I was a priest in the city-state era

In the modern world 3,600 years later, men and women, let alone engaged, can get married on the first day and divorce the next.

Because marriage relationships have become very fragile and flash marriages and divorces have become common, people do not take engagement seriously.

But in this era, wives are regarded as husbands' private property, and husbands have the right to kill cheating wives, so entering into marriage is a very cautious matter.

As long as the parents marry their daughter to her husband, the daughter no longer belongs to her parents but to the husband, and there is no option for divorce.

Therefore, when parents betroth their daughter to their fiancé after careful consideration, the marriage relationship has been established.

The fiancé is actually the husband.

In ancient legends, Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, had no choice but to kill Hermione in order to marry his cousin, Hermione, the daughter of King Menelaus of Sparta and Helen. Ermione’s fiancé—Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles—is because the fiancé is equal to the husband.

Even if Orestes negotiated directly with the Spartan king Menelaus, Menelaus could not marry his daughter Hermione to Orestes.

In this era, if you are a civilian, as long as the woman's parents agree to betroth their daughter, the man can directly take the woman home to establish a marriage relationship.

There is no need for an engagement or marriage process at all.

Engagement and marriage—this is a necessary process that only royal families and nobles pay attention to.

Commoners do not need to go through the process of engagement and marriage, because commoners can usually only have one woman. Even if there is no engagement and marriage, his only woman will be his undoubted first wife.

Royal families and nobles will have many women, so the significance of engagement and marriage is to establish a woman's identity.

A man holds a wedding banquet to let the guests witness that the woman who marries the man will become his wife.

If there is no wedding, the woman will be regarded as the man's side wife or even his lover.

Precisely because the meaning of a wedding is to establish a woman's identity, in ancient legends, Prince Paris of Troy abducted Queen Helen of Sparta. After holding a wedding with Helen, Paris's original wife Oenone changed from his wife to his ex. First wife.

As a result, Oenone could not bear the humiliation of being deprived of her status as a head wife, so she left Paris and returned to the mountain cabin where they were married to live alone.

Since an engagement is equivalent to a marriage, and a wedding is only to establish a woman's status as a head wife, Loy can now exercise her husband's power over Procne.

The price is that the father-in-law Pandion and the mother-in-law Mrs. Zeuxippo will no longer be in a hurry to marry their daughter, but will actually hold a wedding for Loy and Procne tomorrow, and in the witness of many guests will establish that Procne is Loy. Yi's first wife.

If Roy only had Procne as his fiancée, Roy would not mind exercising his husband's power and letting Procne serve him.

But Roy also has another fiancée, Harmonia. If Roy holds a wedding with Procne without Harmonia's knowledge, and makes Procne his official wife——

Roy couldn't imagine how angry Harmonia would be.

After all, Procne's becoming the head wife means that Harmonia can only be Loy's side wife.

Looking at Procne's shy and cute look, and thinking of Harmonia's reaction, Roy said with a serious expression.

"Procne! I won't do anything to you before our wedding."

Then, Roy said with an embarrassed expression.

"Procne! Philomela! Can you two go out for a moment? I need to get dressed now."

Procne nodded, but Philomela playfully grabbed the thin quilt covering Roy and said.

"Let me and my sister take a look and we won't lose any pieces of meat. Why are you driving me and my sister out? Aren't you afraid that my sister and I will get cold?"

It’s already February and the temperatures in Athens are getting colder than they were in January.

And it’s still morning when the sun rises.

Seeing Philomela trying to pull off the thin quilt on her body, Roy hurriedly grabbed the thin quilt.

"Philomela, don't pull the quilt back."

"Why don't you let me pull it? Is there something hidden under the quilt?"

Just as Roy and Philomela were pulling the thin quilt, there was a sudden sound of sneezing.

"Ah sneeze——"

This is the sound of a girl sneezing.

Procne and Philomela looked at each other. Neither of them had sneezed just now, and the sound just now seemed to come from under the thin quilt.

Procne and Philomela looked at Roy with suspicion. Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Roy pulled down the thin quilt and exposed Chione's little head lying next to him.

The bright light shone on her face, Chione opened her sleepy eyes, and showed a bright and sweet smile to Procne and Philomela.

Procne and Philomela's eyes widened, and their bodies froze as if they were petrified.

The two recovered from the shock, and Philomela said in a trembling voice.

"Sister! Before you got married to brother Roy, he cheated on you first."

Procne said calmly.

"Philomela, Chione will be Brother Roy's side chamber. We have known this for a long time. My father also has many women. Yesterday he accepted Danae from Brother Roy. Of course I will not ask Roy My brother is the only woman."

Hearing Procne's words, Chione smiled and said.

"Princess Philomela, I have no ambition to compete with Princess Procne for the position of the legal wife. And I haven't given my body to Roy yet, so I won't give birth to a child earlier than your sister."

Procne smiled faintly after hearing what Chione said.

As a tolerant and generous woman, she didn't mind that Roy had a rival who posed no threat to her.

Seeing that the Shura field he was worried about did not appear, Roy couldn't help but smile.

"I'm so happy to see that you can get along well. After we finish breakfast, I'll take you three out to play together."

After that, Roy planned to put on his clothes in front of them.

Philomela screamed in shame, turning her back to Roy and said.

"Brother Roy, I'm not your fiancée, how can you let me see your body!"

"Didn't you just want to pull my quilt?"

Roy said jokingly.

"Now I want to put on my clothes and you dare not watch."

"Wow, ah ah ah ah - if you say that to me again, I will turn around and look at you."

Listening to Philomela's impotent rage, Roy, Procne, and Chione couldn't help laughing.

Seeing that Roy wanted to put on his clothes by himself, Procne snatched the clothes from Roy and said.

"Brother Roy, let me help you put on your clothes!"

Although this was originally Chione's job, Chione was very tactful to give this job to Procne.

After the four people finished breakfast playfully, Roy took the three girls out of the stone house and stood in the Temple Square overlooking the scene under the Acropolis and said.

"Now my father-in-law is taking Erechtheus to attack the Lavrio tribe, and my mother-in-law will also manage Athens on behalf of my father-in-law. Whatever you want to play today, I will try my best to satisfy you."

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