I didn't know you were such a vampire

Qiao Ya's arrival seems to have become the dividing line of the recent weather in Florence. Before her arrival, Florence was full of wind and rain every day, but after her arrival, Florence was sunny every day, and the courtyard of Totti's mansion rang out again. Noisy cicadas.

And in this world, it seems that except for Joya, Italians like summer sunshine very much.

Every morning, when the first ray of sunlight climbs onto the roofs of Florence, the residents of this city will carry the noodles they cut the night before to dry on the terrace on the top floor. The noodles were drying on the church square where people come and go.

So much so that after Joya stretched her waist and opened the shutters of the room every morning, in addition to the layers of red roofs, there were layers of spaghetti everywhere.

Joya, who feels that she has recently suffered from spaghetti PTSD, has silently closed the windows and decided not to go out for the next few days.

And when she came out of her room, she would meet the two servants of Totti's mansion, like carrying water, carrying a horizontal log full of freshly cut noodles, passing by the door of her room, toward the passageway. Walking to the stairs on the third floor, after seeing her open the door, she smiled and said, "Miss Qiao Ya, there will be fresh noodles to eat soon!"

Joya: "..."

She thinks her pasta PTSD is probably going to get better.

Although the Totti family is a very famous family in Florence, its member structure is very simple. Joya only stayed here for two or three days before she had a clearer understanding of the family.

Unlike most branches of famous families and the situation where each branch has a large number of members, although the Totti family was once extremely prosperous, in the past hundred years, each generation has been very thin. Apart from himself, Ricardo's generation, There is also a sister who married Genoa, but she died of dystocia many years ago; and Ricardo himself has only one son, Marco, who can be said to be the rarest member of the nobles in Florence. One day, if the families gather to fight, the Totti family will almost be defeated.

The Totti family has few members, so there are naturally few servants. Except for Grandma Elisa who takes care of Martina who is bedridden full-time, there is only the little girl Lisa, and two strong and cheerful young men, Arturo and Syrio.

——Syrio was the boy who chatted with Lisa at Joya's door that day.

Ricardo didn't care much about other people's opinions. Even if someone sometimes speculated that the lack of servants in Totti's mansion was due to his business losses, and he couldn't hire countless servants like other nobles, he didn't care at all. In other words, enough people are enough, and if there are too many people, it will disturb Martina who is recuperating.

As he said this, he would reach out and pat Qiao Ya on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Martina is not in a good state recently, and when her state is adjusted, she will definitely have a good chat with you."

Since the first day I met with Martina in Florence, every day Martina closed the door to thank guests, saying that the disease was getting worse, and except for Ricardo and Grandma Eliza, no one else was seen. Marco is no exception.

Qiao Ya went to Martina's window that night, and knew that she didn't want to see her, but was worried. She understood Martina's feeling similar to the feeling of being close to home, so she naturally didn't pay much attention to it. After Kado comforted himself softly, he smiled and said, "When my mother recovers, I will pick some more before the flowering period of the carnations is over."

She saw the corners of Ricardo's eyes slightly, and she reached out to touch his nose, probably thinking of the carnations that were brutally murdered in her own family, so the smile on the corner of her mouth became even stronger.

Fortunately, during the few days of waiting, Joya can still pass the time by reading books and telling stories to Marco, and it also relieves the servants in Totti's house. He was a little at a loss, but he was no longer afraid that Qiao Ya would sell her out if he got upset.

On Sunday, all the members of the Totti family went to a nearby church to celebrate mass, except Martina, who was sick and bedridden.And Qiao Ya, who has been living in Totti's mansion for the past few days, had to get up early in the morning to tidy up her messy papers so that they could be seen by others, and then drank a glass with ice cubes in advance. Finally, under the urging of Ricardo, he left Totti's house with three steps, and went to face the summer sunshine of Florence.

The friends and neighbors of the Totti family had heard that Martina’s daughter who grew up in Rome had returned, but these few days Joya has never left her home, so no one has seen Joya What does it look like.On the contrary, some frivolous teenagers living nearby threw stones at the window on the second floor of Totti's house, but they just threw them at Grandma Eliza's window. Grandma Eliza opened the window and gave a Tosca meal to the young man downstairs. Na dialect curse.

Except for the people in Totti's mansion, no one else has seen Qiao Ya, keeping it mysterious enough will naturally arouse people's curiosity enough.

So, in front of the church where the Totti family held mass, many people gathered around who wanted to watch the excitement.

Joya took Marco by the hand, and when Ricardo walked to the entrance of the church, she heard several booing sounds, and when she took the wine that symbolized the holy blood of Jesus, she happened to meet the priest who went to the church with an inquiring look. look.

Qiao Ya got goosebumps all over from this gaze.

She was all too familiar with this look, the way Rodrigo had looked at Julia when he first met her.

After the mass, Ricardo and Grandma Elisa were going back to the mansion to take care of Martina. Joya wanted to go back with them, but before she could say anything, she saw Arturo, Sirio and Lisa three One person's shoulders bumped back and forth, as if encouraging the other person to do something. While she was wondering, Syrio, who was the most cheerful among the three, took a deep breath, his face was serious, and he walked with much more solemn steps than usual , came to Qiao Ya, staring, as if she had something to say.

Qiao Ya was a little confused. If she hadn't known that Sirio secretly liked Lisa, she would have felt that this scene was quite similar to a young male student who was confessed by a female teacher in a literary movie of an island country.

And Sirio, a young male student, held back for a long time. Under the urging of Arturo and Lisa behind him, he finally opened his mouth: "Miss Qiaoya, you want to eat noodles..."

Qiao Ya: "???!!!"

He paused, and immediately corrected: "I just said something wrong! I just wanted to ask Miss Qiao Ya if she would like to go to the Central Market with us."

Qiao Ya then withdrew the involuntary look of horror in her eyes, then lowered her head slightly, blinked her eyes, and said, "I still have..."

"I haven't read a few books yet." Before she could say the words, her sleeves were ripped off. She lowered her head and just met Marco's big blue eyes.

Marco conveyed his longing to her with his eyes without saying a word.

He wants to visit the central market.

"Then..." Qiao Ya hesitated for a while, "Let's go shopping."

The Central Market is located near the Medici Chapel. It is considered the bustling area of ​​Florence. Stalls selling all kinds of small commodities are filled indoors and outdoors, so that the flow of people here is huge and complicated.

As soon as Lisa arrived at the central market, like a little butterfly with wings, she flew to several stalls selling trinkets familiarly, and Syrio was worried about her, so he followed her closely; Arturo is probably a frequent visitor to the central market. There are always vendors greeting him along the way, and he always stops to chat with people.

So it didn't take long for a few people to walk to the central market, and they got separated in this crowded place.

Qiao Ya was not in a hurry. She took Ma Ke's hand and walked all the way. If she saw something she liked, she would stop and take a closer look.

Ma Ke didn't talk much, but he was very well-behaved. He took Qiao Ya's hand and walked forward slowly, and suddenly became interested in the shadows under the two people's feet, so he deliberately took steps to step on his own shadow.He tugged at Joya's hand, raised his head, and wanted to tell her about his new game, but he caught a glimpse of a wooden pony at a stall not far away.

Qiao Ya was pulled by him, and wanted to ask him what was wrong, but saw his eyes staring straight ahead, so she followed his gaze and saw the wooden pony placed at the front of the booth

The pony is purposely sculpted to be round and cute, with its tail flicked high, as if it is singing proudly towards people.

Qiao Ya smiled, bent her body slightly, and asked, "Do you like that wooden pony?"

Marko looked up at her, and put his other hand to his mouth, as if he was biting his fingertips with his small teeth. This was his gesture of expressing his intense inner struggle. He hesitated for a long time, then blinked his eyes , and nodded.

Seeing him like this, Qiao Ya smiled.

It seems that boys like horses since they were young. Juan often clamored to ride a horse when he was a child. Co could not walk when he saw the pony.

With the other hand, she rubbed the soft hair on the top of Marko's head, and was about to find out the money bag to buy the wooden pony for Marko.But just happened to feel a hand reaching into her purse.

She froze for a moment, and while she was in a daze, the boy who pulled the brim of his hat down snatched the purse from her hand, turned around and ran, and bumped into the young girl who was looking at the ribbon in the booth next door.

Qiao Ya subconsciously released Marco's hand, and chased a step forward. However, just as she took this step, she immediately reacted and turned her head, only to see that Marco was caught by a black man wearing cobalt blue Pulpovan. With the young man in his arms, he mixed into the crowd.

Qiao Ya's pupils were slightly dilated, she held up the corner of her skirt, stepped on the high platform shoes, and rushed forward, no matter how many people she bumped into along the way, and the person who carried Ma Ke away was also very fast, and soon disappeared from her sight disappears.

At this moment, a huge panic occupied all her consciousness. Standing among the noisy crowd in the central market, she almost shouted in despair and helplessness: "Marco!"

And a few seconds later, on the other side of the crowd, she heard an equally heart-piercing child's voice: "Sister, sister!"