I didn't know you were such a vampire

Florence became one of the wealthiest cities in Europe with its developed handicraft industry and banking industry hundreds of years ago, and it is also the financial center of the whole of Europe. The rich and proud Florentines thought of a good way to show themselves, that is to build an unparalleled church.

So, they designed a very grand blueprint.

It’s just that the work was stopped shortly after it was built according to the drawings... because they found that the church was too big to be topped.

So this bald church without a dome has been an unfinished building in Florence for more than a hundred years.During this period, it was not that no one thought about planting hair on the bald top of this church. However, in addition to a lot of money, a very talented craftsman was needed to build the dome. People dare to challenge.

However, this church is located in the center of Florence where people come and go. Everyone can see the bare church roof when they look up, from the city hall officials to the traffickers. , the church without the dome has become a huge and comical landmark in Florence.

Joya: "..."

Although Joya knew in her previous life that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was not crooked by the earthquake, but was actually repaired and crooked by the Italians, it was the first time she had heard the legend about the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Oolong, she still silently compared her thumbs in her heart:

As expected of the Italians, how many times do I have to say this sentence.

"Until my great-grandfather appeared." Piero puffed out his chest proudly, "He spent a lot of money, funded Brunelleschi, and sealed the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. What everyone sees today is the highest point in Florence!"

Qiao Ya clapped her hands very cooperatively, moving her eyes from side to side, and saw that everyone seemed to be surprised. It was probably similar rhetoric, which everyone had heard too many times.

Piero's great-grandfather, Cosimo Medici, who contributed to the repair of the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, is quite famous, at least in the family education of the Orsini Palace, Adriana once emphasized this. people.

It was he who not only managed the Medici family bank in Italy, but also expanded its business to North Africa and the Ottoman Empire; apart from the commercial field, he also established a tyrant and became the uncrowned king of Florence; and at the artistic level, He respected the eccentric character of those artists, and spent a lot of money to support the creation of artists, which made Florence have a unique artistic temperament.

According to Piero, Brunelleschi, the architect who designed the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, was one of the "eccentric artists". so that they are not seen by other families.But Cosimo took a fancy to his talent and hired him to build the dome of the church, and he really built it.

At the beginning of construction, many people thought that the roof would collapse, but after so many years, the roof still stands proudly in the city, piercing the sky.

So everyone went to study how the roof was built, but it is a pity that Brunelleschiski has always created independently, and any ideas and designs only exist in his own mind. It is full of graphics and code words that others cannot understand, so with the death of Brunelleschi, this question has become an eternal mystery.

On the day when Qiaoya first arrived in Florence, she saw the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore from a distance in the carriage. The sun was shining brightly that day. The red dome of the cathedral and the walls decorated with white as the main color and pink as the main color, Under the sun, it seemed to be coated with a thin layer of holy light.

The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is magnificent in the daytime, but when she stands in the night, it is no less impressive.

Without the bustling crowds in the square during the day, it is more peaceful here.

When she followed the crowd to the foot of the church, she raised her head and looked at the high dome.

This is really a dome piercing the sky.Neither the roof of Totti's house nor the tower of Orsini Palace, which can see half of Rome, can't be compared with it.

Until Caius's clear voice broke into her ears: "Do you think the roof of Totti's mansion can't satisfy you?"

She came back to her senses, turned her head in a panic, and her eyes just met the collar of Caius's white shirt, and between the collars was his protruding Adam's apple. She immediately turned her gaze back and looked forward. Hierro had already walked a certain distance with those young men, and they were still happily chatting with each other about the interesting things about building the dome back then, completely missing the point of this trip, that is, Qiao Ya and Caius. The two strangers had fallen behind.

Qiao Ya breathed a sigh of relief, and when she looked at Caius again, her eyes became extremely serious. She pressed her right index finger to her lips, made a silent gesture, and said in a low voice: "Didn't we promise to do this for you?" Were they kept secret from each other?"

There was a mocking arc on the corner of Caius' mouth: "I repeat, I have no promises to you."

"Okay, there is no promise between noble vampire hunters and humble humans." Joya raised her voice slightly on purpose.

Caius squinted his eyes. Joya knew that he was going to release his slave owner's killing declaration again, so she immediately stopped the "kill you" that poured into her throat, and said with a smile: "Shouldn't vampire hunters kill vampires?" So, why are you always screaming to kill me?"

Caius stared at her for a while, then turned his head to look aside, and said, "Do I need to care about the race of the prey if I want to kill?"

Qiao Ya took a step forward, turned around, came directly opposite Caius, and said, "Then can you tell me how you killed the vampire?"

"What do you want to know about this?" Caius asked.

Joya didn't look at him either. Her eyes flicked around, looking at the dome of the church, and then drifting to the door of the Baptistery of San Giovanni opposite. She whispered, "People are always curious creatures."

"Then I'll tell you, and you can tell it as tomorrow's story," Caius said.

"Of course not." Qiao Ya raised her eyes to look at him, and said with a malicious smile, "Mr. Volturi, who has seen through my little plot, will definitely not let me succeed. Is it right?"

Caius stood still, lowered his head slightly, looked at her, and said, "Are you really not afraid that I will kill you?"

He still had that clear voice, but different from his usual arrogance, his voice was very soft now, like catkins flying all over the city in early spring, without any focus.He just looked down at Qiao Ya, the light in the night was limited and too cramped, but Qiao Ya could still see the brown in his eyes fade slowly, and the ruby's light became more and more intense.

She looked back and saw that Piero and the others were walking around the corner. It seemed that they hadn't noticed what happened to the two strangers. She hurriedly exclaimed in a low voice, "Caius! Your eyes!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the waves in Caius' eyes instantly calmed down and returned to their original color. He stared at Joya for a long time, and only when he knew Piero's shout came from afar did he open his long legs. He bypassed Qiao Ya and walked to the front, only to say a murderous sentence to her: "You have a good idea."

Qiao Ya stood there for a while, touching her nose inexplicably.

What does "You think beautifully" mean...?

The ten-day story team didn't stay in the city for too long. After visiting the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, several men from the club sent two of the women back home. Sophia's family lived near the Lord's Square. It was far away, and the Totti mansion where Qiaoya lived was on the other side of the Arno River, so she followed the crowd to send Sofia off first, and then walked to the Totti mansion.

As soon as the group passed the Ponte Vecchio, Aonzo called out first: "Isn't that the carriage of the Totti family?"

Qiao Ya looked in the direction of his call, and she saw the carriage painted with the Totti family crest coming rapidly from the depths of the night.

The coachman stopped the horses at the end of the bridge, and the carriage stopped firmly in front of Joya. Before she could speak, she saw that the curtain of the carriage had been lifted, revealing the face of Ricardo sitting in it.

He also seemed to have just come back from the bank, and he still had thick dark circles under his eyes, but when he looked at Qiao Ya, there was still a soft smile in his eyes: "Is Qiao Ya's activities over?"

Qiao Ya nodded: "I'm about to go back."

"Then get in the car, let's go back together." Ricardo said.

Qiao Ya said goodbye to the teenagers, and was helped by the driver to climb into the carriage. However, when she just lifted the curtain of the carriage door, she first caught a glimpse of two pairs of black boots belonging to adult men standing opposite each other in the carriage.

Ricardo was not the only person in the car.

Without revealing her face, she waved to the teenagers standing on the bridge, and then, holding the door curtain with one hand and the skirt with the other, she got into the carriage.

The interior of the carriage was dimly lit, Ricardo sat by the window, and opposite him sat a man in white.

He didn't wear the gorgeous and complicated Schumitz shirt and tight trousers like most men in this era. His white clothes were plain and simple, without any decoration, but tailored to his burly figure, only The small cape slung over the shoulders, the red neckline, and the hood buttoned on the top of the head covered the upper half of his face, making his outfit very special.

His cuffs and waist are tightly bound by leather materials, looking chic and neat.

At this time, there was a shout from outside the carriage, and the carriage began to drive slowly. Qiao Ya sat beside Ricardo, and just as she sat down, she heard the man in white on the opposite side tease: "Riccardo, many I haven't seen you in a year, besides a beautiful wife, why do you have such a beautiful daughter?"