orange fairy book

Chapter 31 The Adventures of the Brown-haired Guy Ke Wan (1)

Once upon a time, there lived a shepherd, Gola, on the west coast with its high mountains. He and his wife had three sons and a daughter.During the day, the sons go fishing and hunting, while the daughters take the lambs to graze in the mountains, or stay at home, helping their mother with housework or mending fishing nets.

They lived together happily for many years.One day, when my daughter was herding sheep on the mountain, the sky suddenly turned dark, a biting cold wind blew from the sea, and a cloud of thick fog shrouded her. She shivered, stood up, and wanted to call the sheep back, but no matter how she shouted I couldn't make a sound, I felt as if I was grabbed by a pair of strong hands.

The daughter didn't come home that day, she disappeared.Her parents and three brothers waited at home for hours and hours. Several times, her father and brothers seemed to hear her footsteps and jumped up immediately, thinking that she had returned, but their hopes were repeated again and again. fell through.At night, everything is silent, the surroundings are pitch black, and you can't see your fingers. If you look outside the door, you can't see where the river is or where the mountains are.Then the sheep came back one by one, and as soon as they heard the cry, they hurried to open the door, and stayed up all night.At dawn, the dense fog cleared, and the family ran to the seaside and hillsides to look for her, but they couldn't find her, and the family began to cry.

In this way, a year and a day passed, and the shepherd couple seemed to be getting older all of a sudden, and the three elder brothers were getting sadder every day, because they loved their sister very much, and they were always very sad when she disappeared.Finally, the eldest brother Adan spoke up: "Our sister has been missing for a year and a day. This year, we have been very sad and patiently waiting for her to come back. I can't wait any longer, I'm sure , She must have encountered some misfortune, otherwise, she will send us a letter to reassure us. I swear, whether she is alive or dead, I will never close my eyes and sleep until I find her. "

"Since you have made an oath, you must keep your oath," said Gola, "but you should consult with me before you make a decision. Now that you have done so, you go. This way I don't know how long it will take, but my mother will bake a cake for you to eat on the way."

So, my mother got up and went to bake the cake.She baked two cakes, one big and one small.

"Son, choose one," she said, "I have prayed to God for the younger one, but I have not prayed for the older one. Which one do you want?"

"I want the big cake," said he, "and what use is my mother's prayers if I'm starving?" So he took the big cake and set out on the road.

Adam is off.He climbed over the mountains and ridges, and along the way, he strode like stars and walked fast, leaving behind the vigorous deer and surpassing the eagle and other birds.In the end, he was so tired that his legs were weak and he couldn't walk.Feeling hungry, he stopped and sat down on a rock, and broke a piece of cake to eat.

"Adan, Adan, give me a bite." A crow flew down and said to him.

"Go away, you unlucky guy, go find food elsewhere," said Adan, "I only have a little bit of myself."

He ignored the crow, lay down to rest for a while, then got up again and continued on his way.He walked and walked until it was dark, and the birds flew back to their nests. The sky lost all light, and darkness enveloped the earth.He saw a room in front of him with a glimmer of light in it, and he hurried over.

He opened the door and went into the room, where an old man was lying on a bench by the fire, and opposite him sat a fair-haired girl with a silver comb in her hair.

"Welcome, young man," the old man turned his head and said to Adan, "sit down and get warm first, and tell me how the outside world is doing now, I haven't been outside for a long time to see."

Adan said: "I don't know what's going on in the outside world. I just know that I'm looking for a job. I come from far away. My home is where the sun rises. I'm happy to be in the dark. See the lights in your house."

"I have three brown cows without horns, and I am looking for someone to herd them for me!" said the old man, "If you can help me herd them for a year and promise to bring them back every evening before the sun goes down, I will I will pay you well.”

At this time, the girl next to her raised her head and said to Adan: "If you agree to help him work, you will be in bad luck."

Adan didn't listen to the girl, and replied nonchalantly: "Isn't it just to drive three cows to graze and protect them from being eaten by wolves coming down from the mountain? If I can't even do this, then I'm really fine." I can do it. Master, I will work for you at dawn, and I will not pay you a penny until the year is up."

The next morning, before the cock crowed, Goldilocks went to milk the cows, and took them to the front of the cottage, where the old man and Adam were waiting for them.

"Let them go where they want to go," the old man said to Adan, "don't force them to go where they don't want to go, they know where is a good place to graze. But be careful, you have to follow them all the time. Be behind them, and whatever you see or hear, don't leave them. Well, go now, and may wisdom be with you."

After he finished speaking, he touched the forehead of a cow with his hand, and the cow walked along the road, and the other two walked side by side on its left and right.Adan followed them as instructed, secretly happy that such an easy job fell on him.At the end of the year, there would be enough money in his pocket to go to a distant country to find his sister, and maybe a passer-by would bring news of her.

He thought about it, and suddenly saw a golden rooster and a silver hen running fast on the grass in front of them.At this moment, he forgot all that the old man had said, left the cow, and went after the two chickens.However, he couldn't catch them no matter what, and almost tried to catch them every time, but he was in vain.Finally, he couldn't run anymore, and stopped to catch his breath, while the rooster and the hen kept running.At this time, he thought of the cows, and started to feel a little worried, so he immediately went back to look for them. Fortunately, the cows didn't go far, and they were grazing peacefully on the dense, green grass.

Adan came to sit by the tree, and suddenly saw a gold bar and a silver bar on the grass in front, twisting and jumping, very strange.He jumped up and went after them.Gold bars and silver bars jumped around, and he followed behind, trying to catch them, but every time he missed them by a little bit. Adan was exhausted from running, but he still couldn't catch them, so he had to give up in the end.At this moment, he found a tree nearby with all kinds of fruits. He was very happy and devoured the fruits.

By noon, the sun was overhead.After the cows finished eating grass, they turned around and headed home, and Adan followed them back home.Goldilocks was waiting for them at the gate of the cowshed, and when they came back she sat down to milk the cows.But instead of milk, water was squeezed out, and it was very little, all three cows were like this.After the girl had finished milking, the old man came.

"You didn't keep your promise, and you didn't do what you promised me," he said to Adan, "Oh, you can't do it even if you persist for a day! Well, I will give you the 'reward' you deserve now, and the others So I can learn a lesson from you." After speaking, he waved his cane and touched the young man's chest, and Adan immediately turned into a stone pillar.

The shepherd Gola and his wife were very sad when they saw that their eldest son Adan had disappeared and disappeared. Not only did they lose a daughter, they also lost a son.One hundred and one days after Adan left, Gola's second son Ruais stood up and said, "My sister and brother have been missing for a long time. No matter where they are, I swear that I will find them."

His father replied, "Why didn't you ask me and your mother before you swore? But since you swore, you must go." Then he ordered his wife to make a cake, but this time his wife still didn't Did as he said and still made [-] cakes.Like Adam, she gave Ruais a choice, and Ruais, like Adam, chose the big cake that had not been prayed for, and then set off.Unbeknownst to him, everything he experienced was exactly the same as that experienced by Adam. Needless to say, he also became a stone pillar and stood on the hill behind the cottage.In this way, when everyone sees these two stone pillars, they will know what will happen to those who do not keep their promises.

Another year and a day later, Kirwan, the youngest son of the shepherd Gola, with brown hair, said to his parents, "My sister has been away from us for more than three years, and my brothers have disappeared. No one knows where they went. What happened, I’m the only one left among the four of us. No, I’m going to find them, and I beg you not to stop me.”

His father said, "Then go, we will protect you."

So the wife of the shepherd Gola baked two more cakes, one big and one small. Kirwan chose the little cake his mother had prayed for, and set off to find his brothers and sisters.He walked a long way, and when he reached the forest, he felt a little hungry, so he sat down and began to eat, when suddenly a voice behind him called, "Give me some! Give me some!" He turned his head and saw the wild crow.

"Okay, here's a little," said the brown-haired Kirwan.He broke off a piece, held it up and handed it, and the crow devoured it.

After eating, Kirwan stood up and continued on his way. It was getting dark, and he saw the light from the cottage. He was very happy, and finally he had a place to stay.

He thought: "My sister and my brothers have traveled so far. My dry food is almost running out. Maybe I should find some work here to earn some money so that I can continue to search on the road."

He opened the door and walked in.The old man welcomed him, and Goldilocks welcomed him.As had happened before, the old man asked him to herd cattle, and the girl, as she had done to her brothers, advised him not to do the job.However, although Kirwan did not intend to follow her advice, he did not answer rudely like Adan and Ruais, but thanked her politely, and then listened carefully to the old man's instructions and advice. warn.

(End of this chapter)