Lilac Fairy Book

Chapter 36 Lake Palm Immortal

Brown Fairy: According to legend, a brown-skinned fairy boy who comes to help people with housework at night.

Once upon a time, there lived in France a man named Jom?Leo's people.You may walk all day and never meet a happier and more contented person.This man had a large farm, a lot of money, and most importantly, he had a daughter named Barbeck.In all the towns and cities in the world, Babeck dances the most elegantly and dresses the most beautifully.During the holidays, when she appeared in front of people in an embroidered hat, a five-tiered skirt that was a little shorter than the first, and silver buckled shoes, all the women were jealous to death.As long as Babeck knows that her clothes are more beautiful than others, and she has more dancing partners than other girls, she doesn't care what other people will talk about behind her back.

Of all the young men who wanted to marry Babeck, the most infatuated was her father's foreman, but he was so rude and ugly that she refused to speak to him, and often even to others. Make fun of him together.

The young man's name is Jiegu, so naturally he was very upset when he heard about such a thing.In the past, he would have left the farm to find work elsewhere, but now he did not want to do that, because if he did, he would never see Babeck again.What is life worth without seeing Babeck?

One evening he drove the horses back from the pasture.On the way, he stopped by a small lake to drink his horses.He was tired after working all day.He stood beside a horse, put his hand on the mane and waited for the horse to drink, thinking of Babeck all the time.At this moment, a voice came from the gorse bushes nearby.

"What's wrong, Jagu? Don't despair."

The young man looked at it in surprise, and then asked who was speaking there.

"It is I, the brown fairy of the lake," answered the voice.

"Where are you?" Jack asked.

"Look carefully, you will see that I have turned into a little frog squatting in the reeds." Then he said proudly, "I can change into anything I want, and what's more rare is that if I want to, I can change into anything." You can even hide yourself."

"Then change back to your original form and let me see." Jiegu replied.

"If you really want to see it, of course you can." The frog jumped onto the horse's back and became a dwarf in green clothes.

This change startled Jagu.Brown Fairy told him not to be afraid, saying that he would not hurt him, and hoped that Jiegu would find something useful for him.

"Why are you so interested in me?" the little farmer asked suspiciously.

"Because you helped me last winter, and I've never forgotten that," replied the little one, "I'm sure you know what Cowley, the bad elf, did. They live in the country of the White Wheat and claim to be friends of men , to declare war on my people. Therefore, we were forced to flee to foreign lands and transform into various animals to escape disaster. Since then, we have been changing, partly because of habit and partly Funny. I just met you because of the transformation."

"What's going on?" Jiegu cried, surprised.

"Do you remember that robin caught in a net when you were digging by this river three months ago?"

"I remember," Jiegu replied, "I remember it clearly. I opened the net and let it go."

"Well, I'm that mockingbird. I've sworn to be your friend ever since. If you want to marry Babeck, I'll do it for you, and prove that what I just said is true."

"Ah! my little Brown Fairy, if you can do this, I will give you everything but my soul."

"Go, then," answered the little man, "and I assure you that in a few months you will be master of this farm and of Barbeck."

"What are you going to do?" Jaegu asked suspiciously.

"That's my business. Maybe I can tell you later. During this time, you only need to eat and sleep, and don't worry about the rest."

Jaku said that nothing could be easier, then took off his straw hat, thanked the dwarf heartily, and led the horse back to the farm.

The next day is a holiday.In the morning, Babeck woke up earlier than usual, and she wanted to finish her work as soon as possible, and then go to a dance held in a place a little further away.Her duty was to clean the cowshed, so she entered the cowshed first, only to be surprised to find that the fresh straw had been laid out, the hay racks were filled with hay, the cows had been milked, and the milk buckets were neatly lined up .

"Needless to say, Jagu did it, he wanted me to dance with him," she thought to herself.She bumps into Jae-gu outside the door and stops to thank him for his help.Naturally, Jae-gook just rudely replies that he doesn't know what she's talking about.This answer made her more certain that it was none other than him who did these jobs.

The same thing happens every day, the barns have never been cleaner and the cows have never been fatter.Every morning and evening, Babek would find the clay jug full of milk and a pound of freshly made butter decorated with leaves.After a few weeks, she got used to all this, and only woke up at that time to prepare breakfast every day.

Soon, she didn't even need to prepare breakfast, because when she went downstairs one day, she found that the house was cleaned, the furniture wiped clean, the fire was lit, and the food was ready. When the workers returned from the fields, there was little else to do but eat.She also thought that all of this was Jiegu's masterpiece, and she couldn't help but feel that such a husband would be perfect for a girl who likes to lie on the bed and think wildly.

Indeed, Babeck had only to say what she wanted, and she would be granted it.If the wind is cool or the sun is too hot, she is afraid to go out and ruin her complexion, so she only needs to run to the nearby spring and say softly, "I wish my clay pots were filled with milk, and my wet linen clothes were hung on the fence ", there is no need to think about other things.

If she finds that brown bread is too hard to bake or takes too long to heat up the oven, she can simply say "I'd like to see six loaves appear on the top shelf of the breadbox" and two hours later, they will be there Appear.

If she's too lazy to walk down the dusty road all the way to the fair, she'll say out loud on the first day, "Why haven't I brought an empty milk jug with a butter bowl and a pound of wild cherries?" Wooden plates and money earned in apron pockets come back from Molex?" By the time she got up next morning, behold!The empty milk jug with its butter bowl, the maraschino cherries on a wooden plate, and the six new silver coins in her apron pocket lay beside her bed!She believed that Jiegu did all of this, and she could never leave him physically and mentally.

At this juncture, the Brown Fairy tells us that the young lad had better hurry up and beg Barbeck to marry him, saying that this time the girl will not turn away rudely, but will listen patiently to him. .In her eyes he was as ugly and vulgar as ever, but he would certainly make a most useful husband.In that case, she can sleep until breakfast every morning like Miss Kuo.As for getting up, if she wanted to finish what she wanted to do, even doubling the time would not be enough.She would put on a beautiful dress (which naturally came to her when she wanted it) and visit the neighbors.The neighbors would have envied her, and besides, she could dance as long as she wanted in those days.Jagu would always be there working for her, saving her money, and looking after her.So Babeck, like any educated girl, replied that it depended on her father's will.In fact, she knew very well that old Leo often said that after his death, there would be no one else who could run the farm like him.

They were married in the second month.A few days later, the old man died suddenly.Now, every detail has to be taken care of by Jagu alone.Somehow, things were no longer as easy as they had been when the old man was alive.However, the brown fairy came to help again, and he was better than ten laborers at his work.He plows, sows, and reaps, and sometimes he needs to get the job done quickly, and the brown fairy will call his friends to do it together.At first light one might see a great company of dwarfs working in the fields with hoes, rakes, and scythes.However, by the time people go out to work, the little ones have already disappeared without a trace.

The reward that the brown fairy wants is nothing more than a bowl of broth.

From the day of her wedding, Babeck found that things were not the same as the previous months, and things were no longer done for her, which surprised and angered her.She complains that Jae-gu is lazy.Jiegu just kept staring at her, not knowing what she was talking about.The brown fairy standing next to them laughed and admitted that he had done all the good things she said for Jaegu, but now he had other things to do, and now it was time for her to take care of the housework herself.

Babek was very angry.She had to get up before dawn to milk the cows and go to market, and every night she had to sit until midnight churning butter.At this time, her heart is filled with resentment towards Brown Fairy: he is the one who makes her wish to live a comfortable and happy life.She looked at Jiegu, his red face, his crooked eyes and messy hair, and she was even more angry from the bottom of her heart.

"If it weren't for you, you mean little bastard," she would say through gritted teeth, "I would never have married this man. I'd still be dancing, and the lads would bring me nuts and Cherries for the prettiest girl in the parish. Now I never get a present from anybody but my husband. I never dance except with my husband. Ah, you I will never forget you, you mean little dwarf!"

Although he cursed harshly, Babek knew how to endure humiliation better than anyone else.When she was invited to a wedding, she asked the Brown Fairy to get her a horse to ride on.To her great delight the Brown Fairy agreed, and let her go to the Dwarf City and tell the Dwarfs what she wanted.Barbeck set off happily.Not far away, she went into the city and went directly to the dwarf.They are having a meeting on a large green field.She said to them, "Listen, friends! I have come to ask you to lend me a black horse that has eyes, a mouth, ears, a bridle, and a saddle."

Before she finished speaking, the horse appeared.She mounted her horse and ran towards the village where the wedding was about to take place.

Complacent at first, she finally took a break from the nasty work and paid no attention to any surprises.Soon, she suddenly felt a little strange: when she passed by, people on the road laughed when they saw her horse.At last she heard a few words from one man to another: "Alas! The farmer's wife has sold the horse's tail!" She sat in the saddle and looked back, alas, if so, the horse has no tail!She forgot to ask for a ponytail, and the dreadful little man was doing exactly what she told her to do!
"Well, anyway, I'll be there soon," she thought to herself, and then she shook the rein, trying to make the horse go faster, but in vain, the horse ran slower and slower, and finally just walked away up.She had to bite the bullet and listen to people's ridicule.

At night, when she returned to the farm, she was extremely annoyed, and made up her mind to take revenge on the brown fairy if she had the chance.The opportunity was not long in coming.

One day in the spring, when the dwarves celebrated their annual festival, the Brown Fairy asked Jaku if he could take his friends to dinner in the big barn, and if they would be allowed to dance there.Of course Jaku was very glad to do something for the brownies, and bade Babak spread the best tablecloths in the barn, and bake some buns and pancakes, and save all the morning milk from the cows .He knew she hated dwarfs, and thought she would refuse, but she said nothing, and went to prepare supper as he had ordered.

When everything was ready, the Dwarfs entered the room with great joy and noise in their new green robes, and sat down at the table.As soon as they sat down, they all jumped up with a loud cry, and fled in all directions screaming.It turned out that Babek put red-hot coals in a pan and put them under their feet, scalding their poor little toes.

"I want you to remember this well," she said with a vicious smile to herself.But soon the dwarfs came back with great pots of water, and they poured the water on the fire, and then they joined hands, danced and sang around the fire:
Abominable woman of revenge, Barbec Leo,

You burned our poor toes.

Now we hurry from your mansion,

Doom will befall you.

That night, they left the country forever.Without their help, Babek grew poorer and poorer, and died a tragic death.Jagu happily looked for work in the Molex market.

(End of this chapter)