In the courtroom, as soon as the black-haired and black-eyed Calabisfu appeared, Cicero trembled as if he was a little scared, and the other party looked at him with a provocative gaze.

Fortunately, Calabis only appeared as a witness at this time, and the judge who presided over the trial, Catullus, spoke: "Curio the Younger said that on the night of this incident, you and Claudius were together at a distance of ninety kilometers from Rome. ”

"Yes, Claudius and I are on good terms, and we were near the harbor of Ostia that night, and my servants and stewards can testify." Calabis recounted one by one.

"Did Claudius have time to go back to Rome that night, for example, to present a light carriage, and arrive in Rome in the second half of the night, I remember that it was at this moment when the crime occurred." Catullus looked at the dossier and frowned, he especially hated prodigal young or middle-aged people like Claudius and Caesar, and his purpose was to punish one by one.

No way, Calabis said. For we were at a great banquet in the port of Ostia, attended by sixteen high-class prostitutes, for I had heard that Claudius was about to run for tribune, and who did not want to please him? That night, Lord Claudius and four or five prostitutes took turns, and we were all present, and the three knights, including me, could testify that Lord Claudius was indeed Ostia at that time, and that he did not even have time to go to the toilet, and was very busy.

Amid the boos, Claudius, who was in the central defendant's seat, smiled and waved to the men and women in the audience, like the brightest star.

However, Catullus did not believe in the new knight of the alien race and Curio, and he turned his gaze to Cicero. The other party seems to have a lot of confidence. A gesture was also made to call witnesses.

The first one came in. It was Cicero's wife, Renchate, who said astonishingly: "Pabrius. His Excellency Claudius could not have been in Ostia that night, quite simply, for he sat on the wall of the courtyard almost the whole evening of the Feast of Happiness, when my husband had left the house to avoid suspicion, and my maid and I were in the courtyard to prepare for the guests. Keep looking at me and keep seducing me. ”

"I did seduce her before, but I didn't have it that day!" Claudius cries out in a huff, ignoring Curio and Calabis, but Rinchardt quickly comes up with evidence: a white rabbit with an elaborate nameplate of Claudius' name, not only Claudius's ring stamp, but also a few lines of fleshy love poems.

In the uproar, Calabis helplessly spread his hands. He also saw the patron Lucuras Haha, who was in the audience, smiling, as happy as seeing Claudius drowning in the sea.

Witnesses followed. It was Caesar's mother, Otalia, who insisted on the intruder she had seen that night. It's Claudius, "Dear Madam, no one can prove that fellow is me, and I'm angry at the humiliation your family has suffered. Claudius was still stiff, but when the courtroom untied poor Claudius's shorts as Otriea had instructed, the red strangulation marks on his breasts were like two crescent moons along his pink nipples, interspersed with sexy curly hair, and the people in the court let out waves of exclamations.

"Young man, do you think a woman's chest corset is so easy to carry?" Caesar's mother said contemptuously.

Later, he uncovered Claudius's short hair, and there were traces of forced jewelry on his earlobes.

At this point, Lucuras is barely able to close his smile, and the "two-faced character" Calabis winks at Curio.

Knowing Curio, he hurriedly summoned his second witness, Stout Marco. Anthony, when the lawyer Catullus asked with disgust what evidence the Night Dancer had to give, Anthony spoke even more earth-shatteringly: "The witnesses of the past have lied, but Claudius did appear before me in the presence of a woman's corset, earrings and necklaces made of enamel or gold. ”

"What the hell are you trying to say, inconsistent." Catullus spoke even more disgusted, he was so sick that he was about to vomit.

"Dear Attorney-General, I would like to say that Claudius did this only to please me. I liked the way he wore women's clothes, so- I think Ms. Otalia might have misunderstood. After Anthony finished speaking, the whole courtroom was about to explode, but this guy was still secretly glaring at each other with Curio.

Catullus was so angry that his face turned pale for a while, and he felt that the trial had almost become a farce of the peach scandal. Over there, Luculas the tuna covered his face and mouth with a robe so that others wouldn't see him laugh to the point of twitching.

At the critical moment, Cicero raised his hand again, his gaze was directed at Calabis, and he demanded that Claudius, who was in the defendant's seat, and all the people involved, including Calabis, be brought into the small rooms on either side of the colonnade, and then he asked to see another witness, several of the leading prostitutes of Porto Ostia, which would take some time, and Catullus announced that he could wait for the arrival of the witnesses for the time being.

Towards evening, several prostitutes from Ostia, who were all flamboyant, entered the courtroom without shame, and winked at the men of the jury and the jury, and scratched their heads, "Is the testimony of Calabis in line with the facts?" ”

The prostitutes nodded their heads one after another, saying that it was naturally true, in fact, they had each received five hundred dinars for perjury, and Cicero smiled and said: "Chief Legal Officer, you and I should be glad, because Claudius has always been hiding everywhere because of fear of sin, so the youngest daughter of old Curio, as well as Calabis with a hole in her left ear, and Anthony, whose stepfather was on the gallows, have not had time to carry out their shameful Jihua thoroughly, and I have the sword to expose the lie, that is—" He waved his hand, Several young men in robes stood in a row in the center of the courtroom.

Over there, in the small room, Calabis and his party, who were obscured from any view, were standing or sitting, and after hearing Cicero's clear voice, Calabis said in a gloomy manner, We can't win this lawsuit!

Claudius was also a little flustered, he hurriedly asked his adoptive father what to do, and Calabis laughed again, saying that we don't have to let Cicero lose the upper hand in the lawsuit, we can't win the lawsuit, but maybe the result will still be our victory. The crowd, who were in a fog at Calabis's words, thought that they were nothing but his arrogant words, and they all sighed.

Sure enough, when the clerk set up the water again, Cicero stepped forward, put the water timepiece upside down to the floor under his feet in front of everyone, and said confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, this thing is not needed at all below, these street hooligans of the city of Rome will get their due end at once, immediately!" (To be continued......)