I didn't know you were such a vampire

After Count Pesaro came to Rome, he was warmly received by the Borgia family. The Borgia family had been promoted to the archbishop of Valencia, Cesare, and Juan, who was the Duke of Gandhia in Spain, personally accompanied him. I spent several days in and around Rome.

However, after staying in Rome for a few days, he naturally knew the rumors in Rome. People said that Miss Borgia, who was married to him, suffered from leg problems and hadn't appeared in public for a long time. Probably not. To be seriously ill is to become a cripple.

So the first time he saw Qiao Ya, who had an elegant and calm gait, and a beautiful and delicate appearance, he was full of surprise. In Juan's words, his eyeballs were about to fall off.

It was at a dinner party in Palazzo Orsini.

It has been nearly four months since Rodrigo announced that Joya was seriously ill and refused to see visitors. During these four months, apart from Cesare and Juan having other social activities, the Orsini Palace has rarely held All kinds of banquets.The name of the dinner this time was to clean up the dust for Count Pesaro, but after everyone knew that Joia Borgia would also be present, they knew that the Pope wanted to bring back his daughter who had been away from the social circle for more than four months. Public view, so the participants were more or less curious.

They thought they would see a haggard Miss Borgia, but they didn't expect that when the girl who was about to turn fifteen a few months ago was accompanied by two maids of different races, she came with a wave of dissatisfaction. The temperament and brilliance that are ostentatious, but people can't take their eyes off.

Joya didn't pay much attention to the curious and probing eyes of the guests, she went straight to Adriana who was sitting in the main seat.

Adriana has been staring at her since she appeared, as if checking whether her steps are suitable for a noble lady from a wealthy family, and when she walked to her side, a smile was on her face, and she walked over. Qiao Ya's hand, said: "Is your body better?"

Qiao Ya also smiled: "It's nothing serious."

After she finished speaking, she separated her eyes and looked at Adriana's side. Juan and Lucrecia were standing behind Adriana, and they were winking at Joya.

Standing beside Juan is a stranger in luxurious clothes. He looks 25 or [-] years old. Unlike the members of the Borgia family whose whole family is of Spanish silhouette, he has a standard Italian appearance, even a bit more ancient Roman. Human appearance, high nose bridge, wide chin.He was of medium build, only a little taller than Juan, who was still young.

He stared at Qiao Ya closely, his eyes full of surprise.

Juan looked back at him, then at Qiao Ya, and raised his eyebrows at Qiao Ya.

After the banquet, Joya and the young Count of Pesaro, Giovanni 552, had a formal meeting. Afterwards, Rodrigo and Ascanio arranged the wedding date half a month later. Held at the Borgia Residence in the Papal Palace in the Vatican, it was presided over by Pope Rodrigo himself.

In the Orsini Palace, almost everyone was not surprised by the sudden change in Qiao Ya's attitude.

Ever since Rodrigo ordered her to be placed under house arrest, everyone took it for granted that Joya would succumb, or in other words, find the real her.When she asked her Egyptian maid who didn't understand the language to bring a sincere letter of apology to Rodrigo, everyone began to laugh and celebrate to Rodrigo, saying that the ignorant girl at home finally understood her father's goodness. Work hard.

And Adriana stepped into Qiao Ya's room for the first time in four months. She looked around the room where Qiao Ya had been imprisoned for four months, and then turned her attention to Qiao Ya's clean up. The neat desk, smiled and said: "Sure enough, I'm going to get married, even the desk has started to clean up by myself."

At this time, Qiao Ya was standing in front of her four-poster bed, like a mannequin in a shopping mall window, letting Julia and Lucrezia play with her expressionlessly.

Julia held her arm, looked at her wrist carefully, and said that the sleeves of her clothes must be well designed so as to reveal the delicate wrists of the bones, while Lucrecia was neatly placed on the bed After choosing one of several sets of dresses with gorgeous colors, he took the shoulders of the skirt and put it on Qiao Ya: "Qiao Ya, try this set, it must be very suitable for you."

Qiao Ya let Lucrecia put clothes on herself very cooperatively, and turned her head to Adriana and said, "Of course Lexia came here early to clean up for me."

Lucrecia turned her head and stuck out her tongue at Adriana.

Adriana smiled and straightened her skirt, sat down on the chair in front of the desk, watched the two young girls, Julia and Lucrezia, hurrying back and forth, and said slowly, "Gioia, you have seen Pe Earl Salo, what do you think?"

"It looks too ordinary." Qiao Ya said honestly, "I like good-looking ones."

After several people were silent for a while, Adriana patted her chest with a smile, and said, "Joya's answer is really surprising."

Qiao Ya smiled: "Haven't I been a surprise for many months ago?"

Before Adriana looked at her, she turned her head and talked to Julia about girls' wrists. Julia looked at her, then at Adriana, with a strange expression on her face. A little uneasy.

And Adriana stood up from the chair, walked slowly to Joya's side, stretched out her hand to find the skirt in Lucrecia's hand, gestured along Joya's shoulder line, and said, "Your father invited you Torriccio painted portraits of him and your children in the Borgia Residence of the Pope's Palace in the Vatican. You know, even if there was Pope Innocent VIII who disclosed that he had an illegitimate child, the Holy See has been there for thousands of years. , but none of the popes dared to bring their children with them, and even painted them in the residence of the Pope’s Palace.”

Before Joya answered, Adriana hugged her shoulders, took a step forward, and whispered in her ear: "He loves you very much, don't repay him with resentment."

After that dinner, Joya, like when she didn’t write to Rodrigo before, still sleeps until the sun is high before getting up slowly. Fortunately, after the ban is lifted, Lucrecia can often come to talk to her, Julie Ya also brought her new books that her brother had found in other cities.

Until two days before the wedding, Count Giovanni of Pesaro sent an invitation.

The messenger was the bodyguard brought by Giovanni from Pesaro in 552. He was handsomer than Count Pesaro himself. He half-kneeled in front of Joia like a knight in the Middle Ages, and said earnestly, "Count I think that the spring scenery in Rome is beautiful, the weather is warm, and even the water of the Tiber River has faded from the cold. It happened that the count brought two fine horses from Mantua from Pesaro, so I wanted to invite Miss Borgia tomorrow Let’s ride a horse together and tour the city of Rome together.”

It was noon at this time, and besides Lucia and Alicia, two foreign maidservants in Joya's room, there was also Julia who was holding several pieces of lace fabrics and wanted to discuss fancy styles with Joya. His eyes flicked around the bodyguard at first, and then he smiled and said, "What? Count Pesaro wants to race a horse with Joya?"

The guard didn't dare to raise his head, and just said, "The count just wants to visit Miss Borgia's hometown with her."

Julia laughed out loud when she heard this sentence, and Qiao Ya accepted the invitation card from him with a smile, and said, "It just so happens that I haven't ridden a horse for a long time, and I haven't had a good time visiting Rome. It's a good time to take a walk along the river. Tomorrow after noon prayers, please wait at the gate of the Orsini Palace, the count."

Qin Wei said happily: "The Earl must be very happy to know that you agreed to this invitation."

Probably God overheard this invitation and gave the day of the appointment a fine and sunny day. Qiao Ya just got up, yawned and stepped down on the floor beside the bed when she saw Lucia open the window, Outside the window is a clear blue sky with only a few thin clouds floating.

Lucia turned her head and saw her with dazed eyes, so she made a good morning gesture.

She returned an extremely bright smile to the other party, and then asked, "Are you all ready?"

Lucia nodded vigorously.

Qiao Ya took a step closer to her, and then took her hand hanging by her side. The skin on the back of her hand was a little dark because she had been doing some rough work since she was a child, and her palms and fingertips were covered with thick calluses. After Qiao Ya held her hand, Lucia anxiously wanted to take it out, saying in non-standard Italian: "Ugly, ugly..."

Qiao Ya held her hand tightly and said, "I have known since I was very young that such hands with stories are the most beautiful hands." She held Lucia's hand on her chest before, then raised his head, looked into the black eyes of the other party, and said, "At this moment, I have no money, no rights, and no right to choose myself. I can't give you enough rewards. I am very grateful to you , but the verbal thanks are too pale, I don't know..."

Before she finished speaking, she heard Lucia say something in Arabic.

During the period of living with Lucia and Alicia, although she taught the two girls of different races simple Italian, she also learned a few sentences of more everyday Arabic, so she heard that Lucia said "Need not".

With a smile on her face, Lucia withdrew her hand from Qiao Ya's, and then began to communicate in Arabic mixed with Italian plus body gestures like their previous communication method.

She said that she was very happy to hear a Catholic girl in a foreign country praising the last queen of their Islamic world, which gave them a little more comfort for these foreign girls who traveled across the ocean to change their beliefs in hopes of surviving.It was their mother's decision to leave their homes, but without this seemingly absurd decision, the entire village would have died in the border war between the Mamluk dynasty and the Ottoman Empire.

The status of women in the Islamic world is very low, and they have no right to speak, but their mother who has been silent for half a lifetime suddenly made such a crazy choice, and what is even more crazy is that basically the people in the entire village decided to follow her, all in The pagan world on the other side of the ocean got a chance to survive.

Sometimes, after an unreasonable struggle, what can be ushered in is a new life.

She paused, then looked at Qiao Ya seriously, and said in broken Italian: "Everything will be fine, Miss Qiao Ya."

Qiao Ya froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "Thank you."