The Wizard’s Fairy Tale

On the edge of the big forest, there lived a poor woodcutter. His wife and two children depended on him. His son's name is Hansel and his daughter's name is Gretel. Their family originally lacked food and drink, but this year happened to be experiencing the soaring domestic prices. The woodcutter's family even had a meal without a meal, and even the daily bread could not be guaranteed. That night, the woodcutter, who was so sad that he couldn't sleep, was lying on the bed and was very troubled. He sighed and moaned again. Finally he said to his wife: "What shall we do! We don't have any food for ourselves, so what can we do to raise our poor child?"

"Listen to me, the kid is his father," his wife replied: "Tomorrow early in the morning, we will take the children into the distant jungle, where we will light a fire and give each of them a small piece. Bread, and then we will pretend to do our work and leave them there alone. They don’t know the way and can’t get home, so we don’t have to raise them anymore."

"No, my wife," the woodcutter said, "I can't do that. How can I bear to throw my child in the jungle to feed the beasts!"

"Hey, you idiot," his wife said, "If that's not the case, all four of us will have to starve to death!" Then she babbled and persuaded him endlessly. In the end, he had no choice but to acquiesce.

At that time, the two children were so hungry that they could not sleep, just in time to hear all the conversation between the stepmother and the father. Hearing the advice of his stepmother to his father, Gretel cried sadly and said to Hansel: "Now we are all over."

"Don't speak, Gretel," Hansel comforted her. "Don't worry, I can do something."

After the two adults were asleep, he put on his coat, opened the back door and sneaked out of the room. At this time, the moon was shining, and the bright moonlight made the white pebbles on the open space in front of the house gleam like silver coins. Hansel squatted down, trying to stuff his coat pockets with white stones. Then he went back to the room and said to Gretel, "Don't worry, little girl, just sleep well, God will be with us."

After speaking, he returned to his cot to sleep.

Just before dawn, before the sun jumped out of the horizon, the woman woke up the two children, "Get up, get up, you two slackers!" she cried, "We are going into the mountains to chop wood." With that, she gave a small piece of bread to a child and told them: "This is your lunch, don't eat it in advance, because you never want to get anything anymore." Gretel took the bread and hid it in her Underneath his apron, because Hansel’s pocket is now full of white stones.

Then, their family headed towards the forest. Hansel always walked for a while and then stopped to look back at his home, and after a while, he stopped and looked back at his home. When his father saw him, he said, "Hansel, what do you always look back at? Focus on your way."

"Oh, Dad," Hansel replied, "I'm looking at my white cat. He is squatting high on the roof and wants to say goodbye to me!"

"That's not your little cat, idiot," said the stepmother. "That's the morning sun shining on the chimney." Actually, Hansel is not really looking at the kitten, he is quietly putting bright white stones. He took it out of his pocket and threw it on the road one by one.

When they reached the depths of the forest, their father said to them, "Hey, children, go and gather some firewood. I will make a fire for you."

Hansel and Gretel picked up many dead branches and piled them up like a hill. When the dead branches lit and the flames rose to the top, the stepmother said to them: "You two lie down by the fire and stay there. Your father and I will go to the woods to chop wood. Wait until we finish our work. , We will come to take you home."

So Hansel and Gretel sat by the fire and waited for their parents to finish their work before picking them up. At noon, they ate their little piece of bread. Because they could always hear the axe chopping down the tree, they believed that their father was nearby. In fact, what they heard was not the sound of an axe at all. It was the sound of a dead branch tied to a small tree and hitting the trunk under the wind. The siblings sat for a long time, and they were so tired that the upper and lower eyelids were fighting. It didn't take long for the two of them to fall asleep, and when they woke up from their dreams, it was dark night. Gretel cried with fear, and said, "Now we can't find a way out of the forest!"

"Don't worry," Hansel comforted her. "When the moon comes out, we will soon find a way out of the forest."

Soon, when a full moon rose, Hansel took his sister's hand and followed the path of the white stones gleaming on the ground like silver coins under the moonlight. They walked the whole night and returned to their father's door just before dawn. They knocked on the door, and it was their stepmother who came to open the door. When she opened the door and saw Hansel and Gretel, she said, "Why do you sleep in the forest for so long, we thought you didn't want to go home anymore!"

Seeing the child, the father was overjoyed, because he coldly abandoned the two children and he felt very uncomfortable.

Their family is living together again. But not long after, there was another nationwide famine. One night, the two children heard the stepmother say to their father: "Oh! I ate all that can be eaten, and there is only half of the bread left. What do you think of the future? We still have to lighten the burden. A child was thrown away! This time we can take them into a deeper and farther forest so that they will never find a way back. Only in this way can we save ourselves."

Hearing that his wife said that he would abandon the child again, the woodman felt very sad. He thought to himself, wouldn’t it be better for everyone to share the last piece of bread together? But like all men in the world, it is too difficult to say "no" to a woman, and the woodcutter is no exception. Just like the principle of "whoever puts on the halter, whoever has to pull the cart", since the woodman made the first concession to his wife, of course there must be a second concession, and he no longer opposes his wife The suggestion was made.

However, the children heard all their conversations. After his parents were asleep, Hansel got up from the bed again, trying to sneak out of the door, like the last time, to pick up some pebbles, but this time he found that the door was locked by his stepmother. But he had a new idea in his heart, and he comforted his little sister: "Don't cry, Gretel, don't worry, sleep well. God will help us."

Early in the morning, the stepmother pulled the children off the bed. She gave each of them a piece of bread, but it was much smaller than the last one.

On the way to the forest, Hansel crushed his bread in his pocket, stopped from time to time, and scattered the crumbs on the road.

"Hansel, what are you looking at slowly behind?" His father asked him when he saw that he was always behind.

"I'm looking at my little pigeon, which is standing on the roof and saying goodbye to me," Hansel replied.

"You idiot," his stepmother cried, "that's not your pigeon, it's the morning sun on the chimney." But Hansel dropped his crumbs little by little on the road.

The stepmother led them for a long, long time, and came to a forest they had never been to. Just like last time, there was a lot of fire, and the stepmother said to them again: "Stay here, children, if you are sleepy, sleep. We have to go to a far place to chop wood and finish the work. We will pick you up."

At noon, Gretel shared her bread with Hansel, because Hansel's bread had been scattered on the road. Then they both fell asleep again. Until midnight, no one came to pick up the two poor children. They woke up in darkness. Hansel comforted his sister and said, "When the moon comes out, we will see the breadcrumbs I sprinkled on the ground. It will definitely show us the way home."

But when the moon rose, they couldn't find any crumbs on the ground. It turned out that they were all pecked little by little by the birds flying around in the woods and fields.

Although Hansel was also a little anxious, he comforted his sister and said, "We will definitely find the way, Gretel."

But they could not find their way. Although they walked all day and night, they could not get out of the forest. They were already dizzy with hunger, because they had nothing to eat except for a few weeds found on the ground. At this time they were too tired to move their feet, and fell asleep under a tree.

This is the third morning after they left their father's house. They are deep in the jungle and have lost their way. If they can no longer get help, they will undoubtedly die. At this moment, they saw a snow-white, extremely beautiful bird standing on a branch singing loudly. It sang so beautifully. The brothers and sisters involuntarily stopped and listened to it. When it finished singing, it spread its wings and flew in front of them, as if to beckon them to follow it. They then followed it on to the front of a hut, and the bird stopped on the roof of the hut. Only then did they discover that the cottage was actually made of fragrant bread, with thick cakes on the roof, and bright candy on the windows.

"Let's let go of the belly," Hansel said. "Now we should have a nice meal. I'm going to eat a small piece of the roof, Gretel, you can eat the window, it must taste great It's so sweet."

With that said, Hansel climbed up and broke a small piece of the roof down and tasted it. Gretel stood at the window, gnawing at the sweet window with his mouth. At this moment, a voice suddenly came out from the room: "Gnaw! Gnaw! Gnaw! Who is gnawing my little house?"

The children replied: "It's the wind, it's the wind, it's the little baby in heaven."

They ate and answered without being disturbed at all.

Hansel felt that the taste of the roof was particularly beautiful, so he removed a large piece; Gretel also pulled out a small round window and sat on the ground to enjoy it slowly. Suddenly, the door of the house opened and an old woman walked out tremblingly on crutches. Hansel and Gretel had their legs trembling with fear, and the food they were holding fell to the ground.

The old woman shook her trembling head and said, "Good boy, who brought you here? Come on, come in with me, no one here will hurt you!"

As she spoke, she took the brothers and sisters by the hand, led them into her hut, and prepared a sumptuous dinner for them, with milk, sugar pie, apples, and nuts. When the children finished eating, she made two white cribs for the children. Hansel and Gretel lay down on the bed and immediately felt that they were in heaven.

In fact, this old woman hides a knife in her smile. Her friendliness is just disguised to show them. She is actually an evil witch who specializes in seducing children to be fooled. Her house built with delicious food is to let the children fall into her trap. Once a child falls into her clutches, she kills him, cooks him and eats him. This witch's red eyes have poor eyesight and can't see far, but her sense of smell is as sensitive as a beast, and she can smell people from far away. Hansel and Gretel knew it as soon as they approached her house. They laughed wildly with joy, and then sneered and made up their minds: "I want to hold them firmly and never let them run away."

Early the next morning, she got up before the children woke up. Seeing the red and round faces of the two little guys, she couldn't help but drool: "What a good meal!" She grabbed Hansel's little arm and carried him into a small stable. And locked him with a fence. Hansel yelled inside, but it was useless. Then, the old witch walked over and shook Gretel awake, and shouted at her: "Get up, lazy girl! Go get some water and cook something delicious for your brother. He is locked in the stable outside, and I'm going to get him Raise a fat man, and then eat him."

Gretel burst into tears when she heard it, but she still had to do as the old witch told her. As a result, Hansel could eat a lot of delicious food every day, but poor Gretel had only crab shells every day. Every morning, the old witch would walk to the small stables tremblingly and call Hansel: "Hansel, stretch out your finger and let me touch whether you have gained weight!" The time was to stretch her a small bone that had been gnawed, the old witch with dim eyes could not see clearly, she really thought it was Hansel's finger! She felt very puzzled, why hasn't Hansel gained any weight yet?

After another four weeks, Hansel was still very thin. The old witch lost her patience and threatened that she did not want to wait any longer.

"Come here, Gretel," she yelled to the little girl, "hurry up and fetch water! Whether he is fat or thin, I will kill Hansel tomorrow and cook him."

The poor little sister was forced to fetch water to prepare to cook her brother. She was very sad along the way, tears falling down her cheeks! "Dear God, please help us!" she yelled, "It's better to be eaten by wild beasts in the forest, then we will still die together!"

While the old witch was away for a while, poor Gretel took the opportunity to run to Hansel and told him everything she had heard: "We must run away because this old woman is an evil witch, and she is going to kill us. Miles."

But Hansel said, "I know how to escape, because I have removed the latch. However, you have to steal her wand and the flute hanging in her room first, just in case She is chasing, we are not afraid of her."

When Gretel managed to steal both the wand and the flute, the two children ran away.

At this time, the old witch walked over to see if her meal was ready, but found that the two children were missing. Although her eyes were bad, she still saw the two children running away from the window.

She was furious, and quickly put on her pair of boots that could walk a few yards away in one step, and she was going to catch up with the two children in a while. Seeing that the old witch was about to catch up with them, Gretel used the magic wand she had stolen to turn Hansel into a lake and herself into a little swan swimming in the lake. The old witch came to the lake and threw some crumbs into the lake to fool the little swan. But the little swan just couldn't come, and finally the old witch had to go back empty-handed.

Seeing the old witch left, Gretel used the wand to change himself and Hansel back to their original appearance. Then, they continued on their way until dark.

Soon, the old witch caught up again.

At this time, the little girl turned herself into a rose in the hawthorn hedge, so Hansel sat down beside the rose and became a flute player.

"Good-hearted man playing the flute," said the old witch, "may I pluck that beautiful rose?"

"Oh, yes." Hansel said.

So, the old witch, who knew exactly what the rose was, walked quickly to the hedge and wanted to pick it off quickly. Just then, Hansel took out his flute and played it.

This is a magic flute, and anyone who listens to it will dance involuntarily. So the old witch had to keep spinning with the flute, and could never pick the rose again. Hansel kept blowing like this, until the thorns hung up the witch's clothes and pierced her deeply into her flesh, making her scream. In the end, the old witch was firmly entangled by those thorns.

At this time, Gretel returned to his original form and walked home with Hansel. After a long walk, Gretel was exhausted. So they found a hollow tree on the grass near the forest and lay down in the tree hole. While they were asleep, the old witch who had finally gotten out of the thorns chased him up again. As soon as she saw her wand, she grabbed it proudly. Then, he immediately turned poor Hansel into a deer.

When Gretel woke up, he saw what had happened, and threw on the poor little animal sadly and started crying. At this time, tears also kept streaming down from the deer's eyes.

Gretel said, "Don't worry, dear deer, I will never leave you."

As she said, she took off her long golden necklace and put it on his neck, then pulled off some rushes and braided it into a straw rope, wrapped it around the deer’s neck, no matter where she went, she would Take this poor deer with you.

Finally, one day they came to a small house. When Gretel saw that there was no one living in the cabin, he said, "Let's stay here."

She gathered a lot of leaves and moss to make a soft bed for the deer. Every morning, she went out to pick some nuts and berries to satisfy her hunger, and also picked a lot of leaves and grass for her brother. She put the leaves and grass in her hands to feed the deer, and the deer was jumping around happily beside her. At night, when Gretel was tired, he would sleep with his head on the deer. If poor Hansel could be restored to his original form, how happy their life would be!

They lived in the forest for many years, by which time Gretel had grown into a girl. One day, the king came here to hunt. When the deer heard the horns echoing in the forest, the barking of the hunting dogs, and the shouts of the hunters, they couldn't help but want to see what was going on. "Oh, sister," he said, "Let me go and see in the forest. I can't stay here anymore." He kept begging, and finally she agreed to let him go.

"But," she said, "be sure to come back before dark. I will close the door to prevent the hunters from coming in. If you knock on the door and say:'Sister, let me in.' I know you are back. If you do not speak, I will shut the door tightly."

So the little deer ran out one after another. When the king and his hunters saw this beautiful little deer, they came to chase him, but they couldn't catch him, because every time they thought they were about to catch him, he would jump into the bush and hide. .

When it got dark, the deer ran back to the hut. He knocked on the door and said, "Sister, let me in!" So Gretel opened the door, he jumped in, and lay on his soft bed. Slept.

The next morning, the hunting began again. As soon as the deer heard the horns of the hunters, he said, "Sister, open the door for me. I must go out."

When the king and his hunters saw the deer, they immediately began rounding up. They chased him for a whole day, and finally surrounded him, and one of the hunters shot him in the foot. He limped and finally escaped home. The hunter who shot him followed him and heard the little deer say: "Sister, let me in." He also saw that the door was opened, and the little deer quickly closed it after entering. So the hunter went back and reported what he had seen and heard to the king. The king said: "Then we will round up again tomorrow."

When Gretel saw that her dear deer was injured, he was very scared. However, she cleaned his wound clean and applied some herbs. The wound had healed the next morning. When the horn sounded again, the little thing said: "I can't stay here, I have to go out and have a look. I will be more careful not to let them catch me."

But Gretel said, "I'm sure they will kill you this time, and I won't let you go."

"If you keep me here, then I will die with regret." He said ~www.ltnovel.com~ Gretel had to let him out, she opened the door with a heavy heart, and the deer happily went to the forest. Rush.

When the king saw the deer, he gave a loud order: "You must chase him today, but none of you can hurt him."

However, when the sun went down, they still failed to catch him. So the king said to the hunter who had stalked the deer: "Then take me to that hut now."

So they came to the hut, and the king knocked on the door and said, "Sister, let me in."

After the door was opened, the king walked in and saw standing in the house the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

When Gretel saw that the visitor was not her fawn but a king wearing a crown, he was very scared. But the king took her hand very kindly and said, "Would you like to come to my castle with me and be my wife?"

"Yes," Gretel said, "I can go to your castle with you, but I can't be your wife, because my deer must be with me, I can't separate from him."

"All right," said the king, "he can go with you, never leave you, and he will have whatever he wants."

At this moment, the deer jumped in. So Gretel put the straw rope around his neck, and they left the hut together.

After the king hugged little Gretel onto his tall horse, he ran towards his palace. The little deer followed them happily. Along the way, Gretel told the king everything about her. The king knew the old witch, so he sent someone to call her and order her to restore her fawn.

When Gretel saw that his beloved brother was back to his original shape, she was very grateful to the king and readily agreed to marry him. They lived happily in this way, and Hansel became the king's palace minister.