green fairy tale book

Chapter 41 Blue Bird (3)
While the lyrics might sound melancholic, their voices are quite upbeat.The queen broke into the door angrily, screaming: "Ah! My Tulitra, do you see that there is adultery!"

The instant Fiordelisa saw her, she closed the window quickly and calmly, to give the blue bird time to escape, and then she turned to face the queen.The queen scolded her head and face, saying:

"Your infidelity has been discovered, madam!" she said angrily, "and don't expect your high status to keep you from punishment."

"With whom do you accuse me of having an affair? Madam," said the Princess, "have I not been your prisoner these two years? Who have I seen but the guards you sent?"

As she spoke, the Queen and Turitra looked at her in amazement, dazzled by her beauty and the brilliance of her jewels.The queen said: "If I ask you, where did you get these diamonds? You are not going to tell me that you found a treasure mine in this tower?"

"It is here, indeed, that I found them," answered the Princess.

"Then, may I ask," the queen was even more irritated, "who are you trying to seduce by dressing up so beautifully? I think you were not half as beautifully dressed as you are now on the most solemn occasions in the palace."

"I do it for myself," Ferodelisa said. "You have to admit I have a lot of time on my hands, so it's no surprise that I take a little time to look pretty."

"Excellent," said the Queen dubiously, "I think I'll look for it myself."

So she and Turitla began to carefully search every corner of this small cell. When they lifted up the straw mattress on the bed, pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires jingled and fell all over the floor, making them feel shocked. Shocked, I couldn't believe my eyes.The queen decides to frame Fiordelisa, who wants to place a bag of forged letters somewhere in this cell, to prove the secret collusion between the princess and the enemies of the kingdom.She thought the chimney would be a good place.But she didn't know that the blue bird perched on the branch saw her every movement.Blue Bird didn't want the princess to be framed.So it screamed hastily: "Be careful, Ferodelisa! Your hypocritical enemy wants to frame you!"

The strange voice startled the queen, she put away the hypocrisy, and fled with Tulitra in panic.They got together and tried their best to find out where the fairies and magicians were supporting the princess.At last they sent one of the queen's maids to serve Ferodelisa, and they made the maid pretend to be deaf and dumb, acting stupid and stupid, but secretly watched the princess day and night, and reported to the queen all the princess's movements at any time. .

Poor Ferodelisa had guessed that the maid was sent by the queen to watch her, and she cried in despair. She never dared to see the blue bird again, in case something bad happened to the blue bird after it was found.The princess lived like a year like this for a whole month. The days became extremely long and the nights became more lonely and desolate. But during this month, she never dared to approach her small window. She was afraid that if she did so, the blue bird would be like As before, he couldn't help but fly over to meet her.

At last the maid, who watched the princess closely day and night, finally fell asleep from exhaustion, and she slept soundly.As soon as the princess saw this, she ran to open her little window, and cried softly:

"Blue bird, bird as blue as the sky, fly to me, there is no one around."

The blue bird, which was constantly circling near her cell, heard her call and flew over in an instant.The two of them were ecstatic and had a lot to say to each other. It was not until 5 minutes before the sun rose that the blue bird reluctantly flew away.

The next day the maid was still snoring like thunder, so the blue bird came to visit the princess again.They felt they were safe, and they began to make various plans to regain the happiness they had before the Queen's visit.But alas!On the third night, the maid did not sleep deeply. When the princess opened the small window as usual and called softly: "Blue bird, bird as blue as the sky, come to me, there is no one around." Waking up, just eyes closed.When she heard Ferodelisa's call, she carefully opened her eyes to peep, and saw under the moonlight, the most lovely blue bird in the world was talking to the princess, and the princess was stroking it affectionately.The maid wrote down their conversation without saying a word. At dawn, after the blue bird reluctantly bid farewell to the princess, the maid hurriedly ran to the queen and told everything she had seen and heard. told her.

The queen sent someone to find Turitla, they discussed it for a while, and quickly came to a conclusion: this blue bird is none other than the King of Lovers!

"Ah, the insolent princess!" cried the Queen, "think she was having fun with that false king when we thought her life would be better than death. But I know how we shall take revenge! "

So the maid was sent back to the princess's lodgings, and went to sleep quietly, although she actually went to bed a little earlier than usual, but she pretended to be snoring as usual.Poor Princess Ferodelisa ran to the window and cried softly:

"Blue bird, bird as blue as the sky, fly to me, there is no one around."

She called all night, waited all night, and listened all night, but the blue bird never came.It turned out that the vicious queen had ordered people to hang sharp knives, swords, hooks, scissors and sickles on the fir tree. When the blue bird heard the princess' call and flew to her, its wings were cut off immediately, and its little His claws were cut off, and his body was stabbed and pierced in more than 20 places. He could only lie there weakly, moaning in despair.It thought that the princess must have betrayed herself under the persuasion of others for her freedom.

"Ah! Phero Delisa, if you are so lovely, why are you so unfaithful?" It sighed, "In this case, I might as well die at once!" Then it turned over and waited quietly for death to come .

Just at this time, the magician friend of the King of Charismatics was looking for him all over the world.For the magician saw that the frog-chariot had returned to his castle alone, while the charming king was nowhere to be seen, and he knew at once that something must have happened to the king.So he set off immediately and searched for him eight times around the world.Just when the blue bird gave up his last hope, the magician happened to pass through the woods for the eighth time. As he walked, he called out, "Magic King! Are you here?"

Immediately the Charmed King recognized his friend's voice, and cried feebly, "Here I am."

The magician looked for him, but he couldn't find him.The heartthrob king said it again: "I'm a blue bird now."

Now the magician quickly found the blue bird. He didn't say a word when he saw the shocking tragedy of the king, but just ran around non-stop, and finally collected a lot of magical herbs. He rubbed the herbs into pieces, Applying it on the wound of the blue bird, and chanting the incantation, this miraculous treatment is indeed very miraculous, it can make the broken limbs reconnect, the white bones grow muscles, and the wound of the charming king is cured in a short time.

"Now," said he, "tell me how it all happened, after all it must have started with a princess."

"Actually, it's two." The heartthrob king smiled wryly.Then he told the whole story to his magician friend, and bitterly accused Ferodelisa of treachery.The magician agreed and said: "There is nothing more poisonous than a woman's heart. All princesses are the same, but some are ugly and some are beautiful." .But somehow, the advice made the king uncomfortable.

"Then what are you going to do next?" said the magician, "You will be a blue bird for another five years."

"Take me to your house," said the Charming King, "at least there, where you can put me in a cage, and keep me safe from swords, and not be frightened by a cat passing under a tree." Half dead."

"Well, there is no better way," said his friend. "I am not a magician for nothing, and I don't think I will be able to think of a good way for you before long."

At the same time, Princess Ferodelisa sat in front of the window in despair all day and all night, calling her dear blue bird in vain, imagining over and over again the possible accidents it might encounter. pale.As for the Queen and Turitra, they were celebrating their victory triumphantly!They did not enjoy themselves for long, however, because the king of the country, Ferodelisa's father, fell seriously ill and died shortly thereafter.All the people rose up in rebellion, refused to accept the rule of the queen and Turitla, and they stormed the palace and demanded the release of Fiodelisa.

The queen stood on the balcony of the palace and threatened and shouted at them, until at last the people lost their patience, and they broke through the gates of the palace, and one of them fell down on the queen, and killed her.Turitla fled to her godmother the nymph Mazila.At the same time, the nobles of the royal family took Princess Ferodelisa out of the tower where she was imprisoned, and embraced her as queen.Soon, with people's careful care, Ferodelisa recovered from the shadow of long-term captivity, and became more beautiful than before.As soon as she regained her health, she discussed with the ministers and let them temporarily represent the affairs of state.She herself took a bag of jewels and quietly embarked on a journey to find the blue bird, without telling anyone.

At this time, the magician was taking good care of the charming king.He knew very well that his magic power was not enough to fight the fairy Mazilla, so he decided to negotiate with Mazilla.In fact, fairies and magicians are essentially the same people. They know each other well, sometimes they visit each other to chat about family affairs, and sometimes they often quarrel. This has been the case for thousands of years.So the fairy Mazilla received him kindly.

"What do you want this time, you don't just come to talk to me?" she said.

"It will be of great help to me, if you will," said the magician. "There is a king, my friend, who has unfortunately offended you..."

"Ah, I know who you're talking about," the fairy interrupted him, "I'm sorry, don't gossip, I can't give you this face unless he marries my goddaughter, the one over there Beautiful and charming girl, otherwise it will be useless for him to ask for my forgiveness. Let him think about my words!"

The magician didn't know what to say, because Turitra seemed to him to be hideously ugly.But he couldn't just leave without doing something.Because his friend the charming king, although living in a cage, is always in danger.He was alarmed by several accidents: once, a nail from the cage fell off, and the feathered king was knocked down, and a female cat happened to be in the room at the time, and she threw the king's His eyes scratched his paw, nearly blinding him.Another time the magician forgot to give him water, and he almost died of thirst.The most serious thing is that the heartthrob king is in danger of losing his kingdom because he has been missing for so long that his people think he is dead.

In the end the magician made a deal with the nymph Mazila: the nymph temporarily restored the king to his original form and took Tulitra to live in his palace for a few months.If after that, he still decides not to marry Turitra, he will be transformed into a blue bird again.

So the fairy put Turitla on a robe woven with gold and silver threads.They mounted a flying dragon, and soon reached the palace of King Charming, who had just been brought there by his magician friend.

The fairy tapped the blue bird three times with her stick, and the blue bird returned to its original shape and became the most handsome and imposing king since ancient times.But as soon as he saw Turitra, he knew how much he would pay to restore his original form, and he shuddered at the thought of marrying Turitra.

Meanwhile, Queen Phodelisa, disguised as a poor peasant girl, wears a large straw hat with the brim covering her face; she has a battered sack on her shoulders, and is already looking for the charming king. I have come a long way on my long journey.She sometimes crosses the ocean, sometimes treks across mountains and rivers, sometimes walks, sometimes rides a horse, but she doesn't know where to go.She is afraid that every step she takes will make herself farther and farther away from her lover.One day, sad and tired, she sat on the bank of a brook, dipped her snow-white legs in the cool water, and combed her golden hair in the sun.At this time, a hunchbacked old woman passed by with a cane. She stopped and said to Fiodelisa:

"What's the matter, my lovely child, are you alone?"

"Yes, good old mother, I'm too sad to be in the company of people," she replied, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Don't cry," said the old woman, "tell me what happened, and maybe I can help you."

(End of this chapter)