I didn't know you were such a vampire

Qiao Ya was gently pulled out of her dream by the early morning birdsong.

When she woke up, there happened to be a ray of sunlight shining on her cheeks through the thin window screen. As soon as she opened her eyes, she could see the light blue sky outside the window, which was slowly moving like smoke. cloud.

She rubbed her eyes, propped her upper body on her elbows, and sat up. She lowered her head for a while and looked around. It wasn’t until she realized that she had trekked across mountains and rivers to Monteriggioni not far from Florence the day before, and she didn’t know whether it was a coincidence or fate that the Ezio Auditore she was looking for was here.

Thinking of Ezio, she jumped up from the bed like a frightened sparrow, grabbed the clothes hanging by the bed, put them on her body, and rushed to the door of the house.

However, before she opened the door, she heard a gentle knock on the door. She calmed down unexpectedly, then exhaled and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was Claudia. She seemed a little surprised that Qiao Ya opened the door so quickly. After scanning Qiao Ya's eyes up and down, she said, "Why are you still wearing this suit?"

Joya was still wearing Abud's clothes, but after traveling from Rome to Monteriggioni, the clothes that were originally the cleanest and tidy for Abud were already covered in sweat, dirt, and crumpled. Clinging to Qiao Ya's body.

"Hurry up and change it." Claudia said as she entered the room, "You just took a shower last night."

Probably because Claudia, as the finance minister of Monteriggioni, has held financial power for many years, which gave her an aura of indisputability. Joya obediently retreated into the room, drew the curtains on the windows, and took off the curtains. He took off the clothes that belonged to the boy, folded them neatly, and placed them on the head of his bed.

"Are you still thinking about giving it back to others?"

Joya heard Claudia behind her asking, she nodded, and said softly: "Although I also know that it is very likely that when I return to Rome, he will not be able to wear this suit anymore, but it is someone else The most precious thing at this stage, I should keep it well no matter what.”

Claudia laughed: "What a soft-hearted child."

Then, Qiao Ya heard the sound of the wooden door being opened, she turned around following the sound, and saw Claudia opening the walnut cabinet in the corner, holding the door with one hand, and looking for it in the cabinet with the other. what.

Under Qiao Ya's curious gaze, she found some clothes from the cabinet, then straightened her waist, and walked towards Qiao Ya: "I was about your age when I escaped from Florence. At that time, I was in a hurry to escape, and I didn't bring any clothes, only these two sets."

She put a skirt on her wrist, shook the other skirt, and held the skirt to Qiao Ya's shoulder: "It should fit well." She looked at the length of the skirt and raised her head again. Looking at Qiao Ya, she smiled and said, "You put it on first, and I'll find a tailor to make you a few sets later. What style do you like? Do you want the sleeves leg of lamb or something? Do you want lace?"

Qiao Ya was a little dazed by her successive questions. When she came back to her senses, she whispered, "I...I don't have a favorite style."

"Why not?" Claudia said, "When I was your age, I already asked my two brothers to send me all kinds of lace patterns."

"I..." Qiao Ya just opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to continue.

Her and Lucrecia's clothes have always been arranged by Adriana. She just needs to stand upright and let the tailor make gestures on her body to measure the size. After a few days, she will be able to collect To brand new clothes, she never paid attention to the style, color of the clothes or whether the cuffs were sewn with lace.

In other words, from the very beginning, she did not have the right to freely choose what to wear.

"I..." Qiao Ya thought for a while, and clutched the corner of her underwear with her fingers, "I want to wear pants."

Women in this era, or women in the next four or five hundred years, were not allowed to wear trousers.In the traditional concept of Europe, tight tights on the upper body and long skirts that drag the floor can be said to be the standard dress for women. In the 500th century, many countries prohibited women from wearing trousers into the law. , this instruction was not abolished until the "Napoleonic Code" in 1909, and even in the world wars at the beginning of the [-]th century, female soldiers who joined the army still wore skirts when they went to the battlefield.

In her previous life, as a straight man, Qiao Ya seldom wore skirts. In addition, her small hobbies, whether it was parkour or skateboarding, were not suitable for wearing skirts, so that her wardrobe was full of All kinds of sweatpants.

It's just that she didn't expect that once she traveled through time, she would even have to wear pants secretly at night.

Martina's words through the window reminded her of who she used to be, and also gave her an urge to fight for what she wanted.

However, in Italy, where the status of women is already very high, there were still many restrictions at the end of the fifteenth century, and the pursuit of relatively free rights would only be unreasonable in the eyes of others, just like her first time in Vanoza. When I learned from the letter that the 16-year-old Martina chose to leave her hometown alone for the right to love freely, while feeling shocked, she felt like a native girl at the end of the fifteenth century. Lifting is not necessary.

So, after she finished saying this, she was ready to accept Claudia's shocked and puzzled eyes, and the uneasiness when she made such a request was overtaken to a relatively peaceful state of mind.

The light outside the window was blocked by the curtains, and only a faint layer of light was cast in the room. She didn't know if it was due to Qiao Ya's own psychology. It was so quiet that she even heard the crisp sound of metal colliding outside the window.

Before she realized what these noises meant, she saw Claudia smiled and said, "Ezio told me that you also like to climb to the roof, so I knew you must be like a tomboy " She raised the skirt in her hand, "But it will take a few days to wrong you, and it will take some time for the tailor to make the clothes you want."

Joya froze for a moment, while Claudia had already stuffed the two skirts into her arms, watching her take the skirts slowly, then raised one eyebrow, and said, "Put on the clothes, I'll take you to the training ground, Ezio is over there."

"Training Course?"

A noble lady who wanted to wear pants came to Rome, and Monteriggioni was not to be outdone. There is a noble manor with no garden in front of the gate and only a bare training ground.

When Qiaoya passed by here the night before, looking at this circular open space, the first thing that popped into her mind was the training ground, but she quickly dismissed this idea, only thinking that even the Auditore family They have been assassins for generations, but they don't know how to assassinate the target.So she guessed from the campsite of the Auditore family that the vegetable garden had been sown with seeds and hadn't grown yet, but she didn't expect that it was really a training ground.

At this time, the sun has completely enveloped this small town. The sun is not as fierce as at noon, but it is still dazzling. Standing on the platform of the Auditore Manor at a high place, Qiao Ya can see that every ray of light is like Like flowing gold, it rolled down on the eaves of the brick and stone houses connected to each other under the steps.

This town is quiet at night, the narrow alleys are full of pedestrians, there are tailors, pharmacies, blacksmiths on both sides of the street, and even prostitutes standing on the side of the road to solicit customers, even if Joya and the real Monterey There are still many steps between Juni, but it seems that he can also hear the continuous footsteps and the voices of people in the town.

Monteriggioni is like a sparrow, although it is small, it has all internal organs.

As she looked down and observed the town that started to get busy in the morning, she followed Claudia to the training ground in front of the house, and the increasingly clear sound of metal collisions in her ears made her finally understand Where did the voice she heard in the room come from? She turned her head and saw two men in white hoods holding long swords on the circular training ground. One was the main attacker and the other was the main defender. People, those who keep watch are watertight.

When Claudia and Joya approached the training ground, the two of them also ended the training. The guard put away his long sword, said something to the man who was the main attacker before, and jumped over the training The fence on the edge of the field, striding forward.And when he was walking towards him, Joya saw the face under his hood, which was Ezio.

Ezio's expression was relaxed, and there was no sweat on his forehead. It seemed that he didn't expend too much effort in the training just now. He walked up to Claudia in a few steps, and said good morning to Claudia first. Looking sideways at Qiao Ya who was standing behind Claudia, she raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "Meet you again, little girl from Ricardo."

Joya nodded at him.

"I heard from Claudia that you came here from Rome to find me?" Ezio asked.

Qiao Ya smiled helplessly: "Yes, but because I didn't explain clearly, Ms. Claudia misunderstood Mr. Ezio."

"Misunderstanding?" Claudia raised her voice, "It's not a misunderstanding, Ezio has done such things a lot."

Ezio touched his nose, as if a little guilty, he bypassed Claudia, came to Qiao Ya, squatted down slightly, looked at Qiao Ya with his eyes, looked at her hair again, and said: " Did the little girl suffer a lot when she came to find me this time?"

Qiao Ya was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "No, I just..."

"I know you must have worked hard." Ezio said with a smile, "If Ricardo knows that you care about them so much, he will be very relieved."

Qiao Ya suddenly felt a little heat in her eye sockets. She tried her best to open her eyes wide to avoid blurring her vision. She wanted to reach out her hand, but found that her hand was already trembling slightly. She managed to breathe steadily. He controlled his hand, grabbed Ezio's clothes, and asked in a low voice: "So... Ricardo... Ricardo..."

"By the time I knew it, it was too late." Ezio said, he reached out and patted Joya's messy hair, as if to comfort her, "When I came to Florence, Martina had died of illness and was buried in In the nearby church, Ricardo...has been executed, the whereabouts of the rest are unknown, and Marco...is mysteriously missing from the tower of the Lord's Palace."

"Didn't the assassin save it?" Qiao Ya's eyes widened.

Ezio was silent for a while, then said, "No."