yellow-green fairy tale book

Chapter 38 The Sin and Punishment of the Fairy Ganjiana (1)
Long, long ago, there was a king and queen who ruled a country so small that you could walk around their country in a day.They are kind and simple people, maybe they are not very bright, but they really want to be nice to everyone.However, this is often a mistake.Because the king allows his subjects to talk and point out state affairs casually as if they were dealing with private affairs, the result will inevitably be that it is difficult to formulate the laws of the country, and even if they are enacted, there is no way for every subject to obey them. .

Everyone who passes through this country will ask, how can this country be so small?There is a reason for this.As soon as Petaledo (which is the name of the present king) was born, his parents betrothed him to the niece of their friend the fairy Ganjana--if she had a niece, for her niece was not yet born at that time .But many years passed, Ganjana still had no niece, and the young prince gradually forgot about his betrothed bride.At the age of 25, he fell deeply in love with the beautiful daughter of a rich farmer and married her secretly.

When the fairy Ganjana heard the news, she was furious and hurried to question the king.The old king thought his son had waited so long, and it should be enough!But he dared not tell her so, lest she put some terrible curse on the whole family, and turn them into birds or snakes, or even into stones.Therefore, the king had no choice but to deny his son the succession against his will, and not allow him to come to the palace.Seriously, the prince would probably be a beggar if his wife hadn't received a handsome fortune from her father.With this property, Petaledo was allowed to establish a small kingdom.

Most princes would be very angry when this happened to them, especially when the old king died and the queen happily succeeded to the throne.But Petaledo was a contented young man who ran his small kingdom after his father's model.He had a steward, a steward, and several attendants.

At the same time, the young queen also had her own ladies and courtiers.He also had a mint to mint money, and appointed a steward with five guards to keep order in the capital and punish boys who were caught throwing stones at the palace windows.

First to occupy this important position was the young king's father-in-law, named Kabosh, a very fine and able man.When he jumped from an ordinary farmer to a distinguished manager, he did not show arrogance at all, but went to work every day as usual, so he was loved by everyone.This also left a deep impression on the young king.From then on, no matter how big or small, he had to discuss with his father-in-law.

Kabosh would have breakfast with the king every morning.When they had finished eating, the king would bring out a large bundle of official papers from his iron box to discuss with the steward.Sometimes they would spend at least two hours deciding on these important matters, but more often than not, within a few minutes, Kabosh would say:
"Excuse me, Sire, but you don't know anything about these matters. Leave them to me, and let me deal with them!"

"Then what shall I do?" asked the King.

"You can take care of your wife, and look at the fruit trees in the garden. You will find that these two things are enough for you," replied the steward.

"Oh, perhaps you are right," replied the king, secretly glad to be free from these affairs of state.However, despite Kabosh doing all the affairs, Petaledo never missed any important occasion.On such occasions he always wore his rich red linen cloak and carried a gilded wooden scepter.In addition, he read every morning, from which he learned the right time to plant fruit trees and when to prune them.In the afternoon, he was out in the orchard, putting into practice what he had learned.In the evening he played cards with his father-in-law, and dined with the queen in the great hall.By ten o'clock, everyone in the palace was fast asleep.

As for the queen, she was as happy as the king.She loves going to the dairy farm, and no one in the kingdom makes better cheese than she does.But however busy she was, she never forgot to bake a little barley cake and a little cheese and put them under a rose tree in the orchard.If you ask her, who made these things for and who ate them, she can't tell clearly, but just tell you that on the night of her wedding, a fairy entrusted her with a dream and told her made.

After the king and queen had six children, a seventh little boy was born.He was born with a little red riding hood on his head, so he was very different from his brothers and sisters.Parents love this child named Cadishon more than the other six.

Year after year, the children gradually grew up.One day, when Queen Gillette finished baking her barley cakes, and put them on a plate, a lovely little blue mouse crept up on the table along the legs of the table, and ran to the plate.In this case, most women would immediately chase the mouse away, but the queen pretended not to see it.To her great surprise, however, she saw the little fellow run towards the chimney with a barley cake in his mouth.She hurried over to stop it.Suddenly, the little mouse and the barley cake disappeared.Where they disappeared stood an old woman only a foot tall, in tattered clothes.She raised a pointed iron cane, drew some strange symbols on the ground, shouted seven times at the same time, and then muttered something in a low voice.The queen could only hear some words such as "faith", "wisdom" and "happiness" among them.Then the old woman grabbed the broom in the kitchen, waved it over her head three times and disappeared.At the same time, a loud noise suddenly came from the next room.The queen opened the door, and saw three very large scarabs.Each beetle held a princess by its feet, and the princes rode on the backs of three swallows.In the middle of the house was a chariot made of a piece of pink shell, drawn by two red-breasted robins, on which sat the blue mouse, clad in a rich black velvet mantle.Cadishon sat next to it.Before the queen could recover from her shock, the beetle, the robin, the little mouse, and the children flew out of the window, singing, and disappeared from sight.

At the Queen's screams, her husband and father also ran into the room.When at last they learned from her incoherent narration what had happened, they hastily seized some sturdy sticks at hand and set off in pursuit of the rescue.

The Queen sat where she was and wept for an hour, when a folded piece of paper fell at her feet and caught her attention.She bent down and picked it up, hoping it contained news about the missing children.There were not many words on it, but it was these few words that Queen Gillette was comforted after reading.Because it says please rest assured that the children are doing well and happily under the care of the fairy. "Your loyalty and thrift have brought you happiness," the note concluded. "All these years, I have been eating the food you put under the rose tree. One day I will repay you for it .'As long as we wait patiently, all hope will come to pass.' This is my advice to you--Pastoral Fairy."

The queen got up, washed her face, and combed her golden hair, and when she turned away from the looking-glass, she saw a linnet standing on her bed.Anyone who saw it would think it was just an ordinary cardinal. If it was yesterday, the queen would think so too, but so many incredible things happened this morning, she thought that the letter was the cardinal in front of her without thinking. written by sparrow.

"Beautiful little Linnet," said the Queen, "I will do as you tell me, and only ask you to keep me informed of my little Cadishon."

The little linnet patted its wings, sang, and flew away.The queen knew that she had guessed right, and she couldn't help thanking it silently in her heart.

After a while the king and his steward returned, tired and hungry, and found nothing.They were astonished and indignant at seeing the queen, who had been weeping just now, be very happy.Doesn't she care about her children at all?How could they be forgotten in such a short period of time?What caused her to undergo such a big change?Facing all their questions, the queen only answered one sentence:
"As long as we wait patiently, all hope will come true."

"That's right." Her father said, "Your Majesty, with the income of your kingdom, it is difficult to meet the needs of the seven princes and princesses. Therefore, someone helped you to pick up this burden. You should To be happy."

"You are right! You are always right!" said the King, and the smile came again to his face.Normal life resumed in the palace until Petaledo received a message that disturbed him one day.

The old queen, that is, his mother, had been a widow for many years and suddenly decided to remarry. She fell in love with the king of Green Island, who was younger than her own son Petaledo!He is handsome and likes to have fun, neither of which Petaledo has.Although this old woman is stupid in many ways, she still realizes that it is difficult for a woman of her age and ordinary appearance to expect young people to fall in love with her, unless she uses some magic to regain her youth and beauty. beauty.Of course, this can be achieved with a wave of her magic wand by the fairy Ganjana.But unfortunately the two of them are no longer friends.Because the fairy Ganjana tried hard to persuade the old queen to declare her niece as the heir to the throne, but the old queen refused.In this way, do not expect to get another husband with the help of the fairy Ganjana.Because if she remarried, her husband would be the natural heir to the throne.For this reason, the old queen sent many envoys to the neighboring kingdoms to find witches and fairies who could help her make her wishes come true.However, she could not find someone with such supernatural powers anyway, and at last the old queen realized that if she wanted the King of Green Island to be her husband, the only way was to beg Ganjana for mercy.

The fairy Gan Jiana learned of the old queen's thoughts, and the anger in her heart ignited even more.But she knew very well that once the King of the Green Isle had spent all his money, he might well marry an old woman like her friend from the Queen, in order to get more money.Therefore, in order to buy time, she suppressed her anger, and told the old queen that the magic would be performed in three days.

(End of this chapter)