orange fairy book

Chapter 36
Once upon a time, there was an old Indian who lived with his wife and son in a remote place in the west of America, surrounded by forests, and there were various wild animals in the forests.The old man's son is the best hunter in the whole tribe. He and his companions often go hunting in the forest, and they spend a whole day there.

One morning in early winter, the old man's son and his companions were going out to catch some goats and deer to pickle as usual, because the snowstorm was coming and they would not be able to enter the forest at that time, so they had to reserve some food in advance .The old man and his wife did not want to go hunting, so they stayed in the shed to make bows and arrows.

The young man was the leader and led his companions into the forest.Before long it grew colder and colder in the forest, and at last one of them said that they could go no further till they were warmed up.

"It's very simple," said the young man.As he spoke, he kicked a big tree, and flames burst out of the trunk immediately.They gathered around the big tree to keep warm together. Before the big tree was burned out, they were already warmed up, and it felt like summer.

Then they continued on their way.They came to the place where the goats and deer gathered, and soon harvested their desired game.The young men are the best shooters in the tribe and take the most game.

"Now we cut up the game together and divide it!" he said.As they said that, they began to divide the prey, each took his share, and then walked back to the village together.

On the way back, they passed a big river.The young man felt that the burden was too heavy and it was inconvenient to cross the river, so he left the burden on the bank. He said to the others, "I will go home by another way."

It was faster to go back to the village by another road, so he got home before the others.After he got home, the old man asked, "Why did you come back empty-handed?"

"Why do you ask, when did I come back empty-handed?" the young man asked, "I didn't come back empty-handed, I killed a lot of prey, enough for us to eat for many days, but the burden was too heavy, so I left it You are on the bank of the river. Give me the arrow in your hand, and I will help you make it. Go to the river and help me get the burden back."

So the old man went to the river, and he tied up the parcel of meat with a rope, and carried it on his shoulders.Unexpectedly, when he was carrying the package across the river, the rope suddenly broke, and the whole package fell into the river.He wanted to bend down to pick it up, but the package had been swept away by the water, and he reached out to grab it again, but he couldn't stand still when he grabbed it, and the whole person fell into the rapids, hit the rocks in the river, and sank .He was washed away by the water and floated to the surface where the current was gentle, but at this time he was already dead, and his body was beyond recognition, it was no longer a person, but turned into a piece of wood.

The log continued to flow down the river, drifting and drifting, and the river became wider and wider. At last, the log drifted to another country. A woman was washing clothes by the river. She saw the log floating by and fished it up.She thought, "What a fine smooth board! I can use it for a table and put food on it." She was very happy, took her clothes, and took the wood home.

When it was time for dinner, she laid the plank flat and secured it with two ropes hanging from the roof, so that it became a table.She put the pot on the wooden board, and she didn't know what was stewing in it, and it smelled delicious.Hungry after a hard day's work, she took a large spoon and reached into the pot, but, to her amazement, the whole pot suddenly disappeared before her eyes. !

"What a strange thing it's all about you, that nasty plank!" she exclaimed.

She unfastened the board and threw it out.

At this time, something even more surprising happened!That board turned into a baby!Fortunately, she likes children very much, and she has no children herself, so she decided to keep the child and take care of him.

This baby was a bit different, and after four days, he had grown into a grown man, tall and strong like a warrior in the tribe.No one in the world has ever grown so fast as this baby!Of course, this child was transformed from that old man.

"Thank you for being so kind to me," said the boy, "God bless you, and you will never run out of food in your house. Now I must go, I have a lot of things to do." So he set off back to where he was home.

He walked for many days before returning home.After returning home, no one in the tribe recognized him, because he was not the same now as before.Everyone was surprised when they heard about his experience.His son thought his father was dead, so he replaced his father and became the head of the family.He was very angry, thinking that his son had deliberately harmed him, thinking about how to take revenge on his son, and soon he had an idea.He went into the forest and began to cry, and every tear he shed turned into a bird, and he said to the bird, "Stay still in the tree, and when I need you, you will come again." come out."

After speaking, he walked home again.When he got home, he said to his son, "I saw some strange birds in the forest, hiding in a tall tree."

The son replied, "Take me, I'm going to catch them for supper."

The two of them went out together. After walking for about half an hour, the old man stopped and said, "That's the tree." His son climbed up.

At this time, a strange thing happened. His son climbed and climbed, and the higher he climbed, the farther the bird seemed to be.At this time, he looked back and found that he had climbed very high, and the houses on the ground were as small as stars in his eyes.The bird was no longer visible. He wanted to go down, but he couldn't go down. It seemed that some force was pulling him up.

He kept climbing involuntarily like this, and it felt as if he had been climbing for days.He was crawling, and suddenly, a beautiful place appeared in front of him. It was a golden rice field. He happily left the treetops and walked in.He was walking through the rice fields, not knowing where he was going, when suddenly he heard a knocking sound, he looked in the direction of the sound, and saw two blind old women grinding flour with two stones, preparing to make a cake eat.He stood on tiptoe and slipped beside them, and when one old woman handed another a cake, he secretly reached out, took it, and ate the cake.

"You're so slow to make cakes," cried another old woman.

"What's the matter, haven't I already given it to you? Are you not enough?"

"You didn't give it to me, I didn't get it anyway," said another.

"You took it from me. Well, forget it, here's some more."

The old woman offered another piece of cake, and this time the young man held out his hand to take it, and the two began to quarrel.It was still the same for the third time. They began to suspect that something was wrong. A woman shouted: "I'm sure there is someone else here. Who is it? Is it my grandson?"

"Yes, grandma, it's me, thank you for the cake, it's delicious," replied the young man, wanting to please her, "I've learned a little medicine from the best doctor in the tribe, let me see if I can help Heal your eyes."

With that said, he went to look for herbs to treat his eyes.When he found it, he hurried back to the old woman.Tell them to boil a pot of water and put the medicinal herbs in it to boil.As soon as the water in the pot boiled, he opened the lid and sprinkled water on their eyes, and their eyes immediately recovered!The two old women were very happy. Although they saw that the young man was not their grandson, they did not blame him.

There is no night in that place, it is always day, so after the young man healed the old woman's eyes, he set out on the road again.As he walked, he was attracted by the sound of water splashes nearby, and came to a valley. The sound of water splashes was made by a waterfall in the valley.There is a big river under the waterfall, some salmon are swimming in the water, jumping out of the water from time to time, their silver fish scales are shining in the sunlight, he really wants to catch some big fish, but how can he do it? Catch them?He sighed and returned to the old woman.Suddenly, an idea jumped into his mind, hey, there is a way!

He pulled out a hair and gave it to two old women, saying to them, "Weave me a net for salmon!"

How can hair be woven into a fishing net?It turned out that his hair was very long, and fell down to his waist, and when it was pulled out, it suddenly became a strong thread, about a mile long.

So the old woman wove a net for him.For the next few days, he stayed by the river watching the fish most of the time, and only caught one back when he was eating.

A few weeks later, at dinner one day, one of the old women said to him, "It's nice to meet you, son, and it's time for you to go home now." She went outside the house and took a piece of The stone was pushed away, revealing a bottomless hole in the ground.They took a basket from the house, tied a rope to it, and took a blanket, and said to him, "Sit in the basket, wrap this blanket over your head, and go down through the hole I can get to your house. No matter what happens, don't untie the blanket until you reach the bottom of the cave."

The young man listened to her and sat down curled up in the basket, wrapped his head in a blanket, and said goodbye to them. The old woman pulled the rope and slowly lowered the basket.

He kept falling, and it took a long time to reach the bottom. Will the basket stop?Suddenly, the basket stopped in mid-air, and he forgot what the old woman had said, and poked his head out to see what happened.Suddenly the basket moved again, but this time instead of going down it was being pulled up, and soon he was back at the two old women.

"You will never see your wife and son again if you don't do as we tell you," they said. "Now sit in and don't move until you hear a crow cry."

This time, the young man learned to be smart. From time to time, the basket stopped in the air, and strange animals landed on him from time to time, trying to pull his blanket, but he just clung to the blanket tightly and did not move.At last he heard the cry of the crow, pulled off the blanket, jumped out, and the basket disappeared into the air.

He opened his eyes and found that he had returned to his tribe again!He ran all the way home, and soon he saw his wife carrying her young son in front.

"Ah! Dad is finally back." The little boy cried out.But his wife didn't see it, thinking that his son had misread it, and told him not to talk nonsense.

"Mom, it's true, Daddy's back!" the child repeated.His wife couldn't hold back the child, so she had to turn around, ah, really, the husband really came back!
How happy they were to meet again!Since then, the father will often put the little boy on his knees, while listening to the wind howling through the forest, watching the snow falling and piling up at the door, while telling his son how he catches big horses in the land of the sun fish story.

(End of this chapter)