Chapter 2 (2/2)

The vampire stood beside her. Seeing that she wasn’t trying to run, it lifted its head once more and continued to absorb the Qi from the surrounding.

Of course, the time it takes to wash a single set of clothes was not that long, so after she finished squeezing the clothes dry, she began to notice the sticky, uncomfortable feeling from her own body.

Sneaking a peek, she saw that the vampire seemingly did not pay her any mind. She silently took off her s.h.i.+rt and wiped herself using the clothes.

The spring water was especially clean and pure, after being used to hard work for sucha long time, she was relieved by the sensation of the refres.h.i.+ng water on her skin. She was originally a labor maid at Liu Manor at the western village. Since she was dumb and because of her slow reactions, her parents sold her and never came back to visit.

She lived at the Liu family for six years. All the other servants in the manor knew that her mind worked slow and happily dumped all the dirty, hard work on her shoulders.

She never noticed this, and continued to humbly work for all these past years.

After she disappeared, the Liu family would definitely report it. But from the outset, it would seem to be a simple matter of a maid running away, so after a few days everybody would have forgotten her.

Qiao-er wiped herself clean, and noticing that the vampire still didn’t plan to leave, she untied her hair, took off her shoes, pulled her pants up and washed her head using the clean water.

After she finished drying her hair, the vampire still looked at the moon as usual. She slowly wiggled a bit to the left, and seeing that there was no reaction, she sneakily wiggled away some more.

Like that until they were five, six steps apart, the vampire suddenly turned its head, it’s face frozen stiff with no expression. Qiao-er could feel its intense blue glowing eyes staring her down, keeping a tab on her.

She was scared, so she obediently shortened their distance again. It lifted its head and paid no mind to her anymore.

Like that, until the Yins.h.i.+ hours (1), it moved and carried Qiao-er back to the cave on its shoulder.

Standing in front of the coffin, it dropped Qiao-er down. This time Qiao-er had learned, she pulled its hand toward a small tree nearby to air her laundry. It stood silently by, n.o.body could tell what it was thinking.

Finally, both of them returned to the coffin. Qiao-er crawled inside through her own accord, and it immediately laid on top of her once more, squis.h.i.+ng her like a pancake.

The coffin lid was closed once more as the sky began to brighten.

In the morning somebody came to replace the water and food. Qiao-er looked through the gap of the coffin lid, and she could see that it was the priest apprentice Little Fourth.

Having finished his task, he opened the coffin and looked inside. Obviously, the vampire was still sleeping. He smiled beamingly and slapped Qiao-er, and Qiao couldn’t dodge it in time. After the slap, she tried to hide behind the body of the vampire.

The little priest smiled evilly, but it did not make any more trouble for her and left.

After making sure that he was really gone, she peeked her head out from underneath the vampire’s neck. She quickly thought of its fangs and turned around to look at its lips. She couldn’t lift it’s lips up to check, and couldn’t figure out where the fangs went.

She then digged her hand inside its mouth, wiggling all about trying to find them, but there was nothing to find.

Who knows when, but during this process the vampire woke up. It was midday, the sun was high in the sky and the vampire seemed to be in a lazy state of mind as it stared at her.

Qiao-er lifted her head and met its deep blue eyes head on. She grew startledand quickly pulled her hands out. There was no saliva inside its mouth, but there was a fishy scent.

Only now did Qiao-er fully comprehend what she just did, her hands casually wiping on the coffin side. There was no reaction from it, it just seemed sleepy, its eyes slowly narrowed as it stared at her.Then, it closed its eyes, no longer moving.

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