I didn't know you were such a vampire

Not long after Alexander VI became pope, he made a marriage contract with the Sforza family, marrying himself and his mistress Vanoza's eldest daughter, Giovanni Sforza, to Count Giovanni Sforza of Pesaro. Fulfillment, the girl slipped from her horse and fell into the Tiber River during the flood season during a field trip in the spring of this year. The Holy See guards searched along the Tiber River to the vicinity of the mouth of the sea, but no one was found. The eldest lady can basically conclude that she has died in the raging river.

"After the funeral, the pope asked his younger daughter to fulfill the marriage contract instead of her sister. However, the younger daughter is still relatively young. She originally planned to get married in June next year, but the Sforza family kept urging her, so she decided to marry her in June next year. The wedding will be held this winter."

In street taverns, there are always people who drank in a daze and began to talk about current affairs. As Rome is the closest to the holy capital of Vatican, everyone knows what happened to the Holy See in recent years. There are still more than ten days before Christmas. Some people have already begun to review the annual news of the Holy See.

"How old is this little girl?" A middle-aged man asked, shaking the wine glass in his hand.

The noisy voices in the tavern made it take a while for the narrator to come back to his senses. He raised his head, thought for a while, and said, "I saw her and her sister once last winter, and she is no different now. Only twelve or thirteen years old."

"So young?" asked the middle-aged man a little surprised, "Is the Pope willing to marry?"

"Why don't you give up?" Several people around said in unison, and then they coughed twice and cleared their throats at the beginning, and then said, "Everyone knows that the Pope's biggest opponent in the election was Archbishop Ascala of Milan. Neo Sforza and Cardinal Giuliano Rovere, but in the end the Pope was elected. It is said that he bribed Sforza to get that very crucial vote, defeated Rovere, and became the Later, in order to continue the interests of the two families, this marriage was concluded. But after the Pope took office, there were signs of friendship with Naples, the enemy of the Duchy of Milan, so the Sforza family was anxious and kept urging marriage."

"Unexpectedly, the eldest daughter of the original fiancé fell into the river, and her life and death were unknown. Therefore, the marriage contract naturally fell on her younger sister. It has reached such a critical point that she doesn't care about the little girl's age. But the Pope It seems that after the wedding, let the youngest daughter live in the Vatican for a year, and then follow her husband back to the fief of Pesaro."

When he said this, everyone around kept nodding. Some people said that the Sforza family was so tense, so it seems that the relationship between Milan and Naples should be on the same level. He still doesn't care about his daughter's comfort.When mentioning the two fiancées, only someone joked with a smile: "I heard that the pope's little daughter is very beautiful even though she is young, and the dowry is very generous. Count Pesaro is so lucky."

When Joya heard this, she accidentally let the ceramic wine glass slip from her hand. Caius, who was sitting opposite her, reacted faster than her. Not a single drop of liquid spilled out.

He put the cup back on the table, stepped back towards Qiao Ya, and said, "Think they are noisy? Shall I kill them?"

Qiao Ya rubbed her forehead with her hands, sighed, and said, "You promised me that you won't talk about murder when you come out with me."

"But I don't like seeing you sigh even more," Caius said.

Qiao Ya looked at him, and found that Caius still had a real face when she said the love words just now, so she smiled helplessly, rested her chin with her right hand, looked at Caius with a crooked face, and said : "How long has it been since you sighed?"

"Never," said Caius, "I have never felt helpless in my life."

Qiao Ya raised an eyebrow: "Then when you thought you would never see me again."

Caius: "..."

Joya squinted her eyes and laughed a few times, and then said: "Caius, you know, a tavern owner cat in Monteriggioni quietly ran away from home."

"It's just running away from home," Caius said, "just catch it again."

"Humans are not as perceptive as vampires, and even cats are not as good. As long as the cat doesn't want you to find it, then you will never find it." Qiao Ya said.

"Why are you looking for a cat?" Caius frowned impatiently, "Human life is so short, why waste time looking for a cat."

"So you have never sighed." Qiao Ya shrugged, she turned her head slightly, looked at the people at the next table who were talking loudly about the marriage of the Pope's young daughter, and said, "Because people know that the cat left One is likely to die, and one wants to find it before it dies, and bring it home, and let it sleep on a cushion by the warm fire, though one can't stop complaining about it sometimes while it's around."

Caius' eyebrows were almost knotted: "I don't understand."

Qiao Ya didn't expect this elder, who has only known about beating and killing law enforcement for 2000 years, to understand such complicated feelings. She thought for a while, and then said: "When I planned to fake death to escape from the Vatican, it was when my relationship with my father dropped to a freezing point. , he should be extremely dissatisfied with my rebellious and unable to control daughter. People will be sad when the cat leaves, but I don’t know if he will be sad if I die.”

After she finished speaking, she shook her head: "Probably not, after all, no matter what I know about him or what I saw in my mother's diary, he is not the kind who would cry secretly for a disobedient daughter." people."

"So you came to the Vatican this time to see him?" Caius asked.

"No." Qiao Ya sighed again, and before she could fully exhale, she caught a glimpse of Caius's fierce eyes from the corner of her eye, and immediately swallowed the rest of her breath, pretending to be something Nothing happened, and said, "My sister Lucrecia is still very young. If I hadn't feigned death to escape, she would have been married for a few years. On the one hand, the tragedy of her life was caused by me..."

"So——" Caius raised his chin, his eyes were unkind, "You want to go back and marry that Earl Pesaro to save your sister?"

Qiao Ya: "...?"

"I'll kill him later, and you won't have a marriage partner." Caius gritted his teeth, with a sinister smile on his lips.

Qiao Ya hastily stopped: "...Wait, wait, don't get excited!"

Qiao Ya let out the breath she held back, then stroked her breath, and said, "I don't know how to get married, no one will marry me, and I came to the Vatican this time just to watch my sister get married from a distance. She paused, her eyes darkened, "This little girl has liked to listen to ancient Greek romantic myths since she was a child, and imagined that one day she would marry a prince from Mount Olympus. Stand behind her and see her off..."

At that time, Lucrezia was only about the same age as Mako now. She had the same light golden long curly hair as Joya, and blue-gray eyes. Although she was young, she was already a delicate little beauty.She grew up pampered and pampered by her sister, brother and aunt. She was sharp-tongued and smug from a young age. She often secretly wore beautiful dresses made by Adriana for Qiao Ya. Because she was much shorter, she stood tremblingly. Sitting on the chair, she let those misty skirts hang down under the chair, making her look like those little fairies walking in the rain and fog.

"I'm Eurydice, and I'm in Hades now." She smiled at Joya, "I'm waiting for Orpheus playing the lyre to save me."

"Orpheus and Eurydice are a sad story," Joya said. "He couldn't help but look back, so Eurydice fell into Hades again."

Lucrecia raised her small chin: "Then Cesare will come to save me, he will be braver than Orpheus!"

In winter, the city of Rome always rains for several days in a row. These rains gather together and eventually become the monstrous waves of the Tiber River during the flood season.

When Qiao Ya and Caius walked out of the tavern, it was raining again in the city. It was already night in Rome, and there were far fewer pedestrians on the street. The lintels on the walls and windows climbed up the roof of the tavern.

The light rain hit her cheeks, and she felt itchy when the raindrops slid down on her face, so she simply wiped her face, and gathered the broken hair from her temples behind her ears, and then found a few buildings decorated with lights and festoons not far away, He happily pointed to it: "Caius, look, there is the largest brothel in Rome, and roses are in full bloom."

After she finished speaking, as if she suddenly remembered something, she grabbed Caius by the collar and turned around, pointing to that side and saying, "There is the Vatican."

Her voice gradually dropped.

In the past, she sat on the tower of the Orsini Palace and looked at Rome, but now it is the other way around.

Caius saw that the excitement in her eyes disappeared in an instant, so he frowned and asked, "You don't like it?"

She froze for a moment, nodded, and shook her head again.

"I actually don't like it, but it's my hometown in this life." Qiao Ya said, "There are many people who have come here to worship with all they have, and there are many people who have been rescued, and also... many people have been saved. Destroy the place."

She looked up and saw Caius's clear red eyes under his black hood, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, the place that saved me is not there, and I am not destroyed there."