Chapter 264
Yun Mian secretly put the glass bottle containing the sap of the Mother Tree of Life behind her back, and looked away uncomfortably at the princess's curious and gentle gaze.
It was just that the high morale that I had originally intended to use to expose the other party inexplicably disappeared little by little.
Eric was delighted to see her return safely, and solemnly introduced her to the lover next to him.
"..." The child pursed his lips, put his hands behind his back and greeted the other person obediently.
Then he was invited by the two to live in the palace.
Yun Mian wanted to take back the conch that the prince had given her. It was a gift she was going to take back to Silver Moon Forest, so after thinking for a moment, she followed the two of them inside.
Before returning to the room where she lived before, Yun Mian received an exquisite gold-embossed invitation from Prince Eric.
"After discussion, I will hold a grand wedding with Lesia soon. Little Cotton must remember to witness that moment."
After he finished speaking, he put his arm around Lesia's, and the two of them leaned their heads close to each other intimately, smiling in tacit understanding as they looked into each other's eyes.
Yunmian: “…”
The child took the invitation gloomily. Thinking of the fish princess who was chased away by the sea witch but still tried every means to come to the land, he couldn't help but hesitate and looked up and asked: "Brother, have you heard of the legend of the eternal soul?"
Eric's eyes flickered, and he nodded decisively: "Of course, our human souls can always gain eternity with the blessings of the gods. This is a consensus that we all know."
But my mother said that was a lie.
Yun Mian couldn't tell whether Eric really believed it or was lying. She just frowned slightly and after thinking for a moment, she was unwilling to go around in circles anymore.
She looked at Sister Lesia apologetically, and then opened her white and tender palms to Eric.
The transparent glass bottle containing a drop of light green sap of the mother tree of life emits an extremely beautiful light halo in the sunlight coming through the window. Anyone who sees this drop of sap, even if they don't know what it is, can clearly feel its preciousness and extraordinaryness at this moment, just like the teardrop shed by the goddess of life when she closes her eyes, extremely dazzling and sacred.
"...What is this?" Eric and Lesia looked at the drop of juice and held their breath unconsciously, as if they were afraid of disturbing something.
Yun Mian did not look at it, but looked up and said to Eric seriously: "Brother, this is a gift for you, it is the juice of the Mother Tree of Life. Only one drop is needed to prevent a human from being infected or harmed by any disease before the end of life.
The storm on the sea was caused by Princess Yuyu. Although Princess Yuyu did not harm you and everyone else, and she later rescued you and everyone else from the deep sea, I’m sorry... Princess Yuyu will no longer harm humans sailing on the Sea of Hetanya."
After Yunmian finished speaking, she tiptoed and put the glass bottle into Eric's hand, then looked at the stunned Lesia and said softly, "Sister, my mother said that lies are very annoying. Everyone says that you saved brother Eric, but I don't think this lie is romantic at all."
She didn't understand love, nor did she know what true romance was, but if the two people really fell in love because of the non-existent life-saving grace, Yun Mian felt that the two people did not seem to be in love at all.
"Mom said that love is very important and precious..." Yun Mian took back her hand and said to the two stunned people, "Lies will make love become cheap and bad."
Her mother loved her and never lied to her.
Yunmian also loves her mother, so she never lies to her mother. Even if it is a white lie, she will say it with red face and stumbling, and her mother can see through it at a glance.
"I won't come to your wedding." The child took two steps back, opened his eyes wide, and said seriously and stubbornly, "Mom said that you would try to hurt Princess Mermaid after you knew about her existence. But if you hurt her, Xitanya will forever refuse your people's navigation and salvage, and I will never forgive the bloody Narva."
After Yun Mian finished reading the text that the system uncle asked her to recite, she no longer paid attention to the two people's reactions. She turned around with a stern face and walked away.
By the way, he did not forget to drag all of her conchs along with him as they left.
The little girl was dragging her big bag and walking slowly. Eric followed her back with his eyes, and after a long time, he slowly let go of Lesia's hand.
Not surprisingly, Lecia took a step back, looked at him and smiled, "It seems that your plan has failed, but I believe what you said before about the existence of mermen in the deep sea. In that case, should we continue with our wedding?"
Her blue eyes reflected Eric's slightly gloomy expression. She raised her eyebrows silently, but in her heart she was more interested in the little guy who had said something shocking just now.
Although he looked small, he could stand in front of her and Eric and seriously overturn all the plans and chess games, and would never proceed according to the process they had expected.
"Of course we have to continue." Eric seemed to have finally come to his senses, turned his head and looked at her, and said in a deep voice: "Your country and mine need cooperation, our marriage does not need any love or lies, let alone blessings."
Lecia was originally his intended marriage partner, otherwise he would not have prayed in the Temple of Poseidon the night before coming of age to have the other party meet his heart's desire.
But he didn't expect that his first attempt to seduce a mermaid on the night of his coming of age would fail like this.
If he had known this... that night when he was in the sea, he should have drawn his sword and stabbed the mermaid guard instead of targeting the young mermaid princess.
Perhaps one wrong step led to another. He had planned everything carefully, and even used various methods in recent years to announce the legend of the eternity of the human soul in the towns bordering Navarre and Hitanya. However, he never expected that a little Cotton, who was also very young, would suddenly appear in his plan.
If Little Cotton had not fallen into the water that night, he would have had the opportunity to meet the young mermaid princess who was obviously in a high position, instead of being lifted out of the water by an insignificant mermaid guard.
Later, by mistake, the mermaid princess would not take Little Cotton away. In a place where she couldn't see, Little Cotton, whom she had known first, had already developed a deep friendship with the mermaid princess.
For this reason, he came to the palace alone and gave himself the precious sap of the Mother Tree of Life as an apology gift.
Who should Little Cotton apologize for? Of course, it was the mermaid who caused the storm at sea.
Thinking of this, Eric pinched the small glass bottle in his hand, feeling a sense of powerlessness and frustration as if he was planning to punch out hard, but ended up hitting a ball of soft cotton.
If we miss this opportunity, when will we be able to catch the mermaids in the deep sea again?
Lecia seemed to see what he was thinking. She glanced at the sap of the Mother Tree of Life and whispered, "Don't forget, the little guy just warned you that if you hurt the deep-sea mermaid, the entire vast Hetanya will become a forbidden place that you and your people will never be allowed to set foot on."
The kingdom that believed in the sea god and relied on the sea for survival, once it lost the gifts and protection of the sea, what awaited the entire country was only gradual weakness and poverty.
Perhaps in the near future, the name of the Kingdom of Narva will be completely lost among the many kingdoms bordering Hitanya.
Outside the palace, the system flew under the bag to help the host hold a whole bag of conches to reduce the weight, while constantly sending praises to the child.
"Mianmian, you performed really well just now. Your tone was especially firm. It was much better than I expected!"
Before coming, the little girl originally just wanted to bring back the conches and then tell the prince that it was not the princess who saved him. However, after hearing this, Yun Yejin stopped the impulsive elf, gave her a drop of extremely precious sap of the mother tree of life, and told her not to tell a lie that went against her conscience.
"Little Cotton, lies are very annoying. You don't like the relationship between the prince and the princess that is mixed with lies, so won't the lies you hide hurt others?"
"Since you have decided to expose this lie, you cannot use a deeper lie to cover up the truth. No matter what the result is, ask yourself, are you willing to be a lying elf princess from now on?"
Yun Yejin's slender fingers gently tapped the elf's heart, without using much force, and without any emotional exaggeration in her words. It was just a plain and gentle inquiry, but it made Yun Mian purse her lips and lower her head. She was stuck in a bad mood for a long time and couldn't be happy.
The system is also biased, so when seeing Mianmian unhappy, I couldn't help but try my best to help her within the limits.
So I wrote the last paragraph that could slightly threaten the prince but also slightly protect the mermaid princess, and asked Mianmian to memorize it word for word and say it to Eric and the princess.
Never underestimate human beings' ability to weigh interests. Their greed can drive them to pick up knives and kill gods, and their weighing of values is enough to make them restrain all their hatred and greed.
In Eric's heart, hatred is important, but he is rational enough. When he is in a high position where he cannot act recklessly for his own selfishness, there will be things more important than hatred that he needs to protect and compromise for.
The weight of an entire country is enough.
The system broke down the principles and plans bit by bit and told the host. Although the child is still very small now, and will be no bigger than an adult's palm when he becomes an elf, Mianmian in this life is just like Eric when he is born, destined to inherit the racial mission of the entire elf clan that has lasted for thousands of years.
The system hopes that the host will read and learn more now, so that when he grows up and inherits the responsibility of the entire forest elves and protecting the mother tree of life from the host mother, he will be able to relax a little.
As it happens, these small long-lasting effects and helps will not be detected as any violations by the core of the mission system.
Yunmian didn’t understand what the system uncle was thinking, but when she heard it praising her generously, she felt that she had more strength to pull the conch bag.
"I will be even better in the future!" The child stopped, touched his heart which was still beating in an orderly manner, and praised himself earnestly with curved eyebrows: "I didn't turn into a lying elf this time, and my heart will not become dirty and unclean."
My mother said that when you do something against your own will, your heart will become sad, dyed with strange colors, and become gray and dirty. If you go against your will too many times, your heart will become very bad and dirty, and it will no longer be a clean and beautiful heart.
Mianmian: My heart is super clean and beautiful!
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine:
1 floating life;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
16 bottles of Floating Life;
:), Lin Shuyi 10 bottles;
5 bottles of Heart Dust Smoke and Lazy Bee;
Super Lucky der, Jiuyan, Xie 1 bottle;
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