green fairy tale book

Chapter 42 Blue Bird (4)
So the queen told the old woman exactly what happened to her, and told her that she was looking for a blue bird.At this time, the little old woman suddenly stood up straight, she became tall, young, and beautiful, and smiled and said to the astonished Fiordelisa:

"My dear queen, the king you seek is no longer a blue bird. My sister Mazila has restored him to his original form, and he is now in his own country. You will find him, and things will happen. All the best. Take these four eggs and break one in extreme difficulty, and you will be helped."

With that, she disappeared.Ferodelisa was greatly encouraged, she put the four eggs in a coarse cloth bag, turned around and rushed to the country of the King Charming.She walked and walked for eight days and nights, and finally came to the foot of a towering ivory mountain, which was so high and steep that there was no foothold at all.Ferodelisa tried more than 1000 times, and each time she climbed a few steps before sliding down, and finally returned to the place where she started.Finally she sat down at the foot of the mountain to rest in despair.Suddenly she remembered the four eggs, and she immediately broke one of them, which had several little golden hooks in it.She tied them to her hands and feet, and this time, with the help of the golden hook, she did not slip down again, and climbed up the Ivory Mountain without much effort.But as soon as she climbed to the top of the mountain, new difficulties arose.

On the other side of the mountain is a steep cliff. This cliff is not made of stone, but a mirror that has been polished very smooth. Thousands of people are admiring their appearance in front of the mirror—this is a side of the mountain. The magic mirror, where people can see what they most want to be, has attracted people from all over the world, but no one has ever climbed to the top of the mountain.There was a deafening roar from the crowd when they saw Phodelisa standing there.They claimed that if she stepped on the magic mirror, she would crush it to pieces.The Queen didn't know what to do, because if she tried to go down, she might fall to pieces.So she broke the second egg, and out of it flew a chariot drawn by two white doves.Ferodelisa boarded the chariot, and the white dove fluttered its wings, pulling the chariot and flying lightly into the blue sky.After a day and a night, the dove landed at the gates of the King Charming's kingdom.The queen thanked the two pigeons by kissing them gratefully before stepping off the chariot.Her heart was beating a small drum, and when she entered the city, she asked everyone where she could see the king.But people laughed at him and shouted to her: "See the king? Excuse me, why do you want to see the king? My little cook? You'd better wash your face first, your eyes are not bright enough, even if the king stands by you In front of you, you can't see him either."

It turned out that the queen was dressed in poor people's clothes, and her hair was let down over her eyes, so that no one knew her.As they would not tell her where the King was, she went on and asked kindly about.This time she was told that she would be able to see the King tomorrow, because the King of Charismatics had finally agreed to marry Turitla, and that tomorrow he would be parading through the streets with the queen-to-be.

This is really bad news for Ferodelisa.Had she come all this way, just to see how Turitra had succeeded in making the charming king forget herself?
Ferodelisa was exhausted physically and mentally, and could not walk a step.She sat down in a doorway and wept bitterly all night.At dawn, she rushed to the palace.After being banished fifty times by the guards, she finally sneaked into the hall, and saw Turitla's throne next to the king's throne, obviously Turitla was now recognized as queen.

Ferodelisa hid behind a marble pillar, and after a while Turritla came out.She was beautifully dressed, but she was as ugly as ever.The king of heartthrobs followed, looking even more handsome than Ferodelisa remembered.As Turitla took her seat on the throne, Ferodelisa approached her.

"Who are you that you dare to approach the supreme queen sitting on the throne?" Turitella scolded her with a frown.

"They call me Little Cook," replied Ferodelisa, "I'm here to sell some rare treasures." As she spoke, she rummaged in the old cloth bag and took out a gift from the charming king. Emerald bracelet.

"Ha! Ha!" said Tulitra, "these beautiful glass things, you can make money if you sell them for five silver coins?"

"Show them to a connoisseur, madam," replied the queen, "and then we shall decide on the price."

Turitra loved the Charming King to death and wanted to speak to him at every opportunity.So she showed him the bracelets and asked him what he thought they were worth.As soon as the king saw the pair of bracelets, he recognized the pair he had given to Fiodelisa.His face turned pale all of a sudden, he sighed deeply, lost in thought, and even forgot to answer Tulitra's question.Tulitra asked again, and then he said with difficulty:

"I believe these bracelets are as precious as my kingdom. I thought there were only one pair of them in the world, but it seems that here is another pair."

Turitra went back to Ferodelisa and asked her the minimum amount before she would sell them to her.

"It hurts your heart, ma'am," she replied, "but if you will let me spend a night in the echo chamber in the palace, I will give them to you."

"I'll listen to you, my little cook." Turitella said excitedly.

The heartthrob king doesn't try to know where the bracelets came from.Not because he didn't want to know, but because the only way to know the answer was to ask Turitra.But he hated her so much that he would never speak a word to her if possible.The story about the echo chamber was told to Fidelisa by himself when he was still a blue bird.The echo chamber is a small room just below the king's bedroom.It was so artfully built that any whisper in that room could be heard clearly in the King's chamber.There Fiodelisa wanted to reprimand him for his infidelity, but she could think of no better way of approaching the king than that.So, at Turitra's orders, she was taken to the echo chamber.She wept and moaned all night until dawn.

When Turitra questioned the king's entourage the next day, they told her what miserable cries and wailings they had heard.So she asked Ferodelisa what was the matter.Ferodelisa replied that she dreamed often and talked aloud in her sleep.

But unfortunately, the king didn't hear Ferodelisa's cry at all, because he had to take sleeping pills before going to bed every day, and he always slept until the next day when he was three poles high.

Fiordelisa passed the day with great anxiety.

"If he heard my voice," she thought, "could he be so indifferent? But if he didn't hear me, how would I get another chance? I still have a lot of jewels, but nothing too rare to Let Turitra tempted."

Then she thought of the magic egg that the fairy gave her.She broke the third egg, and out of it came a shiny steel wagon decorated with gold, pulled by six little green mice.A little rose-colored mouse is driving the carriage, and a little gray mouse is leading the horse on the left. The carriage is full of cute and exquisite little people, some of them dance beautifully, and some can perform wonderful tricks. .Ferodelisa danced with joy as she looked at this marvelous little car.At dusk she came to a shady garden, put the cart in the way of Turitra, and then she made the mice dance and the little men do tricks.After a while Turitra came, and when she saw the little car she screamed:
"Little cook! Little cook! What do you want me to give you in exchange for your mouse cart?"

The queen replied: "Let me sleep one more night in the echo chamber."

"I won't refuse your request, poor fellow," Turitella said in a gracious tone.Then she turned to the ladies beside her and muttered: "This stupid guy doesn't know how to seize the opportunity to make a fortune. It's too good for me."

In the evening, Pherodelisa poured out all the love words she could think of, but, as on the previous day, the king slept soundly after taking the medicine.A squire said:

"The country girl must be mad."

But another said: "Her crying was so tragic and touching."

Ferodelisa felt that if the king heard her cry and did not listen to her, he must be hard-hearted.She has only one last chance left.When she broke the last egg, she was even more surprised and excited by what was inside.It was a pie made of six birds. It was very well done. The most surprising thing was that all six birds were alive. The mysterious secret is told in very funny words.Holding this treasure, Ferodelisa came to the only way of Turitla in the hall again, and she sat there waiting for Turitla.At this time, one of the king's servants came up to her and said:

"Oh, little cook, it's a good thing the king always takes sleeping pills, otherwise you would always be crying in the echo chamber, and he must have been kept awake all night by the noise."

Now Ferodelisa knew why the king hadn't noticed her.She took a handful of pearls and diamonds from her bag, and said, "I will give you all these jewels, if you will promise me that the King will not take sleeping pills tonight."

The attendant brightened his eyes and said, "Wow! I promise you!"

That's when Turitra appeared.She screamed at the first sight of this delicious piece of pie, with the pretty bird fluttering its wings:

"It's a wonderful pie, little cook. Tell me, what would you trade for it?"

"Old price," she replied, "for a night's sleep in an echo chamber."

"No problem, just give me the pie," said the greedy Turitra.

When night came, Queen Ferodelisa waited until everyone in the palace was asleep, and then wept and murmured as she did the previous two nights.

"Oh, king of heartthrobs," she said, "what on earth have I done to make you abandon me to marry Turitra? If you knew what happened to me, and how I came to find you you……"

This night, the page kept his promise, and replaced the sleeping potion the king often took with a glass of water.So although the king was lying in bed, he was awake all the time.He heard everything Fiodelisa said distinctly, and recognized her voice, though he did not know where it came from.

"O Princess!" said he, "I love you so much, why did you betray me and throw yourself into the arms of our cruel enemy?"

Pherodelisa heard him, and immediately replied: "Find the little cook, and she will explain everything to you."

So the king summoned his attendants at once, and said to them, "If you can find the little cook, bring her to me at once."

"Nothing could be easier, Your Majesty," they answered, "for she is in the echo chamber."

The king was puzzled: How could the lovely Princess Fiordelisa become a little cook?How could a little cook have the voice of Ferodelisa?He didn't have time to think about it, put on his clothes immediately, and went to the echo chamber through a secret staircase.On a stack of soft cushions sat his lovely Princess Phodelisa.She had stripped away all her ugly make-up except for a soft white gown, her long blond hair gleaming in the soft light.The king was overjoyed, rushed up and fell at her feet, and asked her more than 1000 questions incessantly, and Ferodelisa had no time to interject to answer.Ferodelisa was also overjoyed to be reunited with the king.They hugged each other sadly and joyfully, grateful for the mercy of God, so that the lovers finally got together again.But the shadow of the fairy Mazila still weighs on the hearts of the couple like a big stone, making them both troubled and worried.At that moment the King's magician friend entered, and with him was the famous Fairy, who had given the four magic eggs to Phodelisa.After saluting to the king and queen, they said that they had decided to unite to help King Charming, and the magic of the fairy Mazila had no effect on King Charming, so as long as the king wanted, he could marry Ferodelisa at any time. .You can imagine how happy the king was.The next day the news spread throughout the palace, and everyone who saw Ferodelisa couldn't help falling in love with this beautiful and elegant girl.

When Tulitra heard this she ran to the king at once, and was furious when she saw Ferodelisa with him.But before she could say a word, the magician and the fairy turned her into a great brown owl, and she flew out of the window of the palace screaming, and was never seen again.

The heartthrob king and Ferodelisa held a grand wedding, and they lived happily ever after.

(End of this chapter)