Chapter 271
In the remote kingdom of Hatton, far away from the town, there lived a few scattered farmers in the remote forest.
The land here does not belong to them. They trek to other places to farm and work for the nobles during the day, and return home under the stars at night, trampling out several winding paths in this dense jungle.
"Have you heard that Gal's daughter, who was just born last night, was snatched away by that witch?"
"Fortunately, my children are almost adults. I don't think that witch will come and take my children away, right?"
"If this is true, then Gal and his wife are really unlucky. Have they ever offended the gods?"
Yunmian sat quietly on the treetop, listening to the humans under the tree whispering in amazement and talking about the "big thing" that happened last night. After a while, he flapped his wings and left.
She arrived in this country this evening.
The Kingdom of Hatton is not far from the Silver Moon Forest. This not-so-small jungle even borders the outskirts of the Silver Moon Forest, making it the closest human kingdom to the Silver Moon Forest.
Therefore, after the full moon ceremony, Yunmian bid farewell to her tribesmen in the forest and came to the Kingdom of Hatton with her mother and Princess Yuyu.
Now Mom and Princess Yuyu are in the town negotiating with the government officials to buy a piece of vacant land nearby to build houses and cultivate farmland. Yunmian is flying around in the sparse villages, trying to find out where the Lettuce Princess that the System Uncle mentioned is.
"Why is she called Princess Rapunzel?" Yun Mian was very curious. She seemed to have never heard of the story of Princess Rapunzel.
"…Because she was born after eating the witch's lettuce." The system was also very curious. Why among so many fairy tales, this was the only one that the host mother had never told her?
Is it because it is too illogical and hard to explain?
"What does lettuce look like? Is it delicious?" Children always have many questions waiting to be answered.
The system flew to her and said that it had never eaten it either, but it would tell her when it saw it in the future.
Yun Mian, filled with curiosity and doubt about Princess Rapunzel, flew in the direction of the people's discussions and fingers, and soon saw a very dilapidated farmer's house.
She came to a stop on the old, dirty rubble, then on her hands and knees she climbed up the dark chimney and dropped straight into the house in the choking darkness.
The moment she fell into the ash pile, the ashes that flew up covered her body and face. The elf had never expected this result. She was stunned and lay stupidly in the cold ash pile, unable to get up for a long time.
The system looked at the host's dusty and dirty appearance and was silent for a moment. It was suddenly very grateful that the host was able to successfully use the cleaning magic after soaking in the sap of the Mother Tree of Life.
Otherwise, with her dirty appearance, no one would want her to be hired even if she was picking up animal dung, let alone go back to see her mother in this outfit.
She has to give discounts for both legs and wings!
Yun Mian came to her senses, spat out the ashes in her mouth, and used the cleaning magic to make herself clean and white again. Then she followed the sound of talking in the house and peeked out to observe.
Not far from the boiler was an extremely simple and shabby bed, covered with not-so-soft hay and a few relatively smooth pieces of bark. It didn't look even as comfortable as the shack where the horses lived when Yunmian rented the carriage. It couldn't even be described as clean or tidy.
When she looked over, the man with a sad face was holding his wife's shoulders and talking in a low voice.
"Demi, don't cry, we will have more children."
"I shouldn't have eaten those lettuces." Demi cried and shook her head, "I shouldn't have eaten them. Go ask the witch if you can repay me in another way. As long as she can return our little Laura..."
The sadness in Gal's eyes deepened. He was pushed by his wife, but he did not get up and walk out. Instead, he whispered, "It's impossible, Demi... Give up. The witch has taken Laura away. This is the punishment for us stealing her lettuce. She said that she would raise Laura like a princess and we will have other children in the future."
He repeated "other children" twice in his two sentences. Yun Mian could even hear that he was not particularly heartbroken about his child being taken away.
The elf hiding in the boiler tilted his head in confusion, not understanding why the witch could just take their child away.
After Gal comforted his wife who had just given birth to sleep, he pushed open the door and left his home, going to the open space outside to do some manual work.
Inside the house, a tiny elf cub quietly flew out of the boiler and flew to the only window of their house.
Standing on the windowsill, you can immediately see a luxurious house at the foot of the hill not far away.
The reason why it is called luxurious is that it has a clean tiled roof and a very large garden. The garden is surrounded by high walls, but from a high place you can still clearly see all kinds of blooming flowers and precious plants planted inside.
"That's where the witch Florina lives." The system flew beside the host and reminded: "Princess Rapunzel is now in her house. Little Cotton, your task is still to change the ending where Princess Rapunzel ends up with the prince."
In the small world plot derived from the fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Rapunzel was imprisoned in a tower by the witch when she was twelve years old. The witch promised to release her from the tower when she was eighteen years old, but one day Rapunzel used her long golden hair to pick up a prince from the bottom of the tower and fell in love with him at first sight.
Later, the witch discovered the existence of the prince, hid Rapunzel in the wilderness, pushed the prince off the tower, and blinded his eyes with thorns. After wandering in the forest for several years, he finally met Rapunzel.
At that time, Rapunzel had even raised her two children in the wilderness. In the end, the prince and princess were reunited. The prince eventually became king and helped Rapunzel find her real family. The prince and princess finally lived together freely and beautifully.
Because it is a fairy tale plot, the system tells the host, a one-month-old baby, the exact story, and it is so subtle that it is not detected as revealing the development of the original world's story.
But after listening to it, Yun Mian nearly fell off the windowsill. She flapped her wings with great difficulty to steady her body. She recalled the fairy tale she had just heard, and a silly and dazed expression unconsciously appeared on her fair and clean little face.
She couldn't understand!
She felt that she had not understood the development of the story at all.
She felt that everyone in this story seemed to be particularly strange.
"Uncle, this story must be made up!" It was the first time that the child was so sure of something. He clenched his fists with a determined expression as if he was about to rush into the fairy tale world and beat someone up.
“…Why?” Obviously, you don’t have this attitude towards the more ridiculous story of the mermaid princess!
Moreover, you have thousands of layers of fairy tale filters for the Little Mermaid, but when it comes to Princess Rapunzel, you treat her differently?
When asked, the palm-sized child looked back at the sleeping woman on the bed, his whole face wrinkled into a ball, and he said in confusion: "But why would my mother give her baby to someone else?"
In fact, she didn't understand the logic of the story at all, but... what was most difficult for her to understand was the scene in front of her.
Why was it that the baby was taken away by the witch, but the parents just shed two tears and continued their peaceful life?
The witch's house is right downstairs. If this father can go to the witch's house and steal Lettuce, then why doesn't he go and steal his baby back?
And her child was snatched away from her, so did this mother just fall asleep like that? Did she not care about the baby she had worked so hard to give birth to?
Yun Mian was totally confused and even shocked by the couple. Her bright green eyes were filled with confused surprise. She couldn't understand why they would let others take their child away.
Yun Mian couldn’t figure it out, and after hearing her doubts, the system also fell silent.
Finally, Qiu Yicu decided to put this doubt aside for the time being and ask his mother and Princess Yuyu when he returned.
Yunmian spread its wings and flew down from the window coffin. Against the evening breeze, a small figure climbed into the chimney again.
The system couldn't bear to watch and sighed continuously. Finally, it flew around the house a few times and then reluctantly went into the chimney.
This witch is such a homebody that she never even opens the door or windows.
But surprisingly, the house was not as dark as the farmer's house on the mountain. There was a flickering candlelight. Yun Mian also heard the sound of a baby whimpering and someone walking hurriedly.
She secretly poked her little head out of the boiler, looked around, and then flapped her wings to hide herself on the beam.
On the beam, Yunmian and the system can clearly see everything that happens in the house below.
There was only a woman and a baby crying with his mouth pouting in the room.
Like the sea witch, this terrifying and vicious witch that the farmers said they dared not offend was not as gloomy and ugly as the legend said.
She was even very beautiful, with long, loose chestnut hair, casually dressed, and mumbling anxiously as she walked.
"Cry, cry, cry. She's been crying for so long and she's still crying. What can a child eat? Am I supposed to grind up the lettuce and feed it to her?"
"This is terrible. If I had known she was so fragile, I should have waited until those two damn thieves grew up before bringing her back."
"Still crying and crying... I really regret it..."
The witch muttered impatiently while frantically making paste for the one-day-old baby.
The jar for making paste was pitch black. The system went down to scan it and came back to tell the child on the rafters: "That's the jar she used to make magic potions."
I referred to the original fairy tale version and the movie version of "Tangled", and finally chose the original fairy tale version. Maybe the original version is too ridiculous... My worldview is a little shattered.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Xi and Xi are the best, Yu Yunxian 10 bottles;
5 bottles of tea;
Also picked 3 bottles;
OvO, Weeds 1 bottle;
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