Chapter 10: Sleeping Beauty?
"Whew-"
Hu Xintong casually threw the satchel on the bed, and the whole person lay down in a large shape. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
When will such a blind date be the end!
Thinking of this, Hu Xintong couldn't help but scold angrily: "That scumbag." "Maybe to the man, it's nothing, but for any girl, it's a very embarrassing thing.
'Hum-'
The vibration of the phone sent out of the shoulder bag, followed by a beautiful ringtone.
"Hey!"
Hu Xintong sighed, she didn't have to look at her to guess that the call was from her mother to inquire about the progress.
After rummaging through her backpack, she pulled out her motley smartphone, which she had used for nearly two years, and as she guessed, it was her mother who called.
"Hey, Mom!" After hesitating for a while, Hu Xintong picked up the phone.
"How's it going?" Wang Guiqin's deliberately low-volume voice came.
Hu Xintong hesitated for a moment when she heard this, and then said softly: "It's not suitable between the two of us, we just separated, and I'm going home." "Although I really want to complain to my mother, how did she find such a scumbag.
However, Hu Xintong only gave up this idea in an instant, otherwise her grumpy mother would probably use the frying pan to find the aunt who introduced the blind date this time......
"Failed again?" Wang Guiqin's tone was obviously disappointed, and Hu Xintong's face was a little gloomy when she heard it, she also knew that her mother was doing this for her good, after all, almost everyone her age was already married.
Although the age of 25 is not an old leftover girl, it is definitely not young!
"Forget it, I'll find it for you next time!"
"Don't do it!" Hu Xintong hurriedly said: "Mom, don't look for it, I want to find one I like!" ”
"Huh? Find it yourself? Wang Guiqin sneered and continued: "Every day the gate does not go out, and the second door does not enter, just like an ancient lady, I really think that like in a fairy tale, there are men falling from the sky." Even if there is, it will be a suicide by jumping off a building, and you will not be killed if you dare to smash it! ”
“……”
Hu Xintong said that his mother's words are really sharp, and they can't be refuted...... Plus 100% Critical Hits!
"So, apart from blind dates, how do you find a partner? Play games every day, if you can also find a partner, the old lady won't stop you, now don't worry, it's nearly three in a few years. Can my grandson still be hugged? I can't sell the daughter I've raised for so many years, so why do I have to smash my hands? ”
That last sentence is the main purpose!
The corners of Hu Xintong's mouth twitched slightly, and he sighed helplessly: "Whatever you want!" ”
"Okay, your brother will be back in a while, I'll go cook first!" Saying that, Wang Guiqin didn't wait for Hu Xintong to reply, and hung up the phone directly, which can be described as vigorous and resolute.
sighed in resignation, looked at the mobile phone that had bottomed out, and couldn't help but sigh again: "The broken phone should also be replaced, and I just finished charging it in the morning......"
After that, she turned around and began to rummage through the power bank from the bag, but then her movements were stagnant, and she slowly pulled out the fairy tale book from the bag, remembering the name she had seen before, Hu Xintong smiled self-deprecatingly.
"How could it be so coincidental!"
Then she turned the page of the fairy tale book with some curiosity, and found that it was a fairy tale book with a very gorgeous packaging, and judging by its thickness, it was likely to contain all the fairy tales in it.
After opening it, the first story is a story that many people are familiar with - Sleeping Beauty.
The square font carries beautiful illustrations, and the text is very ordinary Chinese mixed with English, but the illustrations on the first page made Hu Xintong a little shocked.
The epic landscapes, the beautiful painting style, the delicate techniques, and the dreamy colors look as if they were painted by hand, not printed.
It's not at all like the cheap illustrations of popular fairy tales on the market, and it feels more like a masterpiece by a famous artist.
Hu Xintong closed the fairy tale collection with some curiosity, turned it over and glanced at the selling price behind it, suddenly gasped, couldn't help but rub his eyes vigorously, and looked at the number of zeros again.
"One-digit, two-digit, three-digit...... Seven figures? 1.4 million !! ”
Hu Xintong's expression was stunned for a moment, and after half a ring, she shook her head in disbelief: "It must have been misprinted, and I don't know which publishing house, even the price was wrong!" ”
Thinking of this, Hu Xintong began to look for a publishing house again, but after looking for a while, he didn't see any publishing house, only a sentence suspected to be an introduction: Christine Birmingham hand-painted limited edition.
Hu Xintong, who didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all, pouted: "Sure enough, it's a fake publishing house, and it doesn't even have a name, so I said how to print such an exaggerated price." ”
Hu Xintong didn't know that if her words got out, her name would probably become synonymous with ignorance!
Hu Xintong, who had nothing to do, once again opened the fairy tale book, even if it was a fake publishing house, the illustrations in it still made people feel extremely beautiful, and the opening illustrations were a richly dressed queen and a frog showing its head under the water.
Although she had seen the story a long time ago, she still read the story again with the beautiful paintings.
And the story of Sleeping Beauty probably tells the following story:
There was a king and queen who had no children, and they were very sad and distressed about it.
One day, while the queen was walking by the river, a frog jumped up to her and said, "Your wish will come true, and soon you will give birth to a daughter." ”
Later, the queen really gave birth to a very beautiful daughter. The king was so happy that he decided to hold a large banquet.
He invited not only his relatives, friends, and foreign guests, but also almost all the witches, so that they could send good wishes for his daughter.
But there were thirteen witches in his kingdom, and he only had twelve golden plates to entertain them for dinner, so he invited only twelve witches, leaving one uninvited.
At the end of the feast, all the guests gave the little princess the best gifts.
Witches with magical powers are no exception.
The first witch gave her virtues,
The second witch gave her beauty,
The third witch gave her rich,
The fourth witch gave her wisdom,
The fifth witch gave her bel canto,
Sixth ...... Seventh ...... Eleventh ...... They gave her all the hopes of the world, all the advantages and expectations of the world.
And when the eleventh witch blessed the little princess, the unexpected happened.
The thirteenth witch of the country, the one who was not invited, walked in, she was very angry that she was not invited, and she wanted to take revenge on it, to offer her vicious spell. So when she came in, she cried out, "The king's daughter will be wounded by a spinning hammer at the age of fifteen, and will eventually die." ”
All those present were astonished, but before the twelfth sorceress could offer her gift, she stepped forward and said, "This dangerous spell will indeed be fulfilled, but the princess can save it." She doesn't die, she just sleeps out, and she sleeps for a hundred years. ”
In the end, despite the king's exhaustion, the spell was fulfilled. However, she did not die, but fell there and fell into a deep sleep.
All the creatures and things in the palace fell into a spell of slumber, and a great fence of thistles grew around the palace, and year after year they grew higher and thicker, and at last the whole palace was covered so tightly that even the roof and chimneys could not be seen.
It wasn't until a hundred years later that all this came to an end, when the prince came to the palace after a difficult journey, and with a magical kiss, the princess was freed from the spell of slumber, and the palace was completely revived.
The prince and princess had a grand wedding and lived happily ever after.
"Sure enough, there are some stories that you can never get tired of reading, it's really touching!" After reading this story in one go, Hu Xintong said to herself: "When will I be able to find my prince!" ”
"What is this?" At this time, Hu Xintong found that after the end of the fairy tale, there were still some small characters in the blank space below, which seemed to be written by the same person as the signature.
Hu Xintong read out the annotation while reading:
"She was just born, the trajectory of her life has been fixed, and she can't make any changes, maybe there is unwillingness in this princess's heart......"
Of course, she probably never thought about it, because she was used to other people arranging everything herself, and she didn't even think about changing it, like me...... Life is often not as good as it should be. ”
"Maybe in the eyes of outsiders, this princess, or I, are living a carefree and prosperous life, but ...... Is that really the case? ”
"She was deprived of the ability to work hard to change her destiny like ordinary people at birth, because her whole life was arranged by 11 shrine maidens, and she couldn't change it herself."
"Joy and sorrow, appearance, personality...... And so on and so forth, all planned by the eleven witches, and I think the princess should be grateful to the thirteenth witch, because this witch has added variables to her life and given her the opportunity to change her destiny. ”
"Of course, this is without the twelfth witch, the twelfth witch's words, once again pulled her life back to a fixed trajectory, and even her due happiness was deprived, and she could only marry the prince who woke her up!"
"And is this love? Although I don't really understand it, I feel that this is not love, but a kind of mourning...... What is the difference between me and the princess, I was also deprived of the right to look at the world at birth, and I can only stay in this house, because everything outside is thistle terrestris to me. ”
"If one day, I step on thistles and drag my bruised body out, I ...... What will happen? Will there be a so-called prince who will come to my rescue? ”
"How am I going to meet you...... Will you be able to come to my most painful moments? ”
Tears gradually wet Hu Xintong's eyelashes, and she didn't know whether she was crying because of the so-called sorrow in the article, or the unwillingness revealed in this passage.
But then she laughed and said to herself, "It seems that you have succeeded, I wonder if a prince rescued you!" Her mind couldn't help but think of the beautiful woman she had bumped into in front of the coffee shop.
"It's a shame I'm not a man, otherwise...... I really want to try to be your prince, the prince who truly loves each other! ”