"Your father? Oh, by the way, I heard that he seems to have been arrested by order of the mayor and sentenced to flogging," the man named Gaston shrugged and looked at Belle, with a hint of greed flashing in his eyes: "How is it, do you need my help?" You know, I know the mayor very well..."

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"Who are you? What to do with Belle? Gaston frowned: "When did it appear?" So sneaky! ”

… I really took your eyes, I stood in front of you for a long time before I saw it.

"Gaston," Belle snorted softly, "this is my friend, please don't talk nonsense." ”

"Friends?" Gaston's eyes narrowed, he retracted his arms, clasped his fists together, pinched his fingers, and made a gurgling sound: "How did I not know you had such a friend?" Or a man? ”

Cheng Nuo fully understands that this must be a suitor of Belle.

"I have friends who have nothing to do with you," Belle was clearly not interested in the suitor, and her tone was cold and a little anxious, "Now please get out of the way." ”

"No problem, everything is up to you... But, Belle, I've heard that the mayor is angry because of your father, you have to think about how to get it back, if you make the mayor unhappy again, it will be trouble," Gaston looked at Belle, then at Cheng Nuo, and then turned to the side: "It's five lashes now, maybe it will become ten or twenty lashes by then, of course, if I come forward, maybe I won't even need one whip... You know, with your father's body, let alone five lashes, three lashes can be whipped to death... You have to think about it. ”

Belle bit her lip, ignored him, and hurried over.

Gaston's face was gloomy, and when Cheng Nuo followed, he stretched out his hand to stop: "I warn you, the hillbilly from out of town, stay away from Belle... Otherwise, you will be able to get into this town, and it will be difficult to get out. ”

Cheng Nuo turned his head to look at him... It's been a long time since I've heard this threat, and when I talk about it, I'm really a little nostalgic.

Belle was running not far away, not forgetting to turn her head to look over.

"Get out," Gaston said, raising his hand, "remember my words!" ”

Cheng Nuo glanced at him again, didn't say anything, and caught up with Belle.

Belle had something in her heart, she didn't speak, she just glanced at Cheng Nuo, with obvious apologies, Cheng Nuo smiled, returned a look of nothingness, and didn't speak either.

Of course, Cheng Nuo's fineness is only for Belle, and when he meets the young man again at another time, Cheng Nuo has no idea of complaining with virtue.

When the two rushed to the square of the town, they saw a middle-aged man with his hands wide apart, hanging on the whipping rack, his head lowered, and his spirit was low, and a guard-like man was standing 5 meters away with a long whip two or three meters long and a fine wrist, with a little sly smile on the corner of his mouth, and a bucket of water under his feet.

That Gaston is right, such a thick whip is stained with water, ordinary people don't say five whips, three whips are afraid that they will go to half a life, and then look at the state of Belle's father, he can't survive being killed by five whips, and it is possible to die on the spot.

At the back of the torture rack stood a pot-bellied poop, who looked like the kind of civil servant who was used to acting as a man, probably not the mayor of the town or the leader of the town, surrounded by a few guards.

There were already many people around the flogging ground.

"Father," Belle pounced, "what's going on?" ”

The onlookers watched Belle make a noise.

Belle's father perked up when he heard Belle's voice, raised his head to look at Belle, and shouted in disbelief, "Belle? It's you? Are you alright? You escaped from that castle? ”

Speaking of which, Cheng Nuo didn't know why Belle passed through the forest alone at night, but listening to Belle's father, Belle seemed to have been locked up in a castle before and escaped last night.

"Yes, I'm fine," Belle nodded, "I escaped last night while they were unprepared." ”

Belle's father immediately became delighted.

"Daring Movis!" I don't know what the town leader shouted: "Didn't you say that Belle was imprisoned in the castle by a terrible beast?" And talking nonsense, that beast can talk, and comes to me in the middle of the night and asks me to send someone to save her... Tell me now, why is Belle here? Do you still dare to say that you are not a liar? ”

Cheng Nuo felt like he had caught something.

"I didn't lie to you," Belle's father tried to turn his head, "Mayor Mare, there is indeed a talking beast living in that castle, first locked me up, and then Belle went over and replaced me, I thought I would never see her again in my life... God forbid, Belle escaped on her own, and if you don't believe me, you can ask Belle. ”

Belle was about to speak when the mayor shouted, "Movis! Are you deceiving others, do you still want to take your daughter with you? ”

"No, my father is not lying," Belle said loudly, pointing to the northeast, "and beyond the forest, there is indeed a castle in which a talking beast lives, and not only can it talk, but many things in it, candlesticks, clocks, teapots, can speak..."

The onlookers opened their mouths wide and looked at Belle in a bit of a daze.

"Belle, this is stupid to read," said a townsman standing next to Cheng Nuo, "Why does it sound like a story?" ”

"Shut up!" "Belle, I know you like to read and think, but now is not the time for you to tell stories!" If you dare to talk nonsense, don't blame me for punishing you. ”

Cheng Nuo finally strung the story together.

… Beasts, castles, beauties, proper beauties and beasts!

Now that I think about it, the lion-like guy I met when I first came here seemed to be wearing very aristocratic clothes, and the roar that came out when he was kicked by myself was more like a human voice.

Even Cheng Nuo can complete the story for Belle.

The beast was originally a prince, but he was cursed to become a beast because he had offended a witch. And unless a beautiful girl is truly in love with him, the curse will be lifted.

Needless to say, Belle is the girl she was meant to be.

Belle's father's accidental invasion of the castle is the introduction of the story, he was imprisoned in the castle for trying to pluck a rose and was condemned as a thief by the beast, and Belle came to the castle after learning the news and was willing to exchange her father for herself.

According to the progress of the original story, Belle had to live with the beast, and the pair slowly cultivated a relationship in constant conflict and mutual incomprehension, and the final outcome was, of course, Belle fell in love with the beast and exchanged a true kiss for the beast's freedom.