Chapter 111 110. Dysentery head

Once upon a time, a king had no son, and he was depressed by it.Tormented by this pain, he rode into the forest, where he met a gentleman on a white horse. "Why are you so sad, Your Majesty?" asked the knight. "I have no son," said the king, "and thus my kingdom shall perish." "If you desire a son," said the knight, "make an agreement with me: when the boy is fifteen years old, you shall bring him into this forest and give him to me." "As long as I have a son," said the king, "I can make any agreement." And so, the agreement was signed, and the son was born.

It was a little boy with blond hair and a golden cross on his chest.His body and mind are growing day by day.Before the age of fifteen, he had completed all his studies and was proficient in martial arts.There were only three days before the child would be fifteen years old, and the king shut himself up in his room and wept.The queen didn't know why the king was so sad, and the king finally told her the agreement that was about to expire, and she also wept bitterly.The son saw his parents crying and didn't know what happened.His father said, "Son, now I'm going to take you into the forest and hand you over to your godfather, who made an agreement by which you were born."

In this way, the father and son rode horses and came to the forest in silence.Another horse's hooves sounded, it was the gentleman on the white horse.The young man urged the horse up to him, but his father turned the horse back without saying a word, with tears streaming down his cheeks.The young man walked on side by side with the strange gentleman, through the untrodden patches of the forest.At last they came to a large palace, and the gentleman said, "My godson, you live here, and you are the master of it. But I forbid you to do three things: Do not open this little window, Do not open this cupboard, do not go into the stables below."

At midnight the godfather rode out on his white horse, and did not return until dawn.After three nights, when only his godson was left at home, he curiously opened the small window that was forbidden to be opened.There are fireworks outside the window, because this is the window of hell.The boy looked into hell to see if there was anyone he knew: he recognized his grandmother.The grandmother also recognized him and shouted to him from a distance: "Grandson, my grandson! Who brought you here?" The boy replied, "It's my godfather!" "No, my grandson," said the grandmother, "he's not your godfather, he's the devil. Run away, grandson. You go and open that cupboard and get a sieve, a bar of soap, and a comb. Then go down to Get your horse out of the stable. Run, and when the devil catches up with you, throw these three things out. Cross the Jordan, and he will never catch up with you again."

Soon, the young man mounted his horse named Raffanello and galloped away.When the godfather came back, he and the horse were gone, and there was nothing in the cupboard.The godfather was furious, tortured the man in hell, and then set off to chase the fleeing boy.The white horse that the godfather rode was a hundred times faster than the boy's Rafanello. When he was about to catch up, the godson threw the comb on the ground, and the comb turned into a dense forest. It is only through the strength that he wears it out.He went out of the forest and continued to chase, but the godson dropped the sieve when he was about to catch up: the sieve turned into a swamp, and the godfather had a hard time getting out of it, and it took him a long time to get out of it.When the godfather was about to catch up with him for the third time, the godson threw the bar of soap on the ground again: the soap turned into a smooth mountain, no matter from which side, the white horse could not get off its hooves, and it took two steps forward It will take three steps back.By this time the godson had reached the banks of the Jordan, and he gave Raffanello a spur, and the horse leaped into the rapids.Rafanello swam and sent the boy to the other side, when the godfather had just crossed the mountain, and he could no longer catch up with the boy, because the boy was already in the Jordan River.He was so angry that he called thunder, lightning, wind, rain, and hail, and had a fit.But at this time the young man had already reached the other side, and urged his horse to walk towards the capital of Portugal.

In Portugal, where the young man managed to cover his fair hair so that no one would recognize him, he bought a cow-piss foam from a butcher.He wraps cow urine foam over his head so that he looks like a dysentery head.He tethered Rafanello in a meadow where no one would steal him, because the horse had been in the devil's stable and had learned to eat people. The young man, with urine foam wrapped around his head, paced back and forth in front of the palace.The gardener saw him, and knowing that he wanted work, made him a handyman.When the gardener brought the boy home, his wife cried out, because she did not like a sick head living in the house.To please her, her husband put the young man in a nearby cabin and told him not to set foot in his house again.

At night the lad crept out of the hut to untie his Raffanello, and he put on the king's red robe again, and took the piss from his head, and his golden hair shone in the moonlight; Rafanello, in the royal gardens, practiced martial arts, he leaped over hedges and ponds, and he also practiced various tricks, such as a gift from his mother, three fingers worn on the middle finger, index finger and ring finger. Shining rings, tossed into the air, and caught with the point of the sword. At this time, the daughter of the King of Portugal was standing at the window, admiring the garden under the moonlight, and she saw the young knight with golden hair and red robes, practicing martial arts. "Who could he be? How did he get into the garden?" she wondered. "I want to see where he gets out." So, just before dawn, she saw him go out through a gate, The fence faced the meadow where he tied his horse.She still stood and watched, but after a while, she saw that the gardener's boy came in through the fence gate. She hurriedly closed the window for fear of being discovered.

The next night, she was still waiting at the window.She saw the sick man come out of the cabin and out the gate, and a moment later, the blond knight appeared again, this time in white.He started to practice again, and still left before dawn, and came back after a while still with diarrhea.The princess began to suspect that there was something to do with the knight. On the third night, the same thing happened again; only this time the knight was dressed in black.The princess thought to herself: the head and the knight must be the same person. On the morning of the fourth day she went downstairs to the garden, and told the head of the scrotum to gather some flowers for her.He tied three bouquets on his head: one large, one ordinary, and one smaller; and he put the three bouquets in one basket and sent them to the princess.He put the big one in the ring of his middle finger, the medium one in the ring of his ring finger, and the small one in the ring of his index finger.The princess recognized the three rings, and returned him a basket full of gold coins.

The scorpion returned to the gardener with a basket of gold coins.The gardener began to scold his wife: "See? You didn't let him enter the gate of our house, but the princess called him into her room and gave him a basket of gold coins!" After another day, the princess ordered Litou sent her some oranges.Li Litou sent her three oranges: one ripe, one half-ripe, and one raw.The princess put three oranges on the table."Why are raw oranges on the table?" asked the king. "It's from the head of the diarrhoea," said the princess. "Let's hear what this diarrhoea has to say, and let him come up," said the king.The sick man came to the king, and the king asked him why he picked three such oranges.

Li Litou said: "Your Majesty, you have three daughters, one of whom is ready to be married, the other is approaching the age, and the last one has to wait." "That's right," said the king.And issued an edict: Anyone who wants to propose to my eldest daughter must go through a parade, and the person who can get her handkerchief will be the candidate. There was a long queue under the windows of the palace.The first to pass the inspection were the royal children, then the nobles, the knights, then the artillery, and then the infantry.At the end of the line is the diarrhoea.The princess gave him the handkerchief.

When the king heard that his daughter had chosen a gout, he drove her out of the house.She left home and lived in a wooden house in the sick.The goat gave up his bed to the princess, and slept on a bunk by the fire, "because a goat can't go near the king's daughter," he explained. "Then, what a diarrhoea, he is," thought the Princess, "what have I done!" she regretted. There was a war between the two kingdoms of Portugal and Spain, and all men were going to fight.The people said to the man, "Everyone has to go to war, can't you not go if you marry the king's daughter?" They set a trap and gave him a lame horse so that he could fight die.He rode the lame horse to the meadow where Raffanello was tied. He put on a red coat and the armor his father gave him, and rode Raffanello to fight.The king of Portugal is surrounded by enemies: the red knight arrives, fights off the enemies, and saves the king's life.On the battlefield, no enemy dares to approach him: he is invincible in chopping left and right, and his horse can make the enemy's horses tremble.In this way, the battle of the day was won. The princess went to the palace every night to hear new news of the battle.People told her how a red-clothed and blond knight had saved her father and won the battle.She thought, "This is my knight, the one I saw in the garden at night! And I have found myself a goat!" Going back to the cabin with a sad face, she found the goat Sleeping curled up by the fire, under an old cloak.The princess couldn't help but shed tears. At dawn, Li Li got up and led the lame horse to fight.But as usual, he had to come to the meadow beforehand, replace the lame horse with Raffanello, take off his ragged clothes, put on a white war robe, put on his armor, and take off the urine foam to reveal his golden hair.On this day, thanks to the help of the white knight, Portugal won again. When the King's daughter heard this new news, she came back to look at the pup who slept by the fire, more than ever she was wronged. On the third day, the blond knight appeared on the battlefield again, dressed in black.This time, the king of Spain came to the battle in person, bringing his seven sons with him.The blond knight single-handedly fought seven people.Killed one, killed two, eventually overcame all seven, but the last one had a sword stab in his right arm as he was dying.When the battle was over, the King of Portugal wanted to have his wounds bandaged, but the knight was gone, as he had been the other night. When the King's daughter learned that the fair-haired knight had been wounded, she was very sorry, for she had always loved the stranger.When she got home, she was even more miserable in the face of diarrhea, and she looked at him with contempt as he curled up and slept by the fire.Looking at it, she vaguely saw a bandaged arm protruding from the open cloak, and under the cloak was a rich black velvet dress, and a lock of blond hair was exposed under the bubble of cow urine. The lad was wounded and unable to change his clothes as he had done the previous nights, he lay there, exhausted, and fell asleep as if dead. The king's daughter was so surprised and delighted that she could not cry out.In order not to wake him up, she walked out of the cabin carefully, and ran to meet her father: "Come and see, who won the battle for you! Come and see!" The king, surrounded by his courtiers, came to the cabin. "Yes, that's him!" The king recognized the fake head as the knight.They woke him up and wanted to throw him into the air to celebrate the victory, but the king's daughter had sent for doctors to bandage his wounds.The king wanted to marry them at once, but the young man said, "I must tell my parents first, because I am also the king's son." Both his parents came to reunite with their son, who they thought was dead.In this way, everyone sat around and held a wedding banquet. (Abruzzo region)