red fairy book

Chapter 41 Minikin (2)
The princess begged him to stay by her side, but he didn't want to, as the old saying goes: "One death is better than two!"

Minikin also wanted to go to the sea.

"Oh, why are you going?" asked the cook.

In the end she agreed to let him go, but made him promise to come back before the barbecue.

As soon as he reached the sea, the giant roared towards him.He was much, much bigger than the first two giants, and had fifteen heads.

"Shoot!" he said.

"Shoot yourself!" said Minikin.

"Want to fight?" the giant screamed.

"All right, I'll learn to fight," Minikin said.

"Then I'll teach you." The giant roared angrily, and the iron rod in his hand smashed over, sending the dirt flying fifteen feet high.

"Pooh!" said Minikin, "not even the wind! Come, look at me!"

As he spoke, he took out his dagger, and with one stroke, he chopped off fifteen of the giant's heads and flew them onto the sand.

Then the princess came and thanked Minikin.

"Sleep on my lap for a while," she said.She covered Minikin with a brass-colored dress while he slept.

"How do we let my father know that you saved me?" she asked.

When the villain Red takes you home, he spreads the word that he saved you, that he wants to marry you, that he wants half the kingdom.

On your wedding day, people will ask who you want to pour the wine, and you say the little boy in the kitchen who gathers wood and water.When I pour you wine, I spill a drop on his plate, but not yours.He will get angry and want to hit me.This happened back and forth three times.For the third time you will say, It is shameful that you beat my beloved like this, who saved me three times from the giants.He is the one I want to marry! "

Then Minikin ran back to the palace, jumped on board the giant's ship, took many gold and silver rings and treasures back, and gave all the gold and silver rings to the cook.

The villain Hong saw that there was no danger, so he climbed down the tree and threatened the princess, making her promise that he saved her.Then he brought her back to the palace, and he enjoyed the infinite glory. The king didn't know how to express his gratitude, so he decided to let him marry his daughter and give him half of the country.

On the day of the wedding, the princess asked the boy who gathered wood and water in the kitchen to pour wine.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​wanting this filthy, poor little man?" Scoundrel Red asked, but the Princess insisted on letting him pour the wine, and none of the others.

In the end, everyone agreed.It went as Minikin and the princess had agreed: he spilled a drop of wine on the badass-red plate, but not on hers.Every time the bad guy Hong gets angry and wants to beat him.The first time the minnie gold's tattered clothes fell off, the second time the brass clothes fell off, and the third time the silver clothes fell off.There he stood, dressed in gold, gorgeous and bright in the soft light of his clothes.

Then the princess said, "It is shameful for you to beat my beloved like this! He saved me three times from the giants. He is the one I want to marry."

Bad Guy Hong swears that he is the one who saved her.But the king said: "Who saved my daughter, show the evidence."

Wicked Red ran at once and took out the giant's lungs and tongue, and Minikin brought gold and silver rings and treasures, which they laid before the king.

"He who brings the gold and silver rings and treasures is the one who slays the giant," said the King, "and you can't get them anywhere else."

So the villain Red was thrown into the snake pit, and Minikin married the princess and owned half of the kingdom.

One day the king was out walking with Minikin, and Minikin asked him if he had any other children.

"Yes," said the king, "I have a daughter. But the giant took her away, and no one could save her. You have married one of my daughters, and if you can bring the other back, you too Marry one, and the other half of the kingdom will be given to you."

"I'd like to try," said Minikin, "but first give me a chain five hundred ells long, and let me take five hundred men, and five weeks' food. It's a long voyage. "

The king agreed, but the king said that there was no such big ship to take them there.

"I have my own boat." Minikin took the boat out of his pocket.The king laughed at him, thinking he was joking.But Minikin told him to give him what he asked for.

Then he ordered them to carry the chains aboard.But no one could lift the chain, and only two people could stand on the boat.Minikin went to carry it himself, and laid both ends of the chain in the boat.The boat grew bigger and bigger, and at last the chains, five hundred men, and all the provisions and equipment were on board.Of course, Minikin went up too.

"Now, cross the freshwater river, the sea, fly over the mountains and wide valleys, and stop where the princess is."

Minikin said.The ship started and flew over thousands of mountains and rivers, with the wind whistling in my ears.

The boat sailed for a long time, and finally stopped in the middle of the sea.

"Well, here we are," said Minikin, "but it won't be the same when we go back."

He tied one end of the iron chain to himself: "I want to go to the bottom of the sea to see it." He said, "I yank the iron chain, just to get up, and you all pull together; otherwise, we will all die."

As he said that, he jumped into the water, and balls of yellow foam jumped up around him.He sank, sank, and at last he reached the bottom of the sea.

He saw a mountain with a door on it.He went in, and as soon as he went in he saw the princess sitting sewing, and she clapped her hands and exclaimed when she saw Minikin. "Oh, God!" she cried, "I haven't seen a soul since I came here."

"I came to see you," said Minikin.

"Oh, you can't save me," said the princess, "don't even think about it. If the giant sees you, he will kill you."

"You'd better tell him I'm coming," said Minikin. "Where is he, it'd be fun to see him!"

The princess told Minikin that the giant went to find a man who could brew a hundred barrels of malt at a time, because the giants were going to hold a grand banquet, otherwise there would not be enough wine.

"I can make it," said Minikin.

"Huh? I could have told the Giant if he hadn't been so impatient," said the princess, "but he is so bad-tempered that I am afraid he will tear you to pieces as soon as he comes in. But I can think of a way. Would you like to hide in a cupboard? Let's see how.

Minikin did as she was told.He had hardly gone into the cupboard and hid himself when the giant came in.

"Ha! I smell human blood," said the Giant.

"Yes, a bird flew up to the roof with a human bone in its mouth just now, and dropped the bone in the chimney," said the princess. "I managed to clean it up with difficulty, but there must be a smell."

"Well, that must be what it smells like," said the Giant.

The princess asked the giant if he had found the brewer.

"No, nobody can," said the giant.

"A man came here just now and said he could do it," said the princess.

"You are always so clever!" said the Giant. "How did you let him go, when you knew I was looking for such a man!"

"I did not let him go," said the princess, "but you are so ill-tempered that I hid him in a cupboard, and if you had not killed him he would still be here."

"Let him come," said the Giant.

Minikin came out.The giant asked him if he could really brew a hundred barrels of malt at a time.

"Yes," said Minikin.

"Then it is very good of me to have met you!" said the Giant, "and go to work for me at once, and if you can't make ale, pray God to help you!"

"Oh, it tastes good," said Minikin, and set to work at once. "I need some more giants to carry my load, and what you have here is useless."

Now he has a group of giants, and he continues to make wine.The wort was just right, and they couldn't help being curious and wanted to taste it, so they all came one by one.The wine of Minikin was so strong that they had no sooner tasted it than they all fell down and slept like dead men.At last, all fell asleep except an ugly old woman lying behind the stove.

"Oh, poor man!" said Minikin, "you have a taste." He went and got her a little from the bottom of the cask himself, and she drank it and fell asleep.

Minikin stood there looking around, and seeing a large chest, he filled it with gold, silver and jewels, and fastened chains to the chest, himself and the princess, and pulled it away with all his strength. Pulling the iron chain, the people on the sea immediately pulled them up with all their strength.

Minikin boarded the ship safely, and said: "Now, cross the fresh water river, the sea, fly over the mountains and wide valleys, return to the palace and stop again."

The boat set off immediately, and the speed was so fast that the yellow foam quickly spread around the boat.

When the people in the palace saw the ship coming back, they immediately welcomed him with music and singing, and prepared the most grand banquet for them.The happiest was the king, who welcomed back his other daughter.

But Minikin was not happy, both princesses wanted to marry him, but he only wanted the first one, she was the little princess.Just for this matter, he walked around every day, thinking about how to be with the little princess without hurting her sister.

One day, he was thinking about this, when it occurred to him that he should go to his brother, Kimpipin.The elder brother looks exactly like him, and no one can tell them apart. Let the elder brother marry the eldest princess and own half of the kingdom.

As soon as this thought came to him, he left the palace and called out his brother's name.When there was no movement, he called out again, louder.Still no one!He yelled a third time, as hard as he could, and his brother stood beside him.

"I told you, don't call me until it's an emergency." Kimpipin said, "but there aren't even mosquitoes to bite you here!" , rolled down the grass.

"Aren't you ashamed to beat me?" said Minikin, "at first I had a princess and half a kingdom, and then a princess and half a kingdom. I call you now, and I want to give you a princess." and half the kingdom. What reason do you have for beating me?"

When Kimpipin heard the news, he begged his brother to forgive him, and they immediately reconciled and became good friends.

"We look so alike that no one can tell us apart. When we change clothes and go to the palace, the princess will think it's me. The first princess to kiss you is yours, and the other one is mine." Because he knows that the big princess is stronger than the little one, he knows how things will go.

Kimpipin immediately agreed.He and his younger brother changed clothes and entered the palace.As soon as he entered the princess's apartment, they thought he was Minikin, and they ran at once.The eldest princess, who was taller and stronger, pushed her sister aside, put her arms around Champipin's neck, and kissed him.So Kimpipin married her.Minikin married his sister.

The wedding was so spectacular that people from seven nearby countries talked about it with gusto.

(End of this chapter)