red fairy book

Chapter 19 Princess Roseti (2)
Finally, the nanny convinced the captain.When night fell, the Princess fell asleep as usual, and Hoppy curled up on the cushion at her feet.The evil nanny took the captain and her daughter to the bed and threw the princess overboard with the duvet, pillows, sheets, and she didn't even wake up.

Fortunately, the princess's bed was stuffed with phoenix feathers, which are so precious that they can float on the water forever.

Rosetie was always on the water, like she was on a boat.After a while, it was too cold, she tossed and turned, woke up Tiao Tiao, Tiao Tiao got up, smelled the smell of sole and herring around her, and started to bark.

He barked for so long and loudly that he woke up all the fishes, swam over and surrounded the princess's bed, and stabbed the princess's bed with the sharp fish head.

The princess asked, "Why is the boat leaking? I hope there won't be too many bad nights like this!"

The evil nurse and the captain were already far away, and heard the yapping bark of Hopping, saying, "This nasty little thing and its mistress are drinking water. We must land quickly, we are almost in Peacock Country .”

The king sent a hundred carriages to pick them up, each of which was pulled by a rare animal, such as lion, bear, wolf, deer, horse, bison, eagle, and peacock. Pulled by colorful monkeys, they can turn around on summer waterfalls, dance on taut ropes, and do all sorts of other fun tricks.The saddles for them were bright red velvet with gold buckles, and behind the coach walked sixty pretty ladies, chosen by the King himself to keep Rosetie company and cheer her up.

The nurse had gone to great lengths to adorn her daughter in Rusty's prettiest coat and her diamonds from head to toe, but she was too ugly to be pretty, To make matters worse, she has a gloomy and short-tempered nature, and she does nothing but complain every day.

She went ashore, and was sent to the Peacock King by the escort, and no one could speak a word when they saw her.

"Alive?" said the False Princess, "and I'll wring your heads off if you don't bring me something to eat!"

They whispered to each other: "What a beautiful girl! So ugly, so wicked! Poor king, to have such a bride! Is such a person worth taking from so far away?"

She was still ordering them, and as long as she could reach them, she slapped and pinched them a few times.

The line was so long that it moved slowly, and the nurse's daughter sat in a carriage trying to look like a princess.But there were peacocks in every tree waiting to pay homage to her, and they were going to say, "Long live the pretty queen!" But when they saw her face, they couldn't help but blurt out, "Wow, so ugly!"

This offended her, and she said to the guards: "Go and kill those arrogant peacocks! How dare they insult me!"

But the peacocks immediately laughed at her and flew away.

The rogue captain noticed all this, and whispered to the nurse, "This is a terrible deal. Your daughter should be more beautiful."

But she replied, "Be quiet, idiot, you're going to mess things up."

They reported to the king that the princess had arrived.

"Well, is her brother telling the truth? Prettier than the portrait?"

"If only it were beautiful, Your Majesty," they said.

"It is true," said the king. "If she is beautiful, I am content. Let us go and see her."

Hearing the noise, they didn't know she had arrived, but they didn't know what the screaming was about.The king heard someone say, "Wow, so ugly! God, she is so ugly!" He thought that the princess had brought a dwarf, but it never occurred to him that it was the bride.

At the head of the procession was the portrait of Princess Rusty, and behind him the King and his court, and he was impatient to see the bride, but at the sight of the face of his nurse daughter, which was terrifying enough to frighten anyone, he flew into a rage, He refused to go even one step.

"What?" he cried. "Those two rascals dare to play me like this? They think I'm going to marry this monster? Shut her up in the tower and take the gang that comes with her. I'm going to kill those two rascals cut off his head!"

At this time, the king and prince in the prison knew that the sister must be here, and they were sitting on pins and needles thinking about how to welcome her.The warden came with the guards and took them to the dungeon.The dungeon was full of toads, and bats, with only their heads sticking out of the water, and you can imagine their dismay.

"This wedding is grim," they said. "What the hell happened? They treated us like this. They must have tried to kill us."

They are very troubled.Three days passed, and the Peacock King came and reprimanded them through the hole in the wall.

"You call yourself kings and princes, and you want me to marry your sister. But you are beggars, not even the water you drink! I want to get rid of you quickly, this dagger is enough to chop your heads off."

"King Peacock, you'd better be careful. I'm a king like you, and have a splendid kingdom, with robes and crowns, and lots of gold to spend. You're so happy with this head-off joke, Do you think we stole from you?"

The Peacock King backed away a few steps at his bold words, and hesitated to drive them away, but his chancellor said it could not be done, and everyone would laugh at him.So they were accused of impostors, deceiving the king into giving him a beautiful princess as his wife, when in reality they sent him an ugly country girl.

The accusation was read to the prisoners, who explained that they were not lying, that their sister was indeed a very beautiful princess, and that they did not know what was going on.They have seven days to investigate to prove their innocence.The Peacock King was too angry to be willing, but was finally persuaded.

While this matter in the palace is going on, let's see how the real princess is doing.At dawn, she and Tiao Tiao were surprised to find that they were drifting on the sea without a boat or people.The princess cried and cried, and even the fish felt sorry for her.

"Ah!" she said, "the King Peacock ordered me to be thrown into the sea, because he didn't want to marry me. He is very strange. I will love him very much, and we will be happy together!"

She cried even harder, because she still loved Peacock King so much.For two whole days they were drifting on the sea, cold and wet, shivering, and very hungry, and the princess caught some oysters and ate them with Tiao Tiao, though she did not like the taste.At night, the princess was terrified, and she said to Tiaotiao: "You keep screaming, my dear, or the fish will eat us up."

At this time, they had drifted to the shore, and there lived a poor old man on the shore, who lived alone in a small hut. When he heard the sound of jumping and barking, he thought: "There must be a shipwreck! There can't be dogs on this road." Yes!" He went out to see if he could help, and immediately found that the princess and Tiaotiao were ups and downs in the sea, and Rosty stretched out her hand and shouted: "Good old man, help me, I'm cold and hungry, and I'm about to die! "

The old man felt sorry for her when he heard her cry so wretchedly, and ran back into the house, got a long boat hook, and waded on until the water was up to his chin.Twice he nearly choked to death, and at last he managed to hook the princess' bed and drag it ashore.

Rosty and Tiaotiao went ashore happily, thanked the old man, wrapped themselves in a blanket, and walked barefoot to the hut.The old man lit a fire, and dug out clothes and shoes from his wife's old chest for the princess to wear.Just dress up like this, the princess is still charming, jumping back and forth to make her happy.

The old man knew that Rusty must be a nobleman, because her bed was made of golden satin.He asked her what the hell was going on and told her to trust him.The princess told him the matter.She wept again sadly when the king threw her into the sea.

"Then, dear girl, what shall we do now?" asked the old man, "You are a noble princess, used to a luxurious life, and I have nothing to give you, except black bread and turnips, which are not suitable for you at all. No, let's go to the Peacock King and tell him you are here, he will definitely be willing to marry you when he sees you."

"Oh, no!" cried Rosty, "he must be very wicked, and he'd like to drown me. Don't tell him, give me a basket!"

The old man gave her the basket, and she put it around the dog's neck, saying, "Go and find the best pot in town, and bring me what's in it."

Jump away, there won't be better food in the palace in town.The puppy quickly lifted the lid of the pot and brought food to the princess.

"Now go to the pantry, and bring back all the good things you can find," said the princess.

Jumping away, when he came back, the basket was full of white bread, red wine, and all kinds of sweets, and he could barely carry it.

The Peacock King wanted to eat, but there was nothing in the pot, and there was nothing in the pantry.The guards looked at each other strangely, and the king was furious: "Oh, that's great! I have nothing to eat! You watch my dinner!"

In the evening, the princess said to Tiao Tiao, "Find the best kitchen and bring me some food that is baking."

After Tiaotiao did this, it knew that there was no better place than the palace, it lurked in gently, and took away all the contents of the pot while the chef turned his back.He took the basket back to the Princess, and at once went back to the pies and plums in compote.

The king hadn't had lunch, and was very hungry, and wanted to have an early supper.But when he saw that he had nothing, he could only go to bed hungry, and his temper became terribly bad.

On the second day, it was still the same, and on the third day, it was still the same.

For three consecutive days, the king had nothing to eat.As soon as the rice was ready, it mysteriously disappeared.At last the chancellor, fearing that the king was going to starve to death, decided to hide in a dark corner of the kitchen and stare at the pot without blinking.

To his astonishment, a little green dog slipped into the kitchen, lifted the pot, put all the food in a basket, and ran away.The chancellor hurriedly followed it, crossed the city, and came to the old man's hut.

The chancellor ran back to the palace and told the king what he had found.Shocked, the king said that he was going to see for himself.So he set off, accompanied by the chancellor and the archer, and when they arrived the princess and the old man had just finished eating.

The king ordered them to be arrested together with Tiaotiao, and they were all tied up.

On their way back to the palace, the accompanying person said to the king: "Today is the deadline for those probation prisoners, and they can kill together with these thieves.

Immediately the old man fell on his knees, and begged the king to give him time to tell all.While he was talking, the king's eyes fell on the princess from time to time, for he could not bear to hear her cry.When he heard that her name was Rusty, and that she had been thrown into the sea, he rushed to embrace her, regardless of his hunger and weakness, and untied her from the ropes that bound her, and told her that he loved her with all his heart.

He sent heralds to set the prince free.The princes came sadly, thinking they would be put to death immediately.The nurse and her daughter were brought along, as well as the captain.As soon as they came in, Roseti went over and hugged her brother.

The traitors knelt down and begged her forgiveness, and the king and queen were so happy that they forgave them.The kind old man was also highly commended and spent the rest of his life in the palace.The Peacock King generously compensated the princess' brothers for their rough treatment, and went out of his way to show his apology.

The nanny returned Rosti's clothes, gold coins and jewels, and the wedding was held immediately, and they lived happily ever after.

Even Tiao Tiao enjoys all the glory, and has never done anything bad except treat partridge wings as a delicious meal.

(End of this chapter)