In the Potico Palace, Caesar is holding a piece of paper and looking at it carefully.

He had been studying the contents of the paper for a long time, and if it weren't for the fact that his eyes showed that he was indeed looking at it word by word, he might have been thought to have lost his mind.

Perhaps it was too long for Caesar to finally catch Lucrezia's attention, and she walked away from being teasing a parrot, walked behind Caesar with some curiosity, and reached out to put her arms around his neck and strangled him mischievously: "What are you looking at, so fascinated?" ”

"A less fascinating thing," Caesar turned and patted Lucrezia on the cheek dotingly, "how about you, would you like me to give you a gift?" ”

"I like it," Lucrezia said, looking back at the parrot standing on the delicate shelf, "I have never seen such a beautiful parrot, especially since it is very smart." ”

"Of course, it's valuable," Caesar said as he quietly tucked the piece of paper into his coat pocket, and then took Lucrezia by the shoulders and walked towards the parrot, "Let's see how clever it is to make my sister like it so much," Caesar whispered deliberately, "If it's so clever I'm going to slaughter it, I don't want a bird to fall out of favor in front of you." ”

"You can't fall out of favor, you're the best in my mind," Hearing this, Lucrezia took Caesar's face in her hands and looked at him carefully, "Sometimes I wonder what I would do without you, so what I am most grateful to God for bringing you all to me." ”

"That's what I thought," Caesar's originally casual smile slowly faded, and a serious and focused look appeared on his face, "What can I do without you, maybe then the world is really completely different, even if I am given the throne of the Pope, I will not be happy." ”

Lucrezia looked at Caesar in some surprise, she had never seen Caesar like this, Caesar was charming and elegant in her memory, even though she knew that he might not be as upright as he appeared in front of her, but Lucrezia never thought that he or the rest of her family was doing something wrong.

Even her father's young mistress, Lucrezia, treated her as if she were her own family, and Giulia Farne did like her, and the young woman even made Lucrezia wonder if she was in love with a woman.

As for the rest of the Borgia family, Lucrezia thought that they were the best gifts God had given her, and in fact, as Caesar said, she could hardly imagine what Giovanni or Geoffrey would be like without Caesar, and this terrible imagination sometimes made her cry out loud at night.

"You deserve to be punished," Lucrezia patted Caesar on the shoulder in an annoyed tone, "how can you say that you can enjoy sitting on the papal throne without me, I think you should have been wearing the worst clothes and walking barefoot on the stone floor forever, only then would you be sad." ”

"Yes, that's how it should be," Caesar nodded seriously, "we're family, so we can't lose each other, otherwise everything really won't make any sense." ”

Caesar's words made Lucrezia give a satisfied "um" at first, and then pointed to his coat pocket and said, "In that case, don't you want to tell me what is written in that letter, you know that I have the right to decide what kind of women can stay with you." ”

"It's not a love letter," Caesar smiled, "it's a very bad thing, and I'm wondering what to do, but you really shouldn't hear it, and I promise you don't want to hear it." ”

Lucrezia nodded understandingly, although she had always been well protected, she still heard something about her family and her family's reputation outside.

"Promise me to be careful not to hurt myself," Lucrezia picked Caesar's face again and looked at it carefully, "I made a wish to God that we would always be together as a family." ”

"Yes, we are always together as a family, and no one can separate us." Caesar nodded slightly, and he kissed Lucrezia lightly on the head.

Sensing Caesar's seriousness, Lucrezia giggled happily, and then she pulled Caesar towards the macaw, which was covered in colorful and bright feathers.

Lucrezia did not pay attention, Caesar's hand reached into his coat pocket and grasped the letter that had been sent to him by Giovanni not long ago.

It was a whistleblower letter against another Giovanni.

In this correspondence with his cousin, Lucrezia's husband, Giovanni Sforza, unreservedly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Borgia family, and he was equally angry at his own private life, describing his wife as a naïve woman on the outside, but dissolute on the inside, and even vaguely revealing speculations about his wife's intimacy with her family.

"It's hard for me to imagine that the intimacy of a family should be like this," the letter reads, "even as brothers seem too close, and this very abnormal and even disturbing feeling pervades every corner of my life, and I sometimes don't see my wife for a whole week, and every time I see her, she is so happy, as if she is not at all lost because she is not by my side, I dare not imagine who will fill the loneliness in her life often in such a time, And as far as I know, her brothers are always there for her at this time, including her father. ”

Caesar felt his hands tremble at the sight of this, and he knew that he must not let Lucrezia see what was written on it, otherwise it would be hard for him to imagine what she would do.

Listening to Lucrezia's happy laughter at the macaw's words, Caesar was thinking about his brother-in-law.

In fact, he didn't like Giovanni Sforza from the beginning, Caesar felt that he was not worthy of Lucrezia, even though it seemed that the marriage with the Sforza family could give their father enough benefits, but Caesar still thought that he had wronged Lucrezia.

And everything turned out to be true of Caesar's conjecture, Giovanni Sforza was not a qualified husband, and worse, the marriage did not benefit the Borgia family.

And Caesar had always suspected that the Sforza family's mighty Forlì tigress was secretly playing tricks.

The Borgia have always been wary of the woman in the Sforza family, and she is indeed very disturbing.

The Sforza family, who were born into a mercenary family, were labeled as tyrants from the moment they first seized the title of Duke of Milan, which made them difficult to get along with the lords and nobles of other city-states in many cases.

Coincidentally, like many city-state families, the Sforza family is very grouped, and because of their origins, everyone in the Sforza family is as hard to mess with as a hedgehog.

At the beginning, Alexander VI seemed to be incompatible with anyone because he took a fancy to the Sforza family in Milan, especially because of the bad relationship with the Holy See in the early years, so that the family had almost no friends in the Vatican.

Alexander VI's plan and clarity were that he felt that by marrying his daughter to a family that had been at odds with the Holy See for many years, he would be able to easily get an ally who could not be easily bought.

Unfortunately, this calculation now seems to have completely failed.

Giovanni Sforza not only disagreed with the Borgia family, but also revealed that he wanted the family to go to hell, including his wife.

Caesar was furious!

Or rather, he doesn't feel any other emotions other than anger!

Whenever he thought of the vicious speculations in the letter, he felt the urge to cut Giovanni Sforza's neck with his own hands!

"Maybe Giovanni will like this too."

Caesar's musings were interrupted by Lucrezia's voice, and he looked at his sister in bewilderment.

"I mean my husband," Lucrezia laughed suddenly, "I have two Giovannis at home, but that's not much, and maybe I'll name my children Giovanni in the future." ”

Caesar's face was slightly unhappy when he heard the name, and he fell into Lucrezia's eyes like this, but it took on something else.

"Caesar, you won't be jealous," Lucrezia laughed, "then I promise my second child will be called Caesar, laugh, in fact, you have taken advantage, because Giovanni has two, and they can only get half of them, and Caesar only has one." ”

Looking at Lucrezia's happy appearance, Caesar could only respond to her with a helpless smile.

His grip on the letter loosened slightly, and he nodded in agreement when Lucrezia again asked her husband to see the rare animal.

Maybe there was another way, Caesar thought helplessly, he didn't want Lucrezia to know too much about it, and he didn't want to involve her.

Also, how did Giovanni get these letters?

At the thought of his brother, Caesar felt a gloom in his heart.

Caesar didn't feel jealous of Giovanni, he just thought that maybe he would be better off as a military commander in the Papal States than a cardinal or a cardinal.

Caesar's desire to put on armor, mount his horse, and lead his army against a powerful enemy, made him envious of that Giuliano della Rovere.

Although a cardinal, Giuliano della Rovere once led his army into the field, something Caesar had always desired but could not obtain.

And because of his experience on the battlefield, Giuliano de la Rovere had deep connections in the army that no one else in the Vatican had, and because of this, even Alexander VI had to be suspicious of him.

This prestige built up in the military is unique, and it is by no means something that can be obtained by gold and wine alone.

At least after having the first two equally, the side with the support of the army always has a greater advantage.

So when Giovanni sent for the letter, Caesar thought it was a provocation.

It was telling him that it would not be him, the second son, who would wear monastic robes for the rest of his life, to make the Borgia family famous in history, even if he might become pope in the future.

Caesar felt that his heart was very heavy, and as a member of the Borgia family, he cherished every moment with his relatives, even Giovanni, he was willing to help and obey him.

But Giovanni didn't seem to think so, preferring to see him as the only one remembered among the Borgia children.

Caesar was a little annoyed with Giovanni, but what really worried him now was Lucrezia's relationship with her husband.

Caesar didn't know when Lucrezia's attitude towards Giovanni Sforza had changed, and even treated him as a relative like herself.

This made Caesar feel very uncomfortable and even a little annoyed.

Lucrezia didn't feel Caesar's thoughts, she walked out of the warm palace, stepping on the slightly warm sunlight of the winter afternoon and walking slowly in the garden of the Potico Palace, the fully grown figure was cast on the ground by the sun and took out a long shadow, Lucrezia lowered her head and looked for her reflection with every step she took, but every time the shadow would take a step forward to "dodge", which made Caesar in the distance couldn't help but laugh at her somewhat innocent behavior.

If you want to chase your own shadow, how can you succeed, Caesar shook his head slightly, but if you want to step on someone else's shadow, it is much easier, even more than a shadow, even the owner of the shadow can be trampled underfoot.

Thinking so, Caesar looked at Lucrezia, who was drifting away.

Lucrezia was as lively as an elf in the sun, jumping up and down constantly, sometimes lifting her skirt to make herself more flexible.

At this time, the two white calves under the hem of her skirt would be exposed, although they were a little red from the cold, but under the background of the feet in the small brown leather shoes, her two smooth calves supported her light body, like bees beating back and forth on the petals.

Caesar's face couldn't help but smile with doting, although Giovanni Sforza's matter made him unhappy, but looking at Lucrezia like this, he suddenly felt that many things seemed to be less important.

Caesar's mood suddenly improved, and he strode towards Lucrezia.

Just then, he saw a soldier walking around from behind a large, well-trimmed corolla.

Caesar didn't pay attention to the soldier at first, but as he continued to walk forward, he suddenly noticed that something was wrong.

The soldier didn't wander the garden aimlessly, but walked straight towards Lucrezia, who was having fun!

"Be careful!"

Caesar sensed the danger, and he shouted a warning and sped up on his feet to run towards Lucrezia!

Startled by Caesar's cry, Lucrezia looked up at Caesar as she ran and pointed behind her, then turned around in response to his gestures.

What appeared in front of her was a dazzling sword light reflected in the afternoon sun!

"Nope! ~~”

Caesar let out a hoarse roar.