I didn't know you were such a vampire

When Ricardo came back, Joya hadn't fallen asleep yet. She had just wiped off the puddle that Caius brought into the house, closed the window, drew the curtain, rubbed her lower back, and then Lie down on the bed.

The aesthetics of the carpenters in Florence and the carpenters in the Vatican are somewhat different. The carpenters in the Vatican would engrave stories from the Bible on the bedposts. She even saw Abraham offering sacrifices on Cesare’s bed.The carpenters in Florence engraved the bedposts with various series of love stories from all over the world, from the head of the bed to the end of the bed.

Qiao Ya sank deeply into the soft quilt, sighed, and when she was about to fall asleep in a daze, she heard a rapid neighing sound from under the window.

She suddenly woke up again, climbed up from the bed with difficulty, then lifted a corner of the curtain, and looked down from the corner of the window.

At this time, the rain outside had completely stopped, and the stone pavement was covered with large and small puddles, and the reflections of the buildings on both sides could still be seen. Qiao Ya clearly saw the carriage painted with the Totti family crest parked in front of Totti's mansion.

At this time, Florence had basically fallen into a deep sleep, and no one cared about the carriage driving into the empty night.

Ricardo got out of the car first, walked two steps forward, and stepped onto the steps in front of Totti's mansion. Then, the other hand stretched out from inside the carriage and opened the curtain of the carriage.

It was a man's hand, but it was different from Caius' slender and pale hand. This hand was broad and rough, with raised knuckles, as if it belonged to a warrior who had held a weapon and fought on the battlefield for many years.

Qiao Ya opened her eyes slightly, held her breath, and wanted to see this, but before he stepped off the carriage, Ricardo, who was standing in front of the steps of Totti's mansion, seemed to have sensed something, and turned his head towards her. Come, she immediately put down the window curtain, took a quick step back, and sat on the chair in front of the desk.

Then as soon as she sat down, she felt the coldness spreading from her thighs.

She had forgotten to clean up the water that Caius had left on the chair.

She knocked on the desk with her forehead.

Ten minutes later, there was a sound of slow footsteps from the corridor outside the door. When the footsteps passed by her door, she stopped. She turned her head towards the door, and heard Ricardo's voice at the door. A voice came from outside: "It's getting late, Qiao Ya, go to bed quickly."

Qiao Ya froze for a moment, and immediately got up and ran towards the door. She opened the door and looked towards the stairs on the third floor, just in time to see Ricardo's tired back. The sound of the door opening stopped her footsteps, and Qiao Ya couldn't help shouting: "Mr. Totti, I...I want to ask..."

Ricardo paused, then said, "What do you want to know?"

"Martina... my mother..." Qiao Ya lowered her eyes, "Is she okay?"

Ricardo turned his head, looked at her, smiled, and said, "Don't worry, I will do my best to keep her."

Qiao Ya clenched the doorknob tighter. She nodded and stopped talking. After Ricardo walked up the stairs to the third floor, she silently closed the door.

She wants to know more, but everyone still treats her like a child.

This heavy rain is like a sign of the official end of summer in the Apennine Peninsula.

From that night onwards, the temperature dropped sharply. Adriana hadn't expected that the temperature in Florence would be so abnormal this year, so she didn't bring many autumn dresses in the luggage she packed for Joya.

Lisa got up early in the morning and searched through her closet, but because of the size disparity with Qiao Ya, she couldn't find any autumn clothes suitable for Qiao Ya.Fortunately, when Grandma Elisa came downstairs, she saw two trembling girls with distressed faces. They smiled and took out an old crimson dress from their closet.

"This is my daughter's dress back then. I was reluctant to throw it away, so I brought it from Arezzo to Florence." Grandma Elisa squinted her eyes and looked at Lisa's help, and put the long dress on Qiao Ya , with a smile on the corner of her mouth, smiling, she stretched out her hand to wipe her eyes, and Qiao Ya just turned her head and saw the tears filling the gully on her face.

Grandma Elisa stood up, walked around Qiao Ya, and said with a sob: "Your mother also wore it before, and she was only a little older than you are now, because she was hungry for too long and thin. I was so distressed that I hugged her and squatted by the firewood for a long time, and sang the song when I put my daughter to sleep, and then she whispered, "Aunt Eliza, can you sing so well?" It's too ugly'..."

Probably because the clothes were too warm, Qiao Ya didn't tremble any more. She helped Grandma Elisa sit on the chair, squatted at Grandma Elisa's feet, looked up at the The old man wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with wrinkled hands, thought for a while, and said, "Grandma Elisa, has she ever told you why she chose such a road?"

Giving up her good life in Rome and her status as the cardinal's favorite mistress, she went all the way north, eating and sleeping in the open, and was almost burned to death on the stake as a witch.

"She has her own ideas." Grandma Elisa touched the hair on top of Qiao Ya's head, "But you just need to know that she is not a heartless woman."

"There is no doubt that she is a beautiful woman to the extreme, but at the same time, she is a heartless woman. She only has herself in her heart. Anyone is just a slave who crawls at her feet and allows her to trample. A Greek slave girl, It’s just a humble life. She ordered two male slaves to put the poor Greek woman on the porch, and she approached each other with a knife in her hand, and then pointed the sharp blade at the neck of the Greek female slave.”

Joya picked up the fork placed by the Medici servant next to the dinner plate, and stared at the black-haired young man sitting opposite her with stern eyes.

The black-haired young man was stared at by her with hairs on his back, like a catapult, he leaned back behind him, and then covered his neck with both hands.

Piero laughed out loud at his actions, and said, "Aonzo, what is your posture?"

The black-haired young man Aonzo glared at him: "Piero, I'm afraid you forgot who the one who slapped the table and cried loudly yesterday!" After speaking, he looked at Qiao Ya again, this time with pleading eyes, " Qiao Ya, today I gave you the king's laurel crown, can you stop looking at me when the Roman ladies kill people?"

Qiao Ya still had the vicious and fanatical look: "Come on, come here, my little cutie, I spent a lot of money to buy you from the brothel owner, you are so young and beautiful , the blood must be very delicious. I saved you, you will definitely use your blood to repay me, right?"

Aangzuo looked around helplessly, and found that everyone was also looking at him with expectant eyes. After struggling for a while, he squeezed his throat and shouted: "Don't come here! You Don't come here!"

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter, especially Piero who laughed the loudest. Aonzo said with a mournful face, "Qiao Ya, don't look at me next time, can you look at other people?"

Piero suggested without hesitation: "Why don't you keep an eye on Caius?"

As soon as this proposal came out, everyone was silent for a moment, and then applauded loudly. Only Aonzo shouted, "This will scare Qiao Ya", but this sentence was also drowned in the applause one after another.

Joya turned her head and looked at Caius, who had been holding his arms across his chest, expressionless, and Caius also raised his head. There was no smile in his dark brown eyes, nor did he have the usual murderous look when he faced Piero's bold proposal. .

He knew Qiao Ya didn't dare.

This time, the fork slipped from Joya's hand and landed next to the dinner plate. There was a crisp sound when the metal collided. Everyone's attention was focused on this little accident. Piero just stood up. Come, I wanted to ask Qiao Ya what happened, but I saw that there was already a little water in Qiao Ya's gray-blue eyes.

He froze for a moment, then slowly sat back in his seat.

Almost everyone was attracted by the tears in her eyes, following the arc of the tears rolling down her cheeks, to Caius who she was looking at.

Caius frowned slightly, a little puzzled.

"I remembered." Qiao Ya said suddenly.

She stretched out her right hand, but everyone found that her arm was trembling slightly.She seemed to want to touch Caius' face with her hand, but her hand was suspended in mid-air, but she couldn't move forward any more.

"I remembered, Ares." She cried in a crying voice, "Why are you leaving me at this time."