green fairy tale book

Chapter 22 Lord of the Rings
Once upon a time there was a young man named Rosemond.He is kind and handsome, but his brother Bremond is ugly and bad.Their mother naturally hated the elder son, and only liked the younger son, Rosemond.This made Bremond very jealous.So he fabricated a heinous rumor, hoping to get rid of his brother.Bremond told his father that Rosemond often secretly went to meet their neighbor, who was the enemy of their family; Rosemond not only betrayed his father, but even tried to poison his father.

The father was furious when he heard this, he could not help but call Rosemond, beat him bloody, and then locked him up for three days without giving him anything to eat.At last he drove Rosemond out of the house, and told him to kill him if he came back.The mother was very sad, but she just wept silently and dared not say anything.

In this way, Rosemond left home in tears, not knowing where to go.He walked aimlessly like this for a long time, and finally walked into a dense forest.The night gradually shrouded the surroundings, and he moved step by step to the foot of a huge rock, and could no longer walk.So he lay down on a piece of moss by the brook, and fell asleep listening to the gurgling water.

It was already the next morning when Rosemond awoke.When he opened his eyes, he found that not far from him, there was a beautiful woman riding a gray horse, walking slowly in the forest.The horse had a shiny gold saddle.It looks like the woman is getting ready to hunt.

"Did you see a stag and some hounds?" she asked.

"No, ma'am," replied Rosemond.

The woman looked at him and said with concern, "You look very unhappy, is something wrong? Take this ring, it will make you the happiest and most powerful person in the world. Just don't put It is used in crooked ways.Turn the diamond on the ring inwards and you will be invisible.Turn the diamond outwards and you will return to your original shape.If you put the ring on your little finger, you will appear as the king's son , there will be a gorgeous ceremonial guard following you. If you wear it on your ring finger, you will be back to your original self."

Then Rosemond knew she was a fairy.After the fairy finished speaking, she turned and left, and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest in a blink of an eye.The young man was impatient to try the magic of the ring, so he turned and went home at once.He found that what the fairy said was true, because although he could see others, others could not see him.That way, if he wanted to, he could avenge his brother without any danger.Rosemond first whispered to his mother the strange things that had happened to him, and then he put the ring on his little finger, and in an instant he became the king's son, followed by a splendid guard of honor, surrounded by many well-dressed people. officials.

His father was amazed to find that the king's son had visited his humble abode.On such an important occasion, he couldn't help feeling a little overwhelmed.

Rosemond asked him, "How many sons do you have?"

"Two," replied the father.

"I want to see them," said Rosemond. "Bring them right away, and I'm going to take them back and make them rich."

The father hesitated for a while, and said, "The eldest son happens to be at home now, and I am very happy to introduce him to you, Your Highness."

"But where is your youngest son? I want to see him too," insisted Rosemond.

"He's not here," said the father. "I punished him for his mistake, and he ran away."

Rosemond said: "You should tell him what is right and what is wrong, and not punish him. Nevertheless, let your elder son follow me! As for you, follow these two guards, I told them a place, and they'll take you there."

Two guards took Rosemond's father away.Not long after, the Fairy found him in the woods.She beat him with a golden cane, then threw him into a deep, dark cave, and immobilized him with magic.

"Lie here!" she said, "until your son comes and takes you out."

Meanwhile Rosemond set off for the king's palace, where the king's son happened to be away.The real prince led the army to fight a distant island country.But because of an unfavorable wind, his ship ran aground on an unknown coast, and the Prince himself was captured by a band of savages.When Chaozhong was weeping bitterly over the disappearance of the prince, Rosemond appeared dressed as the prince.He told them that when he was about to be killed by the barbarians, a group of passing merchants rescued him.The prince's safe return made the people extremely happy.The king was too excited to speak, but kept hugging his son.The queen was even more excited beyond words.Soon after, the whole country was ordered to celebrate.

One day the false prince Rosemond said to his real brother Bremond:
"You know, the reason I brought you here from the back country was to make you rich. But I found you to be a liar. Your brother Rosemond suffered a lot because of your interference. Now he hides in the Here, I order you to talk to him and listen carefully to his reprimand."

Hearing this, Bremond trembled with fear, knelt before the prince, and confessed his sin bitterly.

"It is not enough to confess my guilt to me," said Rosemond. "It is your brother who should accept the apology, and I order you to ask his forgiveness. If he will, he is very magnanimous, and it will do you good." Much. He is in my drawing-room now, and you will meet him there at once. I shall be in another room for the time being, in order to allow you to meet alone."

So Bremond followed the prince's instructions and entered the reception room.Rosemond put the ring on his little finger and entered the drawing room through another door.

When he saw his brother in front of him, Bremond was ashamed.He asks Rosemond to forgive himself and promises to atone for all the bad things he has done.Rosemond embraced him with tears, and forgave him immediately.He said: "The king likes me very much. I could have asked him to cut off your head, or put you in prison for the rest of my life, but I decided to repay you with kindness." Bremond was confused and ashamed , He didn't dare to look up into his younger brother's eyes, but listened respectfully to Rosemond's reprimand, even forgetting that the person in front of him was his own younger brother.

After this Rosemond announced to the people that he intended to go on a secret journey to marry a princess of a neighboring country.But in fact he just went back to his hometown to meet his mother.He told his mother all that had happened, and gave her some money at the same time—although the king always told him to take what he wanted, he never abused the king's kindness.

Before long, a war broke out between the king and the monarchs of neighboring countries.That monarch was a notorious villain and never kept his promises.Rosemond went straight to the palace of the bad king, and by virtue of the power of the ring, he entered their chambers invisibly and eavesdropped on all their arrangements, so Rosemond pre-thought out the countermeasures to make these plans come true. Bubbles.

After returning to his own country, he led the army to fight against the bad king's army, fought a beautiful and big victory, and completely defeated the bad king.In this way, under fair conditions, peace was quickly restored between the two countries.

Since then, the king has always wanted the prince to marry a princess from a neighboring country.This princess is not only the heir of that neighboring country, but also very beautiful and lovely.But one morning, while Rosemond was hunting in the forest where he first met the Fairy, his benefactor, the Fairy, suddenly appeared before him.

"Be careful," she said to him gravely, "you cannot marry anyone who believes you are a prince, for you ought not to deceive anyone. Although the whole country now thinks you are the King's son, this is only a trick of the ring. A real prince must inherit his father's throne, for that is just and just. Go find him! He is now on a distant island. I will let your ship sail and bring you to him. You must do this at once to repay the king, though it may be contrary to your ambition. Be ready to restore your original shape. If you do not, you will become a wicked and surly person. When the time comes, I Will surely throw you into your past ordeals."

Rosemond took the fairy's advice to heart.After returning to the capital, he told the people that he was going to a neighboring country to carry out a secret mission, and then set out to sea in a ship.The wind indeed blew his ship towards an island, where the real prince's ship was wrecked.As mentioned above, the real prince fell into the hands of a group of barbarians, who forced the prince to herd the sheep for them.Rosemond used the magic of the ring to make himself invisible to the barbarians, and then searched for the real prince from pasture to pasture, and finally found him where he was grazing.Covering him with his cloak, Rosemond helped him escape from the savages, and carried him on his back into the ship.The fairies sent the ship back to their country with another gust of wind, and the two young men appeared together before the king.

Rosemond first said: "Although you think I am your son, I am not him, but now I have brought him back to you." The king was very shocked.He turned to his real son and asked him: "Is it not you, my son, who overcame my enemies, won the war beautifully, and won our peace? Or really, as he said, Your ship was wrecked in the hands of savages, and Rosemond set you free?"

"Yes, father," answered the Prince, "it was he who found me from the savages, and set me free, and gave me the honor of seeing you again. I owe my life to him. It was he who won the war, not me."

The king could hardly believe his ears until Rosemond turned the ring and transformed himself into a prince.The king stared at the two young men in bewilderment, unable to tell which was his son.In order to thank Rosemond for his contribution, the king gave him a generous reward, but Rosemond politely declined.Only one of the many positions he held at court was proposed to be bestowed on his brother Bremond.Because he is worried that material temptation will change his luck, cause jealousy in human nature or his own weakness.He just wants to go back to his hometown, live with his mother, and make a living by farming.

One day, as he was walking in the forest, he met a fairy.The fairy took him to the cave where his father was imprisoned, and told him the spell that would free him from magic.Rosemond was very happy, because he always wanted to bring his father home and let him spend his old age in peace.Since then, Rosemond has become the benefactor of the whole family, always willing to return good for bad.As for the country, he has made so many contributions to the country, and now he only hopes that the country will be free from corruption.

Rosemond feared that if he kept the ring, he might be tempted to use it in order to regain his former glory.So he resolved to return the ring to the fairy.For many days after this he searched all over the forest for the Fairy, and at last he found her.

"I want to give you back the ring." He said, taking out the ring. "This ring is as dangerous as it is powerful. I am afraid that it will be used in the wrong place. If I keep it, my My heart will never be at peace unless it can no longer interfere with my peaceful life and satisfy my greed."

Just when Rosemond wanted to return the ring to the fairy, he didn't know that his brother Bremond hadn't learned any lessons from the past, he was dazzled by all kinds of desires, and even persuaded the prince —that is, the king who has just ascended the throne, to avenge Rosemonden.But the Fairy saw all this, and when Rosemond persuaded her to take back the Ring, she said:

"Your bad brother is slandering the king and intends to get rid of you. If you do unrighteousness, you will kill yourself. I plan to give him the ring."

After hearing these words, Rosemond could not help but shed tears.he asked:

"What do you mean by giving him the ring as punishment? He will only use it to harm people, and even make himself the master of the country."

"There are certain things," replied the Fairy, "that to one man is life-saving medicine, but to another is deadly poison. To a man of evil nature riches and honor are the root of all evil. If you wish to punish a man Scoundrel, then the first thing is to give him power. With the rope of power, he will be bound in no time."

After saying that she disappeared.The fairy went straight to the king's palace, and appeared to Bremond in the form of an old woman in rags.She told him:
"I got this ring from your brother, and I gave it to him before. With its help, he achieved many honors. Now I give it to you, you must use it carefully .”

Brightmond laughed and said:
"I'm not as stupid as my brother! How stupid he is to bring back the real prince to take his place."

Bremond is really a mess.He uses the Lord of the Rings to inquire about the secrets of various families, and then exposes these secrets to other people for profit; or for murder or other bad things.These crimes did not leave any clues, and made the whole country panic for a while.The king was at first as bewildered as anyone else at the exposure of so many state secrets and the privacy of officials.But before long, Bremond's wealth and the arrogance he displayed made the king suspect that Rosemond's Lord of the Rings had fallen into Bremond's hands.To find out the truth, the king bribed a stranger who had just arrived in his country.This man is from a country that has been at war with his own country for many years.The king ordered him to sneak into Bremond's house in the middle of the night, and gave Bremond a lot of gold and silver treasures, to see if he would betray state secrets, and asked him to promise to give Bremond more money afterwards.

Bremond obediently complied with the stranger's request, accepted money from him, and boasted that he had a ring that would render him invisible, which gave him access to many of the most secret places.But he didn't enjoy himself for long.The next day he was arrested by the king's order and his ring was confiscated.Documents proving his crimes were also recovered from him.Although Rosemond rushed to the capital to intercede for him, the king refused Rosemond's request and sentenced Bremond to death.In this way, it can be said that the Lord of the Rings not only did not bring good luck to Bremond, but directly killed him.

To comfort Rosemond, the king returned the priceless treasure of the Lord of the Rings to him.The sad Rosemond didn't feel comforted. The first thing he did after he got the ring was to rush back to the forest to find the fairy.

"Here is your ring," said he, "my brother taught me many things I did not understand before. To keep it is death. Ah! he might be alive now without it, I His father and mother need not be so ashamed and sad to hold their heads up at such an age! Perhaps, if his desires were never satisfied, he would live wisely and happily. Alas! What a dangerous place power is! O thing! Take back your Lord of the Rings, doom will befall whoever you give it to. So I beg you, do me a favor and never give it to my dear again people!"

(End of this chapter)