Rome must fall.

Chapter 335 Family

Nesia said seriously: "Do you know that the road in the dense forest is very uneven? If you are not good at riding, it is easy to fall off the horse, and it is easy to shake your bones when riding a cart..."

"Well then..." Gnian Davra looked reluctant and couldn't help but said, "I'm used to sleeping alone. If we sleep together, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep and it will affect my walking tomorrow."

"You've been walking for most of the day and must be very tired. After I finish massaging your legs, you'll definitely fall asleep as soon as you lie down on the bed." Nessia said confidently.

"Well, thank... you..." Genian Davra was no longer stubborn and chose to obey, but she felt a little awkward when saying thank you.

Ever since she was punished by Nessia and spanked, and the maid she brought with her was subsequently kicked out of the main house, she has been much more obedient.

Afterwards, she attended her grandfather's funeral and her uncle's inauguration ceremony on behalf of Maximus. She clearly felt the respect from the Ardei leaders, including her always arrogant uncle. However, her grandfather and father repeatedly reminded her not to be willful and to be a good wife to Maximus...

This trip back to her parents' home finally made her realize that she was not marrying Knys for inferiority, but that Aldei had to rely on Knys to survive, which made her noble among her compatriots.

So these days she began to try to integrate into this new family, but her temper would occasionally show up, like today when she argued with Nessia to show her difference.

After dinner, Nessia decided to walk around the camp to see how other tribesmen's families were resting and eating, and try her best to help them solve some problems. She felt that this was her duty as the leader's wife, just like what Maximus did when he led the rebels on the move.

Nessia walked out of the tent, followed by several soldiers as guards.

She first walked around the camp and found that Manas not only ordered his own men to do things. He also asked hundreds of soldiers from the Fourth Legion in the nearby Todlido Village to help him arrange for the arrival of the Nix tribesmen and the Aldi tribesmen to stay in the camp and maintain order in the camp. He also asked the foreign auxiliary people in the village to help boil water and cook broth. He even prepared enough wheat straw and some linen cloth in the camp for the tribesmen to make beds, provided small pieces of bread for those who were short of dry food, and provided some goat milk for the babies...

Although the whole scene was still a bit chaotic, the entire migration team had no organization to begin with, so it was very thoughtful of him to be able to do this. Of course, this was also inseparable from the full cooperation of the Fourth Legion Commander Aulus and the Todlido Branch of the Foreign Auxiliary Civilian Administration.

Looking at Mainas running back and forth and shouting in the distance, Lesia felt relieved. She did not disturb him and began to visit the families of the tribesmen who had already settled in the camp.

First, there were the families of the chief officers of each department. These people had regular contact with Nessia and were quite familiar with her.

The wives of Volenus, Capito, and Horace were all nurses in the original medical battalion. They supported each other all the way from Italy and were close friends of Nessia. However, for a while, Nessia was reluctant to meet them because they all became pregnant after marriage (it seemed that the three commanders were in good health despite their age). It was not until Nessia figured it out and asked Maximus to marry Phrysliusia that she resumed contact with the three friends. This time, Volenus and his men were too busy to move with their wives, so Maximus sent someone to tell Nessia to "take good care of their wives and children." Nessia asked Aconis to arrange a subordinate from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for each of them to take care of them along the way.

Not only these three, but also the wives of several other department heads were treated equally.

The wives of Pygris, Cornelius, and Cephisophon were all from Segestica, of noble birth, and good-looking.

According to Pigris, he married a noble woman from Segestica in order to better learn Illyrian and Celtic languages. Moreover, as the head of the Ministry of Commerce, he often received envoys from other tribes. His wife's appearance also served as the face of the Nix tribe. Most of the tribesmen thought he was right.

Kephisophon married a noblewoman from Segestica because he wanted to study Illyrian and Celtic culture and language more deeply, so as to integrate them into the ritual culture of the Nix tribe, and even create a writing system of Nix in the future (this was Maximus' suggestion, which made him very excited). His wife had studied with Druid priests for a period of time. Although she did not become a priest in the end, she was a rare tribal woman in the area who was educated and knew a little Latin. Kephisophon married this wife, which was more like finding a colleague who could provide him with a lot of help. As for her origin and appearance, he didn't really care...

This is what Maximus said to Nessia in private, and Nessia believed it without a doubt. In her opinion, this head of the Ministry of Rites, apart from his normal work, loved to wander around with a pen and paper, record, or fall into thought, just like those famous Greek scholars in the rumors before. It is estimated that he is not even interested in sex, because his wife has not been pregnant yet.

Cornelius' marriage has always been a topic of great interest among the tribesmen. It is said that his wife seduced him. After he married her, she gave birth to a child within half a year. The tribesmen knew that the child was someone else's, and people often joked that he was a "cheap father". For this reason, Maximus publicly praised Cornelius, saying that "his marriage was his own effort to better integrate the Segestica tribe into the Nix tribe", and gave him some material rewards, and even issued a decree through the Council of State: If a formal tribesman marries a widow of Segestica or Scodischi and raises her child, the tribe will give him a reward.

Nessia felt that Cornelius's wife was the most capable of dealing with women among the wives of department heads. She would flatter him every time they met. She was not only sweet-talking, but also knew how to look at things and act accordingly. However, Nessia always felt a sense of rejection in her heart and was unwilling to stay with her for long.

On the contrary, she preferred to get along with Sidonios' wife, even though she was a lowly slave girl from Scodischi, not young, not very pretty, and even not talkative. It was said that when the two of them were together, the room was as quiet as if no one was there. However, she was diligent and took good care of Sidonios, and she was kind and helpful.

Akonis once wanted to recruit her into the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but was opposed by Maximus, who even joked, "If Sidonius' wife reduces her care for Sidonius because she is busy with the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, causing him to go hungry and sleep poorly, and causing the tribe's legal work to stagnate, then it will be Akonis' fault."

The three chief officers of the Ministry of War were Maximus's right-hand men, but their families had little contact with Nessia, and there was certainly a reason for this.

Quintus never married again.

Frontinus married Carina, who was said to have been too busy with work to have children, so she went to Emmerich to learn how to use contraception, which disgusted Nesia, who was unable to get pregnant. Frontinus had no other choice but to adopt an orphan named Segestica who had lost her parents in the war.

Leberus' wife was a Latin. When the civilian army that Leberus joined was defeated by Sulla, he was captured and became a public slave, but his wife never remarried. When Frontinus brought Leberus and other military slaves to join Maximus' army, she got the news from somewhere and came to Campania with her 12-year-old child, found Leberus who was in Pompeii at the time, and finally joined the team together, which became a good story among the rebels at that time.

But later everyone discovered that Lebirus's wife had a bad temper and was a little arrogant, so no one was willing to interact with her. Although it was said that her temper had been restrained after the establishment of the Nix tribe, the inherent impression was difficult to change for a while.

Lebilus' wife was surprised by Nessia's visit and thanked him again and again, which made Nessia finally realize that she had indeed changed a lot.

After visiting the wives of the department heads, Nessia went to visit the families of other tribesmen.

After visiting more than a dozen tents, she felt tired and her legs were heavy. Remembering that she would have to give massage to Foresliusia and Gnian Dafla soon, she had to stop walking around.

On the way back to the big tent, Nesia couldn't help but sigh: I tried it a little tonight, but I felt it was difficult to persist. Last year, when the leader led the army north from Italy, he visited the soldiers in the tents one by one every night when camping, and he never gave up. How did he persist?
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The sun sets and night falls.

There was no one walking around on the road on the south bank of the Kupa River and in the camp next to the Todlido village. Both the Knicks and Aldei people who had relocated had already checked in and rested, and the surroundings were completely quiet.

Only a tent at the entrance of the camp was still flickering with light.

There were three people in the tent. Minas, the clerk of the Ministry of Commerce and the director of this camp, Cassius, the director of the Intelligence Department of the Secretariat, and Naisuya, the director of the Documents Department of the Secretariat, were sitting around a small fire pit. Firewood was burning in the fire pit, bringing warmth to the tent.

Minas, who had been separated from his companions for several months, was talking incessantly about his experiences in the Ministry of Commerce, while Cassius and Naisuya were listening attentively and eating beans in their bowls with a crunching sound.

(End of this chapter)