Rome Must Fall

"That's great! It will be much easier for me to take care of you this way!" Akago became happy and couldn't help but asked curiously: "Your father is an Illyrian, how come you married a Latin woman as your wife?"

Logimnisius did not shy away and said frankly: "Back then, my father hijacked the merchant ship my mother was traveling on -"

"Ah, I'm sorry!"

"It's nothing. Our pirate family is like this. Although life in our village is a little harder, my mother is living a very happy life now..." Logimnisius responded seriously, and then he also asked curiously: "I just heard The leader of your family said that I should be included in the secretarial department. What is the secretarial department? "

Akguo thought for a while and explained: "The Secretariat is a newly built... organization of our Nix tribe. It is directly under the command of the leader. The people who work in it are all people of our age."

Although there were unfamiliar terms, Logimnisius generally understood them, and he asked with interest: "This... what does the Secretariat do?"

"Help the leader copy files, write orders, convey orders, record meetings..."

Rodimnisius was dumbfounded when he heard this: "But I can't read."

"Can you count?"

"Hmm...probably a little bit." Rodimnisius answered uncertainly.

"Everyone in our secretarial department can write and do calculations, but it's a bit troublesome for you to do this." Akguo frowned, turned and walked towards the hall: "I'm going to ask the leader first what should I do in a situation like yours."

After waiting for a while, Akago came out of the hall and said to Rojimnesius: "The leader hopes that you can take time to study in our tribe's school and learn to read and arithmetic, which will be of great help to you in the future. "

"Okay, okay!" Although Loginnisius had never read a book, he often heard his mother talk about the life of the Romans across the sea, and he had a yearning for reading. Now that the opportunity was presented to him, he agreed without hesitation. , and then asked in confusion: "What is this school?"

"It's a place where teachers teach children knowledge."

"Are there many kids in that...school?"

"Many, hundreds of them."

"Hundreds?!" Rodimnisius opened his mouth in surprise. Growing up, he only had five or six playmates of the same age in his village. It was hard for him to imagine what it would be like to have hundreds of children together. This scene made him excited, and he said eagerly: "Where is this school? Take me to see it quickly!"

Logimnisius agreed so simply that Akago didn't have to worry about convincing him anymore, and he felt relieved. He felt that this kid from the pirates in the mountains was quite easy to get along with, so he spoke more relaxedly: "Mr. Don’t worry, are you hungry?”

"I'm not hungry. I ate at Uncle Budokaribas' place before I came here. I ate a lot."

"The school is in another village, which is a bit far away. I will take you to confirm your residence first, and then take you there."

"That's okay... uh -" Rodimnisius suddenly hesitated: "If I go to that school to study, won't I be able to help your leader?"

"The leader said that you can't read or do anything now, and you can't do much. If you need to send a message to your village, the leader will send someone to tell you to go there."

"Then I'll be relieved!... Well, is it easy to learn literacy and arithmetic?"

"It depends on the person." Ak Guo said with some satisfaction: "People like us in the secretarial department learn relatively quickly. In less than two years, they went from not knowing a word to being able to write fluently. Some people can’t do the orders given by the leader.”

"Don't worry, I will learn quickly too." Rodimnisius said confidently.

Akguo didn't feel unhappy. Instead, he felt that this new companion suited his temperament. He patted the other party's shoulder and said, "Do you want to meet someone with me?"

"who?"

"The people who usually take care of our lives."

Logimnisius followed Akago to the front yard of the main house. The martial arts training ground here had been transformed into a large open-air kitchen. Firewood was burning in a dozen simple earthen stoves made of earth and stones. The big earthen pot was steaming gurglingly, and someone was always paying attention next to it, occasionally shouting: "You can add minced meat into it!"

Immediately, someone ran over with a wooden basket and pulled some horse meat or pork that had been chopped and roughly smoked with firewood into the earthen pot, but then scoldings came from the sidelines: "Who is shouting again?! I was there before I have said many times that if you need anything, please gesture as much as possible. If it is too noisy, it will easily interfere with the leader’s discussion..."

A woman with a thick body and reddish-brown skin put her hands on her hips and shouted louder than the people busy around the stove.

Akago walked up behind her and shouted: "Auntie Aknis!"

The woman named Akonis immediately turned around, her serious face suddenly softened: "Little Akago, is there anything you want to tell me, the leader?"

Akguo took Logimnisius and introduced him: "His name is Logimnisius. He is the son of the leader of the Ardei tribe, Kalsipempas. He will work in our secretariat in the future. The leader asked you to arrange a place for him." , it would be best if you could live with me.”

Aconis looked at Logimnisius carefully and said in a gentle tone: "He looks a lot like your dad. Don't worry, little guy. I will take good care of you. You can ask for anything." Just tell me, just like you are in your own home, don’t treat yourself like an outsider.”

"I will, thank you Aunt Arconis!" Logimnisius replied obediently.

"Hey, you can speak Latin!" Akonis was a little surprised, but did not go into details and said to Akago: "There are 6 people living in your house, which is already quite crowded. I'd better arrange him in another room." House."

"The leader asked me to take care of him during this period. It's more convenient to live together. You can move Cassius to another room. He was also in the hall just now. I told him."

"Okay." Aknis nodded in approval, but did not make arrangements immediately. Her first priority now was to prepare the lunch meal before the people took a rest.

But when she saw Akago walking out with Logimnisius, Akonis asked casually: "Where are you going?"

"Go to Westney. Aunt Aknis, you don't have to prepare lunch for me and him. We'll eat there."

Rodimnisius was already a little curious, but now he was even more curious. He couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "You guys have something to eat at noon too?"

"yes."

"That's great! Our village only eats in the morning and evening." Rodimnisius rubbed his belly enviously. He was full of energy and ran all over the mountains and fields every day. He was hungry so fast that he couldn't stay up till night. He could only eat wild fruits and catch fruits on the mountains. Fill your stomach with fish from the creek.

"When we were slaves, not to mention eating three times a day, sometimes it was good to have one meal a day. Later, everyone rose up to resist. At first, we only had two meals a day. Later, our leader came to lead the team, and everyone's life was better. Get up, he often said that we must eat enough to have the energy to fight the enemy and study hard...

These days, the leader emphasized that the tribesmen are working very hard to build our territory, which consumes a lot of physical energy. Even if the tribe is short on food, we must ensure three meals a day so that everyone can eat! Akguo said proudly.

"Your leader is so good!" Rodimnisius praised sincerely. Thinking back to the scene when he saw Maximus in the hall just now, it looked like what his father said. This leader was very young, not much older than himself. , but I feel more nervous facing him than facing my own father.

The more he thought about it, the more embarrassed he felt. He shook his head vigorously and changed the subject: "Is that Aunt Aconis specially cooking for people in your tribe?"

"Well, she used to be the kitchen manager in our team. The food we eat every day is cooked by her and her people, and she has a lot of prestige in the team. After we came here and established the tribe, she was appointed by the leader as the internal affairs officer. Manager—"

"What's a housekeeper?"

"It's similar to those housekeepers of nobles, but in our tribe, this is a formal official position, and the scope of management is quite wide. For example, our secretariat directly obeys the command of the leader and lives in this courtyard, so everyone Her food, clothing, and housing are also under her care; hundreds of parentsless children in our tribe also live in this courtyard and are under her care; and the guards guarding the main house sometimes have to listen to her orders... …So you have to listen to her in the future and don’t make her unhappy!”

"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid." Loginnisius said, looked back, and asked doubtfully: "I heard that there are so many people living in this courtyard, but I didn't see how many houses there are."

"They are all behind that big house." Akguo pointed to the tall house across the center of the courtyard and used by the tribe to hold political hall meetings, and said: "There are 20 houses. I heard from the leader that the original Seges of this village was The leader of Tika built this main house into a small camp. In addition to some servants who took care of him, there were also some Pannoni warriors he recruited from other tribes living in the yard... Now more than 100 of us live there It doesn’t feel crowded here, over there——”

At this time, Akguo had already walked out of the main house, stood on the road outside, pointed to the south and said: "Dozens of people live in a long house, that's called crowded! But this is all temporary, and it won't be long before... We will build a lot of new houses to solve everyone’s housing problems.”

Logimnisius did not have the slightest doubt about what Akguo said, because at this time, the Snodia stockade had turned into a large construction site: some people were pulling out wooden walls to expand the stockade, and some people were pulling out wooden walls to expand the stockade. While planing and sawing wood to provide materials for building houses and bridges, some tribesmen are repairing houses, and some tribesmen are nailing boards in front of the main house... They are all extremely focused on the work at hand, even if it is The people transporting wood and timber were also walking hurriedly on the road without stopping for a moment...