Lepita walked through the streets behind the Temple of Ephesus, a city that was literally much better than the dirty and crowded city of Rome, although the Greek houses were elongated, with only one gate facing the outside, but they were all neatly organized, and the streets were large enough for four or five horses to pass through at the same time, with water pipes and sewers, lampposts for lighting on both sides, and fuel such as fish oil, and the main expenses were paid by the municipal priest with the collection of holy places and tourist taxes.

What was the city of Rome like at this time? Except for the vehicles that haul water and dung (these vehicles are almost absent during the day, because the streets are so narrow that people are congested), there are groups of slaves with torches, escorting their masters home safely, or cuckolding others, or drunken thugs wandering in twos and threes, dangling like zombies in the shadows, ready to catch a passer-by and beat him.

In the seventh house on the adjacent street, Li Bida walked there alone, looked back at the empty alleys on both sides, there seemed to be no people, and occasionally there were a few vigilant barks of dogs, probably coming at him. He sneaked out of the barracks, arranged for other generals to have a banquet inside, and came to paralyze Brutus and Cassiio in the port camp, and as soon as he returned to Ephesus, Joseph, the chief of the Jewish merchant group, happily lent 100 million Sethus to Cato, and then returned to Eubertnia, so Brutus did not know what close connection he had with this merchant group, and he did not bother to continue to ask, and it was good to be able to run affairs when the money was in hand.

And he himself is here tonight to have a good "talk" with the real power of the Kingdom of Ubertnia.

After a few knocks on the door. Opening the door was Biduita, who was holding a torch. His indigo face was easily recognizable. When Li Bida came in, he found that within the narrow and long four walls, there were more than a dozen Galatai barbarian swordsmen, all of whom were looking at him with fierce eyes.

"Come in, the mistress is waiting for you, though she has been reluctant to admit it, and she should have gone back to the Hermitage in Eubernia." Biduita stuck the torch diagonally into the ledge behind the door, and then glanced at the rest. They all retreated.

In the long and narrow room, there is very little furniture, but there is a long couch between the inner and outer rooms, hanging a curtain made of silk thread and shells, and next to the long couch are several delicate embroidered clay pots of Miletus, in which there are a few tulips that have withered, Li Bida took it out and looked at it, and immediately thought it was interesting, he had never seen this kind of flower in Rome and Gaul, and it must have been planted in the Anatolian plateau. It has not yet been introduced to Rome. Li Bida sat on the couch and pinned a drooping flower to the neckline with a brooch. Slowly stood up again, waiting for Adiana's little lady in the candlelight, so slowly.

At this time, the stairs sounded, and a "playmaker" with soft chestnut hair walked down slowly, and in the candlelight, she used her slender hands to cover the mask used in the play on her face, and just when Li Bida wanted to turn back, the "actor" suddenly chanted, "How long has this city fallen?" ”

Li Bida turned his back to her and laughed, he had watched this comedy with Adiana before, Euripides' "Helen"

"Ah, the fruit tree is almost seven degrees old." Li Bida took the next line, and he knew that Adiana was ridiculing him for forgetting the promise made by the two of them after returning to Rome.

"How long did you stay in Troy before that?"

"All I know is that the moon has followed its orbit for countless decades, but I always think that it is the one that was over the Black Sea Empress Sinop, Calabia." The second half of the sentence was added by Li Bida, and when he saw Adiana's footsteps in the middle of the stairs, quietly facing him and not moving, he walked up, took off her mask, and said to the clear face, "Helen, whoever that visitor is, do not take his words as completely reliable. ”

At this moment, Adiana couldn't help but snort and laughed.

In the room on the second floor, the windows on both walls were lowered, but the flickering candles were still lit in front of the bed, and in the sound of "squeak", Adiana hung her long chestnut hair, her back to Li Bida, her waist and chest were wrapped in the opponent's strong arms from behind, and her eyes were misty, sitting between her man's thighs, gently swaying up and down in front of the mirror, like riding a docile horse.

"The owl will be glad to see you, though it's tethered in the harbor camp now." The exhausted two of them were talking carefully wrapped in blankets, and the whole longhouse was very closed because the windows were closed, and then Li Bida twisted his head, and actually saw the wolf skin priest's robe with a furry tail still hanging on the wall.

Facing Li Bida's set, Adiana turned her back, as if she was angry and didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, Li Bida continued to ask cheekily, "It's been good in Ubernia these years, that Jewish Chamber of Commerce must have helped you make a lot of money." ”

"Of course, I've gotten used to the solitude of being a queen for so many years, looking at the sword hanging from the throne." There were tears in the corners of Adiana's eyes, but it was obvious that Li Pida couldn't see it, "But I still persevered, I have to thank you for ceding almost half of the land of the Kingdom of Godini to Eubertinia through Pompey, increasing the flower production area and salt lake, my method is to make these two daily luxury goods for export, dump them to get a lot of money in neighboring countries, and then the usury merchants such as Joseph, who will be expelled from Syria by the Romans, will be co-opted to Eubertenia and let them run my money, Invest in maritime, flower fields, intensive wheat fields, animal husbandry, etc. After saying that, Adiana turned over, propped up her left cheek, and said with a smug expression, "Hey, let me tell you, amphora, Eubertnia now has a surplus of more than a thousand Tallents in the treasury, and I now have two palaces, the Summer Palace and the Winter Palace, five hundred Galatian swordsmen as my guards, and five hundred hoplites from Cappadocia. ”

"Was it used against the Minander couple in the Bosphorus?"

"Because they had a child, whose name was Phanabysse, and who claimed to be the widow of my father." Adiana's emotions suddenly became agitated, she rolled over and straddled Li Pida's body, and muttered, "I also want a child, preferably a boy, to inherit my father's great empire, to inherit the glorious Mithra family, I hate them, and it is best that you can give me such a title now." ”

"Wait, wait." Li Bida stretched her kiss away with both hands, suddenly remembered, and asked, "Who is Benenici's husband in Egypt now, and how can he pretend to be your father's child?" ”

"That guy is the inflamed bastard that Minander sent out, the general who commanded the New Model Army for me before, Archeraus." Adiana said that after the fall of Pontus, this man who had taken refuge in Pompey and later went to Egypt to deceive Benenici in the heart of Beneniki was like you bastard lying to me. (To be continued......)