#Folklore ##传奇故事 #
Once upon a time there was a prince who was good friends with the minister's son, and the two of them played together all day without worry.
One day, when they were out for a walk, they saw a small bird parked on a window sill, and the prince wanted to practice his archery, so he shot it with a bow, and the bird flew away without even dropping a hair. They giggled and laughed at each other and left.
But they never expected that this arrow would go through the window and hurt the hostess in the house. This is a businessman. The merchant saw that his wife had suddenly fallen down well, and when he looked again, there was blood! He cried out in shock. This cry woke his wife up, and it turned out that the arrow had only grazed her chest, and she was frightened. She told her husband that a young man on the street had shot an arrow at her. The merchant was discouraged and immediately went to the king and demanded that the perpetrators be dealt with strictly as an example. The king agreed, and immediately ordered all the young people of the city to gather and walk through the windows of the merchant's house one by one, so that the merchant's wife could identify him inside. The prince felt very fresh, so he invited his friends to come to see the liveliness, not wanting to be recognized by the merchant's wife. So the prince was brought to his father.
The king, angry and ashamed, immediately sent a decree to behead the sons of the prince and his ministers.
The minister said, "Your Majesty, let me first ask these two children why they have caused such a catastrophe!" The prince said, "I want to shoot birds and practice arrows, who would have thought it would hurt someone?" Never dare again next time. "After some deliberations between the king and his ministers, it was finally decided to dispense with the death penalty and to exile them. Early the next morning, a group of guards escorted the two young men out of the palace and headed for the border. There, the guards left them both behind and returned to the palace.
Since then, the two young people have embarked on a difficult journey of exile. They rode and walked, and when it was nearly dusk, they saw a small village, and they spent the night outside the village. The minister's son went into the village to buy some food. The prince built a fire on the spot and sat waiting for his friend to return. However, after waiting for a long time, I never saw my friend return, and I felt a little irritable, so I walked to a small stream. He suddenly wanted to find the source of the stream, so he lifted his feet and walked forward, not far away, only to see a flood of lake water holding lotus flowers in front of him. He suddenly felt refreshed, so he leaned down to try to drink. At this time, he saw the shadow of a beautiful girl appear in the lake, and he hurriedly looked up, and saw no one around. When he bowed his head again, the girl's shadow reappeared. He looked up at the other side, oh, on the other side stood a flower-like, moon-like girl, as if she were an angel descending on earth. The prince fell in love with her at first sight, so much so that he felt dizzy and fainted.
The minister's son, having bought food and returned to the camp, saw a pile of burning fires, horses and luggage, but the prince was gone. He hurried along a series of familiar footprints by the stream and found the prince lying on the ground.
He hurriedly woke up the prince. The prince opened his eyes, looked around eagerly, and asked in a loud voice, "Where is she?" Where is she? I must find her! ”
The minister's son said strangely, "There is no one else here, who have you seen?" ”
The prince said, "I saw the most beautiful girl in the world, but unfortunately I only looked at her, and when she saw me, she hid her face in the lotus bush, and she held up an ivory box to me." yes! I must marry her. ”
The minister's son listened and told the prince that the girl was Gu Lisha, the beautiful princess of Ivory City. He said they would find her and persuade her to marry the prince.
So the two of them hit the road again. After a long and difficult journey, we finally came to a glorious castle. They went to Ivory City and found a simple courtyard to live in.
The owner of this burrow is an old woman. The next morning, as soon as the two young men got up, they saw that the old woman had freshened up and dressed. The prince stepped forward and asked, "Auntie, you look very beautiful, where are you going?" ”
"I went to see my daughter," said the old woman triumphantly, "she is the princess's maid, and she also lives in the royal court." The minister's son deliberately said, "Don't you tell your daughter about us." ”
When he said this, he reminded the old woman; as soon as she entered the chief officer, she talked to her daughter about the two sleepers in the family, and her daughter was busy running to tell the princess. When the princess heard this, she looked very angry and reprimanded her for never mentioning these two strangers again.
The old woman returned home and told the two young men everything. The prince was discouraged, but the minister's son smiled slightly and said, "She is pretending, and when she hears that we have arrived, she is not very happy in her heart, and she must be looking forward to meeting you." ”
Sure enough, as the minister's son expected, Princess Gulisa had arranged to meet the prince. When the old woman entered the palace again, a servant ran in from outside screaming and told the old woman that an elephant was crazy and was about to knock down her house, startling the old woman to hurry home. The princess asked her to use her magic swing to go back. As soon as the old woman boarded the swing, Qiu Qian "snorted", jumped into the air, and fell into her own garden in the blink of an eye. The old woman looked, where are the elephants? The minister's son said to the prince, "This must have been arranged by the princess, and she is waiting for you." ”
Two days later, at night, when it was very dark, two young men quietly walked out of the hut, boarded Qiugan, and said, "Go to the palace." "It has fallen into the garden of the palace, where the princess is waiting."
"Finally see you, honey!" The princess said softly, and the prince held her tightly in his arms. Before dawn, they swore a private lifelong engagement.
With magic, the prince went to meet the princess night and night, always with his good friends. The princess was very unhappy about this, she loved the prince deeply, but regarded the minister's son as a thorn in her eye, and she wanted to get rid of him. He prepared a plate of delicious delicacies, mixed with potent poison, and sent it to the minister's son, along with sincere greetings.
The minister's son was surprised by this, for he had sensed that the princess hated him. But for the sake of his friends, he did not want to offend her, so he carried the plate to the creek, he put the plate on the grass, went to the stream to wash his hands, but came back to find that the grass around the plate was yellow. He was puzzled, and scooped a little food from the plate and threw it on the ground, and a crow flew to peck at it, and immediately fell to the ground
At night, the prince noticed that his friend's face was pale and silent, so he asked, "What's wrong?" "If you look at this plate, someone gave it to me today, and I almost ate it, but it was poison."
When the prince heard this, he was furious, "Who did this hurtful thing?" What's his name? I had to kill him. ”
"It's Princess Gulisa."
"This... How can this be believed? ”
"Listen," said his friend, "when you go to the princess again, pretend to cry, and she will ask you why, and you must tell her that it is because your friend is dead." When she is happy in her heart, you persuade her to drink some of this wine, which is very strong, and she will soon fall asleep. Then you heat the shovel, burn it on her back, and then take off her pearl necklace and bring it back. Do as I say, my prince, and your future happiness is all in one fell swoop. ”
Although the prince thought this move was very strange, he thought that they had always looked at each other with all their hearts and guts and saw each other with absolute sincerity, so he agreed. When he had finished everything and left, the princess was still asleep. When the prince returned, they quickly changed their clothes. The minister's son disguised himself as a dervish, and the prince disguised himself as his servant. They mounted their horses and went into hiding in a cemetery on the edge of the city.
When Princess Gulisa woke up drunk, she felt a sharp pain in her back, and when she found that the necklace was missing, she felt that things were not trivial, and rushed to meet her father and tell her about the theft. The king was very angry and immediately made the matter public throughout the country.
When the minister's son heard this, he couldn't help but cry out, "Good, right in my arms." Listen to me, my prince, take the necklace to the market and sell it. ”
Ganzi came to the market with a necklace, and a jeweler recognized the necklace at a glance and called the judge. The prince explained to them that the necklace had been given to him by his master, that he was a dervish king who was also alarmed and drove in, and that he personally followed the prince to the cemetery. Seeing that the monk was praying in prayer, the king did not dare to disturb him. When he had finished praying, the land asked, "Tell me, Sage, where did you get this necklace?" ”
The monk replied, "Last night, we were kneeling here with a prayer, when suddenly a ghoul dressed in eight costumes walked into the cemetery, and she dug up a corpse of a new tree and ate it, and I was so angry that I drew a shovel from the fire and threw it at her, and she ran, and lost the necklace while running." ”
The king said, "But this is impossible!" The necklace was my daughter's. ”
"Go get her, if she has burns on her back, she's a ghoul."
When the princess came, there was indeed a clearly visible burn on her back, and the king was furious and was about to kill the princess. The dervish said: "The princess's actions offended the deceased and should be dealt with by him." So he put the princess in a cage, put her on the cemetery, and sent the king and the police officer away.
As night fell, the monks and servants stripped off their disguises, released the princess, applied painkiller ointment to her wounds, and carried her to sit on horseback and galloped away until dawn, before strangling the reins.
It was dark, and the minister's son took out the plate of food and handed it to the princess: "Do you know what this is?" The princess knew she was wrong, and she was ashamed and wept bitterly. The minister's son forgave her and said that from now on they would be good friends.
The prince now had nothing else to ask for, only for the forgiveness of his father. They wrote a letter to the minister and told him everything else. The minister went to intercede with the king again, and when the king heard this, insisted that his son first tell Gulisa the truth about everything. So they sent out another letter, which quickly flew into the hands of the king of Ivory City. Although the king was very unhappy to know that he had been teased, his beloved daughter was still alive and well, and he turned from anger to joy and gladly agreed to her daughter's marriage.
The wedding was held very quickly, and what a spectacular scene! After the wedding, the prince and his beautiful and noble bride, as well as their lovely and lovely friends, rode back to their homeland on a colorfully decorated elephant, escorted by ten teams of cavalry.
The king was overjoyed to see their return, and he forgave his son's youthful ignorance. Of course, the woman who was unfortunate enough to be shot and caused such a tortuous storm did not blame the past, but blessed the new person.
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