"Governor Lucius? Why did you come to my vineyard! A fat middle-aged nobleman walked out of the manor with penguin steps, nervously watching the Roman army surrounding the vineyard.

"Matt, I received a report from a subordinate that I heard of a slave rebellion in your vineyard?" Lucius said with a frown. Riding on a tall Gallic horse, Lucius had a good view, and most of the vineyard was in full view, and it didn't look like there had been any confusion.

"A slave rebellion on my estate? No, Lucius, there is no such thing, though...... Someone did break into my vineyard early this morning, wounded a few of the vineyard guards, and snatched some food, and looked at their outfits, which looked like ...... Gladiators of Pompeii! The obese Matt wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead.

"Mr. Matt, are you going to go far away?" Shepis asked as he walked slowly, pointing to the parked carriages in the manor.

"Oh no, it's just a feast at a nobleman's estate!" Matt rolled his eyes and grinned.

"When you go to a banquet, you also need to bring so many family members and guards?" Shepis pointed to the well-dressed ladies and Matt's children at the gate of the manor, and the heavily armed guards beside the carriage, and his deep voice sounded again.

"Matt, is there something you're hiding from me?" Lucius looked at Shepis fingers, his face gloomy.

"Governor Lucius, I ...... I didn't want to hide anything, I just heard some rumors! Hey! Matt wiped the sweat from his neck with a silk scarf and grinned, "But now it looks like these rumors may be true!" ”

"Rumors? Matt, if you don't mind, I'd like to hear about these so-called rumors! Lucius jumped off his horse, took off his helmet, and cut his hair.

"Nothing, just heard at a banquet last night about your 'foresight' gladiator rebellion and your victory over the rebels!" The small eyes on Matt's fat face were squeezed into a small slit, "Although those gladiators who escaped will not attack Pompeii, but my manor is on the outskirts of Pompeii, I don't think Pompeii has the strength to protect every manor on the outskirts of Pompeii for the time being, isn't it?" ”

Foresee? Hearing Matt's words, Lucius's pupils shrank into a line, and the killing intent in his heart grew.

"Governor Lucius, I think there were at least a few dozen nobles who heard these rumors at that banquet last night, as for now? Hehe, you know, Pompeii's aristocratic circle is not very large! Matt looked at Lucius and smiled coldly.

As a slave owner in the vineyard, Matt was not a soft-hearted man, and he executed hundreds of slaves with his own hands, and of course he could see the murderous intent in Lucius's eyes. Although there was no evidence, he had believed the rumor that the gladiator revolt in Pompeii had been orchestrated by Lucius.

"I wish you a safe journey!" Lucius took a deep breath and smiled again.

There are too many people who know the rumors, and it won't help to kill Matt, and he led his troops out of the city today, almost everyone knows about it, and those nobles who know the inside story will immediately know that he killed Matt. In that case, it is equivalent to confirming the rumors, and it will be considered by those nobles as murder, and it will be irreparable.

"Look, Governor Lucius, Pompeii!" Suddenly, one of the officers in the team pointed in the direction of Pompeii and shouted in alarm.

Hearing the shout, Lucius and Shepis turned their heads to look, and their faces suddenly changed drastically. In the direction of Pompeii, a thick wolf smoke went straight into the sky, looking at the scale and thickness of this wolf smoke, it was obvious that this was not cooking smoke, nor was it a fire in a certain house. Only a few dozen, hundreds of fireheads can gather to form such a thick cloud of wolf smoke, and Pompeii has been attacked?

"Governor Lucius, it seems that I want to retract what I just said, Pompeii is not only dangerous on the outskirts of Pompeii, but it also doesn't look very safe inside! Ha ha! The fat on Matt's face trembled with laughter, and he turned to the guards and shouted, "Ready to go, let's go back to Rome!" ”

"Head, the news from Yiyun is ......" Xiu quietly approached Shepis and said softly, "Do you want to tell Lucius?" ”

"No, don't tell him, we're not here to help Lucius! What's more, it's useless to tell him, it seems that the mastermind behind this incident is a rare wise man, this is ...... Yang Mou, you can see through but you can't crack it! "What intrigues me is, where is the wise man now?" ”

……

"Bastard!" Trembling with rage, Lucius slammed his helmet on the ground, and the fire in front of him and the entire Roman legion was not Pompeii, but the hundreds of crosses surrounding the avenue of Pompeii.

The crosses with more than 300 gladiators nailed to them were burning and had been exposed to the sun for a long time, and the bodies of these gladiators had lost a lot of moisture. However, the body fat in and out of the body became the best fuel, and together with the huge wooden crosses that hung them, they became more than 300 huge torches.

The black smoke from the burning of these torches gathered together and became the wolf smoke that Lucius had observed not long ago, obscuring the sky.

"Head, why did that reincarnation lead us to that vineyard without taking advantage of the situation to attack Pompeii? Was it just to cremate these gladiators? Xiu leaned closer to Shepis and asked strangely.

"It's not clear yet, but I think the answer is not far away!" A gleam flashed in Shepis eyes, he rarely came across a conspiracy that he couldn't see through, but he knew that every such conspiracy would be accompanied by very serious consequences.

……

Although it was only a futile afternoon, neither they nor Pompeii were attacked, but when they returned to the Doge's Palace, Lucius behaved unusually irritable. The shrewd governor of Pompeii felt more and more clearly that there was a pair of cold eyes watching him, and his every move seemed to be stepping on the net woven by the other, and he was like a moth that sensed the approach of the hunter, struggling helplessly.

"Governor, the one who went out to inquire about the news is back, the one who held a banquet last night and during the day today, and invited many nobles is Claudia, and there is another bad news!" The steward of the Governor's Mansion pushed the door in from outside the study and said cautiously.

"Claudia?" Shepis sat on the chaise longue and asked with a frown, the name giving him a sense of familiarity.

"Shepbys, it seems that your kindness back then has punished us now! You should kill the little girl's father at the same time as her! Lucius said with a gloomy face, "Let's tell me any bad news!" ”

Matt...... He's dead! The steward whispered, bowed his head, and took a few steps back gently.

Inside the study of the Governor's Palace, there was an eerie silence......