"I touched the Domus of the old Peregrino and got rid of his six bodyguards, and by the way, the whole process didn't take much effort, and I also visited his residence by the way, and it turned out that we had been busy collecting money for the life of the old Peregrino was actually quite simple, there were not many slaves in the family, and there was nothing particularly valuable. Considering that he made a lot of money every year, it made me suspect that Senator Peregrino was a miser who regarded money as his life.

"But when I kicked open his door and put my dagger on his neck, Senator Peregrino was so frightened that he knelt in front of me and begged for mercy, but he didn't mention the matter of using money to buy his own life," Zhang Heng said, "This makes me feel a little strange, because according to my past experience, no matter how stingy a person is, he is still willing to spend some money when he is about to lose his head, unless he ......"

"Unless all the money he's earned over the years is no longer in his hands." Lucy raised her eyebrows, "He's making money for someone else." ”

"That's right, and what was even more interesting was that when I asked him who he gave the money to, Senator Peregrino actually gave me the name of our centurion friend, and it suddenly reminded me of another thing."

"What's the matter?"

"Rome has always been the territory of the Blade of Balance, and it is not easy for the hounds to infiltrate their own assassins, and my teacher also told me that the seemingly lone assassins actually need peripheral support, including but not limited to liaison people, efficient intelligence channels, especially the latter, is the big head of burning money, there is an organization called the hive in the southeast city, which is very mysterious, and their influence is not limited to the southeast city, there seem to be their people in the senate, It can be seen that they have spent a lot of money to collect intelligence.

"But unlike the other two forces, the hive doesn't have any income, or rather any income on the surface, which means that the owner behind it needs to burn money constantly, and as far as I know, the owner behind the hive is the hound, and their spokesperson is a guy called a microphone, who once tested me with the doctrine of the Blade of Balance, and that's when I started to really doubt your husband.

"So then I began to investigate your husband, from his young age," Zhang Heng looked at Pompeianus, "You came from a famous family, but in fact, by the time of your father, the family had already declined a little, in order to revitalize the family, you entered the army and began to follow Aurelius to fight in the south and the north, at first he was just an inconspicuous centurion, but then he began to emerge and continue to make meritorious contributions, Aurelius also appreciated you more and more, and regarded you as a confidant."

"However, you and I are actually in a bit similar to my previous situation, although Aurelius values you very much, but you are not the only young general he is optimistic about, you actually have a lot of competitors, many of whom are better than you, but in the next two years, those young generals who are better than you have died one after another for various reasons, and finally you have become the most dazzling existence in this generation, and Aurelius is relying on you more and more.

"Although there are still many people in the army who are older than you and have higher positions than you, they are all very old, basically old people from the Antoni era, and they will not pose a threat to you, and there is actually only one person who is really troublesome."

"Lucius," Lucila's expression changed dramatically when she heard this, she had been standing in front of her dresser, but when she heard this, she took two steps back, and distanced herself from Pompeianus.

"Yes, Aurelius' younger brother, Lucius, co-emperor of Rome." Zhang Heng said, "The first person in the military at that time, with great achievements, and it was when he was in the prime of life, if nothing else, he should have controlled the army for a long time, and he, like Aurelius, was the emperor of Rome, with him one day, you can only be subservient forever, so Lucius also died, and on the way back to Rome from the front, that unlucky guy was infected with the plague, and he didn't even make it to Rome." ”

"You bastard killed my first husband?" Lucyla looked at Pompeianus, who had forgotten her fear for a moment, and roared, "I could have continued to be an empress in the palace, and after my father's death Lucius would have been the only emperor of Rome, and our children would have been the next rulers of the Roman Empire, not my stupid brother." ”

Pompeianus smiled when he heard this, noncommittal, and then he looked at Zhang Heng, and finally spoke, "That's enough, let's stop here, you don't know me at all, you said before that you don't understand why I sent assassins to assassinate you, the reason is actually very simple, because of jealousy." ”

"What?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.

"Oh, of course not jealous that you went from commoner to nobleman and got Commodus's favor again...... I don't care about this kind of thing at all, and what I call jealousy is an instinctive reaction of being a man and a husband. ”

"You mistakenly think I'm your wife's lover?" Zhang Heng suddenly realized, "Let's not talk about whether I am your wife's lover, as far as I know, your wife has had many lovers before, you shouldn't take this kind of thing to heart......"

"Do you know where they are now?" Pompeianus said leisurely, "In order to get her, I can even kill the Roman Emperor Lucius, let alone those toys that she is tired of playing with and throwing away." ”

"But if you really care so much about this, why didn't you stop her in the first place?"

"Oh, then you underestimate her too much, Lucyla has never been a woman who can be controlled by anyone, not even her father has been able to control her, otherwise if she is just greedy for the pleasure of cheating, why would she make the whole city of Rome know that she is using this means to declare war on her father who married her as a political bargaining chip, to trample on the royal honor that her father is proud of, she is like a flame, burning wantonly, I don't care if it ignites there, and that's why I can't be corroborated with her."

Pompeianus smiled, "In my identity, if you want to find a gentle and obedient woman is a simple thing, whether it is a wife or a lover, but they do not have her charm, her wildness and greed, beauty and indulgence, innate cruelty and ruthlessness, all these are intertwined to make up her, there is no more perfect existence in the world, I fell in love with her from the first sight of her, I can't change her, and I don't want to change her." ”