In the early spring of Rome, everything was busy, the nobles ran their estates, the citizens tended their shops, did some chores, and lived a tight life, and the slaves were ploughing, which at least had a full meal or secretly drank a glass of the master's treasured wine was a supreme pleasure.

At this moment, in a small manor outside the city of Rome, Aetius was sitting in the open space in front of the villa of the manor, where the view was wide, and now there were fields of hard work, and watching them run this land of their own was really a supreme pleasure.

A kilometer radius from the villa was the personal property of Aetius, who had just quelled a barbarian riot in Gaul and would return to Rome in celebration, even if it was not a thousand miles away.

There is a large tree in front of the door, which is just the right place to enjoy the shade, and it is also the place where Aetius is quite fond of this manor. He sat in the shade of a tree, and there were special slaves pouring him glass after glass of wine, and he sat in a soft chair with great pleasure.

"I think you've come out of the ridiculous situation you were in, Levi." Aetius said, slowly placing the glass with half a glass of wine in his hand on the table beside him, and turned to look at Levi who was standing behind him.

The long period of loneliness made Levi look both godless and scruffy, his long beard like that of a savage, and his messy hair making it difficult for him to associate with a civilized and educated person. He was now behind Aetius, with his head bowed, like a child who had made a mistake.

"You're a nice fellow, Levi." Aetius said, stretching his legs lazily, and then lying down in a comfortable position, "I even began to regret letting you go with the Huns to collect money, but I didn't expect that such a commoner woman would make you look like this." ”

"I'm so sorry, sir!" As he spoke, Levi's head was lowered, like a child who had made a serious mistake, begging for his forgiveness in front of Aetius.

"Have you figured it out?" Aetius looked up at Levi and said, "You are no longer my chief guard, I have a better candidate than you!" Aetius continued mockingly: "He is more reliable than you, at least he will not lose his future because of a woman." ”

Opening and closing his mouth is his own sore spot, and Levi buried his head lower when he heard this. Aetius would never say that, and Levi, the chief of the guard who had been his for many years, knew it, but the fact that he said it today proves how disappointed he was in Levi. Levi didn't know what to do, which meant that he could no longer be Aetius' closest chief of guard. He didn't know what to do, but he could plead with Aetius like a slave begging his master: "Please give me another chance!" ”

"Then, I still have a vacant position as a ten-captain on the front line, otherwise, you can go and take a look!" Aetius also said it mercilessly, which made Levi gasp, a person with an aristocratic status, although he was down, but he was also a nobleman, and he was also dignified, and immediately entering the lowest position was the most despicable to him, which was an unbearable insult no matter how he said it!

"Sorry, now it looks like I had to leave!" Levi shook his head helplessly, it was an unbearable insult to him, but it was not surprising, after all, he was to blame for himself. The good captain of Augustus' close guard did not do anything, and he had to go back to the woman, which made Aetius lose face in front of Valentinian III, a bastard boy.

......While Aetius was discussing his new assignment with Levi, a soldier who had ordered him to turn over and jump off his horse from a short distance and trot all the way to Aetius, holding a piece of parchment in his hand and handing it to Aetius.

"Let me see." Aetius took the parchment and said jokingly, "Isn't this good news?" I hope so! But when he opened the parchment letter and read it carefully, his whole face became gloomy.

"Where did this news come from?" Aetius asked the herald behind him.

"Cremona's Guard." The herald said: "I am afraid that now they have reached Milan, and it is said that they did not stop but continued their march to the west. ”

"Forty thousand," Aetius muttered, clutching the parchment in his hand as if he could not accept the fact.

It must be a big thing to make Aetius so nervous. Even though Levi was full of curiosity, he had no way to ask, at least for now, he couldn't be sure whether he was qualified to ask about these things again.

"What a pathetic!" Levi sighed inwardly, looking at Aetius with a frown, knowing that his stay here would only add to the trouble.

"Looks like I have to leave now, Lord Aetius!" Levi nodded at Aetius, then stepped back away, as if Aetius hadn't heard it or had deliberately ignored it. Levi was embarrassed, at least now he had no place in Aetius's heart.

"Aurius. When Luga went to Macedonia, I thought he would die all the way, but I didn't expect that he would not only come back unharmed, but also bring an army of 40,000 men. Aetius was momentarily unsettled, as if the shade under the tree could only block the scorching sun but not the anger in his heart.

To tell the truth, he began to be jealous of Luga, because this kid from Nar had something more than he expected every time, as if the eastern Asia region was his infinite ATM, and in front of him was the Combined Legion, although he went back, this time it was 40,000 people, how to explain it?

"Do the people in the Senate know about this?" Aetius then asked.

"Not yet, sir."

"Then order the soldiers to block this news, so that the senators of the Roman Senate cannot know about it!" Aetius looked like he was on the verge of an enemy, and this had to make him wary!

"What, Luga?" Outside Milan, Andrew looked at Luga curiously, he seemed to be a little resistant to entering the city, and even said that he did not want to enter the city at all.

"It's nothing, it's just ......" Luga hesitated, but Andrew could see at a glance that Luga was simply afraid to see Tenaia again, I don't know why, probably because of guilt or something.

"Are you afraid to see your son?" Andrew deliberately said, "Oh my God, Luga, don't be so careful, that kid looks exactly like you, but with hair a lot like his mother." ”

"No, I'm not because of that, Andrew!" Luga shook his head, and continued: "I'm always very entangled, here, I even start to think about whether to go south to see Licinaia, or go north to see Tenaia, sometimes it's always so strange, because you don't want to, it just happened, I must be a bastard now, you know what I mean, Andrew." ”

Luga was really worried, not just because he had a son, but also because he had a daughter in Ravenna, Yudoria. This little princess who he refused to admit was also a sin he created, and he even hated it a little, because why everyone was conniving and even knocking on the side to want him to do this, although no one knew about this matter or said that it was deliberately concealed, this is a stain on his life, and the past is unbearable.