But this still couldn't stop Finnis from wanting to escape.
She pushed aside the reed curtains covering the window and looked outside. In the deep night, she could get a glimpse of the outside world from the tall temple-like building. There are still countless lights in the city-state, and obviously not everyone can sleep peacefully.
"Maybe tonight isn't the time to run away."
Now that I and my new master are still strangers to each other, I will definitely be questioned by the soldiers when I go out secretly. The soldiers will never think that I am out to do something for my new master, and will only forcefully capture me.
And he is completely unfamiliar with the roads of the city-state.
If she wants to become familiar with the new master, she must try her best to complete the tasks assigned by the new master, so that one day, she can be appointed as an independent slave who goes out on business, and then she will not be far away from running away.
However, that status is probably no longer a pure slave, but a servant somewhere between a slave and a servant.
Night fades and day falls.
Fennis began to work hard to complete the work assigned to her by the new master in order to gain the trust of the other party, thereby trying to gain space for free movement. However, this master seemed to often leave the palace and go to the private sector, reportedly to "visit and investigate."
On the second day, the replacement and translation of several numbers were completed, and the new owner was very satisfied.
On the third day, they were required to complete a mathematical problem written in symbols. The title was about a chicken and a rabbit in the same cage. It was very simple and the answer was completed easily, which won the appreciation of the host.
On the fourth day, the host upgraded the math problem. This time, five calculations were required, namely the athlete who couldn’t settle accounts, the swimmer who pumped and released water in the pool, the shoe seller who was often cheated, and the two people who kept running. A and B of the road, and another is to calculate the area by giving the length, width and height of the temple.
The fifth day......
Finnis' whole body went numb.
In fact, these math problems are not particularly difficult to solve, but some words and sentences are difficult for her to understand, so she has to learn two other languages while doing the questions in order to translate these types of questions.
Moreover, the characters that appear in these math problems are really flawed... So why are chickens and rabbits put together, and why are they pumping water and draining it at the same time? Is this crazy?
Helpless, the host's task must be completed. After the translation, she completed the title and then translated it a second time to ensure that the translated content was accurate.
Fennis seemed to have returned to the days when he was a child, studying calculations and writing in the palace temple. It could be said that he was miserable.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for the country to collapse... Hey, this doesn't seem to be a good thing.
Of course, what surprised her even more was that the new master's sentences became more and more fluent.
The new owner is gradually becoming familiar with the language here. Every time he goes to the palace, his sentences will become much more fluent when he comes back.
This made Finniss more and more curious as to where this new owner came from.
Is the King of the East the leader of the civilization east of this city-state?
That seems a bit far.
Sure enough, what the Pharaohs said when I was young is true. There are no living people in the western world but the dead. And if you keep going east, you can see more people. The living people live in the land of the east. The further east you go, the more people you will see. , the more people there are.
From this point of view, the land where the Nile River flows is the place closest to Hades. Perhaps it is this that allows them to serve the gods more devoutly and fear Osiris.
On the tenth day, the new master was able to communicate with his slaves in fluent local language. Fennis became more cautious and did not dare to show the slightest idea of escape at this time, in case he was noticed. , that’s it.
The workload given by the new owner is getting bigger and bigger every day. While Finnis has a headache, there is also good news, that is, the big backpack of the new owner is getting more and more deflated.
All the writing media called "bamboo paper" were taken out from the big backpack. Although it was only a little deflated, it showed that the bamboo paper was being consumed.
Then look at the thick stack of papers piled up around me. They are all about translation calculations and various annotations. These are the results of my hard work. Looking at the thick stack of papers at this time, Finneas felt a sense of pride in his heart.
Of course, this trace of pride quickly disappeared. After all, these papers were just the work given to her by the master. The smarter the slave, the more favored she would be by the master, but the slave who was too smart would be dismissed. The master is afraid of it.
And the success of these tasks is not hers, but the master's. Everything about the slave belongs to the master. Although it may be said that, including the body, in fact, very few nobles will have relations with slaves, and they will not even vent their emotions.
The class gap is too big, and there is no freedom of love in this era. If the nobles are white swans, then the slaves are worse than toads, and at best they are mud under the pond.
On the twelfth day, after completing the work assigned by the master for the previous two days, I was lying on the low platform made of mud bricks to rest, when suddenly the door was opened.
Fennis immediately stood up and handed the finished item to the owner.
In the same way, the host still gave compliments, and compliments were free of charge anyway.
Then, Fennis lowered his head and saw the owner's feet walking near the mud platform, then taking out something and pressing on the papers.
Then...
"Finnis, look, is this your name? I should have written it correctly."
The fluent Sumerian language came into his ears. Finnis took the paper respectfully, but was stunned.
There are square red paints on it, and among the paints, his name is written in cuneiform characters.
What does it mean?
The confusion only lasted for a few short breaths, and Finneas had already heard her strange master being happy for herself and praising her:
"You should be the first person in the world who is proficient in the writing and calculation of three ancient civilizations. You are a great person. You will definitely be written in the history books and praised by future generations."
Then, the new owner began to recite an incomplete vocabulary word by word, seeming to be praising himself:
"Period, year, month."
Looking forward to the years?
After his master left, Fennis thought about the meaning of this word alone.
If you look at the Sumerian word, it should be "Place in the future after time?"
She started to use her brain and felt that this sentence was not translated this way.
There are also so-called history books, and she cannot understand the meaning of this term.
But from the fact that the last sentence was praised by the world, she could probably infer that the vague meaning of this word was probably the same as the inscriptions carved in caves or temples, and could be referenced and learned by future generations of priests.
