Chapter 283
After the banquet in the Kingdom of Narva, Yunmian suddenly found that there seemed to be more and more invitations sent to her and her mother.
Compared to the beginning when he was unknown and undisturbed, now there was an endless stream of invitations from various kingdoms, nobles, and even immortal species.
However, after Yunmian, her mother and Princess Yuyu moved into their new home deep in the woods, their number became slightly smaller.
Because this house, located not far from the witch, was also shrouded in the elves' unique barrier.
No visitors allowed.
Except for a low wall that Yunmian could use to spread his wings and climb over to the garden next door at any time.
Yun Mian didn't know how long she had been looking forward to being neighbors with the witch sister. Compared to the elves' natural affinity for plants, the witch sister also had her own unique talent in tending and cultivating plants.
She can always grow a lot of beautiful flowers and find a lot of rare seeds. Every flower in her small garden has its own territory and name.
Yunmian’s favorite thing to do every day is to lie on the low wall connecting the two gardens and look at the sky and the sun and the moon.
But she never imagined that one night, the poor man on the hillside would take advantage of the dark night and sneak into her garden.
At that time, the cloud cotton turned into an elf, and perched on the wall like a bird with no sense of existence in the night. Its emerald green eyes stared at the strange yet familiar man quietly and strangely, and soon climbed into the small garden of its own home.
Yunmian remembered that his name was Gal and his wife's name was Demi.
Gar's night vision had probably become very poor due to malnutrition, so in his panic he couldn't tell whether this was the witch's garden or not, and he didn't see the elf on the wall who was tilting his head and looking at him.
He climbed into the garden and quickly found the fresh lettuce his wife wanted to eat.
This was not a coincidence. Yun Mian had bought enough lettuce and lettuce seeds from the witch sister at the very beginning. After the house was built, most of them were planted in this small garden.
Yun Mian watched Gal stand up with several lettuces covered with moist soil in his arms. Behind Gal, where he was unaware, the elf guards' sharp arrows flashing with cold light were aimed at his head, neck and heart.
No human has ever dared to steal the property belonging to the Elf Queen so boldly, even if it was just a few heads of lettuce.
Just before Yala and the other guards were about to release their hands and shoot arrows, Yunmian curiously asked in the dark: "Why do you only want lettuce and not steal other things?"
Gal was frightened by the sudden voice. He stood stiffly in place, but still held the fresh lettuces tightly in his hands.
His frightened eyes kept searching in the night, and finally locked onto a small black shadow on the wall in the direction of the sound.
"...Who are you?" he asked in a trembling voice.
Yunmian jumped down from the top of the wall and transformed into the appearance of a human cub in the darkness where he could not see. With a small lantern in her hand, she walked towards the thief who had broken into the garden to steal in the dim light.
"You are stealing things from my house, and you haven't answered my previous question yet." Yun Mian raised the lantern slightly from a distance of one meter.
It seemed that Gar had finally seen Yunmian's appearance clearly with the help of the light. After discovering that she was a newcomer to the village this year and was just a child, his tense nerves relaxed a little.
But he still didn't want to be illuminated by the light, so he hugged the lettuce in his arms and took two steps back into the darkness.
Then he replied: "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to steal, but my wife is pregnant and she really wants to eat lettuce. I'm sorry... Please forgive me, forgive my wife, I'm not a despicable thief, I just..."
Similar words were repeated over and over again, and Yun Mian listened quietly. Just when Jia Er thought that the child was willing to relent and let him go, he suddenly heard the other party's soft and naive question.
"Did you say the same thing to the witch next door before?"
Yun Mian didn't care about Jia Er's sudden stiffness. She just took a step closer out of curiosity, looked up at him in the night and the lights and asked: "What if I don't want to give you the lettuce? Will you also exchange the child in your wife's belly with me?"
Her question was innocent and naive, and she hadn't done anything yet, but after hearing these words, Gar trembled all over and knelt down in front of Yunmian.
He hid the lettuces in the small space between his abdomen and knees, and kowtowed to Yun Mian with a hunched back. He looked extremely pitiful and said in a sad voice, "My dear lady, please forgive me. My wife still needs me and these lettuces. Otherwise, she will die in agony because she can't eat these lettuces, and even the baby in her belly will die with her. I beg you to forgive such a humble and pitiful me and let me take these lettuces back. I promise you that it will never happen again!"
Yun Mian moved aside the moment he knelt down. Looking at Gar kowtowing continuously, she couldn't help but frown and felt uncomfortable all over.
He did look very pitiful, and his wife who wanted to eat lettuce also seemed very pitiful, but Yunmian was a child who was particularly sensitive to emotions and cognition.
She didn't like Gal and she didn't like pregnant Demi. She didn't like them three years ago, and she still hated them three years later.
Even though he acted like a humble and dirty piece of mud, it was difficult for Yunmian to feel much sympathy for him and Demi.
Yunmian always remembers the horrifying words her mother said that night three years ago.
She lowered her head and looked at Gal who kept kowtowing. After a long silence, she said to the thief, "I can let you go and take the lettuces back, but I need you to answer all my questions sincerely."
Gar couldn't wait to agree, and raised his upper body to wait for Yunmian's question.
He was very humble, kneeling on the moist soil with a very low posture, but he still couldn't hide the clumsy calculations and greed in his turbid eyes.
Soon he faced his first problem.
"Do you remember Lola? You and your wife's first child."
Gal was not surprised that this naive noble lady would ask this question. He quickly forced a stiff and flattering smile on his face and said firmly, "Of course, that was my wife and I's first child. Her crying was so distressing. Even now, my wife and I often miss her."
"Then why didn't you go see her?" Yun Mian didn't expose his clumsy and awkward lie, but just said softly: "Lola is three years old now. She is learning to walk and talk very well. Soon, the witch will give her enlightenment. But you live on the hillside, but you have never come down to see her?"
"My dear lady, you should know how cruel and vicious that witch is. We dare not get close to her, otherwise she will curse us. Demi and I miss Laura so much, but the witch will never allow us to meet her."
Gal said a lot, using his poor vocabulary to repeat the witch's viciousness and cruelty. He kept emphasizing his weakness and helplessness, and even raised his hand to wipe away his turbid tears. Everyone could hear his sad sobs.
Yunmian originally had a lot of questions she wanted to ask.
For example, why don't he and Demi save money to buy some lettuce seeds and grow them for themselves? Even though the city hall strictly prohibits civilians from owning their own land, crops like lettuce can be grown by just digging a pot of soil and putting it in the house, and it is not particularly difficult.
For example, he and Demi were so poor, why did they try every means to get pregnant and have a child? After giving birth to Laura, he easily traded her to a witch who was vicious and cruel in his eyes. What about the other child? How was he going to raise him?
For example, his wife who always said she would die if she didn't eat lettuce, why did she always let Gal steal lettuce? Did she forget the heavy price she paid for stealing three years ago? Wasn't she afraid that the child would also be taken away by the witch? Or was it like what her mother said before, that they actually hoped the witch would do that?
Yun Mian had many doubts. Looking at Gar's hypocritical, embarrassed and humble appearance, she didn't want to ask anything anymore.
She took a step back, and under the helpless gazes of Yara and other elf guards, she whispered to Gal, who was kneeling on the ground performing, "Take these lettuces back. If you come again, I will never forgive you so easily."
"Thank you for your kindness and tolerance..." Gal kept saying words of gratitude and flattery, then he climbed up with the lettuce in his arms, climbed over the low wall, and hurriedly ran towards his dark home on the hillside.
Yunmian stared at his back. Yala put away her bow and arrow and walked over to her. She rubbed her head helplessly and said, "Little Mianhua, you are still young. Don't be so soft-hearted when you treat such despicable humans in the future."
Yun Mian turned around and smiled at her. She was about to say something when she found that two figures, one big and one small, suddenly appeared on the wall next to her. Candles were lit in the room behind them. It seemed that her mother and Princess Yuyu had witnessed everything that had just happened.
The originally quiet night was filled with people because of the visit of a thief.
The witch nodded slightly to Yun Yejin and Anlil, and came over from the other side of the yard carrying the confused little Lola.
Yun Mian raised her hand and plucked the companion leaves on her head, put the small lantern at her feet, and explained to everyone seriously: "I will not be soft-hearted to a thief."
I will not be soft-hearted towards a father who abandons his child.
Yun Mian stepped on the empty lettuce pits, turned around and said to the witch, "Sister, he will definitely come back."
She said it with such certainty that the witch swallowed the words of warning she was about to say.
But this time it was Yun Mian who warned her seriously: "Sister, buying and selling children is extremely bad behavior. From now on, you really can't use lettuce or anything else to exchange for other people's children, even if someone actively wants to sell it to you!"
Yun Mian always remembered how naturally Lilith bought little Lola with ten months' worth of food. She was afraid that Lilith would make the same choice if faced with the same situation again.
Hearing this, Lilith looked down at the ignorant little Laura in her arms and sighed distressedly: "Don't worry, this one alone is enough to worry me, I will never buy another one."
She still didn't think there was anything wrong with buying and selling children in this society, but she began to regret it on the first day after she bought Laura. Now she has been forced to learn so many skills to raise a child, and the hardship and helplessness can be imagined.
Moreover, since raising little Laura, Lilith had to shorten the time she spent studying witchcraft and potions as Laura grew up. Now, she sometimes felt that she was about to completely shed her identity as a witch and become an ordinary woman raising a child.
Even the little garden she had carefully planted and the quiet life she loved were gone with the arrival of little Lola.
In order to raise Laura well, she even had to overcome her social fear and take other jobs to earn enough money. This was an amazing change that Lilith would never have dreamed of.
In three years, a child can turn a witch with outstanding talent and eccentric personality into an ordinary woman who washes diapers, feeds milk and does household chores. If there is another one...
Lilith shuddered and promised firmly in an evasive tone: "I absolutely cannot raise a second child. This is the most terrible thing in the world!"
Raising a child is absolutely one of the most horrible things in the world!!!
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