[Comprehensive] The man who delivers the courier with his life

On a flat slope deep in the forest, there is a very tall tower.

The tower seems to stand out of nowhere, and no one can find its entrance, as if the person who built it forgot to design an entry door for it.

And this tower is very famous in the village outside the forest, people call it the Witch's Tower - because its owner is a witch.

Witches are always extremely scary in people's images. Few people have actually seen this witch, and those who have seen her are all silent. The only thing everyone can be sure of is that this witch is in the Witch Tower. There are a lot of lettuces planted in the open space next to it, and there are a lot of lettuces that look tender and delicious.

At most, when people enter the forest, they just look at it from a distance and run away, because those are the lettuce belonging to the witch.

And the witch's lettuce cannot be touched at will.

People kept a respectful distance from this witch, and even if the witch hadn't done anything to them, everyone still told her that she was terrible.

But today, two young men who looked very different from the others came to the village. They came here and inquired about the location of the Witch's Tower.

These two young men didn't look like they were sluggish villagers. Even the knights around the king might not have the temperament of them.

In short, it's not like two ordinary people.

Such people are not something ordinary villagers like them can offend. Everyone quickly told them the location of the Witch's Tower, and then the two left after thanking them, not even staying for a rest.

After the two young men left, the whole village was boiling. Everyone was guessing the identities of the two young men, and what they wanted to do to find the Witch's Tower.

Strangers rarely come to these villages in normal times, so under normal circumstances, as long as outsiders come, everyone will know quickly.

And everyone's final guess as to why the two young men came here is that the two young men must have been knights sent by His Majesty the King to kill the Dreaded Witch.

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In the Witch's Tower, lettuce is both the vegetables that the witch grows around the tower and the name of a girl.

Rapunzel is 17 years old this year, and will soon celebrate her birthday. Many girls at her age will have some fantasies about their future spouse, and so will Rapunzel.

After finishing today's work, Rapunzel came to the window of the Witch's Tower, enjoying the bright sunshine and vibrant greenery.

She took out a comb from the dressing table, sat on a chair by the window, and carefully combed her long hair.

She has extremely beautiful long hair, and the faint golden color is as bright and dreamy as real gold shining under the sunlight.

Her long hair was extremely long, braided into a braid, and when she stood on the windowsill, she could drag it straight from the window at the top of the Witch's Tower to the bottom of the tower.

This tall tower without an entrance is so high that even if people try their best, they cannot climb to the top of it and enter through the windows.The only way to get in is to climb up Rapunzel's long hair when she let it down.

While arranging her long hair, Rapunzel was imagining what kind of scene would it be if she could meet the person she fell in love with in the future?

She thought and thought, feeling an unspeakable sweetness and happiness in her heart.

But because in fact, she has never really seen a man in all these years since she was a child, so she can't think of a reason, but she is just immersed in a kind of "should be sweet" thinking.

Rapunzel was imprisoned by the witch in the witch's tower since she was born, and she never had real contact with the men outside.It's not that she hasn't seen them before, but those are just the men in the surrounding villages who occasionally go deep into the forest. Rapunzel doesn't think she will be attracted to such people.

Instead, the witch would always mention some excellent men to her, and then warn her not to be easily deceived by men.

The witch always likes to tell her many, many stories. Among these stories, there are wise kings, beautiful queens, handsome princes, and lively banquets.

In witch stories, the prince always ends up with the beautiful princess, they lived happily and happily, and then had lovely children.

Rapunzel was obsessed with these stories about the witch, and imagined that she also had such happiness, but no matter which story, at the end, she would never stop at the prince and princess happily together.Witches always like to talk about what happened to them later, and finally separated because of something.

Like a country far in the east, when the king was still a prince, he fell in love with the queen who was still a princess, and then they got together, a couple that everyone envied.

It's just that as he got older and came into contact with power, the king slowly changed his mind, and the queen died shortly after giving birth to their child.Before she died, the queen named their child Snow White.

When the witch of the previous two days came back, she told her some continuations of the story, saying that the king had married a new queen.The once infatuated man, now the fickle man.

Rapunzel likes the first half of these stories told by the witch, and doesn't like the latter part, but the witch never cares what she likes to hear and what she doesn't like to hear, and always tells her these stories, and Rapunzel can only Listen obediently.

In addition to these stories, the witch will also tell her some stories related to her origin. Yes, the witch will always remind her, after telling her a story about the happiness of others, to emphasize it again , How pitiful her life experience is.

In the witch story, Rapunzel's parents are just a very ordinary couple, but when her mother was pregnant with her, her taste became very picky and she wanted to eat something good.

How can ordinary people eat such good things?And they don't have much money.

But Lettuce's mother didn't care about it, and even made a big fuss about it. Considering that Lettuce's mother was pregnant, her father finally agreed to find a way to get her mother something good to eat.

So Rapunzel's father asked, "What would you like to eat?"

This question stumped Mama Lettuce. They are just ordinary people. The most common things they see are bread and potatoes. They want to imagine some good things. They are also the things that the king would eat according to legend. .

But they obviously couldn't eat those things, and they couldn't find them just by listening to the names, unless they wanted to travel thousands of miles to the capital and rob the king, and finally be beheaded for offending the king.

So after mother Rapunzel exhausted all the wisdom in this life and thought about it, she finally thought of what she wanted to eat, "I want to eat the lettuce that the witch in the forest planted in the field."

The witch doesn't always stay in her witch tower, she always leaves for various things, rides her broom, flies steadily in mid-air, no one knows she goes every time where.

In order to steal the lettuce, Father Rapunzel hid for a long time outside the witch's tower, until he found out when the witch left, and then he took the courage to steal two pieces of lettuce from the witch's field.

It's probably something from witches, but it's different from ordinary people.

Mother lettuce fell in love with this taste deeply after eating two lettuces stolen by father.

Originally, I was still saying that I just wanted to eat this time, but now after I actually ate the lettuce, I was reluctant to part with it and thought about it day and night.

Lettuce's father saw that the pregnant mother couldn't eat all day long, and finally had no choice but to steal lettuce for her again.And after eating lettuce for the second time, mother lettuce seemed to become more courageous.

You see the witch is not always able to care about her lettuce field, or the lettuce is stolen, and it is impossible not to find out at all.Since the witches haven't found out so far, does that mean they can steal more?

The witch's silence made Rapunzel's mother more and more courageous. Later, she even asked Rapunzel's father to steal lettuce every day.If Papa Rapunzel refused, she would go on a hunger strike, and even curse him for being so useless that he couldn't even feed her own wife a piece of Rapunzel.

Maybe these lettuces are really delicious, maybe it’s because the excitement of stealing the witch’s things without being discovered is so addictive, I always follow the way mother lettuce eats, and it doesn’t take long, even if I don’t care about my lettuce field anymore The witch also found out that someone was stealing her lettuce.

Because her lettuce field, which is full of lettuce, is now very obviously missing a large piece, especially when the witch is flying in the sky and looking down, it can be seen more clearly.

"I found out your father was stealing my lettuce, and I caught him," said the witch as she sat there, telling Rapunzel these stories with a smile on her face, over and over again, "and he knelt before me and begged forgiveness. .”

"I didn't kill him, I didn't curse him, I just asked him why he stole my lettuce." For ordinary people, things in the field are very important.If someone is found stealing things from their fields, they may be beaten to death directly. After all, their food and money for a year all depend on the things they planted.

But not every time, they will have a good harvest.

After the witch asked Rapunzel's father, Rapunzel's father still told that his wife was pregnant and wanted to eat lettuce very much.

When the witch heard that it was a pregnant woman who wanted to eat her own lettuce, she laughed and asked the father of lettuce to bring the mother of lettuce. Of course, she has a way to prevent them from escaping. Witches can always do many vicious and unimaginable things matter.

Rapunzel's father knew that neither he nor his wife could escape, so he went back dejectedly and brought his wife who was also trembling with him.

At that time, Mama Rapunzel's belly was already very big, and it was extremely difficult to walk a section of the mountain road, and she was exhausted all the way to the Witch's Tower.

The witch and Rapunzel's parents made a deal led by her. She allowed Rapunzel's mother to eat the lettuce in her lettuce field at will, and she would not hold them accountable for stealing her lettuce, but there was only one request.

The witch asked Rapunzel to give the baby to her and never to see her again.

Rapunzel's parents agreed, and not only gave the newborn Rapunzel to the witch, but also left here with her husband, and Rapunzel's name came from this.

She was named Lettuce because her mother loved to eat it when she was pregnant.

In fact, all these years, the witch has been very kind to Rapunzel.

The witch raised Rapunzel so much, and she was only responsible for the hygiene of the tower. Most of the time, the witch let Rapunzel take care of her long hair, and she cast magic on Rapunzel's hair.

Let the lettuce hair grow very long and look very moist.

Lettuce's face is not very stunning, but anyone who has seen her hair will definitely admire her. She has the most beautiful long hair in the world.

But it is a pity that so far, the only person who can "appreciate" the long hair of lettuce is the witch, and after the hair of the lettuce is long enough, the witch no longer uses her broom to fly into the tower, but pulls the lettuce instead Crawling in with hair—an incomprehensible hobby.

Witches are always unpredictable.

Besides, the witch didn't do anything to Rapunzel, maybe we can take "like to tell stories to Rapunzel, cultivate her girlish heart, and then ruthlessly pierce her girlish heart" as a point?Also, the witch never let Rapunzel leave the tower.

Anyway, after hearing countless stories about witches, Rapunzel's girlish heart is completely crooked, but this does not hinder her longing for love.

What's more, because Rapunzel was not allowed to leave the Witch's Tower since she was a child, she has a very pure personality. It can be said that she doesn't understand anything except what the witch taught her—even if her mind is filled with many things. Reversed story.

The witch left early this morning. When she left, she said that she was going to attend a palace banquet. It seemed that a king's daughter was one year old, and she invited many fairies to go.

When the witch said this, the expression on her face looked very kind, but Rapunzel, who had been with the witch for so many years, soon discovered that the witch was angry.

She didn't know why the witch was angry, and the witch didn't tell her, but just like every time, let her stay at home and wait for her to come back.

Rapunzel also behaved as well-behaved as always, she was already used to such scenes.It's just that she sometimes feels puzzled occasionally.

In the stories that the witch told her, there are witches and fairies. Witches are hateful and hateful in people's mouth, but fairies are loved by people.The witch said that she was a witch, but the information she revealed sometimes made Rapunzel even more confused about the difference between a witch and a fairy.

For example, the witch said this time that the king invited many fairies to celebrate his daughter's birthday. Since the witch will attend, it must be impossible to use the identity of a witch, right?

Before she knew it, a long time had passed, and Rapunzel braided her long hair into a long braid again.In order to be able to move easily at home, she wrapped her braided hair around her body.

This long hair has caused her a lot of troubles, at least when cleaning at home, if one carelessly drags it on the floor, it will become dirty.

But because this head of long hair has been raised since childhood, Rapunzel has long been used to its existence. If it is said to cut it off, Rapunzel herself will feel sad.Not to mention, if one day she cut off her long hair, she could imagine how the witch would be pissed off.

For some reason, Rapunzel couldn't help but want to laugh when she thought of the witch getting smoked from her orifices.But before she could put away her smile, she suddenly noticed two people walking in this direction.

Because she lived in a high place and looked far away, Rapunzel also saw some ordinary people sporadically, but no one had the unique temperament of the two people who were walking this way.

I always feel...these are two very special people...

Perhaps, as in the witch story, it was the traveling prince and his guards?Or are these two men both princes?

Rapunzel stood by the window with bright eyes, watching the two people walk all the way to a place not far from the Witch's Tower, then raised her head and met her gaze.

This was the first time that someone other than the witch looked at her without flinching. The black-haired young man's eyes were full of something that made people feel calm.

Probably because she was used to the witch's stern face and moody look, Rapunzel didn't feel uncomfortable because the expression on the black-haired young man's face was not much.

Hisoka stood beside the scenery and glanced at the lettuce fields that almost surrounded the entire tower. The parts of these lettuces that were exposed outside the soil looked very thick, making it impossible to guess that they had grown. how long.

If it continues to grow like this, I'm afraid it will be mistaken for a "tree".

His eyes turned to the girl on the top of the tall tower, sticking her head out of the window, especially the girl whose hair was wrapped around her body...

The scenery is still talking to the girl on the tower: "Excuse me, is this the witch's tower?"

Rapunzel nodded happily: "Here it is, what can I do for you?"

Jingjing nodded and said, "I have a courier here that needs to be signed by Rapunzel. Is Rapunzel at home?"

Rapunzel felt even more novel and bewildered. Someone actually sent her a courier. Besides, what is a courier?Also, since when did anyone in this world know her name other than a witch?

Rapunzel asked all her questions, and the scenery didn't feel impatient. After all, the world she came to this time looked very similar to the European Middle Ages, but it seemed to be different.At least in the Middle Ages in Europe, even when wizards were popular, there were never any fairies.

People here don't know what express delivery is, and it's very normal.And he also probably knew from the villages around the Witch's Tower that while there lived a witch in the Witch's Tower, there also lived a beautiful girl.As for the girl's name, no one knows.

Scenic tells Rapunzel very simply, "A delivery is a gift someone gives you."

After all, Rapunzel is just a young girl, and Jingjing and Hisoka are both distinctive and very good-looking. In addition, Jingjing's attitude is very serious, and her voice is also nice.

Rapunzel felt her heart beating fast in her chest, as if it was about to fly out. She listened to the scenery and explained it to herself, almost bewildered.

Thinking again that it was a gift from someone, although I couldn't figure it out, I was extremely happy in my heart.

So I wanted to put down my hair and let Jingjing and Hisoka come up. It would be good for them to sit and chat together for a while. After all, Rapunzel had never talked to a male creature before today.

But after confirming Rapunzel's identity, Jingjing directly declined Rapunzel's invitation. Instead, after Rapunzel let down her hair, she took out a huge box from nowhere, tied it to Rapunzel's hair, and let Rapunzel carried it up.

Rapunzel: "..." Although she was raised by a witch, she really doesn't have the attribute of infinity, so she can't carry such a big and heavy package.And with a bundle this big tied to her braids, Rapunzel, for the first time ever, was concerned that her braids might break.

No matter how it feels, this package is much, much heavier than the witch who usually crawls along her hair.

Rapunzel thought so in her heart, but because she had been obedient to the gentle character cultivated by witches all the year round, she followed Scenery's suggestion and lifted the package up by herself, and as expected, the thing was too heavy for her to lift.

The scene was a little awkward.

Hisoka, who stood aside from the beginning to the end, didn't say much, couldn't help laughing, and then looked at the scenery, "It's better not to embarrass this lady anymore, my lovely big apple~"

Jingjing glanced at Hisoka without saying a word, but Hisoka stepped forward and picked up the package with one hand, then raised his hand and threw it. This very heavy package was thrown directly into the tall On the tower, in the open window.

Because Rapunzel was too shocked, she reflexively opened her hands to receive the package, but with a bang, she caught the package and sat down on the ground.

The witch is also a woman. Although she often makes heavy objects float by herself, this is the first time Rapunzel has seen someone who can lift a heavy object so easily with physical strength.

And when Rapunzel got up, the two people who were standing downstairs turned around and left after confirming her safety, so that Rapunzel didn't even ask what she wanted to ask.

Staring at the two people walking away, Rapunzel looked down at the huge package at her feet, and murmured, "... I don't know where they came from, and where are they going?"

She wanted to leave here with her.

A few days later, Rapunzel left the Witch's Tower for the first time, really looking for the scenery and the direction Hisoka left.