Chapter 27 The Legend of the Imprisoned Princess
"Fortunately, okay, he didn't realize that I, an old woman who had my chest penetrated, was still alive!"
Granny Rosa turned sideways, and a scarecrow fell out of the witch's robe.
The Scarecrow's chest was pierced, just as a pocket sword had once pierced the Scarecrow.
"Fortunately, I had a substitute who took most of the damage on my behalf. The injury was not fatal."
Granny Rosa struggled to support the ground with her elbows and tried to stand up sideways, but unexpectedly failed.
"Ahem, cough."
The old man coughed up a large glob of blood.
The old man tried to stand up again and again, or concentrated on summoning wild wolves to drag him away, or summoning ravens to bring healing herbs.
But all attempts failed due to poor physical condition.
Twilight fell, and the moon and stars rose.
Under the moonlight, Granny Rosa was lying in the middle of the road, shivering in the desolate cold wind.
Every time the biting evening wind blew, the old man would tremble a few times.
"I obviously survived, am I going to freeze to death here?"
Thinking of such an ironic ending, Granny Rosa suddenly felt a little sad.
"If I had known better, I would have called the Violet Fairy or Mr. Rhine. I really shouldn't have come out alone..."
"Wait a minute, Lord Rhine, that's right!"
Suddenly, Granny Rosa's cloudy eyes were filled with hope again.
The old man turned his head, looked at the bright moon in the sky, opened his lips, and recited the name spread in countless legends:
"The sage from beyond the world, the prophet who knows the future, the wizard of miracles and wishes..."
Soon.
Young Rhine, dressed in a pure white classical magician costume, and a sassy girl with gilded hair quickly emerged.
"Grandma Rosa!"
When Aurora saw Grandma Rosa being seriously injured and couldn't bear the injury, she rushed towards her:
"Teacher, please heal Granny Rosa quickly!
"Damn it, who hurt my mother-in-law like this!"
Rhine also quickly used the healing technique, covering Granny Rosa with pure white light.
After regaining some strength, Grandma Rosa briefly told what she had just experienced.
"That's really a rude, brutal and greedy soldier! No, he's not worthy of being a soldier anymore, he's just a complete robber!" Aurora said angrily.
In her clear eyes, there was a trace of invisible anger:
"It's a pity that I don't know where that soldier went. If I meet him, I must personally avenge Granny Rosa."
……
After "killing" the old witch, the soldier walked into the city with all his money and tinder box.
This city is the royal capital of the country, solemn and beautiful.
The soldier checked into a luxurious hotel, opened the most comfortable room, ordered his favorite meal, replaced the old leather boots that were ridiculed, and bought new boots and new clothes
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The soldier in rags no longer existed, only a new-looking gentleman!
People in the hotel often gather in the bar on the first floor to discuss the big and small things in the city, some of which are true and some of which are rumors, many of which are related to the king or the royal family.
Today, the topic of everyone’s chat is the king’s daughter, Her Royal Highness the Princess of Rose Kingdom.
——It is said that she is a particularly beautiful beauty who has been given many beautiful blessings by witches!
"Have you heard of it? That legend about Her Royal Highness the Princess!" said a person in the tavern.
"It is said that our princess of Rose Kingdom is a little beauty who brings together all the good blessings!"
So the topic was brought up. The guests in the hotel told each other the legends they had heard about this beautiful princess.
The soldier was very interested in this topic. He put down the ale in his hand and listened.
Legend has it that when the princess was born 10 years ago, not only foreign guests came, but also all the witches and magicians in the kingdom came to offer their blessings to the newborn princess.
The first blessing endowed the princess with stunning beauty that would captivate the whole country, and the second blessing endowed the princess with a mesmerizing voice of nature.
As for other blessings, no one knows.
Some people say that the princess was gifted with wonderful dancing skills.
Some people say that the princess was gifted with the kindest, gentlest and golden heart.
In any case, everyone knows that Her Royal Highness must have gathered all the beautiful qualities in the world.
"Where can I see the princess?" The soldier's curiosity was aroused and he asked everyone chatting. He knew that with his past status, he was definitely not worthy of contacting the princess.
But now he is no longer a soldier, but a noble and wealthy gentleman!
"Oh my god? You actually want to see the princess? What are you talking about?" The bartender looked surprised.
Hasn’t this gentleman learned about the situation of the princess of the kingdom before?
Everyone in the upper reaches of society should know!
A series of boos sounded.
"No one can see the princess!" Everyone in the tavern said in unison.
"The princess lives in the deepest part of the palace, in a palace made of copper. Only the king and the queen can enter and exit that secret place."
"I also heard that many princes from foreign countries learned that there was a princess in the Kingdom of Rose who had gathered all the beautiful qualities in the world, but was imprisoned deep in the palace. So, those princes crawled into the palace late at night and Want to get a glimpse of the beauty of the legendary princess! ”
"It's a pity that all the princes who came to take risks failed!"
"No one can see the princess, no one!"
The more the soldiers listened, the more confused they became, and the more they listened, the more curious they became: "Why did the king lock the princess deep in the palace?"
"I don't know, it is said to be to avoid a terrible prophecy."
"There is a popular saying that on the day the princess was born, a witch predicted that the princess would die suddenly and tragically when she grew up, so the king had to protect her."
"No, no, no, in the version I heard, the prophecy is like this: the princess will marry an ordinary person without noble blood. This makes the king intolerable."
"Who did you hear? Why is it different from what I know?"
Everyone answered one by one.
"Haha, it's such a waste that a princess with unparalleled beauty and all the good qualities in the world is locked up in the depths of the palace. I really want to see her!" the soldier thought.
……
The soldiers now live happily.
Now he is rich, indulges in food and drinking, and has made many friends. These friends praised him as a generous man. Soldiers like to hear such praise. He enjoys the feeling of being respected and admired. Anyone who praises him will be rewarded with a small bag of gold coins.
Simply living the life of a rich man does not satisfy a soldier. Less than a week after staying in the hotel, the soldier got tired of it and felt that he should find something new and exciting to change his boring life.
This night, it was extremely dark.
The soldier took out the tinderbox - the same tinderbox that the witch had guided him to get under the tree hole, and rubbed it on the flint, hoping to light the candle and make a fire.
Bang!
As the sparks flickered, the door opened automatically.
A copper-colored dog with eyes as big as teacups appeared out of thin air in front of him.
It was the dog he saw in the tree!
The soldier was so frightened that he was not wearing the witch's blue apron!
"No, don't, don't eat me!"
Unexpectedly, the dog lowered his head and said respectfully:
"My master, what are your instructions?"
The soldier was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood something.
"Get me some money!"
The soldier said with a try mentality.
With just a "swish" sound, the dog disappeared.
After a while, there was another "swish" sound, and the dog came back in front of him, holding a large bag of money in his mouth.
"It's amazing!"
After several tests, the soldier understood that this was a magical tinderbox that could summon the three big dogs in the tree hole to serve him.
Rub it once, twice, or three times to summon three different dogs. The dogs obeyed the command of the master of the tinder box.
"God bless you. I am no longer an ordinary person. I have a magical tinderbox and three magical dogs that serve me." The soldier couldn't help but feel excited.
At this time, in the dead of night, the soldier once again had the idea of wanting to see the princess.
"Others can't see the beautiful Princess, can't I?"
Note: In the story "Tinderbox", the description of the dog's size is very strange.
The smallest dog's eyes are as big as a teacup, the middle-sized dog's eyes are as big as a mill wheel, and the largest dog's eyes are as big as the Round Tower in Copenhagen - the latter's size would even be on the Ultraman set. It can be called huge.
But in the actual story, the size of the dog does not feel that big, more like the size of ordinary beasts such as lions and elephants.
For example, a soldier can move his dog onto his apron.
For another example, if the dog was really the big monster on the set of Ultraman, and he summoned such a big creature in the city, he would have been discovered long ago without waiting for the soldiers to kidnap the princess.
This article assumes that "eyes as big as round towers" is an exaggeration, and the largest dog is about the size of a house. Of course, for ancient armies, this was still a terrifying enough beast.
(End of chapter)