In a small bakery in the southeast corner of Rome, the shopkeeper and baker Puburi is walking anxiously around, the basket next to him is full of baked bread, if it is usually placed, he must have opened the door of the shop and started to do business, speaking of which his bakery is the most famous bakery in the southeast, not only the bread is delicious, but also very affordable, so every day when the door opens, the customers outside will line up to buy bread.

However, this time was a little different, because the city of Rome was once again occupied by foreigners, and it was a group of black-haired and black-eyed Orientals, and Pubri had seen the armies of those Orientals through the crack in the door, they wore strong armor and held sharp weapons, and it is said that they also had a thunderbolt weapon that only Zeus could use, so that their Roman armies could not resist, and they easily occupied the city of Rome.

As for the question of who ruled Rome, Pubri did not care much, because he was just a small man, a bakery owner who was very busy every day for his life, and for him, no matter who ruled himself, he would not pay less taxes every month, and relatively speaking, he was more concerned about the price of flour and firewood. After all, in the first half of his life, he had experienced too many foreign invasions, especially like the dead Henry III and Henry IV, who would enter Rome at every turn, but this kind of war had little impact on a small person like him, as long as he didn't attack the opponent's army with a dizzy killing knife, then he was absolutely safe.

Of course, this time was a little different, because it was a group of Orientals who had never seen before who invaded Rome, which made many Romans think of the barbarian invasions in history, especially in the last years of Western Rome, every time the barbarian invasion would carry out a massacre against Rome, and after a massacre. Less than 100 people survived Rome.

It is precisely because of this concern that even if the Oriental army did not disturb the people after entering the city, the Romans were still very wary of them, and although no one dared to make trouble in the city, the vast majority of the Romans did not dare to go out, and the merchants closed their doors and the workers closed their businesses. Everyone stays at home and doesn't dare to go out, unless there is really no way to do it, someone will take the risk of going out of the house, rushing outside to finish their errands, and then trotting back home. And when they were at home, the men were on duty in turn with weapons in hand, for fear that the eastern army outside would suddenly start a massacre against them.

The situation in the city of Rome continued for days, and even though they already knew that the troops were brought by the missing Princess Agnes, they still did not dispel the suspicions of the Romans. For a long time, there were almost no pedestrians on the streets, and the doors of the shops on both sides of the streets were closed, and the whole city of Rome seemed to fall into a deep sleep, and only the occasional Song patrols made the whole city a little more lively.

Like the other Romans, Puburi hardly went out during this time, and took turns guarding the gate with his sons every day, though he didn't know if the Orientals would really come in. They are powerless to resist at all, but at least they can reassure the women and children in the family.

But no matter how wary they are of the Orientals. Life still has to go on, just before those eastern armies entered the city, Pubri just bought a batch of flour, and in order to save trouble, he suddenly bought enough flour for half a month, and now this batch of flour has all been smashed into his hands.

There is no warehouse dedicated to storing flour in the Puburi family. It was just piled up in the empty house next to the kitchen, but the south wind had been blowing for the past few days, just enough to bring the humid moisture of the Mediterranean, and if he didn't use it up, I am afraid that all the flour would eventually spoil due to moisture.

It is precisely because of the above reasons. So after thinking about it for a while, Pubri decided to start the business, after all, those Easterners had not been in the city for a short time, but they never made any moves, this discipline was simply stronger than their own Roman army, and the most important point was that it had cost him a lot of money to buy flour, and if all this flour finally fell into his hands, then he would probably go bankrupt.

Early this morning, Pubri got up early, and then began to bake bread, and now he has baked enough bread, if it was in normal times, he would have opened the door for business, but he was still a little worried about those Orientals, so he did not dare to open the door, during which he tried to open the door several times, but at the last moment he still flinched.

"Knock knock~" At this moment, someone suddenly knocked on the door outside, which made Pu Buli startled, and the little courage in his heart disappeared all of a sudden, and he didn't dare to make a sound behind the table at the moment, but at this time he only heard a familiar voice from outside: "Pu Buri, I know you are inside, I have already smelled the fragrance of bread just now, hurry up and open the door, I am almost starving!" ”

Hearing this voice outside, Pubri immediately breathed a sigh of relief, he already knew from the sound alone that it must be the blacksmith Marcus diagonally opposite the shop, who used to come to his place every day to buy bread, and the two families lived so close that he could definitely smell the smell of his own bread.

Thinking of this, Pubri immediately ran over to open the door, and when the door opened, he saw a short, stocky middle-aged man standing outside, with a red rosacea protruding from his beard, it was none other than his old customer Marcus.

"Marcus, it looks like your nose hasn't been soaked in spirits, and you can still smell my bread." Pubry was also very happy to see the other party, Marcus was a blacksmith and a drunkard, and almost all the money he earned every day was spent on buying wine, and he was never married, let alone cared about him, and as a result, he could be seen drunk every day, and many times Pubri carried him home from the street.

"I'm not like you, there must be a lot of food at home, I can't eat it at all except pig iron and charcoal, you don't open the door these days, the food in my house has long been eaten, if you don't open the door again, I'm afraid I'll be starved to death." Marcus rubbed his stomach in pain, and when he saw the bread that had been baked in the store, his eyes lit up, and he wanted to immediately pounce on it and stuff the bread into his stomach.

"Wait a minute, I'll go get you bread, everything is the old rule, and I'll settle the account at the end of the month!" Pubri also saw that Marcus was really hungry, and he didn't talk nonsense at the moment, turned around and took a few pieces of bread and was about to hand them to the other party, but when he turned around with the bread, his expression suddenly froze, because he saw that around the corner outside the store, a group of Orientals suddenly appeared walking towards this side. (To be continued.) )