Chapter 76 75. The Dragon and the Little Horse

Once upon a time, a king and queen had no children, and they gave alms and prayed for a child.Finally the queen was pregnant, and the king invited astrologers to find out whether it was a boy or a girl, and what the future of the child would be."It's a boy," they said, "and he will marry at exactly twenty years old, and kill his wife at that very moment, or he will become a dragon." The king and queen heard that they were going to have a boy , and got married at the age of twenty, they all smiled; but when they heard what happened later, they all burst into tears.The boy was born, beautiful and strong, and the parents were a little relieved, but they shuddered at the thought of their son's future.When he was nearly twenty years old, his parents made a fuss about marrying him and proposed to the Queen of England.

The Queen of England has a talking mare, the Queen has everything to say about it, and she is also her closest friend.After the Queen became engaged, she broke the news to the filly. "Attention, don't be too happy, you should know what's going on." The supernatural and omniscient little mare told her the fate of the prince.The queen turned pale with fright and didn't know what to do. "I will tell you," said the filly, "that you will tell your groom's father that the Queen of England does not go to the wedding in a carriage, but on horseback. When the day comes, you will ride me to the wedding. Take care when I Grab my mane the moment you strike the ground with one hoof, and don't be afraid."

In the wedding procession, the filly is festively dressed, carrying the Queen of England in her wedding dress, standing next to the groom's carriage.From time to time the Queen looked in through the window and saw the groom with a sword in his lap, and his parents with watches, waiting for the exact moment when the groom would turn twenty.Suddenly, the little mare stomped on the ground hard and ran away like a gust of wind.The bride rides on its back, clutching desperately at its mane.The time is up: the parents of the bridegroom drop the watch, and they see with their own eyes that their son has turned into a dragon, and the king and queen and everyone else run away from the overturned carriage in fright, or they will all be eaten by the dragon up.

The filly stopped in front of a farmhouse.It said to the queen, "Come down, please, and go to the farmhouse, and ask this farmer to give you his clothes for your queen's clothes." In exchange, he gave her his own shirt and pants.Dressed up as a farmer, the Queen jumped into the carriage again and continued on her way. They went to another king's palace.The little mare said to the queen: "Go and ask the horsemen to see if they let you be a horseman too." The queen went, and those people thought she was a very nice young man, and she also had a beautiful little mare. horse, said to her, "Stay here with your pony, and work with us."

The king had a son who was about the same age as the girl, and when he saw the new stable boy, an idea occurred to him.He said to his mother, "Mom, to tell you the truth, I think that stable boy is a woman, and I like him very much." "I think you are wrong," said the mother, "if you are willing to try, you can take him to the garden to see the flowers, if he picks a bunch of flowers, then he is a woman, if he picks only one flower , holding it in his mouth, he is a man." The Prince called the stablekeeper into the garden and said to her, "Would you like to pick a bouquet?"

But the little mare knew all about it long ago, and told the false stableboy, so she said, "No, I'm not interested in flowers." And she plucked a flower, and put it in her mouth. After listening to the prince's story, the mother said: "I told you that he is a man." "Then, mother, I am more convinced than ever that he is a woman." "Then try again. You invite him to dinner and let him cut the bread: if he cuts it close to the chest, he's a woman; if he cuts it hanging in the air, he's a man." This time the filly reminded her owner that she was cutting bread with her arms dangling like a man.However, the prince still did not believe that she was a man.

"Well," said his mother, "now it's up to him to handle a weapon. You try him in a martial arts match." The filly taught the girl the secrets of all weapons.But he said to her again: "Honey, this time someone will find out." Her martial arts is indeed very high, but in the end she fainted from exhaustion.At last it was discovered that she was a girl.The prince loved her even more, and wanted to marry her. "You marry her without knowing who she is?" asked the mother.So they made her tell her story, and when they learned that she was Queen of England, the prince's mother consented to the marriage, and said no more.

They held a grand wedding.After some time, the bride became pregnant.At this time the king received a letter of war, he must go to war.But the king was very old, so he sent his son.The prince begged the parents to write to him when the child was born, and set off on his wife's filly.Before setting off, the little mare gave her three manes of her own and said, "Take these three manes in your bosom and keep them safe. When you need help, tear them off, and I will come to your aid." The princess gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and both were very beautiful.The king and queen immediately wrote to their son, telling him the news.The messenger with the letter rode to the place where the prince was fighting, and a dragon happened to be on the way.The dragon was the prince who turned into a dragon at the wedding that day.Seeing the courier in the distance, Long blew poisonous gas on him, and the courier fell from his horse in a coma.So Long took out the letter from his pocket, read it again, and forged another one, saying that the princess gave birth to a female dog and a male dog, and people all over the country rose up against her.Long stuffed the fake letter in the messenger's pocket.After the messenger woke up, he didn't notice anything unusual, so he continued to get on his horse with the letter and set off on his way.

After reading the letter, the prince's face changed drastically, and he said nothing.He quickly wrote back a letter, saying: "Whether it is a male dog or a bitch, you must take good care of me and take good care of my wife." On the way back, the messenger passed by the place where the dragon was again. He was blown by the dragon again, and fell off his horse in a drowsy sleep.The dragon found the letter, wrote a fake letter and put it back in his pocket. The fake letter said: "Burn your wife and children in the middle of the square. If the king and queen don't do it, they will also be burned."

This reply surprised everyone: why is the prince so angry?In order not to burn these innocent people to death, the king and queen thought of an expedient measure.They quietly let the princess take two children, two nurses, food and water, and four sailors into a boat, and let them go to sea.Then they brought three puppets like the princess and the two children to the square and ordered them to be burned.The people loved the princess very much, and they were all talking about it, planning to take revenge in the future. The princess crossed the ocean in a boat and was left on a beach with her children.When she was walking on the deserted beach, a dragon suddenly appeared in front of her.She was so desperate that she and her two children were going to die.Then she thought of the three manes of the filly.She took them out of her bosom, and tore off one of them, and in an instant there appeared a thick and impenetrable thicket;She tore off the other, and a wide river appeared on the ground, the current was swift; the dragon had gone through all kinds of hardships and struggled with the water conservancy, but finally came over.She was desperate, and at the moment when the dragon was about to catch her, she tore off the last mane, and a tongue of fire shot out immediately, and it burned into a raging piece.But the dragon eventually rushed out and caught her in its claws.Just then, the filly galloped to the beach.

The filly and the dragon faced each other, and squared off; and the duel ensued.The dragon was bigger than the filly, but the filly kicked and crushed the dragon to the ground.The princess threw herself on the filly, but her joy died at once, for the filly closed her eyes, bowed her head, and fell hard on the ground, dead.When the princess thought of what the filly had done for her, she burst into tears, as if her own sister were dead. She and her two children were there weeping bitterly.When she raised her eyes, she saw a palace in front of her, as if she had never seen it before.She looked carefully again, and found a beautiful girl standing at the window, beckoning her to let them pass.She walked past with the baby, and the lady came forward and embraced her, and said, "Don't you recognize me? I'm a filly; I've been enchanted, and only by killing the dragon will I be able to see you." Reverted to a woman. When you snapped the mane, I left your husband at war and came to you. I slew the dragon and broke the magic." Putting them aside for now, let's go back and talk about the husband.Seeing the filly run away from the field, he thought, "Something must have happened to my wife!" So he quickly ended the battle so he could go home. When he returned to the city, all the people rose up against him, and cried, "Tyrant! Cruel man! What crime has that poor woman and her child committed?" He understood nothing.The remorseful and angry parents showed him the letter they had received, and he said, "This is not my letter!" He showed them the letter he had received.So, they discovered that the letters of both parties had been changed by someone. The prince immediately sought out the sailors who had taken his wife to the deserted beach, and told them to take him there.He rediscovered the place where they had landed, and when he saw both the dragon and the filly dead, he was disheartened.While he was crying bitterly, he suddenly heard someone calling him: it turned out that it was a beautiful girl standing at the window of the house calling him.He went up, and the girl told him that she was the filly; she opened a room, and there were his wife and children.Again they hug, sometimes cry, sometimes rejoice.They went home together, and the beautiful girl who had been a filly.All the people in the city rejoiced, and they lived together happily ever after. (pizza)