yellow fairy tale book

Chapter 25 The Three Brothers

Once upon a time there was a witch who took the form of an eagle and went to a certain church every night to peck the glass on the window.In this village lived three brothers who all wanted to destroy the vile eagle.However, the boss and the second child used to guard with guns for many days, but to no avail.Once the eagle was over their heads, they both felt drowsy.When they woke up, the glass window had been pecked into pieces.

Later, it was the third child's turn to watch the windows.To keep from falling asleep, he put some spines under his chin.In this way, if he felt sleepy, he would nod his head, and the thorns would pierce him, and he would wake up immediately.

The moon has risen and is as bright as day.He suddenly heard a sound, but immediately felt sleepy.His eyelids closed, his head drooped, and suddenly hit the thorns, causing him to wake up with a start from the pain.When he saw the eagle swooping down towards the church, he immediately raised his gun and shot at the eagle.The eagle fell heavily and landed under a large rock, severely wounding its right wing.The young man ran over to look, but saw a big gap under the big rock.He went at once to fetch his two brothers, and with their help they brought in a good deal of pine branches and rope.After they set fire to the pine branches, they tied one end of the rope and slowly poked them into the crack.At first, the crack was pitch black, and the faint light could only illuminate the gray stone wall.The third child was determined to find out, so he climbed the rope and fell down to the bottom of the valley.He found a beautiful meadow with green trees and many beautiful flowers.

In the middle of the grass, there is a huge stone castle, and there is an iron gate leading to the stone castle, but the door is open.Everything in the citadel appears to be made of copper.All he saw was a beautiful young girl combing her blond hair.He noticed that the girl's hair turned to metal as soon as it fell to the ground.The young man came closer to look at her, and saw that her skin was very smooth, her blue eyes shone brightly, and her golden hair was like streaming sunlight.He immediately fell in love with the lovely girl, and falling at her feet, begged her to be his wife.

The maiden happily accepts his proposal, but she warns him that she may never reach the surface unless her witch mother dies.The girl told him that the only thing that could kill the old witch was a sharp sword hanging high in the stone castle, but this sword was so heavy that no one could swing it.

The young man entered a room in the stone castle, and all the items in the room were made of silver.Here, there is also a beautiful girl who is the younger sister of the girl just now.She is combing her silver hair.Whenever a hair falls to the ground, it becomes real metal.The girl handed him the sword, but he did not move it with all his might.Finally, another little sister came and gave him some liquid to drink, which she said would give him the strength he needed.He drank one drop, but he still couldn't lift the sword; after another drop, he could move it slightly; after the third drop, he raised the sword above his head.

Then he hid himself in the stone castle and waited for the old witch to appear.When it was almost dark, the old witch finally appeared.It turned out that the old witch was an eagle, which flew straight down on an apple tree, shook off some golden apples, and then flew to the ground.As soon as its feet touched the ground, it changed from an eagle to a woman.Taking advantage of this moment, the young man swung his sword with all his strength, and chopped off the old witch's head, causing blood to splatter everywhere.

The third child was not afraid of any danger, and searched out all the treasures in the large cabinets in the stone castle, and sent a signal to his two brothers to pull things up from the cave.He first hoisted up the treasure; then he hoisted up the three sisters.Now, only the third child is left in the cave.At this time, the third child became slightly suspicious of the two elder brothers, so he tied a big stone to the rope and asked them to pull it up.Sure enough, the two elder brothers pulled the boulder halfway up, let go of it, let it fall down, and broke into pieces.

"I believe them, but they would do such a thing to me!" said the third child sadly, and wept bitterly.Not only weeping over the loss of the treasure, but mainly over the loss of the fair-haired girl with the neck of a swan.

For quite a long period of time, he could only wander in the hole.One day, he met a magician and asked him why he was so sad and crying.The young man told the magician all that had happened.magician said:
"Don't grieve, young man! If you will guard the children hidden in the golden apple tree, I can take you up at once. Another magician who lives here often eats my children. I hide them. It is useless on earth or in stone castles. Now I hide them in the golden apple tree. Go and hide there too, and at midnight you will meet my enemy."

The young man climbed up the golden apple tree, picked some beautiful golden apples and ate them for his supper.

At midnight the wind picked up and there was a rustling at the roots of the trees.The young man looked down and saw a thick and long python climbing up.The giant python surrounded the tree trunk, slowly climbing up bit by bit.The snake's head is raised high, and its eyes are shining, which is extremely terrifying.The giant python poked around among the branches, looking for the sleeping child.When the child saw the python, he trembled with fright, and curled up under the leaves to hide.

At this time, the young man raised his sharp sword, and with a strong swing, he chopped off the python's head.Then, he slashed several times with his sword, cut the python's body into several pieces, and threw them around.

The father of the rescued children was very grateful to the young man and let the young man lie on his back, bringing the young man back to the ground in this way.

The youngest came to the residence of the two brothers excitedly.Everyone was there when he rushed into the house, but no one recognized him.Only his fiancée, who was acting as cook at the time, recognized him immediately.

The two elder brothers thought that the younger brother was dead, so they divided up the younger brother's property and took it as their own.Now seeing his younger brother coming back, he panicked and hid in the woods.But the younger brother forgave the two elder brothers, forgave everything they had done, and distributed the property to them.Later he built a luxurious mansion with golden windows.He lives happily with his blond wife.

(End of this chapter)