Chapter 17: Robes and Women's Clothing (Part II)
"Dear guests, I would like to say that it will be the Goddess of Happiness Festival soon. This is a festival for women only. Under the flower gallery, Yulia walked up to Calabis and reminded. The festival that Yulia said was an exclusive festival for women in ancient Rome, and the date of the event was uncertain, from autumn to winter, and women raised their eyebrows today, leaving aside the men to gather together secretly and pray to the goddess of happiness, from the ceremony to the content are strictly kept secret from the outside world.
"Yes, it's natural, and I'm going back to Rome." Yulia's off-string meaning Calabis understands that he feels that the task here has also been completed, and he can go back to Crassus to "confess", as for Yulia saying that he doesn't like herself, it is also in his arms, this is not my responsibility, do I want to get married on a blind date? Even if I get married, do you want me to have a son?
Without thinking about it, Yulia asked the maid beside her to deliver a box, "You must have a purpose here, I owe you, pay you these first." ”
Calabis took the box and opened it, inside was the glittering ring of King Numa, and a half-worn robe, "This is a token of the family and ancestors, I have nothing to give you, and the other debts will be talked about slowly." ”
But handing this over, isn't it equivalent to getting engaged to Yuria, just when Calabis was puzzled, Yulia wrapped the "Iron Anchor" woven blouse around her body, and said flatly: "Just tell the people behind you, the wedding date will be said until you return from the expedition to Lusitania, as you requested, everyone will be happy." We'll talk about that time. With that, the mistress of the Orphilenu Manor went to the inner hall to direct the slave girls to arrange the prayer ceremony for the Goddess of Happiness.
Leave the clipper boat on the island of Sardinia. Calabis looked at the ring and his robes. Then he told his attendant to take out the toga robe. "Put it on for me." The attendants all changed color when they heard this, and for no other reason it was a difficult garment to wear, so they first spread out the robe, which was a long oval cloth with white trim, and then folded the robe into two asymmetrical pieces, and carefully wrapped it around the neck of Calabis. Try to expose all the trim outside, then put down the hem around it, hang down to Calabis's ankle, and then wrap the clothes from the left shoulder to his back, and then wrap it back from the armpit of the right arm to the left shoulder, Zuihou The heavy burden of the whole robe fell on the left shoulder of Calabis, Zuihou Calabis also had to raise the left arm flat in order to hold up the drooping part, forming a steady and free style. "Get the ring." The attendant respectfully placed the ring over his middle finger. He stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself. "In the future, I am destined to be Li Bida in this time and space?!" With doubts, but also with emotion.
When the ship docked in the port of Ostia, he took off his robe and his fingers, and disembarked in a knight's cloak, and saw Kelly, Lucuras's personal slave, and the other party, tired and even more excited, came up and grabbed Calabis, and said, "The other fellow whom you hate the most is going to perish!" ”
"As far as I know, the Piper hates two people the most, Pompey and his former brother-in-law Claudius, you say Claudius is going to be finished? If I'm not mistaken, he was found to have hooked up with Caesar's wife, Pepea, and was found to have committed adultery. This kind of inside story, Calabis has long seen it, and the culprit is the little pet rabbit that Fan Lunjuna bought.
"If you hook up and commit adultery, if the man doesn't mind, it's okay. But did you know that Claudius is now being sued by the entire Julius family for blasphemy against the goddess of happiness? Kelly said excitedly, and the two of them walked along the Via Ostia on the banks of the Tiber River towards the city of Rome.
On the way, listening to Kelly's preface and later narration, Calabis had a general understanding of the ins and outs of the incident, he had long known that Claudius would die, but he didn't expect such a big death, Claudius three days ago, on the street of Jucola, Caesar's official residence when he became the high priest, once again showed his "manly" new majesty, instantly swept the entire city of Rome gossip circles.
On that day, Caesar's mother, Atria, his wife Pepea, and his daughter Julia (the daughter of Caesar's former wife, Cornellia), were elaborately dressed in the palace, and almost all the noble women and daughters of the city of Rome were gathered to pray or have a secret meeting with the goddess of happiness, and the women sat in front of the huge potted flowers, under the bright chandelier, and said intimate words, and blessed the goddess with poppies and wine, and then ate the children and wine, and began to play the harp, dance, and sing, and in the dimly lit cloister, An old lady-in-waiting of Aultlia was on high alert - she found in the cloister a "woman" with a veil in a corset and long-sleeved robe, who had noticeably grown much larger than the other petite guests, and who had strangely remained silent, but kept spying on the magnificent rooms of the mansion.
The old maid who was suspicious in her heart asked the hostess to arrange a new concert, and the female guests played the flute together, at this time Pepeia said that her whole body was a little weak, and she was going back to her room to rest, just when the "woman" saw that Pepeia was leaving, and she was going to sneak away while there were many people, the old maid grabbed "her" and asked "her" to play the flute, but the woman panicked and cowered, and all the female guests began to be suspicious, and asked her to report her name.
"Pepea." When "she" finally couldn't stand it anymore, the female guests present all screamed, because the other party's voice was thick and muddy, and it was obviously a man.
A man, shaved his beard, smeared with fat powder, put on women's clothes, and mixed into the most sacred and inviolable festival of the goddess of happiness, wants to commit adultery with the wife of the man here! Is there anything more terrifying than that? Anyway, the ladies would never have thought of it.
When Claudius threw away her veil and her wig, and scurried around the mansion like a frightened wild horse, Caesar's mother, Otalia, calmly covered the statue with a cloth, and then commanded the ladies and maids: "Seal the passage, all men in threes, light lanterns and torches, remove the legs of the chairs, search the rooms one by one, and get him out!" ”
So the ladies and maids were no longer alarmed, and they did as Caesar's mother had requested, like soldiers on the battlefield obeying the majesty of the general, and Zuihou Claudius was in the attic room of a maid, and was searched by the women, who tore off his corset and robe on the spot, and shouted at the stallion for interrogation.
But Zuihou and the others let Claudius go, because they had no right to execute or castrate him (otherwise they would have done it a long time ago), and the next day Otria, in the name of the whole family, began to sue Claudius in the Grand Court! (To be continued......)