After a long time, when the sweaty Calabis returned, he saw Adiana sitting obediently in place, not moving, the food in the white galleon was very limited, in fact, the sailors of the classical era were a very patient people, they could starve at sea for many days, so what Calabis found, in addition to the rough wheat rice, was a small handful of olives, two slices of meat coated with caviar, and by the way, three or four seashells fried in Calabis.

However, there were these things, and Adiana did not think to look for them herself, and I am afraid that if it had not been for the arrival of Calabis, the princess would probably starve to death by herself in two or three days.

When such a fisherman's meal was placed on the drawing table, Adiana actually got up, bowed slightly to the amphora, and then reached for the food plate—suddenly, Calabis took her hand, "Your Excellency, can you talk about your future treatment now?" ”

"Didn't you just say that?" Adiana wanted Calabis to remember what she had just said.

"No, I want you to make a promise to enter the Acropolis right away. I'll start with a little bit, because you are now banished by the King of Pontus and have lost your crown, so you can't be a princess anymore, but a prisoner of the advance team of our Thirteenth Legion. "Calabis was serious in his words.

Tear glistened to the corners of Adiana's eyes, but the hateful amphora didn't pay any attention to it, she looked at the steaming food, and could only nod with difficulty, people only think of death in times of despair, but as long as there is a plate to eat, everything is different again.

The second request of Calabis: "This ship with white sails." It was immediately requisitioned by the Legion. After you enter the waters of the Acropolis. The legal status protected by the Pontus Territory was automatically abolished, and everything was governed by Roman law. ”

"How?"

"Quite simply, you automatically become an alien, and you have to pay two Aas a poll tax a day, just like I did in Rome."

"Two Ass? What is Asco? Gold or silver, you are insulting. When Adiana saw that Calabis didn't want to joke, she lowered her head and said, "I can provide valuable information on the Pontic side to help you defeat the Bronze Shield." ”

"I'm sorry. I don't need your intelligence anymore, and you're of no value to the legion in this regard. Calabis smiled, and added, "As soon as you enter the city, you put on the quartering uniform of the Legion, and are responsible for wiping and caring for your weapons and armor, and every day I can ask the quartermaster to give you a Sethreus's salary." ”

"A Seth Retreat! Amphorae, no, Your Excellency the Legionary Envoy, you must know that the maid I used to hire for combing my hair was paid two thousand drachmas a year, and I was not willing to be a military slave. Calabis, do you think we didn't do enough before? "Adiana is using the past to get along. Your Excellency the Special Envoy for Softening.

"I used to be in the Seventh Legion, but I was all working for you. There's no way, the Acropolis now has more military slaves and fewer soldiers, okay, I'll take a step back, three Seth retreats a day, and my identity is an auxiliary craftsman of the legion. Calabis withdrew his hand, and Adiana immediately grabbed the wheat rice and olives with her hands, divided the labor left and right, and began to chew it.

"You look so ugly, so you can also be called the princess of Pontus, and you still come to me to negotiate peace?" Calabis, by the lamplight, teased.

Adiana was stunned, she looked at the poor diet in front of her, and suddenly sobbed, there were still wheat grains on the corners of her mouth, tears fell down, and said to Calabis: "I hate myself, I have been too exposed, I have offended my father, and I have lost my noble status, but I hate even more that I don't have the courage to die, so I let you use these things to constantly insult me." As he spoke, he couldn't stop crying. Calabis also felt that it was a little excessive, so he wiped the tears on the princess's face with his hand, "Legion craftsman Adiana, don't cry, let alone think about dying, we have survived so hard back then, although now we are strangers and are still in flames, but it doesn't matter, won't we fight side by side for the Thirteenth Legion again?" ”

Calabis's hands, which had just been inspecting the fortifications and artillery in the city, were stained with dirty dust, and gently wiped the female craftsman's face, and Adina's eyes and cheeks were blackened, and she nodded like a well-behaved national treasure, and began to eat again.

"By the way, how is the payment of your army salaries in Pontus?"

"Last year my father was defeated by Pompey, and he took three thousand Tallents with him—"

"It's six thousand." Calabis corrected.

"Yes, yes, my father paid all the troops and his retinue a whole year's salary at one time in advance, so I haven't paid it in the recent war."

"Even if it's such a huge victory as the capture of the city of Ponticabion, there is no additional reward?" Calabis asked cautiously.

Seeing that the princess did not deny it, Calabis groaned and said, "By the way, Adiana, the legionnaire craftsman, after entering the city immediately, I will use your liliang." After saying that, he put the enamel gold pendant into the hands of Adiana again, and promised: "As long as you are protected by me, sooner or later you will be restored, your father will not last long, and after the war is over, you will still be the daughter of the upside-down people, with the glorious blood of the Mithra family, by the way—I vaguely heard in the tent of my Lord Luculas that your father married you to the King of Godini, Chalnus, right?" ”

"He is now in a civil war with Little Tegre against Tegreny, the king of kings of Armenia, and Pompey's attitude on this matter is unclear, and to be honest, I don't want to marry the king of a vassal state of Rome." As soon as Adiana came across a topic that she was good at, and she recovered after a full meal, she began to analyze it again.

After the peace negotiations with the princess were consummated, Calabis asked the oarsmen who were still left on the ship to lead his small boat, slowly approached the waters of the Acropolis, and then dropped anchor, Calabis told Adiana to change into the wide clothes of the legion, and put up her long maroon hair and amphorae, and then jumped off the boat along the gangway, and after standing firm, he put his arms around Adiana's small waist, and hugged her down, Adiana's body was very delicate, like holding a kitten.

The oarsmen of Pontus, after settling the white schooner, departed in small boats, as Achilles had commanded beforehand. As soon as Calabis and Adiana reached the beachhead, they waved at the tower, and several ballistas began to shoot at the white schooner.......