Then my father came and sat down on the edge of the couch, and gently stroked Corinna's beautiful hair with his hand, "Turinus said in the letter that he doesn't like your braids, but my father likes it, because your hair is inherited from me, and you are my proudest work of art, good girl." ”

"But now I hate this hair, how different it is in the streets of Rome, and the ladies call me 'porcelain' and give me this nickname, and I feel very ashamed, very, very ashamed." Corinna sobbed.

"Don't believe those rumors, they are jealous of you, my good daughter, you don't know that Leodore is troubled by his mama-like hair!" Hearing this, her daughter finally stopped sobbing, and Li Bida could be regarded as grasping her psychology - young people are like this, including Li Bida himself, in that green and unrestrained years, everyone can't wait to love to death, and can't tell the difference between true love, friendship or carnal desire, as if you have to, but once the heat has passed, only difficulties and responsibilities remain, like an ugly and hard reef after the tide recedes, standing in front of you barely, making people walk on it, drenched in blood, and at a loss.

In the end, there is only one way left to escape, no, there is another way, and that is to forget jì.

Seeing that his daughter was no longer crying, he wrapped his hand around a necklace made of forty-six turquoise and rubies and gold chains, and gently shook it in front of his daughter, "Good girl, send you this." The cost of 30,000 dinars. But I'm not trying to please you for the sake of Turinus. My father had no room for mediation in that matter, and I was going to suppress it, but now the evidence is in front of me, that scoundrel not only tried to murder your brother, but also wantonly slandered you, you must know that if your brother dies, and if you are talked about, my father and I will have no motivation to live. Suppose the father died. Will you be happy daughter? ”

"No, no, I've also thought about it in the past few days, the responsibility of the women of the Amirius family, since Turinus wants to harm our family, then I have to recognize him and cut off the old feelings."

"No, on the contrary, I am willing to fulfill you and Turinus." This answer was unexpected, and she turned her face in surprise. Hold your father's arm and look up at him. As if he had heard the most incredible thing, his father still looked at him with a smile, "If being with Turinus is your happiness, Papa will never embarrass you, Papa will not be like the unreasonable brother of ancient times, who stabbed a dagger into his sister's chest during the triumphal ceremony because his sister cried for her dead fiancé and enemy." ”

"Papa" Corinna's eyes were even more confused, she was like a lost little lamb, lying between her father's arms and thighs.

"But I must make it clear to you that I will never embarrass you with a dowry, but Turinus is sentenced to life imprisonment and exile, and if you marry him, you will have to go with him to the penal colony."

Corinna buried her head in her father's chest and asked softly, "Where the hell will the penal colony be?" ”

"For the time being, the island inhabited by the Maltese, surrounded on all sides by sea, could be reached by boat for ten days to reach Sicily." Li Bida said quietly.

Then he was silent, waiting for his daughter's reply, time seemed to stop, Corinna continued to bury her little head in some distress, and after a while she raised her pink arm, took off the necklace from her father's hand, and then buried it again in front of her father's chest, as if she had been coquettish when she was a child—and Li Bida laughed, and it seemed that there was no problem at all.

When the evening came, Corinna dressed up again, and although she did not attend the banquet that night, she stayed in her room, and enjoyed the meal brought by the servant, and the necklace that her father had given her, and now no one doubted that her wounds would heal quickly with the passage of time.

The final verdict of Turinus was handed down, depriving him of the right to enjoy water and fire in Italy for life, exiled to the Maltese islands, stripped Julius of his successorship, and replaced him with Dicias, and after the end of the Great Friday, the former Young Caesar's guards and servants were all disbanded, and all the centurions around him were replaced by Lypida's subordinates: six centurions of the First Brigade, selected from the Sixth Legion, stood at the exit of the Turianum dungeon wearing swords.

Beforehand, Liberda secretly summoned Fonteus, and in the hidden parlor of Prima, "You have made too many sacrifices. The high priest was a little uneasy and guilty, and said to Fonteus, who had been completely dismissed from the army.

"It's nothing, I can finally repay the favor of the high priest back then, the Romans don't like to owe favors."

"The final punishment is also exile for life. But you don't need to worry about Fonteus, I will give your hometown wife and children a stipend of 150,000 cesis every year, all according to the treatment of a military tribune. ”

"No, High Priest, your treatment is the annual salary of the chief official of the district." Fonteus said with a smile.

"Now, with your nod, I can raise my annual salary to 200,000 if you go with Turinus to Malta, where a hundred soldiers will be allocated to you." Only then did the high priest say his true thoughts, and slowly took a sip of verbena water, "How can there be, I will take care of your son directly." ”

When Fonteius heard this request, he felt the shadow under his feet turning, he understood that this was the generous treatment given to him by the other party, in fact, it was not allowed to refuse, you must know that his exile was jointly issued by the Senate and the People's Association, even if Li Bida did not give him a single asi, or exiled him to a certain barbarian and barren island in Illyria, he could only appoint him, so now Li Bida meant, "Why did I specifically call you to Malta, because Turinus knew in his heart that he had received a trap, The biggest boss is you, and you have a perfect life-and-death relationship with him on that island, and I am of course relieved to leave the responsibility of supervising Turinus to you. ”

But this kind of helplessness that cannot be betrayed until death is not doomed from the time when he accepted the gift and help of Li Bida (who was still a cavalry commander at that time) in Africa that year?

Therefore, of course, Fonteus could only readily agree, "Thanks to the support of the High Priest, the rest of Turinus's life will be handed over to me!" ”

When the sailing ship carrying the exiles to the Maltese islands set sail, the election of the consuls in the city of Rome was "settled" - Phillips got his wish and got the position of second consul, and he said to the grief-stricken Attia at home, "A mother has three children, and you will regard little Phillips as your successful son, and forget about the defeated Turinus!" (To be continued......)