Chapter Ninety-Four: The Willow Forest Slope in the South of the City
Lan Qiyu did not wait in the room, but went out into the street before returning, and the servant knew that she was the one brought back by Cinderella, so he did not stop her.
Although Cinderella is not higher than her two sisters, she is a young lady in the end.
Lan Ruyu waited in the house for a while, and it was not until about half past ten that Cinderella returned.
Lan Ruyu asked knowingly, "Where are your crystal shoes?" Why is one missing? β
"It was the masquerade that wore a mask so my sisters didn't recognize me, and I was afraid that they would find out when they came back, so I ran faster and one of my crystal slippers fell off."
"Oh yes." Probably tomorrow the prince will search the whole city, right?
Cinderella changed her clothes, brought Lan Ruyu to her stepmother, and said resignedly, "Mother, this is my friend, can you let her stay here for a few days?" β
The mother was sitting in a chair reading a book, looked at Lan Yiyu, and smiled softly, "Of course, guests are welcome." You can arrange a room for her. β
Lan Yiyu: Is the acting skills of the vicious stepmother so good?! The gentleness on his face is just as good as the real thing!
Leaving her stepmother's room, Lan Ruyu asked Cinderella suspiciously, "Your mother looks very gentle, why would she let you live in the utility room?" β
"Mother... It's like this in front of outsiders, but in front of me..."Then Cinderella lifted her sleeves, and her white lotus-like arms were scarred, and she looked like a spirit.
"When my mother was unhappy, she would whip me in private..."
Even though she knew that it was an illusion, Lan Ruyu still felt pity for Cinderella.
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Sure enough, the next day the castle issued a notice that the prince wanted to find the girl who had dropped a crystal slipper at the ball last night as his fiancΓ©e.
The guards took the crystal slippers and began to search for the girl all over the city.
In the afternoon, the guards arrived at Cinderella's house.
In the hall, the stepmother sat on the sofa drinking tea, and the two sisters were eager to try it, although they knew that the crystal slipper did not fall by themselves, but what if? If you wear it, it will be a phoenix flying on the branches.
Lan Ruyu watched the two sisters try on the shoes, and unsurprisingly, one foot was too big and the other was too small. The two sisters were annoyed.
The guards saw that the two girls were about to leave without putting on the crystal slippers, and Lan Ruyu just wanted to stop, when she heard the stepmother on the sofa say, "Knights, I still thought that my daughter Cinderella didn't try the crystal slippers!" Maybe she is. β
When the two sisters heard this, they stomped their feet, "Mother, how can it be Cinderella, she doesn't even have a dance costume!" How could you take the castle to the ball! β
The stepmother comforted the two daughters, and said, "The prince has decreed that all the women of the city may try, and she has the right to do so, whether Cinderella goes or not." β
Then he arranged for the servant to call Cinderella.
Lan Niyu, who was eating melons on the side: This plot is not going in the right direction??? This stepmom doesn't have to pretend like this, right?
Lan Qiyu began to wonder if she had received a normal script, it was impossible to take the wrong script, right?!
"Mother, you call me?"
"Come on Cinderella, my good boy. The prince is searching the city for a woman who can wear a crystal slipper, and you can try it. The stepmother saw Cinderella and beckoned to her happily.
Lan Ruyu looked at the mother-daughter love in this dress, and felt more and more that something was wrong. This stepmother really doesn't look like she's pretending, if her acting skills are so superb that she doesn't even find out, then she has to award her stepmother a fairy tale world best performance award.
Lan Ruyu watched as Cinderella sat on a chair and pulled her foot out of the ordinary flat shoes, and slowly entered the crystal shoes, which were not too big or too small.
The guards exclaimed in surprise, "Hmm! You are the one the prince is looking for. Miss Cinderella, the prince wants to see you, so please come with us into the castle. β
"But I ......"
The stepmother was also extremely happy and waved her hand, "Go ahead." β
After Cinderella left, the two sisters cried out angrily, "How could it be her!" She didn't even have a dance costume. β
The stepmother reprimanded the two, and the two left angrily.
Lan Ruyu stepped forward to stop her stepmother who was about to go back to the room, "Hello madam, it's sunny today, I want to invite you to have a cup of afternoon tea." β
The stepmother looked out the window at the sky where the clouds were thick and she didn't even see the shadow of the sun, but she nodded politely.
On the small table in the back garden, Lan Siyu put down the small teacup and looked at her stepmother with a smile, "Madam, I'm a little puzzled, why does Cinderella live in a bungalow?" β
The stepmother didn't expect Lan Yiyu to ask this question, she was stunned, but she still reacted, "Actually, I don't know much about this, I lost my memory after I went to the forest with Cinderella a year ago, and after the amnesia, I saw Cinderella living in the utility room and I told her to let her move back to the original bedroom, but Cinderella refused, she said she wanted to exercise herself."
Seeing her insistence, I followed her. This child of hers is more assertive and more able to endure hardships than her two older sisters. β
Lan Ruyu chatted about some things again, and then pointed to the necklace worn by her stepmother, "Madame's necklace is very beautiful, where did you buy it?" β
The stepmother bowed her head and picked up the pendant of the necklace, showing a hint of nostalgia on her gentle face, "I didn't buy it, although I have amnesia, I remember that this is a relic left to me by my mother." β
Seeing that Lan Qiyu didn't speak, her stepmother continued to recall, "My mother told me that there is a key in this pendant that can open a box, and inside is the dress she left for me, and she said that when I wore this dress, it was when I met the person I was destined to wear.
But before I opened the box, I married my current Xiangsheng, and the box was shelved. β
Lan Ruyu bowed her head to show understanding, it was so good, it was not at all the same as the Cinderella she saw when she was a child. She said that it couldn't be so simple, she was fooled, and the illusion was really an old fool.
Back in the room, "Panpan, I suspect that the current Cinderella is not the real Cinderella, and the current stepmother is more like Cinderella." "When Cinderella was putting on her shoes this afternoon, Lan Qiyu noticed that the sole of the foot was too wrinkled, and it didn't look like the feet of a teenage girl in Cinderella.
[Congratulations on triggering the side quest: Let the witch manifest herself and let the real Cinderella and the prince be together.] γ
Lan seemed to be clear, and she said! How could the task be so simple, it was she who was confused by habitual thinking!
"So you're going to tell me how to make a witch manifest herself? I don't know magic. β
There was silence for a while, and the sound of the machine returned.
[The largest willow sap on the willow slope in the south of the city will make the witch and Cinderella turn into their original form. γ
"Liulin Slope in the south of the city? Are you sure you don't need me to turn left three times and turn three times?! "Then come out a Qinghuazhuang???
Wait for a long time, no machine sound appears.
Shh
Lan Qiyu went to bed early, and is going to go to Liulinpo tomorrow to have a look.