Chapter 36 Two Brothers Collecting Fairy Tales
In the past two months, many people in several small countries south of the Kingdom of Rose have seen this scene:
a silver-haired boy and a blonde girl traveling together.
The boy looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old, while the girl was even younger. The boy was a bit bookish, always reading in the quiet sunshine; the girl was more lively, but still elegant like aristocratic children.
Both children were extremely beautiful, with big, bright eyes as clear as lake water. They had a kind of otherworldly beauty, as if they had walked out of a fairy tale book.
The girl was especially special, as if she had an innate charm that made people approachable, and her voice was even more pleasant, like the singing of a lark in spring. No hotel owner or shop owner was unwilling to give her a discount when they saw this lovely blonde girl.
The two children were polite, well-behaved and cute. They stayed in the hotel every night and obviously had a lot of money with them, but no one saw any family or servants responsible for taking care of them.
Many people speculate that they are half-siblings, which is why they have different hair and eye colors.
Some people say that these might be two rich children who ran away from home. They escaped from their parents' supervision and embarked on a journey to a foreign country.
Some people also said that the hometown of these two children must have suffered some disaster, and their parents passed away, so they had to leave their original residence and travel here.
But no one knew that they were the former sages and future kings of a prosperous kingdom.
Once, the kind hotel owner asked these two beautiful children: "Children, where are you from? Has your family encountered any misfortune? Do you need help?"
Aurora replied:
"On the day I was born, my hometown suffered a disaster and my family was cursed. So, we have to travel to a far, far place to find a way to lift the curse in order to save my family."
Her answer was honest.
"Thank you for your kindness, kind person. We don't need help. This task must be completed by ourselves." Rhine also said.
"Then, may the gods protect you." The innkeeper offered his blessing to the two children.
The next morning, when the hotel owner got up, he found that his leg, which had been lame for more than ten years, had miraculously "healed" by itself.
But on the journey, not all the people are kind-hearted like the innkeeper.
From time to time, there were bandits with malicious intentions who wanted to take advantage of the cover of night to rob these two rich children who were not under adult supervision.
However, all the robbers and human traffickers who had similar ideas disappeared without a trace.
Many days passed and the story of the two children spread.
But the legend has changed due to word of mouth and repeated processing.
People say that there was a brother and sister whose parents were cursed by the devil and were seriously ill in bed.
The two children had to leave their homeland and embark on a journey, crossing mountains and fields to a sacred mountain to find the rainbow-colored flower that was said to be able to lift the curse and to heal their seriously ill parents.
A magical elf was moved by the two children and protected them secretly.
When the two children encountered a man-eating beast, the elf would cast a spell to drive the beast away; when they encountered a murderous robber, the elf would turn the robber into an ugly toad.
People who heard this story praised the two children for their strength and wished them to find the magic flower as soon as possible, return to their hometown, and cure their bedridden parents.
Later, two scholar brothers appeared on the mainland who specialized in linguistics and history, and collected and organized folk tales and fairy tales.
They discovered folk tales from different narrators and recorders, identified them and modified them in terms of language and rhetoric, and compiled them into a collection of fairy tales.
The learned brothers discovered this story during their extensive research.
"Brother, this is really an interesting folk legend, widely spread in the southwest of the continent. There are several different variations of this story, but the protagonists are basically a pair of siblings, and their goal is to lift the curse on their family. I think we need to record it."
"Okay, let's call this story 'Brother and Sister and the Rainbow Flower'."
Of course, this is all a story for later.
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After a long journey, the magician and the princess finally arrived at the southern coast and looked out at the boundless sea.
The water is so blue, like the clean blue sky; the water is so clear, like the brightest gem.
The golden sunlight sprinkled on the water, sparkling, as if the sea was sprinkled with fine gold foil. The waves rose and fell, breaking into waves, white as fresh snow.
"The book says that beneath this ocean is the kingdom where mermaids and other intelligent sea creatures live," said Aurora.
One of the "dark magic sisters" of the black witch Maleficent, but under the waves, in the kingdom of mermaids.
Since the black witch Maleficent has contact with this sea hag, she may know where Maleficent is now! The princess looked at the surging waves and was troubled again:
“But how can we get down there? ” “And even if we can get down there, how can we find the country where mermaids and other intelligent sea creatures live in the vast ocean?
“Besides, even if we find the mermaids’ kingdom, how can we communicate with them?
"The information I read said that the mermaids in the sea country hate humans on earth very much! They will even deliberately create disasters and attack ships passing through this sea area! "Even if the two of us humans can enter the kingdom of mermaids, we will definitely not be welcomed. Maybe we will even fight with them!"
(End of this chapter)