Chapter 31 It had a silly grin on its face

Xie Mianmian remained silent for a while before telling Snow Wolf everything the Sixth Princess had said.

A muffled voice came from below, "But I don't want to use the arrows I learned to use to hurt you."

The child rubbed his face against the snow wolf, leaving a wet mark on its clean, warm fur.

The snow wolf gazed tenderly at the soft, fragrant human cub and said, "On the grassland, rabbits eat grass, I eat rabbits, lynxes eat me, or if I accidentally die, mushrooms will eat me. This is the law of life, and no one can escape it."

"The Sixth Princess has her own ideas, she is not wrong, and Mianmian, you are not wrong either."

"But Mianmian, you can't impose your ideas on others. You don't have to understand, but you have to respect. Every life will follow its predetermined path, and you can't force it."

The snow wolf looked at the child, who was engrossed in his own thoughts, and spoke gently, his words carrying a hidden meaning.

Xie Mianmian lifted her little face from the snow wolf's belly, frowning, her tone still sullen, "I understand. It's like I hate eating sour fruits, but you can't stop everyone from eating sour fruits. But do sour fruits deserve to be eaten?"

The snow wolf lowered its head and licked the child's hand. "This is fate, and no one can control it."

Feeling comforted by the snow wolf, Xie Mianmian lay quietly under its belly, remaining silent.

Just then, something poked the child's bottom, but she didn't move. The thing persisted and poked her again.

Xie Mianmian turned around and saw a giant python with a blank expression. When it realized that the child was willing to pay attention to it, the tip of its tail happily swayed from side to side.

Looking at the giant python with its silly grin, she remembered the way the Sixth Princess gave her the bow.

Xie Mianmian said helplessly to the snow wolf, "I threw the bow on the ground. Mianmian is such a bad child. The Sixth Princess must be very sad."

The snow wolf stroked the child's head with its fluffy tail. "Go, tell her what you want to say."

"Okay!" Xie Mianmian felt refreshed after figuring it out. She got up and started brushing the weeds off her body.

Suddenly, a small yellow flower was presented to her, delivered by a jade-pink tail.

It turned out that the child had ignored the giant python and only talked to the snow wolf. The python looked aggrieved, thinking it had done something wrong that made the child dislike it.

The helpless python hurriedly searched for treasures in the garden. After picking and choosing for a long time, it finally picked a small yellow flower that had just bloomed. Its bright color was just like the color Xie Mianmian had when she smiled at it, it thought.

Xie Mianmian's eyes lit up. She took the flowers with her little hands and said with delight, "Thank you, Giant Python! These flowers are so beautiful!"

"Oh! I've got an idea how to apologize to the Sixth Princess!" The child patted his forehead. "I'll make her a flower wreath as an apology gift. I'll give her this spring, hee hee."

Xie Mianmian smiled happily, overjoyed with her brilliant idea.

The child jumped up and hugged the giant python with both arms. "Giant python, please pick some flowers for me. I want to make the most beautiful flower wreath in the entire palace!"

When the giant python was hugged tightly by the child for the first time, it stiffened up, becoming as hard as a snake's club frozen in the dead of winter.

Feeling the continuous warmth emanating from the soft baby, the giant python felt a heat rising on its face, and its tail, which had been wagging happily, froze.

"Giant python, let's go!"

Xie Mianmian excitedly led it by the tip of its tail toward the flower bushes.

And so, the small figure dragged the enormous python along ahead.

The snow wolf watched their departing figures with amusement, then suddenly felt the little wolf pup inside its belly wriggling. "This little cub is really mischievous!" it thought. It slowly closed its weak eyes and lay back down in the grass.

A child with her hair in double buns sat on a grassy field full of flowers. In front of her were colorful flowers. Xie Mianmian kept her head down and her hands were busy. Soon, a small flower wreath took shape.

The giant python was also busy, picking and choosing the small flowers with the tip of its tail. "This one isn't pretty," it said. "This one's petals are all gone." The python always tried to give the best to the children.

Xie Mianmian placed the flowers in full bloom on the wreath, the bright flowers clustered together, and she also wrapped some green leaves around them as a garnish.

This wreath brought together all the beautiful sights of spring, and Xie Mianmian was extremely satisfied.

She picked up her things, stood up, and said to the giant python, "Alright, the wreath is finished. I have to go now. I'll come see you again tomorrow."

Hearing that the child was leaving again, the tip of its tail, which had been busy picking flowers, drooped sadly, and its round head slumped listlessly.

"Da da!"

Xie Mianmian took out another finished flower wreath, and she tiptoed and carefully put the wreath on the giant python's head.

Sensing something being placed on its head, the python dared not move, for fear that the flower wreath the child had placed on it would fall off.

It slowly raised its head, its lake-green eyes filled with surprise, and the tip of its tail wagged happily.

"Here's a gift for you. Thank you, giant python, for helping Mianmian pick flowers. I'm off now, see you later!"

The smiling child ran off into the distance.

Only the giant python with the flower wreath on its head remained standing, watching the child leave with reluctance. Even after the child's figure became a small black dot, it still did not leave.

Xie Mianmian ran back to the archery range, but couldn't find the Sixth Princess anywhere. Had she gone back?

Finally, the child saw the sixth princess by a pavilion. She hid the flower wreath behind her back and happily walked over.

The Sixth Princess ordered people to search for Xie Mianmian for a long time, but they could not find her.

Upon seeing the child suddenly appear, the Sixth Princess was initially delighted, but then, with a blank expression, she pulled the child into the pavilion.

Before Xie Mianmian could speak, the Sixth Princess personally opened the food box on the table and brought out plate after plate of exquisite pastries.

She said with a somewhat unnatural expression, "I will never do that again. After you've eaten these pastries, just pretend that incident never happened."

After thinking for a long time, the sixth princess finally realized that the child was treating the tamed wild animals as companions, and that it was really wrong of her to ask the child to herd the wild animals together for her to hunt.

Well, with such a soft-hearted study companion, what else could she do? Not participating in the spring hunt was fine too.

"What are you standing there for? Eat up!" What's going on? Is she still angry with her? The Sixth Princess nervously clenched her sleeves.

Xie Mianmian shifted her body awkwardly, then took out an exquisite flower wreath from behind her back.

Holding the flower wreath solemnly in both hands, the child said softly, "Sixth Prince, I'm sorry, it was Mianmian's fault. I shouldn't have lost my temper, and I shouldn't have thrown away the bow you gave me."

As she spoke, she realized how bad she had been. The child's lips drooped, and she held back her sobs.

The sixth princess was startled by the flower wreath that was suddenly shoved into her face.

In that instant, she smelled the fragrance of spring flowers.