blue fairy tale book

Chapter 25 The Story of the Blonde Princess (2)
"You saved my life in the grass by the willow tree, and I promised to repay you. Take this, it's the ring of Princess Goldilocks." Charming took it from the mouth of Mrs. Carp The ring, thanked it a thousand times, and went straight to the palace with Fresque, to be told to the princess that he wanted to see her.

"Ah! poor fellow," said she, "he must have found that what I asked him to do was an impossibility, and said good-bye to me."

So Charming came in, presented her the ring, and said:
"Princess, I have done as you commanded. Are you willing to marry my master?" The princess was astonished to see her ring brought back intact, and thought she must be dreaming.

"Indeed, Charm," she said, "you must be the favorite of some fairy, or you would never have found the ring."

"Princess," he answered, "it was nothing but my desire to do what you wished to find the ring for me."

"Since you are so kind," said she, "perhaps you will serve me again, for I shall not marry until this is done. Not far from here is a prince called Gallifernan, who once At one point wanted to marry me and when refused he made the most horrible threats against me and swore to destroy my country. And what can I do? I can't marry a scary troll as tall as a tower, He eats people like monkeys eat chestnuts, and speaks so loudly that anyone who has to listen to him will become completely deaf. Nevertheless, he has not stopped persecuting me and killing my subjects. So after I accept your You must kill him and bring his head before you propose marriage."

Charm was very upset to hear this request, but he replied:
"Very well, princess, I will fight that Gallifernan. I think he will kill me, but I will defend you to the death anyway."

The princess was terrified, and gave every reason she could think of to prevent Charm from going to fight the troll, but in vain, he went out, properly armed himself, and taking little Fresco with him, mounted his horse and The country of Califernan set out.Everyone he met told him that Gallifernan was a very scary troll no one dared approach, and the more Charmed heard it, the more frightened he became.Fresk encouraged him strongly, saying, "While you fight that troll, my dear master, I'll bite his heel, and you can kill him while he stoops to look at me."

Charm praises the pup for what he's come up with, but he knows it won't help much.

At last he approached the Troll's castle, and was horrified to see that every path leading to the castle was strewn with bones.Presently he saw Gallifernan approaching.His head overtook the tallest tree, and he sang in a terrible voice:

"Bring your boys and girls, and don't comb their curly hair, for I'll eat them all, I don't care whether they have curly hair or not."

So Charm sang the same tune, as loud as she could:

"Come and meet the brave 'Charm', who finds you no wonder; he's not very tall, but enough to give you a good beating."

The song wasn't quite right, but you know he made it up so quickly, and it's not inferior to the troll, it's a miracle, especially when he's been terrified all the time.Gallifernan heard the song, looked around, and was rather annoyed to see Charming standing there with the sword in his hand.So he raised the big iron rod and was about to hit "Charming". If the iron rod hit "Charming", he would definitely die.But at that very moment a great crow landed on the troll's head, pecking with its mighty beak and flapping with its broad wings, thereby distracting his attention, disturbing his vision, and blinding him to They hit the air indiscriminately, without hurting anyone at all.And "Charm" rushed over and slashed him a few times with a sharp sword, knocking him to the ground, and before he recovered, he had already chopped off his head, and the big crow was sitting on a nearby tree. Wow wow shouted:
"You see, I haven't forgotten that you killed the eagle for me. I think today I have fulfilled my promise to repay you."

"Indeed, I owe you more than you ever owed me," replied Charming.

Then he mounted his horse and rode off with Gallifernan's head.

When he returned to the city where the princess was, crowds of people ran after him, shouting:
"Look at that brave Charm, he killed that troll!"

Their cries reached the princess, but she dared not ask what had happened, for fear of hearing that Charming had been slain.But soon Charm came to the palace with the troll's head, and although it could no longer harm her, she was still terrified.

"Princess," said Charming, "I have slain your enemies, and I want you to agree to marry the King—that is, my lord."

"Oh, dear! No," said the princess, "unless you bring me some water from the 'dark cave'. Not far from here is a deep cave, guarded by two dragons with red eyes. They do not allow anyone to pass through. After entering that cave, you will see a bottomless hole full of toads and snakes, and you must go down into that hole. At the bottom of the hole there is another Little cave where the 'fountain of health and beauty' gushes out. All I really need is this water: anything that touches it becomes magical, beautiful things stay beautiful forever, and ugly things Will become lovely. Young people will never grow old if they dip it, and old people will become young if they dip it in. You see, Charm, I must take some of this water with me to leave my kingdom."

"Princess," he said, "you don't need this water at all, and I am a messenger of misfortune, and you want me to die. I will do wherever you send me, even if I know I will never come back." not coming."

Since "Princess Goldilocks" showed no signs of sympathy, he had to set off for the "Dark Hole" with the puppy.Everyone he met on the road said:

"What a pity that such a handsome young man throws away his life so lightly! He is going to that cave alone, and even with a hundred people he will fail. Why should the princess make him do what is impossible What's the matter?" Charming said nothing, but was very sad.When he was about to climb to the top of a hill, he dismounted and let it graze while Fresco played chasing bugs.

"Charming" knew that he was not far from the "dark hole". He looked around and saw an ugly black stone. A puff of smoke rose from the stone, followed by a dragon with flaming mouth and eyes. .The dragon's body is yellow and green, its claws are crimson, and its tail is very long, coiled into hundreds of circles.Fresco was terrified when he saw it and didn't know where to hide. Charm had made up his mind to get that water or die, so he drew his sword, and taking the crystal bottle that Goldilocks had filled him with, he said to Fresco:

"I am sure I will never come back alive from this adventure, and when I die you will go to the princess and tell her that her errand took my life. Then go find the king, who is my master and tell him all my adventures."

At this point, he heard a voice call out: "Charm, charm!"

"Who is calling me?" he said, and seeing an owl standing on a hollow tree said to him:

"You saved my life when I was netted, and now I can repay you. Give me the bottle, for I know all the ways in the 'Dark Cave' and can be found in 'Health and Beauty' Fill it from the Fountain." Charm was so pleased that he gave the bottle to him, and he flew briskly into the cave, completely unnoticed by the dragon.After a while it came back with the bottle, and it was full of shining water. "charm"

Thanked it heartily, and hurried back to town in high spirits.

He went straight to the palace and handed the bottle of water to the princess, who had no reason to refuse.So she thanked Charm, and ordered preparations to be made for her departure, and soon they set off together.The princess found Charming a very agreeable companion, so that sometimes she said to him, "Why didn't we stay in that kingdom of mine? I could have made you king, and we would have been very happy!"

But Charm just replied:

"I will not do anything to make my master very angry, even to give me a kingdom, or to please you, though I think you are as beautiful as the sun."

At last they arrived at the great city where the king was, and the king came out to meet the princess himself with rich gifts, and the wedding was held with great joy.But "Princess Goldilocks" loves "Glamour" so much that she's only happy when he's around, and she always compliments him.

"If it hadn't been for 'charm,'" she said to the king, "I would never have come here. You owe him a great debt of gratitude, for he has done several things that were most difficult, and brought him Bring me water from the spring, so that I shall never grow old, and grow prettier every year."

Afterwards, the enemy of Charms said to the king:

"It's a miracle you're not jealous—the Queen thinks nobody in the world can match 'Charm.' It doesn't seem like anyone you send out can do what he does!"

"Indeed, I must think about it now," said the king. "Let him be handcuffed and fettered, and thrown into that tower."

So they seized Charm, and as a reward for his faithful service to the king, he was locked up in the tower.There he saw only the guard, who brought him a piece of black bread and a jug of water every day.

Little Frescoe, however, came to comfort him, and to tell him all the news.

When the "Princess Goldilocks" heard what had happened, she knelt at the King's feet and begged him to put on the Charm.But the more she wept, the angrier the king became, and at last she realized that it was useless to say anything, and she felt very sad.

Then the king thought that maybe he was not handsome enough to please the "Princess Goldilocks", and he thought he should wash his face with the water from the "Fountain of Health and Beauty", which was placed in the princess' room bottle on a shelf.She puts it there so she can see it often.It so happened that one of the princess's maids, while chasing a spider, knocked the bottle of water off the shelf and broke it, so that every drop of water spilled out.She did not know what to do, but hurriedly swept away the shards of crystal, and then remembered that she had seen an identical bottle in the king's chamber, also full of shining water.So, without saying anything, she took the bottle and placed it on the queen's shelf.

See, the water in this bottle is used by the king to get rid of troublemakers.Instead of beheading these people in the usual way, they washed their faces with this water, and immediately after washing they fell asleep and never woke up again.Therefore, when the king, in order to make himself a little more beautiful, took the bottle and sprinkled water on his face, he fell asleep, and no one could wake him.

Little Frescoe heard the news first, and he ran to tell Charm, who sent it to beg the princess not to forget him, the poor prisoner.The whole palace was thrown into chaos after the king's death, but little Frescoe came through the crowd to the princess and said:
"Princess, don't forget about poor 'Charm'."

So she remembered everything he had done for her, and without saying anything to anyone, she went directly to the tower and opened the chain of "charm" with her own hands.Then she put a golden crown on his head, and threw her royal robes over his shoulders, and said:
"Hey, loyal Charm, I make you king and make you my husband."

Free and happy once more, Charm knelt at her feet and thanked her for her kind words.

He is going to be king and everyone is happy.The wedding took place immediately, and it was the most beautiful wedding imaginable. "King Charm" and "Princess Blonde" lived happily ever after.

(End of this chapter)