Chapter 272 (Catching Bugs)
The potion-making jars were unwashed.
Yunmian and the system didn't know what kind of potion the witch had made in the black jar before boiling the porridge, but thinking about the story in which the witch raised Princess Rapunzel until she was a teenager, they secretly put down their worries.
It shouldn’t kill people...right?
The witch herself didn't seem to know whether this thing was edible or not. After pouring the paste out of the jar, she scooped a little with a wooden spoon and hesitated for a long time before putting it into her mouth to taste it.
The next second, her facial features wrinkled together, and her hands shook so much that she almost threw the bowl of porridge away.
"…It tastes so bad, even worse than the chicory leaves in the yard!" The witch was extremely disgusted with what she had made.
Yunmian was lying on the beam and could vaguely smell the odor of the bowl of porridge floating up from below.
She couldn't help but feel like vomiting, so she hurriedly flew up and changed her position. After avoiding the bitter attack, she looked at the baby in the cradle below with sympathy.
If she had grown up eating this porridge, Yun Mian thought she might be able to understand why she wanted to run away with the prince.
But what surprised Yunmian and the system was that the witch did not feed the bowl of porridge to the newborn baby Laura after tasting it.
She put the bowl down, still muttering about how troublesome it was to raise beets, but she acted quickly and went straight to the garden outside to find some beets. She squeezed out the sweet juice from the beets and, with a clean wooden spoon, clumsily fed them to the crying little one.
Probably because the juice was sweet, the baby, who had been crying and making a fuss after being hungry for a whole day, immediately started sucking it attentively after tasting it. However, there were still a few tears on his face that had not fallen down, making him look really pitiful.
Yunmian flew out through the open window in the front yard again. When she had left the witch and the farmer far behind, she found a deserted place and transformed herself into a five-year-old child again.
The system landed on top of her head with great familiarity, not afraid of crushing the companion leaves on the child's head.
Soon the elf guards came to take her to live in the city.
Although the government official has approved the house and land, it will take a long time to build them. Before that, Yunmian, her mother and Princess Yuyu will need to live in a rented room in the town.
After returning home, Yunmian hugged the fish princess in the bowl and snuggled into her mother's arms, puffing up her face and whispering to them what she had secretly seen today.
"Mom, why did that farmer named Gal dare to steal the lettuce but not steal the baby back?" This is also the question that has been lingering in Yunmian's mind today.
Yun Yejin raised her hand and touched the wreath on her daughter's head that never faded, and then said to her and Anriel, who was also looking up with curiosity, "Because if we steal the child back, we will never be able to eat lettuce again."
"……Why?"
The two children were both confused. Even the smart and thoughtful Anriel couldn't figure out the twists and turns in the matter for a while.
Why can’t I eat lettuce anymore after I stole the child back?
Can’t I just not eat lettuce?
Is lettuce more important than a child?
Yun Mian couldn't hide her doubts, so she just asked all of them at once.
Facing two pairs of clear eyes full of curiosity, Yun Yejin was as gentle and patient as an ordinary farmer's mother at this moment, and slowly explained to them: "Gar and Demi are both poor people. Demi wanted to eat lettuce that she couldn't eat normally because she was pregnant, so Gar stole it for her and made a deal with the witch for this."
"It was this deal that allowed Gal and Demi to eat as much as they wanted throughout their pregnancy. They no longer had to steal or work hard for the nobles in the city. This was a treatment they had never had before."
"The witch used her own things to exchange a child with them. If Gal steals the child back, it means that the original deal will be broken. Then they will not only face the witch's wrath, but also the compensation for eating so much food. They can't afford to pay, and they can't afford to offend her."
At this point, Yun Yejin looked down at his daughter, who was still staring blankly, and Anriel, who looked enlightened in the water waves of the small bowl. He pinched his daughter's soft earlobes, which were just like those of humans, and said with a smile:
"Besides, didn't Little Cotton hear it? Gal has been comforting Demi that they can have more children, which means they are trying to use the same method to exchange for more food to make their lives more comfortable. Maybe soon, we will hear the news that Demi is pregnant again."
Yun Mian's originally confused eyes suddenly turned into surprise at this moment. She looked up blankly at the smile on her mother's face, and at a certain moment she even felt creepy.
She understood what her mother said.
That family wanted to exchange more children for a better quality of life during pregnancy, so that at least the two of them could have enough food and drink.
But that's my baby.
Yun Mian subconsciously hugged the small bowl containing Princess Fish in her arms, but still felt uneasy, so she simply turned around and buried herself completely in her mother's arms, resting her head on her mother's arm, mumbling something that made her unhappy.
She decided to hate that family.
Gal, who looks honest and loves his wife, and Demi, who looks pitiful and cries because of the loss of her daughter.
"Sister, do you want to hate them with me?" While hating them, the child did not forget to recruit like-minded allies for herself.
Anriel was silent for a moment, and then nodded firmly at the child's bad expression: "Yes, Xiao Mianhua and I hate them together!"
So the easy-to-please little Cotton pursed her lips and smiled happily with her eyes curved. She put the small bowl that Princess Fish had been in properly away, turned around and buried herself in her mother's arms again, whining and asking her mother to hate those two humans with her.
Not only mom, not only Princess Yuyu, but also Uncle System, Sister Yara and the other four elf guards, all hate those two humans.
This is not the first time that the system has seen Mianmian express her dislike for a person or a thing, but it is definitely the first time that the system has seen her express her likes and dislikes so clearly. When it comes to the couple Gal and Demi, Yunmian's attitude is even to the point of not tolerating a grain of sand.
Faced with the system's doubts, the elf cub, who was originally about to go to sleep after looking at the flowers raised for Princess Fish on the balcony, simply squatted beside the flowerpot, hugged the light ball and said to it: "Uncle, we chose our mother when we were in heaven, and we children love the mother we chose very much."
In fact, Yunmian didn’t remember where she heard the saying that every child has to choose his or her mother in heaven, but she always remembered it very clearly. She even always felt that her mother must have been carefully selected and fought with many children before she could get her mother with great difficulty.
Yunmian didn’t know whether the children in this world also had to choose their mothers in heaven when they were born, but Laura’s parents gave her to the witch they dared not to offend, just so that they could eat more food that did not belong to them.
In Yunmian's opinion, this was an extremely terrifying thing.
She couldn't imagine what would happen if she was Lola and her mother sold her to a witch for food.
"Uncle, they are scary." The child frowned seriously, and there was even some fear hidden in his childish voice: "I must not meet them in the future, otherwise I will definitely have nightmares when I go home."
She didn't understand what greed was, but when her mother casually explained the family's plans and psychological processes, Yunmian felt a great fear of this family from the bottom of her heart.
Even when she thought about how she had secretly gone to their house to play today, she would unconsciously get goose bumps all over her body.
She had a fear that Lola and Galdemi's future children were being eaten by these two people bit by bit to sustain their lives.
Yunmian had never met parents like this before. Her young brows were wrinkled all night long, and even after she tossed and turned in her mother's arms for half the night and finally fell asleep, her brows were still wrinkled with anxiety.
Yun Yejin stretched out his hand and took his daughter into his arms, gently patting the child's back with his palm. After Yun Mian fell into a more peaceful sleep, he bent down and kissed the child's frowning brows. In the bright moonlight shining through the window, he softly hummed the sleep-to-sleep nursery rhyme that the elf cubs loved.
Anriel lay in the exquisite bowl, watching the scene quietly with her deep blue eyes open. After a long time, she closed her eyes as the Elf Queen hummed softly, and her body slowly sank to the bottom.
Humans are a really strange race.
Yunmian had a long and bizarre dream in her mother's arms.
She dreamed that she turned into a naked child with wings, lying on the soft white clouds with many other naked children, standing on tiptoe and curiously observing every aunt with a bulging belly below.
They want to choose one of these aunts to be their future mother.
This is an extremely serious life event, and every naked child has been told to look carefully and choose carefully.
“I must choose the most beautiful one!”
“I want to choose the best one!”
"I'm different from you guys. I want to choose the one who looks best with a smile!"
"I want to choose..."
A group of naked kids with wings were vying to express their choices of mothers. Yunmian was lying on a cloud, listening. She grabbed a piece of soft cloud and rolled it into a ball. Then she put it on her head and proudly announced to the other kids with her hands on her hips, "The ones you picked are not good enough. The one I picked must be the best mother!"
But what is the definition of the best mother?
Thinking of the previous instructions, Yunmian took off the cloud on her head again, tore it into pieces, and stuffed it into her mouth as a snack. While eating, she thought: The best mother must be the most beautiful, the most powerful, and have the most beautiful smile, and also...
Before she could figure out what was going on, she suddenly noticed that the naked children next to her suddenly ran in one direction. Yun Mian subconsciously followed them, and then saw a woman sitting at home painting under a huge cloud.
The windows were bright and clean, and she was using a slender paintbrush dipped in white paint to dot white clouds on the blue sky on the canvas.
At that moment, Yunmian felt that she must be the best mother in the world.
I have been writing on time recently, but I have been stuck more or less during the writing process, which has caused the update time to be delayed and inaccurate. I'm sorry, my dears.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
30 bottles of peach oolong tea;
Bookworm, no card, no card, my character ran away! ! 10 bottles;
Weeds 1 bottle;
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