48 Hours a Day

“I touched Elder Peregrino's Domus and solved his six guards, and by the way, the whole process didn't take much effort, and I also visited his place, and it turned out unexpectedly that the life of Elder Peregrino, who had been busy circling money, was quite simple, and there were not many slaves in the family, nothing of particular value. Considering that he makes a lot of entries every year, it makes me suspect that Elder Peregrino is a stingy man who lives up to his fortunes.

“But when I kicked his door open and put my sword around his neck, Elder Peregrino was just scared to kneel in front of me and begged for forgiveness, but he didn't use any money to buy his own life,” Zhang Hengdao, "which made me a little strange, because in my past experience, no matter how stingy people were about to lose their heads, they were willing to spend some money, unless...”

“Unless the money he earned over the years is no longer in his hands.” Lucille raised her eyebrows, "he was making money for others. ”

“Yes, and what's even more interesting is that when I asked him who he gave the money to, Elder Peregrino gave me the name of our centenarian friend, and that suddenly reminded me of another thing. ”

“What is it? ”

“Rome has always been a blade of balance, and it's not easy for hounds to infiltrate their own assassins, and my teacher has told me that apparently lone assassins actually need peripheral support, including, but not limited to, leading contacts, efficient intelligence channels, especially the latter, are the bulk of the money burned, there's a group called the Hive in the southeastern city, it's very mysterious, and their influence is not limited to the southeastern city, and there seems to be some of them in the senate, who can see that they've wrecked a lot of money to gather intelligence.

“But unlike the other two forces, the hive does not have any income, or, more precisely, no apparent income, which means that the owner behind it needs to burn money continuously, and as far as I know, the owner behind the hive is exactly the hound, and their spokesperson is a guy called the microphone, who tried me with the teachings of the Blade of Balance, and that's when I started to really suspect your husband.

“So I started investigating your husband, and from the time he was younger,” Zhang Heng looked at Pompeianus, "you were famous, but actually by the time your father arrived, the family was already a little depressed. In order to revitalize the family, you entered the army and started following Orello's Civil War. At first, he was just a little bit of a centurion, but then he started showing his head, and he kept doing his work, and Orello was increasingly appreciating you and treating you like a heart.

“Yet you and I were in a bit of a similar situation, and while Olerio valued you very much, you were not the only young general he liked, and you actually had a lot of competitors, many of whom were better than you, but in the next two years, those younger generals who were better than you all died for a variety of reasons, and eventually you became the brightest of the generation, and Olerio became increasingly dependent on you.

“Although there are still many older people in the army who are older than you and more senior than you, they are all very old, basically from the Andonian era, and do not pose a threat to you, there is only one person who is really troublesome. ”

“Lucius," Lucilla thought of, suddenly changing her color, standing in front of her dresser, listening here but taking two steps backwards, some distance from Pompeia Nusra.

“Yes, Lucius, brother of Orellio, co-ruler of Rome.” Zhang Hengdao, “the first man in the military at the time, Hercules of War, and it was precisely when he was old and powerful, if not surprisingly, he should have been in charge of the army for a long time, and he, like Orello, was the emperor of Rome, and one day, you could never but succumb to it, so Lucius died, and on the way back from the front line, that unlucky guy was infected with the plague, and he couldn't even survive to Rome. ”

“You bastard killed my first husband?” Lucilla looked to Pompeanus, and at this moment she even forgot to fear and roar, "I could have continued to be queen in the palace, and after my father's death Lucius would have been the only emperor in Rome, and our child would have been the next ruler of the Roman Empire, not my stupid brother. ”

Pompeanus laughed and laughed. After that, he looked at Zhang Heng and finally said, “Enough, that's it. You don't know me at all. You said you don't understand why I sent an assassin to assassinate you. The reason is simple, because you're jealous. ”

“What?” Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised.

“Oh, of course not jealous of you from the civilian to the aristocrat, but also favored by Khanmoud… I don't give a shit, what I call jealousy is an instinctive reaction as a man and husband. ”

“You mistakenly think I'm your wife's lover?” Zhang Heng suddenly realized, “Not to mention whether I am your wife's lover, as far as I know, your wife has had many lovers before, you shouldn't worry about this kind of thing...”

“Do you know where they are now?” Pompeanus Yoyo, “to get her, I could kill even the Roman Emperor Lucius, not to mention the toys she had thrown away. ”

“But if you really care so much about this, why didn't you stop her at the beginning? ”

“Well, then you underestimate her. Lucilla was never the woman to be controlled by anyone, even her father did not have control of her. Otherwise, if it was just the happiness of greed and cheating, why did she make the whole city of Rome know that she was using this method to declare war on her father, who considered her a political chip marriage, to trample on the royal honor her father was proud of, she was like a flame, burning wildly, and she didn't care about igniting it, and that's why I couldn't save her love her. ”

Pompeanus laughed, “In my capacity, if you want to find a gentle woman to listen to, it's simple, whether she's a wife or a lover, but they don't have her charm, her wildness and greed, her beauty and perfection, her innate cruelty and ruthlessness, all intertwined together to make her up, there's nothing more perfect in the world than this, I fell in love with her from the first glance, I can't change her, I don't want to change her. ”