Augustus Road

Lepidus was walking in the streets behind the Temple of Medicine in Ephesus. To be honest, this city was much better than the dirty and crowded Roman city. Although the Greek houses were long and had only one courtyard gate. It's outside, but it's neat and tidy anyway. The streets are big enough for four or five horses to pass at the same time. There are water pipes and sewers. There are lamp posts on both sides for lighting, and fish oil and other fuels are lit. The main expenses are The Municipal Affairs Bureau solved the problem by using holy land offerings and tourism taxes.

What did the city of Rome look like at this time? In addition to vehicles hauling water and excrement (these vehicles rarely appear in the daytime, because the streets are too narrow and the people passing by are congested), there are groups of slaves with torches, escorting their masters home safely, or going to other people's homes safely. People were cuckolds, or they were drunken thugs wandering in twos and threes, swinging around like zombies in the shadows, ready to catch a passerby and beat him up at any time.

At the seventh house on the adjacent street, Lepidus walked there alone. He looked back at both ends of the empty alley. There seemed to be no one there. Occasionally, he heard a few vigilant barkings of dogs, probably directed at him. He sneaked out of the military camp and arranged a banquet with other generals inside to paralyze Brutus and Cassius in the port camp. As soon as he returned to Ephesus, Joseph, the chief of the Jewish business group, happily Esetes loaned it to Cato, and then they all returned to Eubotia, so Brutus still didn't know what close connection he had with this business group, and he didn't bother to continue asking. The money was in hand. It's good to be able to run things.

And he himself came here tonight to have a "talk" with the powerful people in the Kingdom of Eubotia.

After knocking on the door a few times, the one who opened the door was Biduita holding a torch. His indigo face was easily identifiable. When Lepidah came in, he found that there were more than ten people standing in the narrow and long four walls. All the Galatian barbarian swordsmen were looking at him eagerly.

"Come in, the mistress is waiting for you. Although she has been reluctant to admit it, she should have returned to the winter palace in Eubotia by now." Biduita inserted the torch diagonally behind the door. On the ledge, he winked at the others and retreated.

There was very little furniture in the long, narrow and deep room. Instead, there was a couch across the inner and outer rooms, with curtains made of silk thread and shells hanging down. Beside the couch were several delicate Miletus embroidered clay pots, with several exquisite embroidered pots inside. Lepidus took out the tulip with withered roots and looked at it. He immediately found it interesting. He had never seen this kind of flower in Rome or Gaul. It must have been cultivated in the Anatolian Plateau and had not yet been introduced to Rome. Lepidus sat on the couch, pinned a hanging flower to his collar with a brooch, stood up slowly, and waited for Adiana in the candlelight, so slowly.

At this time, there was a sound on the stairs, and an "actor" with loose chestnut hair slowly walked down. In the candlelight, she used her naked hands to cover her face with the mask used for acting. Just when Li Bida wanted to turn around At this time, the "player" suddenly chanted, "How long has this city fallen?"

Lepidus turned his back to her and laughed. He and Adiana had watched this comedy before, Euripides' "Helen"...

"Ah, the fruit trees have almost grown for the seventh time." Lepidus took the next line. He knew that Adiana was mocking him for forgetting the promise they had made after returning to Rome.

"How long have you been in Troy before that?"

"I only know that the moon has traveled along its orbit for countless decades, but I always believe that it is the wheel that was over the Black Sea Queen Sinop, Karabia." The second half of the sentence was added by Lepidah , when he saw Adiana's footsteps falling in the middle of the stairs, silently facing him and no longer moving, he walked up, took off her mask, and said to her beautiful face, "Helen, Whoever that visitor is, don’t take his words as completely reliable.”

At this time, Adiana couldn't help but burst into laughter.

In the room on the second floor, the panel windows on both walls were lowered, but there was still a flickering candle in front of the bed. Amidst the sound of "squeaking", Adiana hung her long chestnut hair and turned her back to Lepidus. , her waist and breasts were caged by the other party's strong arms from behind, and she sat in her man's vagina with blurred eyes, gently bouncing up and down in front of the mirror, like riding a big docile horse. .

"The owl will be very happy to see you, although it is currently tied up in the port camp." The exhausted two people were wrapped in blankets and chatting carefully. The entire longhouse was very closed because the board windows were closed. , at this time Li Bida turned his head and saw the wolf-skin priest uniform with a furry tail, still hanging on the wall.

Facing Lepidus' approach, Adiana turned her back, as if she was angry and no longer wanted to pay attention to him. Lepidus continued to ask shamelessly, "It has been good in Eubotia these past years. The Jewish Chamber of Commerce must have helped you make a lot of money. "

"Of course, I have become accustomed to the loneliness of being a queen for so many years, looking at the sharp sword hanging on the throne." There were a little tears in the corners of Adiana's eyes, but it was obvious that Lepidus could not see it, "But I still persisted. I must thank you for ceding nearly half of the land of the Kingdom of Godini to Eubotia through Pompeii, adding flower production areas and salt lakes. My method is to make these two kinds of land. I exported regular luxury goods and dumped them out to obtain a lot of money in neighboring countries. Then I drew usurious merchants such as Joseph, who were expelled from Syria by the Romans, to Eubotia and let them manage my money and invest it. Maritime affairs, flower fields, intensive wheat fields, animal husbandry, etc." After speaking, Adiana turned over, raised her left cheek and said with a proud look, "Hey, let me tell you, amphora, Uber. There is still a surplus of more than a thousand talents in Tenia's treasury. I now have two palaces, the Summer Palace and the Winter Palace. Five hundred Galatian swordsmen serve as my guards, and I have also formed an army of five hundred A heavy cavalryman from Cappadocia."

"Is it used against the Menanders of the Bosporus?"

"Because they have a child, their name is Pharnabysis, and they even claim to be my father's posthumous son." Adiana's emotions suddenly became excited, she turned over and straddled Lepidus' body, murmuring , "I also want a child, preferably a boy, to inherit my father's great empire and the glorious Mitra family. I hate them. It's best if you can give me such a status now."

"Wait, wait." Lepida used his hands to break her kiss, and suddenly remembered, he asked, "Who is the husband of Beneniki in Egypt now, and how could he pretend to be your father's child? "

"That guy is a bastard sent by Menander to follow the trend. He is the general who commanded the New Model Army for me before, Archelaus." Adiana said, after the fall of Pontus, this man once defected to Pompey. Later he went to Egypt and cheated Beneniki's heart, just like you fooled me, you bastard. (To be continued.)