I was a priest in the city-state era

Of course Roy knew that the Mycenaeans would not accept his exorbitant demands.

Seeing that the Mycenaeans' envoys rejected his request without hesitation, Roy smiled faintly and said.

"You can't accept 100,000 catties of grain in exchange for a princess, so you should be able to accept 10,000 catties of grain in exchange for a princess!"

Roy's request was directly reduced from 100,000 catties of grain to 10,000 catties of grain.

The Mycenaeans' envoys widened their eyes in disbelief, and said blankly after they came to their senses.

"Of course 10,000 catties of grain is fine, we are willing to use 30,000 catties of grain to redeem the three princesses."

"Then you can go back to Mycenae now and tell King Acrisius of Mycenae our request. As long as you Mycenaeans send 30,000 catties of grain, you can take the three princesses away."

The envoy nodded and said.

"We will send 30,000 kilograms of food to Athens as soon as possible. Please take good care of the three princesses and don't let them be humiliated."

After the Mycenaean messenger left, Roy saw Zeuxippus lowering his head with a sad look, and asked with concern.

"Mother-in-law, are you worried about something?"

"I just thought of Danae."

Zeuxippus came back to his senses and said.

"Pandion not only favored Danae last night, but also took Danae with him to the Lavrio tribe. Was he reluctant to part with Danae, or was he worried that I would bully his Danae?"

Roy said with a guilty conscience.

"Mother-in-law! Did I destroy the relationship between mother-in-law and father-in-law by giving Danae to my father-in-law?"

Zeuxippus shook his head and said.

"This has nothing to do with you. You just gave Danae to Pandion according to the rules of distributing spoils. Perhaps it is because my charm is inferior to Danae that Pandion is obsessed with Danae."

"My mother-in-law's beauty and charm are not inferior to Danae at all."

Roy said immediately.

"And for me, my mother-in-law's charm is far better than Danae."

"You child--"

Hearing Roy's praise, Zeuxippe couldn't help but giggle.

"I know myself well. I am now an old woman. Your sweet words should be used to praise Procne."

As soon as Zeuxippe finished speaking, Procne's voice came from outside.

"Mother, are you calling me?"

Then Procne and Philomela walked into the hall.

"Daughters, come to me quickly."

Zeuxippe said while greeting Procne and Philomela.

"Just now, the Mycenaeans came to negotiate with our city of Athens. Since I have my son Roy to rely on, I asked Roy to negotiate with the Mycenaeans on my behalf. After Roy negotiated with the Mycenaeans, he asked the Mycenaeans to redeem Perseus' three sisters with 30,000 kilograms of grain."

"Only redeem Perseus' three sisters?"

Philomela complained dissatisfiedly.

"Brother Roy, why don't you let the Mycenaeans redeem Danae as well? Now Danae has been sticking to her father all the time, which is really annoying."

Before Roy spoke, Zeuxippe spoke first.

"Philomela! Since Danae is your father's woman now, how can we give Danae to someone else."

"Mother, are you willing to accept Danae as your father's woman?"

"Danae is not my first love rival, why can't I accept it? As long as she is not crazy enough to replace me as the main wife, I will treat her as Pandion's concubine or lover."

After listening to Zeuxippe's words, Philomela couldn't help asking.

"Mother! What do mother and father think about my marriage? Since you didn't marry my sister to the king of a city-state or the leader of a large tribe in other places, I don't want to marry a strange man in other places."

Zeuxippe nodded and said.

"For me, the most important thing is that you and Procne have a happy marriage. If you don't want to marry a stranger, we can marry you to a husband as good as Roy, and then seize the Marathon region in the east as your dowry, so that you and your husband can build a city and a state in the Marathon region and become king and queen."

"Not to mention the city of Athens, there is no other husband as good as Brother Roy in the entire Attica Peninsula!"

Philomela said in a joking tone.

"Maybe I can marry Brother Roy with my sister, what do you think, mother? I love my sister just as she loves me. If I marry Brother Roy with my sister, my sister, as the legal wife, will let me enjoy the treatment of the legal wife, and my children will also have the right of inheritance."

Although he didn't take Philomela's words seriously, Zeuxippus was still frightened by his daughter's idea.

"Philomela, why do you want to be a love rival with your sister?"

"Because I don't want to be separated from my sister!"

Philomela said like a spoiled child.

"As long as my sister and I marry Brother Roy, we can be together forever. And I want to marry Brother Roy more than a strange man I have never met."

Zeuxipter shook his head and said.

"You are still young, you don't need to think about getting married. When you get married, there will be a husband who is not inferior to Roy."

Philomela pretended to be unhappy and puffed up her little face, looking at Roy and Procne.

Just now, Philomela had already tested Zeuxipter's thoughts on Procne and Philomela marrying Roy.

Obviously Zeuxippe couldn't accept Philomela marrying Roy.

After Roy, Procne and Philomela came to the sisters' boudoir, Philomela took the initiative to speak.

"Brother Roy! Sister! It seems that my mother will not support me marrying Brother Roy."

"This is the expected result."

Roy held Procne and Philomela's hands with both hands, pulled them to sit on the stone bed covered with wool blankets and said.

"Usually only people of low status will marry their two daughters to husbands of high status. Only if my status is higher than my father-in-law, my father-in-law and mother-in-law can accept you two sisters marrying me together."

"We have another way!"

Philomela put Roy's hand on her abdomen and said.

"As long as I have Brother Roy's child, no matter how reluctant my father and mother are, they can only agree that my sister and I will marry Brother Roy together."

Okay!

This is indeed a big killer move.

If Philomela has a child, she will naturally not be able to get married normally.

If Pandion and Zeuxippe didn't want Philomela to be unmarried for life and didn't want Philomela's grandson to be an illegitimate child, they could only accept that Roy became the husband of both Procne and Philomela.

But Roy didn't want to become her husband in such a way that would damage Philomela's reputation.

Because Roy had already planned to seize Athens, when Roy became the supreme ruler of Athens, Pandion and Zeuxippe naturally couldn't stop Roy from becoming the husband of Procne and Philomela.

"Philomela! I won't damage Procne's reputation before marriage, nor will I damage your reputation before marriage. You just have to wait patiently and you can become my wife."