Many times there is always a bitter core hidden under the appearance of pulling the wind, and you can't pursue the details of most beautiful fairy tales, Snow White always has to live after marrying the prince, and there will be a day when fat sagging after thirty years; Sleeping Beauty hasn't touched the ground for hundreds of years, how can the prince who went to save her go down without blowing the ashes first; The frog prince has been turned into a frog for so many years, what did he eat before he met his princess; The girl in the red shoes can't stop dancing and can only dance to death, but how does she have to go to the toilet before she dies of exhaustion - you see, our childhood is very fragile, and I once went to Avalon and asked Brother Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen about the above question, and they saw me for quite some time as if they were class enemies......

I think the example of fairy tales can confirm our current situation, after all, there is nothing more fairy tale than a magic castle built of ice and snow, shining and shining, there are usually three kinds of people living in such a castle: the cold and noble northern witch may be an evil witch by the way, the simple and kind ice princess, and the mysterious and wise winter elf, I think in the genuine fairy tale, the above three tenants do not have to worry about their own ice castle for three days without people freezing the door, I don't have to smash the door to get in when I go home, and I now deeply realize that fairy tales are all lies, anyway, my own ice castle is a lie, there is no kitchen here, and there is no other place to cook, so Bing Teis can only light a large bonfire in the center of the side hall, and we dozen people, including the two half-dragon girls who were invited, roast all kinds of strange things around the bonfire for dinner; There are no guest rooms in the ice castle, but when Pandora built this, it was not so fine, so the two half-dragon girls can still only sleep in tents, and the empty castle hall is dozens of meters high, basically an empty shell, staying in this place will not be any difference in atmosphere from sleeping outside, so looking at her tent and the bonfire in front of me, Sakina asked me a very dialectically difficult question: "Is this different from us setting up a tent outside?" ”

I looked up at the roof more than ten meters away, scratching my hair: "Alas, you can make do with sleep, or will I find you another villa?" I don't know who has it in their personal space."

Sagina looked at us like a monster, and her eyes still fell on the pure white little girl who was leaning against the bonfire, looking at the flames curiously: "Forget it, I don't know what else you plan to do or talk about this child, we were shocked at the time."

Sagina was referring to what had happened in front of the castle's portico half an hour earlier: she and Sona saw rows of snow sculptures of little girls displayed in the alcoves, and then the mercury lamp came out in a daze, "...... There are only souls" These two points caused a huge misunderstanding between the two half-dragon girls, and I still remember Sakina's imaginative guess: "It turns out that you are an evil mage, you use the souls of the girls to experiment, stuff them into puppets, and even make these snow sculptures"

At that time, her expression was full of righteous indignation, glaring at me angrily, and pointing to the mercury lamp and the snow sculptures displayed in the alcoves, and before I could realize why she could be so associated, the little puppet on her shoulder had already stood up to protect her father: she pounced on it and bit Sakina's arm: "Lilai counts the devil, you are the puppet", and it may not be to protect her father......

The above was a scene that happened more than half an hour ago, but now the misunderstanding has been resolved

"Look at Xiao Qijing, don't let her go to the fire to play and be careful to break up the fire" I smiled at Sagina, and then turned my head and shouted to Yanzi, I don't know if I learned it from Anvina or my sister, Yanzi is also quite good at taking care of children now, Xiao Qijing is too curious, and just jumped into the fire several times to have fun, I had to let someone pull this little girl

At that time, in order to clear up the misunderstanding, I was watching a movie in my own spiritual sea to extract some of my interesting memories to Xiao Qijing, this is what I recently discovered, the soul of the rose girl who the child likes to play called out, this little girl with a soul body can scare the two half-dragon girls a lot, but soon they found that the former did not look like persecuted at all, but was very intimate with "a certain evil soul wizard", so the misunderstanding was naturally solved

"Are you really a mage?" Sagina fiddled with the bonfire in front of her and cast her curious gaze, "I don't see it."

"I have a chance to explain to you that we are on a journey, and when we leave here, we may be able to tell you the truth: if you can understand it, now, as long as you know one thing, we are not bad people."

"What's going on with this little girl?" Seeing that I didn't mean to explain much, Sajina still put the topic on Xiao Qijing, who was putting her hand into the raging flames at this time, trying to catch those flames, while Yanzi was closely guarded by the side to prevent the little guy from grabbing the coals and throwing them around, this kind of scene is not very understandable in the general environment, I patted Xiao Qijing's head with pity, and the little girl immediately grinned and laughed and drilled over, "Her name is Xuehua Qijing, but you can call her Xiao Qijing, this child is born with only a soul, I can't grow up in the real world, so I've been raising her in my soul world."

Sagina looked at me for a while with an incomprehensible expression, and hissed in her mouth: "It's just listening to the old wizard telling myths and stories, if you don't see it with your own eyes, I will definitely say that you are a liar, and your daughter is a demon...... Dolls, one is a soul, or are they all so small, are you really human? How many daughters do you have? ”

Before I could speak, Xiaoxue shouted from the other side of the bonfire: "There is another one here, and one here, I am also his daughter, do you think I am cute?" My dad is going to treat me like a baby."

The two half-dragon girls were stupid at that time, and their gaze at me was more incomprehensible than just now, and at this moment, Bubble, who was sitting on the other side of them, leisurely pushed the little bubble forward: "Meet this is the eldest princess"

I felt that something big was about to go bad, but before I could speak, Bubbles continued: "By the way, I am the mother of the child, that is, the wife of the person over there" At the end, she suddenly gave a thumbs up: "I'm working hard to be a wife."

Sagina and Sona looked at me in horror with their chests crossed, the latter not liking to speak, and the former asked with an unprecedentedly serious expression, "Please be honest that you won't attack women outside of your own race"

Before I could speak, I saw Bingdis look around, his eyes deliberately stayed on Sandora for a moment, and then cleared his throat and prepared to speak, but fortunately my eyes were quick, and a piece of barbecue was pasted: "Eat honestly and no one treats you as a dumb person"

Sagina laughed dryly twice, pulling her companion to the side and moving vigorously......

However, there seems to be a benefit to such a messy small talk, and the rejection of us by the two half-dragon girls is obviously not as strong as it was at the beginning, and I think it's time to ask a question that I didn't understand before, so I carefully picked the right wording and asked, "Then I ask more, you don't seem to have a good impression of the mage?" ”

Sagina frowned, but she was not angry, she glanced at me, as if to weigh whether the half of the stranger she had just met in front of her was worth communicating, and then nodded: "Of course I don't have a good feeling, Sona and I were once adopted by a mage"

"Eh, that should be the opposite, why don't you have a good feeling," Qianqian suddenly asked curiously

Sona replied in a low voice: "I bought it from the slave market as an experimental subject for potion research, and there are coolies, because the half-dragons have a strong physical quality and high drug resistance, and have great strength, and we can't learn any magic ourselves, so the vast majority of mages with enough money and strength like to raise a few half-dragons as coolies, although in many places the slave trade is forbidden by the royal family, they always have excuses: sectarian wars, battlefield captures, family slaves, How many loopholes in the law are there me and Sakina are the adult days that we spent in the poison test cage Sakina is therefore hostile to all mages, I? Although I don't think I should put hatred on every mage, at least I don't have a good impression of your group."

I never expected to hear such a story, and suddenly I felt that I really shouldn't talk about slavery, mage, try it...... The three words were combined in such a dirty way, who would have thought that these two half-dragon girls would experience such a thing

I was embarrassed, and while the two half-dragon girls had been paying attention to our expressions, Sona spoke thoughtfully, "Looks like you really haven't heard of this kind of thing?" I really don't know where you came from, travelers, are you on the other side of the Black Plains? I've heard that there has never been slavery there, and there are a lot of strange researchers who like to run around, and some even cross the Black Plains."

I found that I could not explain much more quickly when I continued to expand on this topic, so I stopped and hesitated to ask the next question: "Then how did you get free?" Released? ”

"Released?" Sagina looked into my eyes with golden vertical pupils, "It's naïve, a half-dragon slave is a high-priced commodity, even a rich mage will not waste it easily, we are all used to death As I said just now, Sona and I spent our adult birthdays in the poison test cage, according to a strange recipe found in an ancient ruin, the mage made several potions, and in order to verify their effect, he fed us the medicine: it was a birthday gift that he was able to determine later, Those potions were deadly poisons, and Sona and I quickly fell down with poison and festered all over our bodies, and then the mage probably thought we were dead, so he threw the body into the wild with the cage but I don't know if it was fateful or what's going on, and then the two of us survived, and after a peeling of the skin, we were back to normal, and now, except for the occasional sequelae, almost the same as when we were healthy."

Sagina said, also looking at her arm in disbelief, it seemed that there were still scars left on it after the poison eroded and festered, "This is how we were free, and then Sona and I escaped from that principality, and began to wander around, stealing things, when we were in good health, we went to work as coolies, and in winter, we went to smash the windows of nobles' houses, so that we could be caught in prison, anyway, no matter what, we can have something to eat, to be honest, prison food is at least much better than garbage, and then slowly even the jailers know the two of us, They were a little kind, as long as they saw the two of us coming in, they knew that winter was coming, and the two lizards were ...... The half-dragon people also want to find a safe place to hibernate, so they take care of us, one of the young jailer fathers happened to have an experience of expedition outside, he mentioned it to us during the chat, and brought us a notebook left by his father, which is full of experience in various dangerous places and the like, we found that explorer is the only profession that does not require any professional skills to enter the industry, so we decided to come out and become an explorer, you people of status may not know what the profession of explorer is, After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, explorers are similar to vagabonds and scavengers, and anyone can call themselves explorers: as long as they have the strength and courage to gather a few tools for survival in the wild and things for self-defense, and dare to pick up some strange things from the ruins and sell them to those alchemists and the like, they can be considered a qualified explorer."

"So then we stole the notebook from the young man and became adventurers......"

"Uh, stolen?" Asa couldn't help but ask, and I also looked at Sakina and Sona in surprise

Sona sighed and said in a low voice: "Yes, it was stolen, we were used to stealing it to get what we wanted, and that notebook was really important Without that thing, the reckless hand would die at the hands of the guardian of the ruins Although we have no knowledge, we have heard of this knowledge: hand adventurers are quite dangerous if they don't have the guidance of their predecessors, so if they are not forced by life, not many people are willing to do this kind of undignified work That young man cherishes notes very much, It was his father's relic, he showed us that it was okay, but it was absolutely impossible to give it away, and if we died outside with the notes, that thing would be lost forever, Sona was very smart, she thought of this at the beginning, so on the day we decided to go, we took the initiative to go to the prison and find the young man, and then ...... Stealing the notes is this, and that's the only equipment we had when we first set out on our journey."

Sona said, pulling out a somewhat tattered thick book from her backpack next to her, but apparently carefully repaired many times, I couldn't read the characters in the curve, but I could tell that it was carefully preserved by her own user

"Actually, we already thought about it at the beginning, and when we became a senior adventurer and no longer needed it, we would return this," Sagina said hurriedly, "but a lot of things happened after that, the life of an adventurer is very dangerous, and if you are unlucky, you can't eat, and life is forced to do so, we have not been able to take care of returning the notes, and then several years have passed, and slowly this matter has been delayed, and now I may just want to pay it back, and I don't have the courage anymore, that young man must still hate the two half-dragon thieves back then."

"After all, the half-dragons were originally regarded as an uneducated race," Sona sighed, buried her head in her knees, and after a moment of silence, she put the notebook back in again, "And all the way to the ancient ruins that will appear at any time, we have run a long way, at least across a dozen principalities, and it is an unlikely journey to go back to the original city, and after so many years, the warm-hearted young man back then may have long since stopped being a jailer, and even his appearance has changed, Humans have a shorter lifespan than half-dragon people, and we've already lost all of our time."

A very long story, but it is not earth-shattering, and compared with the winds and waves we have experienced, I am afraid it is not even a small wave, but for this ordinary half-dragon girl, this is the hardship of life they have experienced: the so-called little people also have the magnificence of the little people, I don't know what happened to the warm-hearted young jailer back then, I hope he is doing well, and I also hope that these two half-dragon girls can muster up the courage to return the notebook they stole back then to their original owners

Hearing my reassurance, Sona just smiled faintly, saying that she would eventually make a decision, and Sakina seemed to have turned her attention away from the topic and waited intently for the meal to begin

Dinner is made up by everyone with the ingredients they bring with them, this is a shallow suggestion, saying that they want to hold a party-style barbecue, and the ingredients that Sagina took out were their reserves of jerky and a very hard, but tasted good pasta - these should be the things that explorers used to satisfy their hunger when they were working in the field, jerky can be eaten directly, but it can also be boiled or roasted when the conditions are good, shallow groped out flour and vegetables from the carry-on space - but in fact, we should not be surprised by what she carries with her, Sandora still took out an overwhelming amount of snacks, which made the two half-dragon girls stunned, and there were all kinds of strange things that everyone carried, including the yogurt of the mercury lamp and the jelly beans that Little Bubbles took out, most of the food was handed over to Monina, and now that her sister was not around, Anvina didn't come with her, and as far as a few of us were concerned, the only cook was Monina: she was a chef, and she was good at cooking at home except for Anvina

Waiting for the meal, shallow curiosity took a few pieces of jerky, skewered on an iron skewer and put it in the fire to roast, I was very anxious to think, will the pile of carbide be forced into his mouth will be forced into his mouth Little Bubbles threw his baby jelly beans into the fire, instantly lost, now she is holding Bubbles crying and crying, Xiao Qijing is still persistently roasting herself, she firmly believes that she can catch the flames, the mercury lamp put the yogurt in a metal box, it is slightly heated next to the fire, and it is contented to suck on the side, Two half-dragon maidens are curiously figuring out how to open a can of fruit, and Sandora is baking two stones, one of which has been bitten off a third of it......

Me: "......" I was relieved to see that the two half-dragon maidens had not said anything about Sandora's recipe, and they seemed to be finally starting to go numb

After dinner, we spent the night in this gorgeous fairytale castle with bunks on the floor, a campfire, and a tent next to it...... To be continued)