Without further ado, Dr. Bella's family had to leave at once, and I helped them bring the old horse with the cart in the ponyy behind the house, and it was deserted as if nothing had happened. Dr. Bella hurriedly packed their luggage, and all kinds of parchment and suitcases were loaded into the car one by one. At this time, there was not much movement, but the surrounding neighborhood windows were lit one after another. There are also people who poke their heads out and look here at this time, rubbing their sparse sleepy eyes, with a look of not knowing anything, I have to say that this group of so-called neighbors, God owes them an actor trophy.

"Hey, Luga."

I heard a call behind me, and when I looked back, I saw that it was Andrew, who was still holding the Legion flag tightly as before, and Andrew looked at me with a clear wrong look, I think he might have been frightened by my blood-red chain mail.

"Luga, what just happened?"

Andrew went into the house to take a look inside, and then came out and asked me.

"Andrew, that's obvious." I pointed to the corpses in the house and said, "These robbers are probably the officer we saw in the morning who insisted on the flag in our hands to snatch it. ”

"So, you killed them all?"

"They're going to do it to Tenea, you know, I don't have a choice." I spread my hands and said to him very calmly.

Andrew let out a long sigh and said to me helplessly, "Luga, then you will break the law!" This is not the point, the point is that we have no money and cannot afford to hire a "guarantor" (a kind of public office in Roman law, equivalent to the ancestor of today's lawyers)! ”

"It doesn't matter, Andrew." I complained to him: "Now you look at the robbers in that place, no one is a witness, don't look at the guys around who have just turned on the lights, these cowards, no one dares to make a noise when the robbers are robbing, now it's good, they wake up when there is no movement!" ”

After that, I helped Prasvia load a heavy package into the carriage, and it took about half an hour before Dr. Bella's family of three boarded the carriage, and before leaving, Dr. Bella's family handed me a small cloth bag, which I opened, and through the faint light of the fire, I saw that it was full of silver coins called Yas, on which the current Emperor Valentinian III was engraved. The emperor's portrait is not cold to me, I just care about the weight of this money bag, and I weigh it a few times, not to mention, it is really heavy.

"Take it, it's all our family's savings, and it's a thank you for it." He just knew that I might refuse, so his tone was unquestionable, and solemnly handed it into my hands, and then said: "Then I agreed to your marriage with Tenaia two years ago, but it's a pity that Tenaia of my family is not from a good background, and she is a child of a low-class untouchable, and I hope you don't dislike it." ”

"Old doctor, I think it's a little early to talk about such a problem at this time." In the current situation, I choose to be rational rather than indulge in the nature of blindly taking half of my body to think. "You go first, far away from this place of right and wrong, and Andrew and I will live for a long time on your patronage, so you don't have to worry too much about it."

"Alright then, all I can say is finally, be careful." With that, Dr. Bella boarded the carriage and pulled the reins, and the old horse slowly pulled the carriage towards the exit of the village to the east, and at parting Tenaia waved goodbye to me. I smiled in return until I watched the carriage disappear into the night.

Suppressing a somewhat stiff smile, I looked back at the neighbors who had gone out to observe the house, their eyes wide open, and they looked at me in horror, as if I was a demon sent by Satan to descend on the world.

"What are they going to do, Luga, everyone in front of you is an eyewitness now."

Andrew planted the Legion flag on the ground, held the hilt of his sword with his right hand, and looked at me as if waiting for something.

"What are you doing here, Andrew." I understood what he meant, and he did it because he thought that the onlookers would identify us as murderers to the troops in the city.

"Since you have killed someone, then we may fall into the trap that the Romans have designed for us in advance, and my opinion is that one less witness is an extra guarantee for both of us."

"Then that would make the Romans want Dr. Bella's family."

I said, holding down the iron sword he was about to draw, "Let's go, we still have the money that Dr. Bella left us anyway, let's get out of here and talk about anything else." ”

Andrew, who seemed to agree with me, took his hand off the iron sword, drew the flag from the earth, and took one last wary glance at his neighbors, and disappeared into the darkness after me.

In the same way, we ran all the way east, because the west belonged to the occupied area of the Empire, which was the territory of the Goths, and we did not dare to stop all the way at night, and along the long road, according to Andrew, this road was the main road to Akve-Sextia (present-day Marseille), for fear that there would be officers and soldiers chasing after us (I only later learned where the officers and soldiers came from, the soldiers were in chaos, and the soldiers were busy dealing with the Burgundians who were attacking from the northern border, and there was no time to reward us two heroes of banditry), and ran and ranUntil Andrew and I could no longer run, we fell into the bushes by the side of the road and fell asleep, gasping for breath, and when we woke up again it was already dawn the next day.

I was in a lot of pain, probably because my muscles were overstretched. Struggling to get up, and then look at the body, the blood on the bloodstained chain mail has coagulated, exuding an unpleasant smell of blood, I am afraid that there will be no need for those officers and soldiers to catch us at that time, even if we go further to a place where there is no human population, the wild wolves will have to resist the temptation of the smell of blood to eat me clean.

"Let's go, we're not out of danger yet." Andrew got up and patted the dirt off his body and pursed his chapped lips.

"We don't have water." I said worriedly, "If we don't solve such a serious problem now, then we might as well feed the wolves in the wild." ”

"It's just ahead," Andrew said, pointing ahead to me, "there's the river we floated down last time, we can drink there and go back!" ”

"Okay, what about the food, how to solve it, won't it be to pretend to be dead at night and wait for the wild wolf to fight to the death?"

"Ha," Andrew laughed, "you don't have to worry about that, there are quite a few villages along the way, don't worry, these Yas are enough."

We had a good meal and drink in Akve-Sekstia. ”

"So you mean, we joined the army in that place?" I'm a little tired, I really can't serve the country, and I don't want to report to the country yet, because I don't owe her anything.

Getting up and following Andrew, one step at a time towards Akway-Sextia, I was now very confused, for I did not know what I was doing, to help fulfill the Germanic ideal of serving the country in front of me? Or realize the so-called value that you are not sure about. Wouldn't it be good to marry Tenaia mediocre and then live in obscurity until this life is over? Why go to the army to fight, why run around? Why do you want to live in such a world?