orange fairy book

Chapter 25 White Deer (3)

Early the next morning, Eglanda was woken up, as if something was scratching at the door.As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the white stag. After dawn, the princess changed back to the white stag, and at this time it wanted to open the door and go out.The white deer raised his head to look at her face, Eglandy immediately got up and opened the door, the white deer nodded to her and ran towards the forest, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

At this time, the prince and Picasig were also wandering in the forest.Later, the prince was so tired that he lay down under a tree and asked Picasig to find something to eat and a place to sleep.Picasig didn't go far and saw the old woman at the corner of the road. She was feeding the pigeons in front of the house.

He stepped forward and asked: "Can you give me some milk and fruit? I am very hungry, and I have a friend behind me. He has been seriously ill before and is still very weak."

"Of course," the old woman replied, "you have to come and sit in my kitchen first, and I will milk the cows."

After hearing this, Picasig happily sat in the kitchen and waited. After a few minutes, the old lady came back with a can of milk in her hand and a basket of oranges and grapes.

"If your friend is sick, he shouldn't spend the night in the forest," said the old woman to Picasig. "I have a room in my house, though it's a little smaller, but it's better than nothing, and you're very welcome." Stay here overnight."

Picasig expressed his deep gratitude to the old woman, and at this time the sun was about to set, so he decided to bring the prince.Just after he left, Eglandai and Bailu returned to the house.Unbeknownst to them, of course, was the arrival of a new occupant in the next room, and it was the impatient, childlike being who brought their misfortune.

Although the prince was very tired, he slept very badly, and at dawn he got up, and told Picasig to stay in the hut, and let him go for a walk in the forest alone.He walked slowly, as if drawn by some magical feeling, he came to an open grassland, where he saw a white deer grazing quietly.Bailu didn't recognize him as the prince, so he ran away as soon as he saw someone coming.The prince raised his bow without hesitation, and shot several arrows in a row, but under the protection of the tulip fairy, the white deer was not hurt at all.Although she was a fast runner, she soon felt unable to do so because 15 years of living in the marble palace did not give her physical exercise.

The prince was still very weak, so he didn't chase very far.The white deer ran to the corner of the road and approached the house, and Aglandai was waiting for her.Panting, she walked into their room and fell to the ground.

After dark, she turned back into Princess Mengmeng and told Eglandy what happened during the day.

"I'm afraid of the Fountain Fairy and those ferocious beasts," she said, "but it never occurred to me that a man could hurt me. I don't know how I escaped."

Eglandy replied: "Don't think so much, you must stay here until the magic disappears." The princess agreed, but at dawn, she turned back into a white deer, because she couldn't control the yearning of animals. The instinct of the forest, she ran into the forest again.

After the prince woke up, he hurried to the place where the white deer was found yesterday, but the white deer went in the opposite direction for safety reasons.Disappointed that the Prince did not see the White Deer, he searched everywhere, and at last, being too tired to walk any longer, lay down and fell asleep.

Just at this moment the white deer jumped out of a nearby bush, and when she saw her enemy lying there she drew back in fright, trembling all over, but she did not run away as swiftly as if with some strength She was guiding her to see this person she had never met before.She walked over gently, and at the moment of her gaze, she felt a heartbeat, and her whole body trembled, because although the person in front of her was tired and emaciated due to illness, she still recognized it as her fiancé's face.She stooped down and kissed him gently on the forehead, which immediately woke the prince up.

They looked at each other, and the Prince was very surprised to recognize that it was the white stag that had escaped yesterday.The white deer immediately realized his dangerous situation, so he ran desperately into the depths of the forest, and the prince, who did not know where the power came from, quickly chased after him, but this time he did not want to hurt the beautiful white deer.

He shouted, "Beautiful white stag! Beautiful white stag! Don't run! I will not hurt you!" But his words were blown away by the wind.

In the end, the white deer couldn't run anymore.When the prince catches up with her, she decides to lie down on the grass and die.But the prince knelt beside her and patted her gently, telling her not to be afraid of anything.He brought water from the brook in a horn cup and brought it back for the white deer to drink. He also cut some branches from the tree, made a nest, spread moss on it, and gently carried the white deer there to lie down.

The two of them stayed together for a long time, but when the White Hart saw the slanting sun, she realized that the sun was going down, and she began to worry that the Prince would see her change back to human form after nightfall.

"No, he can't see me here for the first time." She thought so, and began to plan how to get rid of the prince.After a while she opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue, pretending to be very thirsty, and as she expected, the Prince hurried to the brook to fetch her water.

When the prince came back, the white deer had disappeared.

That night, Princess Mengmeng told Eglandy that the one chasing her was none other than the prince, and that far from exaggerating his handsomeness, the portrait was far inferior to him.

She cried and said: "We love each other so much, but I have to see him like that, how cruel it is!" Get better.

The prince was very angry when he found out that the white deer had escaped, because he had done so many things for the white deer, but the white deer still left him.After returning to the hut, he told Picasig about this wonderful experience and the anger in his heart, and Picasig couldn't help laughing after hearing this.

"She will never run away again," cried the Prince, "and if I take a year to find her, I shall find her." And he went to sleep with this thought.

The next day, when the white deer entered the forest, he hesitated, not knowing whether to meet the prince at the place yesterday, or to avoid him in the bushes where the prince could not find it.In the end, she decided it was better to avoid the prince.It could have been avoided, but coincidentally, the prince also went looking for her in the direction of the bushes.

The prince saw her white body through the bushes. At this moment, the white deer heard the snapping sound of broken branches under the prince's feet, and ran away in a hurry. The prince didn't know how to catch her for a while, so he raised his bow and arrow and aimed at her in desperation. An arrow made the white deer fall to the ground.

Immediately the prince felt himself a murderer, and hastened to do what he could to ease the pain of the White Hart.The prince first brought her some water, and then some herbs, which he crushed with his hands and applied to her wounds.

When the prince looked at Bai Lu's wound, he felt inexplicable distress and remorse in his heart. "Ah! what hurt I have done you!" he cried, throwing his head on his knees. "Now you will hate me and leave me forever!"

The white deer just lay there quietly until the sun was about to set, and she remembered that it was almost time for her to regain her human form, so she struggled to stand up.The prince couldn't bear to see her like this. He thought that the old woman might help her bandage the wound better, so he picked her up and wanted to take her back to the hut.However, although the white deer is very small, she deliberately made herself very heavy, so the prince put her down after taking a few steps with her in his arms. He decided to find someone to help.In order to prevent the white deer from escaping again, he untied the ribbon on his hat, tied the white deer to a tree, and then left.

At this time, Eglandy was very disturbed to see that the princess had not come back, and had already gone out to look for her.As the Prince was walking away, Eglandy saw the flowing ribbons, and then saw the beautiful white deer tied to the tree.The knot in the ribbon seemed easy to untie, but she could not untie it with great difficulty, when a voice from behind called out:

"Excuse me, pretty girl, but why are you stealing my deer?"

"I'm sorry, my lord," replied Eglandy, glancing at him, "but it's my deer that's bound here! If you want proof, you can see if she knows me. Dear little deer, Touch my chest." As she spoke, she knelt down, and Bailu really lifted one front leg and put it in front of her chest.Eglanda said again: "Put your arms around my neck again and sigh." The white deer did as she said again.

"Yes, it appears that you are her master," said the prince, "but I shall be sorry if I give her back to you, for although I have hurt her, I am very fond of her, and I hope I can take care of her myself."

Aiglandi didn't answer him, but carefully lifted the white deer, and slowly led her back to the hut.

Neither the prince nor Picasig knew that the old woman had other guests, so they were very surprised when they followed at a distance and saw Eglandi and the white deer walking into the hut.They immediately went to ask the old woman, and the old woman replied that they lived next door to the Prince's and Picasig's room, that they were quiet, and paid her well, and that she knew nothing about them other than that.

When they returned to the room, Picasig said to the prince: "You know, I'm sure that the girl we saw just now is the bridesmaid of Princess Mengmeng. I saw her in their palace. If you don't believe it If it is true, since her room is next to ours, we only need to dig a small hole in the wall to see if it is true."

So he took a pocket knife out of his pocket and started digging holes in the plank wall.The women next door thought it was a mouse and didn't care, so Picasig was able to continue digging.Finally, he dug a small hole, just enough to peek into the situation next door.What he saw left him speechless with astonishment, and he was right: the tall woman was Eglander, and the other—where had he seen it?what!He remembered—that was the princess in the portrait!

Princess Mengmeng was lying on the bed in a soft green silk dress. When Aiglandi bent down to help her wash her injured leg, she said:

"Oh! Let me die, I can't live like this anymore! You don't know how painful it is to be an animal all day and not be able to talk to the one you love. Although my current miserable fate is caused by his quick temper, But I don't hate him at all."

Although the voice of these words was very small, Picasig still heard them, and he could hardly believe his ears.He stood in a daze for a while, then went to the window and pulled the prince who was looking out of the window to the small hole, letting him see for himself.The prince can be sure that it is Princess Mengmeng just by looking at it. As for how the impostor woman got to his palace, he neither understands nor cares.He tiptoed secretly to the door of the next room and knocked. It was Egland who opened the door. She thought it was the old woman bringing dinner, but when she recognized the prince, she backed away in surprise.

The prince knelt beside Princess Mengmeng and poured out his love to her, and the princess also told the prince about her experience.

And so they talked till dawn.When the sun was high in the sky, the princess found that she had not changed back to the white deer.what!How glad she was to know that her days of misery were at last at an end!

At this point, the story will come to a successful end.It turned out that the old woman in this house was transformed from Tulip Fairy, and she held an unprecedented special wedding banquet for the young lovers.Everyone was very happy, except Cherish and her mother, for they were taken by boat to a small island, where they lived as exiles, and had to work hard to earn their living.

(End of this chapter)