Augustus Road

"Obey, and your superior will love you." - St. Paul

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"Speaking of this, Portia and Sevilla seem to be worried about him. In addition, Portia recently accidentally revealed Brutus's boarding address to me. She said that Sevilla will always know her son best. But you don’t want to tell Caesar, is this a way for you to tell Caesar again and again?” Potty said with concern.

"Probably not. Can Caesar and I have a closer relationship than Seville? There are only one or two reasons she told me. Firstly, Brutus' behavior would definitely offend Caesar, so she didn't dare to tell Caesar. Secondly, You come here because you believe I can solve this problem." After speaking, Lepidus kissed Poti and said that you will stay here these days, gather the wives of the veterans, and ask more about the recent major events in the streets of Rome. I will also tell you about other things. Putting the matter aside, no matter what, I only dealt with Portia's father.

Following the clues provided by his wife and mother, and with the assistance of veterans' wives who were selling goods and inquiring about gossip, looking for Brutus's gradual shrinkage, Lepidus quickly found his neighborhood.

In the dust raised on the street, Little Pigeon and Fan Lundina were hiding by the chicken coop on a certain street corner. While playing a game of throwing walnuts, they were constantly scanning the pedestrians on the street with their four eyes, and finally put on their cloaks. Brutus, who was dressed extremely low-key and mysterious, accompanied by two slaves, appeared at the reservoir under an arcade somewhere. He was immediately noticed by the little pigeon, and he whistled, and the two of them joined him. The naughty boy kept a certain distance and followed Brutus closely.

Finally, on the gable of the courtyard where Brutus turned, the naughty child saw that no one was around, so he lightly marked it with chalk mud. When they ran down the steep slope street of Paladin Hill, the little pigeon's adoptive father also The leader appeared and threw a handful of small silver coins to each of them. The two naughty children picked up the silver coins excitedly and ran to watch the dance performance in the street tavern.

"Where is this place?" Lepider asked as he walked to the foot of the gable and saw the chalk mud mark.

"This is the villa of Bonis, the senior elect of the Senate." One of his followers who was familiar with the streets of Rome replied.

"Squat here." Lepidus and several of his followers put on shabby robes, held up cracked pottery basins, and sat under the gable wall pretending to be beggars, staring at the people coming in and out of Bonis' courtyard.

Who would have thought that a moment later, from the door of Bonis, Marcus, yes, Lepidus' adoptive father, Tuna's younger brother Marcus, walked out with a child-like smile!

"What's going on, bastard." Lepidus cursed secretly, pinched his thigh with his fingers, and resisted the urge to go up and ask Marcus what happened. It seemed that his patron was now in a semi-demented state. , no one can control Marcos, otherwise how could he be involved in such an inexplicable incident?

Then he saw clearly that Marcus was walking leisurely until he reached the fork in the road. A dumpling cart carried by several strong slaves appeared. Marcus immediately smiled and climbed up to face the people behind the curtain. While talking and laughing, Li Bida stared at the sedan chair for a while, feeling vaguely aware of it. Then, several senators stepped out nervously one after another, and finally Brutus also walked out wearing a cloak, his expression a little uncertain, and very nervous, but when he saw Lepidus and several other "miserable beggars", he still He stopped and sighed, then sprinkled a few ashes into the pottery basin.

Several beggars who had received the favor immediately surrounded Brutus and thanked him. Just when Brutus was covering his nose in disgust to avoid the stench on their robes, he suddenly seemed to see the appearance of a beggar with a beard. He was very familiar, but before he could confirm it, the beggar grabbed him and dragged him to an abandoned alley in the recess of the gable like an eagle grabbing a chicken.

Just as Brutus was about to resist, a cold dagger was placed on his throat, "Tell me, why is Marcus there?"

"I don't know what Marcus is, but I heard it. You are Lepidus. My friend, are you still acting as Caesar's minion to embarrass my uncle?" Brutus judged the identity of the owner of the dagger and blushed. Speaking of.

Unexpectedly, Lepidus bared his teeth and dug the dagger deeper, until Brutus' neck oozed blood slightly, "I don't care about Caesar or Cato, you answer me now, and I will ask again - Marco Why is Si here! That’s right, it’s my mentally retarded adoptive father.”

"But I don't think he is mentally retarded at all... Put down the dagger, put down the dagger." When Lepidus did what Brutus wanted, Brutus covered his throat and coughed several times in succession while holding on to the wall. voice, and then continued with a changed voice, "But when you say this, I recall that when he came to Bonis' house these past two days, it was indeed a bit strange. He spoke fluently in public, but almost never spoke in private. Q\u0026A with others.”

"Don't Bonis know his situation?"

"Maybe, after all, we didn't know much about this person before - and he publicly said that he was expressing his position on behalf of his brother, Tuna Luculas, so we didn't question it much."

"Fools, are you going to assassinate Pompey, Caesar, or Crassus?" Lepidus said this, and Brutus was a little surprised: How did this guy know the purpose of our gathering? But there was no point in hiding it now, so he told his friends that Bonis and Bibrus had linked up with a group of senators and planned to assassinate Pompey first, because Pompey was now Caesar's most powerful backer, and then suppress Caesar in the war in the Senate, accuse him of his crimes, and finally convict and execute him openly, just like Cicero did to Catiline.

After listening to Brutus's so-called "conspiracy", Lepidus smiled bitterly, pinched Brutus's robe twice, and quickly took out a self-defense dagger and an amber plate. Then he looked at it carefully. There were indeed Bonis, Bibrus, Brutus, Marcus, and of course his Pidulucuras's ring seal on it. If nothing unexpected happened, it must have been Marcus who secretly brought it out and stamped it.

Brutus was about to grab it, but Lepidus threw the amber plate to his companions standing at the alley to watch. As soon as they took it, they whistled and fled with the amber plate.

"Don't force me." Brutus turned his hand to grab the dagger, but was pushed back by Lepidus, and his back was against the wall. Then Lepidus came forward like a ghost, bent over and punched him in the lower abdomen. Brutus vomited bile and slowly slid down against the wall.

"These punches are for your mother and Portia - you stampers are all used by others, do you know!" Lepidus said coldly. (To be continued.)