Chapter 287 (Catching Bugs)
The next morning, the system squatted above the host's head and shared with her the task progress panel that it had opened last night.
Under the curious gaze of the child, the system flew into the air and pointed at the three tasks at the bottom with only single-digit progress, and said to the host: "Mianmian, except for Princess Yuyu's task which has 100% progress, the remaining three are only 20 to 30% away. However, some of these stories will take place in the same time period, so we can't take it slow any longer."
The remaining three stories are "Snow White", "Thumbelina" and "The Frog Prince".
"In just half a month, the little princess will lose her little golden ball by the well."
The system pulled out the last quest line separately, and after finishing, asked the host: "Have you ever heard of the story of the Frog Prince, Mianmian?"
Yun Mian shook her head blankly: "Uncle, I have only heard the story of the frog and the white swan."
System: "...They are toads and white swans."
But if we must compare the two stories, the main themes are actually similar?
Taking advantage of the cool morning breeze in the forest, Yunmian flew to the sturdy trunk of a big tree and sat down. Princess Yuyu also flew to the tree with the noisy little Lola in her arms and sat down. Soon, Yun Yejin, Lilith from next door, and several elf guards all arrived, quietly waiting for the so-called "fairy tale" from Little Mianhua's mouth, both on and under the tree.
The elf guards had heard many fairy tales before, and the protagonists of two of the stories were present, so they had high expectations for the new story.
Yunmian first watched the cartoon on the light screen that the system uncle played for her.
Then, under the expectant gazes of the crowd, its originally bright eyes gradually became dull, and finally it hugged the branch stupidly, without any reaction for a long time.
ah?
ah? ?
What is this?
Why is this story so strange?
Yun Mian faced everyone's puzzled gazes, and question marks of all sizes kept popping up in her head.
"Little Cotton, what's wrong?" Anriel asked worriedly.
Yun Mian came back to her senses and shook her head at her. Her face turned bitter as a little bitter melon. She said wilfully, "This story is not cute at all. Do you really want to listen to it?"
"Of course!" Yara spoke first.
"Story~" Little Lola clapped her hands and joined in the fun.
Yunmian: “…”
So in the next ten minutes or so, everyone heard a fairy tale that was...hard to describe.
The story includes a proud princess, a frog that can turn into a prince, and a trustworthy king... This doesn't sound contradictory, and it might even be great, right?
But the princess lied and did not keep her word, the prince was an ugly frog who took advantage of the princess, and the king did not care about his daughter's feelings at all and forced the princess and the prince to eat, live and sleep together...
"This is so ridiculous!" An elf guard frowned and commented, "I can't believe that such an unbelievable thing can happen in the world."
Anriel also asked in confusion: "Little Cotton, is there really such a strange story? That king... is he the prince's biological father? Or is that princess not actually the king's biological daughter? Otherwise, how could he..."
Anriel simply couldn't imagine that there would be a king in the world who, as a father, would force his daughter to eat and sleep with a frog.
"The king must have known that the frog was the prince of a neighboring country!" Yara said firmly, "otherwise he would never allow his daughter to be so close to a frog and let the ugly frog take advantage of the princess."
"Poor little princess."
Lilith, however, focused her attention on the princess herself. Perhaps it was because she had always taken good care of little Lola, so when she thought about what would happen if it was little Lola who faced such a dilemma, she could hardly control her emotions.
Lilith said in a deep voice, "She did lie to the frog, but she shouldn't have been forced in such a malicious way. I hate this story. Even if the frog turned into a so-called noble prince in the end, so what? That can't cover up all the disgusting things he and the king did to the little princess throughout the story."
In her subjective name, she always referred to the frog prince in the story as "that frog".
Lilith thought that the fact that she did not call him a "disgusting, ugly frog" was the result of being influenced by the friendliness and quality of the neighborhood elves every day for the past three years.
"I don't know who cursed it." The witch under the tree said gloomily, "If I have the chance to meet this frog again, I will make sure that it will never be able to speak human language again in its life."
He should croak the same way a frog croaks, otherwise he would make human sounds with his frog shell on. The king, who is not stupid, would know that the frog is special.
After everyone asked a series of questions, Yun Mian, who had originally had a bitter face, suddenly became happy.
That’s right, what everyone said was exactly what she wanted to express!
"Uncle, can I go and pick up the frog from the well and throw it into the distant desert?" A strange idea popped into the child's head.
The system was silent for a moment, and then replied: "No, have you forgotten the encounter between Princess Rapunzel and the Prince?"
But after the witch discovered the existence of the prince, she sent Princess Rapunzel to the desert, and the prince was blind. As a result... Princess Rapunzel gave birth to two cubs for the prince. The blind prince managed to find his way out of the dense forest into the desert and met the princess.
Yunmian: “…”
Did these strange princes secretly grow wings?!
The child stood up from the branch angrily, grabbed a few leaves and commented angrily: "That prince must be a toad! A super big, super fat, ugly toad with bumps all over his body!"
Yunmian has never heard this fairy tale told by her mother. There will be no filter for fairy tales that her mother has not told her, so Yunmian has no feelings for this prince, all she thinks is slander!
Why do little girls have to be with princes in every fairy tale?
Eric was a prince at the time, and Yunmian didn't think he was that great. Other princes were even worse than Eric. Yunmian's head was full of doubts and she couldn't figure out whether the princesses were blind or the princes secretly cast a vicious curse on the princesses that they would die if they didn't stay with them.
Seeing that the elves flapping their wings on the branches were almost irritated to death by this fairy tale, little Lola, one of the future victims of the princesses, naively opened her little hands from Princess Fish's arms and asked Sister Cotton to hug her.
After Yunmian hugged her tightly, little Lola held her sister's puffy cheeks, leaned over and kissed her with her saliva all over her face.
"Little Cotton, don't be angry~" Little Lola comforted her sister incoherently.
The next second, Yun Mian's eyes fell directly on her.
"Little Laura." Yun Mian hugged the chubby little girl with great effort. When she looked at him blankly, he told her word by word: "If you meet a strange prince when you grow up, do you know what to do?"
Little Laura looked at her innocently and didn't understand what she said at all.
Yun Mian didn't care. She pinched her chubby face and threatened, "If you dare to talk to a prince in the future, I will never let you drink sweet flower dew again, all the snacks and gifts will be confiscated, and I will never like you again."
I don’t know which sentence little Laura understood. The expression on Xiaopang’s face was dull. After a moment, he burst into tears sadly. His crying scared the birds perched on the trees that were eavesdropping on the story and made them fly away in all directions.
The system watched helplessly as Mianmian uttered this "threat" and little Lola's task line rose by 3% amid her crying.
system:"……"
You are worthy of being called Little Cotton.
Shortly after this "storytelling session" ended, Yunmian set off again.
But in fact, the main character who affected the plot this time was not her, but the fish princess who was secretly put into the well in the kingdom by her.
"Sister, you must be careful of that toad. He is so mean. If he bullies you in the water, hit him with your tail! When he comes out, I will turn him into a caterpillar that can't grow wings!"
Before putting Princess Yu Yu into the water, Yun Mian gave her many warnings and instructions. If she could become smaller, she would have wanted to slip into the water and fight the big frog herself.
Anriel smiled and touched the elf's forehead, and said in a gentle voice: "Don't worry, Mianmian, I have never encountered fatal danger even when Xitanya was so big, let alone a frog transformed from a human?"
Yun Mian poured Princess Yuyu out of the small bowl reluctantly and worriedly.
They deliberately chose a time when the frogs were not around to enter the well. The water in the well was clear and clean, reflecting the azure sky. A small blue fish quickly disappeared in the water without a trace.
Yunmian turned into a little bird and landed on a branch not far away.
She has learned the magic of shapeshifting very well. Except for being unable to deceive other immortal species, it is relatively easy for her to deceive human eyes.
At this time, there were less than five days left when the little princess came to play by the well and lost her golden ball.
On the second day, Yun Mian saw the frog with the prince inside.
An ugly, fat, gray toad.
The toad wore a small crown on his head, as if he was afraid that others would not recognize him as a prince.
The little bird Mian squatted on a slender branch, staring with its big green eyes at the toad that was hiding from the sun in the shadow of the branches near the well.
The system flew beside Little Bird Cotton, looking at the toad that was only the size of a human head, silently thanking that Little Bird Cotton did not rashly hide in the water, otherwise that scene...
If the toad wants to eat the white swan, does it mean that he doesn't want to eat the elf? Even the dragons and blood races covet the elf!
Moreover, the host is a weakling in the water, while Princess Yuyu has sharp claws and a fish tail that can create waves. The combat effectiveness of the two in the water is completely incomparable.
"Uncle, can I fly down and peck him?" Little Bird Mian asked thoughtfully in my ears.
The system was startled and hurriedly flew up to stop her: "Mianmian, you can't do that!!"
The little bird Cotton tilted its head and stared at it with puzzled eyes.
The system choked for a moment and said helplessly: "Baby, I know you hate it, but... it's so ugly, you will dirty your mouth if you peck it!!"
When the system thought of the scene after Cotton Boy flew down, it felt so heartbroken that it could hardly breathe, and it wished it could physically eliminate this big toad right now.
It would be really hard for the little princess to eat, live and sleep with such a being...
The sins committed by the king are truly intolerable.
Frogs are generally not ugly! So I read a lot of descriptions of frog princes and finally came to the conclusion that this might be a toad...
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
12 bottles of Floating Life;
Bookish Years and Whale Moon Traveling Space 10 bottles;
9 bottles of Yinghuo;
1 bottle;
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