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When winter came, the legion still followed the original plan, and spent the winter in Gaul, inside and outside the barracks, there was once again a happy and peaceful atmosphere, just like a low-ranking worker who had worked hard for more than half a year could finally rest at the last moment of the year. However, these Roman soldiers did not simply rest in winter, they wanted to enjoy, to spend, to buy and sell their spoils. At this time, Apis, on the other hand, received a letter from Rome.

"Thank you. Who sent it to me? ”

Receiving the letter from the messenger, Apis asked curiously. Letters sent from Rome? I don't know anyone in Rome, and the only familiar friend is Octavia, could it be that she sent it? Appis couldn't help but feel a little excited when he thought of this......

"A Roman aristocratic girl. Who, I think, you'll know after reading the contents of the letter. ”

The messenger replied with a smile, and Appis quickly understood what the guard's smile meant. He probably thought that his centurion had an affair with some noble woman in Rome.

Apis returned the salute with a smile and motioned for him to go down.

As soon as the guards had gone down, Seklas sat down around him, the drunkard was not interested in anything else, but he was so interested in it that he couldn't wait to open the letter for Appis and know what it was about. It was a wonderful thing to have a Roman aristocratic girl, Sekras fantasized like this, and couldn't help but envy Appis's affair.

"Appis, the best young teacher in Rome, I am Antya, remember? In Gaul, in my father's dacha, you served as my teacher and my sister......"

When he opened the letter, it was not Octavia's handwritten text that caught his eye, but the Claudius family sisters who had an ambiguous relationship with him in a luxurious villa. But now that the letter has arrived, and it is in your own hands, let me continue to read it, and at least know what they want to do.

"Appis, you are the best Roman teacher I have ever met. It was only after I returned to Rome that I felt it deeply......"

"Have you this girl? Looks like she's very impressed with you and wants to ...... you again."

The letter was read with Sekras, and by the time he saw it, Sekras had already seen what the girl who sent the letter meant to Appis. It's just that Appis quickly put a stop to Sekras's gossip.

"Enough, Sekras, don't tell anyone about this, or you won't get any of the loot distributed next year."

Apis half-jokingly stopped Sekras's gossip, but after reading the beginning of the letter, Apis didn't care about it. If it was Octavia's letter, Apis wouldn't have been so generous to show it to Sekras. But it was a letter from Andia, and if it weren't for it, Apis would have almost forgotten the existence of this Roman woman. However, he still has some impressions of Andia's sister Auretia, because Auretia is indeed more beautiful and innocent in appearance.

Single-minded? Appis sometimes feels that he is also quite a ghost, although he secretly swears in his heart that he wants to marry Octavia, but many times, when he sees other beautiful women, his heart still itches unconsciously. Human desires are always unconcealable, even the most decent people, in their lives, will do a lot of things that beasts do, this is the most direct feeling of Appis.

"I promise not to tell anyone about the contents of the letter, centurion. To tell you the truth, I envy your luck very much, the legions were destroyed, and you survived the two legions alone. And became a popular man next to General Rabienus. Even Caesar appreciates you. Now, I know that you have had a pleasure with the noble women of Rome, and they still think of you, the centurion. Apis, you are so blessed by the gods that you have such good fortune. ”

After reading Andiya's handwritten letter, Sekras began to nag about Appis. According to modern parlance, it is called people are more angry than people. That's probably what Sekras meant, he was also a low-ranking soldier, and it took him three years to be promoted to chief centurion, but Sekras was still struggling as a legionary infantryman. Luck is important, and even Sekras has to admit it at the moment.

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In the winter barracks, there were joyful smiles and conversations, and some soldiers did not even spend most of their time in the barracks, but spent most of their time in the makeshift towns outside the barracks, visiting brothels and casinos, and some veterans even spent a whole year's salary in the casinos.

In this makeshift market outside the Roman legionary barracks, the streets were filled with people of all kinds, small traders, slave owners, *** and prostitutes openly stood in the streets doing dirty things, soldiers and traders were trading on the streets, haggling loudly.

Of course, there are bright and bright transactions, and there are also private transactions on the black market. Some legionnaires, having received some windfall on the battlefield, risked their chances and sold them at low prices in the corners of these bazaars in the winter without handing in the spoils. The merchants who dared to buy it also took great risks to complete these transactions, because of the lure of lucrative profits, some high-end furs or precious metals were bought from the legionnaires and sold on the open market in Rome, often for enviable high prices.

Throughout the winter, the Roman legions in Gaul felt like they were on vacation, and if it weren't for the heavy armor and sharp weapons in the barracks' arsenal, the soldiers would have almost forgotten that war existed.

Apis would occasionally visit brothels and casinos with his soldiers and men, but he would not bet a lot, after all, he was different from most of the Roman soldiers here, and his brother was a man with great ambitions and ideals, and he was a man who was beyond this era in knowledge, and there were still many things waiting for him to do in the future, and now in the beginning stage of his life, he could not waste his assets on this "meaningless" entertainment game. In Rome, wealth and assets were very important, and most of the time the legions even followed the money, and whoever had property and paid salaries, the soldiers followed him to fight, and Crassus at that time paid out of his own pocket to form a large army to suppress the Spartacus uprising. Therefore, in Rome in this era, wealth was a prerequisite for many things, and Apis would cherish his initial capital.