Chapter 367: Imperial Gladiator (9)
Subconsciously clenched his hand into a fist, Yafo couldn't help but be a little glad that Marcus didn't know when he bought Ahab at that time, and at the same time, he didn't tell Marcus his identity when he sent Ahab to the Colosseum today, otherwise he saw the picture of Ahab winning today, and it is estimated that all the rights he wants will be in vain.
Even after ten years, Sibbita's influence has largely disappeared, but Aph believes that Marcus would never want to see Sibitai have descendants like Ahab.
For a moment, he had the feeling that he was lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot.
Ding Zhu didn't know what Yafu was thinking in her heart, but she still keenly felt Yafu's unhappy mood, and she thought that this unhappy mood must have a lot to do with her victory today.
But Aph didn't say much, but just sent Ding Zhu down, as if he had come today to simply reward a gladiator who had brought glory and wealth to him.
Gladiators in movies and on TV are all scenes of fighting in the gladiatorial arena, but the real gladiators have a lot of work to do in addition to fighting for the glory of their masters.
After all, at the end of the day, gladiators were still slaves, and they needed to work hard for the nobility.
For example, Ding Candle's current job is picking grapes.
Grapes are a very common fruit in this era, and the average aristocratic family has a vineyard in it, and Yafo is a sacrificial wine, and has always been an official who deals with wine, and the area of the vineyard at home is larger, occupying a mountain directly outside the royal city.
It's the season to ripen, and it's Ding Candle's job to pick these ripe grapes and send them to a dedicated winery to make the best wines.
Pulling a cart full of grapes, Ding Zhu sat beside the coachman with a little song and followed him to the winery.
The coachman's name is Nebo, and he is responsible for picking grapes and delivering grapes in a group with Ding Candle, but Ding Candle thinks that the coachman's main job is to monitor himself, and from the fact that he does not leave him for a moment, this is definitely the case.
As the carriage walked down the streets, Nebo asked, "Ahab, you seem to be in a good mood." β
Ding Candle nodded with a smile, and did not deny it: "Of course, I can eat well, sleep well, and there is no duel match recently, so my mood will improve." β
Nebo expressed his understanding that although gladiators are glorious, as long as they are on the field, who knows if they can survive or not, compared to others, it is actually their own life that is more important.
Ding Candle spoke to Nebo as he quietly observed his surroundings.
The winery is located in a small town outside the Imperial Royal City, although it is outside the Royal City, but because the Royal City is the most prosperous city on the entire continent, this town is not crowded at all, but people come and go, and it is very lively.
There were some people in cloaks, mixed in with the crowd, they stood or sit, or just in front of the small stalls to look at the goods, it didn't seem to be different, but when Ding Zhu saw these people, he felt different.
These people didn't come to shop for groceries, they seemed to have other purposes, and although they were hidden in the crowd, it gave Ding Candle the impression that they didn't fit in with the whole environment.
"Let go, let go, Princess Tita is here." While Ding Zhu was still quietly observing these cloaked people, he heard the voice of a guard coming from a distance.
Ding Zhu looked back, and sure enough, he saw a gorgeous convoy not far from the street.
Nebo frowned: "It's really unfortunate, how can this road be made?" β
Yes, although it is in the suburbs of Wangcheng, the roads in the town are not as wide as the roads in Wangcheng, and there are small vendors setting up stalls all around, as well as the huge convoy of princesses, there is really no place for their grape-pulling cart to avoid.
"Go to the alley there, and we'll come out when the princess's convoy is gone." Ding Zhu looked around and pointed to a small alley that was very close to them.
At this point, there was only one way, and Nebo drove towards the alley, and Ding Zhu was curious: "Why did the princess come here?" β
Nebo was not surprised by Ding Candle's curiosity, after all, Ahab had been a small slave who could only work in the inner house before this, and her status was special, Yaph did not let her have access to the outside world, he replied indifferently: "There is a princess's manor here, and she likes this manor very much, so she wants to come and stay for a while from time to time." β
"You know that."
"Of course, the princess is a big customer of our wines." Although Nebo had a job of keeping an eye on Ding Candle, more often than not, he was just a worker at the Yafer Winery, and he knew all about these business dealings.
Since it was all said here, Ding Candle also asked about the origin of this princess Tita by the way, and Nebo didn't feel that there was anything wrong, so he told Ding Candle about the identity of this princess Tita, and by the way, he talked about the gossip of this princess.
This Princess Tita and Marcus are brother and sister, very powerful in the royal city, in addition to her power as a princess herself, it is very important that in the battle for Marcus's succession, she unswervingly stood by Marcus's side and became an important supporter of Marcus's smooth accession to the throne.
By the way, another reason why the original owner Ahab's father, Sibitai, in addition to being a thorn in the side of Marcus because of his high merits, was that he supported his opponent in the battle for the throne at that time, so it was only natural that he would be eradicated by the weeds.
Of course, in addition to Princess Tita's power in addition to supporting Marcus, there seems to be an unbreakable gossip, rumors that she and Marcus are still in a relationship, and they even have a son.
For this kind of mess. Lun's matter Ding Zhu said that there was no way to understand it with his modern eyes, but for people at this time, this didn't seem to be a big deal, and she could see from Nebo's ordinary expression that this kind of brother-sister marriage seemed to be normal.
Nebo is obviously a good sharer, he spits on Princess Tita's life story as if he had seen it himself, and Ding Candle as a party to the clichΓ© also listens to it with relish, after all, in order to complete the task, Ding Candle must know everything about the superior Emperor Marcus.
As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles.
While Ding Zhu was still listening attentively to the gossip, she noticed that the cloaked people who had been hiding in the street were moving.