yellow-green fairy tale book

Chapter 5 Jill Lugar, the King's Daughter (2)
"You're so clever! I never thought of that," Gresari replied.Indeed, he was not at all clever.Gillug took out a small box containing white powder from his clothes, sprinkled some on Gresari, and sprinkled some on himself.Faster than lightning, they appeared in the courtyard of Gresari's father's palace, where he had been taken away by the dragon many years ago.

"Now, take out that strip of cloth embroidered with gold letters and tie it around your head," said Gillug, "and go boldly into the castle. Remember, no matter how thirsty your mouth is, it will always be in your mouth. You mustn't drink anything before you speak to your father. If you do, it will be woe to us both."

"How could I be thirsty?" Gresari stared at her in amazement and asked back, "I will be able to walk to the gate of the castle in less than 5 minutes." Gillug said nothing, but there was a sad look in his eyes. look.In the end, she just said "goodbye" and turned to kiss him.

Gresari was right, he could easily walk to the castle in 5 minutes, and anyone would think that 5 minutes from here to the castle is more than enough time.However, what surprised Gresari was that even though the castle door was open, he could even see the color of the hanging curtain inside the castle, but no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't get any closer.The sun overhead was getting hotter and hotter, and Gresari felt his tongue was drying out with thirst.

"I really don't understand! What's wrong with me? Why can't I get to the castle after walking for so long?" Gresari muttered to himself. Due to fatigue, his legs began to tremble and his head felt dizzy. He staggered a few steps forward regardless of east, west, north or south.Suddenly, the sound of running water reached his ears, and he saw a clear spring flowing from the rocks in the grove by the roadside.At this time, Gresari had already forgotten his promise to Gillug.Desperately rushing through the thorns that cut his clothes, he rushed to the spring, grabbed a golden cup hanging from a tree, and gulped it down.

By the time he stood up, he had forgotten Gilrouge and his past life experiences.On the contrary, when he saw a white-haired old couple standing at the door opening their arms to him, he seemed to think of something hazy in his mind.

"Grasari! Gresari! You're home at last!" they shouted.

Jill Luger waited three hours where she and Grassari had parted ways before she finally realized what had happened.Her heart was heavy, but she made up her mind quickly.So she came out of the wood, and walked along the high wall of the palace garden, and came to a little house where the forester lived with his two daughters.

Gillug knocked on the door. "Do you need a girl to help you clean and milk the cows?" she asked the forester's daughter who answered the door.

"Yes, we are short of manpower. You look strong and clean. If you want, you can come to our house to help." The young girl who opened the door said.

"But you have to tell me your name first."

"Lao Feisha." Jill Luger replied casually, she didn't want anyone to know her true identity.After following the new owner into the house, she immediately asked the owner to teach her how to do it.Gillug was a clever girl, and soon word spread in the kingdom that there was a foreign girl in the forest ranger's family. She was not only beautiful, but also very capable. There was no other girl in the whole kingdom.A few years passed in a blink of an eye, and Gillug grew into a big girl.

She often saw Gresari come to the forest on horseback, and every time she saw him coming, she immediately hid behind a big tree, and she was still sad that Gresal had forgotten her.But one day, when she was picking herbs, Gresari came over suddenly.Gilluger was too late to hide, but she had painted her face and hands tan and hid her hair in a scarlet hat, so it didn't occur to Gresari that she was his younger sister.

"What's your name, beautiful girl?" he asked.

"Laufesa," she answered, curtseying.

"Ah, so it is you. I have heard many things about you," he said. "You are beautiful. Why waste your time with the forester's daughter? Come with me to the palace. There my mother will make you her maid."

"Really? That's very lucky," answered the girl. "If you mean it, I'd like to go with you. But how shall I know you're not joking?"

"Let me do something for you, anything!" said the young man eagerly.

Gillug bowed his head and replied: "Go to the cowshed and tie up the calf inside, so that it won't break free from its rope and run around at night. The forester and his two daughters have been very kind to me, and I I don’t want to leave any work unfinished and walk away.”

So Gresari went to the cowshed where the calf was enclosed, and tied a pair of ropes to the calf's horns.However, just as he was tying the other end of the rope to the wall, he suddenly found that a piece of rope was wrapped around his wrist, and he couldn't untie it no matter how hard he tried.Gresari struggled desperately all night, half dead from exhaustion.But when the sun rose the next day, the rope wrapped around his hand suddenly fell off.Gresari was very angry with the girl, and dragged his tired body back to the palace, "She must be a witch," he muttered angrily, "I don't care about her anymore." He fell down on the bed and fell asleep for a while. all day.

Soon after this incident, the king and queen sent their beloved sons to the neighboring country to choose one of the seven princesses of the neighboring country to be his bride.There was no doubt that the one chosen was of course the prettiest of them all.A pair of young people immediately returned to the country of the prince's parents by boat.The wind went smoothly, and the ship quickly arrived at the port closest to the King's Castle, many days earlier than expected.A gorgeous carriage was waiting there on the bank, but there were no horses to pull it.This is because the horses are gathered for the review ceremony, and the king will hold a grand wedding celebration for his son's wedding.

"I can't stay here all day." After Gresari told the princess, the princess said irritably. "I'm almost exhausted. You must find something to pull the cart, even if it is a donkey! Otherwise! I will sail back to my father at once!" Poor Gresari was very troubled at hearing the princess's words.It's not because he loves her so much, he has had enough of the princess' ignorance and bad temper during this sea trip.But as prince and groom, he didn't want the princess to feel slighted.So he immediately ordered his followers to find the first animal pulling the cart, and bring it here immediately after finding it.

During the long wait, the princess sat in a beautiful golden carriage and wrapped her blue velvet cloak decorated with silver bees so tightly that even the tip of her nose was not exposed.At last a girl came with a calf, followed by one of the prince's orderlies, who was talking anxiously to her.

"Beautiful girl, can you lend me the cow?" Gresari jumped up and went to meet her. "You can ask for whatever price you want, and I will pay you exactly. The king's son But I’ve never been in such a predicament.”

The girl replied: "My condition is that at your wedding banquet, behind you and the bride, there will be three seats for me and my two friends." Gresari agreed happily.

Even six horses may not run as fast as the ox pulling the cart.The trees and fields retreated quickly, and the bride felt dizzy, afraid that the car would overturn at any time.However, although she was terrified, her worries were superfluous, and nothing happened.They reached the palace safely, and the king and queen were astonished.

Preparations for the wedding were intense, and by the end of the week, everything was ready.Maybe it was luck, the princess was busy trying on wedding dresses and choosing jewelry during this period, so she had no intention of meeting Gresari, so on the day of the wedding, Gresari had almost forgotten how rough and barbaric the princess was on the road .

The wedding will be held in the royal palace, and the wedding banquet will be held in the hall before the wedding.As the wedding procession approached the hall where the wedding feast was held, the oldest men and women in the city kept thinking that they had never seen such a grand wedding procession.The princess felt very good in her heart. She felt that everyone's eyes were on her. She kept nodding and smiling to the crowd on both sides. She held the prince's hand, walked lightly, and proudly walked past the crowded seats. After leaving the wedding banquet hall for the guests, they walked towards the seats prepared for the bride and groom at the top of the dining table.At this moment, three strange women wearing blue, green and red bright dresses came in quietly and sat down in the empty seats immediately behind the couple.It was Gillug in red, and she brought the forester's two daughters with her.She held a birch cane in one hand and a tightly covered basket in the other.

The three girls sat there in silence all through the feast, and were scarcely noticed; and if they were noticed, it was only thought that they were the ladies-in-waiting of the future queen.When the atmosphere of the banquet was about to reach its climax, Gillug suddenly opened the basket, and a rooster and a hen flew out from it.What surprised everyone even more was that the two chickens were chasing around in front of the prince and his wife. The rooster desperately pecked off the feathers from the hen's tail, but the hen couldn't escape no matter what.

"Are you going to treat me as cruelly as Gresari did to Gilrouge?" cried the hen at last.After hearing this, Gresari stood up abruptly.In an instant, memories of the past flooded into his mind; he forgot the princess beside him, and only the face of the little girl who played with him many years ago seemed to be in his eyes.

"Gill Luger, where are you?" Gresari yelled and looked around in the hall, his eyes fell on the strange woman.She smiled and held out her hand, wearing the ring Gresari had given her on her 12th birthday.They were both young children at the time, and they had never imagined the future. "Only you are my wife," said Grassari, taking Gillug by the hand, and leading her into the crowd.

What happened next is difficult to describe.Of course, no one knew what was going on, and the king and queen even thought their son had suddenly gone mad.As for the princess, her annoyance was unbelievable.The guests scrambled out of the hall so that the king's family could take care of their own affairs.The final decision was to give half the kingdom to the neglected princess as compensation.She immediately set off for home, and was soon betrothed to a young nobleman.In fact, she loved the nobleman far more than she loved Grethari.That same evening, Gresari married Gilluger.From then on, they lived a happy life together until their old age.At the same time, they also let their subjects live a happy life.

(End of this chapter)