Planet Rebirth

() The news of the victory spread to every corner of the Julius family territory.People are running to tell each other.Drink and celebrate.In particular, Aretien, the traditional territory of the Julius family, celebrated for three days throughout the city, and held a grand hunting event outside the city.The fee was paid by the nobles of Julius for this victory of Caesar.

While the whole city was celebrating victory and everyone was smiling, only one person was in a bad mood.He is the 15-year-old Octavian, Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son.

In the morning, Octavian went to take a bath in the big public bathhouse in the city as usual.The public bathhouse was a place for Roman citizens to enjoy themselves. There were not only bathrooms, taverns, meeting rooms, libraries, and even a brothel.

The Romans loved bathing as much as they loved eating and drinking every day.At the same time, the bathhouse is also a place for communication.Officials plan policies here, and businessmen are here to close deals.In short, everyone who comes here can achieve their goals.Move their careers forward while showering.

The whole bathhouse is filled with the joy of victory, it seems that all the people who come here today have the same goal - to celebrate the victory.The officials stopped talking about politics, the merchants stopped their noisy transactions, and even the coquettish prostitutes were talking about the victory with the guests.It seems that this victory also has their share of credit.This made Octavian's mood extremely bad.

In fact, he has no sinister intentions, hoping that his adoptive father will be defeated.His loyalty to the family is beyond doubt.He was also pleased with his adoptive father's victory, but what made him unhappy was that in this civil war, he was young and energetic and wanted to lead the army, and asked his adoptive father to allow him to make meritorious service on the battlefield.But his father refused.I think he is still young and has no experience in leading troops.Will cede victory to the enemy.This reason caused Octavian's self-esteem to be hit.During the past year when his adoptive father was away, he has been unhappy at home.It wasn't until the news of the victory came that his inner loss became more apparent. More than once, he fantasized that he would lead an army to sweep across the entire Mediterranean Sea, beating the barbarians to throw up their armor and flee.After the victory, he was admired and recognized by the people, and he was recognized as a Roman general who was as brave and skilled as his adoptive father and cousin Anthony.

Quintas, the slave who was guarding the entrance of the bathhouse, saw his master Octavian coming out of the bathhouse with a gloomy face, and knew that the topic of the Southern Great Victory must be everywhere in the bathhouse, which made the young master unhappy, so He left the bathhouse so quickly, or the owner would stay here for a whole morning before going back satisfied.

"Master, why don't you wash it?" Quintas asked knowingly.

Octavian didn't speak, and took the reins of the horse handed over by Quintas with a straight face, turned on the horse, and left with a whip.Quintus and the two guards also jumped on their horses and followed.

After the heavy snowfall, the streets of Aretian are still bustling with people, and the stone-paved avenues are full of shops and various public facilities on both sides.People shuttle here for their own purposes.When several beggars saw Octavian riding a tall horse, they surrounded him and begged, hoping that the young aristocratic boy would give them a full meal in this cold day.

Octavian looked tiredly at the beggars who were dangling in front of his eyes and kept begging, and looked back at Quintas behind him without saying a word.Quintas immediately understood the master's intention, and immediately took out a few coins from the money bag and left them on the ground. The beggars immediately swarmed up, and at the same time made way for Octavian.

In a market on the side of the road, merchants from the north were displaying the Gallic slaves they had just brought over from Patavien on a large platform.

The slaves on the stage were also naked in the snow and chained like animals. Both men and women were disheveled and bowed their heads in silence.But the audience is a completely different scene, a large number of nobles and slave owners in the city are crowded with each other, making noise, stretching their snow-white arms, blushing and neck thickly bargaining with the merchants on the stage.The sound was louder and louder.

The businessman on the stage dragged a naked tall female slave from the slave pile, and while pulling her hair, shouted: "Pure-bred Gallic woman, look at this breast, look at this ass, and The best cows are the same, if you buy them back home, they will definitely give birth to the most capable little slaves!!! 3 gold coins, you can take them away!"

"I give 4!!"

"I give 5!!"

"I pay five and a half."

"I've got 6, don't argue with me, my family is short of such a Gaul woman who can be bred! Sell it to me!" a fat white man roared with smear.

"Deal! 6 gold coins, this cow is yours!" shouted the merchant

Everyone cheered!The one who brought the fat man onto the stage, stretched out his hand to take over the iron chain, and hurriedly touched the female slave to check.He also opened the woman's mouth and looked at the teeth.After that, he led his slave away contentedly.

Octavian stopped his horse and watched the scene quietly from behind the crowd.Looking at the slaves on the stage, he thought in his mind that if I were to fight this battle, I would definitely be able to go straight to the Gauls' lair, kill their leaders, and capture more slaves.Maybe there will be a heavy reward from the Senate.Let people all over the Republic know about him, Octavian?Julius' name, and put it in the history books.

"Let go of me! You dirty Roman fat pig!" A thin Gaul slave girl waved her arm, swearing at the merchant's hand in her hair, cursing in stiff Roman language.

"Haha, this Gallic woman is really hot." The crowd in the audience burst into laughter.

The businessman was not angry at the slave's resistance. Instead, with a raging smile on his face, he looked at the beautiful woman and said with a smile: "My little beauty, I won't be angry with you."

"Drag her up," the businessman ordered his men.

Two tall servants pulled the Gaul woman up, and one of them grabbed her hair, exposing her face.

"Look at this fierce Gaul woman. She is an extraordinary slave. She is not only beautiful, but the traitor of the barbarians told me that she is the daughter of the leader of the Gaul Patavien tribe. She is of noble birth. Buy it back and let you Have fun, and punish these Gauls in your own way."

"I give 10 gold coins"

"I'll offer 15!"

"I'll offer 20!"

"I offer 30." . . . . . .

The voices in the audience were louder and louder.These nobles and slave owners looked at this beautiful naked Gaul woman, with excitement and greed in their eyes.Can't wait to take possession of this woman.

"I'll give you 100 gold coins!"

Everyone followed the voice and looked back.There was a look of surprise on his face.

Octavian jumped off his horse and walked into the crowd with Quintas and the guards.Everyone consciously made way for him, and everyone in this city knew this man.The proud young man of the Julius family.Octavian strode onto the high platform, smiled and said to the merchant: "Dear Your Excellency, I will offer 100 gold coins to buy this Gaul woman as a gift to celebrate my adoptive mother's birthday!" (To be continued.)