yellow fairy tale book

Chapter 35 The Prince of the Ring (2)

Then they began to skin the buffalo individually.But when Snati finished peeling the big buffalo hide, the Prince of the Ring only peeled half of it.By the time they finished, the night was getting dark.The prince felt that it was degrading his identity to carry these horns and two leathers.So Snati asked him to put all the things on his back, and let it carry him to the gate of the palace.

Of course the prince was very happy, and he put everything on the big dog, while he was holding the calf hide unsteadily, and put everything else on the big dog's back.When he reached the gate of the city, the prince unloaded everything from the dog, and went to the king, and begged him to come with him to the gate of the city.Then the prince offered the horns and hide to the king.The king was amazed at his bravery, for he had never met a warrior like him.The king expressed his heartfelt thanks for everything he had done.

So the king regarded the Prince of the Ring as his right-hand man, and other people also respected him very much and supported him as a great hero.And the hapless Rhett could no longer find fault with him.But he became even more jealous, determined to kill the Prince of the Ring.One day he suddenly thought of a bad idea, and he came to the king again and claimed that he had something to report.

"What kind of bad idea?" asked the king.

Rhett replied that he had just remembered the golden cloak, the golden chessboard, and the shining gold coins that the King had thrown away the year before.

"Don't remind me of that!" said the king.

Rhett didn't care, and he went on to say that since the Lord of the Rings is omnipotent, why not let him find the three treasures, and he must bring them back before Christmas.As a reward, His Majesty the King can promise to marry the princess to him.

The king felt that it was totally inappropriate for the Prince of the Ring to do it - he had no idea where the treasures were.But Rhett pretended not to hear the king's explanation at all, and talked non-stop with a dead face, and finally the king had to obey him again.So one day a month before Christmas, the king hoped that the Prince of the Ring could do one more thing for himself.

"Please command," replied the Prince of the Ring.

"I hope you can find my golden cloak, golden chessboard, and shining gold coins. All three were stolen a year ago. If you can bring them back before Christmas, I will marry my daughter to you. "

"So, my lord, where shall I find them?" asked the Prince of the Ring.

"It's up to you," replied the King. "Actually I don't know either."

The Prince of the Ring left the palace without a word, knowing that he was in great trouble.But then again, he thought it was a good chance to win the princess.Snati noticed that his master was at a loss, so he advised him not to be discouraged by the king's orders; but he must act on his advice, or he would be in great trouble.

When he bid farewell to the king and was about to set out to find the treasure, Snati told him: "The first thing you have to do now is to run all over the streets and collect all the salt you can." The prince got all the salt according to the dog's orders Salt - so much that he could barely handle it.So Snati said, "Put them on my back," and the Prince hastened to do so.Then the Prince set off after the dog until they came to a steep cliff.

"We have to climb up from here," Snati said.

"This is not a game!" The prince opened his mouth wide.

"Hold on to my tail," Snati shouted, and it just pulled the Prince down to the bottom tier.The prince began to feel dizzy, but Snati continued to climb to the second floor.This time our Prince of the Ring almost fainted.When Snati finally climbed to the top of the cliff, the prince couldn't bear it anymore and passed out.But not long after the prince regained consciousness, he found himself in a cave.It turned out that the big dog had dragged him for a distance on the plain.It was Christmas Eve.They went into the cave, and found a window above, through which they saw four witches sleeping by a fire, on which hung a huge pot of porridge.

"Now you have to pour all the salt into the porridge pot." Snati reminded him.

The Prince of the Ring did so.Soon the four witches awoke, and the old witch, the scariest of them all, was the first to try the porridge from the pot.

"What's the matter?" she cried. "Why is the porridge salty? I obviously used magic to get milk from four countries yesterday, and now it's actually salty, but it tastes really good!"

Others also came to taste the porridge, and thought the porridge tasted very good.After they finished the porridge, the old witch realized that she was so thirsty that she couldn't stand it, so she told her daughter to run to the nearby river to fetch some water.

"I'm not going! Unless you give me the shiny gold," she replied.

"Even if I die of thirst, you can't get it," said the old witch.

"Then you just wait to die," said the little witch.

"Okay, here you are. You stinky girl." The old witch said angrily. "Go quickly and bring me some water."

The little witch quickly grabbed the gold coin and ran out.That piece of gold was so dazzling—the whole plain shone with its light.When she got to the river, she bent down and took a sip of water.Then the prince and the dog jumped out from behind, and pushed her into the river at once.

The old witch became more and more thirsty, and complained that her girl must be running around with the gold coin.So she ordered her son to go out and get some water for herself.

"I will not go! Unless you give me the golden cloak," he said.

"Even if I die of thirst, you can't get it," said the old witch.

"Then you will die," said the witch's son.

"Okay, here you are. You brat." The old witch said angrily. "Hurry up and bring me water quickly."

When he put on the golden cloak and came out of the cave, he found that he could not get used to its dazzling golden light.When he got to the river, he bent down to drink water like his sister.At this moment, the Prince of the Ring and Snati jumped in front of him.They took the golden cloak from the Witch's son, and threw him into the river.

The old witch could not hold back her thirst any longer, so she asked her husband to bring her some water.She got angry, and said the little ones must have gone somewhere to play, as she had expected;

"I won't go! Unless you give me the golden chessboard," said the witch's husband.

"Even if I die of thirst, you can't get it," said the old witch.

"Since you don't give me any face, then you can bear it yourself!" He replied.

"Okay, here you are. You shameless old bastard." The old witch said angrily. "Go quickly and bring me some water."

The witch husband took the golden chessboard and ran to the river in a hurry.Just as he was about to bow his head to drink water, the Prince of the Ring and Snati rushed to him, snatched the golden chessboard and threw him into the river.But when they climbed up the cave again, they found the witch's husband stumbling back from the river.So Snati immediately rushed towards him, and the prince also rushed to help.After another hard struggle, they subdued him again.Then they ran to the window, and saw the old witch coming towards the door.

"Now we must rush in," Snati said, "and find a way to subdue her. Otherwise, if she escapes, we will never have another chance. Not only is she the most vicious witch who ever lived, but No sword can hurt her. So we have to pour hot porridge from a pan on her, and another one has to stab her with a red-hot iron."

So they rushed in.As soon as the old witch saw them, she immediately asked, "Your Highness, since you have come, you must have seen my husband and child, right?"

Seeing that she was trying to sneak attack them, Snati took a piece of iron from the fire and threw herself at the old witch.The Prince of the Ring quickly took the opportunity to throw boiling porridge at her, and finally they killed the old witch.Then they set fire to the old witch and the witch's husband, and burned them all to ashes.Then they found many, many gold and silver treasures in the cave.They took only the most valuable treasure to the cliff and hid it, and then hurried back to the palace with the king's three treasures.Finally, before the end of Christmas Eve, the prince presented the three treasures to the king.

The King was overjoyed, and was amazed to see how clever and witty the Prince of the Ring was, and how omnipotent he was.So the king valued him more than before, and fulfilled his promise to betroth his daughter to him.There was a great banquet in the palace throughout the Christmas period.The Prince of the Ring thanked the King politely, for the feast, and for all his kindness.After the banquet in the hall, the prince returned to his room.

However, Snati asked to sleep in the prince's bed that night, and the prince should go to the place where the big dog usually sleeps for the night.The Prince of the Ring did not refuse his request because he felt that the Dog deserved more in return.So Snati crawled into the prince's bed.Unexpectedly, not long after, the big dog came again and told the Prince of the Ring that he could go back to his bed.But it warned the prince not to care about the things in the bed.

Now look at our hapless national teacher Rhett.He ran to the hall, stretched out his missing right arm to the king, and complained that now he could see what kind of a good future son-in-law his majesty would be, and that the prince had done all this!The king was very angry after hearing this.He said aloud that he would find out.If it were true that the Prince of the Ring had cut off the right hand of the Grand Master for no reason, he would have been hanged; if not, Rhett would have died as well.

So the king sent someone to call the Prince of the Ring, and asked him why he was being unreasonable to the national teacher.Thanks to Snati, she has told the prince everything that happened at night.So he asked the king to go and see something with him.The king followed the prince to his bedroom, and on the bed he saw a hand holding a sharp sword tightly.

"Last night, the owner of this hand came into my room with a sharp sword and tried to cut me in half. Fortunately, I defended myself in time, otherwise I would have died long ago."

The king said that since the prince cut off Rhett's hand in self-defense, there was nothing wrong with it.That guy Rhett should be put to death.So the unlucky Rhett was hanged, and the wedding of the Prince and Princess of the Ring was held.

On the first night of the wedding, Snati asked the Prince of the Ring to let him sleep at their feet.The prince did not refuse it.In the middle of the night, the prince suddenly heard someone screaming loudly, so he hastened to light the lamp.He found a big ugly dog's skin at his feet, and a handsome prince lying on the bed.The Prince of the Ring immediately burns the dog's skin and shakes the unconscious prince awake on the bed.The groom asked him what his name was, but he said that he was the son of a king, also called the Prince of the Ring.When he was young, he lost his mother, but his father married a witch again.A vicious witch turned him into a dog with a spell.No one can break the spell, unless he meets a prince with his own name, and the prince of the same name must allow him to sleep at the feet of the bride and groom on the first night of his wedding.He went on: "When the vicious witch learned that you and I have the same name, she tried everything possible to kill you. She was afraid that you would help me to rescue me from this spell. She is the doe you chased with your attendants. She also Be that old woman with the bucket you met in the glade, and that old hag we killed together in the cave."

After the feast, the two princes with the same name, surrounded by others, went to the cliff together to retrieve all the treasures.The Prince of the Ring married his sister Ingeborg to his eponymous prince and entrusted him with his kingdom.The Prince of the Ring himself remained in his father-in-law's kingdom.When the old king died, he inherited the whole kingdom.

(End of this chapter)