Chapter 27 Blessing of Isis (Part 1)

"I foresee that there will be a fierce dispute about my funeral." - Alexander on his deathbed

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Seeing her serious look, Lepidah immediately turned around and said, "Calabis told Karabia that I still like the woman who was with me at that time."

"Don't mention Potty!" Adiana said calmly. Although this made her feel slightly relieved, she still did not completely forgive her. She knew that even at that time, before she was actually with him, the other party had already A different woman now.

After a pause, Adiana said with a smile, I remember that girl. She was right behind you in Ponte Cabbion Acropolis. She is your illegitimate daughter, right?

"Don't speak so harshly!" Li Bida's tone was a little warm and angry.

At this time, Adiana was not as aggressive as before. She just muttered in her heart, "If the child is not born to me, wouldn't it be illegitimate?", and then used a very formal tone to invite Lepidus and his entourage to come to her house. After staying in the palace, we had a small gathering because she had some official business and needed to discuss with the financial officer about the unrest in Asia and Syria after the death of Crassus.

Adiana's villa is very elegant. In the center of the courtyard is a rectangular cistern. Both rows are illuminated by candles. There are some bulrushes floating in the pool. The dining table and couch are at the end of the pool. Eubotia The queen sat on it with great dignity. Because the banquet in the main hall of the palace had already ended, she just asked her servants to put some vegetables and expensive wine on it. On the other side, Lepidus came with his guards, and they were also a group of dark warriors, which made Adiana a little disappointed. Then she saw Nicole following the man step by step. Her brown hair and facial features clearly belonged to another woman. But she smiled brightly and politely. She raised her hand slightly and stretched it out, meaning to ask Nico to sit next to her. Nico opened her mouth wide. She was stunned by Adiana's beauty and temperament. She had always been a little deer growing up in the wilderness, but she still hesitated and slowly moved behind her father. Over there, Alp held the door and scanned the cooks and slave girls coming and going with vigilance, while Matthias raised his hand in salute and stood consciously under an evergreen pine tree, not daring to look across the way. Queen, because he had seen how the Commander-in-Chief made love to her in person, and it was difficult for the two of them to pretend to have met by chance at the banquet just now.

Seeing Nico's reaction. Adiana was a little frustrated. She made a gesture and invited Lepidus to sit down.

Lepidus sat down, but used his hands very carefully. She blocked Nicol next to the couch and told her daughter not to move. After the wine was served, Adiana asked Nicol in a sweet voice if she could drink some light wine mixed with water or pineapple wine.

"She is not old enough to drink yet." Lepidus answered on his behalf.

Adiana placed the wine glass heavily on the dining table, which meant that she was very angry, "I didn't expect that we would need this kind of pomp when we met? Guards, weapons, seemingly inseparable, and there was suspicion in the air. "After speaking, she took out a small box, and then used her slender fingers to pick out two silver-plated chopsticks. This opened Nicole's eyes even more. She saw with her own eyes that this beautiful queen used these two things. She grasped nuts and lily leaves with acrobatic dexterity, and placed them elegantly between her lips and teeth, like a piece of beautiful music, just like she was accompanying her father to listen in the city of Tegreseta. The voice of the chorus is ethereal and beautiful, like a small flute made of reeds.

Eating can be so beautiful and moving. In her impression, whether it is a clan member or an outsider, most people eat regardless of gender. Even the musicians in the chorus are not exempt from the custom when eating. They all eat with their hands. He pounded it with a knife and awl, and took a break to blow his nose.

When Lepidus saw this scene, "Carabia" was using his professor's chopsticks to eat, the tender old feelings in his heart surged up, and he asked Nicole to sit next to him, and then said to Adiana After a few thoughtful words, he asked her if she really had something important to discuss with him.

"Of course..." Adiana put down her chopsticks, and then when she saw Nicole staring at this thing with round eyes, she smiled and handed it over, and then with a mocking tone. Said, "Try it, of course you don't have to worry about anything, unless I want to poison myself to death. Your father is too strict with you. I remember that when we were in Ponti Kabiang, you were so young. Watching me with a dagger."

Then she saw that Lepidus was a little embarrassed, so she turned to the topic, "The bitch born to Menander and Stratonis, the bitch named Pharnabyses, has been identified as Bosporus." Heir to the Kingdom of Sri Lanka, and actually claims to be the heir to my father’s empire, claiming the right to annex my throne.”

"Then what are you going to do?"

"Needless to say, I also claimed the right to inherit the Bosporus. Now I heard that your Syrian governor Crassus has died. I have been observing the situation of your dirty and greedy republic. If nothing unexpected happens, , Crassus is dead, the day of civil war is not far away. "Adiana didn't wear any pink and white tonight, her fair and long neck was still in that wide blouse.

"You are right. It is indeed Calabiya. Moreover, the civil war will last for a long time. So what you are saying is that once strife breaks out in the Republic, the war between you and the Menanders will be inevitable."

"It's natural. When lions start competing for the throne, no one cares about the biting between wolves and dogs." Adiana put her hands on her chin and replied clearly, "Of course, you don't have to worry about me, I just I need your assistance. Militaryly, I can defeat that country on the other side of the Eucyon Sea alone. Menander, this bastard, is just the governor of the Bronze Shield Army, and Stratonis is just the daughter of a humble musician. They How could he be my rival?"

"But - I am more concerned about the battle in Rome than here." Lepidus pushed the dinner plate forward, dumped the leftovers at his feet, and began to raise his hands to pray to the ancestors, "But this does not prevent us from continuing to join hands. Karabis and Karabia should still be together, right?"

"You are really becoming more and more like a Roman." Adiana commented with mixed approval, "but you are still a bat that is neither a bird nor an animal."

Hearing this comment, Lepidus became a little depressed, as if it stabbed the most untouchable part of his heart. In essence, if people like him exist in this era or in a certain corner of the world, then they all Like a lonely star in the vast dark night, "More and more like a Roman" is just a shell. He has done many things, some good, some bad, all in the hope of lighting himself up in this dark night and leaving something behind. This is a trajectory worth studying. Even if he came to the Huns at that time, he would probably become "more and more like a Huns."

At this time, Adiana put her hand gently on his back shoulder, "Don't be unhappy, come with me, I have something very happy to show you, Karabis."