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Chapter 87 86. Plaza Molina

italian fairy tale 卡尔维诺 3115Words 2018-03-22
Once upon a time, there was a couple who lived in a beautiful little house.The house has a window looking onto the fairies' vegetable garden. The woman is pregnant and craves celery.She looked out of the window and saw a great patch of celery in the fairies' garden.She waited until the fairies were out, and then went down the ladder into the vegetable garden.She ate a hearty meal of celery, then climbed back down the ladder and closed the window. The next day, she was still the same.She eats today, tomorrow, every day.So that when the fairies walked in the garden, they found that the celery was almost gone.

"Do you know what we shall do?" said one of the fairies, "one of us will stay and hide, and the others will pretend to go out. That way we will know who is stealing our celery." When the woman went down to the vegetable garden again, a fairy jumped out suddenly. "Ha, I finally got you, you thief!" "Listen to me," said the woman, "I'm craving celery because I'm pregnant..." "We forgive you," said the Fairy, "but if you have a boy, let him be Plezemolino; if you have a girl, call her Plezemolina. Still a girl, and when he grows up, we're going to take him to be with us."

The woman went home crying, and when her husband found out about the agreement she had made with the fairies, he was very angry and said, "Why are you so greedy! Look, you are so unlucky!" The woman gave birth to a girl, whom she named Plezemolina.As time goes by, the parents have long forgotten the agreement with the fairies. When Plezemolina grew up, she started going to school.Every day on her way home from school she met fairies who said to her, "Little girl, go and tell your mother that she will not forget what she owes us." "Mother," said Plezemolina, returning home, "the fairies remind you not to forget what you owe them." Mama felt a lump in her heart, and said nothing.

One day, when Mama was thinking about something else, Plezemolina came back from school and said, "The fairies tell you not to forget what you owe them." Mama answered without thinking, "Yes, to them Say, take it." The next day, the child went to school again. "Hey, does your mother remember?" asked the fairies. "Yes, she said you can take it if you want." The fairies seized Plezemolina without asking a second time, and carried her away. When the mother saw that her daughter did not come home, she became more and more worried.Suddenly, she remembered what she had said, "Oh, I'm so unlucky, there's no way out of it."

The nymphs took Plazemolina home, took her into a dark room filled with coal, and said, "Do you see this room, Plazemolina? When we come back to-night, The walls must be painted as white as milk, and all kinds of birds must be painted on them. Otherwise, we will eat you." With that, they left, leaving Plezemolina alone Alone, crying there. There is a knock on the door.Plezemolina went to open the door, thinking that the fairies had returned and that her death was near.However, it was Meimei, the cousin of the fairies, who entered. "What are you crying for, Plezemolina?" he asked.

"If it were you, you would cry too," said Plezemolina. "They asked me to paint the walls of this dark, dark room as white as milk and paint on them before they came back. Birds of all kinds. Otherwise, they'd eat me!" "If you kiss me," said Meme, "I'll help you." Plaze Molina replied: "I'd rather have fairies eat me, I don't want to be kissed by a man. " "Your answer was very touching," said Meme. "I'll do it for you." With a wave of his wand, the room was as white as milk, with birds of all kinds on the walls, just as the fairies wanted them to be.

After Meimei left, the fairies came back. "Hey, Plezemolina, are you done with your work?" "Of course," she said, "come and see." The fairies looked at each other. "Honestly, Plazemolina, has our cousin Meme been here?" Plaze Molina says: "I see no cousin Meme, I also didn't see my beautiful mother. " The next morning, the fairies discussed together. "How can we eat her? There will be a way! Plezemolina!" "What are your orders?" "Tomorrow morning you will go to Fairy Morgana and ask her to give you the 'Pretty Clown' box."

"Understood." Plezemolina replied.The next morning, she set off.She walked and walked, and met Meimei, the cousin of the fairies on the road. "Where are you going?" he asked. "I'm going to get the 'Pretty Clown' box from Fairy Morgana." "Don't you know you will be eaten by her?" "That's the best way." "Here," Meme said, "here are two jars of lard, and you will come across two closed gates, spread the oil on the gates, and they will let you through. Then here are two loaves of bread , you will meet two fighting dogs, throw bread at them and they will let you pass. These are thread and awl, you will meet a shoemaker who pulls his own hair and beard, you give him these things, He will let you pass. Take these brooms, and you will meet a baker who sweeps the ashes with her hands. Give her this, and she will let you pass. Be quick.”

Plesemolina gave the door, the two fighting dogs, the shoemaker, and the baker the lard, the bread, the thread, and the broom, and they all thanked her.Then she found a square in which was the palace of the nymph Morgana, and she went and knocked at the door. "Wait a minute, child," said the fairy Morgana, "it will be ready soon." But Plezemolina knew to move quickly, and she flew up the steps in three steps at a time, and she saw "beautiful "clown" box, grabbed it, turned and ran. When the nymph Morgana heard her escape, she stuck her head out of the window and said, "Baker who sweeps the ashes with his hands, catch the girl! Grab her!"

"Unless I'm crazy! After all those years of hard work, she brings me a broom so I don't have to clean up with my hands." "Shoemaker who sews shoes with his own hair and beard, grab this girl! Grab her!" "Unless I'm crazy! She gave me the thread and the awl after all those years of hard work." "Dogs snapping at each other! Catch this girl!" "Unless we're crazy! She gave us each a loaf of bread!" "Shut the city gates! Catch this girl!" "Unless I'm crazy! She oiled me from head to toe." As a result, Plesemolina got out of the dangerous situation smoothly. As soon as she was safe, she thought: "What exactly is in this 'pretty clown' box?" She finally couldn't bear it and opened the box.

A large group of very, very small people jumped out of it. They moved forward according to the beat of the music, and no one could hold them back.Plezemolina wanted them all back in the box, but she grabbed one and the other ten slipped past her.She began to cry, and at that moment Meme arrived. "You're so curious!" he said. "You see what you've got now." "Oh, I just wanted to see for a while..." "It's beyond repair now. But I can help you get them into the box if you just kiss me." She replied: "I'd rather be eaten by fairies, I don't want to be kissed by a man. " "You have such a nice voice, I still want to help you." He waved his wand, and the little people went back into the box. When they heard Plezemolina came back and knocked on the door, the fairies were very unhappy, "Why didn't Fairy Morgana eat her?" "What a happy day," she said. "Here's the box." "Very well, capable girl... what did Fairy Morgana tell you?" "She said let me say hello to you for her." "Now I understand!" said the fairies in private, "we have to eat her ourselves." At night, Meme came to them. "Did you know, Meme?" they said, "the Fairy Morgana didn't eat Plese Molina. We're going to eat her ourselves." "Oh, good!" said Meme. "Excellent!" "Wait until tomorrow, let her finish the housework, and then let her boil water in a big laundry bucket. When the water boils, we will put her in it to cook." "Okay, okay," he said, "that's a good idea, I agree." When the fairies were all gone, Meme went to Plezemolina's room and said to her: "You know, Plezemolina? They're going to throw you in hot water and boil you to death. You just have to say There is no firewood, so I have to go to the basement to get it. I will come when the time comes." So the fairies said they wanted Plezemolina to boil a large cauldron of water on the fire.She lit the fire, and said, "There's not enough firewood." "Then you go to the basement to get some." Plazemolina went down to the basement and someone said: "Plazemolina, I'm here." Meme grabbed her hand. He led her into the depths of the basement, where many candles were burning. "These are the spirits of fairies. Blow them out." They began to blow out one by one, and every time a candle was blown out, a fairy died. Only one remains, and this is the largest of them all. "This is the flexibility of the fairy Morgana!" They blew it with all their strength, and finally blew it out.So, they became the masters here. "Now you promise to be my bride," said Meme.Eventually, Plesemolina let him kiss her. They went to live in the palace of the nymph Morgana.They made the shoemaker a duke and the baker a marquis.They also kept two dogs in the palace, and they left the gate where it was, and oiled it from time to time. Thus they lived and enjoyed themselves, always in peace, But nothing was given to me. (Florence area)
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