Story: The Beggar Prince (Fairy Tale)

There was a prince who was tired of the life of the palace and did not want to stay in the palace as a prince, he often quarreled with the king, and the quarrel became more and more fierce, and finally the king drove the prince out of the palace, and the prince who had no money became a beggar.

The beggar prince walked alone in the street, no longer had servants hugging him, sometimes even the stray dogs on the street went with him, a crazy dog actually tore the prince's pants, even his ass was torn a large hole, the prince found a place where no one was there and tied a hole with a straw rope. When he was too hungry to be so bad, he grabbed steamed buns with a dog to eat, and even then he did not want to stay in the palace as a prince, he liked this free life.

On the way, the beggar prince met an old beggar whose beard was enough to reach his feet.

The old beggar told the prince that he had lived for more than a thousand years, that he had traveled to every place in the world, that he had seen countless strange things, and that every day he would tell the prince a very interesting story. The prince told the old beggar that he was a prince, and the old beggar laughed and said, "I have lived for more than a thousand years, and I have never heard of anyone who does not want to be a prince in the palace, but wants to be a beggar, is that person not the stupidest fool in the world?" ”

The beggar prince and the old beggar formed a good companion, old and young, and along the way they lived happily, and when they got a steamed bun, the prince would give most of it to the old beggar to eat. In the ruined temple, the prince would let the old beggar sleep on the straw, and he would fall asleep lying on the ground.

One day the old beggar was going to die, and he told the beggar prince that he had nothing to leave for him, only a broken pocket with a broken bowl for food, and finally the old beggar made the prince believe that he had really lived for more than a thousand years, that he liked to be a beggar, and that the old beggar had died in happiness. The beggar prince tied the broken bag that the old beggar had given him around his waist, and he began his beggar life again.

For the next few days, the beggar prince only got a little food, lying in the broken temple everywhere, he was already hungry and dizzy, holding the broken bowl left by the old beggar, and there was a hallucination in front of his eyes, and he saw a fat chicken leg, braised meat hooked with juice, and white rice in the bowl, and the beggar prince could not help but pick up the bowl and take a big bite. The beggar prince found that he had actually eaten the chicken leg, which was not an illusion, everything he had in mind was in the bowl, and he ate all the contents of the bowl with three or two strokes of his hand.

The beggar prince said, "It would be better if I could have another snack." "There were fragrant pastries in the bowl again, and he still wanted to eat some fruit, and it had been so long since he had left the palace that he had forgotten the taste of the fruit, and he had just finished thinking that the red dragon fruit had filled a bowl, and the prince had eaten enough, and he lay down and fell asleep. Before going to bed he wanted to be as warm as the palace, and the broken pocket in his waist opened his mouth, and it blew a warm wind to the prince, as warm as the summer wind, and the prince slept soundly, and the beggar prince who slept to death did not know that it was the old beggar's pocket that made him sleep so warm.

When he got up early the next morning, the beggar prince did not feel cold at all, he remembered the events of the previous night, felt like a dream, and in order to confirm that last night's events were true, he said: "Broken bowl, broken bowl, if last night was really not a dream, give me some steamed buns." Sure enough, several steamed buns jumped into the broken bowl, and the beggar prince believed that last night's events were not dreams, and he was so happy that he would never have to starve again.

One day the beggar prince came to a hillside, and in the distance he saw a large flock of white geese, and the prince found it strange that he did not see the shepherd. The prince walked over, thinking that if there were really no herders, he would drive the white geese away and sell them. When he came close to the flock of geese, a girl came out of the flock of geese, and then the prince saw clearly that no wonder he did not see the shepherd, the girl's skin was white like a cloud in the sky, the skirt she wore was woven with goose feathers, the hat on her head was also made of goose feathers, and the wind blew up the feathers on her skirt, and the feathers on the hat also flew up, as if to fly to the sky to be a fairy. The prince thought that the goose girl was so beautiful that even the princess in the palace was not as beautiful as her.

The goose girl saw a beggar standing in front of her, and she took out a goose egg from her arms and gave it to the prince: "Hungry, give it to you, I only have this." ”

The beggar prince ate the goose egg that the shepherd girl had given him, and he used the leaves to blow a goose herding song for the girl, and the song was so beautiful that the shepherd girl was intoxicated by his song.

In the next few days, the shepherd goose girl drove the flock of geese to the hillside early every day, and the beggar prince also came to accompany the shepherd goose girl to herd the goose, the golden dandelions filled the hillside, some dandelion seeds had matured, flying in the wind, the white geese chased each other on the hillside, several great white geese listened to the song blown by the beggar prince, flapping their wings as if to fly, the beautiful song flew around the hillside, the clouds in the sky also floated very low, and the white geese raised their heads to reach the clouds. The happiness of the beggar prince and the goose girl flew all the way to the clouds in the sky.

One day the shepherd goose girl brought the beggar prince home and told her mother that she was going to marry a beggar, and the mother of the goose girl asked the beggar prince, "You want to marry my girl, so what can you do to make a courtesy?" ”

The beggar prince took a broken bowl from the broken bag and said, "I will give you a magical bowl with which you can eat whatever you want." ”

The goose girl's mother took the broken bowl, and she was a little incredulous, she said, "I want a roast goose." "A roast goose really popped out of the broken bowl, but it was so big that it almost fell to the ground, and the beggar prince took the roast goose and handed it to the mother of the goose girl, who only cared to eat the roast goose."

The next day, the shepherd girl's mother drove the beggar prince out, and locked the gate so that the shepherd girl could not go out, she told the beggar prince that she would not marry her daughter to a beggar, and also withheld the broken bowl, and she asked the broken bowl for all kinds of delicacies every day, and almost broke her belly.

The beggar prince missed the goose girl very much, and every day he used leaves outside the wall to play a song for the goose girl, and the sad song pinned the prince's thoughts on the goose girl. While listening to the sad song, the shepherd girl made a pair of large wings out of the feathers of the white goose, and she hoped that these two large wings would bring her to her beloved.

One night, the beggar prince climbed over the wall to see the goose girl, and he also saw a pair of large wings made by the goose girl, and he touched the pair of wings and said, "What a beautiful pair of wings, this pair of wings can take us to fly." "Just after saying this, the broken pocket tied around the prince's waist opened its mouth, and the wind it blew was enough to make the pair of wings fly, and the beggar prince and the girl sat on the wings and flew up, and they flew all the way to the gate of the palace.

There were many people gathered at the gate of the palace, and they all posted a notice on the gate of the city, saying that the prince was going to marry a hundred beautiful women as princesses.

As soon as this was posted, it aroused the anger of the people across the country, and some people whose daughters were about to leave the cabinet did everything possible to hide their daughters, and some even fled to neighboring countries with their daughters.

The beggar prince was furious when he saw this notice, and he told the shepherd girl that he was the real prince of the country, and now the prince in the palace was a fake. He was going to take her to the king. But the soldiers guarding the door would not let them in, and the prince told the soldiers that he was a prince, but the soldier who guarded the door said: "A beggar still says that he is a prince, which makes people laugh and lose their teeth, and our prince is in the palace." ”

The beggar prince was kept out of the palace gate, and he could not think of a way but to be angry, and it was impossible for a beggar to see the king. The shepherd girl told the prince that she had a way to let everyone know that he was the real prince.

At night they blew their wings with their wind pockets, and the wings brought them into the palace, and they came to the room of the false prince, who was sleeping like a dead pig. The goose girl took out a goose feather to tickle the heart of the false prince's foot, and the fake prince slept with an itch and told the truth, "I am not a prince, I am a wizard." The beggar prince said to the false prince with a wind pocket, "The wind pocket blows the abominable wizard into the sea to feed the fish." "The poor wizard was blown into the sea to feed the fish before he woke up. The prince believed that the next day the king would see him and believe that he was the real prince.

But unfortunately the wizard was not blown into the sea, and he returned, and he said to the prince, You are going to into the sea, and if you like the goose girl so much, then we will turn you into a big stupid goose and watch me marry the goose girl as a bride. "Since the wizard was blown dizzy by the wind, he used the wrong mana, and instead of turning the prince into a big stupid goose, he turned into a swan, and the swan flew up, and he flew away from the skylight of the palace.

The goose girl was going to have a wedding with the false prince the next day, which made the goose girl extremely sad, and she hid a knife cutting fruit in her sleeve while eating.

At night, the wizard drank too much wine, drunk like a dead pig, and the shepherd girl bravely plunged her knife into the wizard's heart, and the wizard died.

When the king knew that the shepherd girl had killed the prince, for some reason, he did not feel so sad, he just kept the shepherd girl in a cell, which was on a small island, and no one was allowed to come to the island without the king's permission, and no one gave her food, so that she would slowly starve to death.

The shepherd girl in the cell missed the prince very much, but she knew that she could not see the prince again, there was not a drop of water without a grain of rice, in a few days she would be starved to death, she looked through the cell door to the sky, she hoped to see the prince who had turned into a swan fly through the sky at this time.

A day passed, two days passed, and a few days later the goose girl passed out of hunger.

When the goose girl woke up, she found a swan putting water in her mouth, and the goose girl found that the swan had also brought a lot of wild fruits.

In this way, the prince who turned into a swan continued to bring fresh wild fruits to the goose girl every day, and at night, the swan stayed at the prison door to accompany the goose girl, and the goose girl felt extremely happy.

A month later, when the king came to the cell where the goose girl was being held, he found that the goose girl had not starved to death, and the king felt very strange, and he asked the goose girl, "What kind of magic has kept you alive, and I am very interested in it?" ”

The shepherd girl said, "King, please believe me, I did not kill the real prince, I killed a wizard, the real prince was turned into a swan by the wizard, I and the prince are in love, even if he becomes a swan he does not want to leave me, it is he who has been taking care of me, so that I survived, dearest king, please believe me." ”

Then the prince, who had turned into a swan, returned, and when he saw the king, his eyes were already filled with tears, but the king did not notice, he just sneered and said, "Do you mean that this swan is my prince?" How can I believe in a witch and a swan, and even if you are comfortable here, stay here, and when the snow melts in the spring, the snow will flood the island, and then I will see what other witchcraft you have. "The king was gone, and the swan went over and grabbed the corner of the king's pants with his mouth, trying to keep the king, but the king left anyway.

Winter is coming, there are fewer and fewer wild fruits, how many mountains the prince has to fly over to bring back a little wild fruit, he spends less and less time with the shepherd goose girl, even at night, he has to fly out to find wild fruits, and he will bring back very few fruits at dawn, but they are still encouraging each other, and they will never give up.

Spring has arrived, the snow water has melted little by little, the rising river is really like the past, little by little, spreading across the island, and the goose girl is already soaking in the water.

The shepherd girl told the prince not to look for wild fruits anymore, the river had begun to rise, she told the prince not to come back, she did not want the prince to watch him drown.

The prince who turned into a swan flew away, and the shepherd goose girl watched the prince fly farther and farther in the air and finally disappeared, her heart was so happy, she knew that the prince left her because he loved her, how could he watch his beloved die in front of him, she could think of how painful the prince should be at this time.

The river had flooded over the goose girl's shoulders, and she had to turn her face up to the sky so that the river would not pour into her nose, but the last thing she wanted to see was that the prince who had turned into a swan had returned, he was not alone, he had brought the swans that covered the earth. Each swan had a small stone in its mouth, and they threw the stone into the cell door, and soon there were more and more stones in the cell, and the pebbles set up a safe island for the goose girl, and the goose girl stood on it, and she was temporarily safe, but the snow water kept melting, the river was constantly rising, and every swan was praying for the prince and the goose girl.

The warm sunlight finally melted all the snow, and the river receded little by little, and the goose maiden was finally safe, but she had been soaking in the cold snow water for too long, she was sick, the high fever had left her delirious, and the prince at this time could do nothing.

After the river had receded, the king came to see the goose girl again, and he believed that the goose girl must be dead, he just wanted to witness it with his own eyes, but when the king came to the cell, he found that the goose girl was not dead, but the high fever made her pass out. The king was curious about how she survived, and he brought the goose maiden back to the palace.

A few days later, the shepherd girl woke up, and she told the king how she had survived, and she begged the king in the most sincere words to believe that the swan was the prince, but how could the king, as the king of a country, believe in these witchcraft, but he still allowed her to live in the palace temporarily until her body recovered, but she was still locked up in a cell.

But the queen's hatred for the goose girl did not diminish, she hated her for killing her own prince, and she was always looking for an opportunity to kill the goose girl herself. One day, the queen knew that the shepherd girl had come to the royal garden for a walk, and she also quietly came to the garden, and when she came to the back of the goose girl, all the hatred broke out in an instant, and she stabbed the sword fiercely at the goose girl, when a swan flew over and blocked the sword that was stabbed, at this time all the magic was lifted, but the prince had a sword inserted in his chest, which made the queen regret it incomparably.

When the king saw the wounded prince, he finally believed the words of the shepherd girl. Fortunately, the queen's sword did not hurt the prince's heart, and the prince recovered a month later.

Half a year later, the beggar prince and the goose girl held a grand wedding.

Later the beggar prince became a great king, and his people lived happily, and there was not a single beggar in his country.