I didn't know you were such a vampire

When night fell, a wind with moisture finally came to Rome. It passed through the alleyways of the city, jumped over the corners made of brick and stone, and brushed the olive tree leaves in front of Joia's window, and on her window sill. Wandering forward, the flames on the chandelier also danced.

"Jeffrey excitedly told me this morning that he saw Qiao Ya flying on the roof. This child is not young, why can't she always distinguish between reality and dreams?"

Lucrecia was helping Qiao Ya tidy up the books on her desk while talking about them.

Like Qiao Ya, she has light golden curly long hair, but unlike Qiao Ya who always tied her hair up, she likes her long hair and always lets it fall like a golden waterfall behind her. At dusk and under the lights, the color of this long hair is extraordinarily beautiful.

Adriana's daughter-in-law, Julia Farnese, and Gioia are leaning on both sides of a Casa Panca bench. Hair, smiled and said: "Isn't this interesting? The flying woman who appeared in the Vatican, that might be an angel."

Her voice is soft and sweet, and there is always a faint smile when she speaks.She is only one or two years older than Joya, but she exudes the unique style of a mature woman in terms of body and temperament. In Juan's words, it is marriage that makes a woman grow.

She was born in a mercenary noble family. She was engaged to Adriana's son Orso when she was 13 years old. She came to the Orsini Palace with a dowry of three hundred florins. Sobi was a few years younger than her, so she didn't complete the wedding with Orso until the spring of this year, and the wedding was presided over by Rodrigo.

Joya also took her younger siblings to the wedding at the time. Julia, 16, was wearing a white satin wedding gown, with a sweet face and watery eyes—not at her husband Orso, but at the 60-year-old Cardinal Rodrigo.

Amidst Juan's noise of "Gioia, look at how beautiful the bride is, you will definitely be prettier than her when you get married", from the eye contact between the two, Joya saw another romantic legend belonging to Italy .

After the wedding, Orso was sent by Rodrigo to a villa of Borgia's family in Bassanello to learn how to lead troops to fight, and his beautiful wife Julia who stayed at home became Rodrigo's wife. Another of Ge's mistresses.

After Joya heard the news, besides the exclamation of "as expected of an Italian", occasionally when she went to Rodrigo's bedroom, she would stare at Rodrigo's charming face despite the gray temples, and then Inexplicably, an idiom commonly used in my previous life emerged in my mind:

The sword is not old.

Julia has a beautiful appearance, a soft and cheerful personality, and a very close relationship with Lucrecia.She knew that Qiao Ya didn't like to talk and only liked to stay at home and read books, so she would bring back some books that Adriana had listed as forbidden/books for Qiao Ya.

That "Ten Days Talk" was what she asked her brother to get from another city.

Qiao Ya closed the book, turned her head and glanced sideways at Lucrecia who was arranging the books with her back facing her, then turned around, smiled at Julia and said, "I think the Holy See will call her a witch,"

At this time, the incumbent Pope Innocent had issued an encyclical a few years ago, condemning witchcraft and superstition. There was a wave of hunting and killing witches throughout Europe, which caused a lot of panic among European women for a while.

Hearing what she said, Julia quickly sat up straight and said seriously, "Qiaoya, please don't talk nonsense."

Qiao Ya smiled and waved her hand, indicating that she was joking: "It's just that I heard that Subiako burned a foreign woman to death last month, so I was a little touched."

During this period, women who were single for many years or their husbands died early, or even appeared alone in a foreign land, were mostly said to be witches, and then were burned at the stake by the people.

Qiao Ya once sighed before that if she was not wearing the soul when she traveled back then, she would wear it with her dreadlocks, hooded sweater, denim shorts, black cat tattoo on her calf, red AJ shoes and The skateboard in his hand is probably about to be tied to the stake before he understands the situation.

She got up from the bench and put the book in her hand back into the bookcase. At this time, Lucrecia also cleaned up her desk, which was usually full of various books, with her hands on her hips and her fair and pretty face. A look of pride on her face: "Don't worry, Qiao Ya, I will protect your desk and bookcase during your visit to Florence, so that Adriana will not find out the little secrets in your bookcase!"

Qiao Ya narrowed her eyes with a smile: "Then leave it to Lucrecia."

After the surroundings were quiet, Julia took Lucrecia back to her room to rest. Joya drove away the maid who was about to wash her up, and sat by the window for a while.

The sun was shining brightly during the day, and the moon was extremely bright at night. Sitting in front of the window, in addition to admiring the moon, she could also feel the rarest wind in Rome in summer. Looking for a few books to read, and thinking that Lucrecia had just cleaned up the desk and bookcase for her, and in less than an hour, if she messed up again, she would have to be taught a childish lesson by that little girl frowning, So he forcibly held back.

It was not until the surroundings were completely quiet, and there were no more figures in front of the Corinthian columns of the courtyard cloister, that she got up from the chair, closed the windows, and drew up the velvet curtains that were only used in winter.

After the moonlight was blocked out of the window by the curtains, only candlelight remained in the house, and the flames fluttered between the quartz ornaments, casting strands of gold and silver intertwined light on the ground.

Pulling the window curtain seemed to be an order, and Qiao Ya's sleepy eyes suddenly became refreshed. Holding the hem of the bright satin skirt, she ran to the floor of the four-poster bed in the room, squatted down, and got out of the bed. A set of plain clothes was taken out from underneath.

She took off the bead chain on her head, braided her hair into two braids, wrapped it carefully with a black and white headscarf, took off the gorgeous and luxurious robe on her body, and put on the plain-colored men's suit on her body.

In just 10 minutes, Miss Borgia can transform into a common boy on the streets of Rome.

Without the luxurious robe, Qiao Ya also walked more briskly. She opened the window curtain, opened the wooden shutters, and jumped onto the window sill. After observing that no one was walking in the courtyard, she stretched out her hands to hang He climbed onto the raised lintel on the top of the window, exerted strength with his arms, and supported his whole body to climb onto the lintel.

And that's not her end.

Taking advantage of the illumination of the moonlight, she exerted her right leg, and then volleyed over the verdant olive tree in front of her window, and landed on the lintel of another nearby window.

This isn't her end either.

Like a vigorous climber, she climbed and jumped on this building, and then ran and jumped from the joint of the eaves of the house, passed the fountain garden in the center of the Orsini Palace, and came to the tower in the southeast corner , stepping on the arched lintel of the tower window, climbed to the highest point of the tower.

It took her only 10 minutes to climb to the top of the tower from the window of her own room.

After a series of climbing and jumping, her breath was a little messy, but she didn't sit down immediately, but stood on the edge, looking into the distance.

The Vatican City is located on the Vatican Heights in the northwest corner of Rome. Although the tower of the Orsini Palace is not as perfect as the Vatican Palace, you can still have a panoramic view of the lights of Rome when you climb to the top.

Rome at this time has not completely escaped from the nightmare of the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Countless people still die from the plague every day in poor areas. In addition, Pope Innocent devoted himself to the extravagant life, and In preparation for the Crusades in Turkey, the Vatican treasury was running low, and the Pope even had to pawn the bishop's crown on Palm Sunday to buy palm leaves and distribute them to people.So much so that priesthood sales are rampant, and the Holy See openly sells indulgences at high prices. You only need to spend part of the money to buy an indulgence, and you can be pardoned for theft, robbery, or even murder.

So Rodrigo never allowed the young girls living in the Orsini Palace to go to Rome alone, out of fear of the plague that had plagued Europe for hundreds of years, and also out of consideration for the personal safety of single women .

At the end of the fifteenth century, Rome, the glory of the former empire was gone, and it became a paradise for criminals and a purgatory for settlers.

But it's also bustling and noisy.

Just from the flickering lights, you can get a glimpse of the prosperity of thousands of years ago.

Joya only knew that this place could see the city of Rome from a distance last year. At that time, Juan excitedly took her to the gate of the tower and told the maids of the Orsini Palace that the height of the tower was just half the height of the tower. The city of Rome has a panoramic view.It's just that for the safety of the children, Adriana locked the door of the tower to prevent them from climbing up the tower, so it is unrealistic to go upstairs directly from the gate.

"I really want to see what Rome looks like from this angle." Juan said dejectedly.

Qiao Ya didn't speak at that time, but just rubbed the soft brown curly hair on the top of his head.

That night, she changed into the youth clothes she had secretly hidden, ran on the roof of the Orsini Palace, and then climbed to the top of the tower.

This is her first parkour since she came to this world.

This body is only in her teens, very immature, whether it is physical strength, limb strength, or reaction ability, it is not as good as she used to be. When she climbed the tower, she was so tired that she could only lean on the roof. After resting for a while on the haystack above, I dragged my body, which was gradually recovering from the limit state, to the edge of the roof to admire the lights of thousands of houses in Rome at night.

She thought of her former self.

Climb the peak with your own hands, cross the ravine with your own feet, and the scenery you can see from a high place is really beautiful.

This is also her original intention to practice parkour.

One day, she'll step over this wall and go where no tower can stop her.

Qiaoya stayed on the tower for a while before returning the same way, but before she turned the window back to her room, she noticed that the curtain had been moved, so she jumped directly from the top of the window beam to the porch, and then went back to her room. Jump down the pillar.

She pulled back the scarf, let the two long braids hang down to her shoulders, smoothed the messy hair at the temples, adjusted her breathing and expression, opened the door, and walked into the house.

The light entered the water, clearly illuminating all the furniture and furnishings in the house, as well as the boy wearing a white Schumitz shirt and black Shaws trousers, sitting on the Dante chair in front of the desk.

He has dark brown hair that hangs softly on his shoulders, which seems to be a trait inherited from generations of the Borgia family. Everyone's hair is soft and shiny, but his face It's not as soft as his hair, his brows are lowered, filling his whole face with an indescribable hostility, but his light blue eyes are as clear as a mountain stream without any impurities.

He was not surprised by the masculine attire on Qiao Ya, but said in a flat tone: "The desk is so tidy, it seems that Lucrecia came to tidy it up."

"You know, the little girl will never let go of the opportunity to scold me." Qiao Ya walked behind him without changing her expression, and threw the scarf she was clutching in her hand onto her bed, "Cesare, you haven't slept so late , is there something wrong?"

"I heard that you are going to Florence?" Cesare turned his head to look at her, "It seems that you know?"

Qiao Ya was a little surprised: "It seems that you already knew."

"It's not very early, just this morning." Cesare stood up from the chair and stretched his slender limbs, "I always knew that my mother had a younger sister who married Florence, and I sent a messenger here not long ago. After receiving the letter, mother hesitated for a long time before writing a letter and sending it to father's palace, and today father called you over alone."

Qiao Ya smiled: "I didn't know you would be interested in these trivial matters."

Cesare also smiled: "Father taught you to be good at observation. Trivia can also determine victory or defeat."

"You did it." Qiao Ya began to untie her braids, "What do I need to say? You won?"

"No, I'm here to say goodbye." Cesare held back his smile, "I'm going to the University of Pisa."

Rodrigo had long thought of sending Cesare and Juan to university for university education. Cesare also studied law at the University of Perugia before, so Joya was not surprised. She untied a braid, He casually asked, "What do you study? Is it the military theory you want to learn?"

"No, it's folklore, canon law, and theology." Cesare tapped his fingers on the table lightly.

At this moment, Qiao Ya looked up at him, looking into his cold blue eyes.

"It's just the beginning, it doesn't matter," he said. "What I want, I'll get."