Chapter 70 69. The Beautiful Fanta Guillot

Long, long ago, there was a king who had no sons but three beautiful daughters: the eldest daughter was named Carolina, the second daughter was named Osutina, and the third daughter was called the beautiful Fanta Jiro because she was The most beautiful of the three. The king was always sick and easily frightened, so he shut himself up in his room all day.He has three chairs: one is sky blue, one is black, and one is red.Every morning, when his three daughters went to say hello to him, they would first see which chair he was sitting in.If it's sky blue, it means he's happy; if it's black, it means death; if it's red, it means a war is coming.

One day the girls saw their father sitting on the red chair.The eldest daughter said, "Father! What's the matter?" The king said: "I just received the declaration of war from the king of the neighboring country. But now I am so sick, and I can't find anyone to command the army. I really don't know what to do. A good general is not You can find it right away." "If you will allow me," said the eldest daughter, "I will be a general. Command an army. Do you think I will not?" "What! This is not a woman's business!" said the king.

"Let me try it!" the eldest daughter insisted. "Well, try it then," said the King, "but remember, if you talk on the way about what women do, you must come back at once." The eldest daughter agreed, and the king sent his confidant Tonino Dama to accompany the princess to the battle, but sent her back as soon as the princess mentioned what the woman had done. So, the princess and her entourage led a large group of people and rode to the battlefield on horseback.They had come a long way, and were now crossing a reedy bank."Oh, what beautiful reeds," cried the princess, "and how many beautiful spinning rods we could make if we had so many in our house!"

"Your Highness!" cried Tonino, "I was ordered to take you back to the palace! You have already said what women do." They turned their horses and retreated with their troops. The second daughter went to see her father again. "Father, let me lead the army to fight." "The same conditions as your sister?" "exactly the same." So they set off on horseback.The princess and her retinue stand shoulder to shoulder, and the army follows.They ran and ran, and the princess didn't say a word as they passed the reeds.As they passed a grove, the princess said: "Look, Tonino, what a straight and strong trunk! If we had so many in our house, we could make countless spindles!"

"Your Royal Highness!" Tonino, the attendant, stopped his horse and shouted, "Please go back to the palace! You have already said what women do." So the whole army returned to the city again. While the king was at his wit's end, Fanta Guillo came forward. "No, no," said the King, "you are too young! How can I trust you when neither of your older sisters are good?" "What's the point of letting me try, papa?" said the girl. "Don't worry, I won't make a fool of you! Let me try." So the king decided to let Fanta Jiluo lead the expedition.The little girl dressed as a samurai, wearing a helmet, armor, sword and two pistols, set off to the front with Tonino's entourage.Fanta Guillot said nothing when they passed the reeds, and Fanta Guillot said nothing when they passed the grove, and so they came to the front line. "Before the battle begins," said Fonta Gillo, "I would like to speak with the opposing king."

The king of the enemy was a handsome young man; when he first saw Fonta Guillot, he suspected that she was a girl rather than a general, so he invited her to his palace before the battle, and asked her State the reasons for the war. They came to the king's palace, and the king immediately ran to his mother. "Mother, mother," he said, "do you know! I have brought here the general of the enemy's army, come and see! Fanta Guillot, fair lady, He has black eyes and sweet words, Oh mom, I think he's a teenage girl. " His mother said, "You take him to the armory. If he was a woman, he wouldn't be interested in those weapons, he wouldn't even look at them."

The king took Fonta Gillo to the arsenal.Fanta Guillot took the sword from the wall, held it in her hand, looked at it, and weighed it; then she went to the musket and the pistol, and opened them to see how they were loaded.The king ran back to his mother. "Mother, that general handles his weapons like a man. But the more I look at him, the more certain I am. Fanta Guillot, fair lady, He has black eyes and sweet words, Oh mom, I think he's a teenage girl. " Mother said, "Then take him into the garden. If he is a woman, he will pick a rose or a violet, and wear it on his breast; if he is a man, he will pick a jasmine, Put it up to your nose and sniff it, and put the flower in your ear."

The king went for a walk in the garden with Fanta Guillot.She reached out to the jasmine, picked one, sniffed it, and pinned the flower behind her ear.Panting, the king ran to present and said, "He behaves just like a man, but I still think he is a woman. Fanta Guillot, fair lady, He has black eyes and sweet words, Oh mom, I think he's a teenage girl. " The mother knew that her son was deeply in love, and said to him: "Take that general to dinner. If he cuts the bread with his chest, he is a woman; if he cuts it in the air, he must be a man. You enthusiasm will be turned into nothingness.”

This test also failed.Fanta Guillot sliced ​​bread in the air, like a man.But the king still said to his mother: "Fonta Guillot, fair lady, He has black eyes and sweet words, Oh mom, I think he's a teenage girl. " "Well, try one last time," his mother said to him. "Ask the general to bathe with you in the fish pond in the garden. If he were a woman, he would certainly refuse." He went to invite Fanta Guillo, and she said: "Yes, very well, I would like to, how about tomorrow morning?" Then she took Tonino aside and said to him: "You get out of here quickly, tomorrow morning In the morning you will return with a letter bearing my father's seal. It will read: 'Dear Fanta Guillot, I am ill and I want to see you again before I die.'"

The next day, when they came to the fish-pond, the King took off his clothes, and was the first to jump into the water, and he called Fonta Guillot to come down too. "I'm sweating," said Fanta Guillo. "I'll wait." She strained her ears for the sound of Tonino's hooves.The king hastily made her undress.Fanta Guillo said: "I don't know why. I feel a shudder down my back... It could be an ominous sign, something unfortunate is going to happen..." "What misfortune will happen!" said the king in the water. "Take off your clothes and jump into the water, and you will be well! What do you think will happen?"

Just then she heard the sound of hooves, and the attendants arrived, and handed Fonta Guillot a letter bearing the king's seal. Fanta Guillot turned pale and said: "I am sorry, Sire, but this is sad news. I told you just now that this trembling is a bad omen. My father is dying and he wants to see me. I must immediately Let's go. We have nothing else to do except peace talks. If there is anything unresolved, please come to my palace to find me. Goodbye. Let's take a bath with you next time." After finishing speaking, he left . The king stood naked in the fish pond alone.The water was cold and he was disappointed.Fanta Guillot was a woman, he was sure, but she went away before he could be sure. Before leaving, Fanta Guillo went back to her room to get her things.She left a note on the bed, which read: Women come, women go, But the king did not recognize it. When the king saw the note left on the bed, he stood there like a fool, disappointed and happy.He ran to his mother and said, "Mom! Mom! I guessed it right! She's a girl!" Before his mother could answer, he jumped into the carriage and followed the tracks of Fonta Guillot at full speed. . Fanta Guillo came to her father, embraced him, and told him how she had won the war and made the king of the enemy country give up the invasion plan.Just then, she heard the sound of a carriage in the yard.It turned out that the king of the enemy country who fell in love arrived, and as soon as he saw her, he said, "General, will you be my bride?" They were married, and the kings of the two countries made peace.After the father-in-law died, everything was inherited by the son-in-law, and the beautiful Fanta Jiluo became the queen of the two countries.