Chapter 109 108. Giuseppe Ciuffolo who played the flute when he was not hoeing

Once upon a time there was a boy named Giuseppe Ciuffolo who played the flute when he wasn't hoeing.On this day, he played the flute and danced in the field in order to relieve the fatigue of hoeing.Suddenly, on the edge of the field, he found a corpse covered in a large group of flies.He took the flute from his lips, coaxed the flies away, and covered the body with green foliage.Then he went back to the place where the hoe was placed, only to see that the hoe was hoeing the ground by itself, and had already hoeed half of the ground.Giuseppe Ciuffolo has since become the happiest farmer in the world: when he was tired of hoeing, he took out the flute from his pocket and blew a few times, and the hoe began to hoe the ground automatically.

But Giuseppe Ciuffolo was working for his stepfather, who didn't like him and wanted to kick him out of the house.At the beginning, he often said that Qiufuluo's land was well hoed, but there was too little hoed; now he said that the land was hoed a lot, but the quality was not high.And so Giuseppe Ciufolo carried his pickaxe away. He visited all the masters, but none of them hired him to work.Finally he met an old beggar, in order not to starve to death, he actually asked the beggar for work. "Come with me," the beggar said to him, "we shall share what we ask and eat."

In this way, Giuseppe Ciufolo begged with beggars.They walked and sang: "Jesus, Mary, Jesus, Mary! Give me something to eat, give me something to eat. " Everyone pitied the old beggar and gave him food, but said to Giuseppe Ciuffolo: "How can you beg for food when you are so young? Why don't you go to work?" "But I can't find work!" replied Giuseppe Ciuffolo. "Look at what you said, the king has a lot of uncultivated wasteland, and whoever works will be rewarded generously." Giuseppe Ciuffolo came to the king's land with the old beggar who always gave him half of what he begged for.The king's land had never been cultivated by anyone, and Giuseppe Ciuffolo hoed it, sowed it, weeded it, and finally reaped it.When he was tired of harvesting, he played on his flute, and when he was tired of playing, he sang:

"Happy scythe, happy little scythe Because the king is going to marry his daughter to me. " When the princess heard his singing, she put her head out of the window, saw Giuseppe Ciuffolo, and fell in love with him.But she is a princess and he is a farmer hoeing the ground. It is impossible for the king to agree to this marriage, so they decide to elope. They escaped by boat at night and were already at sea, when Giuseppe Ciuffolo suddenly thought of the old beggar.He said to his beloved: "We must take the old man with us. He always shares the meal with me. I can't just leave him alone." At this moment, they saw the old man chasing after them. come over.The old man walked on the sea like walking on the ground, and after catching up with the boat, he said: "We used to agree to divide everything we owned equally. I always give you half of mine. Now that you have the king's daughter, you should also Give me half." He handed Giuseppe Ciuffolo a knife to cut the bride in half.

Giuseppe Ciuffolo took the knife with a trembling hand and said, "You are right, you are right." As he was about to split the bride in two, the old man grabbed his hand. "Stop it, I've seen it, you're an upright man. Tell you, I'm the dead man you covered with branches and green leaves. Go and live happily ever after." The old man rides away.The boat sailed to an island full of riches and a luxurious palace awaiting the newlyweds. (Abruzzo region)