"Never go to war with two enemies at the same time." - Ancient Roman proverb

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After a while, Li Bida seemed to remember something, and said that this matter should be the business of the Inspector, but Si Pinzel had already been taken out just now, and his position had been stripped away, and the other Inspector, His Excellency Pisso, could not exercise power alone, so we also needed an older person to succeed Si Pinzel's vacated position.

"I recommend His Excellency Cicero, only he can be the elder who guards the entire republic." This was the signal from Bassatus and Cota.

Then, the grass on the wall also echoed one after another, because they saw Li Bida's face clearly agreeing, and they understood what was going on.

The final result was a vote on the spot, and Cicero was elected on the spot as Pisso's colleague Ombudsman.

This can really be said to be "everyone happy", but this is not the case for quite a few senators, Cicero, who has just put on a purple robe, immediately finalized the "removal list" of seventy people with Pisso, most of whom are Caesar's murderers, or have a certain involvement in this murder, and some are Cicero's personal enemies, which anyone in any era can understand and understand.

The Senate was purged like a ship in a storm, but it was definitely a remarkable victory for the Caesars, and the combination of the outer army of Li Bida and the side of Cicero on the inner line against the water achieved amazing results.

In Prima's Villa, all the ladies and servants line up to congratulate the master, the man, and the father. Dressed in the robes of an archon, Li Bida successfully assumed the supreme authority of the republic. He had fled Rome as a lawyer. Later, he was a public enemy, and now he is honored here, but he has become the most prominent and powerful figure.

Like his adoptive father, after greeting him, Li Bida walked to the courtyard, and the first person he met was his daughter Corinna and daughter-in-law Vivia, and her daughter seemed to be in a good mood. "When Turinus returns again, will he be able to become a lawyer?"

"Yes, it's not only my pride, it's yours, isn't it, good girl?" Li Bida touched Corinna's hair and congratulated her as well.

But Vivia was visibly upset, as her husband was still in custody with Anthony, "Father, I want to remind you of that. You're going out to fight tomorrow, and Leo is still in the enemy's camp. ”

"I'll bring my kids back. No one could hurt him, especially Anthony, now and past. Li Bida comforted his daughter-in-law and said.

Then he saw Claudia and Frivia coming out of the garden, and they approached and grabbed the corner of Lybida's robe, and begged him for mercy on Anthony, "Since you have the power to make a claim, you should be open to Marco, Marco made a mistake this time, but for Lybidaeus, he has the right to be forgiven by you." ”

"My son treats Mark as a father." Li Bida's answer made everyone feel at ease on the spot.

But then, after the farewell feast, Potty quietly took him by the hand and said to him in the corner of the hall, "Brutus has fled and become a public enemy, and my friend and wife Portia is dying."

Libida, who was holding the wine glass in her hand, looked at her woman, and it was obvious that she was sad for Pothea, and from the moment Brutus walked out of the mansion to assassinate Caesar, Pothea was not in good spirits, and her maid with her hair clearly saw that Pocia was walking hysterically around the hall, sometimes almost fainting, and when Brutus left, she was completely devastated, and people watched her wandering around the doorways and gardens in her pajamas and nightgowns, and she could not remember anything except the night before March 15, "I can't and can't stop my husband, a just cause always has to be sacrificed", these were the only coherent words on her lips.

"Enough, kind-hearted woman, don't say any more." Li Bida put down his glass, "Since you are still willing to treat Brutus and Posia as friends, then I have the same idea, come with me after nightfall before I go to the barracks." ”

In the evening, twenty Madejie guards carried torches and swords to clear the way, and Li Bida rode his horse and escorted Porti on his shoulders to the abandoned house of Brutus.

The servants had almost all fled, the friends had left for fear of being implicated, the doorways and colonnades were covered with dust and cobwebs, and even Brutus's mother rarely visited, perhaps resentful of Brutus' failure to dissuade Brutus, or perhaps in the mood to face Caesar's murderer's wife.

Pothea sat on the couch in the main hall in her ill-fitting robe, and the few remaining fires flickered like a quiet ghost, not because the original robe was too large, but because she had become too thin.

Seeing Li Bida and Porty walking in, Portia lifted her sunken eye sockets and messy hair, and looked at the two with empty eyes, Porti couldn't help it first, and pounced on Pothea's face and cried.

"Are all your children married or married?" This is the question of Bothia.

Li Bida nodded.

"How good, I think the garden and the fruit trees in your yard are also luxuriant, and the god of the house has blessed you all, and made you immersed in happiness, but the nourishment of the earth is always the same, and there is anger and there is withering." It was difficult to tell who Posia's eyes were looking at, and the blow she had suffered was so great that Lipida remembered that on the ship to Sardinia, when she first met her husband, Brutus had said that her cousin's hair was like the soil of an olive grove, and her face was like an apple in Venus's hand.

"To blame, I and Cassiyo have taken care of him, he is just a simple and stupid man, he has never had a lover, he loves me wholeheartedly, he values friendship with everyone, and he has never seen the wind rudder. Even if we didn't have children, he never touched the flowers, let alone abandoned me. He loved his adoptive father, but was so influenced by my father, that it seemed that all cruel choices had fallen on Brutus, and that all of them, perhaps, marrying Portia was also cruel to him, and that he had sacrificed himself on the altar of the Republic. ”

"Say no more, don't say any more, Posia. It's a world where men fight, and we don't have to worry about it. "I pray that my man, he will spare Brutus, that he will send Brutus back to join you, that you just go to the country and go there and not ask about the world, didn't the Romans say, that if a man is willing to give up his campaign in the civic square, then he will not be in any danger, and he will be safe." ”

Pothea took Porty's hand, her eyes shining a little, and even said that it was true, that Lybidaeus was willing to pardon her husband? (To be continued......)