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Chapter 1 The Little Boy's Metamorphosis
Spring is here. Although the trees are not yet green, they have already sprouted buds, exuding a fragrant smell.The ditch was full of water, and small flowers bloomed beside the water.The small bushes in the bushes began to stretch their arms and shake their legs and grow upwards.The sky looked extraordinarily blue.

The little boy Nils Hauerjesson was alone at home.Mom and Dad both went to church, and he didn't want to go with them. He just wanted to play with his father's shotgun freely.Before his father left, he suddenly stopped and said:

"Nils, it's fine if you don't want to go to church with us. But you have to study at home, can you promise me?"

"No problem!" Niels agreed without hesitation.But he didn't take studying seriously at all, and he just wanted to cheat his parents away as soon as possible.

"You have to keep your word! Remember, I will test you when I come back. If you can't answer, you know what the consequences will be!" Father said sternly.

The mother is busy with the child taking the book and placing the chair. "Sit down and read, Niels!" she told the child in a soft voice.

"Hmph, they let me read at home when they went outside, so they will be happy." The little boy sat on the chair submissively on the surface, but he was angry in his heart.Looking at the figures of his parents going away, he felt as if he was locked in a cage.

He read listlessly for a while, then dozed off after a while. "No, I can't sleep now!" He thought drowsily, "I have to finish reading, otherwise my father will come back, and I will definitely have nothing to eat." However, he still fell asleep unknowingly.He didn't know how long he had been asleep until a slight noise woke him up.

On the windowsill in front of the little boy, there is a small mirror facing him.He looked up in the mirror, and unexpectedly found that his mother's wooden box had been opened by someone.My mother's chest held my grandmother's belongings, clothes from long ago, all now exposed to the sun.The little boy knew that when he was home alone, his mother would lock the box.

The little boy was very scared. At first he thought that thieves had sneaked into the house.When he waited in fear for the thief to come out, he found beside the box a small figure, the size of a palm, with a wrinkled face, wearing a black robe, knee-length shorts, and a wide-brimmed black hat.His clothes and cuffs were trimmed with lace, and he was neatly dressed.Holding an embroidered collar cloth in his hand, he looked at it intently, not even realizing that the little boy had woken up.

The little boy knew that this was the little fox fairy that everyone often called.The little boy thought it was so funny seeing such a small thing, and he really wanted to play tricks on the little fox fairy, push him into the box, or make some other jokes.The little boy looked around the room, looking for something to poke the little fox fairy. He searched and searched, and finally his eyes fell on an old veil.

He quickly brought the old gauze cover, ran to the box, and buckled it against the box.The little fox fairy was unprepared at all, and fell into the bottom of the gauze cover, head down, and could no longer crawl out.The little boy shook the veil back and forth to prevent the little fox fairy from climbing up.

"Nils, let me out! Over the years, I have been doing good things for your family, and good things should be rewarded. If you let me go, I will give you an ancient silver dollar, a small silver spoon and a big Gold coins." The little fox fairy begged.

"This, this..." The little boy turned his head and thought, "Okay!"

The little boy agreed to the deal.He stopped the veil so that the little fox fairy could climb up.However, just as the little fox fairy was about to crawl out, the little boy changed his mind.He felt that one more condition should be put forward, let the little fox transform the knowledge in the book into his mind. "I can't let him go easily." He thought, so he began to shake the veil again, trying to make the little fox fall down again.

However, at this moment, he suddenly received a heavy slap in the face.He just felt dizzy. He first hit a wall, then another wall, and finally fell to the ground, lost.

When he woke up, the little fox fairy had already disappeared.He was alone in the room, the lid of the trunk was closed, and the screen still hung in its place over the window.If it wasn't for the burning pain in his cheeks, the little boy would have thought he was having a dream.

"If I tell my parents that I saw the little fox fairy, they will definitely say that I had a dream." The little boy said to himself, "I better hurry up and read." So he stroked his cheek and looked towards the table. go.

As he walked toward the table, he realized that something was wrong. The house was bigger than before, and it took many more steps than usual to get to the table.The chair was weird too, he had to climb onto the rungs of the chair before he could climb onto the seat.

"My God! What happened?" cried the boy. "The Little Fox Fairy must have cast a spell on the house, the table, and the chairs."

The book is on the table, exactly as it was before.But if he didn't stand on the book, he couldn't read a word.After reading two or three lines, he accidentally looked up and saw the mirror opposite.He cried out at once:
"Oh my god, there's another fox fairy over there." He clearly saw a little man wearing a pointed hat and leather pants in the mirror. "He's dressed exactly like me." The little boy held his hand in surprise. With both hands, he found that the person in the mirror also held his hands.

The little boy pulled his hair and pinched his nose, and the little man in the mirror did the same.The little boy ran around the mirror several times, trying to see if there was a villain hidden behind the mirror, but he found nothing.

The little boy trembled with fright, and now he understood that the person in the mirror was himself.The little fox fairy took revenge on him and turned him into a little fox fairy.

"It must be a dream!" he thought. "Perhaps in a moment I shall be all right again."

He stood motionless by the mirror and waited for several minutes.When he felt himself back to normal, he opened his eyes, but nothing happened.He was still the little fox fairy, his light yellow hair, face, and clothes were still the same as before, but he had become very small.

"Waiting here is definitely useless. I have to find that little fox fairy and apologize to him. Maybe he will make me change back to the original."

The little boy started jumping on the floor, looking around.He searched everywhere, but there was no sign of the little fox fairy anywhere.The little boy cried, "Come out, little fox fairy! I will never count my words again, and I will never sleep while reading. As long as you make me human again, I will be an obedient and lovely child. Please Come out."

However, no matter how much the little boy begged, the little fox fairy still did not appear.The little boy suddenly remembered that his mother had said before that the little fox fairy usually lives in the cowshed.He immediately decided to go to the bullpen to find the little fox fairy.

He ran out the open gate, put on his shrunken shoes, and went out into the yard.A sparrow saw him and immediately called out: "Chichi, Chichi, look at the little man, look at Nils, he is only the size of a thumb!"

The chickens and geese in the yard turned their heads to stare at the little boy, clucking, "You deserve it, you deserve it, he pulled my crown, you deserve it!"

"How did he become like this?" The geese gathered together and whispered, "How did he become like this?"

The little boy was very surprised because he understood what they were saying. "It must be because I have become a fox fairy," he thought, "so I understand everything they say."

The little boy couldn't stand the crowing of the chickens, so he picked up a stone and threw it at them, but he didn't expect that the chickens were not frightened at all, but rushed forward and screamed louder.The little boy couldn't get rid of them no matter what.At this time, the cat came out, and the chickens became quiet.

"Dear Cat," the little boy asked him, "can you tell me where I can find the Little Fox Fairy?"

"I know where he is," said the Cat slowly, a little haughtily, "but I won't tell you!"

"You have to help me, look at me now. I have to find the little fox fairy and change back to my original appearance!"

"Help you? Just because you used to pull my tail?" the cat mocked.

"What, I want to grab your tail!" The little boy threw himself at the cat angrily.

But the cat bristled all over its fur, arched its back, and with a sudden leap, fell upon the boy, threw him to the ground, jumped on top of him, put its front paws on his chest, and opened its mouth to his throat.

The little boy felt that he was almost out of breath, and he desperately called for help.

"Huh!" the cat let go of its paws and said proudly, "For the sake of the mistress, I let you go! Now you should know who is better between us!" After finishing speaking, he walked away.

The little boy went away in shame. He went all the way to the cowshed, hoping to find the little fox fairy there.When the cows in the cowshed saw the little boy, they all mooed and pointed their horns at him.The little boy hurriedly explained to the cows that he was wrong to the cows in the past, but the cows ignored him, it seemed that the cows just wanted to teach him a good lesson.

The little boy walked out of the cowshed dejectedly. It seemed that no one in the yard was willing to help him.He climbed up the wall, thinking about a series of terrible things that would happen to him after he couldn't change, the more he thought about it, the more discouraged and sad he became.

The weather was very good that day, and all the migratory birds came back. A group of wild geese flew across the sky in a "herringbone" shape. When they saw the domestic geese in the yard, they flew low and shouted: "Come with us! Come with us!" Let's come!"

The geese replied cleverly: "We live very well here! We live very well here!"

But the weather was so good that flying seemed like a treat.The call of the geese moved a young gander, "I'm coming, wait for me!" He spread his wings and flew towards the sky.But he didn't fly very high and fell down.

But the wild geese heard the call of the gander, so they turned around and flew back. "Wait a minute, wait a moment!" the gander yelled, spreading its wings vigorously.

"You must not fly away!" Seeing everything, the little boy was afraid that his parents would be sad because the goose flew away, so he jumped off the wall and onto the back of the white goose, "You must not fly away. "

Just at this moment, the gander understood how to fly, and before he had time to shake off the little boy, he spread his wings and flew into the sky.He flew so fast that the boy on the goose's back felt dizzy, and he clung to the gander's feathers so that he would not be thrown off by the gander.

The air flow rushed towards the little boy, the goose flapped its wings, and there was a humming sound in its feathers. There were thirteen wild geese flying around, and they flapped their wings and croaked loudly.The little boy mustered up his courage to look down to the ground, and saw that there were dotted with large and small squares below. Some of the squares were rectangular, some were oblique, and each square had right angles and straight sides, and there were no round ones. No bends either.

"What are these squares?" the little boy said to himself.

"Cultivated land and pasture!" The flying geese heard it, and immediately shouted, "Cultivated land and pasture!"

The little boy suddenly understood that the green squares were rye fields, the gray and yellow squares were crop fields, the brown squares were old alfalfa fields, the black squares were pastures without grass, and the brown squares were woods.The boy couldn't help laughing when he saw everything turned into colorful squares.

When the wild geese heard his laughter, they all scolded, "Fat land! Fat land!"

The little boy stopped laughing immediately. He thought that he had become a little fox fairy, how terrible this matter was, and he couldn't laugh anymore.But he looked down and couldn't help laughing.

Wild geese flew to a place with poultry, and they asked: "What is this place? What is this place?" A rooster raised his head and said, "This farmhouse is called 'Xiaotian'." Passing by poor people, those chickens said : "This farmhouse is called 'Lack of Grain'." And those chickens from rich families said: "This is called 'Money Village'."

The wild geese were circling over the southern plains, and when they saw the house geese, they flew slowly and cried, "Come! We will teach you to swim and fly."

The geese would not answer a word.So the wild goose continued to descend until it almost touched the ground, and then flew high into the sky, shouting: "You are not geese, you are stupid, you are stupid!"

"You should all be shot! You should all be shot!" the geese yelled in exasperation.

The boy laughed out loud.But at once he remembered his miserable situation and began to cry, but after a while he laughed again, for he had never flown so high and so fast before.Smelling the fragrance of soil and resin rising from the earth, he forgot his melancholy, sorrow and troubles.

(End of this chapter)