Chapter 18: A New Journey (Part II)
At last the situation calmed down for a while, and the high priest sat down on the circle chair, raised his hands slightly, and after sorting out his thoughts, he whispered to his daughter, who was greatly troubled, "Well, good girl, who is he?" What is your name? ”
"Ossetinius, a chieftain in the land of Aran." The daughter said with some shock.
The high priest nodded his head constantly, then pointed his finger at the tall Ossetianus and said, "Yes, Ossemius. ”
"It's Ossetinius, father." The daughter protested dissatisfied, saying that after she stabilized, she didn't care about her father's current identity.
"Well, I know, of course I'm not a deaf girl now—then Ortinius, my dearest friend, I don't care what tribe you came from, or who your ancestors were, but I want you to divorce my daughter, and yes, to leave each other." As he spoke, the fierce high priest was afraid that the barbarian would not understand, so he made a separate gesture with his hand, "In return, I will make you a four-point monarch in the Colchis region, with an annual income of 200,000 dinars of silver, which you can't get for half your life by robbing in the steppe desert, how about it, Otinius, Ossinius Okay, him, I'm too excited, but you'd better not let my excitement turn into a rage in the end." So saying, the high priest waved his hand and continued to sit back down, meaning that Ossetanius, who was opposite, should consider carefully, and it would be better to accede to his request at once, no doubt.
The tall barbarian man was immediately a little excited, and he shouted loudly in Aran, as if he wanted to argue with his father-in-law about something. If in the past. Li Bida will definitely be interested in the original Aramaic language. But now in his ears, almost no different from the barking of beasts, frankly he has no personal grudge against this guy who looks like "Professor Hagrid", but he is just annoyed that this man has married his daughter without his knowledge, which is simply unconscionable.
As a result, Niko took the man's hand, telling him not to be emotional, and the two talked intimately in a low voice. They seemed to be encouraging each other, which made the high priest's nose almost crooked.
"Father, it is completely unconscionable for you to do this, Ossetinius was chosen by myself, he is my husband, and we will have to raise offspring in the future, after hearing that you went to Parthia, Ossetianius and I volunteered to come to meet you in the army because we were familiar with the geographical location of this battlefield, hoping to be a guide. But I didn't expect you to be so rude and unapproachable, and I have no interest in him at all. He said. Niko pointed her finger at Mindaz, causing the other party to bow in embarrassment and retreat to a corner, for fear of being swept up in the whirlpool.
The high priest was also a little anxious when he saw his daughter like this, and he said to her, "You are my daughter, like a impatiens, and this fellow is a wild boar, and I will protect my garden from being trampled by this wild boar." ”
"Father, you are an insult to me, and also to my mother, when you and my mother gave birth to me, you did not have anything to attract my mother, in her eyes, you are a delicate impatiens, and my mother is a fierce boar, she just wants to use you to leave excellent offspring like me." Niko was not very good at using words, and when she got into a hurry, some words that she could not have said on such an occasion were simply blurted out like a waterfall.
At this moment, everyone's eyes were on the "delicate impatiens" who were blindfolded for a while, and some of them turned their heads and blocked their mouths that were about to crack with their hands, while the clerks were all "Montanus faces", and recorded all the words that Niko had just said truthfully.
"What the hell are you going to do, good girl?" The high priest hung his head, full of frustration, "It's my fault, maybe I should have disobeyed your mother last time, instead of repeatedly accommodating her, and luring you back to the city of Rome to raise yourself, you are now a wild girl, and you have arranged a marriage for yourself unethically and unethically"
“papa! I'm not a wild girl, wild in your eyes, but I don't follow the rituals of the Latin or Greeks. Niko's hair flew and she put her hand on her chest, crisply interrupting her father's accusation, "But I am me, I am both your daughter and Niko, the woman of the Amazon Everyone can take responsibility for their own choices, and they don't need anyone to dictate." Yes, a few years ago, I wanted to go to the city of Rome with you to see how my brother and my sister lived, but now I can't go back, the wilderness, the jungle and the mountains make my soul, I would rather spend this life in the gallop of horses, with Ossetinius, than to envy Corinna's life, I am equal to hers, you are made of your flesh and blood, but my path with her is different, that's all, but I want to be approved by Papa. ”
"Yes, of course I approve of you, my good daughter." At this time, the high priest's mood fell silent, and he felt that his behavior just now was very similar to that when Crassus forced himself and Porty, isn't it that now that he is older, he is also beginning to follow the path of Crassus? No, no, Niko is my lovely daughter, only I owe her, so let her go, as Adiana said earlier, "Some people, at the end of a qiē, can go to a new world, with the old love, that is the happiest." ”
So at last, the high priest raised his eyes and looked at his daughter gently, "Well, I wish to see you and your wife from time to time, and my future children—I hope that the child's appearance will inherit you, Leo's son, and my grandson, has come into this world, and his name is Siranus—so I will still give you two hundred thousand, nay, four quarters of the silver coins of five hundred thousand dinars a year." Also, I wish Helenputina would come back soon, and I hope she will be safe, even if she doesn't come to see me, as long as I can get this message. ”
"Papa!" Neko then fell back into her father's arms, and was stroked by the high priest over and over again.
And the moved Ossetinius also shed tears, opened his arms, and walked towards the two, Li Bida turned his back on his daughter at this time, glared at him fiercely, and then quietly raised a gesture, meaning that the hairy-footed son-in-law leaned over, "Get away!" ”
In the black stream of Mount Amasinus, countless sparks suddenly floated by, and under the scattered stars, Niko took the lead, shaking torches in her hands, and the shadows of men and horses leaped through the water illuminated by the firelight.
Behind her was her husband, riding a short, horse-sized mare.
Further on, hundreds of thousands of Roman horsemen, with torches shining on the rivers and peaks, came in the direction of the Euphrates. (To be continued......)