Chapter 33 Inevitable Mutation (Part 1)

"When she was a little girl, she begged her wet nurse to let her dolls have milk while feeding her other brothers and sisters." - Plutarch wrote in memory of his beloved daughter who died in infancy.

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When Corinna turned around and looked at Zeno, she couldn't help but feel a tremor in her heart. The statue in the bag in her hand actually fell out. Zeno stepped forward quickly, put down the water bottle, and smiled and took the statue she had left behind. Pick it up and put it back in her hands.

Corinna looked carefully and saw that the statue in her hand was the goddess of fertility, Demetrius. It was also wrapped with wool. "Why is this? I had given the statue of the goddess Demeter to Turinus before. ?”

"No, no!" Corinna seemed to understand something at this moment. She hurriedly put her hand into the bag in her hand and tore at the tether. This move made Zeno standing aside very puzzled - Corinne All Na's toys and amulets were scattered out, and Zeno had no choice but to lean down and walk to the center of the street to pick up the rolling small glass beads for Corinna.

When her sight continued to extend along with the glass bead, she suddenly found a boot stepping on it, followed by a rough voice that she could not understand: a big hand picked up the glass bead. The owner of the big hand was a man. A bearded barbarian warrior wearing chainmail. The arms of a group of warriors behind him were all tied with thin ribbons, which contrasted with the shining armor and shields.

After another unintelligible words, the warrior grinned and handed the glass bead into Zeno's hand. Then he waved his hand behind him. Shouting something loudly. Then all the warriors responded in unison. It was obvious that what Zeno and Corinna saw was that the direction pointed by the leading warrior happened to be the location of the Senate Assembly Hall. In front of it was the building that Lepidus had just built. In the large library, the trainee holding the papyrus roll was so frightened that he hid behind the colonnade. Everyone knows what it means when barbarian guards appear on the streets of Rome.

"It's father's Lusitania Guards. What are they going to do?" Corinna just watched the guards of about thirty people pass through in front of her eyes, and then ran to the shoulder carriage on the opposite side, where her Mother was holding her forehead, almost fainting, "Mother, tell me, what did father tell them to do? I clearly gave Turinus the statue of the goddess Demetrius before, but now. After all, in this world What changes happened after you lied to me?"

"I secretly replaced the idol. I don't know if your father knows what I did, but if he knows, then let him be. I am willing to accept any form of punishment. Yes, Corinna, mother is here At that dinner party, the statue of Demeter that sent you out was replaced by a statue of Prosabina," Boti said, touching Corinna's tearful face.

"Prosabina, Prosabina..."

This is the Roman goddess of seeds and the Queen of Hades. At the same time, she also represents the "loss of security." So after Corinna briefly chanted the name of this goddess, "Father is going to destroy Turinus. Isn’t it, isn’t it?”

"I don't know, I just have this hunch, and I hope to remind Turinus in this clumsy way that maybe everything is fine with him now that he has left the city of Rome, maybe he... ..”

After Corinna heard this, she broke free from her mother's wrist and said, "No, I'm going to remind Turinus."

As a result, when she turned around, Kelly suddenly appeared in front of her from the alleyway over there with a group of armed slaves.

"Detour, I want to take a detour!" Corinna held up the skirt of her skirt, and it seemed that she could no longer hear her mother's shouts in her ears, so she moved the braid on the back of her head and ran in the direction of the temple.

But over there, Arp and a group of Medjet warriors were already waiting there. Corinna screamed and was grabbed by them and pressed on her shoulders, "I'm sorry, mistress, now I have to send you away." Go back to Prima, there may be danger on the streets of Rome these days." After Arp said this to Poti briefly, the bearer picked up the carriage and headed quickly towards the starting point. He ran away, and all the Medjet warriors ran to the front, dispersed the crowd of onlookers, and cleared the way for the shoulder carriage.

"Mother, Turinus will definitely be destroyed, because just at midnight last night, he secretly sent a slave to inquire about my news. I replied that I would go to sacrifice the Temple of Vesta today. When I heard With this news, he will definitely not be suspicious of his father. Oh my god, Juno, Venus, come to my rescue, come and help me, listen to my cry for help! "Corinna's hair!" They were all struggling and scattered. Several maids who were combing their hair were on the shoulder carriage, holding the young lady down desperately to prevent her from escaping. A dozen strong slaves pulled the weighted shoulder carriage, slowly but firmly. He walked in the direction of Prema.

In the entrance room of the Juilliard Hall, Young Caesar was dumbfounded. He watched his staff with rods being pulled away and the rods being broken. Then he turned around and was about to leave, but found that there were people standing on the colonnades, steps and square in front of the auditorium. They were all heavily armed soldiers.

How could this happen? The topic today was only the registration of candidates for consuls, plus the normal review of the war budget? He was cautious. He had inquired about Corinna's opinion yesterday, and today his servants saw Corinna go to the Temple of Vesta with their own eyes. Then he came to the Senate. Why?

Dozens of senators rushed towards him. With ferocious and rebuking expressions, Octavian hurried out of the door and shouted, "Fonteus, Fonteus! Maecenas, Maecenas!" But what he saw was that Fonteus was dragged by several centurions. His breastplate, medals and cloak were all taken off, and Maecenas stood opposite him with a stern face, like an executioner.

"Turinus, now your title of Caesar has been officially stripped by the Curia Assembly, and we will send you to court immediately. Before the Great Fifth Festival, your personal freedom will be restricted, because you have to make reasonable explanations for privately demanding military funds, slandering and conspiring against the high priest, and instigating the attack on Lilybi City!" Cicero, the leader of the senator team, said expressionlessly.

At this time, a shout of "What happened?" came. It turned out that Lepidus, Leo and his son, as well as Basatus, Piso and Cotta had just finished handling the petition and came over. Seeing this scene, the high priest couldn't help but ask curiously.

But a team of warriors quickly stopped these people under the gable of the synagogue, "What exactly are you going to do to Caesar the Younger?" The high priest's angry shouts continued, but the guards had already grabbed Turinus's clothes and twisted him towards the court.

"This is a conspiracy, this is a conspiracy." When Caesar saw Maecenas standing beside him with a sword, he roared. (To be continued...)