Once upon a time there was a rich farmer whose money was as much as he could carry, and his fields were all over the farms. But there was a major flaw in his happy life, that is, he did not have children. When he entered the city, he was often sneered at by fellow farmers, who asked him why he did not have children. Finally he couldn't stand it, became very angry, and when he returned home, he said angrily, "I have to have a child, even if it's a hedgehog." So his wife gave birth to a strange child, a hedgehog on the upper body and a boy on the lower body. His wife was frightened and complained to him: "Look at you, this is the bad luck you have brought." The farmer said helplessly: "Rice has become porridge, how is it good now?" This child had to be baptized, but who could be his godfather? The wife sighed, "What name will you give him?"
"Let's call Hans the Hedgehog."
After baptism, the priest said, "He was covered in thorns and could not sleep in a normal bed. So he laid some hay behind the stove, and Hans the Hedgehog slept on it. His mother could not feed him because his thorns would stab his mother. He lay behind the stove for eight years, and his father was so annoyed with him that he secretly thought, "He might as well die!" "But he lay there, living tenaciously. There was a market in the city, and the farmer asked his wife what she wanted to bring back before going to the market. "There's a lack of meat and a few white breads in the house." She said. Then he asked the maid, who asked for a pair of slippers and a few pairs of embroidered stockings. Finally he asked the hedgehog, "What do you want, my hedgehog Hans?" "Dear Father," he said, "I want bagpipes. When the father returned home, he brought back the meat and white bread that his wife had asked for, the slippers and embroidered stockings that the maid had asked for, and then went to the back of the stove and handed the bagpipes to Hans the hedgehog. Hans the Hedgehog took the bagpipe and said, "Dear Father, please go to the blacksmith shop and nail the palm of the big rooster, I will ride the big rooster out of the house, and I will not come back." Hearing this, my father couldn't help but be secretly happy, thinking that I could get rid of him now. He immediately went and nailed the rooster, and then Hans the hedgehog rode on the rooster on the road, and took with him a few pigs and donkeys, and he was ready to feed them in the forest. They walked into the forest, and the big rooster flew him up a big tree. He spent many, many years in the trees, watching over his donkeys and pigs until they were fed to a large size, and his father knew nothing of him. For so many years he still played his bagpipes in the trees and played very beautiful music. Once, a lost king passed by, heard beautiful music, was surprised, and immediately sent his attendants to find out where the flute came from. He searched around and found only a small animal in a tall tree that looked like a hedgehog riding a rooster playing. So the king ordered his attendants to come up and ask him why he was sitting there, knowing that he did not know the road to his kingdom. Hans the Hedgehog came down from the tree and told the king that if he would write a pledge that would show him the way once he got home and gave him the first thing he encountered in the palace. The king thought to himself, "It's easy, Hans the Hedgehog can't read big characters, and he doesn't know what I write anyway." So the king took the pen and ink and wrote a pledge, and when he had finished, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and the king returned home safely. His daughter saw him from afar, ran to meet him in joy, and kissed him happily. Then he remembered Hans the Hedgehog and told her what had happened, how he had been forced to promise to give the first thing he had encountered when he returned home to a very strange animal, riding like a horse on a large rooster and playing beautiful music. But he didn't write it, he wrote it that it didn't deserve what it wanted. The princess was delighted to hear this, and praised her father for doing a good job, for she had never thought of living with a hedgehog.
Hans the Hedgehog, as usual, looked after his donkeys and pigs, often sitting happily in the trees and playing his bagpipes.
One day another king passed by with his retinue and emissaries, and they were also lost, and the forest was so big and dense that they lost their way home. He also heard music coming from not far away, and asked the messenger what it was, and ordered him to go and have a look. The messenger went under the tree and saw a rooster on top of it, and Hans the Hedgehog rode on the rooster's back. The Prophet asked him what he was doing on it, "I am putting my donkey and my pig, what do you want to do?" The Prophet said they were lost and could not return to their kingdom, and asked him if he could show them the way. Hans the Hedgehog and the rooster came down from the tree and told the elderly king that if the king would give him the first thing he encountered in front of the palace, he would tell him how to go. The king replied simply, "Yes," and wrote a letter of guarantee to Hans the Hedgehog. Then Hans rode ahead on the big rooster, showed them the way, and the king returned safely to his kingdom. When he reached the courtyard in front of the palace, he saw that there was a lot of jubilation there. The king had a very beautiful only daughter, and she ran up to meet him, and at once she put her arms around his neck, and she was very pleased with the return of the old father. She asked him where he had been for so long. He told him how he had lost his way and could hardly come back, but as he crossed a great forest, a half-hedgehog, half-human monster riding a rooster and blowing bagpipes in a tall tree pointed him in the direction and helped him out of the forest, but he promised in return by giving him the first thing he had encountered in the palace, and now he met her first, for which the king was very embarrassed. Unexpectedly, the princess said in a surprising way: for the sake of her beloved father, she was willing to go with Hans when he came.
Hans the Hedgehog was still taking good care of his herd, which grew so large that the forest was already crowded. So Hans the Hedgehog decided not to live in the woods anymore, and he sent a message to his father, saying that by vacating all the pigsty in the village, he would drive a large herd of livestock back and recruit all the people who could kill pigs. His father was embarrassed to learn of this, because he had always thought that Hans the Hedgehog was long dead. Hans the Hedgehog sat obediently on the back of a rooster and drove a herd of pigs into the village. At his command, the slaughter began. Only to see the knife rise and fall, the flesh and blood, the sound of killing pigs can be heard for miles! When this was done, Hans the Hedgehog said, "Father, please go to the blacksmith shop and nail the rooster again, this time I will not come back for the rest of my life." Father slapped the rooster again, and he felt a pang of relief, for Hans the Hedgehog was never back.
Hans the Hedgehog rode the rooster to the First Kingdom. The king there ordered that whenever a man riding a rooster and holding a bagpipe was seen, everyone should raise their bows and arrows together, pick up their swords and guns, and block him outside the palace. So when Hans the Hedgehog reached the gates, they all raised their spears and rushed at him. When he struck the rooster with his shoe, the rooster flew up, crossed the city gates, and landed in front of the king's window. Hans shouted in a loud voice that the king must keep his promise and give him what belonged to him, or he would have the king and his daughter's sexual life. The king was frightened at this point, and he begged his daughter to go with Hans, so that she could save her own life and that of her father. So she dressed in white, took a carriage of six horses and a group of beautiful maids, as well as gold and treasure, into the carriage, placed Hans and the rooster and bagpipes beside her, and set off together. The king thought he would never see his daughter again, but he never expected that not far from the city, Hans the hedgehog stripped her of her beautiful clothes, and then stabbed her with the thorns on his body. "This is the reward for your hypocrisy and cunning," he said, "and you go, I won't want you." After saying that, he drove her back, and from then on she was looked down upon for the rest of her life.
Hans the Hedgehog rode a rooster and blew bagpipes and continued on his way to the kingdom of the second king, for whom he had been directed. The king ordered that anyone who looked like Hans the Hedgehog should raise his hand to protect him, shout long live him, and lead him to the palace.
Unexpectedly, the king's daughter saw him, but was startled by his strange appearance. At this point she warned herself not to change her mind, because she had made a promise to her father. So she came out to meet Hans the Hedgehog and befriended him for a hundred years. The two walked to the table in the palace and sat down side by side, enjoying the fine wine and food. When evening came, it was time for them to go to bed, but she was afraid of the thorns in his body, and he reassured her not to be afraid, saying that she would not be hurt in any way. At the same time he also asked the old king to send four soldiers to guard the door of the cave and light a fire, and before he entered the cave door and was ready to go to bed, he himself would crawl out of the hedgehog skin and throw the hedgehog skin at the edge of the bed, and they would immediately run over, pick up the hedgehog skin and throw it into the fire, and not leave until it burned out. The bell struck eleven o'clock, and he stepped into the cave room, peeled off the hedgehog skin, and threw it on the edge of the bed. The soldiers ran quickly, picked up the hedgehog skin and threw it into the fire. When the fire burned the skin to ashes, he was saved, and he became a human being lying on the bed, his whole body dark as if he had been burned by fire. The king sent a royal doctor to scrub and apply him with expensive ointment, and soon his skin turned white and he became a handsome young man. The king's daughter was very happy to see him, and the next morning they got up happily, ate and drank together, and married again in a solemn atmosphere, and Hans the Hedgehog succeeded the old king.
A few years later he took his wife to see his father and told him he was his son. But his father repeatedly said that he had no sons, that there had been one, that he had been born like a hedgehog with thorns, that he had left long ago, and that he did not know where to go. Hans proved himself who he was, and the old father was pleased and followed him to his kingdom.