yellow-green fairy tale book

Chapter 7 The Story of Little King Locke (2)
"Huh? Yuri, he lived with us when I was a baby." Abele replied.She felt very surprised. Everyone knew about this matter, so how could he not know about it?Of course, she never thought that just because of mentioning this boy, her fate in this life was doomed.Because King Locke has already figured out that this girl will definitely become a good wife in a few years, and he doesn't want Yuri to stand between them.Therefore he said nothing, and Abeyer saw that he was not happy, and burst into tears.

"Little King Locke," she cried, pulling at his cloak, "think how much my mother will be sorry. She will think that I might have been eaten by wild beasts, or fell into the lake and drowned."

"Don't worry," King Locke replied, "I will entrust her with a dream to let her know that you are still alive and well."

Hearing what he said, Abele laughed through tears. "Little King Locke," she said with a smile, "you are so clever! You must dream her a dream every night, so that she may see me.—give me a dream too, so I can see it too." Here she is."

King Locke agreed.

Abele gradually got used to the life without his mother and Yuri, and lived happily in this new home.

Everyone was so nice to her and doted on her, and there was so much new stuff she couldn't get enough of.The dwarves are always busy, and they know how to make beautiful toys, and they make as good or better toys than the people on the surface; and she often hangs out in the underpass with Tad or Dig , through the cracks in the rock, Abele can see the blue sky, which is her favorite.In this way, six years have passed.

"His Majesty the Supreme King Locke wants to meet you in the audience hall." Tad said to Abel, who was singing while playing the lute one morning.How could the king suddenly become so formal, Abele felt a little puzzled, and she stood up obediently.As soon as she entered, King Locke opened a door in the wall, which led to King Locke's treasury.This was the first time Abele came here. She was stunned by the mountains of treasures in front of her eyes. Gold, precious stones, brocades, and carpets were piled up in the room.King Locke watched her from his gold and ivory throne at one end of the hall. "Take your pick, take what you want," he said.She hesitated for a moment between a necklace of the most beautiful pearls hanging on the wall, and a diadem of diamonds and sapphires, until at last Abele reached for it.But just before her hand touched the necklace, she saw a thin line of sky through the gap in the rock, and she withdrew her hand, "Little King Locke, let me go back to the ground!"

The king gestured to the keeper of the treasury, and the man opened a safe full of precious stones, larger and more dazzling than any prince on earth had ever worn. "Take your pick, Abele," said the king softly.

But Abele just shook his head.

"To me, a drop of dew in the garden of Clarides is brighter than the best diamond here,"

She replied, "The bluest sapphire here is not as blue as Yuri's eyes." Her words made the King's heart prick, and for a while he said nothing.After a while he looked up at her and said:

"Only those who despise wealth are worthy of this wealth. Accept this crown! From now on, you will be the princess of the dwarf kingdom."

For the next 30 days, with no work to do, the people of the Underworld threw a banquet in honor of the new princess.At the conclusion of the feast, the king, dressed in his best clothes, came to Abele and solemnly proposed to her.

"Little King Locke," Abele said, "you like me very much, and I like you very much, but it is impossible for me to have further love for you."

The king sighed, this result was actually completely within his expectations.He tried hard to hide the extreme disappointment in his heart, and said with a smile: "Abel, can you promise me one thing? If one day you find someone you love, please tell me?"

Abele agreed.

Afterwards, although every dwarf was as friendly to her as before, Abele was no longer the happy little girl who played with the dwarves all day long.Those who live underground grow much faster than those who live above ground.

By the age of 13, the little girl has grown into a big girl.Moreover, King Locke's words also made her fall into deep thought.She often stayed alone for hours, and her face was no longer round and pink, but pale and thinner day by day.

The dwarves tried every means to make Abele play with them as before, but everything had lost their attraction to Abele, and she even threw the lute on the ground and ignored it.

One morning something seemed to change in her.She left the room where she used to sit alone and was hung with beautiful silk, went to find King Locke, took his hand, and led him through the long passage to a place where she could see a ray of blue sky.

"Little King Locke," Abele said with her eyes fixed on him, "let me see my mother again, or I will die." Her voice, as well as her body, trembled.Even the enemy would pity her for this appearance, but the king who loved her deeply did not say a word at this moment.Abele stayed there all day long, watching the light outside gradually dim, and the sky gradually darken.The stars have all run out, but the girl is still unwilling to leave this place.Suddenly, a hand touched her.She turned her head in surprise, and saw that King Lok was wrapped from head to toe in a black cloak, and was holding another one in his hand.All he said was, "Put this on and follow me." Abele was somewhat aware that he was about to meet his mother.

They walked forward, walked, and walked through many passages that Abele had never walked before, and finally Abele finally returned to the world on the ground.what!How beautiful the world on the ground is!How fresh the air is, and how fragrant the flowers are!She felt as if she was dying of happiness.But at this moment King Locke lifted her up, and although he was very small, he carried her easily through the garden, through the open gate, and into the quiet castle.

"Listen, Abele," he whispered, "you already know where we are going, and you know that every night I pass your visions to your mother. She speaks to your visions in her dreams. , and smile at it. What she will see tonight will not be your phantom, but you. But you must remember that once you touch her or talk to her, my magic power will disappear, and she I shall never see you, nor shall I ever see your vision."

At this time, they had come to the room that Abele was very familiar with. When King Locke carried her across the threshold, her heart beat very hard.Abel saw his mother by the light of the lamp hanging on the bed.She was still beautiful, but pale and full of sadness.Under Abel's gaze, the sadness on the mother's face disappeared, and a joyful smile appeared on her face. She opened her arms towards her daughter.Abel, with tears of joy in his eyes, bent down and threw himself into his mother's arms.King Locke hurriedly grabbed her and took her back to the dwarf kingdom.

If the king thought that fulfilling Abele's demands would make her happy, he soon found out that he was wrong.All day the girl sat weeping, indifferent to all the efforts of her dwarf friends to comfort her.

"Tell me, what makes you so unhappy?" King Locke asked her.

Abele replied: "Little King Locke, and all my friends here, you are very kind and kind. I know that you are also sad when I am sad. I also want to be happy very much, but It's too hard, I can't do it. I cry because I never see Yuri Blanchelande, whom I love so much, and it hurts me more than being separated from my mother. At least I still know where my mother is and what she's doing. But Yuri, I don't even know if he's alive or dead."

All the dwarves fell silent.Although they are kind-hearted, they are different from ordinary people after all. They have never felt great joy or sorrow.Only King Locke vaguely knew what sorrow and joy are. He went out and asked a very old dwarf. He lived in the deepest place under the mountain and had all kinds of magic mirrors. See what's happening on the ground, and see what's going on under the sea.

Noor, that's the name of the old man, he tried many magic mirrors to find Yuri.

"There he is!" he cried at last, "and he sits in the palace of the nyxe, under the great lake; but he does not like to be shut up there, and longs to return to the world and do great things."

That's exactly what happened.Seven years had passed since he left Clarides Castle with Abele and came to the blue lake.During these seven years, Yuri also changed from a little boy to a man.

The older he got, the more weary of these green-haired succubus pampering and pampering him.One day, he knelt before the water demon queen and begged her to let him go back to his hometown.

The queen bent down and stroked his hair.

"We will not let you go," whispered the queen softly. "Stay here, and you will be king here, and take me as your wife."

"But I'm going to marry Abele." Yuri said boldly.But what he said might as well follow the trend. Finally, the queen was very angry and ordered to build a crystal cage on the sharp rocks and lock him in it.

With the help of Nur's magic mirror, after several weeks of trekking, King Lok found it there.We know that the dwarf walks very slowly, and the road is so long and difficult.Fortunately, when he came out, he had a magic ring with him, and when the ring touched the crystal cage, the crystal cage split from top to bottom.

"Follow this road, and you will be able to return to your world." The king said to Yuri, and before Yuri could thank him, he walked back along the way he had come.

"Borg," he said to the dwarf riding a crow to meet him, "go back to the palace and tell Princess Abele that Uri Blanchelande, who has been imprisoned in the kingdom of the nymph for seven years, has returned to Clared. Castle."

After Yuri came out of the mountains, the first person he met was a tailor.It was this tailor who had been making his clothes ever since he came to live at Clarides Castle.The old friend was overjoyed to see the return of the little master who had been missing for many years.Yuri eagerly inquired about his adoptive mother and Abel.

"Oh, my God, where have you been all these years? You don't know, on the day you disappeared, Princess Abele was captured by the dwarves! At least that's what we all guessed. Alas! What happened that day What a trauma to our Duchess! But she had a glimmer of hope that the Princess was still alive, and every night the poor Duchess dreams of what the Princess Abeille is doing."

The well-meaning man went on to talk about the various changes in the village in the past seven years, but Yuri was only thinking of Abele, and Yuri didn't hear a word of what he said.

Finally, Yuri woke up from his numb thoughts. He felt ashamed that he had been delayed here for so long and hadn't seen the Duchess, so he hurried to the Duchess' palace.The Duchess held him in her arms and for a long time refused to let go.Slowly, she calmed down, and Yuri began to ask her about Abele's situation and how to save Abele from the hands of the little dwarf.The Duchess told him that, when she found them both missing, she sent out to look for them, and one of them noticed a company of dwarves in the distant hills, apparently carrying a stretcher.He hurried after it, and found a small silk shoe under his feet, and bent down to pick it up.Just as he picked up the shoe, a dozen dwarfs swarmed him like flies, surrounded him, beat him on the head, and did not let go until he dropped the shoe.The dwarves picked up the shoes and scattered.The poor man was beaten into a stupor, and when he came to himself, the group of dwarfs had disappeared.

That night, everyone fell asleep.Yuri and his old servant Frankel sneaked into the armory, each changed into a set of light chain mail, put on a helmet, put on a dagger, and got everything ready.Frankel had prepared two horses in the woods, and they mounted the horses and headed straight for the dwarf kingdom.After an hour of trekking, they came to a cave, which Frankel had heard as a child could lead to the deep underground.They dismounted and entered cautiously.They thought it would be as dark inside as outside, but after only a few steps, they were almost blinded by the sudden strong light.The light seemed to come from an iron gate ahead, which blocked their way forward.

"Who are you?" a voice asked.

The count replied: "I am Yuri Blanchelande, and I have come to rescue Abe-le-Clarides." Hearing this, the door opened slowly, and closed again as soon as the two of them entered. .

Hearing the slamming sound of the door closing, Yuri couldn't help but feel his heart tighten.However, the reality of being in a desperate situation gave him courage instead.There was no way for him to retreat now, for a large group of dwarves in front had taken up their positions, and their arrows came pouring down like hailstones, and he held up his shield to block them.Just then he saw a dwarf standing high on a rock, with a crown on his head and a splendid cloak over his shoulders.Yuri immediately threw away the shield and rushed forward regardless of the rain of arrows.

"Oh, you are the savior who rescued me from the bottom of the lake? Did your subjects capture my beloved Abele?"

"I am King Locke," the man replied.The long-bearded king looked at the anxious young man kindly, "Abele has been living with us these few years, and she has been very happy during most of these years. Although we dwarves are in You seem small, but we have a sense of justice, and we will not keep her against her will." After speaking, he turned to Luge and said, "Princess, please come here."

In deathly silence, Abele came to this empty hall.At first she just saw many dwarfs leaning against the walls and crowded on the ground in the hall.Then, her eyes met Yuri's.With a cry from her heart, she rushed towards him like a flying bird, and threw herself into his arms.

"Abele," said the king, looking at her for a moment with a look of pain on his face, "is this the man you wish to marry?"

"Yes, Little King Locke, that's him. I won't marry him. You see, I smiled, how happy I am now!" She cried as she spoke.

"Shh, Abel, don't cry today," Yuri said, stroking her hair tenderly, "Come on, wipe your tears, thank you King Locke, he rescued me from the cage of the kingdom at the bottom of the lake."

After listening to Yuri's words, Abele raised her head, with a strange glow on her face, she understood.

"Did you save him for me?" she whispered. "Oh, little King Locke..."

Finally, with deep apologies, Abele returned home with many gifts.They had their wedding a few days later.However, no matter how happy and busy she is, Abele will visit her friends in the dwarf country every month.

(End of this chapter)