatever Oenone asks, and tell her that I will report to the king and will be back later."
"Yes!" Both of them were a little surprised and retreated. Looking at their figures, Pei Ziyun continued to dispatch the fleet and arrange things, but thought in his heart: "I don't know that those people in Troy know that I really brought a girl back from Greece. What would the woman think? The oracle said that if I brought a woman back from Greece, Troy would be destroyed."
(End of chapter)