Chapter 6 faithful john

A long time ago, an old king was very ill, and when he realized that he had little time left, he said to those around him, "Send Faithful John to come to me." Faithful John was a servant, and the old king He was called so, because he had served the king for a long time, and was very faithful and reliable, and was the favorite of the old king.When John came to the bedside, the king said: "My faithful John, I know that I am not good enough. The only thing I am worried about now is my son. He is still young and needs the help of a good teacher and friend. I have nothing but you." If you don't swear to teach him what he should know and be his godfather, I can't rest in peace." Hearing these words, John said: "I will never leave him, I will never leave him. I must help him faithfully, even if it costs me my life." The king said happily: "Now I am relieved. After my death, you will lead him to take all the rooms and storerooms in the entire palace, including the house. But be careful, there is one house that he cannot enter, that is, the room where the portrait of the princess of the Golden House is hung. If he goes in and looks at it, he will fall in love with her deeply, and will be doomed because of it You must take this responsibility." When the faithful John once again asked the old king to swear, the old king died peacefully on his pillow.

After the old king was buried, the faithful John told the young king all the old king's entrustments and his oaths before his death, and said: "I will faithfully carry out my promises, and treat you just like I treat your father." You will be loyal even if you sacrifice your life." Weeping the young king, he said, "I will never forget your loyalty." After the funeral, the faithful John said to his little master: "Now you should see the property you have inherited. I will take you to your father's palace to have a look." He inspected all the places up and down, letting him see all the wealth and luxurious halls, but the house where the picture was hung was not opened.Because the portraits hanging there can be seen as long as the door is opened.The portrait is so beautiful that people will feel like they are about to come out when they see it. There is nothing cuter and more beautiful than the woman in the painting in the world.The young king found that the faithful John always walked directly through this room without opening the door, so he asked, "Why don't you open this room?" things." But the king said: "I have seen the whole palace, and I want to know what is in it." After finishing speaking, he went up and tried to open the door, but the faithful John pulled him by the back. Said: "Before your father died, I swore that you would not be allowed to enter this house in any case, otherwise you and I will be in great trouble." The young king said stubbornly: "For me, the greatest misfortune I just can’t go in and take a look, as long as I don’t go in and take a look, I will have no peace day and night, so if you don’t open it, I won’t leave.”

Faithful John saw that no matter how much he persuaded, the young king refused to leave. He had an ominous premonition in his heart, sighed heavily, found a key from a large bunch of keys, and opened the door of the house.As soon as the door opened, John went in first, and stood between the king and the portrait, hoping to hide the picture from the king's sight, but the young king tiptoed over his shoulder and saw it all at once. Princess portrait.Seeing the beautiful, charming and charming appearance of the girl wearing gold and silver in the painting, he was so excited that he immediately fell down on the floor and passed out.Faithful John quickly picked him up, carried him to his own bed, and thought to himself, "Alas! Misfortune has befallen us, O God! What shall we do?"

After hard work, the king was finally revived, but the first thing he said was: "Who is the girl in that beautiful portrait?" Faithful John replied: "That is the portrait of the daughter of the King of the Golden House." The king He continued to ask: "I love her so much, even if all the leaves on the tree become my tongue, I can't express my love for her. I want to find her! Even if I risk my life, I want to find her!" You are my faithful friend and you must help me." John thought for a long time about how to help the young king and fulfill his wish, and finally he said to the king: "According to legend, everything around her is made of gold: the table, the stool, the cup, the saucer and the furniture in the house." Everything is gold, and she is constantly seeking new treasures. You have hoarded a lot of gold now, find some craftsmen to make all kinds of vessels and rare animals of this gold, and then we will take these treasures to Try your luck." So, the king ordered all the highly skilled goldsmiths to come, and they worked day and night to make various handicrafts with gold, and finally made the gold into the most beautiful curios.Faithful John loaded them all into a great ship, and both he and the king put on merchant's clothes, so that no one else could recognize them.

When everything was ready, they set sail to sea.After sailing day and night, they finally found the territory governed by King Jinwu.After the ship docked, the faithful John asked the king to stay on the ship and wait for him to come back. He said: "Perhaps I may bring the princess of the golden house, so you should tidy up the ship and display the golden treasures. The ships are to be decked out with them." Then he took one of each gold work, put it in a basket, and went ashore to the palace. When he came to the courtyard of the castle, he saw a beautiful girl standing by a well, and she was drawing water from the well with two golden buckets.Just when the girl turned around carrying the shiny golden bucket, she also saw this stranger, and she asked who he was.He stepped forward and said, "I'm a businessman." After that, he opened the basket and let her see what was in it.When the girl saw it, she exclaimed in amazement: "Hey! What a beautiful thing!" She put down the bucket, looked at one piece of gold after another, and said, "The king's daughter likes these things the most, and she should see them." See, she'll buy them all." With that, she took him by the hand and led him into the palace, for she was a maid of the King's daughter, and after she explained the situation to the guards, they let him go .

After seeing the samples he brought, the princess said very excitedly: "It's so beautiful, I want to buy them all." Faithful John said: "I am just a servant of a rich merchant, and the ones I brought are the same as those he put away." The bee in the boat is nothing at all, and he has the most exquisite and expensive gold work that you have never seen!" After hearing this, the princess told him to bring everything ashore, but he said: "It will take quite a few days to unload it, because there are too many of them, even if you put them in the largest room here." He said, the princess's curiosity and desire grew stronger, and she could not bear it. He couldn't stop saying: "Take me to your ship, and I want to see your master's goods for myself."

Faithful John was very happy and led her to the shore.When the king saw her, he felt his heart jump out of his throat, and he couldn't help but rushed to meet her.As soon as the princess was in the boat, he led her into the cabin.Faithful John came to the stern to find the helmsman, and told him to set sail at once, "Full sail!" he cried, "let the ship fly through the waves like a bird in the air." The king showed the princess the gold items on board one by one, including all kinds of plates, cups, basins, rare birds and animals, and so on.The princess admired each art treasure with great joy, and did not notice that the ship left the shore and set sail.Hours passed, and after seeing everything, she politely thanked the businessman and said it was time for her to go home.But when she walked out of the cabin and came to the bow, she found that the ship had already left the shore, and at this moment the ship was sailing at high speed on the vast sea with full sails.The princess shrieked in terror, "My God! I have been tricked and carried off, and have fallen into the hands of a traveling trader, and I would rather die." But the king took her by the hand and said, "I Not a businessman, I am a king, born of the same royal family as you. I brought you out in this way of deceiving you, because I love you very, very much. When I first saw your picture, I couldn't help it Passed out on the ground." Princess Jinwu felt relieved after hearing this.After talking and understanding, she soon fell in love with him and was willing to marry him as his wife.

But when they were sailing on the vast sea, such a thing happened.One day, the faithful John was sitting on the bow of the boat playing his flute when he suddenly saw three ravens flying towards him in the sky, their mouths chattering non-stop.John knew the language of birds, so he immediately stopped playing and listened carefully to the conversation between the ravens.The first raven said: "He has gone! He has won the love of the princess of the Golden House, let him go!" The second raven said: "No! He still won't get the princess after he goes." The third A raven said: "He will marry her when he goes, you can see how affectionate they are side by side on the boat!" Then the first raven said again: "What use is that to him? Don't believe me Just look, when they land on the shore, there will be a reddish-brown horse running towards him. Seeing the horse riding, he will definitely ride on it. As long as he rides on the horse, the horse will carry him and jump Go into the air, and he will never see his lover again." Then the second raven said, "That's right! That's right! But is there any way?" And said the first raven: " Yes, yes! If someone got on the horse and drew the dagger from the saddle and stabbed the horse to death, the young king would be saved, but who would know? And if someone knew, who would tell him? For if he will Tell the King about this, and thus save the King's life, and his leg will be turned to stone from toe to knee." said the second raven, "That's right, that's right! But I still Know anything else! The king can't get a bride, though the horse is dead. For when they go into the palace together, they'll see a bridal gown on the couch that looks like it's made of gold and silver. It was woven, but it was all brimstone and ointment. As long as he put on that suit, it would burn him to the marrow." Said the third raven, "Alas! Is there no salvation?" said the second raven, "Oh! yes, yes! If someone would rush forward, grab the coats and throw them into the brazier, the young king would be saved. But there is no What's the use? If anyone knows, and tells this man, that he saved the king in this way, and his body would be turned to stone from knee to chest, who would do that?" The third raven And he said, "And more, and more! I know more! Even if the gown is burned, the king will still not be able to marry. For, after the wedding ceremony, when the ball begins, only the young queen comes up dance, and she would immediately fall to the ground, as pale as a dead man. However, if someone came up to her at this time and sucked three drops of blood from her right breast, she would not die. But if anyone knows These, and tell this method to someone, and if this person saves the bride according to this method, his body will be turned into stone from the toes to the top of his head." Then, the raven flapped its wings and flew away.Faithful John had heard all, and he began to worry, but he did not tell his master what he had heard.Because he knew that if he told him, he would give up his life to save himself, and finally he said to himself: "I must faithfully carry out my promise, even if I sacrifice my life, I will save my master."

After they landed, the prophecy of the raven was fulfilled, and suddenly a handsome red-brown horse jumped out of the bank, and the king shouted: "Look, he will definitely send us to the palace." to mount a horse.It was too late, but it was too late, and the faithful John got on the horse before him, drew his dagger and killed the horse.The rest of the king's servants were jealous of him, and they all cried out, "It's a disgrace that he killed the horse that brought the king home!" But the king said, "Let him do it, he It's my faithful John, who knows if he didn't do it for good?"

When they came to the palace, they saw a beautiful dress shining with gold and silver on an armchair in a room.The young king went up to take them up, but faithful John snatched them up, and threw them into the fire and burned them.The other servants muttered again, "Look, now he's burning the wedding dress again." But the king said, "Who knows what he's doing it for? Let him do it! He's my faithful Servant John." After the wedding ceremony, the ball began, and as soon as the bride walked into the ballroom, John stared intently at her face. Suddenly, the bride turned pale and fell to the ground as if dead.John quickly jumped at her, picked her up, carried her to an armchair in the inner room, and sucked three drops of blood from her right breast.The bride began to breathe again and came alive.But the young King, who had seen the whole thing, did not know why the faithful John did this, but was very angry with his audacity, and ordered, "Put him in the prison."

The next morning, the faithful John was led out of the cell and pushed to the gallows. Facing the gallows, he said: "Before I die, may I say something?" The king replied: "Your request is granted. "Thereupon John related all that had been said to the raven which he had heard at sea, and how he had resolved to save his master, and at last he said: "I have now been wrongly judged, but I have been true and true from the beginning to the end. ." After listening to John's narration, the king cried out: "Alas! My most faithful John! Please forgive me! Please forgive me! Put him down!" But just after the last words of the faithful John, he It fell down and became a lifeless stone.The king and queen were lying on the stone statue in great grief, and the king said: "My God! I have treated your loyalty in such an ungrateful way!" He had the stone statue lifted up, carried it to his bedroom, and placed it in his bedroom. bedside, that I may often see it and mourn it.He said to the stone statue: "Alas! My faithful John, I wish I could bring you back to life!" A year later, the queen gave birth to two twin sons, and she was very happy to see them grow up.One day she went to church, and the two sons stayed in the palace with the king.The little one was playing everywhere, and the king sighed at the stone statue, and cried, "Oh, my faithful John, if I could bring you back to life!" This time, the stone statue began to speak, and it said, "O king! If you Because I can give up your dearest one, so that I can be resurrected." Hearing this, the king said firmly, "For you, I would give anything in the world." "In this case," said the stone statue, "as long as Cut off the heads of your two children, and sprinkle their blood on me, and I shall rise again." Hearing this, the king was shocked at once, but he remembered that it was for him that the faithful John died, and that he He stood up straight, drew his sword, and prepared to cut off the heads of his two children and sprinkle their blood on the stone statue.But the moment he drew his sword, faithful John came back to life, stood in front of the king, blocked his way, and said: "Your sincerity should be rewarded." The two children were still alive and kicking , Noisy and joking, as if nothing happened. The king was overjoyed.When he saw the queen was back, he wanted to try her.He hid faithful John and his two sons in a large wardrobe.When he walked her into the house, he said to her, "Have you gone to church to pray?" The queen replied, "Yes, I always think of the faithful John, and his loyalty to us." The king said: " My dear lady, we can bring John back to life, but we must pay the price of the death of our youngest son. To save him, we must sacrifice them." The queen was shocked when she heard this, and her face turned pale, but she still firmly held on. Said: "It has to be like this, without his selfless loyalty and sincerity, we would not be where we are today, without our children." The king cheered ecstatically, because his wife had exactly the same idea as himself.He immediately ran to open the closet, released the two children and faithful John, and said, "God will be proud of that too! He is with us again, and our son is safe and sound." Then he put The whole story was told to her, and everyone gathered happily together, and life was full of happiness and joy again.