Hearing this, the young Caesar was obviously a little impatient, he scratched his finger on his forehead a few times, and then said to the servant, "If you go there directly, just say what I said, tell him not to be anxious, and wait there for two more days, and I will naturally give him a satisfactory answer." ”

The thunder gradually mixed with the raindrops, hitting the branches and leaves of the myrtle, and soon became a thousand rain lines, Curio sat in the simple hall, and then watched the rain fall outside, then got up from his couch, put on his sword and rain cloak, and then his personal servant came over, and took a box containing Wen Jiàn and showed it to him, "All the property has been sold, and this is the official contract." ”

Curio sighed faintly, then looked at the increasingly fierce rain curtain outside, and said very neatly, "We can go, there is no need to stay here." ”

Just as he walked into the courtyard, the young Caesar's husk shouted from his door and ran in the rain, complaining loudly about the damn ghost weather, and shaking with his hands on his shoulders, until he saw Curio in a cloak, he couldn't help but be stunned in place, because he didn't know what else to go out to do in such weather and time.

"So, what news did Young Caesar call you to bring?" Curio, who was in the rain, spread his hands out, shook the raindrops, and asked quickly.

"The governor of Illyria has told you to wait for him for two days, and that there will be good news then." After Nahu said this, the whole scene fell silent, and after a moment Curio laughed uncontrollably, holding his knees, half-crouching in the puddle. The laughter even overshadowed the sound of wind and rain.

"Okay. Please convey to Your Excellency the Governor on my behalf - that is. I'm not interested in waiting for him for two more days, and I'm not interested in going into the dark dungeon with him, so I won't even see the rain tonight, I'm gone! After Curio finished laughing, he said to the servant with such a surprisingly straightforward frankness, let the other party stay where he was, and ask a few times in succession." whether it is appropriate".

"Whatever you want to say, it has nothing to do with me, and I won't be like a fool who spends two days here doing nothing, and then the end is just the same as your stupid master. I know that Lybidaeus must have used two killer tricks, the position of second consul, and his daughter of the city of seven hills, to turn the governor of Illyria around, but he will be greeted by the boundless darkness of the dungeon. His dreams will sink there, and he will regret not listening to my advice. All right. Let it go, whoever ends up being king, who ends up in the cold baths of Hercules (another name for the dungeon) - it has nothing to do with me anyway, I am determined to go, I want to go back to a warm place, which is Shannan Gaul. So—" he immediately pushed away the stunned servant, "and there is no need to continue to care about me, for by the time you have reported to the Governor of Illyria, I will have almost arrived in the city of Alimilon, and by the way, in the hall, there is still heat and food, and if you want to take shelter from the rain and dry your clothes to fill your stomach, I will persuade you to go in and take care." ”

Lightning and thunder roared, and the rain was pouring down, and Curio and his entourage quickly disappeared into the rain curtain with boxes and luggage on their backs

And the goose-like servant really paced in, leaning against the fire by the fireplace, and enjoying the mead and wheat cakes left by Curio. About half an hour later, Curio and his two retinue arrived at the foot of Mount Kellius in Rome, "Your Excellency, if you are going to return to southern Gaul, then it is obviously a mistake to take this path. A reinmind reminded loudly.

"Seeing his ghost mountain in South Gaul, I won't go to that place anymore, maybe one day, either Caesar or Mark will sell me, I'm already an enemy of the Libidaeus family, now the only way is to get out completely, let's go south!" Curio pulled the reins, then turned around outside the furrow of the Sanctuary, and finally glanced at the gray and dim gates and mass graves in the rain, the whole city of Rome seemed to be swallowed up by the rain and the flooding of the Typer, and there were not even half a population in the streets and other places, and now he could only say in his lonely heart, "Farewell, Rome, I am going to a place far away from you." ”

Soon after, the daring Curio made his way to Puerto Pasini, where the Sixth Legion was stationed, and he used the false name "Calles. Vibichina", based on an Etrunian chieftain in the time of the king, and after whom the Roman mountain of Kellius was also named, "Calles" claimed to be a knight who did the grain trade between Numidia and Italy, boarded a grain ship that had been connected for a long time, and sailed towards the coast of Africa.

The voyage was peaceful, and the city of Rome in the rain had long been left behind, and after two fair-market days Curio approached the seashore outside the city of Utica, outside which all the wheat fields had been harvested and were stretching endlessly under the sea and sky, and on a certain raised hill, Pompey's widow Cornellia, who had just finished sacrificing her husband's grave, had erected a stone tablet with the inscription:

"A man so great should have such a humble monument after his death."

Even so, Cornellia's complexion was still good, even though she had learned the news of the beheading of Pompey's two sons. The Pompey family and the cemetery are guarded by women. She used up her last savings and brought the bodies of Rolls and Sektus and buried them in the cemetery west of Utica, so that the father and son could be reunited in Hades.

"Then the wish of this venerable woman has been granted." This was the order of the high priest after his triumphant return from Spain, "As long as the backbone of the Pompei party can find the body, send it there for burial, and allocate the corresponding money, and the excess Cornellia can be kept, or a small temple can be built for this cemetery, in short, it will be all with her." ”

As the number of tombs in the cemetery grew, and Cornellia was very tired from the sacrifice, and as she was about to walk down the hill, she found a man leading a horse, standing at the foot of the hill with a cloak, and the appearance was familiar to her.

It was this man, who had escaped disfigurement on the battlefield a few years earlier, and had taken him in himself, when her husband Pompey had also died at Lake Myknin, "Calles, it's you, you've come back from Rome?" ”

"Yes, I told you that I was going to Rome to get ahead, but when I went, I realized that many things had changed, so I decided to abandon my place and return to Africa." Curio said, then looked at the farmland and bushes around him, "Because it's not bad here." (To be continued......)