Chapter 01

Olympic Chronicle: 168th (104 BC).

Roman Republic, Sicily Province, Agrigento, Greek Farm.

There is a two-story villa in the farm. The front yard occupies half of the building area. It is the slaves' residence, kitchen, reservoir, mill and warehouse. In the middle of the courtyard is the garden and colonnade. The colonnade surrounds the masters' bedrooms, dining room and study. The backyard is the masters' kitchen and family cemetery.

Sophia (Sophia is a Greek name, meaning wisdom) is sitting at a wooden table under the colonnade in the atrium. She is copying books at her desk. Her mother Cleo and her maid Sarah are weaving.

Topilos' family is just a medium-sized farm owner, with 980 acres of olive groves, 15 male slaves, 8 female slaves, 7 child slaves, 2 cows, 4 donkeys, 10 pigs, 80 sheep, and 200 chickens. Although they have a small amount of assets, it is not enough for the masters to completely get rid of labor.

【Among all rational creatures, we women are the most unfortunate. First of all, we have to spend a lot of money to buy a husband, and he will become our master; however, if we don’t buy a husband, it will be even more tragic. And the most important consequence depends on whether we get a good husband or a bad guy. 】Sophia copied this passage on papyrus. This is her favorite book "Medea".

Now she is copying books as a job to accumulate her dowry. Dowry is too important for a woman. It directly determines the quality of married life. Dowry is a woman’s private property. If the husband uses his wife’s dowry, he must return it when he divorces. In order to prevent bankruptcy due to returning the dowry during divorce, many husbands have to make some concessions to their wives.

And the words of the barbarian princess Medea, who said that marrying with a dowry was buying a husband with a dowry, made Sophia very appreciative. This is a wild woman. It is obvious that they are living together, but the woman has to spend a lot of money to buy the husband's kindness after marriage. Medea is right. It is really unfortunate to be a woman.

Sophia did not go to school like her brother. Her literacy was taught by her mother, which was the most precious gift her mother gave her. She has not learned rhetoric and cannot write beautiful and rhyming sentences in novels, but it does not prevent her from reading excellent works. If she has a daughter in the future, she will pass on this gift.

"You should know that betraying your father and brother will not end well after copying "Medea" so many times." The voice of her brother Kilian suddenly came from behind, which scared Sophia.

The book "Medea" tells the story of Medea, a princess of a barbaric country, who fell madly in love with Jason who came to her country to steal the Golden Fleece. In order to be with Jason, she helped Jason steal the Golden Fleece, and killed her brother who came to obstruct him and threw his body into the sea. In order to collect his son's body parts as soon as possible, Medea's father had to give up chasing Medea.

In order to be with Jason, she cut off all her retreats and betrayed her father and her country. After giving birth to two sons for Jason, Jason actually wanted to marry the princess of Corinth and expel them. Even if a woman gave birth to a child at the risk of her life and raised it with great difficulty, the child did not belong to the mother, but to the father's property. In order to avenge her husband, Medea killed the princess of Corinth and her husband's property - her son.

In this book, men see what will happen to women who resist their fathers and brothers, while women see the oppression of women by patriarchy and husband's power, so this book is loved by both men and women. Sophia likes Medea's courage to love and hate, but she is not Medea after all. She will get married in another month. Her fiancé is a 30-year-old olive oil merchant. She is quite satisfied with the upcoming marriage.

Except for the slave girl Senna, her father will not give her any additional dowry. Being able to write and calculate is her biggest dowry. In Sicily, where the literacy rate is less than 1/20, a wife who can write and count is the dream of businessmen. Although her fiancé's appearance is not satisfactory, she does not reject this marriage, because her husband's reliance will ensure that she will not be treated harshly. The Epicurean school teaches people to avoid pain before pursuing happiness. Although the fiancé is not the best choice, it is definitely not a bad choice.

Dowry is never too much. If Medea had a dowry, she would not have ended up in such a miserable and desperate situation. Senna is her mother's dowry-Sala's daughter for her father. Such a female slave who has been trained to serve the master is worth at least 500 silver coins. Sophia has accumulated an additional dowry of 73 silver coins by copying books.

Men believe that women are impulsive by nature and lack rationality and self-control. Just like Pandora, who was warned by Zeus not to open the magic box, but could not suppress her curiosity and released disaster from the magic box. They say that women are destined to be ruled by stronger, more rational men because of their impulse and sentimentality. Sophia doesn't like this, but it's hard to argue that she can earn much more by copying storybooks and selling them to women than by copying Cato's "Agriculture" and selling them to men.

There are two ways for a father to marry off his daughter.

One is called "CUM MANU", which is equivalent to the daughter becoming the property of her husband, and the father has no right to "control" her from then on.

The other is "SINE MANU", which means that the daughter still belongs to the father's property. For example, if the father wants his daughter to divorce, no matter how the husband tries to stop him, he is not qualified to continue the marriage. If the woman makes a mistake, the husband has no right to deal with her directly, and must leave it to her father to decide.

But considering that her father is old, Sophia doesn't want the ownership to fall into the hands of her brother after her father's death. She is worried that her brother will make a decision against her wishes after he takes power, so she would rather take a risk and give the guardianship to her future husband.

"You should go to inspect the estate instead of disturbing me to earn my own dowry," said Sophia.

"I want to check if you have drunk alcohol secretly." Killian hooked Sophia's chin and said.

According to Roman law: In order to prevent women from drinking alcohol secretly and then engaging in promiscuous, dissolute and wasteful behavior, adult men in the family have the right to kiss women in the family at any time to check if they have drunk alcohol secretly. In Sophia's opinion, it must be the old men in the Senate who coveted their daughters and daughters-in-law, so they issued this ridiculous decree that was implemented nationwide.

"Killian, don't bother your sister. She will soon be someone else's wife. If you need a kiss, come to me." The mother rescued Sophia.

Killian walked over, and the mother stood up from the loom, and was hugged by him and kissed.

"You are erect, child, you shouldn't do things at night during the day, go to inspect the manor, as your sister suggested." The mother pushed her brother away and said.

"I will do as you say, mother." Brother Killian poured a glass of wine, made a face at Sophia, and turned to walk out.

Slave girl Sarah gave birth to a boy and two girls for her father. Because the identity of the child follows the mother, her children are born slaves. The youngest son born by Sarah has died, and the eldest daughter was conceived by Killian and died of dystocia last year. There are a few slave girls in the front yard, but he doesn't like them. He likes Senna again.

Sophia and Senna are destined to share a husband and children, just like their mothers. They are in a symbiotic relationship. Senna can help Sophia stabilize her family and husband, and also enjoy a family that a slave girl can't match.

Sexual desire is a kind of pain that is difficult to suppress. According to the philosophy of the Epicurean school, appetite and sexual desire, which are innate desires of life, should be satisfied, because if they are not satisfied, the pain will continue to exist and even threaten survival. However, many people who indulged in lust used Epicurus' philosophy as a shield for their debauchery, thus ruining Epicurus' reputation.

After the death of his own maid, driven by desire, he wanted to snatch Senna to be his maid, which was also the fuse for the current conflict between the brother and sister. He snatched Senna just to satisfy his desire, and Sophia would be like losing an arm if she lost her.

In the end, it was the sacrifice of his mother and Sarah that calmed the increasingly fierce struggle between the brother and sister.

The pride of the Greeks: The Ptolemaic dynasty, which had ruled Egypt for 200 years, had long been engaged in intra-family marriages in order to maintain the purity of blood. Influenced by this trend, the Greeks are not very disgusted with incest now, and there are even many scholars who have written books to prove the many benefits of incest and intra-family marriages.

The Topilus family believes in the Epicurean school, a philosophy that pursues a happy life with good health and a peaceful soul. Emotion is the criterion for judging all good things, and happiness is the highest good, because happiness is the embodiment of happiness. The Epicurean school distinguished two kinds of happiness: one is the happiness of movement, that is, the happiness felt by the body; the other is the happiness of stillness, that is, spiritual happiness. Spiritual happiness is much nobler than physical happiness, and spiritual pain is worse than physical pain.

Sophia experienced spiritual happiness in the job of copying books. Who would not like stories? She can enjoy spiritual happiness and make money without going out. Even if she gets married in the future, she will continue to do this job. I hope my brother can also find spiritual happiness and not be like a goat in heat every day.

"Mistress, the chickens are ready." A female slave carried a basket into the door of the middle courtyard and came to Sophia. There were three plucked and washed chickens, a few eggs, a piece of cheese and a few snails.

"Okay." Sophia put down her pen, took the basket and walked to the backyard. Her maid Senna was baking bread and stewing soup.

Sophia mixed honey, olive oil, fish sauce, cumin and salt, then smeared them on the skin and belly of the chicken, and then pierced the chicken with a copper fork and put it into the stove to bake. She sprinkled the snails with seasoning and put them into the stove with their shells facing down to grill.

"Goddess Vesta, the family of Topilus offers you chickens and snails, asking for your blessing." Sophia said.

Whether it is the Greeks or the Latins, they all agree that the gods will enjoy the smoke that rises when grilling animal meat. The Epicurean school believes that everything in this world is made up of tiny invisible atoms, so there are no gods or ghosts. People's happy life must be pursued and realized by themselves, and cannot be placed on non-existent gods and ghosts.

But Sophia has neither seen gods and ghosts nor the so-called smallest particles: atoms, so she doubts whether there are gods. But offering Vesta, the goddess of the hearth, is just saying one more word when grilling, just in case it is useful.

"I want to check if you have eaten honey." Sophia said to the maid Senna. Senna squatted and put a few pieces of wood into the stove, raised her head and opened her mouth, and Sophia lowered her head and kissed her wetly.

After preparing dinner, let the food keep warm in the stove. The women began to shower and bathe. Dinner is the most important meal of the day, and people's enjoyment of life is reflected in dinner. So people are used to taking a bath after work and before dinner.

The four women took off their clothes and jumped into the pool in the front hall to take a bath.

The villa is generally a courtyard with two or three entrances, and the roofs on all four sides are tilted inward, which is called a patio. When it rains, rainwater flows along the roof into the pool in the center of the courtyard, and this water is used for living.

There are pools in the front yard where the slaves live and the middle yard where the masters live, but the masters take a bath in the pool in the front yard. That is, let the slaves drink the bath water.

"Watch your step when you walk. If you drop the oil jar, I will sell you to the Karas family." The mother scolded a slave who was carrying a long-necked amphorae and staring at them. The Karas family treated slaves very cruelly and often used them to threaten slaves who might make mistakes.

The Greeks generally regarded slaves as furniture that could walk or livestock that could talk. People two thousand and one hundred years later would not be ashamed of being naked in front of rice cookers, vacuum cleaners, electric bicycles or pets, and the masters at this time would not be ashamed of being naked in front of slaves. After washing and drying, they put on light clothes and waited in the cool under the colonnade in the middle courtyard.

After the father and brother came back and took a bath, everyone lay on the three sofa beds arranged in a triangular shape in the dining room. Bread, grapes, olives, roasted chicken, and roasted snails were all placed on the table in the middle of the three sofa beds.

The father sat on the sofa bed in the middle, the mother sat on the sofa bed on the right, and Sophia and the brother sat on the sofa bed on the left.

30 years ago, the slaves in Sicily province revolted, and most of the masters were killed by the slaves, making most of the land in Sicily ownerless. After the slave revolt, the new farm owners bought new slaves, but the treatment of the slaves did not improve. Instead, they were more strictly guarded. The masters sold the slaves who had a little resistance to the arena, and kept those who did not resist strongly and slowly exploited them.

Grandfather brought my father to Sicily and bought this piece of land at a low price. They bought slaves, cultivated the land, and settled down here.

The young and middle-aged slaves of the Topilus family are all the second generation of the slaves bought at that time, that is, house-born slaves. Born and raised in this family, seeing how the slaves next door were treated, as long as they could make a living, the house-born slaves had no intention of escaping. The slaves in their family were not shackled, which invisibly highlighted the cruelty of their neighbors, so they had a bad relationship with their neighbors and were often excluded.

Although the Epicurean school can guide people on how to live happily, it cannot guide how to make a fortune. The school believes that among the various means provided by wisdom to ensure lifelong happiness, the most important one is to gain friendship. In our limited living conditions, nothing can enhance our safety like friendship. Instead of using various means to strictly restrict slaves and live in fear of being harmed by slaves, it is better to treat slaves well so that they have no idea of ​​harming their masters, and even protect their masters in return.

Of course, this kind treatment is not without cost, which directly led to the inability of the Topilos family to accumulate a lot of wealth, and the wealth gap with their neighbors became larger and larger. Their 28 slaves had to eat the rations of 50 slaves from other families. This was not only the reason why their family was not rich, but also the reason why they did not need to use violence to drive slaves. As long as they threatened to sell the lazy people to their neighbors, they could scare them to death.

Because Agrigento is close to Africa and Egypt, my grandfather bought relatively cheap slaves from these two places when he started his business.

After my grandfather passed away, my father took charge of the family. Among the second generation of family slaves, Alcan was the strongest and most agile, so my father sent him to the gladiator school for combat training. In order for the guards to really protect the masters, the masters must maintain a certain emotional connection with the guards, which is why Alcan can dine with the masters.

Dinner is the most important enjoyment of everyone's day. People like to enjoy food, wine, laughter and love together on the sofa bed at dinner.

The men could drink as much as they wanted, but the women only got one cup each. Each person got one piece of bread, except Alkan, who had a big appetite, who got two.

Three roasted chickens were distributed to each sofa, and the brother first broke off a chicken leg and started eating. Senna skillfully tore the chicken into three parts, giving the best part to the brother, the chicken head, chicken neck, chicken feet, and chicken buttocks to herself, and the rest to Sofia. On the sofa bed of the mother, Alkan broke off a chicken leg for the mother, and he directly took the chicken body and started to eat it.

When the masters did not need to take care of it, Senna cut the bread with a knife, piled cheese, fish sauce, olive oil, and cabbage leaves on the bread, and then carefully picked the chicken skin and chicken meat and put them on the cabbage leaves. She liked this way of eating dishes with bread. Sofia picked up a piece of chicken breast and put it on her bread. She smiled at Sofia, sandwiched them with another piece of bread and stuffed them into her mouth to chew.

Sophia took a piece of chicken breast with skin, turned over and lay on the sofa bed to eat slowly. Dinner started at the 11th hour of the day (17:00) and went to bed at the 2nd hour of the night (20:00). There were 3 hours to enjoy.

Whether it was the rich people in Greece or Rome, they all liked to enjoy food, wine and sex together. The restaurant was a very suitable place, and the small, cramped and dark bedroom was used for sleeping.

As they ate, they threw the leftovers such as chicken bones, snail shells, fruit peels, and bread crumbs on the ground.

It was not that they were wasteful or untidy, but that everyone ate dinner like this, because there was almost no land without people who had died. If the dead souls crawled out of the ground at night and saw the leftovers on the ground, they would start eating and would not harm the living people living here. When I came to clean the restaurant the next day, the leftovers on the ground were much less than when they were thrown away last night, or even disappeared completely, which made people believe that the rumors were true.

People died too easily at this time. A rain, a cold wind, an unexpected fall, eating the wrong food, or being cursed could all take one more life. So no matter how careful you are about safety, it is not too much.

Everyone ate and drank, chatting about today's harvest on the farm. Life on the farm was slow and boring, and their buzzing conversations reached Sophia's ears. What tools need to be repaired, it would be best if it rained, blah blah. But suddenly a sentence aroused her interest. Her father said, "The son of the Calas family took the slaves of the allied countries in the community to Syracuse today."

Sophia turned over and sat up on the sofa bed, and began to listen carefully to her father.

【Rome went to war with Jugurtha in the south and Germanic in the north at the same time. Starting two wars at the same time exhausted Rome's manpower. When the Senate requested support from all over the country, the allied countries replied that in order to satisfy the extortion of Roman tax farmers, all the able-bodied men in their territories were sold as slaves. The Senate had no choice but to order the governors of each province to examine the slaves and their families, and all the slaves from the allied countries should be handed over. 】

The slaves of Topilus's family were all from Africa and Egypt, and they were all family slaves. But the neighbors have been expanding, often purchasing new slaves to replace the over-exploited slaves, and some of them were slaves from the allied countries.

It is said that these slaves can be free after completing their military service, but a decree took away the slaves that the slave owners bought with real money, which will inevitably cause their anger.

"Why don't they hand over the slaves directly to the mayor of our city, but send them all the way to Syracuse (now Syracuse)?" asked the mother, which was also Sophia's doubt.

"Carras asked the neighbors to pay a sum of money, and he took the money and a small number of slaves to Syracuse, hoping to gather other large estate owners to bribe the governor to cancel the implementation of this decree, or at least stop chasing the slaves that have not been handed over." said the father.

"Then the slaves who have not been handed in will be in trouble." Brother Kilian said with a smile.

Indeed, when one slave is freed, the other slaves who meet the conditions for release will inevitably be resentful. In order to prevent them from causing trouble, the master will inevitably respond in advance and suppress them. If they cannot be released, they will be in trouble.

There is nothing wrong with the masters discussing the liberation of slaves in front of Sarah, Senna and other slaves. Sarah and her mother, Senna and Sophia have a symbiotic relationship. Whether they are slaves or not makes little difference to them. As a slave who is treated well, Alkan lives no worse than ordinary civilians. After all, people are pursuing a realistic quality of life.

Rome is a society with a strong sense of hierarchy, and people must distinguish between superiors and inferiors. The Topilus family is not financially well-off, and is often ridiculed by neighbors. Whenever there are festivals and celebrations, my father always sits in the worst position on the edge. Now that he has the opportunity to see his neighbors in trouble, he can't help but gloat over their misfortunes.

"Haha, let's have some fun." After satisfying his appetite, his father announced that it was time to satisfy his sexual desires.

Sara walked from the sofa bed to the door and closed it. People believed that the gods were watching the world from heaven, so the arena and theater had no roof, because they were not only performing for people, but also for the gods. If you want to do something that the gods can't see, the door must be closed.

Of course, ordinary couples are not afraid of being seen by the gods, and they can even have sex in front of the statues to pray for conception. But the sexual intercourse that Topilo's family is about to have cannot be seen by the gods, because it is about to reverse the moral order: the master is willing to be conquered by the slave.

My mother is 35 years old this year, 15 years younger than my father. Old men and young wives are a common phenomenon at this time, because fathers don't want to have a poor son-in-law, and men with considerable financial resources are often not young. Men also like to marry their friends' daughters as wives, so that their relationship is closer. In fact, there are many couples with an age difference of more than 30 years. (Pompey was six years older than Caesar, but he was his son-in-law. Caesar's daughter Julia died in childbirth, announcing the breakdown of their father-in-law and son-in-law relationship and alliance. No one believed in an alliance without in-laws.)

A common problem of old men and young wives is that the husband is no longer able to do it when the wife is still lusting after him. Three years ago, my father's penis had become flaccid and it was difficult to complete sexual intercourse. But just like a person with all his teeth still has an appetite. My father still has sexual desire, but he needs stronger stimulation to make him erect.

My father gave my mother's mating rights to his son Kilian. While he was enjoying his son's rape of his mother, he asked Sala to give him a blowjob on his erect penis.

My mother was not happy at first, even though Kilian, who was born from her, looked very much in line with the Greek aesthetic. Although the Epicurean school advocated that couples should get along equally, it is obvious that the husband's happiness is higher than that of his wife. And the head of the family under patriarchy has the right to ask his wife to submit to his son.

As a result, the stigma of infidelity and debauchery was borne by the wife.

At first it was a rape. But just like the barbaric Rome conquered the civilized Greece, the mother was eventually conquered by her own son's strong body and huge penis, and later fell in love with her conqueror.

Sophia witnessed this conquest, and she knew that if it were her turn, she would also be conquered by her brother.

"Master, let me help you apply olive oil." The mother said to Killian, and when the door of the restaurant closed, the relationship began to reverse. The mother pulled Killian off the sofa bed, and she moved the two oil lamps to the ground so that everyone could see their bodies clearly. She poured some olive oil on her hands and smeared it from top to bottom.

Killian's skin was a healthy wheat color, still shining in the dark. After the oil was applied to his body, it reflected the firelight, and his body became three-dimensional. When the mother applied oil to his penis and scrotum, his penis stood up hard.

It's so big! Sophia thought.

As if she had the same idea as her, her mother took Killian's penis into her mouth and began to suck it.

"Woo~ Woo~ Woo~, ah~", the mother seemed to be eating some delicious food, sucking it very hard and moaning.

Is it so delicious? Sophia was a little skeptical, but her mother's expression didn't seem fake. She thought: I must taste my husband's penis after marriage.

"Ah~" The mother spit out the penis and began to lick Killian's scrotum. His penis was against the mother's face, long and big.

After oral sex for a while, Killian took off the mother's dress, tied her hands behind her back with her belt, pushed her onto the sofa bed, inserted his penis into her vagina from behind, grabbed her shoulders, and began to mate. The restaurant was filled with the sound of slapping.

The moral code of mother-son sexual intercourse is that the older mother must play the role of conqueror. Mother-son intercourse should be done with the woman on top, with the mother leading the intercourse, and the mother should not give her son oral sex. Sophia thought this was too difficult. The physical difference between men and women was so great that women were obviously in the role of being conquered, so they could enjoy the pleasure of sex better.

"Pa ~" Killian slapped his mother's butt hard. Obviously, their intercourse had completely broken through the moral standards.

Sophia was aroused by this intense intercourse.

"Cleo, your vagina feels so good, I love you." Killian began to call his mother's name directly. Obviously, lust made him bolder.

"I love you too, Killian, kiss me." His mother responded.

Killian pulled out his penis, and his mother stood up, with her arms tied by a belt behind his neck, and kissed him. While kissing, he lifted her left leg and rubbed his penis on her labia.

"Ah~, who can help us, help us complete the union of love." The mother asked for help uncomfortably.

The father, who was enjoying Sala's blowjob, stood up, walked behind the mother, and helped Killian's penis into her vagina.

"May Aphrodite (Venus) grant us pleasure." The father said.

"Thank you, my father, thank you for giving me my mother. I will always respect you."

The fierce slapping sound rang again, Killian and his mother kissed fiercely above, and had fierce intercourse below, repeatedly trying to integrate themselves into each other's body. And the father stood by and watched, and Sala squatted and gave him a blowjob again.

After a fierce sprint for a while, Killian roared: "Mother, ah~, I'm going to ejaculate."

"Ejaculate on the grapes." The mother said.

Sala got up and brought the grapes on the table. When Killian took out his penis, he grabbed his penis and let the semen spray on the grapes.

After Killian ejaculated, he seemed to have lost all his strength, and he fell on the bed with his mother to rest.

Hippocrates said that semen contains the power of life, and it is the rapid friction and heating during sexual intercourse that turns blood into foam. The fact that the strong Killian collapsed on the bed powerlessly after ejaculation proves that this is true. Therefore, the semen of the strong is sought after, while the semen of the weak is discarded.

The mother put the grapes with the most semen into her mouth and ate them. Sofia also got off the sofa bed and went to eat the grapes with semen. Semen tasted strange, but it was not unpalatable when eaten with food.

Sala was licking Killian's penis and sucking out the remaining semen.

Killian, who recovered his strength in just a short while, was still not satisfied. He got off the sofa bed and walked out.

Sophia knew he was going to the front yard, to the slaves' room. There was a female slave who had just come of age and was paired with another young male slave. Somehow, this aroused Killian's interest, and he often went to the room of the young couple to enjoy them recently.

"Bring a piece of bread and a pot of wine, brother." Sophia said.

The slaves could not refuse the master's sexual demands, and the young lovers had no choice but to welcome Killian's insertion. It was a respected behavior for the master to conquer the slaves with masculinity. The living conditions of the slaves depended entirely on the relationship with the master, so the slaves had a positive desire to establish an emotional connection with the master, which would enhance their sense of security (this psychology was called Stockholm syndrome two thousand years later).

Just a small handout after sexual exploitation, or giving them some small privileges, can gain their love and loyalty. And even this needs others to remind him, Sophia is worried about how Killian can be a good head of the family in the future.

Killian took the bread and wine and went out to continue to have fun.

"Let's go back to the bedroom." Sophia said to the maid Senna. Senna took an oil lamp and left with her.

"Take out the snake." After returning to the room, Sophia asked Senna to take the snake, and she began to take off her dress.

Senna took out a white house snake from the cage, handed it to Sophia, and began to take off her dress.

Sophia waited for Senna to take off her clothes, then hugged her neck and kissed her.

The snake passed through the crotch of the two women, Senna held the snake head, and Sophia grabbed the snake tail, and the snake pulled back and forth between the crotch of the two virgins.

The snake's scales rubbed against the labia and clitoris, which was extremely comfortable. Sophia and Senna kissed fiercely.

"Mmm~ Mmm~" The snake's scales scratched back and forth across the two wet vulvas, making a sawing sound.

The two virgins kissed wetly and slowly climbed to the climax.

After calming down their desire, the two women lay together. Sophia said, "I wonder if our husband has any slaves from the allied countries."

"Well, it seems that there are none. The three slaves who came out with him all have African ancestry. I hope there are none at home, otherwise it will cost a lot of money." Senna recalled. Although she was a dowry slave, she was actually the second mistress of the family because of her blood relationship with the mistress. Of course, she was also very concerned about the family property.

Living in a family that believes in Epicurus is undoubtedly happy for women, although not rich. Sophia begged her father to find her a husband who also believes in Epicurus. Her father agreed, but this undoubtedly greatly narrowed the range of choices, so that she was considered to be married late. Unexpectedly, the oil merchant who often came to buy olive oil was.

The current fiancé is not as tall and good-looking as she wants, but she prefers to marry a short merchant from the Epicurean school to other handsome and slick suitors, especially since he promised to swear at the wedding that he would never be violent to her under any circumstances.

The oil merchant Marcus often travels to the countryside to buy olive oil. Once he stayed at her house because it was raining. Through chatting, she found out that he was also an Epicurean believer. Because of his appearance, Sofia didn't have any idea about him at first, but Marcus obviously liked her and often came to give her books to please her. Sofia really couldn't resist such a gift. After many interactions, she gradually discovered the shining points under his mediocre appearance.

"I don't know how little Marcus is doing." Sofia said.

"Well, I hope he is healthy." Senna said.

Marcus is 14 years older than Sofia. His ex-wife died of postpartum hemorrhage. His son is now 5 years old. After Sofia married him, she had a stepson. His late wife died in childbirth, and Senna's sister died of dystocia, all of which were tragedies caused by giving birth at a young age.

A lot of bad reputations of women are caused by childbirth. Imagine a young wife whose body has not fully grown up, pregnant with her husband's child, she went to various goddess temples to pray for blessings, and the priests warned her how to be careful to avoid it. How can she keep a normal mind when she returns home?

She will definitely treat the days before childbirth as her last days, and all kinds of emotions will no longer be suppressed. The husband did not dare to punish his wife during pregnancy, so a lot of scandals were caused, which gave the woman an excuse for being impulsive and irrational.

Because there was already an heir, Marcus was not in a hurry to have another child. He promised Sophia that she could have a child a few years later. Having a young stepson is definitely a good thing for a young bride like Sophia. It can relieve the pressure of childbirth and also make her dependent on the stepson.

On the other hand, the stepson will become her guardian after her husband dies. And when the stepson enters puberty, unless the stepmother is ugly or has a bad temper and is incompatible with the stepson. Otherwise, the husband usually asks his wife to make her stepson a man on the day the child becomes an adult. Because people believe that the first time a boy becomes a man is very important, and he must be led by a woman who treats him gently and has experience to enjoy the gift of Aphrodite (Venus) for the first time.

This is still civilized. In many areas, the coming-of-age ceremony of boys uses female goats, while the Egyptians use female crocodiles from the Nile. People in these areas usually believe that animals can enhance boys' sexual ability and make their penises stronger.

If nothing unexpected happens, when Marcus grows old, Sophia's lover will be little Marcus. The husband usually does not prevent his wife from committing adultery with her stepson, because even if she conceives and gives birth to a child, it is still his blood.

【This period is also not suitable for wedding torches. Whether it is a widow or a virgin, no one's marriage will last long. For the same reason, if you are interested in proverbs, you will hear people say that bad women marry in May. - Ovid]

May is the most unlucky month of the year because it is the day of the dead, Lemuria, on May 9, 11, and 13.

Because of the superstition that even numbers bring bad luck, it seemed to the Romans that it was not a good idea to risk adding bad luck to an already gloomy festival, so the two even days in the middle, the 10th and 12th, were left empty. These days are the special time for the dead to spy on the living, and the dead will come to the world of the living and wander around at will.

So the whole month of May is not suitable for marriage, which is why Sophia's wedding was scheduled in late June.

Today, May 1st, is the market day every 9 days, and it is also the day of sacrifice to the goddess of kindness.

For safety, the neighbors gathered together to go to the market. The one walking in front was the Karas family, who was the chief of the Curia (equivalent to the director of the community).

Because the Topilos family had the least property, they were at the end of the team. The dust raised by the carriage in front forced them to cover their mouths and noses with headscarves. In addition to the mother and daughter who rode the donkey cart, there was also the brother Kilian who rode the donkey alone, and several black slaves who walked.

The donkey cart had no anti-bumping device, and a lot of straw was laid on the board to prevent the two-ear long-necked bottle containing olive oil from breaking. Sophia and her mother held the two-ear bottle on the donkey cart to prevent the bottles from hitting each other when it was bumpy and shaking.

The bearings of the donkey cart rubbed and made a creaking sound, which was annoying. Only on the difficult uphill road would they stop and put a little grease in the bearings. In short, sitting on the donkey cart is not easier than walking.

After leaving the bumpy country road, we drove onto the Valeria Road that circles Sicily, and the journey became easier. After driving westward for 1 Roman mile (1.5km) on the Valeria Road, the Temple of the Goddess of Goodness gradually came into view.

The Goddess of Goodness (Bona Dea) is an ancient Latin goddess, the patron saint of married women, and is responsible for fertility, many children, recovery and other rights and responsibilities related to women. Because it was built after the Roman colonization of Sicily, the temple was built outside the city.

Today is a sacrificial day, but no one in the Topilos family can enter the temple to participate in the sacrifice, because only chaste women who have only been married once can enter the temple. Since the father's physical function declined and the mother became a lover with her son, she also lost the qualification to enter the temple. Any unchaste woman who enters the temple is tantamount to an offense to the goddess and will be cursed terribly.

The Epicurean school believes that everything in the world is composed of tiny atoms, and there are neither gods nor ghosts. But Epicurus was not a renunciationist. To live harmoniously in the world, people need to respect the customs and traditions of others. Even if you don't believe that there are gods in the world, you can't offend the gods respected by others. It's impossible to not know how to respect others but desire to be respected by others.

Sophia and her mother sat on a donkey cart full of amphorae, slowly passing by the temple, watching the lively scene in front of the temple of the goddess of kindness.

The sacrificial ceremony was presided over by the highest-ranking woman in the local area. A noble woman wearing a white stola and all kinds of precious jewelry was surrounded by a group of women with various pets. She should be the wife of the mayor. The nobles all need to engage in lady diplomacy. The loyal wives of officials are rarer than virgins in brothels. The mayor's wife was probably forcing a smile and pretending to be calm, but she was already scared.

The festival of the goddess of kindness lasts all day. In the morning, they have to slaughter a sow, offer the sow's internal organs on the altar, and then start to roast the sow meat. Sacrifice is to invite the gods to attend the banquet prepared for them. Both Greeks and Latins agree that the gods will enjoy the smoke rising to the sky when the meat of animals is roasted.

Participating in the sacrifice is to participate in the banquet of the gods, eating the roast meat on the sacrifice is to share food with the gods, and singing and dancing is to entertain the gods.

In the afternoon, women will drink and eat meat in the temple, and take turns to sing and dance to the goddess. I heard from my mother who participated in the sacrifice that at night, women will have sex with their pets in the temple. It is said that this is the only indecent hobby of the kind goddess.

Sophia saw that the wife of the Curia governor Karas was also there. She was leading a beautiful male donkey, which was her mount, and sometimes she was its mount. Sophia could not imagine that the donkey's penis was twice as thick and long as Arkan's penis. How could a woman bear such a big penis? She had heard that a woman's uterus was broken by the donkey's penis and she died of bleeding.

The Greeks ranked women's chastity: the most chaste women only mated with their husbands; the second-best women also mated with pets (would not give birth to children other than their husbands); the third-best women also mated with stepchildren (would not give birth to children other than their family blood); the third-best women also mated with their own slaves (would not spend family property on outsiders); the worst women committed adultery with outsiders (would not only give birth to children other than their family blood, but also might lose family property to outsiders).

The goddess of goodness refused to be worshipped by men and prohibited men from knowing the contents of the rituals in the temple. Anyone who did not meet the requirements would be punished by blindness even if they only glimpsed these rituals. Women who told men about the contents of the rituals would have their throats rotten, and men who heard the contents of the rituals would have pus in their ears.

When the temple of the goddess of goodness gradually disappeared from sight, the city of Agrigento also arrived. After paying the copper coins to enter the city and turning two corners, the donkey cart finally arrived at its destination, the market of Agrigento.

The market was an open space in front of a tall basilica (large colonnade). After paying the market transaction tax, the donkey cart stopped at the empty space.

The slaves in the village took out the scales, put two large bowls on them, adjusted the scales to balance, and started doing business. The price of oil was 1/2 of a copper coin. Put the copper coin into the bowl on one side of the scale, and pour the same weight of olive oil into the bowl on the other side twice to complete the transaction, which was very fair. Retailing makes a lot more money than wholesale of whole bottles. Citizens who know how to live in the city are also willing to bring their own containers to buy oil on market days, eliminating the middlemen who make a profit.

Leave the business to the two slaves. The mother and daughter decided to go to the Valley of the Temples (Valle dei Templi) for fun.

Every market day is a good day for citizens and merchants, and it is also a good day for ruffians, gangsters, and thieves to take advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

Killian decided to accompany his mother and sister on this trip instead of going out alone to have fun. He held the purse in one hand and the whip in the other (the Twelve Tables prohibited carrying weapons in public, so swords were not allowed in the city), guarding the mother and daughter behind him, and staring at the crowd nearby vigilantly.

They first arrived at Marcus's door. Because Sofia and her fiancé could no longer meet after the engagement, he said to Alkan: "Go pick up little Marcus to play."

"Mother!" A moment later, little Marcus ran out and ran towards Sofia with open arms. Little Marcus, who had been without a mother since birth, became very dependent on Sofia after learning that she was about to become his stepmother, and called her mother in advance. Sofia was also very willing to establish an emotional bond with him. The age difference between her and her husband and stepson determined that the first half of her marriage belonged to her husband, and the second half belonged to her stepson.

"Madam, I wish you good health." Marcus's housekeeper also came out to greet Sofia. He dared not neglect Sofia who was about to take over the household affairs.

"Thank you for my health. I will take little Marcus to the Temple Valley for fun and will send him back in the afternoon." Sofia said.

"Yes."

Sophia picked up little Marcus, kissed his pink face, and asked, "Did you miss me?"

"Yes, mother." Little Marcus nodded in response.

"Shall we go to the Temple Valley for fun?" Sofia asked him.

"Okay."

They walked towards the Temple Valley. When passing by the Temple of Aphrodite (Venus), Sofia saw two young noble girls resting on the roadside. They were wearing colorful clothes, and there were two maids, two fully armed guards and four sedan bearers beside them. It was obvious that they were of very noble origin.

"Beautiful and noble girl, would you like to buy my copy of Medea? It's only 7 silver coins." Sophia stepped forward to sell. Usually she sold it for 5 silver coins, but these two looked very noble and it would be an insult to sell it too cheaply.

"Show it to me." said the girl holding the lyre. The maid next to her took the papyrus book from Sophia and turned the pages to show her.

"The handwriting is quite neat." said another girl holding a drawing board and a brush.

The girl holding the lyre nodded, and her maid took out 1 gold coin and 3 silver coins from her purse and gave them to Sophia.

"I wish you good health." Sophia took the money and said goodbye. Earning 2 more silver coins made Sophia very happy, and she sent her heartfelt blessings to the distinguished guests.

The exchange rate of gold coins for silver coins and copper coins is 1:4. However, because people dislike even numbers, they avoid even numbers when bidding or bargaining. Four silver coins should be said to be one gold coin.

"Mother, you've made money." Little Marcus said happily.

"Yes, I'll give you something delicious to eat later, okay?"

"Okay."

They didn't enter the Temple of Love. Most of the women who went to the Temple of Love to pray were women who were not in a good relationship, just like cracked eggs. There was a group of unemployed hooligans who entangled such women like flies.

Before entering the Temple of Hera, Sophia broke two flowers on the roadside and wove a wreath. Hera was the wife of Zeus and the patron saint of marriage and wife. Inside the temple, the stone statue of Hera was tall and majestic, and Sophia was only slightly taller than the ankle of the stone statue.

Putting the wreath on the altar, Sophia and her mother each prayed for their own marriage. Although worshiping gods violated the atomic theory of the Epicurean school, they still worshiped with the mentality that it didn't cost anything anyway, just in case it was useful.

After praying, they looked up and walked around to admire the murals on the surrounding walls. There is a mural in which Hera disliked her newborn son for being too ugly, so she threw the god of fire Vulcan off Mount Olympus, causing him to break his leg. In order to punish her, Zeus hung her up and whipped her in front of the gods. It can be seen that even a mistress as powerful as Hera had to submit to her husband at home.

The mother went to the priest of the Temple of Hera to ask about the treatment of hemorrhoids. The father's hemorrhoids had been flaring up badly in the past few days, and his buttocks were always bloody. The priest of the temple recommended a doctor to them. The priest often acted as the spokesperson of the gods, giving advice and guidance to the problems encountered by believers, and actually had a greater influence on the people than the government.

After leaving the Temple of Hera, they saw a stall selling cosmetics, and the mother stopped to choose.

"Madam, this is the love potion prepared by the Egyptian witch. You just need to mix it in your husband's wine, so that he will be devoted to you forever." The stall owner was a middle-aged Latin woman. Seeing my mother's age, she began to sell the magic potion that women of this age might need.

My mother is 37 years old this year. Most women of this age have fallen out of favor. My mother stood up and walked away in the surprised eyes of the stall owner. Any woman with a little wisdom will not put something of unknown composition into her husband's stomach. When you think there is something suspicious on the stall, don't believe in other things.

After entering the Temple of Athena and playing for a while, go to the Temple of Zeus.

In front of the Temple of Zeus, there is a group of masters wearing gorgeous togas, they are talking happily.

Sophia and the others walked up to see that a press officer was repeatedly reading the latest news and decrees.

"The Governor has issued the latest decree to stop handing over slaves to the Confederate States and return the slaves that have been handed over." The press officer read aloud.

No wonder these people were so excited and cheering, it turned out that they would no longer hand over slaves to the Confederate States.

The mother and daughter urinated in the bushes, and it was already the seventh hour of the day (14:00) when they went down the mountain.

They entered a street. There was a two-ear long-necked bottle at the entrance of the street. Under the gaze of the mother and daughter, Killian untied his loincloth and urinated in the bottle. There are such tall bottles and jars for collecting urine on every street, which are used by various workshops to collect urine. Urine is an important industrial raw material with a wide range of uses. This way of collecting urine allows the workshop to obtain the necessary raw materials, and the neighbors can make the streets less smelly, and everyone benefits.

Thirsty and tired, the mother and daughter entered a restaurant on the street to rest. The mother bought three bowls of thin batter, which can quench thirst and fill the stomach a little.

"Mother, I want to eat sapa (lead sugar, a sweetener made by boiling grapes in a lead pot)." Little Marcus said.

"Cook, give me some sapa." Sophia said to the owner. (At this time, people are used to calling each other by their professions. Only those who are familiar with each other call each other by their surnames. Names are only mentioned when distinguishing people with the same surname.)

Sophia drank half a bowl of batter, poured sapa into the remaining batter, and gave it to little Marcus.

After resting for about 1/3 hour, they walked out of the restaurant. Passing by a weapons and equipment store.

"Killian, try this." The mother picked up a copper arm guard for Killian to try. The copper arm guard was lined with sheepskin and the workmanship was not bad. It must have cost a lot of money. The mother put it on Killian and tied it with a linen rope.

"Does it fit?" the mother asked.

"It fits." Killian replied with a smile, and joy was reflected on his face.

"How many silver coins?" the mother asked the stall owner.

"39 silver coins," the stall owner said. (At that time, a soldier's monthly salary was about 30 coins)

"19."

"Mercury (the god of trade and fraud), we can't do business that loses money." The shop owner said.

"Judge Petalida, judge Petalida." Sophia heard someone shouting. The crowd quickly moved towards the Basilica.

"Take it off, Kilian, we can't afford it." The mother took off the arm guard and gave it back to the shop owner. They followed the crowd to the Basilica.

Sophia had heard of Petalida, she was the most beautiful slave girl in the area.

There was a pair of good friends who jointly bought this slave girl of Gaul descent in the south of the mountains for an astonishing price of 500 gold coins last year. This slave girl had hair like fire, eyes like the blue sea, a beautiful face, and could sing and dance well. They agreed to take turns enjoying the slave girl. Since the shops they run are located on the east and west sides of the road, this beautiful slave girl favored by two masters is like a happy butterfly flying back and forth between two flowers, so people call her Petalida (the Greek name means butterfly).

"Why is Petalida on trial?" Sophia was puzzled.

"You will know after going to see it." said her mother.

It is not far from her fiancé's house. Sophia first sent little Marcus home and then went to the Basilica.

Following the crowd, she came to a corner of the Basilica. Sophia saw a Roman judge sitting on a chair on a step as high as a person, and a man standing behind him, who should be his retainer or slave. A beautiful slave girl stood in the middle, and two men stood on both sides. It should be Petalida and her two masters.

The crowd gradually surrounded them in three layers, and Killian stuffed the purse into his clothes on his chest and hugged the mother and daughter. This kind of occasion is a good opportunity for thieves and perverts to commit crimes, and it is also a good opportunity for him to hold Sophia in his arms in the name of protection.

"The debate begins, the plaintiff speaks first." The judge saw that the crowd had almost arrived and announced the start of the debate.

"As everyone knows, my client and the defendant bought this slave girl together. They took turns using this slave girl. In order not to affect the use, they agreed not to make this slave girl pregnant, in case she became pregnant and could not be used, or died of dystocia and caused huge losses. Now the slave girl is pregnant, the defendant violated the agreement, and my client asks the court to award the ownership of the woman to him."

"The defendant speaks." The judge said.

"The plaintiff's words are like the thief crying thief. Everyone knows that my client is a businessman with excellent reputation. He has never violated the contract before and will not do so in the future. It was the plaintiff who violated the agreement, which caused the slave girl to become pregnant. Please ask the court to award the slave girl to my client."

"You lied."

"You are lying."

"I will fight..."

On the steps, the two parties started to wrestle. The two lawyers were also jealous of each other and started to fight together.

"Well done, well done." Fighting in court is the norm, and the masses also like to watch fights, and some people cheered.

The judge's attendant came up and started to separate the fight.

"..." The judge stroked his beard and listened to the guests whispering beside him.

"Let the slave girl speak." Someone in the crowd shouted.

"Yes, yes, let the slave girl speak." Immediately, the audience echoed, and the voices were mostly female.

Sophia knew this was unrealistic. According to Roman law, slaves could lie under the instruction, coercion or dishonesty of their masters, so the slaves' words were not credible unless severe punishment was imposed. Otherwise, no matter who the slave girl identified, the judge would not accept it.

"Quiet, quiet." The judge stood up and shouted.

"Quiet, listen to the judge." There were shouts in the crowd, and everyone quieted down.

"The plaintiff is Latin, and the defendant is Greek. Your hair and eye colors are different. My mediation opinion is: when this slave girl gives birth to a child, whoever the child looks like will be the one who breaches the contract. The child belongs to his biological father, and the slave girl belongs to another person. Do you agree to the mediation?" The judge stood up and said.

"Reasonable, reasonable." The crowd shouted.

The judge smiled and waved to the people who cheered for him, looking very proud.

"Oh~, I don't accept it!" The plaintiff was not good at fighting, and his hands were covered with blood while covering his nose. He looked very angry.

The judge's smile faded. He was dissatisfied with the plaintiff's lack of face and sat back in his chair.

"My client cannot accept sharing the slave girl with a dishonest villain. Please judge and award the slave girl to the plaintiff." The plaintiff's lawyer stood up and said.

"You pointed out each other. Who violated the contract? Only the slave girl can point out. But you should know that according to the law, the words of slaves will only be accepted by the court after being severely punished. Are you sure you want to do this?" The judge said to the plaintiff.

"No, master, I beg for your mercy. Don't hurt me, don't hurt your children." The slave girl knelt down and hugged the plaintiff's legs to beg for mercy. Her beautiful face was now only panic.

"Oh~~" The crowd burst into violent contempt.

"You are talking nonsense." The plaintiff pushed the slave girl away in anger.

"Master, save me." The slave girl went to hug the defendant's legs for help again.

The defendant and his lawyer talked together for a while, and the lawyer said to the judge: "Please allow the slave girl to give birth to the child before making a judgment, and do not punish the slave girl."

"If you don't want her to be punished, you should give up on her. You keep saying that you love her, but you want her to suffer such physical pain. Such hypocritical behavior shows that you are guilty." The plaintiff's lawyer said to the defendant.

"Listen, everyone, how ridiculous this is! The slave girl has already pointed out that it was the plaintiff who made her pregnant, and he even shamelessly asked my client to give up the slave girl. This is a reversal of right and wrong, and the thief cries "Catch the thief". We cannot accept such slander." The defendant's lawyer shouted to the crowd, changed his position just now, and said to the judge: "Please give the slave girl to my client."

"Do you two want to make a judgment now?" the judge asked.

"Yes, I want to break up with him." The plaintiff and the defendant answered together.

"Stupid! Punishing the slave girl." The judge said angrily.

"No, no." The slave girl struggled, but how could she struggle against two strong soldiers.

Her clothes were stripped by the soldiers, and under the sunlight, her body was as bright and clean as white marble. Her lower abdomen was slightly bulging, and she was indeed pregnant. Her pubic hair was also fiery red, what a beautiful body.

Sophia's butt felt that Killian began to erect, and then one hand kneaded her butt, and her butt to her head was numb. The body of the mother beside her was also shocked, and he pinched the butts of two blood relatives at the same time.

"No, no, I beg you to be merciful, I beg you to be merciful." The slave girl struggled and screamed. The double love she originally enjoyed was now like two pulling ropes, strangling her to suffocation.

Two soldiers tied her hands to the pillars on both sides with ropes. The slave girl faced the crowd in a big letter shape, and the soldier was ready with a whip behind her.

"Snap~" A whip hit the slave girl's back. The slave girl's body was stiff, her lips were raised, her teeth were clenched, and saliva spurted out from between her teeth.

"Pa pa pa pa~" Before the slave girl could recover, the whip came again. She clenched her teeth and roared like a beast, her face flushed and ferocious. She twisted her body and tried to dodge, but there was no way to dodge.

Just by looking, Sophia could feel how the whip took away the slave girl's vitality. What was wrong with this slave girl? She had to be punished like this during her pregnancy. Anger burned in her heart. She pinched Killian's waist hard, venting her anger on him, causing him to withdraw his hand that was touching her buttocks in pain.

After the execution, the slave girl's body softened and was hung by the rope on her arm.

"Oh, she miscarried." The women screamed.

Pink liquid flowed out of her crotch, and the slave girl miscarried. She fell to the ground after the soldiers untied the rope.

"Slave girl, you can tell me now, who made you pregnant?" the judge asked.

Originally, Sophia hoped that the slave girl would be sentenced to the defendant who had a little bit of protection for her, but when the defendant also agreed to torture the slave girl and used the slave girl as a tool for both parties to decide the winner, it made no difference to a woman who was sentenced to whom.

The slave girl trembled and did not speak, but scooped a handful of blood from her crotch with her hands. She turned her head and looked at the two masters, her expression was so angry and resolute.

"Slave girl, who made you pregnant?" the judge asked again.

The slave girl still did not speak, but used her fingers to dip in blood and painted on her face and body.

"She wants to curse!" The experienced woman noticed it immediately.

"Stop her!" The plaintiff rushed up to pull the slave girl, but was stopped by the soldier. Obviously, the soldier had his own ideas at this moment. The most powerful curse is blood sacrifice, and the slave girl cursed her biological father with the blood of her child...

"%@$#*&%" The slave girl chanted the spell loudly in her own native language, and then she stood up and ran quickly. Just when everyone thought she was going to escape, she slammed into a pillar hard.

"Ah~" The crowd burst into exclamations.

The judge's retainer walked up to check the slave girl's injuries.

"She's going to die." The retainer said.

The judge stood up, walked to the slave girl to check, and said to the slave girl: "I sentence you to freedom, Petalida."

Petalida's hand raised to the sky slowly fell down, and she died. The curse completed by sacrificing two lives will be a legend. People will always pay attention to the development of this curse, and before the curse is completed, Petalida's soul will linger.

"I sentence Petalida to freedom. The plaintiff and the defendant shall jointly hold a funeral for her. When she is cremated, she must have gold coins in her mouth." The judge announced loudly and left with an ugly face.

The crowd began to throw rotten apples and even animal feces picked up from the ground at the plaintiff and the defendant. The court will not sentence her two masters, but the masses have their own way of sentencing. Their houses will be filled with feces. No one will patronize their business. No one dares to do business with people who are cursed by such a blood sacrifice, for fear of being contaminated by bad luck.

Some women wearing woven wreaths on their heads took off their wreaths and placed them on Petalida.

The culture of the Romans was deeply influenced by the Greeks, but they also had some advantages over the Greeks. A considerable number of Romans believed that people should not die as slaves, so they would declare their slaves free before they died. If the slaves said bad things about them in the underworld, they might be punished when they entered the underworld after death.

Sophia was in a heavy mood. This was a tragedy she witnessed with her own eyes. At the same time, she didn't understand why a Gaul woman should be wild, so she chose to sacrifice her life to curse, hoping that the gods and magic would avenge her, instead of killing her enemies with her own hands? After all, not every woman can become Medea.

At this moment, Sophia hoped that the curse and magic of this Gaul slave girl could effectively complete the task.

The mother and daughter were in no mood to continue playing, and began to purchase necessities of life.

They entered the spice shop. There were spices from all over the country, and the smell was very strong. The mother began to buy salt. The price of pepper, which was widely loved by people, was as heavy as gold. Sophia could only get a handful of pepper for copying a book, which was a spice that her family could not afford. They bought nothing except salt and cheap seasonings such as cumin.

Sophia bought paper and ink at the papyrus shop. The mother bought farm tools and ironware, and they returned to the donkey cart. The mother began to count the copper coins harvested from the sale of olive oil.

"This mistress." A young man in the weapon shop came over with a copper arm guard and greeted my mother.

"My master said he can sell it to you for 27 silver coins." The young man said. The shop does not accept bargaining, and it is normal to let the slaves chase out to trade. There are unions in all walks of life, and the guilds do not allow the shop to sell at a lower price.

"23 pieces." said the mother.

"25 pieces." said the young man.

"Just 23 pieces, if you don't want to sell it, you can go back." said the mother.

"Okay, 23 pieces, you are really a smart mistress."

The deal was done, and Killian got the arm guard. The corners of his mouth rose, he smiled, and hugged his mother and kissed passionately. Kissing her son in public in broad daylight was really inappropriate, so she pushed him away.

Sophia couldn't help but feel jealous. She earned 4 silver coins by copying a book, but her brother Kilian easily received a gift of 23 silver coins. Fortunately, her brother was not an outsider. There are two sins for a woman to cheat: one is to get pregnant with someone else's child, and the other is to spend her husband's money on others.

Although I know that it is wrong to think so, both my brother and the arm guard are my family's property after all, and they are not given away. But seeing my brother get what he wants so easily is still very enviable.

Whenever someone passes by, Kilian raises his hand across his chest, for fear that others will not notice his copper arm guard.

The sun is setting, and the team is ready to leave the city and go home. The leader of the community, the housekeeper of the Karas family, came to each donkey cart to check the purchased supplies.

Every family has its own rules, and the community has its own rules. Everyone cannot buy goods produced by neighbors in the community, just like neighbors in the community cannot buy olive oil from others, and the Topilos family cannot buy wheat, fruits and vegetables, meat, cloth and other goods produced and operated by neighbors from outsiders. Those who violate the rules of the community will not be able to move forward.

A long queue of donkey carts drove out of Agrigento. According to the wealth, they were still at the end. When passing by the Temple of the Goddess of Goodness, Sophia saw that the gate of the temple was closed, but she could vaguely hear the sound of music and singing.

Most of the slaves in the team ahead were wearing shackles, and this trip was enough to make the shackles rub their skin. There are few farm owners like the Topilos family, where the masters can run away to play and let the slaves watch the stalls.

As long as the treatment is acceptable, the house slaves will not run away, but it takes more than ten years for a house slave to be able to work independently from birth. If a master's industry is expanding, the breeding of house slaves cannot keep up with the speed of expansion. How can the purchased adult slaves be guaranteed not to run away? There is no better way except shackles.

The Topilos family has enough house slaves, because their industry has not expanded in recent years.

Sophia was wearing a tube top and a loincloth, and Senna was applying olive oil to her body. She was preparing to train in equestrianism in preparation for the city games in July.

The Olympic Games, held every four years, were an important festival for the Greeks, and Agrigento had many Greeks, so it had been holding city games to continue this tradition. There was also a competition in the games that women could participate in, which was equestrianism.

The Olympic Games were not only about showing strength and skills, but also about beauty. Therefore, male athletes were naked and oiled during the competition, and they looked very beautiful when they ran, while female athletes had a piece of cloth covering their bodies.

Compared to the fiercely competitive men's competition, women's competitions were much easier. The poor had no chance to practice equestrianism, and the nobles were unlikely to participate in dangerous competitions, so most of the participants were women from middle-class families like Sophia, and the chances of winning were still quite large. If she could win, it would also be a face-saving thing for her fiancé.

Sophia's mount was a donkey from the farm. Her family couldn't afford a delicate horse, but fortunately she was light and lithe, so she could just ride a donkey. Her oiled body shone brightly in the sunlight.

Sophia rode on the donkey's back, squeezed her thighs, and the donkey started running. The difficulty of this competition was that it was even harder to stay stable after applying olive oil on the body. Slaves had already set up nine obstacles in front of her, and she tried her best to synchronize her body with the rhythm of the donkey's running.

"Jump!" Sophia pulled the reins tight and shouted.

The donkey jumped up and jumped over the obstacles. After landing, she squeezed her legs as hard as she could to keep her balance. After running a few steps and jumping over another obstacle, she couldn't keep her balance when she landed and fell on the grass.

"My dear sister, you should hold the reins with one hand. Your body is too stiff." Killian said as he helped her up and left two mud handprints on her chest. Sophia couldn't scold him for taking advantage of her without leaving any trace. Since her brother had the experience of conquering her mother, he became more and more skilled in conquering the women around him, and often teased Sophia without leaving any trace.

She practiced back and forth for a while, and it was still difficult to jump over 9 obstacles at a time.

"Sophia, the doctor is here to treat the master." Senna ran over and shouted to Sophia. It wasn't that she needed to do anything, but to tell her to go and see something new.

Sophia got off the donkey, put on some clothes, and ran back to the villa with Senna.

Father's hemorrhoids have been going on for a long time. Recently, he was so painful that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked the doctor introduced by the Hera priest to treat him. Sophia was very curious about how to treat this hemorrhoid?

Entering the inner courtyard, Sophia saw her father lying on the sofa bed with his butt exposed. The doctor laid out some bottles and jars on the ground, as well as a few bamboo joints. When the doctor opened a jar, she was surprised to see several leeches crawling out of the jar. The doctor grabbed two leeches and stuffed them into a bamboo joint, and put the others back into the jar.

The doctor pressed the bamboo joint with two leeches on the hemorrhoid protruding from his father's anus. After a while, when the doctor took the bamboo joint away, the two leeches were sucking blood from the hemorrhoid.

So that's what happened. Sophia thought she would be able to treat hemorrhoids in the future. The doctor used the same method to let the leeches suck a circle on her father's anus. After a long time, the leeches were sucked into a round shape and fell off by themselves. The doctor put the leeches back into the jar one by one.

Then he burned the wound on his father's anus with a red-hot iron.

"Ah~" My father grabbed the bed board with both hands and screamed.

May 11, Lemuria.

This is the special time when the dead come to the world of the living and wander around freely.

At midnight, Topilos endured the pain in his buttocks, got up and walked out of the bedroom barefoot. All the knots of his clothes were untied to keep the breath flowing smoothly. At the same time, he clenched his fist, with his thumb between his middle finger and ring finger, making a gesture to drive away evil and attract good luck. This gesture is called a fist-shaped amulet, which prevented the evil spirits lurking around him from touching him.

As he walked, he scattered broad beans behind him and repeated nine times, "I scatter these broad beans to save myself and my family with them." He couldn't go back, because if he turned around, he might see the ghosts following him to pick up the broad beans he threw. So he walked in a circle under the colonnade with his head down.

When he walked back to the door of the bedroom, he knocked on a small copper and repeated nine times, "Leave here, souls of my ancestors."

He slipped into the bedroom, closed the door, and the ceremony was over.

Salad, who served him, slowly helped him to bed and lay beside him to sleep.

Chapter 02

Representatives of large farm owners from all over Sicily gathered in Syracuse (the capital of Sicily) and presented Governor Nerva with a donation that he could not refuse. Nerva then signed a decree to suspend the release of slaves from the allied countries, and returned the 180 slaves who were originally prepared to be released to their masters.

These 180 slaves who had been unshackled rebelled after hearing the news. They killed their masters, robbed weapons, and occupied a fortress on the top of a mountain outside the city.

Nerva quickly assembled an army and launched an attack on the slaves. However, the fortifications of this era played a big role, and the governor besieged the fortress for a long time but could not capture it. So he pretended to withdraw his troops, and then used loyal house slaves to pretend to be defected slaves and sneak into the fortress with food.

At night, the house slaves quietly opened the gate of the fortress, and the Roman army rushed in and slaughtered all the rebellious slaves.

There are several quarries belonging to Latin nobles in the southwest of Sicily, which produce high-quality white marble. Because it is close to Africa, the quarries are almost all black slaves.

It rained yesterday, and the road was muddy and difficult to walk. The low-lying areas were soaked in water, and some feces were floating on the water. Soma carried a long strip of marble and walked up the muddy and stone road with difficulty.

The straw sandals were full of small stones, which hurt the feet. Donkeys would break their hooves when walking on such a gravel road.

There was a crack on his sole, because he had been carrying heavy objects on the gravel road, and there was no chance to heal. The long strip of marble he carried was suitable for carving into Roman statues, and they were taken away from the place where their gods could rule. It is said that after death, their souls cannot return to the place where they were born.

The quarry is ten people high from the ground. The only way to the ground is through a huge wooden door, which is heavily guarded by many armed thugs.

No more than ten people can go up there at a time, otherwise the thugs will break the rope and close the gate.

After passing the gate and turning a corner, Soma climbed to the ground, piled the marble on the oxcart, and came to the shed next to it. The manager scooped 6 spoonfuls of batter into the bowl according to the quality and size of the stones he brought up.

He opened his mouth like a vicious dog, drank it slowly, left a full mouthful, and walked down to the quarry.

The rule of this quarry is to exchange stones for food. There are a lot of stones in the food in the quarry, and Soma's teeth were gradually broken. The back molars are almost worn out, and many of the front teeth are knocked off halfway, which looks like a mouthful of dog teeth. Now he doesn't chew when he eats, he just swallows it.

He left a mouthful of batter because Okazi, who was of the same tribe as him, was injured and he had to feed him.

If Okazi died, he would lose the only person who could talk to him and worship the same gods as him.

"Pah~" A stone was thrown down from a high place and hit not far from Soma. He looked in the direction of the stone's trajectory. It was a little boy in a white robe with a gold badge on his shoulder, standing on a high place and throwing stones at people for fun.

"Woo-hoo" The little boy saw Soma looking at him, made a face at him, and picked up stones to throw at him. This was the son of the owner of the quarry. He heard that the old man was dead, and this child who looked only five or six years old was the new owner of the quarry.

He came to inspect with his mother, and kept throwing stones from above, injuring many slaves, but no one stopped him. Instead, the thugs would pick up handfuls of small stones for him. Soma walked under the sleeping shed and fed the batter to Okazi mouth to mouth.

"Thank you." Okazi said.

Soma nodded and went to move stones again. The hunger in his body drove him to continue working.

Soma looked up at the sun. God Niamumu, can you really not control this place? Why do you make us suffer so much?

He didn't understand. Aren't the sun in his hometown the same as the sun here? Why do people say that the sun god Niamumu can't control the Romans' place?

They said that the sun god here is called Apollo, and he only blesses the Romans who are more ferocious than the lions on the grassland.

Soma saw seven people carrying a huge marble. The four people in front pulled it with a rope, and Soma joined them and pushed it up with the other three people behind with wood.

If this stone can be carried up, we can have enough porridge today. Eight people carried this big stone, walking and resting, and moving up step by step with difficulty. Just as they passed the big wooden door and turned a corner and were about to reach the ground, the two people in front suddenly slipped and the wood that the two people behind broke.

The marble paused for a moment and began to slide down. Soma threw the stick and ran away. The marble rolled up and he hid behind the pillar of the wooden door.

"Bang~" With a dull thud, the marble hit the door pillar heavily. Soma was knocked over and slid down the slippery road. The protruding stones on the ground scratched his thighs and palms. The marble changed direction after hitting the door frame and rolled directly towards him. He was so scared that he used his hands and legs to struggle to escape, but the slippery slope made him unable to use his strength. "Ah~" Soma's legs were pressed by the huge marble, and he continued to slide down. His legs were like being clamped in a millstone, grinding into pieces, leaving long blood and flesh on the slope.

He knew that his legs were gone, but he felt a piercing pain in his toes. "Ah~" A childish scream also sounded. It turned out that the door frame was violently shaken by the marble, causing the place where the young master was standing to slide. He slid down the stone wall, rolled on the ground, and fell beside Soma. Soma was so shocked that he forgot to scream. Although the young master also suffered some skin injuries, he was basically fine. He was also looking at him in shock, and the two stared at each other.

Soma felt that the strength lost because of the grinding of his thigh gradually returned, and the pain seemed not so intense, and everything became slow. "Get the master back!!!" Soma heard a woman's shrill cry above, and the young master struggled to get up and run away. Soma grabbed the young master who was about to escape, opened his mouth and bit the young master's ear, and pulled it hard and bit it off.

So tender! Little master, you are so delicious! He couldn't remember the last time he ate meat, but he was sure that he had never tasted such tender and refreshing meat. No meat could compare with the young master. In an instant, he fell in love with the young master, the person who owned him. At this moment, the pain completely disappeared, his face flushed, and he was extremely strong. "Ah!!!" The little master's scream was so pleasant, this was the music that Soma integrated him into his body.

"Wow~~" Soma saw many thugs with various weapons rushing down from above, he knew they were here to snatch his beloved little master. The little master is mine! I won't give it to you, even if I destroy it! He grabbed the little master's delicate waist with both hands and smashed it hard on the marble.

The little master's beautiful little head hit the stone, and the blood splashed out was like a blooming red flower, that was unrestrained life.

When the first thug rushed in front of him, he had already smashed the little master on the marble five times. He saw the thug's dagger coming straight to his face, and he also saw the slaves on the side running with hammers, crowbars, and stones. Most of the thugs rushed down, and Soma knew they had no chance to go up again.

He saw this last scene, and his eyes were slashed by the dagger, a flash of white light followed by gray. Then he felt a sharp pain from his shoulder to his chest, because the dagger had pierced his chest directly from his shoulder. The dagger was pulled out again, and Soma fell backwards. "Crackling", the sound of branches breaking, a feeling of falling like waking up from a dream.

Soma fell from the branch and hit the mud. He climbed up and saw a familiar scene, this was the small lotus pond in his hometown. It was already dark, and he quickly got up and ran home. He climbed over the bushes and crossed the stream. He had run this path countless times and was very familiar with the terrain. His eyes were filled with sticky tears that he could never wipe away. He missed home too much. It seemed that he had run on the same road several times, and he became more and more panicked. He was afraid that he could not run away.

As he ran, he shouted anxiously: "Mom! Mom!" Finally, the forest opened up, and he ran out and saw the familiar hut. Standing at the door was the dark figure he missed all the time.

Mom! I'm back.

Aokachi was startled by the shouting, and when he walked out of the shed with a stick, he saw Soma was killed by the thugs. All the slaves in the quarry ran to the exit and fought with the thugs. When he staggered to Soma's body, the slaves had killed the thugs and rushed up.

There were dead bodies all around, slaves, thugs, and a little boy with a missing penis and a smashed head. Soma was dead, and Okachi did not rush up, but started digging a pit. He couldn't let Soma's body be exposed here.

When Okachi buried Soma and climbed up with a stick, it was getting dark. As soon as he got to the ground, he smelled the smell of batter. There was batter in several large pots. The other slaves seemed to be full.

He picked up the bowl on the ground and scooped up the batter and ate it in big mouthfuls. His body, which had been hungry and thirsty for a long time, was finally moistened. Every part of his body was cheering.

After eating until his stomach was full, Okachi noticed the slaves' laughter and scolding coming from the tent.

He walked slowly with a stick and saw a terrible woman tied to a wooden table. The slaves were taking turns raping her. The woman's limbs were tied to the four legs of the table with ropes, and she couldn't move at all. Her mouth was also tied with ropes and couldn't close.

The terrible thing about her was that her breasts had been bitten into a bloody mess, her nose and eyelids had been bitten off, and her two eyeballs seemed to fall out of her eye sockets. Her upper and lower lips were also bitten off, revealing her sharp teeth. She was like a devil crawling out of hell. Maybe she had been tortured for a long time, and she seemed to have no strength to even moan. Only her two eyeballs could still move, and blood and tears kept flowing from both sides of her eye sockets, letting people know that she was still alive.

"Okachi, you are not dead yet! Line up here, it will be your turn soon."

"Who is this woman?" Okachi shook his head. This scene was too terrible. He was not a beast, so how could he have desire for such a terrible woman.

"Don't you know yet? She is our mistress."

When Okachi heard this, his blood immediately surged. Because of his physical deficiency, his penis, which had not been erected for a long time, actually became hard. A thick layer of semen had accumulated on the table board and the ground under the mistress's crotch. I don't know how many people had ejaculated in the mistress's body. When the man in front of him ejaculated in the mistress's body with a howl, Okachi could not wait to insert his penis into her body, cried and threw himself on her, biting the flesh on her shoulder.

The next morning, the mistress was dead. Some people nailed her to a cross specially used to punish slaves, and her eyeballs finally fell out and hung beside her face. Okaci followed the team out of the quarry with a cane. The leader said he was going to attack other quarries and large farms to liberate the slaves there.

... Castor was a slave of Governor Nerva. He was a mixed-race. The slaves in the family privately rumored that he was the product of a one-night stand between his mistress and a Thracian gladiator. Castor had lived in the slaves' house since he could remember, and it was impossible to tell whether it was true or not. But he did receive certain preferential treatment during his growth process. He accompanied little Nerva to study, so he learned Latin. After he became an adult, he took on the job of delivering letters to his master. The master promised to release him when he was 30 years old and let him serve as the manager of an estate.

... The governor has sent other messengers to Enna City, ordering the garrison commander there to go to support the rescue of Heraclea City. Castor's journey is to bring the news of the governor's dispatch of troops to various cities along the way.

Slaves are also divided into three, six, and nine levels.

The first-class slaves are consultants who have the right to handle things on their own, such as housekeepers, tutors, and shopkeepers.

The second-class slaves are with their masters day and night, such as maids, guards, and slave lovers.

The third class is handicraft slaves, such as carpenters, potters, etc. who can make money for their masters.

The above three types of slaves are unlikely to rebel. When they go out alone, the master does not worry that they will run away, because their lives are not worse than those of civilians. Even the lives of the first and second types of slaves are much better than those of civilians.

The fourth type is farm slaves. Most of them are managed by the master's slave stewards and foremen. They are exploited more severely. They rarely have enough to eat, and they will run away as soon as they have the opportunity.

The fifth category is quarry, mine and volcanic ash slaves. The nature of their work determines that few people can survive for more than 2 years. Once these slaves have a chance, they will not escape, but destroy everything.

In the whole of Rome, the fourth and fifth slaves in Sicily are the most, because Sicily is full of large farms, and quarrying, mining and the most deadly volcanic ash mining that free people are unwilling to do.

Thirty years ago, there was a slave rebellion in Sicily, and blood flowed like a river. Later slave owners did not improve the treatment of slaves, but carried out stricter and cruel supervision.

If the slave rebellion cannot be suppressed smoothly this time,...Casto just wants to take Jifeng away from Sicily as soon as possible.

It was the sixth hour of the day (12:00-13:00), and the sun was unbearable.

Jifeng was panting, and there was white foam at the corners of his mouth. In a forest, Castor stopped to rest. He unloaded the saddle and camel bag under the shade of the tree and let Jifeng graze freely. He took out the dry food and water bag from his bag, drank a sip of water, and stuffed the dry food into his mouth to soften it before chewing.

"Shh ~" Castor saw that Jifeng was going to a small pond to drink water, so he put his finger into his mouth and whistled to call it back.

According to Greek doctors, unhealthy places have small insects that are invisible to the naked eye. These small insects will cause food to decay quickly and make people and livestock sick. This small pond is an unhealthy place.

"Ah ~", Jifeng made a cheerful mule sound and ran towards Castor. He stood up, stuffed the water nozzle in the water bag into its mouth, and fed it.

"Ah ~", Jifeng drank the water, called out and used his lips to chew the camel bag. It knew that there were beans prepared for it there.

"Don't move, I'll get it." Castor grabbed a handful of broad beans that he had just bought this morning from the bag and spread his hands for Jifeng to eat.

The big mouth of the wind has flexible lips. Its upper and lower lips flip like two big fingers, picking beans from his palm and eating them. He ate several handfuls of broad beans.

The work of a messenger is hard and dangerous, and he may die on the road at any time. If he dies, what's the use of money, so he doesn't mind giving the wind who depends on him better rations. After all, he spends most of his time with the wind, and it is more important to him than anyone else.

After eating snacks, Castor leaned against the tree, dozed for a while, and then prepared to set off again.

"Mercury, please bless me and the wind to have a smooth journey." Castor pinched the small pendant of Mercury on his neck and prayed, then rode on the back of the wind and continued on his way.

After walking and resting, it was already the second hour of the night (18:00) when they arrived in Agrigento.

Getting off the back of the wind, they entered the city.

The city streets were bustling at night. Slaves and civilians finished their day's work and gathered at the fountain to take a bath. Men, women, old and young, bare-chested, surrounded the fountain and poured water on themselves with various utensils, with the water flowing all over the ground. There were laughter, scolding, and fights caused by taking advantage.

Slaves in the city either served their masters or engaged in handicrafts and commerce, so they were treated much better than slaves in the countryside, mixed with civilians in the city and difficult to distinguish. It was also common for a civilian's lover to be another's slave.

Castor led the wind and walked towards the mayor's mansion. He saw that the restaurants and salons were very busy.

Prostitutes wearing stoga robes were also picking up customers on the roadside. The stoga robe was a man's robe, but according to Roman law, all prostitutes had to wear this robe to distinguish themselves from other women. This thick robe also had practical uses in their work. They found an empty street corner, alley, or under the eaves, spread the robe on the ground, and they could open for business.

A woman looked at Castor, made a hollow circle with her hand, shook it twice in front of her mouth, and shouted to him: "2 copper coins."

Castor was not interested in these dirty women and continued to move forward.

"Poor bastard! Go mate with your donkey. Hahaha ~" the woman's curse came.

Crossing two similar streets with a strong smell of fireworks. Castor arrived at his destination, the mayor's mansion. Many sedan bearers and guards gathered at the door, eating and drinking with bowls in one hand and bread in the other. He knew that the mayor was holding a banquet. These sedan bearers served the nobles who were not on the ground. Some roads were full of sewage and feces of various animals. Riding a sedan to go out was for cleanliness and pomp.

"I am the governor's messenger. I have a letter to give to the mayor." Castor said to the gatekeeper. He had met this gatekeeper twice.

"Come in and wait inside." The gatekeeper said.

"Put the mule in the stable. There is hay to eat." The gatekeeper said.

"Give me some broad beans. I want to feed my mule. It's tired all day." Castor said to the gatekeeper.

"Got it, you messengers, you consider your mounts as important as people." The gatekeeper went into the inner courtyard to report.

There were already two horses and a donkey in the stable. He removed the saddle and camel bag, and moved some hay to the entrance of the animal pen for Jifeng to eat.

"Castor, haha, my old friend, Mercury took pity on my longing for you and sent you here." The mayor's advisor came out with a smile. These people are very good at remembering people's looks and names. Castor didn't talk to him for more than twelve sentences, and he acted like an old acquaintance.

"I wish you good health." Castor said.

"My health thanks you. You came at the right time. The mayor is discussing how to deal with the slave uprising with the nobles. Please come in with me."

Castor followed the advisor into the banquet hall, which was a lewd scene. It didn't look like he was worried about the slave rebellion.

The band was playing, topless dancers were twisting their waists, and naked prostitutes were moving between the sofa beds.

Castor walked to the main seat in the courtyard and handed the letter to the mayor.

The mayor took the letter, checked the ink pad near the oil lamp, and then opened it to read. The people in the hall noticed the mayor's actions and gradually quieted down.

"Did the governor ask the army of Enna City to support Heraclea City?" The mayor confirmed with Castor again.

"Yes, sir."

"So what is the governor doing?"

"When I set out, the governor was gathering troops and preparing to go to Heraclea City."

"Well..., the two armies will definitely be able to wipe out the rebels, and the Heraclea crisis can be resolved. You find a seat to enjoy dinner, and leave tomorrow morning with my reply to the governor."

"Yes, sir."

Castor was not naive enough to really think that he could get on the sofa bed and enjoy himself with the nobles. He asked the female slave to get some wine and food and walked out of the banquet hall.

"The room has been prepared for you, follow me." The butler said to Castor.

The mansion was very large, and there were many small rooms in the front yard. Castor followed the butler to one of them, not far from the stables.

Castor first took a bath at the fountain, and then enjoyed dinner slowly.

"Ah ~ Ah ~" Castor was called over by the call of Jifeng. It turned out that the male donkey wanted to mate with Jifeng, but Jifeng was not happy, so they started to fight.

Castor hurriedly led Jifeng out of the stable. He put the broad beans in the basket on the stone steps. Jifeng came over and skillfully clamped the broad beans with his lips and put them into his mouth. He peeled the beans and ate them with his teeth. The donkey in the stable saw Jifeng eating broad beans and called out "Ang Ang". When Castor took out an egg and cracked it to feed Jifeng, the donkey called out even more angrily.