Chapter 330: The Banquet
Turning back again, Luga's gaze said that the red carpet was slowly rising, and the three purple-robed highest-ranking people in the crowd were also looking down at Luga.
"This man, I remember."
Standing in the middle, Valentinian III stared intently at Luga, who was standing at the beginning of the red carpet at the bottom of the steps, and he smiled and spoke. I don't know who I was talking to, maybe I was talking to myself.
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Now the two women behind Valentinian III had different expressions on their faces.
"It turns out that Caesar also has familiar people." Gallas. Platitia smiled behind Valentinian and said, "For someone like you, who doesn't go out all year round, it's God's arrangement to be able to meet such a person from the army." This is a normal joke between mother and son, but Leekinia on the side looked nervous, and she was deliberately hiding her weakness. On the surface, he did it quietly, but in the end, he still let Gara beside him. Platicia saw it.
"What's wrong, kid?" Gallas. Plasettia leaned over and looked at Licinia with a smile, even though the smile on her face made the wrinkles more obvious, but the eyes were looking Licinia up and down.
"No, nothing!" Licinia keenly sensed that something was wrong in Plasitya's eyes, she quickly smiled, and then opened her mouth and said: "It's just that I haven't met such a close acquaintance for a long time, not to mention that this is still my brother!" After a few months of separation, I was still a little excited to see each other this time. With that, she smiled apologetically, and it wasn't until Plasettia looked away from her suspiciously that Lickinia breathed a sigh of relief.
"Tell me about him, then, my son!" Plasettia turned her head and looked down at Luga, who was waiting at the bottom of the steps, and said to Augustus Valentinian, "It's okay, I'm going to hear what this guy has done to make you so impressed with him." "It seems that Augusta was desperate to get to know the Roman, who was in a high position at a young age. Not only Platicia, but even Lickinia moved forward.
"I think it could only be a coincidence!" Valentinian smiled and said, "At that time, I was besieged by the rebels of Bagorda in Gaul, Belgium, and I thought that I would never see you again, but he! Valentinian III lifted his chin and continued: "He was dressed in dirty tatters, and his armor was rusty as if it had been forgotten in the armory for hundreds of years. And just like that, he and his companions led me out of the encirclement of the Bagorda. ”
"Oh?" Valentinian's remarks made Gala. Plasettia was very interested. She looked down at Luga, who was stepping on the red carpet with one foot, with great interest, and said slowly: "It's a coincidence, but who can tell if this is deliberate or unintentional?" ”
"Is Mother suspicious of him?" Valentinian III asked back.
Gallas. Plasettia didn't know what to say, and realizing that her statement had made her son feel unpleasant, she shrugged her shoulders in denial.
"In short, I feel that he is a loyal soldier of the Empire!" Valentinian III took a deep breath, and when he said it, he felt that he had too much expectation of Luga, and insisted that it must be a possibility!
"Andrew, are you ready?" Luga looked back at Andrew, who was hastily arranging his outfit.
"Oh, oh, oh my God, wait for me, wait for me!" Andrew scrambly searched everywhere, whether it was the front chest, the back or even the dirt on the shoes on his feet, he carefully cleaned it up, and felt that there was nothing wrong with him. Andrew relented, took the Eagle Banner from the soldiers behind him, and followed closely behind Luga.
Before stepping onto the red carpet, Luga unhurriedly unloaded the iron sword at his waist and handed it to the nearest Praetorian Guard soldier. Now that he had nothing left, he slowly took a step to the left and stepped lightly on the red carpet.
There was nothing special about it, so he stood on the red carpet with his whole body, and in full view of everyone, he climbed the steps and walked up step by step.
"Your Excellency!"
He had barely taken two steps when a Praetorian Guard soldier stopped him and said, "Guards soldiers are not allowed to come forward!" Luga understood and waved his hand behind him, so Andrew was the only one who followed Luga and continued upward.
"Congratulations, hero of Rome!"
"Welcome, Romans!"
"May Augustus be with you with God!"
The nobles along the way are completely unfamiliar to Lu Jia, of course, in their eyes, Lu Jia is also a stranger with advanced deeds, but since he has been appreciated by the Purple Room, he naturally has to be polite in place. Listening to the nobles' blessings in their polite tones that they had practiced, Luga felt very useful, and he nodded his head in return all the way, and finally came to Caesar Valentinian III.
"Welcome, my nephew!" Valentinian spread his hands and smiled at Luga.
This sentence surprised Luga very much, and after a while, Luga came back to his senses and realized that Theodosius II was his distant cousin, and as the adopted son of Theodosius II, he was naturally the nephew of Valentinian III.
"It's disgusting!" Luga thought to himself, but he didn't dare to show it on his face.
Facing Valentinian, with his hands outstretched, Luga was three steps below him.
"Cave Pass!"
It was accompanied by the exclamations of almost all the nobles present, even Valentinian III and his mother Gala. Both Plasettia and Lickinia were taken aback. Because Luga knelt down on one knee to face Valentinian, which was a sign of surrender, Luga lowered his head, so he didn't see the tangled expression on Valentinian's face, he wanted to laugh, but he didn't know how to express the joy in his heart. Gallas. Platicia was also so surprised that she stretched out her hand to block her wide open mouth, after all, this was a very serious occasion, holding the supreme commander of the legion composed of thirty field regiments, and the adopted son of Augustus of the Eastern Empire, kneeling down to Augustus in front of the Roman nobles and thousands of Roman citizens to express submission, in exchange for the previous Augustus was nothing, but for Valentinian, this kneeling was of great significance.
"Oh, why is it so my nephew, no, my friend!" Valentinian didn't know what to say, so he hurriedly straightened his robes and ran down the three steps, grabbed Luga's arm, lifted Luga up, and pulled Luga up the last step, turned around, grabbed Luga's right hand, and raised it violently.
"Hooray! Banzai! Banzai! ”
The townspeople liked the loyal and resourceful general, at least they thought so, and of course Augustus liked it even more, Luga professed his loyalty to him, and Valentinion gave him enough glory!
At this time, Luga only felt a little cold on his back, he turned around, and saw a figure hiding in the crowd, this figure was very familiar, but it was no longer visible, Luga was very puzzled, but now there was something more important, he had to turn back and enjoy the cheers from the citizens with Valentinian.