Chapter 3: Febilia's Wrath (Part II)
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In the face of such a heroic wife, Cicero felt a little like crying without tears - because the three demon lords in the opposite square had not officially stopped the slaughter, and the Antony brothers were trying to put themselves to death at any time, and the whole family of his good friend Aetius was killed, and it was a miracle that he could save his life on such a cusp, and his wife actually wanted to challenge his tyranny?
"My dear and strange old husband, what are you talking about, I went to be the leader of the petition procession, not because I am your wife, but because I am Febilia, a woman of the Fabian family." Hearing Cicero's pleading, Febilia put on her jewelry with a tone of incomprehension and indifference, and after saying that, like a gust of wind, she threw Cicero at home, and swaggered out with a cow hair duster in her hand.
A thousand noble women, dressed in all kinds of styles, swaying and swaying, hundreds of shoulders and sedan chairs stopped in front of the temple of the goddess Venus, and the maids with combed hair stood at the foot of the steps in a disorderly manner, you must know that the massacre in the city of Rome has not stopped, and there are heavily armed soldiers and centurions standing everywhere, but they can only watch in place, and no one dares to come forward to question and stop them, because the other leader, Corpunia, is Caesar's wife, so the soldiers can only form a human wall, and surround this group of noisy larks within the confines of the temple of love, They only hope that the other side will not cross this "red line" and run all over the city of Rome. Just make the three monsters unhappy.
But the ladies were clearly not satisfied. After they made sacrifices to the altar of the Temple of Love. Then Febilia, dressed in a long oblique shawl, spoke to all the women like a heroic female general:
"What do these men think of us? Didn't we feed them in adulthood, feed them in juvenile age, and now they should issue a decree to send lowly slaves to estimate our property, to tax us heavily, and to say in the edict that if we falsify in the process of estimating? There is a huge fine. What is even more infuriating is that we have been treated like political enemies, and the edict even instigates our slaves or maids to denounce us! ”
"We've been cheating on the bed, serving these drunken men and tricking them into saying, 'You're so strong!'" A noblewoman named Hutin Xiuya took the lead in shouting a loud taunt, and then thousands of noblewomen screamed and laughed, and the scene was simply spectacular, "Don't expect those men to understand what we mean, only women can understand women, let's go to the women of Li Bida, Anthony, and the young Caesar family immediately." If they can't control their own stoves, then let the country end up with this edict! "Finished. All the noblewomen, like the Gallic women, took off their headdresses, let their hair fall apart, tore off their necklines, and exposed most of their breasts, and sat on their shoulders like murderous knights, and ran first to the nearest Ox Head Street.
"Yes, yes, I'm very sorry." Octavia and her mother, standing respectfully in front of the door, surrounded by all kinds of noble ladies and inquiring about them, constantly accompanied by politeness and smiles, "We will certainly do our best to persuade Turinus to abolish or reduce this edict." ”
After receiving the assurances of the mother and daughter, the "Noble Lady Army" was considered to be victorious, and they then lined up and walked towards Villa Pulaima, aiming to lock on to the woman of Li Bida.
Porti's identity is not convenient for reception, so Corinna and Vivia are in charge of the reception, and then Leo also came out, and explained to this group of noble ladies with great patience and grace, as soon as these women saw Leo, they had the idea of "love well", plus the other party was polite, there were no flaws, and most of the anger was immediately eliminated, and after receiving the same assurance, they sat on their shoulders again, and walked towards the last goal, why did they take a long detour, and finally go to Anthony's mansion in Palatine Hill- Febilia explained it this way, because the Anthonys were the most rude and uncultured people, and the most difficult to deal with, so we put it last and focused our firepower.
Febilia was right, when the ladies entered the door of Antony's house, the first thing that caught their eyes was the bloody heads of several public enemies nailed to them.
But it was of no avail, and the ladies bravely entered, but Fulivia did not even give them a chance to talk, and rushed out with armed slaves with sticks, shouting, "Do not think of me as a hypocrite who claims to be the protector of the family stove after giving birth to three children, and if you do not obey my husband's orders, you will be killed!" ”
Febilia was also particularly red-eyed, shouting and holding hands with Hutin Xiuya and other noblewomen, and tore up with Fulivia head-on, and finally the two women hugged each other, the wigs were torn off, and the clothes were shattered, and from the cistern on this side of the atrium, it rolled all the way to the drainage canal a hundred Roman feet away from it, crushing several myrtles, fighting bravely like a sword slave, so frightened that the noblewomen and armed slaves next to him did not dare to move, "Soon your husband will be declared to the public enemy, and I will call him dead!" Fulivia howled.
"You are at the end of the road, sooner or later your husband will abandon you and make you want to cry without tears!" Febilia rolled over and straddled Fulvia, raised her hand and whipped back and forth, also warning.
"Stop, y'all." Eventually, it was Caesar's wife, Corpunia, who put an end to this qiē, and as soon as she spoke, everyone relented, "If we do not get any results here, there is no need to bother the noble mistress any more, and we should wait a few days, and then, if we do not settle the matter, we will go to the Grand Court to appeal the matter, so that those who deliberately ignore us will not be able to avoid us." ”
With that, they left Anthony's house en masse, and descended Palatine Hill one after another.
When Li Bida returned to Prima and learned about it from his children, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, "It's none of our business, but we have to prevent Anthony from taking the opportunity to kill Cicero, I'm ready, Cicero can't die now." ”
Sure enough, after three days, no one took the woman's actions seriously, so thousands of people took action again, and this time they did not go to the temple of love, nor did they meet in private at any house, but lined up in a procession, and after receiving the signal, came to the Great Court.
There, it was the young Caesar who was dealing with official business and pleading, and soon there was a commotion in front of the door, and in the midst of the shouting and scolding, hundreds of noble ladies took the lead in breaking through the barriers and entering the hall of the court, and the rest all stood on the steps with their waists crossed, shouting at the passers-by, attracting the people, soldiers, craftsmen, prostitutes, and other people to quickly surround them, which was even more wonderful than what the public enemy announced. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)