Chapter 34 33. Pulp and Peel

Once upon a time, there was a couple who were well-known local nobles. They really wanted to have a son, but they just didn't have one.One day, my husband met a wizard on the road and asked him, "Master wizard, can you tell me how I can have a son?" The wizard gave him an apple and said, "Let your wife eat it, and in nine months she will give birth to a beautiful son." The husband took the apple home, handed it to his wife, and said, "Eat this apple, and we will have a beautiful son, as a wizard told me." The wife happily called the maid and asked her to peel off the apple.The maid peeled the apples for the lady and left the skins, and the lady ate the apples, and she ate the peels herself.

The lady gave birth to a son, and on the same day, the maid also gave birth to a son.The maid gave birth to a son that was rosy, like the skin of an apple, and the son born to the wife was white, like the flesh of an apple.The owner treats both sons as his own, allowing them to grow up and go to school together. The pulp and the peel gradually grew up, and they got along very well, as close as brothers.One day, when they were free, they went out for a walk. They heard that there was a wizard's daughter who was very beautiful, as beautiful as the sun, but no one saw it with her own eyes, because she never went out or showed herself in front of her window.When the pulp and peel heard this rumor, they made a big copper horse with an empty belly, and hid it with a trumpet and a violin.The two men turned the wheel inside, so that the horse walked by itself, and came to the palace where the wizard lived, and began to play music.The wizard looked up and saw that it was a bronze horse that could play music by itself, so he let it into the palace to make his daughter happy.The daughter was very happy when she saw it, but when she was left alone with the bronze horse, she was shocked to see the flesh and peel coming out of the horse's belly.The pulp and the peel said: "You don't have to be afraid, we came to see how beautiful you are, if you don't like it, we can leave right away, but if you like listening to our music and want us to stay and play for a while, We'll just stay for a while, and then we'll get back inside the horse and get out without anyone seeing us."

So they went on playing music and playing with the girl until at last the wizard's daughter was reluctant to let them go back.The pulp said: "If you want, you can come with me, and I will marry you." The wizard's daughter agreed, and all three of them hid in the horse's belly and went out of the palace.As soon as they left, the wizard came back. He called his daughter, but she didn't answer. He looked for her, but there was no trace. He asked the guard, who also said he didn't know.The wizard guessed at once that the daughter had abandoned her father and ran away. He lost his temper, turned from anger to hatred, ran to the balcony, and cast three poisonous curses on his daughter:

"Let her run into three horses, a white horse, a red horse, and a black horse, and because she likes the white horse, she rides on the white horse and is thrown off by the white horse. "Or let her meet three little dogs, a white dog, a red dog and a black dog, make her fall in love with the black dog, pick up the black dog, and let the black dog kill her. "Or one night when she was sleeping with her sweetheart, let a big snake get in through the window and let the snake bite her to death." When the wizard was swearing these three oaths on the balcony, the three old fairies happened to pass by below and heard his words.

In the evening, when the three old fairies were tired from the long walk, they rested in a small inn, and as soon as they entered the room, one of them said, "See where the witch's daughter can escape! If she knows that her father has done her best for her After praying these poisonous wishes, she will definitely not sleep peacefully!" In fact, the pulp, the peel, and the wizard's daughter all slept on the benches in the inn.And Peel didn't really sleep, either because he couldn't, or because he knew he had to be alert all the time.These words were heard by him. I only heard a fairy say: "The wizard prayed that the girl would meet three horses, one white, one red, and one black, and she would ride on that white horse, which was the one that fell to her death." .”

"But," continued the other Fairy, "if anyone would find out, and cut off the horse's head at once, nothing would happen." The third Fairy said, "Whoever tells this will be turned into a stone." The first fairy said again: "The wizard also prayed that she would meet three puppies, and she would pick up one of them, and this dog would kill her." "But," continued the second Fairy, "if anyone would find out, and cut off the puppy's head at once, nothing would happen." "Whoever tells this will be turned into a stone," said the third Fairy.

"The wizard also prayed that on the first night the girl lived with the bridegroom, a big snake would come in through the window, and this snake was the one that was going to bite her to death." "But if someone finds out and cuts off the snake's head, nothing will happen," said the second fairy. "Whoever tells this will be turned into a stone." Thus Peel heard the three terrible secrets, but he could not tell them, or he would be turned into a stone. The next day, they set off on the road again, and came to a post station, where Guorou's father sent three horses to meet them: a white horse, a red horse, and a black horse.The wizard's daughter jumped directly on the back of the white horse, but at this moment, Guopi took out the sword he had prepared, stepped up, and chopped off her horse's head with one sword.

"What's wrong with you? Are you crazy?" "Excuse me, I can't tell you the details." "Pulp, this Peel is a cruel young man!" said the wizard's daughter to Pulp, "I don't want to go with him anymore." Guopi hurriedly explained that he lost his mind for a while, so he chopped off the horse's head, and begged the girl to forgive him for his recklessness, and the girl finally forgave him. When they got back to the house of Pulp's parents, three puppies ran up to them: a white dog, a red dog, and a black dog.The girl was about to reach out to hug the black dog when Guopi pulled out his sword again and chopped off its head.

"Get this vicious lunatic out of here!" cried the girl. At this time, Guopi's parents came out, and they warmly welcomed their son and bride back. When they learned of the dispute between the bride and Guopi, they persuaded the girl in every possible way, and finally persuaded the girl to forgive him again. However, at the luncheon, everyone Everyone was busy, only Guopi was thinking about something coldly, no one could make him say what thoughts made him worry."I'm fine, I'm fine," he said, but he pretended to be sleepy and was the first to leave the table.In fact, Peel didn't go back to his room to sleep, but came to Pulp's new house.hid under the bed.

The newlyweds went to bed.Guopi stayed under the bed, heard the sound of glass being smashed, and then saw a huge snake entering the room.So he jumped out from under the bed, drew his sword, and chopped off the snake's head.At this time, the bride was also woken up by the sound. She only saw Peel standing in front of the bed with an unsheathed sword in her hand. She didn't see the snake that had disappeared, and she yelled, "There are assassins! There are assassins! Peel wants to kill us." I have forgiven him twice, and this time he deserves to die." Guopi was caught and locked up. Three days later, the jailer put him in an execution uniform and wanted to hang him.Seeing that he was going to die anyway, he asked permission to speak to his new wife before he died.The bride came to see him in prison.

Peel said, "Do you remember we used to live in an inn?" "Of course I do." "Well, just as you and Pulp fell asleep, three fairies came, and they said that the wizard cast three curses on his daughter: let her meet three horses, ride on a white horse, and let the horse Throw her to death. But they say that if someone is prepared to cut off the horse's head, nothing will happen; but whoever speaks of it will be turned into a stone." By this point, poor Peel's feet had turned to stone. The girl understood immediately, and shouted: "Stop it, please stop it! Don't say any more!" Peel said: "I'm going to die anyway, I want you to know all this. The three fairies also said that the wizard's daughter will meet three puppies..." He told the girl about the curse of the three puppies, and they were turned to stone from the neck down. "I understand! Poor Peel, forgive me! Stop talking!" said the bride. Peel's throat had turned to stone, and his jaw was turning to stone, so he could only tell the girl about the curse of the giant snake in a small voice, intermittently. "But... whoever speaks out... will turn into a stone..." At this point, he could no longer make a sound, and his whole body from head to toe was turned into stone. "What have I done!" the girl yelled in despair, "Let this loyal man be wronged and die, unless... By the way, the only person who can save him is my father." So she immediately took out a pen, paper and Ink, wrote a letter to his father, asking him to forgive himself and begging him to come here. The wizard wished he could see his daughter right away, so he came galloping on a fast horse. "Dear papa," said the daughter, embracing him tightly, "I beg you to do me a favor! Look at the poor boy turned to stone! To save my life from the three curses you cast, He was turned to stone from head to toe." The wizard sighed and said: "Because of my love for you, I have no choice but to promise you." Then, he took out a small bottle of antidote from his pocket and rubbed it on the fruit skin, and the fruit skin immediately became the same flesh and blood as before. body, jumped up. In the end, Guopi was not sent to the gallows, but was surrounded by everyone and returned home triumphantly. People played and sang and cheered loudly: Long live Guopi!Long live the peel!