Chapter 10: The Crowns of the Princesses (Part II)

Zuihou, the tent was opened, and Adiana came out, actually wearing his mother Manimei's little crown! The beautiful combed Haode chestnut hair, reflecting the golden splendor of the crown, and the crown reflected her elegance and nobility, with a slender neck, a slightly raised forehead and a small nose, she was not a wild cat in the mouth of Naisa, but a beautiful and proud swan, "No wonder she kept talking about the tiara, and learned how to sew from me, for this purpose, to repair the broken belt, but how did she know that the crown was hidden by Hybrida in Batitas's tent—yes, yes, It is indeed safest to hide a precious treasure under the mattress of a ruined man. High-Bridar could think of this, and Adiana could guess it. Calabis sighed in his heart.

"How, the identity of a princess can only be revealed by a crown. The crown will never choose the head of a lowly person. Adiana, slim, spoke word by word to everyone present, and then pointed to the crown with her slender fingers and said, "This is my crown." Then he raised his other hand, a bloody axe, "This is my scepter." ”

"Damn Batitas!" Safano reacted at this time, and rushed into the tent with Demetrius, and Batitas's body was so wounded by a sharp axe that even the bed under him was chopped up, and his whole body fell into the gap between the two broken beds, showing a terrible sitting position, with blood-stained rags and quilts flying everywhere.

"I don't think you will be disgruntled by this filthy Roman soldier, who dared to defile my mother's body at the palace of Calaby, and whom I have just executed with a scepter, this military tribune named Claudius." Adiana explained blandly.

Claudius Haha laughed dryly and said, "Everything will have to wait until the boss arrives." I've sent someone to inform you. Then he patted Hybrida on the shoulder and asked, "I'm curious, this level of crown should have been handed over to the Duzhi officials during the Battle of Calabi Palace, why is it here now?" ”

"Please help me with kind words, Your Excellency. I really don't know who hid there! Highbrida's voice trembled a little.

"Everything will have to wait until the manager arrives." Claudius smiled, but still copied the sentence.

After a while, Luculas came here wearing the Archon's purple piping robes on a white background, surrounded by a "fascist" companion with a spring breeze, obviously he was in a good mood, but what made Hybrida frightened was that Murilla and Utiris followed him with gloomy faces, murderous. Obviously, one was deceived by him, and the other was directly tied to a tree by him and blew the night breeze all night, and the mood was absolutely not haode.

When Luculas arrived, Claudius immediately stepped forward to greet him, but Luculas only replied coldly, and saluted Naissa and Adiana, and then, in fluent Greek, said: "I have learned in great detail from Tyrannan about the noble Mithralis family, and I believe that you are both true to what you say—and with your majesty, your crown of status is absolutely unique." I declare that, from now on, you two will be guests of the Legion and will be treated as honored guests. ”

"Thank you so much for your kindness!" Nessa hurriedly and softly sounded, it was a habit for her to get ahead of Adiana and win the favor of the Roman commander.

"Also a prisoner and hostage of the Legion, isn't it?" Adiana responded.

Lucuras smiled kindly and said, "The army has rules for the army, and I hope Your Excellency the princess will understand." ”

"I prefer that this senseless war be forgiven by the world, and now that my father has lost his country and his army, and is only a poor old man living in the land of his son-in-law, His Excellency the Governor of Weishenme is still unwilling to put an end to this dispute and restore peace to the two peoples?"

Nessa was about to rebuke Adiana for her rudeness, but Lucuras replied sharply: "Yes, it is I who need this war to continue, for I will return to Rome in three years with honor in the grand triumph and win the cheers of the Senate and the citizens." ”

"But you know, the humiliating years I spent in Your Excellency's Legion were not meaningless, and I am certain from observation that Your Excellency's centurions and soldiers are not interested in your dreams." Adiana remained unrelenting.

Luculas looked around, all his generals and soldiers, and then whispered quickly to Adiana, "A true nobleman would not ask about the dreams of the lower classes. Then he commanded in a loud voice: "Today is an auspicious day, we have not only defeated the Armenian army, but also won two distinguished guests, and now is the time for the feast - God bless Rome!" ”

Everyone present drew their swords and shouted, "God bless Rome!" ”

With that, Luculas gracefully led Adiana and Nessa away, and Claudius winked her eyes at Hybrida and walked with Murilla and the other generals.

Utiris stood in place with a blushing face, and several "fascist" servants also stayed behind and stood beside the senior centurion.

"Your merits cannot offset your sins. You're done, you're done, Highbrid, you veteran**, I've said before, you're going to be finished! Utarius said viciously and excitedly, holding the silver ring to Hybrida, "How dare you dislike this emblem of the Legion's position and deceive your superiors with a trumpet. General Murilla issued a decision to punish him, beating thirty sticks, working naked for three days as a coolie, depriving him of his position as centurion, and demoting him to an auxiliary. ”

Hebrida was silent, what he was really worried about now was that if Adiana stabbed out about his hidden crown at the banquet, he would really be cut or stoned to death in front of all the hundred-man team of the legion!

The two fascists pressed Hebrida to his knees, and Safano, Arminius and other subordinates formed a circle with helpless expressions. The other two servants stepped forward, stripped off Hybrid's armor, tore off the status ornament on his chest, and threw it on the dirt, and then the objects were trampled under the feet of the Servant with the bundle of rods—one of the four men each pulled out of the bundle and slammed it at Hybridha's back, with the sound of the flesh being whipped.

"One more!" When Utyrus saw that the stick was broken, he ordered, "One more one now that you are not a centurion, you are free, and you can plunder as much as you want, isn't that what you want!" ”

But Hebrida was such a hard bone, her face was sweating in pain, and she didn't say a word.

"Slaves, get out of the way, you don't have the right to see the Roman soldiers punished." When Arminius saw that Calabis and other camping slaves were also coming forward to watch, he pushed Calabis back and threatened.

"This time it's a bundle of rods, next time I want to see you punished with the axe in the bundle stick!" This is what Calabis heard, a sentence from Utarius zuihou.

Then Uterius pushed away the crowd, and when he saw Calabis, he beat him on the chest very affectionately, and said, "Calabis, you are a good and capable slave, but you don't have to follow the mourning dog in the future, just follow me." After that, he walked away!

Looking at the eyes of Haibrida who was kneeling on the ground and was about to eat people, the hairs on Calabis's back stood on end, "Utarius, Uterius, I can understand your happy mood after seeing your opponent's bad luck, but don't involve me in it by the way, okay?" ”