Augustus Road

"Put that dirty head down for now. Assasis doesn't like such bloody things." Surena said to his groom as he walked towards the monarch's box.

The helpless Pomaceris placed the lime-smeared head of Crassus on the edge of the stage. At this time, the entire group of senators, including Herod himself, saw such a great "contribution" of the frontline general. Then there was another wave of cheers.

At that time, Euripides' tragedy "The Companion of Bacchus" by Euripides was being performed on the court stage. It described that Pentheus, the young king of Thebes, dared to question the boundless power of Bacchus, the god of wine. As a result, his mother and The wives were all seduced by Bacchus's magical power, singing and dancing wildly, and Pentheus himself fell into the trap of Dionysus. When his biological mother Agaea and his female companions went crazy, he was mistaken for a young boy. The lion was killed by rocks and branches, and its body was dismembered. It was held in the arms of its mother to show off its bravery.

Because women were not allowed to play roles on the theater stage in ancient Greece, Pentheus's mother Argaea was played by an actress named Jason from a coastal city in Silesia. His crazy performance appropriately showed the demeanor of an ignorant noblewoman being bewitched by the God of Dionysus, and won the applause of the whole house. At this time, he suddenly saw the head of Crassus on the edge of the stage, and could not help but be deeply intoxicated and substituted into "The Companion of Dionysus". "In the atmosphere of ", he took off the king's robes from the actor who played Pentheus on the stage, used them as plates and silk, and gently held Crassus's head in his hands. Although they were separated by masks, the entire theater audience was in awe. Even when he fell silent, he could still feel his burning eyes staring at the head of the Roman consul.

At this point, no one doubted it. Jason is the mother Agoa in the tragedy, and Crassus’s head belongs to her son. But after seeing Jason for a long time, he sang in an excited tone: “Today we are going on a grand hunt. We are going to hunt in the high mountains. Noble prey!"

Then in order to echo his lyrics. The chorus at the front sang: "Who has the honor of slaying the beast?"

Then Herod, Surena, and all the Parthian senators sang together in Greek. "It's me, thanks to my supreme courage!"

After singing, the applause and cheers almost shook the dome of the theater, and everyone hugged each other warmly. came to express their joy of defeating the Romans. At this time, the groom Pomaceris saw the actor snatching his spoils, so he rushed down recklessly, pushed Jason aside, snatched his head, and shouted, "Deal with this." It’s not an actor’s job to lose his head!”

Herod led the good-natured laugh. It seemed that he was in a good mood. He immediately sent a message to the captain of the guard, rewarding Jason and Pomaceris with a talent of silver each, and held Surena's arm tightly. Asking everyone present to enjoy the grandest dinner in the palace tonight, "I ask you, great general, noble clan, to put a small crown studded with diamonds on my son Pacrus. As for Serxis Don’t worry, you will see him on the execution ground three days later.”

Surena was completely intoxicated. During the dinner where cups and glasses were exchanged, he looked at the rows of reliefs on the palace walls. They were made by the Parthians in imitation of the style of the ancient Assyrian Empire. On them were Assyrian brave warriors. The king, of course, also represents the living Parthian king, riding on a horse, hunting lions and leopards. There is no doubt that he seems to be in this scene. As long as he gets Syria in the coming year, there and Qalasha will become his. The same goes for Forbidden, and then the beautiful Queen Eubotia, who would automatically expose her white skin, lie on his bed, and be affectionate with him.

That night, Herod invited the drunken Surena to stay in a villa in the palace courtyard. It was an unusually quiet villa with nomadic-style furnishings. Surena collapsed surrounded by a group of promiscuous women. On the large couch on the floor, they were still moving on their bodies, vomiting their drunken contents everywhere.

Surena's groom, on the other hand, was sitting on a stone chair in the yard in the dark of night, placing the silver coins that Asasis had just rewarded him one by one into his box. They were heavy and ringing until he heard There was a faint but polite knock on the door. Although the door was unlocked, servants and women in the palace must always be so polite, otherwise they would be killed if they displeased General Surena. Therefore, Pomaceris fastened the leather box, slung it on his shoulder, held up the lamp, and used his only remaining eye to feel the wall towards the door to answer. He was not very accustomed to this one-eyed thing. life, go to see if there are drinks and tools for continuing the carnival and sex.

A cold and sharp sword pierced the night and plunged into the coachman's stomach. Then his single eye suddenly grew, and he saw the owner of the hand on the sword's hilt, who happened to be "imprisoned in a cage." General Selheath. The fire flickered a few times, and a brief scuffle broke out. Serxis's soldiers then kicked the groom's body aside, and then about twenty or thirty people, armed with long swords, scimitars, sharp axes, etc., filed in. Surena's bedroom.

Surena's legs were cut off first, and the blood spattered all over the bodies and faces of several women. They screamed and got up to run away. On the bloody bed, Surena was naked and beautiful. There was still a hint of disbelief in his eyes. Due to the anesthetic effect of alcohol, he had not yet felt the pain of the broken leg. Instead, he looked at the trembling wound and said to Serxis, "Your Majesty can no longer do it." Did you reward me?"

"Yes, because your contribution is too great, unless he gives you the throne, which he cannot do, you must die." After Serhis answered this sentence quickly, the warriors around him rushed forward, swords and axes fell together, blood leaped, and the curtains were full of the blood of this great general and political idiot. Then Serhis pulled out Surena's head with slightly open eyes from the corpses everywhere, held it in his hands, and chanted a line from "The Companion of Dionysus": "If a person only thinks about human affairs, instead of arrogantly caring about God's affairs, There will be no pain in his life. "

After saying that, he carried the bloody head and walked to the deep secret room of the palace, where Herod and his two sons were waiting. After seeing the head of this hero, Herod pointed and said to his two sons, "Look, this is the main culprit of this country. Now that he is dead, the country can naturally be safe and there will be no source of internal strife. We just need to negotiate peace with the new king of Armenia and the Romans. "

Of course, Herod already knew everything that happened in Armenia at this time, and no longer had any illusions about their reinforcements.