green fairy tale book

Chapter 47 The Golden Child

Once upon a time there lived a poor man and his wife in a small hut, and they fished for a living in the nearby river.Although they worked very hard, their lives were tight and they could barely make ends meet.One day when the fisherman pulled up his net, he found an unusual fish in the net. It was shining golden all over, as if every fish scale on its body was pure gold.Just as he looked at the goldfish in surprise, the goldfish suddenly said: "Listen, fisherman, if you throw me back into the water, I will turn your broken hut into a beautiful castle."

The fisherman replied, "What's the use of living in a castle if I don't even have enough to eat?"

"Oh," said the goldfish, "I will help you solve this problem. There will be a cupboard in the castle. Every time you open the door of the cupboard, there will be all kinds of delicious food in it. You can have as many as you want."

"In that case," said the Fisherman, "I cannot let you go!"

"Yes," said Goldfish, "but I have one more condition. You can't tell anyone in the world how you got your luck, and if you miss a word, it's all gone."

The fisherman threw the goldfish back into the water and went home.Sure enough, his dilapidated little hut disappeared, and on the original site of the little hut, stood a spacious and magnificent castle.Stunned with astonishment, he hastened into the castle, and found his wife sitting in a richly decorated drawing room, in a rich dress.She was overjoyed, and called to the fisherman, "Oh, sir! What is the matter? I am so happy!"

"Yes," said the Fisherman, "I'm very happy too! But I'm dying of hunger, and I want something to eat right away."

"I don't have anything, and I don't know where the things in the hut are in this new house," said the wife.

"Never mind that," said the fisherman. "There's a big cupboard over there. Open it and have a look."

They opened the cupboard and found that it was filled with all kinds of dishes, meat, cakes, fruits and wine, and all the food exuded a tempting aroma.The wife clapped her hands happily and exclaimed, "My dear mother! Now we have everything!" Then they sat down and ate and drank.After eating and drinking, his wife asked, "Husband, where did these things come from?"

"Ah!" said he, "don't ask me, I dare not tell you. If I tell you the secret, all these things will be gone!"

"Well," said the wife, "if I don't say it, I don't want to know anyway."

But this was not her true words. Driven by curiosity, she kept asking her husband this question day and night. The fisherman was so upset by her question that at last he lost his patience and blurted out: "I saved a miraculous fish." Goldfish, let him go again." Before he finished speaking, the castle, the cupboard, everything disappeared, and they sat in the dilapidated hut again.

Fishermen had to go back to their old jobs and rely on fishing to support their families.But he was lucky enough to catch that magic goldfish again.

"Brother, why do you owe me so much?" Goldfish said helplessly, "If you throw me back into the river, I will give you back the castle, the cupboard and so on. But be careful this time , don’t tell the secrets in this life, or they will be gone again.”

"I'll be careful," the fisherman promised, and he threw the goldfish back into the river.When he got home, he found that the castle and the cupboard had returned, and his wife was overjoyed.But her curiosity still tormented her, and although she tried her best not to ask questions, within two or three days she asked her husband what had happened and why the wealth had returned.

The fisherman kept silent, but he was so annoyed by his wife's nagging all day long that he finally couldn't help but blurted out the secret.In the blink of an eye, the castle disappeared again, and they returned to the dilapidated little hut again.

"Look at what you've done!" said the fisherman sadly, "and now we've had another meal."

"Ah!" said his wife, "give me all the wealth in the world, and if I don't know where it comes from, I'd rather not have it, because I'll never be at ease."

The fisherman had to start fishing again to support his family, and by coincidence, he caught that magical goldfish again. "Brother, please kill me! I fall into your hands every day, and I collapse." Goldfish said with tears, "I think this is destined. This time you take me home and kill me." , cut me into six pieces, let your wife eat two pieces, feed your horses two pieces, and bury the remaining two pieces in your garden, and they will bless you."

So the fisherman took the goldfish home and did as he said.After a while, two golden lilies grew on the two pieces of goldfish buried in the garden, his horse gave birth to two golden foals, and his wife gave birth to two golden foals. The little boy is like two dolls made of pure gold.

The two golden babies grew up gradually, and they were both tall and handsome.At the same time, the little golden horse and golden lily also grew up.One day, the two children said to their father, "Father, we are going to ride the golden horse and go out into the world for a walk."

The fisherman said sadly: "You are all gone, I don't know how you are outside, how can I rest assured?" They said: "When you miss us, just look at the golden lily, they will tell you our recent situation If they wilt, we are sick; if they fall and wither, we are dead."

Then they rode away on golden horses.Soon after they came to an inn, where many people lived, and when they saw the two golden boys, they began to laugh at them.After hearing these teasing words, the younger brother suffered a great blow to his self-confidence, so he gave up the idea of ​​going out into the world and rode home.But his elder brother kept on walking until he came to the edge of a great forest.Some people advised him not to go any further, and they said to him, "You will never get out of this forest. The forest is full of highway robbers. They saw that you and your horse are made of gold. It will kill you and carry you to the goldsmith's shop to make gold ingots, gold rings and so on." But he was not intimidated, he said: "I believe I will be able to go there."

He covered himself and his golden horse with the bear's skin, so that the golden light on them could not be seen at all, and he rode bravely into the depths of the dense forest.As he walked, he heard a rustling behind the bushes, and someone whispered from behind the bushes by the side of the road, "Someone is coming," and the man on the other side said, "Oh, let him go, he's just a Bear hunters are like rats in a monk’s temple, they don’t have any fat.” So the golden boy walked out of the forest safely.

One day he came to a village and was deeply attracted by a girl here.In his eyes, that girl was simply the most beautiful and lovely person in the world.He immediately fell in love with the girl deeply, so he went to the girl and said: "I love you with all my heart, will you marry me to be my wife?" The girl also liked him very much, so she put her hand To his hand, said: "Yes, I am willing to be your wife, and I will love you with all my heart for the rest of my life."

So they were married, and while the wedding feast was going on with great excitement, the bride's father came home.He was astonished to hear that his daughter was being married.He asked, "Who is the groom?"

Someone pointed at the young man and said, "Here, this is the groom." The bride's father was furious: "A poor man who hunts bears for a living will never marry my daughter!" kill him.But the bride begged him bitterly to comfort him, and said to him: "Anyway, he is already my husband, and I love him with all my heart." In the end, the bride's father had no choice but to give in, but he still had his heart. Looking for an opportunity to kill his son-in-law.He got up early the next morning to see if his son-in-law was really just a beggar in rags.So he quietly walked into his son-in-law's room, and found a handsome, tall, golden man lying on the bed, and the rough bear skin was thrown on the nearby ground.He walked out quietly, and said to himself: "Fortunately, I controlled my anger. I almost made a big mistake. If I kill this golden son-in-law, I will regret it for the rest of my life!"

Jin Juvenile didn't know about all this, he was still lying on the bed and sleeping soundly. He dreamed that he was chasing a beautiful stag.When he awoke, he said to his bride, "I must go hunting." The bride's right eyelid kept twitching, and she begged her husband to stay home, and she said, "Please, don't go! I have a bad feeling I have a hunch that if you go, catastrophe may come your way." But Jin Juvenile replied: "I must go."

So he went straight to the forest, and not long after, a beautiful stag jumped up to him, just like the one the golden boy had seen in his dream.The golden boy quickly took up his shotgun and aimed at it, but the stag ran away quickly.Jin Juvenile chased after him, crossing mountains and ridges, cutting through thorns and thorns for a whole day.At dusk the stag was completely out of sight from him.The golden boy looked around and found himself standing in front of a small wooden house, but he didn't know that the owner of the small wooden house was a witch.He knocked on the door of the cabin, and a short and thin old woman came out and asked, "It's so late, what are you doing in the big forest?"

The golden boy said, "Did you see a stag around here?"

"Yes," said the witch, "I know that deer." Just as she was speaking, a puppy rushed out of the hut, barking and biting at the golden boy.

"Be quiet, you little beast," he yelled, "or I'll kill you!"

The witch was very angry, she screamed: "What? If you dare to kill my dog, I will kill you!" As she spoke, she touched the golden boy with her finger, and the golden boy immediately turned into a stone. Lying on the ground unable to move.

Jin Juvenile's wife waited for her husband, but the husband did not come back for a long time.At last she thought: "Ah! There is no doubt that the evil that weighs on my heart has befallen him!"

At the same time, Jin Boyn's younger brother was working in his yard when suddenly one of the two golden lily plants lowered its head and fell to the ground.

"My God!" he exclaimed, "my brother is in trouble. I must go at once, and I may be able to save him in time."

But his father begged him not to go, and his father said, "Please, stay at home. How can I live if I lose you too?" But he firmly said, "I must go."

Then he set off on his golden horse, and at last found his brother in the forest who had been turned to stone.The old witch came out of the cabin and stopped him, because she wanted to turn this golden boy into stone too.But he was extremely vigilant, and immediately raised his gun and shouted: "Make my brother alive immediately, or I will kill you on the spot!"

The witch had no choice but to touch the stone with her finger reluctantly, and in the blink of an eye he was back to human form.The two brothers hugged and kissed each other in ecstasy, and they rode away from the forest.They parted at a fork in the forest, and one went back to his old father, and the other to his bride.When the younger brother came home, the father said to him, "I know you have saved your brother's life, because all of a sudden the golden lily stood up and blossomed."

Since then, they have lived a life of peace and happiness.

(End of this chapter)