yellow-green fairy tale book

Chapter 4 Jill Lugar, the King's Daughter (1)
One day a powerful king and his beautiful queen were sitting in the garden of the capital, talking earnestly about the future life of their very young son.Their baby now sleeps beside them in a delicate golden cradle.The two of them have been married for many years and have no children, so the arrival of this little baby makes them feel that they are the happiest couple in the world.This healthy and strong little boy likes to kick his feet and shake his little fists from time to time.Even though he was still very weak, they still regarded him as the most remarkable figure in the world.They were engrossed in planning his future, so they didn't notice that there was a huge shadow moving here.Until a ferocious big head rushed over with its shiny teeth bared, and took their child away violently.

For a moment, the king and queen were stunned, too frightened to speak.Later, the king stood up slowly and took his sobbing wife back to the palace.For the next few days, the ministers did not see them.

The dragon rushed to the sky with the cradle in its mouth.The baby in the cradle was still sleeping peacefully at this time.The dragon flew very fast, and soon crossed the border to another country.It saw the King and Queen of the country also sitting in the garden, and beside them was a very beautiful cradle, covered with white silk embroidered with lace, and in the cradle lay a little girl.The dragon did it again, swooping down from behind them.This time it was just about to grab the cradle, when the king jumped up, grabbed the golden scepter, and hit the dragon hard on the body.The dragon not only shrank back in pain, but also opened its mouth, and the little boy fell down, and it hurriedly spread its wings and rushed to the sky to escape for its life.

"How dangerous!" said the king, turning around to the queen, who was pale with fright, and held her daughter tightly in her arms. "It's terrible," she murmured. "Look! There's something shining there."

Walking in the direction of the queen's finger, the king found a cradle in which a baby was also sleeping, and he was very surprised.

"Ah, that monster must have stolen it, just as he was trying to steal our Gilroug!" cried the King.He stooped and saw a sash of fine linen wrapped around the child, on which was written: "The boy's name is Gresari, the son of King Gresari!" The king had had a very unpleasant quarrel, and had not seen each other for many years.Therefore, the king did not immediately send someone to send a letter to King Gresari, telling him that the little prince was safe and sound, but kept the boy by his side with peace of mind and raised him with Princess Gillug.

For a while, the two children were carefree and lived happily every day.Finally one day, the queen could no longer accompany the children to run races and hide-and-seek in the garden as before. She could only lie on the soft cushions and watch them play; Everyone lowered their voices when they spoke, and Gilrouge and Gresari also tiptoed around when they approached the queen's room, trying not to make a sound.At last, one morning, the king sent for them, and the king's eyes were red from crying, and he told them that the queen was dead.

Both children were very sad.They love the queen very much. Without the queen, life seems to be very boring.Fortunately, the maid who took care of them was very kind and capable.

She began caring for the two children in the tower built for them when they were very young.Whenever the king was busy with state affairs or went out to other parts of the kingdom, the maid always took good care of them, made them happy, and let them receive the education that they should receive as princes and princesses.In this way, two or three years passed, and one day, when the two children were anxiously waiting for their father to return from a city far away, a herald rushed into the courtyard of the palace. He was the king. The messenger sent back said that the king had brought back a new queen.

There was nothing in itself strange or terrible about a king getting married again, but as the old maid guessed after a while, the new queen, though very pretty, was in fact a witch, and it was easy to see that whoever got the king's She is jealous of whoever she loves.This bodes poorly for Gilrouge and Gresari.

The faithful old maid could not sleep at night when she thought of her duty.A few months after the king's marriage, war broke out between his country and a country across the sea, and the king himself led the army.The old woman's heart sank suddenly, and what she was worried about finally happened.One night, uncharacteristically, she slept very deeply—afterwards she decided that someone had put medicine in her food—and the Witch came to the tower.What exactly she did here that night no one knows.By the time the sun came up the next day, Gresari and Gilrouger's bed was empty.At dawn, the queen called some guards, and told them that she had dreamed that she was warned that a wild beast would bring her bad luck, and ordered them to kill all the animals within two miles of the palace.But the guards only found two very beautiful black colts, which were very suitable for the king's mounts. It would be a pity to kill them. Besides, how could the two colts harm anyone?So they let them go, and the foals galloped away on the meadow, and the soldiers returned to the palace.

"Did you really find nothing?" asked the Queen when the guards came back to meet her.

"No, my lord queen," replied the guards.But the queen didn't believe it.After the guards left, she ordered the guards to get the soldiers drunk with strong wine during dinner, so that they could not control their tongues, so that they could listen to what they said when they were drunk, and report to her whatever they heard.

"Dear queen, I have followed your instructions." That night, when the guards were allowed to come to the queen's bedroom, he said to the queen, "It seems that what those people told you is indeed the truth. Been listening, and they have found nothing but two black ponies." He was about to say something more, but the blaze of anger in the Queen's eyes frightened him, and he made a hasty bow and said Back off quickly.

When the king came back a week later, his courtiers were very happy to see him.

"Maybe she can find someone else to yell at him now," whispered the courtiers. "She" was queen of course, and she'd been taking it out on them these days, but no one knew what it was that made her so angry.But in any case, it must be much better when the king returns to replace his queen, and he is in charge of the palace.It's a pity that they were happy for a short time. On the first night when the king came back, the queen mentioned to him the nightmare she had when he was not in the palace, and begged the king to go out and kill all the animals that he saw within two miles around the city the next morning. Lose.The king always obeyed the queen, and he promised to do what the queen wanted.But as he rode through the beautiful gardens that surrounded the palace, he was attracted by the singing of two little blue birds that were perched on a holly tree laden with red berries.Their singing reminded the king of all the good things he had heard or dreamed of.Hour by hour passed, and the birds still sang, and the king listened fascinatedly.

Of course, he never thought that these two little birds were Gilluger and Gresari.Finally, as night fell and the birds stopped singing, the king suddenly remembered that what he had promised the queen to do today had not been fulfilled.

"Hullo! Do you see anything?" asked the Queen hastily, as soon as the King entered her room.

"Oh dear, I'm so sorry, I apologize. I just rode up to the west gate, and the song of two strange little blue birds made me forget everything else in the world. It may be difficult for you Believe me, I didn't remember where I am and what I should do until it gets dark. However, tomorrow I will fulfill your wish no matter what."

"There will be no tomorrow," whispered the Queen.She turned around with a strange light in her eyes.But the king did not hear the words.

That night, in order to celebrate this defeat of the enemy, the king held a grand banquet in the palace.The three people the queen sent to hunt the beasts were responsible for protecting the queen, and the king trusted them very much.On such occasions as banquets they were usually seated by the king's side, so that the queen could easily spill a deadly slow poison into their goblets, without anyone being aware of it.Before dawn the next day, the whole palace was in a panic. It was reported that the king was dead, and the chief of the three guards was dying.Of course, no one can compare to the crying and sorrow of the queen at the king's funeral.After the solemn funeral, the queen announced that she would shut herself up in a castle far away during the mourning period.So she appointed a regent to manage the affairs of the kingdom, and left the palace with a maid who knew all her secrets.As soon as she was out of the palace, she cast her spells to find out what Gilrouge and Gresari had become and hid.Fortunately, Princess Gilrouge had learned a little spell from her former governess, and was able to detect her stepmother's plot, and she immediately transformed herself into a whale, and her brother into the whale's fin.So the queen turned into a shark and went after them.

The fierce battle between the whale and the shark lasted for several hours, and the surrounding water was stained red with blood; at the beginning, the shark had the upper hand for a while, and the whale had the upper hand for a while; later, the situation finally became clear , the crowd of small fish could see that the victory would belong to the whale.And it is true.After a fierce fight, the shark floated upright on the surface of the sea. It was dead and could no longer harm anyone; the whale was also exhausted, and could barely drag its wounded body to a calm small bay with the last bit of strength. .

It lay there for three days without moving, as if dead.Three days later, the wound on the whale healed, and it began to think about what to do in the future.

"Let us go back to your father's kingdom!" Gilluger said to Grethari.At this time they all resumed their original appearance, sitting on the high cliff by the sea.

(End of this chapter)