"One enemy can do more damage than four friends." - Giovanni of Florence

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The voice of the fellow sounded familiar to Calabis, and when he stood up in the bath, Calabis suddenly remembered that this guy was the knight Langis of Subura, the best man who was sent by Claudia as a slave to do it as a chicken girl on the street, and later deceived her by passing off the copper plate as a silver coin, so that she was nicknamed "Little Copper Plate".

Seeing Langis, as well as a few other big men soaking in the bath, Calabis's fist was secretly accumulating, but his body was still sitting on the bench without moving, his eyes were looking around, this thing wanted to take revenge on me on the slippery floor of the bathroom, looking for death, didn't he?

When Langis saw Calabis sitting with his fists clenched, his face immediately became warm and docile, and he said, "Foreign freedman, your protector is a tuna and a small copper plate, right?" You don't remember me, the last time you knocked over six of my bodyguards with your fist on the streets of Subura, and then I was thrown into a mud puddle after being by your mistress's slave, the chicken girl, do you remember? ”

Sure enough, the one who has abandoned the sense of shame is the strongest, and now Calabis can only nod to him. Langis opened the conversation: "You are very good, I appreciate it." I heard the conversation you just had with those veterans, and I can help you solve the trouble of not having money. Now there is an errand where you can get ten thousand drachmas as long as you partner with me, how about it? ”

Ten thousand drachmas! This knight named Langis seems to be also a character, and he is worthy of being a "made in heaven" pair with Claudia. Also, as long as there is this money, there is no need to worry about the construction money of the Wallin apartment, and Milu and their wages are also settled, which is good, but this errand, what kind of errand is, you have to ask clearly.

Before he could ask, Langis got straight to the point: "Of course, you will definitely ask what kind of errand it is, and I can tell you without concealing it, that is, to kill a few people for our gold master." ”

Homicide? Calabis was a little stunned, you are dead on the battlefield, and it is understandable to kill the enemy, but in this Roman city, killing people is a bit hesitant, but it seems that the so-called law is only one side of the city.

Seeing his expression, Langis laughed, stretched out his hand and encouraged: "Do you think that the politics and trade in the city of Rome were done in the squares and bazaars? No, they were all done in prostitutes, baths, banquets, and sewers. Every politician has secrets that they don't want people to see, keep secrets, clear secrets, that's the trick we get rich. Do you think that a golden young man like me, who has three million Sethres at the age of twenty-six, amassed his wealth by opening a bread mill? Wrong - I can always gather a bunch of people and kill anyone he doesn't want to see for the big financier, and it's the same this time, but luck with you, how's that. Don't worry about your patron's attitude, we've always been clean, and besides, it's none of your patron's business. ”

"You won't pay me 10,000 aces afterwards, will you?" Calabis questioned with a sneer.

"Oh no, I'll never cheat my companions in business." Langis replied with a serious face.

Three days later, they gathered in this bathhouse at the Temple of Flowers, which was the request of Langis. After leaving the bathroom, Calabis, after returning to the apartment, grabbed the vegetable plate and muttered, "What's wrong with you today?" Didn't you say that you would take Milu and them to see the Valin Apartment after the work on the Stove Temple was completed? Potti, who still had mud on his wrist, asked curiously.

"Yes, and then we went to the newly opened sweat bath at the Temple of Flowers." Calabis replied absentmindedly.

Potty put a piece of dough on the tip of his nose, "Daze, did you also go to the newly opened prostitution house next to the bathroom?" ”

"Milou they went, I didn't—by the way, Potty, wouldn't you be sad if some righteous nobleman was killed in the night to-morrow or the next night?"

"But this is not a common occurrence in the city of Rome, where the sewers of Maximus and the mud of the banks of the Tiber are full of dead and abandoned bodies, some of them teenagers." "I have done things in the court of Pontus before, and I know what these nobles do in private, and sometimes I think of my former mistress Naisa, who was killed by her dearest niece," said Poti on the stove. ”

After listening to Porty's unintentional words, Calabis pondered, and remembered the broadsword under his bed, damn it, it doesn't matter if he is a nobleman or not, him, make 10,000 is 10,000, who told me that I am short of money now, if Langis dares to play with me, I will use cast iron scissors to cut off his back directly.

Sure enough, three days later, after Calabis had finished transcribing the history of the battle at the Temple of the Stove, he quietly hid the broad-bladed sword he had brought under his cloak and walked towards the Temple of Flowers.

Langis and a few fellows were listening to the screams of a woman on the upper floor of a prostitute, and when Calabis arrived, another accomplice walked out of the prostitute with his trouser belt tied up, "That bitch actually said that it was inconvenient for him, didn't he know that it was more refreshing to dry with blood." When the people were all together, Langis saw Calabis, craned his neck, and said, "Go two blocks ahead, and the target is there." ”

It was already twilight, and the slanting sun was lazily shining through the cracks in the arcades of the narrow streets, and Calabis, who had followed Langis, was getting heavier and heavier, and he felt that the "target" in Langis's mouth seemed to be getting closer and closer to the residence of Hebrida's wife and daughter

"Hide in a hollow corner." Suddenly, Langis spoke, and several people hid around the corner of the alleyway, and a sedan car swayed leisurely, and sure enough, it stopped in front of the dilapidated apartment building in Highburida.

"Go up, be clean, kill the slaves carrying the cart first, and then stab all the people inside to death, and all those present will be killed." Langis said coldly, "After the deed is completed, the reward of 10,000 yuan per person, when it is done, there is still a bigger business waiting for us." Then he glanced at Calabis and said, "You go first," and then he glanced at the rest of the big men, indicating that they were behind him and wanted to "take good care" of Calabis -- at this time, Langis did not know that Calabis had learned to fight swords, so the men he selected were either veterans or students of the gladiator school.

"Wow", Calabis held the broad-bladed sword in his hand and quickly approached the sedan chair. At this time, he felt that there was a "communication" between him and the sword, he used to use a wooden stick fake sword that weighed four times, but now he used a real guy, and he felt that it was not only light, but also the center of gravity of the hilt and the sword body was very stable - those who said that the Roman short sword bent as soon as it was pierced was not true, in fact, this broadsword was a standard iron weapon, and the sides and blades were wrapped with haode pattern steel, which was extremely sharp, worthy of the real guy of the Lucuras family, called Gladius, and he felt that the reason why the Romans liked to use short swords, The main thing is that the sword is wide and short, so that the center of gravity is very stable in the grip, and if it is long, it is necessary to overcome the annoying leverage, which is laborious to use, and it is not conducive to straight line spurs.

When he approached less than fifteen Roman feet of the sedan chair, he quickened his pace—several slaves did not see him, but were helping an old man out of the sedan chair, and beside him stood a young man who was quite energetic, but when he saw them in Calabis, his eyes were suddenly full of fear.

In a moment when their eyes met, Calabis saw that this young man turned out to be the Jewish man of Galilee, Demetrius.

Then, the light-yellow-haired Van Lun Tina, the daughter of Highbrida, jumped out of the portal