Chapter 78 77. The Unlucky Royal Family

Once upon a time there was a king of Naples who had three sons.He himself was getting old day by day, so he wanted to marry his eldest son, so he married the Queen of Scots.Soon after the eldest son got married, the old king died, and the eldest son succeeded to the throne.His two younger brothers, unwilling to be dominated by others, hated him more and more and wanted to kill him.They tried all kinds of ways, and at last one of them suggested, "We will do this by setting fire to the palace, and burning the king and all the people to death. We can build another palace of our own." So they said Together with other gangsters in the city, they plan to burn down the palace.But one of the rascals repented and ran to the king to report their plot.When the other rogues saw that the plot had been leaked, they felt that there was not a moment to lose, and they immediately surrounded the palace and set fire to it.

The Queen happened to be on the ground floor, and seeing the fire, jumped out of the window into the garden with her maid, Lisabetta, and fled.At the end of the garden there was a passage, through which they escaped safely.It can be seen from a distance that there is a sea of ​​flames in the palace, and those trapped in it are burned alive. Two women ran into a bush.They had walked all night, and the queen was very weary, as she was pregnant with the child.Towards evening, they encountered twelve murderers. "What are you two women doing here?" "We have come here for refuge," said the queen.

The murderers seized the maid, tied her to a tree, and left her alone.But they kept the queen and took her home and made her cook and do the housework and all that.They taught her how to use the medicine they stashed in the medicine chest in case they returned from injury.One day, when the queen was alone, she found in the medicine chest a vial marked "poisonous, will kill within twelve hours".She poisoned all the staple foods.When the murderers came back to eat, she brought up all the poisoned meals and ran away.The murderers didn't realize it for a while, and ate the poisoned food, and they all died soon after.

The queen ran back into the bushes, trying to find the maid, but as she walked and walked, there was no sign of the maid.She was tired from walking and felt sick.She found a hollow tree in the forest, and got into it to rest, when, in a fit of pain, she gave birth to a boy.She held the baby all night in the hollow tree and nursed him.In the morning, two shepherds passed by, heard the cry of the child, and came towards the tree.They saw a woman holding a newborn baby, and they helped her, and took her to their own home, saying, "You will be at home, and we will take care of you." In this way, the Queen and her The younger son stayed in the shepherd's house.Meanwhile in Naples, her two treacherous younger brothers-in-law were building a new palace and ruling with poise.

These are two rich shepherds with a big house and a garden.One day, while they were away, the queen visited the house. She opened a door and saw a long, long staircase.She went up the stairs, saw a door that was ajar, pushed it open, and there was a young man who was meditating inside, sitting there with his hands covering his face.The queen was about to turn back when the young man raised his head and invited her in.They asked each other how they got to the house and told their own stories. "I am the son of the King of Portugal," said the young man. "My father and his chamberlain were married on the same day. On the day I was born, the chamberlain's wife also gave birth to a girl. We have been together since childhood and grew up together." Big, and later fell in love with each other. Nobody noticed our love back then, but I swore I wouldn't walk up to the altar to marry any woman but my beautiful Adelaide (that's what she was called). This Meanwhile, my father was getting older, and he wanted me to marry: he sent messengers to betroth the Queen of England. I didn't have the guts to tell him I was in love with Adelaide, and just let things go on. Until one day, I Had to confess to her that I was going to marry another woman. The pain and anger she showed after listening to me was painful. She told me to go away in disappointment and anger. I deserved it. My father spent a lot Organized my wedding. The wedding hall opened three doors, one for the princes, one for the maids, and one for the servants. At the wedding, the bride noticed that I was depressed, and she said to me: 'Hey, if you don't want to Marry me, I'd rather go home.' I politely replied that I was born to be melancholy. We were married. After the wedding, we sat on thrones. Out came the servant girl from another door, and the footman from a third door. The last of the line of footmen was a young man in white, with a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and he went up to the throne, bowed, and went up the steps to lay flowers to the bride. When the bride reached for the flowers, he drew a dagger from the flowers, and killed her in front of me, and drew another dagger, and stabbed himself in the chest. People It was only when I ran to save him that he was a woman. I leaned over and recognized the young footman as Adelaide. She died instantly. Distraught, I told my father that she wanted The reason for revenge. My father was a very strict man, and immediately after hearing my story, he locked me in a tower and threw the key of the tower into the sea. I was kept there until I followed the A long rope slipped down and I fled into the forest. I was tired from walking a long way in the forest and fell asleep inside a hollow tree. The next morning I was caught by these two The shepherds woke up. They sympathized with what happened to me, took me to this house, and treated me like their own son. What about you, how did you get here?"

So the queen told what had happened to her.Both of them felt bad luck. "Listen," said the Prince, "you have lost your husband, and I have lost your wife. We have met by chance, and let us marry. Let us ask the shepherd to give us two horses, and go back to your native Scotland." The queen agreed.When the shepherds returned, they asked them for two horses.They also promised to knight them as soon as they got home, as a thank you to the shepherd for his care.Two shepherds gave them two horses, and the prince mounted the horse with the queen's son in his arms, and they set off.

They have to climb over the mountains, full of difficulties and obstacles along the way.The queen's horse was frightened suddenly, tripped and fell into a ditch by the side of the road.The poor prince regarded this as one more scene in the misfortune that had befallen him, and despondently continued on towards Scotland with the child in his arms, thinking all the way of the queen's unfortunate death. However, the queen is not dead.She was thrown and rolled down against the grass, and was saved by it.Although her nose was blue and her eyes were swollen, she survived.After recovering, she looked around and saw a small house on the half of the cliff.She walked over and knocked on the door, but no one answered.After a while, she knocked again, but still no one.She stood there waiting, and about midnight a man with long hair came, carrying some dead beasts on his back.

"What are you doing here?" he asked the queen. "I'm looking for a place to sleep," she said. The long-haired man knocked on the door, and this time his wife came out and answered.The queen went into the dark room, and they prepared her bed to sleep in.In the morning the long-haired man was out hunting, and his wife brought the queen a bowl of broth.As soon as the Queen saw her, she cried, "Lizabeta, it is you!" The long-haired man's wife replied, "It is I." She is the queen's maid, Lisabetta. The long-haired man found her tied to a tree by the murderers and took her home. He went out to hunt during the day and brought back the beast for her to skin at night.However, he was cruel to her because he never cared about her.

The two women embraced each other, celebrated their reunion, and then recounted their respective experiences. "How shall we escape from here?" asked the Queen. "Have you any sleeping pills?" "Okay, I can find some," Lizabeta said.They drugged the long-haired man's wine, and when he fell asleep, they killed him and buried the body. In the depths of the mountain, there is a door through which you can go to Scotland, and the key is with the man with long hair.Lisabetta got the key, opened the door, and went to Scotland with the Queen.All Scots were glad to see the return of the Queen, who had been rumored twice dead.The queen's father was happy to marry his daughter to a Portuguese prince, but before the wedding could take place, he had to fight two usurpers in Naples.He sent envoys to the prince's father, asking for an alliance with the king of Portugal, and the king of Portugal sent him a large army.

Before setting off to the front, all the generals gathered before the throne to take their oath.At the King's side were the Queen of Naples and the Prince of Portugal, the two betrothed.The generals, swords in hand, walked past the king.When it was the Portuguese general's turn, suddenly the queen rushed down from the throne, embraced and kissed the general, and they both fell down together.In this general she recognized her husband, the King of Naples, who had not perished in the fire, but had escaped from the murder of his brother, and assumed a false name to serve the King of Portugal.

So the queen said to the prince, "I cannot marry you, because this is my husband. He is still alive. If you wish, my maid Lisabeta is the daughter of the King of Spain. She can be your wife." The prince agreed.They sent for the King of Portugal again, on the pretext that his general was ill.The king came, and when he saw his son, whom he thought to be dead, he was moved, and said he regretted that he had been shut up in the tower. They attacked the usurpers of Naples, defeated them, killed them, and restored the King of Naples with his wife and young son to the throne.Lisabeta married the Prince of Portugal, and they were happy, all disasters past. (pizza)