Chapter 32 Southbound (Part 2)
After hearing this, Young Caesar was obviously a little impatient. He scratched his forehead a few times with his fingers, and then said to the attendant, "It's better that you go there directly, just say it was me who said it, and tell him not to be anxious and feel at ease." Wait there for another two days, and I will naturally give him a satisfactory answer.”
The thunder gradually mixed with the raindrops, hitting the branches and leaves of the myrtle, and soon became thousands of raindrops. Curio sat in the hall with simple facilities, and then watched the rain falling outside, and then He stood up from the couch and put on his sword and rain-proof cloak. Then his personal slave came over and took a box containing documents to show him, "All the properties have been sold off. It’s a government contract.”
Curio said lightly, then looked at the increasingly fierce rain outside, and said neatly, "We can go, there is no need to stay here any longer."
Just when he walked into the courtyard, Caesar's servants came running in from the gate, shouting and being soaked in the rain, complaining loudly about the damn weather, and kept shaking with their hands on their shoulders. When he saw Ku, who was wearing a cloak, When he saw Leo, he couldn't help but froze in place, because he didn't know what this person was going to do in such weather and time.
"So, what news did Young Caesar ask you to bring?" Curio, under the rain, spread his hands and shook the raindrops, and asked quickly.
"The Governor of Illyria asked you to wait patiently for him for two days, and said that there will be satisfactory news by then." After the retinue said these words, the whole scene fell silent. After a while, Curio laughed wildly and held his knees. , half squatting in the puddle. The laughter even covered up the sound of wind and rain.
"Okay. Please tell the Governor for me - that is. I have no interest in waiting for him for another two days, and I am even less interested in entering the dark dungeon with him, where I can't even see the rain tonight. I'm leaving. !” After Curio finished laughing, he said to the subordinate with a surprising frankness, leaving the other person to stay where he was and asking several times whether it was appropriate to say so.
"You can tell it how you want. Everything has nothing to do with me. I won't be like a fool and stay here doing nothing for two days. In that case, I will end up like your stupid master. I know, it must be Lebida Us used two trump cards - the position of the second consul and his daughter who was stunning in the City of Seven Hills. They fooled the governor of Illyria, but what will greet him in the future will be the boundless darkness of the dungeon. . His dream will completely sink there, and he will regret not following my advice. Okay, let it go, whoever ends up in the cold bathroom of Hercules. (another name for the dungeon) lingering - it has nothing to do with me anyway, I am determined to leave, I want to go back to a warm place, that is, Shannan Gaul, so -" After saying that, he immediately turned away his dumbfounded expression. The attendant pushed away, "You don't need to continue to care about me. By the time you report to the Governor of Illyria, I will have arrived at Alimiron City. By the way, there is still fire and food in the hall. If you If you want to take shelter from the rain, dry your clothes and fill your stomach, I advise you to go in and take care."
There was thunder and lightning and heavy rain. Curio and his entourage, carrying boxes and luggage on their backs, quickly disappeared into the rain...
And the goose-like retinue really walked in, leaning against the fireplace to warm up, and enjoyed the mead and wheat cakes left by Curio. About half an hour later, Curio and two followers arrived at the foot of Mount Kelius in Rome. "Your Excellency, if you want to return to Mount Gaul, then taking this path is obviously wrong." A leader said The attendant on the reins reminded loudly.
"Go to Southern Gaul to see his ghost. I will never go there again. Maybe one day, either Caesar or Marcus will betray me. I am already an enemy of the Lepidus family. The only way now is Let's get away completely, let's go south!" Curio pulled the reins, then turned around outside the furrow of the sanctuary, and finally glanced at the gray and dim city gates and mass graves in the rain. The entire city of Rome seemed to be like a desert. Swallowed by rain and the overflowing Tiber River, there were not even half a person in the streets or other places. Now I could only say lonely and secretly in my heart, "Farewell, Rome, I want to go somewhere far away from you." "
Soon, Curio, who was highly skilled and bold, actually came to Passini Port, where the Sixth Army Corps was stationed. He used a fake name "Calles Vipichina", which was based on the character of Wang Feng's era. A chief of Etrunia, and the Mount Caelius in Rome was also named after him. Then "Calles" claimed to be a knight doing grain business between Numidia and Italy, and boarded the already contacted A good grain transport ship sailed towards the African coast, which can be said to be a secret.
The voyage was safe, and the city of Rome in the rain had long been left behind. After two market days, Curio arrived at the seaside outside Utica. At this time, all the wheat fields outside the city had been harvested. Boundlessly stretching across the sea and sky, on a certain raised hill, Pompey's widow Cornelia, holding a lyre, had just finished worshiping her husband's tomb, and erected a stone tablet there, with the following words engraved on it:
"Such a great man has such a humble monument after his death."
Even so, Cornelia still looked good, even though she had learned that Pompey's two sons had surrendered. "From now on, the Gnaeus Pompey family and the cemetery will be guarded by women." She used up her last savings to get the bodies of Laus and Sextus, and buried them in the cemetery west of Utica, so that the father and son could reunite in the underworld.
"Let's fulfill the wish of this respectable woman." This was the order issued by the high priest after his triumphant return from Spain. "As long as the core members of Pompey's party can find the bodies, they should be sent there for burial. In addition, the corresponding money should be allocated. Cornelia can keep the extra money, or she can build a small temple for this cemetery. In short, it's up to her."
Therefore, the number of tombs in the cemetery increased, and Cornelia's sacrifice was also very tired. When she was about to walk down the hill, she found a man with a horse, covered with a cloak, standing at the foot of the hill, and she was familiar with that face.
It was this man who escaped from the battlefield with his face disfigured several years ago and she took him in. At that time, her husband Pompey had also died in Lake Mykonin. "Cares, it's you, you are back from Rome?"
"Yes, I told you that I went to Rome to make a name for myself, but after I went there, I found that many things had changed, so I decided to give up everything there and return to Africa." Curio said, and then looked at the farmland and bushes around him, "Because this place is not bad at all." (To be continued..)