Chapter 108 This poisonous apple is so delicious
"It's too suspicious to sell things in the wilderness." Aurora thought, "Besides, it's not something I need. It's not a daily necessity, so why should I buy it?"
The queen was anxious.
What's the matter with you little girl?
Can you please stop being so vigilant?
Can you be more curious as a little girl?
The queen knocked nervously on the window, making a crisp sound.
"Just try it. Little girl, seeing how beautiful you are, I'll give you a ribbon for free."
"Free delivery, it looks even more suspicious..." Aurora thought as she narrowed her eyes, eyeing the queen's disguise as an old woman suspiciously.
Rhine in the room almost laughed out loud when he heard the conversation between the two.
After a quiet divination, his strange sense of humor kicked in and he came up with a new idea.
"It's okay. Then I'll buy a ribbon and try it."
Rhine opened the window, spent some copper coins, bought the ribbon from the old woman, and tied it around Aurora's neck with his own hands.
When the queen saw this scene, she was so excited that she almost jumped up. She tried her best to suppress the joy on her face.
"Great, what a stupid kid. You helped me a lot."
"The ribbon is tied around Aurora's neck and is going to strangle her to death!"
"When this girl named Aurora dies, I will become the most beautiful person in the kingdom again!"
The queen laughed wildly in her heart.
However, after waiting patiently for a while, she regretfully discovered:
Nothing happened.
The blond girl and the silver-haired boy were still chatting and laughing, showing no signs of being affected at all.
"What's going on?" The queen was confused and muttered in her heart, "Is there something wrong with the magic?"
She carefully studied the ribbon around Aurora's neck - according to the magic she set up, the moment the ribbon was wrapped around her neck, the ribbon would immediately tighten and strangle the girl to death.
And this ribbon is currently tied around Aurora's slender neck, and it does seem to be a little tighter than before.
But that's it.
It had no suffocating effect at all, and even the girl's skin showed no signs of being sunken due to tightening.
The queen cursed secretly in her heart:
"No, the magic on the ribbon must not be triggered properly! Alas, I haven't practiced magic for too long, and the spells are all unfamiliar."
"It's okay, I have one last trick!"
She placed a large basket of plump apples in front of the window:
"Little girl, thank you for buying my ribbon. Would you like to try another apple?"
Aurora looked warily at the old woman selling things in the wilderness:
"You not only sell ribbons and combs? You also sell apples? Isn't this too complicated? And you sell groceries, but you have nothing else here except a few ribbons, a comb and a basket of apples. Isn’t it too strange?”
The queen lowered her head and explained somewhat far-fetchedly:
"Well, everything else is sold out."
Before Aurora could ask "Who did you sell to in this forest?", the queen handed another apple into the window:
"Have a taste. The apples I just picked are big, plump, tender and juicy. Since you bought my ribbon, I will give you an apple for free."
Aurora glanced at the apple suspiciously, then glanced at Rhine. After getting a response from the latter's eyes, she finally took the apple and bit into it.
"She ate it, she ate it!"
The queen was so excited that she almost shouted with joy.
She was sure that Aurora ate the outer side of the apple.
The toxic side!
"Just wait a few seconds and she will explode and die." The queen thought to herself, staring at Aurora's face.
Suddenly, Aurora frowned and her body trembled suddenly.
"This apple..."
"Has it taken effect?" The queen took a deep breath and felt happy.
"So sour." Aurora finished the second half of the sentence.
"Uh..." The queen was silent.
"Maybe the toxin attacks slower than I thought?" She waited patiently for another minute or two, but nothing happened.
"Although it's very sour, thank you for the apple, old lady." Aurora put down the apple she had taken a few bites of, and looked at the queen who had been standing there suspiciously again, "So, is there anything else? ? Why are you staring at me?"
The queen's head was already covered with sweat.
"No, that's a terrible poison that can make an elephant faint."
"How come it doesn't work?"
"How could there be no reaction at all?"
She tried to wipe the sweat from her forehead.
"Old lady, it's almost winter now and the weather is very cold. Why do you sweat so much?" Rhine asked with concern.
"Maybe... uh... I've been running around outside for a long time. Haha, hahaha." The queen pretended to be an old woman and laughed awkwardly.
"Is it possible that I forgot to poison an apple? Try another one?"
As soon as the queen thought this, she saw Rhine taking out a copper coin:
"Bring a few more apples. Let me see if every one is sour."
The queen was overjoyed and her affection for the silver-haired boy soared!
"Oh my God. You have helped me a lot again. Fortunately, there is an ignorant child like you here." The queen thought.
She couldn't help but mutter in her heart:
"That little girl named Aurora looks so innocent and harmless, but is so wary that it would be inconvenient for me to kill someone."
"It would be great if she could learn from this silver-haired boy, with a simple and innocent heart!" Rhine bought a few more apples, grabbed one of them and took two bites - and indeed he took two bites. The toxic side.
"Aurora, this apple tastes really good. It's not only sweet, but also tender and juicy. It seems that the only one that's sour is the one you ate." Rhine praised the apple in his hand and bit into it several times. Mouth, the expression is extremely pleasant.
"Is that so?" Aurora was doubtful and picked up an apple and took a bite. "Well, this one is indeed okay."
The two began to discuss the taste of apples. Rhine praised the taste of apples and turned to the queen outside the window:
"Old lady, the quality of your apples is indeed very good. Sell me the whole basket!"
The queen almost rolled her eyes out of her sockets when she saw the two children talking and laughing.
What is going on?
Wait a minute, I’m selling poison apples, right?
How can you two eat so hard?
Looking at the queen who was as stunned as a stone statue, Rhine showed a confused expression:
"What's wrong, old lady, won't you sell it to us? It's okay, I can add more money."
"Ahem." The queen finally responded, "Nothing, nothing."
At this time, the queen keenly noticed:
Whether it was Rhine or Aurora, the three apples they had bitten so far were all eating the poisonous side of the basket facing outward.
Could it be that...
"I must have turned the apple basket upside down!"
"By the way, Snow White touched my apples while I was away. She must have put the apple basket in the wrong direction!"
"What they eat is actually the non-poisonous side."
Rhine looked at the queen with sweat on her face and asked with concern:
"Old granny, it looks like the weather outside is really hot. Your face is covered with sweat. Otherwise, the remaining apples can be considered as my invitation to you and given to the old granny for you to eat."
After saying that, Rhine handed over an apple.
"Come on, old lady, eat an apple too."
"Okay, okay." The queen nodded nervously, looking at the boy's expectant expression, knowing that she had to eat.
"I'll just eat the sour apple that the girl just threw away."
The queen picked up the sour apple that Aurora had put down at the window after taking a bite. She looked at the half that had been bitten off, and was still unable to take a bite.
"It should be fine. I must have turned the two sides of the apple upside down. This side was bitten by the girl, so it must not be poisonous!"
The queen was thinking as she took two more bites on the side that Aurora had already bitten.
"Well, this one is indeed sour." The queen admitted.
The next moment, her eyes bulged and her whole body trembled.
The toxin is released!
thump.
The queen fell to the ground.
The magic she used to disguise herself was also lifted, revealing her original beauty.
"This is this?" Aurora was surprised.
"Solve it. It's too simple."
Rhine smiled and briefly explained the cause and effect to Aurora.
Just now, the ribbon's strangulation magic actually worked normally, but it could only strangle ordinary people to death, and was completely useless against the invulnerable Aurora.
To be honest, Rhine was not entirely sure where the boundaries of Aurora's blessing of being "invulnerable to man-made and natural weapons" were. Because he felt that whether the belt that strangled someone was considered a "weapon" was a fuzzy area, so he deliberately used divination. The method is confirmed once and is guaranteed to be foolproof.
As for the curse issued by the black witch that "the spindle will prick Aurora's finger and kill her", it is effective. Rhine suspects that the spindle can only be used as a weaving tool, which is in the fuzzy area of blessing judgment and is ambiguous. That kind of thing, but the existence of curse magic chooses unfavorable judgment methods so that the spindle can take effect. Of course, it's also possible that the curse won't take effect at all.
Anyway, the blessings of epics, fairy tales and mythological stories always highlight the needs of the plot, and there is no need to be pretentious.
As for the poison apple, Rhine is not worried at all. Because after he and Aurora ate the precious plant roots given by the sea hag, they had become immune to all poisons.
"What a pity," Rhine glanced at the unconscious queen lying on the ground and thought, "the queen does not have a body that is immune to poison. She will not be so lucky after eating a poisonous apple."
Aurora walked over and observed the queen on the ground:
"She is obviously still breathing and not really dead."
Rhine was not surprised by this.
He knew that according to the original work, Snow White only fell into a coma after eating the poison apple. After Prince Charming kisses Snow White, the latter wakes up.
Wait, why is it so similar to Sleeping Beauty Aurora’s original fate?
There are many similarities between fairy tales.
"So, what do we do with this bad queen?"
Aurora looked at the unconscious queen on the ground and immediately felt troubled.
"Since she wants to kill us. Otherwise, we just kill her like this?"
Insomnia is very serious, I need to find a solution
(End of chapter)