"Even women, even the virgins of the temple of the Stove, would stand up and make thumb-down gestures of contempt and severely condemn gladiators who did not show their strength." - The Colosseum in ancient Rome

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"You know, this is the tactic that Crassus usually used, to control everything in Rome with position, glory and money." In the street at sunset, Caesar held Calabis by the back, pulled the mare, and strolled with him down the street to Subura, "I'll tell you a little secret now, that the eight hundred and ninety-seven Tallent debts I owe are all to the people of Krasudan. ”

Calabis was stunned, "Crassus is using debt to control you!" ”

Caesar Haha laughed, "It's just your one-sided vision, Calabis - Crassus is my greatest creditor, I am his biggest debtor - and Catiline would surely think how terrible it is to be burdened with so many debts!" Fearing that he would not be able to repay Crassus's debts, he took the risk and eventually destroyed. But I'm different, I've squandered the money that Crassus has lent me to buy property, to please the people, and I haven't even bought a cemetery now, but what? Crassus, including Calabis, is not willing to invest a new sum of money in me, and the huge debt gives me the freedom to develop wantonly, but Crassus is afraid that I will fail, and will let his investment fly and eggs, and he can only continue to support me politically with all his might. ”

Come on, let's put it simply, you Julius. Caesar practiced that "it is the grandson who borrows money." It's the grandfather who owes the money." No wonder. Calabis had been puzzled before, Weishenme had been following Caesar all day to collect debts, there was a knight of the hundreds, but no one dared to touch his ancestral mansion in Subura, so this was the secret.

This man can see hope in all adverse situations.

Even I am tied up by him now, is it the money he owes me, or have I become his "fixed asset"? Calabis's mind couldn't help but be a little confused.

Then he looked at Caesar, who was stretching his eyes with fine crow's feet. The shiny forehead reflected the charm of charm, "The same is true of women, Calabis, you are only twenty-five years old, Roman men must not have contact with at least a tent woman in their lives, I also miss my predecessor's dead wife, I even married her at the risk of being executed by Sulla (Caesar's wife is the daughter of Zenna, Cornellia, and Sulla are mortal enemies), and after her death I stood in front of her tombstone and wept and broke my heart." I gave a speech in front of hundreds of Roman citizens in mourning for her, and at that time I really felt like the whole shijie had collapsed. But I remarried, and it was a necessity, and Roman men had to always distinguish between necessity and necessity. Hearing Caesar's words, Calabis was speechless, he stared at his fingers, the scar cut by Adiana with his hunting knife was like his eyes, he had indeed promised Adiana to become the king of Rome, but this was destined to be the same debt as Caesar, both conscience and money.

At this moment, Caesar stopped talking, stopped at the entrance of the street, his body suddenly trembled, it was beyond Calabis's expectations, he saw Caesar's head leaning forward and backward, his eyes began to turn rapidly, Calabis instinctively realized that the situation was not good, so he grabbed him, dragged him into the alley at the entrance of the street, Caesar's face was bent against the wall, still twitching his body frantically, and his upper and lower teeth made a terrifying sound like a grinding disc.

"Damn, it's epilepsy." Calabis hurriedly moved Caesar's mouth away with difficulty, fortunately he was wearing a bracer today, so he directly used it as a meat splint, blocking his wrist between Caesar's upper and lower teeth, and the sharp pain came from his heart, "Hold on a little longer, otherwise this guy's tongue will be bitten off by himself." Calabis gritted his teeth, then quickly untied the dagger from his belt, first took the scabbard in his own teeth, threw the blade of the dagger to the ground with his backhand, then untied the belt and wrapped it around the scabbard, and then took it for his wrist and stuffed it into Caesar's mouth, saliva gurgling and flowing down the violently shaking scabbard. Ignoring the pain in his left hand, Calabis slowly lowered Caesar down on the dirt floor of the alley, holding his face to the side to prevent his saliva from blocking his breathing, and then tore Caesar's robe with both hands!

When several citizens who had run to the market rally came to the entrance of the alley, they were attracted by the loud noise inside, and stood at the mouth of the alley to see that the belt of Calabis was gone, and that Caesar below was pressed on it, and he was constantly gently stroking and wiping his face and neck.

The townspeople blew a few obscene whistles and left.

Calabis hurriedly found some garbage drawing boards to cover them in front of them, because he knew that Caesar was a very face-saving person, and after about five minutes, Caesar's breathing gradually recovered, but his eyes were still white, and he was sweating profusely, as if he was still unconscious.

After another five minutes, Caesar suddenly grabbed Calabis's hand, "Don't say it! Then he pulled out the scabbard with the belt from his mouth, took it off, wiped the saliva and sweat from his face very calmly, got up and straightened his robe, and combed his hair with his fingers, "It's okay, it's just a joke that God played on me, I'm sober again." With that, he handed the belt back to Calabis. At this time, several long shadows crossed the sunny and lazy alleyway, and Calabis was holding his belt and was just about to tie it, when he saw Claudius, Anthony and Curio standing at the alley.

In a new wave of whistles, Calabis didn't say anything superfluous, just silently turned around and fastened his belt back to its place

"I'm impressed with you, my adoptive father." When Calabis walked out of the alley and untied the reins of the "owl" from the pillar at the entrance of the street, Claudius, with a suspicious smile, approached him and said in a flattering tone, "You are so lucky that your lover is Julius. Caesar, he was once the most famous golden young man in the city of Rome, and you don't know how much I was fascinated by him when I was a child - his hairstyle, his clothes, and his walking demeanor can detonate the new fashion of Rome at any time, and you really have a vision and charm. ”

After hearing the words of the new son, Calabis wanted to die, he would definitely tell his "Bichi" sister about this, so even if he was developed in the future, from the nobles to the poor in Rome, he would spread the "broken sleeve rhyme" between him and Caesar to the earth, absolutely!

But Calabis held back, and when he saw Caesar walking in front of him, and knew that he had the need to protect the secret for the other party, he said to Claudius, "What are you going to do with the three new golden youths?" ”

"We're going to validate our friendship and do something earth-shattering, and you can come with Calabis!" Claudius laughed secretly. (To be continued......)