Augustus Road

"Before Lord Crassus returned to Italy, he greedily looted the city of Magallanes. It was the richest port here, and the owner of Vibius who had previously taken him in was also implicated and excluded. The industry here was maintained. No, he left here a long time ago. As for where he went..." The old woman looked up, as if she was stuck in long-lasting memories, and as if she was whetting Li Bida's appetite, "Someone said he went He went to Africa, and some say he went to Rome."

"Then why did he only take away your sister?" Lebida pressed the question quickly. He seemed to feel something vaguely, especially after seeing the appearance of old and young Vilia, he felt very familiar. He couldn't help but feel familiar with all the faces. Secrets, there are some related pictures in my mind, and many words are crowded in my mouth. I want to say them out but have to swallow them hard.

This is his own big secret, and it is the trouble that has haunted him for more than twenty years.

In the past, Li Xilia finally revealed a little bit of this kind of inside information to him in the Kitchen God Temple and in private settings, but he was still not satisfied. That was why he came to this world. In this era, sometimes Li Bida himself would laugh at it. He said to himself, "Since we have traveled through time, don't worry about it so much."

But in the end, I still couldn't convince myself.

It wasn't until now that he accidentally saw Velia that he felt that time, space and fate had played a joke on him - that person was about seven years younger than him when he first came to Rome, and could be said to be older than Adiana. She is young, and now she has succeeded Lisilia as the chief virgin of the Vesta Temple. No wonder there are many people in Rome rumored to be the illegitimate daughter of Crassus and Lisilia. Now it seems that the problem is not that simple. Whose child is she? As for when he was the keeper of the Holy Treasury. Is that the man in black who often appears among them, or is he?

Lepidus held his head in confusion, and then slowly lay down on the back of the chair. Little Veliya supported the high priest's wrist in surprise, "Noble sir, if you don't mind, just rest here for a while. Don't you want to Do you want to see the seaside cave where Crassus hid? Let my granddaughter take you there after you have rested."

Anyway, Lepidus got up and, under the guidance of little Vilia, came to the back room of the house, opened the door and went in. The walls and floor were made of logs and iron wire, raised several Roman feet above the ground. Isolated from the heat and humidity below, it was very warm and cool, and it was filled with hay. There are also bunches of hay hanging from the roof beams, floating back and forth leisurely in the breeze from the window. Lepidus took off his cloak, made bedclothes, and leaned against the haystack. Little Velia bit her lip, probably getting her grandmother's "order" to take off the shoes of the high priest - although Before the expedition, many people in the Senate encouraged Lepidus to enhance his glory and wear purple or red boots, just like Caesar during his lifetime - but they were all rejected by Lepidus either sternly or politely, which is a lesson for Caesar. , he did not want to repeat the past mistakes. The framework left by the modern republic was a restraint, but to a certain extent it was also a protection.

But little Vilia was obviously a little nervous, or she had never served a real nobleman before. When she pulled on the high priest's shoes, she applied force before the buttons were unfastened, and the result was that the skin on Lepidah's feet was immediately torn. The little girl was so frightened that she held her shoes in her hands and stayed where she was without daring to speak. Lepidus laughed and said to her, "I came from Rome. If I were in the Villa of Campania, a Greek male slave wearing silk clothes and a garland would take off my shoes slowly and softly, and Applying ointment to me is not something I’m used to! Maybe that’s why a little peasant girl who looks very petite but very strong wants to tear my legs off. “Now, little one. Vilia also laughed, and then she stood up a little shyly and began to say, "Nobles from far away, please have mercy on me, remember that I am still a virgin, don't treat me as a slave girl, in my generation He is now considered a free man." Then he began to take off his clothes, revealing the tight and cute girl's body, and her strong and flat belly was trembling nervously, ready to bear the flow of pleasure.

That's right, little Veliya's skin was fair under her clothes. The slightly dark color of her face was indeed, as Lebida judged, not innate, but had been cultivated in the gardens and mountains for a long time.

It seems that this was also the order given by Old Veliya. When nobles want people to arrive somewhere, no matter what the situation is, there will always be someone who will "do the courtesy of the landlord" when the need arises. Even though Crassus was a wanted exile at that time, Didn’t Vibius also send old Vilia and her sister to the cave where Crassus was hiding?

Maybe on a normal day, Lepidus would have "accepted" this lovely girl, because Bodi and Yulia would never interfere in his "interests", and only Ah, who was far away, would Diana likes to be noisy and jealous, but she is also "far away". Therefore, sometimes when he is lonely on the road, Lepidus will of course "get involved" with some young and beautiful girls. Some are aristocratic girls who are sent to him on his own initiative, and some are from his family. He was a slave girl there, but he had never descended into the purgatory of casual debauchery.

Now, especially the face of Little Velia, who looked very similar to someone, and some speculations in Lepidus's mind that he could not let go, so he did not have the interest to "train" the little girl, so he just comforted her a few words and said that he could take her back to Rome after the expedition and arrange a good marriage for her. He also gave Little Velia a few large silver drachmas as a gift, "Now I feel very sleepy, and if you stick to me at this time, I will be angry. You go out and see my guards, they are all black guys, go and touch their strange weapons and armor, let me have a good rest." Let the naive girl happily put on her clothes again, closed the door and went out.

Then, Lepidus's eyelids became more and more difficult, the monotonous buzzing sound of bees outside the house, the comfortable fragrance of hay, and the intoxication of mead and wine he had just drunk, made him fall asleep quickly.

Then, Li Bi Da had a very long dream, the length of which was unbelievable even to himself. Some people say that ordinary people’s dreams usually last from a few seconds to ten minutes. When the eyeballs keep moving, the dream enters the **, but the high priest’s dream is almost a change of countless scenes. (To be continued...)