Chapter 95 94. Little Goose

Once upon a time, there was a group of little gooses who were going to lay eggs in the swamp near the sea.Halfway there, one of them stopped and said, "Sisters, I'm leaving you. Because I'm about to lay an egg, and I can't hold on to the swamp." "hold on!" "hold onto!" "Don't leave us!" But this little goose couldn't do it.They hugged each other goodbye and agreed to see each other when they returned.Then the little goose went into a forest.Under an old tree it built a nest of dead leaves and laid its first eggs.Afterwards, the goose went to forage for fresh grass and clean water for lunch.

When the sun went down, he came home and found the egg was gone.The little goose was very disappointed.The next day it climbed up the tree and laid another egg between the branches, so that it could keep it.After that, it came down from the tree satisfied, and went out to look for food as it did the day before.When I came back, the egg was gone again.The little goose thought: There must be a fox in the woods, and it ate my eggs. It came to the nearby town and knocked on the door of the smithy. "Mr. Blacksmith, will you build me an iron house?" "Okay, as long as you lay a hundred pairs of eggs for me."

"Okay, give me a basket, and when you build me a house, I'll lay your eggs." The little goose squatted down, and every time the blacksmith hit the small iron house with a hammer, it laid an egg.When the blacksmith hit the 200th hammer, the little goose also finished laying the 200th egg and jumped out of the basket. "Mr. Blacksmith, here are the hundred pairs of eggs I promised to lay for you." "Mrs. Goose, your little house is also finished." The little goose thanked the blacksmith, took the little house on her shoulders, went back to the woods, and put the house on a meadow. "This is where my goose children should live: fresh grass to eat, and a stream to bathe in." So it went into the small house with satisfaction, closed the door, and laid the last batch of eggs safely.

At this time, the fox returned to the oak tree, but could not find the goose eggs.It began to search in the woods until it came to the grass and found this small iron house. "I bet the goose is in there," he thought, and went up to knock on the door. "Who is it?" "It's me, Fox." "I'm incubating eggs and can't open the door." "Mother Goose, open the door." "No, you will eat me." "I won't eat you, mother goose, open the door." "Beware, goose, if you don't open the door right away, I'm going to climb on the roof,

dance a ballet, Another clapping pas de deux, Trample big houses and small houses. " The little goose replied: "You go up to the roof, dance a ballet, Another clapping pas de deux, It is also difficult to step on big houses and small houses. " The fox jumped onto the roof and started thumping around.However, the more it jumped, the stronger the little iron house became.The fox jumped down angrily and ran away, while the little goose was laughing behind her. The fox didn't show up for a few days, but the little goose was always very careful when she went out.The eggs were cracked, and goslings were born.

One day, it heard a knock on the door. "Who is it?" "It's me, Fox." "What do you want to do?" "Let me tell you, there is a market tomorrow. Would you like us to go to the market together?" "Yes. What time will you pick me up?" "up to you." "Then come at nine o'clock. I have to take care of the goslings, and I can't leave too early." Then they say goodbye like good friends.The fox raised his beard, thinking that he would be able to swallow the goose and its goslings in two bites. But the next day, the little gosling got up early in the morning, fed the goslings, told them not to open the door to anyone, and then went out to go to the market.

About eight o'clock, the fox knocked on the door of the small iron house. "Mother isn't here," said the goslings. "Open the door for me," ordered the fox. "Mom won't let me." The fox thought to himself: I will eat you again later, and then asked loudly: "When did mother leave?" "She left early in the morning." The fox didn't care to listen to the following words, so he ran away.The poor little goose had finished the market, had done her shopping, and was on her way home.I saw the fox running over with its tongue sticking out.

"Where should I hide?" It bought a big soup bowl with a cover in the market.At this time, it put the bowl cover on the ground, squatted on it, and turned the bowl over to buckle itself. Fox stopped. "Look, what a beautiful little altar! I want to pray." It knelt down and prayed to the soup bowl, and then put down a gold coin as an offering before leaving. The little goose poked her head out little by little, picked up the gold coin, then picked up the soup bowl again, and ran home quickly to hug her children. At the same time, the fox wandered around in the market, and went under the stalls to look for it, but he didn't see the little goose. "However, I didn't meet it on the road, it should still be here." So it started looking around again.The bazaar was over, the peddlers packed up the unsold items and removed the stalls, but the fox still did not see the little goose. "It tricked me again this time!"

The half-starved fox returned to the small iron house and knocked on the door. "Who is it?" "It's me, Fox. Why didn't you wait for me?" "It's too hot. And I thought I'd meet you on the way." "Which way did you go?" "There's only one way." "Then why didn't we meet?" "I saw you. I was in the little altar..." The fox was furious: "Mother goose, open the door!" "No, because you will eat me." "Beware, goose, I'm going to climb on the roof, dance a ballet,

Another clapping pas de deux, Trample big houses and small houses. " But the goose said: "You go up to the roof, dance a ballet, Another clapping pas de deux, It is also difficult to step on big houses and small houses. " Gudong, Gudong, the fox jumped and jumped, but the iron house became stronger. The fox did not show his face for many days.But one day, there was a knock on the door of the Little House. "Who is it?" "It's me, Fox, open the door." "No, I'm busy." "I want to tell you that there is a market on Saturday. Do you want to go with me?"

"Okay, you can call me." "Tell me the exact time, lest it be like the last time I went to the market." "Seven o'clock, I can't go out too early." "Okay." Then they said goodbye like good friends. On Saturday morning, before dawn, the little mother goose got up, combed the feathers of the goslings, fed them fresh grass, told them not to open the door to anyone, and then set off.Just after six o'clock, the fox came.The goslings told him that the mother was gone, so the fox started to run forward in order to catch up with the gosling. The little goose was standing in front of a melon stand when she saw a fox running from a distance.It was too late to escape, the little goose saw a very hard melon on the ground, so she pecked a hole with her beak and got in.The fox went all over the market, looking for the little goose. "It may not arrive yet." The fox came to the melon stand, wanting to choose the best one.It bites this and tastes that.But the taste is too bitter, almost all the melons are opened by it.Finally, it saw the big melon lying on the ground. "This must be good!" It took a bite of the melon.The little goose's beak is right here, and when she sees a small window open, she spits out a mouthful of phlegm. "Bah! Bah! It's awful!" cried the fox, kicking the melon and rolling it aside.The melon rolled onto a slope and hit a stone. The little goose jumped out of the melon and ran home. The fox wandered around the market until the sun went down, and then knocked on the door of the small iron house. "Mother goose, you don't count what you say, and you didn't go to the market." "I went and stayed in that big melon." "Ah, you tricked me again! Open the door!" "No, you will eat me!" "Beware, goose, I'm going to climb on the roof, dance a ballet, Another clapping pas de deux, Trample big houses and small houses. " But the goose said: "You go up to the roof, dance a ballet, Another clapping pas de deux, It is also difficult to step on big houses and small houses. " Gudong, Gudong, and the little iron house didn't even shake. After coming here for a while, one day, the fox knocked on the door again. "Okay, goose, let's make peace. Let's have a nice dinner to forget about the past." "Agreed, but I have nothing to entertain you." "I'm in charge of this, you just have to make it ready." Then the fox went back and forth, bringing a salami for a while, a sausage for a while, cheese and Chicken, these are all stolen from it wandering around.The small iron house seemed to be full of things. The day they agreed to have a dinner party has arrived.In order to increase his appetite, the fox has not had any water or rice for two days: but, as you know, he is not thinking of sausage and cheese, but of eating the mother goose and goslings.It came to the iron house and called, "Mother Goose, are you ready?" "Yes, it's ready, and you can eat it whenever you want. But you have to come in through the window, because the table with the food is all the way to the door, and I can't open the door." "It's the same for me. The point is how I can climb up the window." "I throw a rope out. You put the rope around your neck and I drag you in." The fox was eager to eat the goose, so he put his head into the noose, only to find that the noose was tied with a slipknot.The more you pull the rope, the tighter the noose, and the more you kick your legs, the more you feel suffocated.It was strangled alive.Eyes wide open, tongue hanging out.The mother goose was still worried, she let go of the rope suddenly, and the fox fell straight to the ground. "Come on, little goslings," said the mother goose as she opened the door, "come and eat the grass and take a bath in the stream." Finally the goslings were able to make noise, flutter and hug each other out of the house. One day, the mother goose heard the sound of flapping wings and a cry.It is time for the geese to return from the swamp. "It may be my sisters!" He came to the road and saw a flock of mother geese, followed by newborn goslings.The mother goose and her sisters celebrated warmly, and she also told them about the tortuous experience of fighting the fox.The sisters also liked the little house very much, and they all went to the blacksmith and asked him to make one for themselves.It still is.Somewhere in a meadow, there is a country of geese. All the geese live in iron houses and are not afraid of foxes. (Siena area)