Chapter 24: The Difficult Case of the Expatriate Legal Officer (Part I)
"There are three major mistakes in life, one is to believe that women will keep secrets, the second is to believe that the land route is faster than the sea route, and the third is to realize that there is nothing to be done at the end of the day." - Cato the Elder
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The Scythian doctor, who was still wearing pigtails, said that because of the civil war, the business was not very prosperous, and so far there were only 200,000 private property that Cesses had withdrawn, and he was even about to change his career to become a hairdresser, coiling the hair for those ladies and ladies, or marrying wigs. Li Bida sighed, and then personally taught Porti to bring the instrument and grabbed Timosius's pigtails, "Don't move!" ”
Then, he used a knife and scissors to re-twist Timosius' most cherished braid, and the hair fell to the ground, and the other party shouted again, saying that hair is a place to gather aura, Li Bida shouted angrily, there is only one place to gather aura, and that is your head, not hair.
"Okay, now look at it, in the City of Seven Hills, you have to look like a naturalized citizen, and I will lend you some money immediately, and you can expand your clinic, use more Tianzhu doctors and Asian doctors, and you can engage in research such as dissection and bloodletting, and I will also grant you citizenship, my friend."
As he spoke, Li Bida put the knives, scissors and instruments on the plate, washed his hands thoughtfully, and then suddenly a slave appeared at the door, out of breath, and handed the word board to Li Bida's hand, Li Bida looked at it, his face changed, and then he asked the other party, "Caesar called you?" ”
"Yes, there are no mistakes." The slave replied.
"What about the dictator? It's time for the big competition and the big celebration. He's not going to get out of Rome, is he? Li Bida had a premonition of uneasiness in his heart.
"He was already driving a light wagon with his wife. Went to the city of Milan. He said that he wanted to visit all the places where he had conquered Gaul before. ”
Damn, this bald man really ran away, and Li Bida immediately asked the slave in a hurry, "When will Caesar return?" Or to whom did he give the deal with the matter? ”
Then he saw the slave's "you know" look, and immediately understood, and the slave then handed over a slip, and what Li Bida took over and saw was, "After discussion with Tebris and the Senate." Julius. Caesar was determined to elect Calabis. Marcus F. Emilius Lybida will be the Grand Counsel of the Expatriates of the capital for the coming year, and will immediately deal with litigation and political affairs related to the people. ”
This was Caesar's latest move, and he was able to arrange state officials at will with a single piece of paper, and now that Cassiyo and Brutus had not been formally appointed, he enjoyed it first.
"This bastard is bald, slipping away so fast!" Li Bida scolded indignantly.
The next day, when he went out into the Roman countryside with a group of guards and armed slaves, dressed in the uniform of a lawyer, he found the marshland of the great plain of Tacun. It was also dug into an artificial lake by Caesar, on which oarsmen from Tyre and Rhodes were employed. The life-size ship is rowing, simulating the fierce naval battle of Alexandria, and the audience sits on the surrounding embankment, setting up a picnic and drinking to watch with relish, which is really different from the bloody slaughter of the Colosseum.
"Well, you watch the exploits of Caesar, the man who conquered Egypt with his ships, and I'm going to deal with Cleopatra, who came to conquer Rome on ships." Li Bida said to himself, sat down on his shoulder, and walked slowly towards the bay of Naples.
Under the golden sun and the beach, Cleopatra's colorful ship was quietly and magnificently moored there, the gangway stretched to the long trestle, and the silk curtains and drapery hanging from the cabin fluttered in the wind. A company commander of the Hormahi Regiment came down with his men and horses, saying that Cleopatra wanted the former cavalry commander to come up and meet her.
"I am now the Attorney General of the Expatriates in the capital, and I am in charge of all the lawsuits of my own and foreigners, and I would be a great pleasure to help your master, but this is a Roman jurisdiction, and I hope that your master will step off the ship and enter the local town hall to discuss the matter of litigation." Standing still, he replied that he had a vague idea of the purpose of Cleopatra's trip and why Caesar had gone to Gaul.
After some entanglement and arguing, Xiao Yanhou still had to give in, she originally wanted to let the killer play an advantage in front of Caesar, but now who wants to deal with this matter, it is actually the new legal officer Li Bida, originally she still wanted to be angry, but when she saw that the other party did not make any concessions, she could only give up. When the curtain on the bow of the ship was lifted, Li Bida really saw in the sunshine that Cleopatra was holding a baby in his hand, and then hugged him back and forth, and Cleopatra slowly walked down the gangway and came to the front of Li Bida's team.
"What's the child's name?" Li Bida asked knowingly.
"Ptolemy. Philopatoer. Philome Nursery. Caesarion. Empress Xiao Yan replied with a smug smile.
Is this a big fuss, this child's name is "Little Caesar, who loves his father and mother", and then Li Bida's personal slave named Caesar, who is also a rhetorician, couldn't help but exclaim, "Like, really like!" Angry that Li Bida wanted to beat him to death with a bundle of sticks - and then Li Bida also looked at the child, really like Caesar, with big ears, sloppy eyes, and that angry expression, coupled with the little sparse fetal hair on the top of the child's head, lying in front of his mother's soft breasts, it was just like a bald man.
So Li Bida held his forehead a little distressed, then tilted his head, and said to Cleopatra, "I can understand your feelings, but you must not go to the city of Rome now, that will only have the opposite effect." ”
"I just brought my children to recognize my father, can't even father and son be reunited in this country?"
"And then by the way, you changed the will of Lord Caesar, didn't you?" Li Bida saw through Cleopatra's mind at once.
"That's nature, I can't be your pawn in vain, after giving birth to a child for Caesar, after suffering an emotional setback, my own family and Egypt will not get any good." Cleopatra's tone was sharp.
"Calm down, in the grain, porphyry, and papyrus business of Egypt and Rome, isn't your court alone able to draw a hundred talents a year in dividends? And my big money to help Egypt recuperate, and Caesar's three legions to sit there to protect you and Caesarion's throne, what more could you want? Li Bida replied dissatisfied.
Cleopatra's lips trembled with anger, and she stood on the ground with her child in her arms, and only after a long time did she speak to the judge in a trilled voice, "As the legal officer of the expatriates, you don't care about this matter, my child needs his father's approval with Rome, and he should have a share of the inheritance in the future." ”
"Silly girl! As a friend of Ling Zun, I would like to remind you one last time, don't get involved in Caesar's legacy, if you still want Egypt to continue to exist. Li Bida finally got angry. (To be continued......)