The Adventures of Mary and Lucy (Fairy Tale)

Once upon a time there was a little girl, her name was Mary, she had blonde hair and big blue eyes, Mary was 9 years old, her mother opened a very big manor house; and there was a little girl, her name was Lucy, Lucy had black curly hair and a pair of big brown eyes, Lucy and Mary were the same age, Lucy's mother worked in Mary's mother's manor. Although the material conditions of the two families are different, this does not prevent Mary and Lucy from becoming a very good friend, and they play together every day.

One morning, a thin layer of fog rose around the manor, and Mary and Lucy were playing by the manor, and vaguely noticed a bluestone path that they had never walked before, and the sides of the road were covered with colorful flowers and plants, but no one was picking them there, so the two girls were full of curiosity and doubt, and they held hands and walked toward the path with fear and nervousness.

Walking and walking, I don't know how long they walked, suddenly, they saw a small town, the town is full of all kinds of strange things, here the people here float above the heads of colorful circles of various shapes, where people go, small circles follow, there are only pens as tall as rabbit heads, the body of the person can talk to the little people who can perform acrobatics on the table, there are piglets with eight legs and two heads saying cross-talk on the stage, and there are cows with wings that can fly sing in the theater. There were also sheep that layed eggs in the sheep pen, and Mary was very happy to say, "Great, we have come to the legendary fairytale town, let's hurry up and look around!" Lucy said worriedly, "We've been out for a long time, it's too late, we should go back to Mom." But in the end, in order to satisfy the curiosity of her good friend, Lucy compromised, and she and Mary walked around the town together, and I don't know how long they walked around, when an old woman with white hair and a black robe with green light in her eyes suddenly appeared, and the people had disappeared all at once. The old woman said to the two girls in a kind tone: "You don't have to be afraid, my name is Strange Mother-in-law, you must be hungry, my home is nearby, I will take you to my house for a delicious meal!" The two girls had just walked so far to see the hilarity, and when they heard the strange mother-in-law say it, they suddenly felt a little hungry, and they hesitated for a moment and followed the strange mother-in-law to her house. When they arrived at the strange mother-in-law's house, the dining table was already full of delicious food, but there was no chair next to the table, and when the two were wondering how to eat without a chair, the strange mother-in-law asked them: "Do you want to sit on a gold chair, or a silver chair, or a copper chair?" Lucy said modestly, "Just a copper chair." Mary said proudly, "I'm going to put the golden chair!" As a result, the strange mother-in-law gave Lucy The Gold Chair, the Mary Copper Chair. The strange mother-in-law continued to ask: "Do you want to use gold tableware, silver tableware or copper tableware?" Mary said, "Golden cutlery!" Lucy said, "Copper cutlery!" But the strange mother-in-law's tableware is still the opposite, after eating, the strange mother-in-law took out the after-dinner snack and let them choose their own, Mary chose the most beautiful cake, and Lucy chose the most ordinary cake.

Mary suddenly turned into a pig after eating, Mary wanted to speak, but she made a "humming" sound, and Lucy became more beautiful and sweet after eating. The strange mother-in-law suddenly sneered and said to Mary, "Ignorant human beings, I will punish your greed with magic." At this time, Lucy interceded for Mary and said, "Strange mother-in-law please let my friend go, please change my friend back to the way it is!" The strange mother-in-law said, "Well, then it depends on whether your friendship can stand the test, if you volunteer to work here for me for a year, I will let her go!" In order to be able to rescue Mary, Lucy agreed.

So, from the next day, Lucy got up at five o'clock in the morning to work, washed the strange mother-in-law's face, helped the strange mother-in-law comb her hair and makeup to prepare for breakfast, watered the flowers and plants in the garden, took care of the two puppies raised by the strange mother-in-law, and then carried water to brush the toilet, swept the floor, and the dirty work was hers, and at night she lived in the firewood room outside the strange mother-in-law's house, and when it was cold, she hugged the goats inside for warmth. The most terrible thing was to go to the mountains to cut firewood, and the thorns in the woods often scraped out many holes in her clothes, and her white and tender calves were also scratched, and she endured all this silently in order to be able to save her good friend.

The time of the year was finally approaching, and on the last day Mary said to the strange mother-in-law, "I have been working for a full year, and I hope you will keep your promise and quickly change my friend back!" Strange mother-in-law reluctantly said, "Okay!" Only to see her hands clap her hands, the dirty, fat and ugly big fat pig in the pigsty gradually changed into a human form, and Mary changed from a pig back to a human form! At this time, Mary was still looking around blankly, as if she had just woken up and did not know what was happening, Lucy was worried about the strange mother-in-law's remorse, desperately pulling Mary to the bluestone path, she no longer wanted to stay in this place for a moment, running and running, and did not know how long it had been running, through a thin layer of white fog, finally they saw Mary's mother's manor next to it, when the bluestone path behind her suddenly disappeared and became a hard gray stone wall.

At this time, the voice of Lucy's mother calling Lucy's name came from the white fog, lucy pulled Mary to the direction of her mother's call, walked to her mother, the two of them breathed a long sigh of relief, Lucy's mother said in a slightly reproachful tone: "Lucy, Mary, we have been looking for you two all day, where did you two go today?" And Mary, how did you get dirty and your skirt torn? The two girls learned at this time that their visit to fairytale town for a year was only a day in the human world. But through this incident, the two girls understood a truth: greed makes people's fate twists, and difficulty is the touchstone of friendship.