green fairy tale book

Chapter 30 The Story of Li Hao and the Dwarf

Once upon a time in a small town in China lived a man named Li Hao.Li Hao is very hardworking, not only working hard to run his small business, but also taking care of all the housework - because he is a bachelor and has no wife to do such things for him.

"Li Hao is such a hardworking and good man!" said his neighbors. "Look at how hard he works, and he never goes out for fun like other people do, and he doesn't give himself a holiday."

But in fact, Li Hao is by no means the kind-hearted person his neighbors imagined.It is true that he worked hard during the day, but at night, when the decent people were asleep, he slipped out of the house and joined a dangerous band of robbers.They robbed houses together, broke into the rich man's house, and looted everything of value.

This went on for a while.Although a thief was caught and severely punished, no one suspected Li Hao, because in people's eyes, he was always a respected and hardworking person.In this way, Li Hao saved a lot of stolen money from the robbery.One morning, as Li Hao was walking to the market, a neighbor said to him:

"Hey, Li Hao, what's wrong with your face? Half of your face is swollen!"

Indeed, Li Hao's right cheek swelled to twice the size of his left cheek at some point, and it was very uncomfortable.

"I will bandage it up," Li Hao said, "it may be due to the wind, and the swelling will go away after applying heat." However, the swelling did not subside, and it got worse the next day, and it got bigger every day after that , and ended up swollen as big as his head, and it hurt like hell.

Now Li Hao lost his mind.Not only was his right cheek swollen horribly, but it hurt like hell.His neighbors also started laughing at him, often making fun of his swollen face, which really hurt his self-esteem deeply.

One day a doctor passed by the town.The doctor not only sells all kinds of medicines, but also has some spells to cast down demons and catch ghosts.Li Hao decided to consult him about his strange disease, so he invited him into his home.

After carefully examining his condition, the doctor said: "Brother Li, this disease is not a common swelling and pain. I strongly suspect that it is because you have done something wrong and caused the wrath of the gods. My None of the medicines can cure your disease blindly, but if you reward me heavily, I can tell you the way to cure this strange disease."

Then Li Hao and the doctor started haggling over the price, and it took a long time to agree on the price. In the end, of course, the doctor had the upper hand.Because he said that if the price was lower than what he offered, he refused to tell him how to cure Li Hao.Of course Li Hao didn't want to live his whole life with such a huge swollen face, so he had to reluctantly give most of his ill-gotten gains to the doctor.

After the doctor collected the money, he told Li Hao to come to a certain forest on the night of the full moon and observe a certain tree carefully.Before long he would find that the imps and dwarfs who lived underground would come to dance on the surface.If they found him, they would definitely make him dance. "You must dance at your best," the doctor added. "If you dance well, they will grant you a wish, and then you can ask them to cure you. If you dance poorly If they want to vent their anger, they may bring you new disasters." With that, he got up to leave and left here.

At this time, the night of the full moon is not far away.Li Hao came to the woods at the right time.It was not easy, but at last he found the tree the doctor had described.He felt very nervous, so he quickly climbed up the tree.

As soon as he stood on a thick branch, he saw countless dwarves gathered together under the moonlight.They roared from all directions, and a rough count showed that there were hundreds of them.They were jumping for joy, singing and dancing, and looked utterly delighted.Li Hao wanted to take a closer look, so he slowly crawled forward along the branch until the branch made a harsh cracking sound.All the dwarves stood in place, and the surroundings became silent, and Li Hao felt that his heart had stopped beating.

A dwarf shouted, "There's someone in the tree! Whoever you are, get down at once, or we'll go up and get you!"

Li Hao was so frightened that he had to climb down the tree tremblingly.Because he was so nervous, he tripped close to the ground and rolled comically down.Then he stood up and bowed deeply.The dwarf who spoke just now seemed to be the leader of these hundreds of dwarfs. He said to Li Hao: "Bold villager, who are you and why are you here?"

Li Hao told the chief about his tragic experience, and how he was advised to come to the woods and ask the dwarf to heal his swollen face.

"Well," said the little man, "try it, then. But first, you must dance in front of us. If you dance well and please us, perhaps we can do something for you. If you dance well Bad, we will definitely punish you. So, now be careful and start dancing!"

Saying that, the leader and other dwarves sat down in a big circle, surrounding Li Hao in the center of the big circle.Li Hao was so frightened that he was half dead. In addition, he just fell from the tree, and his whole body was shaking like chaff, so he couldn't dance at all.The dwarfs were getting impatient.

"Go!" cried the chief.

"Go! Go! Go!" cried the other dwarves in unison.

In desperation, Li Hao had no choice but to jump up.He bounced on one leg first, then switched to the other.But his body was too stiff and tense for his antics to be danceable at all.It wasn't long before he sat down on the ground and swore he would never jump again.

The dwarf was very angry.They crowded around Li Hao, beating and cursing him. "You want us to cure you, all right!" they yelled, "You came with one lump, so you're going to take two!" Then they ran away and disappeared without a trace. without a trace.Li Haoqiang cheered up and staggered on the way home.He was tired and depressed, and very worried about the dwarf's curse.

His worry was not unreasonable, because when he woke up the next day, his left cheek was as big as his right cheek, and he could barely open his eyes.Li Hao was extremely disappointed.His neighbors even laughed at him unscrupulously.The doctor didn't know where he was.Li Hao had no choice but to go to the dwarf again.

He waited a whole month, and at last it was the night of the full moon, and then he staggered out to the woods and sat under the tree from which he had fallen.It was not long before the dwarves gathered here again in the moonlight.

"I don't feel very well," said one of the dwarfs, "as if there was some nasty human next to us."

Hearing these words, Li Hao came out from behind the tree and bowed to the dwarf to the ground.The dwarfs crowded around him, flinching at the high, swollen sides of his face.

"Bold village man... why are you here again?" They asked, Li Hao told them what happened to him, and then begged to dance in front of them again.At last the dwarves agreed, because having fun is what they like best.

Now, Li Hao knows how important it is to dance this dance well.So he mustered up the courage to jump up.It danced very slowly at first, but gradually it danced faster and faster, and it danced nicely and gracefully, and even made a lot of novel dance steps, and the dwarf was very happy.They clapped their little hands and shouted: "Good dance, Li Hao, good dance! Keep dancing, dance for a while longer, we are very happy!"

So Li Hao danced, danced... Finally he couldn't dance anymore, so he had to stop dancing.

The leader of the dwarves said to him: "We are very happy, Li Hao. Your face will be well. Goodbye!"

Saying this, he disappeared with the other dwarfs.Li Hao put his hands on his face and was delighted to find that his left and right cheeks had returned to their original size.This time, the way home became short and easy in his eyes.When he got home, he went to bed happily, determined not to rob again.

The next day, news of Li Hao's sudden recovery spread in the small town.His neighbors asked him how his face was healed, but he would not say anything.So it was said that he must have discovered a cure for all kinds of ills.

After a while, a wealthy neighbor found Li Hao.The neighbor had been ill for many years, and he said that if Li Hao could tell him the cure for the stubborn disease, he would give Li Hao a large sum of money.Li Hao agreed, on the condition that the neighbor must swear not to reveal this secret to anyone.The neighbors immediately swore.So Li Hao told him about the dwarves and their dance.

Under Li Hao's guidance, the neighbor was cured by the dwarfs.In the following years, more and more people came to Li Hao to inquire about the treatment method.Li Hao made them swear to secrecy and charged everyone a large sum of money.In this way, Li Hao became a very rich man and lived the rest of his life happily and peacefully.

(End of this chapter)