Augustus Road

After a while, Calabis, who was sweating, came back and saw Adiana sitting there obediently without moving. The food in this white sailboat was very limited. In fact, sailors in the classical era They are all very patient people, and they can endure hunger at sea for many days. Therefore, apart from rough wheat rice, the only things Calabis found were a small handful of olives and two slices of caviar. Slices of meat, yes, and three or four seashells fried in carabis.

However, even for these things, Adiana never thought of looking for them herself. I am afraid that if Calabis hadn't come, the princess would probably starve to death on her own in two or three days.

When such a fisherman-style meal was placed on the cartographic table, Adiana actually stood up, bowed slightly to the amphora, and then reached out to the meal plate - suddenly, Calabis held her hand, "Your Excellency, can you talk about your future treatment now?"

"Didn't you just say that?" Adiana hoped that Calabis would recall what she just said.

"No, I want you to make a promise to enter the Acropolis immediately. Let me say one thing first, because you are now exiled by the King of Pontus and have lost your crown, so your identity can no longer be the princess's daughter, but As a prisoner of the advance team of our Thirteenth Army," Karabis said very seriously.

There were tears in the corners of Adiana's eyes, but the abominable amphora ignored this at all. She looked at the steaming meal and could only nod with difficulty. People only think of death in desperate situations. , but as long as there is a plate to eat, everything becomes different again.

Calabis's second request: "This white-sailed ship has been requisitioned by the legions from now on. Once you enter the waters of the Acropolis, your legal status protected by the territory of the city will be automatically cancelled, and everything will be in accordance with Roman law. Handle it.”

"How to do it?"

"It's very simple. You will automatically become a foreigner. Just like me in Rome, you will have to pay a head tax of two ass every day."

"Two Asi? What is Asi? Gold coins or silver coins, you are insulting people." When Adiana saw Calabis's eyes and didn't want to joke, she lowered her head and said: "I can provide Pontifang's Valuable information to help you defeat the Bronze Shield Army."

"I'm sorry, your information is no longer needed. You have no value to the legion in this regard." Calabis said with a smile, and added: "After entering the city, you immediately put on the legion's camp slave uniform and take charge. Clean and take care of your weapons and armor, and I can ask the quartermaster to pay you a sesstus every day."

"A Sestes! Amphora, no, your Excellency the envoy of the legion, you must know that the salary of the combing maid I used to hire was two thousand drachmas a year, and I am not willing to be a military slave, Calabis "Don't you think we didn't do enough before?" Adiana was using the past relationship to soften the special envoy.

"I used to be in the Seventh Legion, but I was the one doing all the work for you. There's nothing you can do about it. There are more slaves and fewer soldiers in the Acropolis now. OK, I'll take a step back. Three sesstus a day. I am the auxiliary craftsman of the legion. ." Calabis withdrew his hand, and Adiana immediately grabbed the wheat rice and olives with her hands, divided the work between the left and right, and started chewing.

"You look so ugly, how can you be the princess of Pontus, and why do you come to me to negotiate peace?" Karabis said sarcastically by the light.

Adiana was stunned. She looked at the poor food in front of her and suddenly started sobbing. There were still grains of wheat stuck to the corners of her mouth. Tears fell pattering down. She said to Calabis: "I hate me." I have exposed my sharp edge too much, offended my father, and lost my noble status, but I hate that I don’t have the courage to die, so you continue to insult me ​​with these things." As he spoke, he broke down in tears. Calabis also felt that it was a bit too much, so he wiped the tears on the princess's face with his hand, "Ardeina, the legion craftsman, don't cry, let alone think about dying. It was so hard for us all to endure it back then. We’re down, although we’re strangers now, and we’re still in conflict, but it doesn’t matter, we’ll fight side by side for the Thirteenth Army again, right?”

Calabis's hands, which were inspecting the fortifications and artillery equipment in the city just now, were covered with dirty dust. He gently wiped the female craftsman's face into a painted face. Adiana's eye circles and cheeks were blackened, as if she was a good girl. He nodded like a national treasure and started eating again.

"By the way, how is the payment of military pay to the army in your capital?"

"Last year, my father was defeated by Pompey and took three thousand talents with him——"

"It's six thousand," Calabis corrected.

"Yes, yes, my father paid a whole year's salary to all the troops and entourage at once, so they have not been paid for the recent battles."

"Even for such a huge victory as the capture of Ponticabion City, there is no additional reward?" Karabis asked cautiously.

Seeing that the princess did not deny it, Calabis pondered for a moment and then said: "By the way, legion craftsman Adiana, after entering the city immediately, I will use your power to use it." After saying that, he put the enamel gold The pendant was handed into Adiana's hands again, promising: "As long as you get my protection, you will regain your identity sooner or later. Your father will not be able to hold on for long. After the war, you will still be the princess who turned all living beings upside down, with rice." The glorious lineage of the Terra family, by the way - in the camp of my patron Luculas, I vaguely heard that your father betrothed you to King Charnus of Godini, right?"

"He is now teaming up with Tegret the Younger to engage in a civil war with Tegrenes, the king of kings in Armenia. Pompey's attitude towards this matter is unclear for the time being. To be honest, I don't want to marry the king of a vassal state of a Roman vassal state." Adiana began to analyze the topic in detail when she encountered a topic she was good at, and she recovered her vitality after a full meal.

After the peace talks with the princess were completed, Carapis asked the oarsmen who were still on the ship to lead his small boat and slowly approached the waters of the Acropolis, and then dropped anchor. Carapis asked Adiana to change into the legion's loose clothes, gather up her long chestnut hair and put on a double-eared hat, and then he jumped down the gangway first, stood firmly, hugged Adiana's waist, and carried her down. Adiana's body was very soft, just like holding a kitten.

After the Pontic oarsmen settled the white sailboat, they left in the boat according to Achilles' instructions in advance. As soon as Carabis and Adiana landed on the beach, they waved at the tower, and several crossbows fired fiercely at the white sailing ship. (To be continued.)