Chapter 97: Ask Again
Hearing Maximus' long-lasting voice, Ji Mo smiled and said, "How is it? Did it come in time?"
"It would be better if I came earlier!" Maximus smiled bitterly and whispered: "You don't know, it's so uncomfortable. The rare good mood has also been ruined by them!"
Ji Mi pinched his chin and said, "Are they trying to win you over?"
"Yeah!" Maximus nodded, took a wine glass from the end of the season and took a big sip.
"It seems you are very popular!" Ji Hou teased.
"Cough!" Hearing this, Maximus choked by the wine in his mouth, glared at Ji Mo fiercely, and said, "Do you think you can escape their harassment based on your reputation in the army!?"
Ji Mo smirked and said, "I just say I just follow you!"
Maximus gritted his teeth, lowered his voice, and said, "You are cruel!"
"Haha!" Ji Mo chuckled, put away the laughter on his face and said seriously: "Maximus, since you already feel like you have left here, returned to your hometown, and reunited with your family, then you have to work hard to get out of this political whirlpool! Sometimes, a peaceful life is also something you have won!"
Upon hearing this, Maximus patted the shoulder of the Shi Zhong, nodded, and then asked, "Where are you? Are you planning to go there?"
Because the system has not released the second phase of the task so far, Ji Mi was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know, if there is nothing else, maybe I will choose to go to your hometown with you!"
"Haha, welcome!" Maximus smiled brightly.
As the laughter fell, Maximus seemed to remember something and said in confusion: "Didn't you say Caesar is looking for me?"
"Hmm? Did I say that?"
"You dare to pass the orders fakely!" Maximus' eyes widened.
"I didn't have a fake news. Caesar is really looking for me! He just didn't look for you."
"Then you might as well go!" Maximus pushed the end of the season.
Ji Mi spread his hands and smiled and said, "You will repay your kindness, brother, if it weren't for you, I would have gone long ago!"
"Get out!" Maximus laughed and scolded. After Ji Mo left, he did pinch his chin and a puzzled look in his eyes: "Why did Caesar look for Mo?"
...
Why was Caesar looking for himself? At the end of the sensation, he was also thinking about this issue. Although when Maximus found himself and said that Caesar had to come by himself, he had guessed that Caesar should have something to say to him, but what was it?
"You're the end of the season?"
At this time, a beautiful woman with a gorgeous long skirt and graceful temperament stood in front of Ji Mo who was walking and thinking.
"Huh?" Ji Shi returned to his senses, focused his eyes on the woman, stunned for a moment, and then a name flashed through his mind, Lucia, Caesar's daughter.
"It seems you recognize me, haha!" Lucia chuckled, looked at Ji Mo's eyes full of curiosity, and said, "I heard that you have a good relationship with Maximus? You are as close as brothers?"
"hehe!"
He didn't know what the purpose of this woman asking such a question was, so he just chuckled and didn't answer. He turned his body and was about to leave the woman.
But as soon as he took a step, Lucia's figure appeared next to Ji Mo again, and smiled and said, "Okay, I won't ask this nonsense question!"
He paused, with a little hesitation, his eyes flashed with expectation, and he said, "Have he ever talked to you about me?"
Ji Mi was stunned for a moment. The amount of information about these words was quite large. Could it be that Maximus had any past with this woman?
"No!" Ji Hou said honestly, and Maximus said the most in front of him was his wife and son, and he had never mentioned other women.
"Is that true?" Lucia murmured with a hint of disappointment in her eyes, and said to Ji Mo: "Come with me, my father is waiting for you!".
After the words fell, he didn't say anything more, and he led the way ahead of the end of the season.
The second time at the end of the season was the old man with the greatest power in Rome, and this time it was obviously weaker than a dozen days ago.
When the old man saw the late season, a smile appeared on his wrinkled face. After signaling his daughter to go out, the old man just asked softly: "I want to confirm again now! You said that you will follow Maximus's footsteps and advance and retreat with him, right?"
"Yes!" The same answer was still the same at the end of the season.
"Huh!" Hearing Ji Mo's answer that was no different from last time, the old man breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Ji Mo's eyes with admiration, and then said, "He is very lucky to have a brother like you!"
"I'm very lucky too!" Ji Hou replied seriously.
The old man shrank himself in a chair, not like an emperor, but like a lonely old man, and said, "Then, remember what you said today, Maximus may encounter many difficulties. With you, he will be much more relaxed..."
As he said that, the old man closed his eyes as if he was tired, waved his hand at Ji Mo, indicating that he could leave.
Turning around and leaving, Ji Mo's eyes were filled with thought. Today, Caesar came to him and asked the same words as last time, as if he was confirming his attitude.
"Maximus will encounter many difficulties..."
"This sentence is interesting. If he agreed to Maximus' request to go home, there should be no more difficulties. Then what he means is..." Ji Mo's eyes flashed and he sighed in his heart.
After leaving at the end of the season, the old man with his eyes closed opened his eyes, and a sharp look flashed across his muddy eyes.
The appearance of Ji Du and his rapid fame in the army made him feel that Ji Du has become an existence that cannot be ignored in the army, and is even stronger than the influence of Deputy Corps Quintas!
If he stands on the opposite side of Maximus at the end of the season, it will definitely be a big trouble. If so, he will directly destroy this threat before he announces that Maximus is his heir!
"From my years of experience in looking at people, what he said is not a lie. It seems that Maximus is lucky. God is favoring him. With the end of the season, things in the army are stable..."
"Maximus, forgive my selfishness. I cannot let you go home. Only you are suitable to be the new heir of Rome. Only you who have not been polluted by dirty politics and do not care about power can be suitable to be the new guardian of Rome! Only then can Rome restore republic again. Maximus, forgive my selfishness..."
The old man sighed, remembering the longing that rose in his eyes when Maximus talked about going home, and felt deeply apologized for the man who was loyal and deeply attached to his home.
"As for my son, Commodos, you are really not suitable to be the master of Rome. Besides, it is time for Rome to restore republic..."
After the words came to an end, the old man became even weaker and slowly closed his eyes.
Chapter completed!