Chapter 2 "We've Found You" (Part 2)

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Then, when Banks' children fled, the old consul set fire to the empty house. The fire grew bigger and bigger, and then Banks sat on the armchair in the middle of the fire, letting the flames burn him. ,

When the firing squad entered the courtyard that had turned into scorched earth and rubble, they found Banks's smoking body, which was severely damaged and unrecognizable. "What should we do now?" The other freed slaves asked the leading centurion. Now the rules have been changed. Each firing squad is equipped with two centurions and about ten veterans to guard against possible resistance from public enemies.

Facing the question of the freed slaves, the centurion shook his head, stepped forward and cut off Banks's ring and finger with a sword, then carefully identified it in the ashes, saying that it was good - the inscription on it was not burned, and it could still prove the identity of the deceased, so it could be cut off.

So the freed slaves rushed forward and cut Banks's charred head with knives, but the tendons in the cavity suddenly burst, and blood splashed on people with terrifying screams, scaring everyone half to death.

None of Banks' children escaped in the next half day. The two brothers ran together, but they were sold by slaves, and the daughter was sold by her fiancé. They were all killed in the street, and the property they carried was looted.

When the heads of Banks' entire family were sent to the square, the four had retreated to the military camp to handle affairs, so the task of identification and reward money was entrusted to the legal officer Savellinus by Pansa. As a result, Savellinus took a lot of effort to handle the matter. He found that there was always a group of soldiers around him. Seeing the emblem was the 42nd Legion, they lined up and stood 20 Roman feet away from his office, motionless.

After Savellinus finished, the group of soldiers, led by the centurion, approached and said to the law officer, "Respected Lord Savellinus, there are some small changes in the list of public enemies. It should be related to you."

Now, even if Savellinus was a fool, he knew what this sentence meant. He was still wearing the robe of the chief executive and ran wildly in the square. His entourage followed him breathlessly, and the soldiers who came to arrest him continued to chase behind him at a leisurely pace.

Perhaps the entourage was too loyal. Wherever Savellinus ran, they followed him and surrounded him. The law officer was exhausted by constantly saying the words "never give up". He knelt down at the third street corner, and then the guards continued to surround him. The judge raised his hands to the sky and begged the group to leave, so that he could take off his robe and escape quietly and unnoticed.

As a result, before Savellinus finished speaking, another team of soldiers who received the order rushed towards him, chopped him to the ground, cut off his head and threw it into the square - he was just judged and rewarded, but in an instant he became a public enemy. This speed is really confusing.

These days, in every corner of Rome, you can hear the voice of "We found you" and the voice of death sentence.

The priest Melut was also honored to be on the public enemy list. He was one of the instigators of the assassination of Caesar. He almost became consul, but was later replaced by Lepidus. He could only hide from place to place these days. Finally, he escaped to a guest's building. This was an inconspicuous and crowded apartment building with its back against the Temple of War. Slaves were coming in and out everywhere. He and his friends hid in it, and they actually hid from the spies and executioners for a while. Here, Melut was like the most humble person, hiding in a dark attic, eating The coarsest food, the dirtiest drinking water, and the hair could not be cleaned. Towards evening, his retainer told Meru, "You stay here for a while, I will find a way out of the city. Now the wind is a little relieved, because eighty elders have died, and their butcher knives are tired. As long as you leave the city and stay in the countryside for a few years, it will be fine. I heard that many people have fled to Spain or Mauritania." Then, the retainer took some money and went downstairs.

As a result, after the retainer left, Meru kept looking down in horror through the shutters nailed with broken wooden boards. He became more and more unsure. He was afraid that he had been sold by the retainer? To exchange for 25,000 dinars? After thinking about it, Meru quietly put on a cloak made of rags, left the apartment building, and sneaked towards his home.

What surprised him was that his courtyard was still there, even though all the servants had run away and there was no one guarding it. What surprised him even more was that when he walked into the courtyard, he saw his wife was safe and sound, and she was making dinner with two hairdressing maids brought from her mother's home. His wife was also surprised to see her husband return, and hurriedly asked him to hide in the tall chimney behind the courtyard, and then asked why Melut came back, she thought he had already run away.

"Because I don't trust that retainer enough, I suspect he betrayed my whereabouts to the execution squad, so I had to run back. Speaking of this, I am more curious why you didn't suffer any disaster, and why my courtyard was preserved so well?"

Merut's wife's eyes were red. She said that in order to protect herself, she dedicated herself to a centurion of the legion, and exchanged her chastity for perfection. She hoped that her husband could forgive her, "There are still some belongings at home, you Let's rest here for the night, and I will find a way to help you get out of the city tomorrow." Meilut, who was blinded by the woman's sweet words, could only half push him into the chimney attic of his house, but his wife grabbed him as soon as he arrived at the door. Pushing it in, she quickly locked the door with her hands. Then she asked two maids who were combing her hair to seal the place, and she quickly ran out to tell the truth - half of what she said was true, that was her She has indeed hooked up with a centurion, and now she wants to exchange Merut's head for her new dowry.

Here, Merut screamed, cursed, and banged on the door like a wild beast. He scolded the woman for her ruthlessness. Then he ran to the window as narrow as a slit in the chimney and saw the ruthless woman. The woman, who was coming towards her house with the centurion and the firing squad, screamed, her eyes bleeding, then tremblingly, she squeezed sideways through the window, closed her eyes, and fell like a bird, He fell to death at his wife's feet!

Merut's head was also cut off and sent to the square, but the wife who betrayed him did not end well. After Merute's retainers returned, they learned of the tragic experience of the patron and sneaked in with weapons that night. He entered the house, attacked the woman and the adulterer centurion, killed the man and woman together, cut off their heads, hung them on the flower gallery of the courtyard wall, and then committed suicide and was buried in honor of the patron. (A great pie-in-the-sky event, a cool mobile phone is waiting for you! Follow it~ Click on the official account (add friends on WeChat - add official account - enter dd) and participate now! Everyone will win a prize, follow dd WeChat now Public account! ) (To be continued..)