I didn't know you were such a vampire

By the time Joya finished reading the Decameron to Marko, the winter in Votra was coming.

The winter on the Apennine Peninsula is mostly cloudy and rainy, and even the rivers on the peninsula are the most turbulent in winter and spring, but Votra is different from other places. There is no rain or snow here, and the sun is warm every day. The dead branches and flowers in the garden are illuminated in a different style.

After finishing reading the "Ten Days Talk", Qiao Ya picked another day, walked around the booksellers in Waterla City several times, and selected a few books suitable for children.

During this time, she walked from Volturi Castle to the small alley at the corner of the town to visit Marko every morning. The residents in the city were already quite familiar with her. He also greets her when he meets her.

The booksellers in the city often travel between the city of Voltra and Florence, and when Joya was busy picking books, they would chat with Joya about the situation in Florence.Probably because they live in a wealthy small town, when the residents of Votra mention the big city of Florence, they always have some joking self-deprecation and ridicule of Florence in their tone.

"I heard that the Medici family has completely lost the support of the public." The bookseller sat behind his bookstall, dragging his voice, "Even Botticelli, who used to be close to the Medici family, chased after him every day." Listen to Savonarola's sermon."

Joya can now fully understand the dialect of the Voltera region. She picked up a collection of Dante's poems from the bookstall and said casually, "But the Medici family is still in power now, isn't it?"

"That's right, the Medici family sent envoys to the Vatican." The bookseller said, "The pope's illegitimate daughter is going to get married soon. I don't know who the Medici family will send... ..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. Looking up, he saw that Qiao Ya was bending down to pick up the book of Dante's poems, then reached out and patted the dust on the cover of the book, and said : "How much is this book, I want it."

The bookseller smiled and said, "That's not suitable for children."

"I'll see for myself." Qiao Ya said, throwing twenty Soldi on the bookstall, paused, and then asked, "The Pope's illegitimate daughter is getting married? Which illegitimate daughter?"

"How many illegitimate daughters does the Pope have?" The bookseller leaned back on the chair again, "Didn't the older one fall into the water and pass away at the beginning of this spring? There is only one left, of course the remaining one. what."

Qiao Ya nodded and stroked the cover of the book with her fingers. After a while, she greeted the bookseller and left the bookstore with a few children's books she had selected earlier.

Although the winter in Votra is still sunny, night falls very early. After the sky darkens, the temperature drops suddenly. People who still feel hot during the day should shiver under the quilt at night.

The room where Marco stayed was even colder. He is a vampire and is not afraid of severe cold, but he has an instinctive fear of fire. At first he dared not approach Joya holding a candlestick. The fear of candlelight only slowly moved forward, and Qiaoya saw that he was so afraid of fire, so she naturally didn't dare to light the fireplace, and only relied on a candle and a cashmere shawl to keep warm.

As far as these two pieces of equipment are concerned, they can withstand a little bit when there is only Marco in the room. If Caius begs Bailai to follow, the cold created by the two vampires will easily break through this little defense. Qiao Ya could only shake for more than ten seconds every time she read a paragraph, and then read the next paragraph.

On this day, Caius followed with the reason that "I heard that a new book is going to be read, so I reluctantly came to listen to it." However, what he didn't expect was that the new book Joya was going to read was "The Peloponnesian War". "History", he listened for a while with a dark face, then turned and left the room, and after seeing him leave, Ma Ke seemed to be relieved, lying on Qiao Ya's lap, looking up, tightly stared at Joya.

Qiao Ya rubbed the soft golden hair of this little stone, and said, "I read this book to you more than a year ago, do you remember?"

Ma Ke still looked at her helplessly, without any reaction.

Qiao Ya smiled: "It doesn't matter if you don't remember, I will read to you what I have read to you before, and what your mother has read to you, okay?"

Marco tilted his head: "Mom?"

"Yes, it's Mom. She taught you to write your own name and told you many stories." Qiao Ya said.

"Where's mom?"

Qiao Ya's hand movements suddenly paused, she lowered her head, and met Ma Ke's eyes, before she thought about answering Ma Ke's question, she saw Ma Ke looked at the wall with his head tilted and said, "Bad!" , The bad uncle is outside."

Qiao Ya blinked, then coughed twice, cleared her throat: "Marco, that one outside is my brother, not my uncle." Although her boyfriend is more than 900 years older than herself, it can be regarded as a Year-end love is rare in the world, but at least on the surface it cannot transcend generations.

"Another brother came and stood with uncle." Marko said.

"It's brother." Qiao Ya corrected, and then tapped the forehead of this little stone, "Can you actually feel the gender of this person?"

Vampires have extremely keen insight and can perceive people within a certain range, but Qiao Ya has never heard of a vampire who can perceive the gender of a person.

"I, I saw it!" Marco said, raising his chin proudly.

Qiao Ya was a little surprised. She patted Ma Ke's head, then stood up, walked to the door of the house, opened the door, and the vampire standing at the door also sensed her footsteps and turned to look at her. In addition to Caius who has been standing at the door, there is Alec standing opposite him.

Qiao Ya frowned slightly. Could it be that Ma Ke's eyes could penetrate obstacles?

Alec seemed to have just arrived, and before he started talking to Caius, he lowered his head slightly when he saw Qiao Ya opened the door, and said, "Miss Qiao Ya, I have a letter from you." He paused , "from Monteriggioni."

Joya sent the letter in early autumn, because she thought that Ezio was on a mission in Venice, so she filled in the name of the recipient as Claudia, but this letter is as slow as the winter in Voltra. The late reply turned out to be a thick stack of letter paper, all of which belonged to a man's scribbled and wild handwriting, signed by Ezio Auditore.

It seems that Ezio hasn't written a letter for a long time. After reading it for about ten minutes, Joya found a dozen misspelled words in the letter. When writing the letter, he used very simple words. In the letter, he didn't ask Joya too much about what she said about Ma Ke's illness. He just confirmed that Ma Ke was safe.

And about two-thirds of the thick stack of letter paper was ghostwritten for Claudia. Although Ezio was not stingy, he loved his sister very much. Claudia said that she saw it every day Paper and pen are a headache, so he wrote down Claudia's thoughts in the letter by the way.

For example, the owner of the bathhouse in Monteriggioni decided to add a variety of incense in the women's bathroom; for example, the head of the brothel in the city decided to marry to Florence; for example, the fat cat in the old Clo's tavern became less energetic as he got older. In the past, maybe because he was afraid that his master would be sad, he left home one morning and never came back. Old Crowe was so sad that he was not happy for several days.

"Why do you say this is so, no matter whether it is really dead or not, as long as it is not around, old Crowe will be very sad."

Qiao Ya paused when she saw this. The fat cat in the old Crowe tavern often jumped to sleep on the barrel of wine. Every time, the old Crowe would chase it and run around. With sweat on his forehead, he said out of breath, wondering if his brain had been flooded back then, so he brought this smelly cat home.

She sighed, resting her cheeks in her hands, watching the dancing flames on the silver candlestick.

"Why are you sighing?"

Qiao Ya raised her head, and her eyes just met Caius who was half kneeling on the window sill.

Caius was wearing that ivory white shirt, with the starry night sky behind him, making him look like a star falling from the sky, falling on her window sill, turning into a delicate and beautiful young man.

Qiao Ya looked at his ruby ​​eyes, and after a long time, she finally made up her mind and said, "My sister is getting married."

Caius frowned: "For humans, isn't getting married a very happy thing? Why don't you look happy at all?"

"She... probably replaced me and married my original fiancé." Qiao Ya said.

Caius said: "Then I should thank her, why don't I go to Ah Luo to get some good things and give her a gift when she gets married?"

Qiao Ya: "...why do you want it from Ah Luo?"

"All the good things are in his place." Caius said, "Marcus and I don't care much about those things, and we don't know how to manage them, so he is in charge."

Qiao Ya: "...So it turns out that Arrow is in charge of finance."

She smiled, and when she smiled, Caius's brows eased a little, and he continued: "What does your sister like? Gemstones? Gold? Or famous paintings? I have never given anyone anything, so I don't know what to do." What to give, I told him to bring out the best ones, and you can choose."

Qiao Ya: "I think he should be reluctant."

Caius raised his chin: "He couldn't bear me so he killed him."

Looking at him like this, Qiao Ya felt that this old guy who had lived for nearly 2000 years was too cute. When he made the proposal, his eyes lit up a lot, and he was sincerely choosing a gift for his sister.She stood up, leaned forward with her upper body, reached out and stroked Caius' hair, and said with a smile, "Thank you."

Probably because no one dared to break ground on the head of the law enforcement elder for 2000 years, so the law enforcement elder was stunned, and when he recovered, he felt a little more temperature on his cheek that was extremely unfamiliar to him. .

He blinked and met Qiao Ya's smiling eyes.

"Thank you, Caius."