red fairy book

Chapter 15 The Thief King (2)
The magistrate, trying to be fair, said, "You gotta let me know you have experience, don't you? You didn't do that well today. How about a prank with the pastor? He sat down this afternoon. Call me a fool here because I was tricked by you."

"Well, this is not too difficult." Said the thief king.He dressed himself up like a bird, put on a white sheet, and had goose wings on his back, and climbed up the maple tree in the parsonage's garden all dressed up.When the pastor came home at night, the thief king started calling: "Father Lawrence! Father Lawrence!!"

"Who called me?" said the priest.

"I'm an angel. I'm here to tell you that because of your piety, we're going to let you go to heaven right now," said the thief king. "How about next Monday, can we go? I can carry you in a bag." Here, you have to pile up all your valuables, gold and silver, in the parlor."

Father Lawrence knelt down and thanked the angel.On Sunday he said a farewell mass, and told everyone that an angel had come to his garden and said that because of his piety, he was going to take him to heaven.After he said this in church, everyone, young and old, was moved to tears.

On Monday evening, the king of thieves went to the pastor's house again. The pastor knelt down and thanked him, and then got into the bag, and the king of thieves dragged him through the woods and over the stones.

"Oh! where are you taking me?" said the priest.

"This is the way to heaven. It's not a good way," said the Thief King, dragging him along.At last he dragged the pastor to the magistrate's goose house, where the geese hissed and pecked at him, and he could have died.

"Oh! Oh! Where am I now?" asked the priest.

"Now you are in purgatory." After the thief king finished speaking, he went back to get the pastor's valuables.

Early the next morning, when the goose-raiser let the goose out, she heard the priest moaning. "My God, who is it? What's wrong with you?" she asked.

"Oh," said the preacher, "if you're an angel, just let me out and let me go home. I never saw such a bad place where the little ones got me with the pliers."

"I'm not an angel." The girl let him out of the bag, "I'm the governor's goose-raiser, and the kid you're talking about is my goose."

"It must be the Thief! Oh, my gold, my silver, and my clothes!" screamed the priest, mad with rage.He ran so fast, the girl thought he was really crazy.

When the local governor found out about this, he laughed like crazy.But when the thief king came to ask him to fulfill his promise, he still only said nice words: "Give me some more proof, so I will know whether it is worth it or not. I have twelve horses in my stable, and I will let twelve boys in Watch over there, one horse each. If you can steal the horse, I'll see if it works."

"I will definitely do what you asked me to do. But, if it is done, will you let me marry your daughter?" the thief king asked.

"Yes. If you do it, I will do my best to satisfy you," said the magistrate.

The thief king went to the store and bought brandy, which he packed in two small bottles, one containing sleeping pills and the other containing only brandy.He hired eleven men to lie behind the stables at night, and bought a robe and a jacket from an old woman.In the evening, with crutches and bag on his back, he hobbled toward the magistrate's stable.

The boys were washing the horses and looked wary.

"What are you doing here?" they asked the old woman.

"Oh my God! It's so cold!" She was drenched and shivering, "Oh my God, it froze me to death." She began to tremble again and said, "Thank God for having me here Let's spend the night."

"No! You go at once! If the officer sees you here, he will give us a good look," said one.

"Poor thing!" said another, "she can't hurt anyone, and it doesn't matter if she sits here."

The others didn't want to keep her.They argued, watching the horses, and she got closer and closer until she sat down at the stable door.After she came in, no one paid any attention to her.

At night, those boys were too cold.

"Oops, it's so cold!" said one, starting to do chest-expanding exercises.

"Yeah, chattering teeth," said another.

"If only someone had a cigarette," said a third.

Someone really has a cigarette.They shared it, and each of them only got a little tobacco leaf. They chewed the tobacco leaf and felt much better, but after a while, they felt cold again.

"Ah!" said one, trembling.

"Ah!" said the old woman, gritting her teeth, and the teeth began to rattle.She took out the bottle of brandy, shaking the bottle with shaking hands, making a loud gulp in her throat as she drank.

"What's in the bottle? Old lady," one person asked.

"Oh, my lord, just a little brandy," she said.

"Brandy! Let me have a drink! Let me have a drink!" cried all twelve at once.

"But I have only a little!" said the old woman, "not enough to wet your lips."

But they still want to drink.The old woman handed them the bottle of wine containing the sleeping pills, and now she didn't tremble at all, and let them drink one by one.

Before the No. 12 people finished drinking, the first person had already sat down and snored.The Thief King threw off his clothes and put them one by one beside the partition, and then called the eleven people outside to come in and rode away on the horse.

They were just waking up in the morning when the magistrate came to see his stable boy.They stabbed the partition with their spurs, broke the partition, a few fell over, and a few others sat high up on it like fools.

"Aha!" said the magistrate, "that's clear now, someone has been here. You fools, let him steal my horse right under your nose!" And they were all beaten for it.

Later that day, the thief king came again and wanted him to keep his promise and marry his daughter to him.But the officer gave him 100 yuan, saying that he should do better.

"If I go out on horseback, can you steal my horse?" he asked.

"Well, it may be possible." The thief king said, "If I do it, I will definitely marry your daughter."

The chief said that we will talk about it after we have done it.Then he told him that one day he rode out to train soldiers.

So the Thief King at once got an old mare, wove a gorse and wicker coat, and bought a shabby wheelbarrow and a large bucket.

Then he found a beggar woman and told her he stuck his finger in the bridle pipe, and if she would get into the bucket and put her mouth on the bridle, he would give her ten dollars.He won't hurt her, he just wants to push the car for a while.And, he promised, if he took his finger away twice, he'd pay more.

He dressed in rags, dyed his hair with soot, wore a wig, and glued on a woolly beard, so that no one would recognize him.He went to the parade ground, where the officer had been waiting for a long time.

The thief king's horse walked very slowly, so slow that the cart could not feel moving.The horse moved slowly with the cart, took a few steps back, and stopped suddenly.Then, pull forward again.They were going so hard that the magistrate, not thinking at all that it was the king of thieves, asked him if he had seen anyone hiding in the nearby woods.

"I didn't see it," he replied, "I don't know."

"Listen, you look around in the woods and see if anyone's hiding there. I can lend you the horse and give you some money."

"I don't know if I can do it," he answered. "I just went to get the mead, and I'm going to a wedding. The bridle fell off on the way, and I had to stop it with my hand all the way."

"Go," said the magistrate, "and I'll look after your barrel and your horse."

He replied that if the officer would carefully keep his fingers in the bridle in his absence, he could go.

The officer said he would do well, and the thief king mounted the officer's horse.

It was getting later and later, but the guy hadn't come back yet, the officer was tired and his fingers were drawn out.

"Here, now you have to give me more money," the old woman called from the bucket.Only then did the officer find out that there is some kind of mead.He hurried home, and just after walking for a while, he met his servant sending the horse.

The next day, the king of thieves went to the officer's house again, wanting to marry his daughter.But the officer still talked sweetly, gave him 300 yuan, and asked him to do something more exciting. If he did, he could marry his daughter.

The king of thieves said, come and listen to it, maybe it can.

"Can you steal the sheets from my bed? Also, my wife's nightgown," said the prefect.

"It's not impossible." The thief king said, "I hope to marry your daughter."

In the middle of the night, the king of thieves set off, took a thief from the gallows, carried it on his shoulders, and then found a ladder, and put it outside the officer's window. He climbed up and shook the dead man's head around the window, like Like someone peeping outside.

"The king of thieves is coming!" The officer elbowed his wife, "Shoot, I'm going to shoot!"

He picked up the gun beside him.

"Oh, come on," said his wife. "You sent him yourself."

"Oh, yes, but I'm going to shoot." As he spoke, he began to aim. After a while, his head poked out again, and then disappeared again. After repeated several times, the officer finally took the opportunity to open fire, and the corpse disappeared immediately. Falling to the ground, the thief king quickly turned over and went down.

"Well," said the officer, "I'm officer here, and people will find bodies here soon, and it's not a good thing to see them. I've got to go and bury them."

"Go ahead and do as you like," said his wife.

The officer got up and went downstairs. When he went out, the thief king sneaked in and went upstairs directly.

"Oh." She thought it was her husband who came back, "Have you finished everything?"

"Well, yes, I put him in the hole," he said, "and dug a little earth to cover him, that's all we can do tonight, the weather is so bad, we'll bury him later! Put the sheets on I wiped it, he bled a lot, I was covered in blood."

She gave him the sheets.

"Give me the pajamas, too," he said. "Not enough sheets."

She gave him the pajamas.Then he said that he forgot to lock the door and wanted to go downstairs to lock the door.In this way, he took away the sheets and pajamas.

An hour later, the true chief came back.

"It took you so long to lock the door?" said his wife. "Where did you get your pajamas and sheets?"

"What do you mean?" asked the officer.

"I asked you what you did with your pajamas and sheets? Aren't you going to wipe the blood?" she asked.

"God!" said the prefect, "he's won again!"

During the day, the thief king came again and wanted to marry the chief's daughter.The officer not only handed over his daughter to him, but also gave him a lot of money. He was afraid that if he didn't give it, the thief king would steal his house and people would speak ill of him.

The thief king lived happily ever after.I dare not say whether he stole it again, but even if he did, it was just for fun.

(End of this chapter)