Chapter 133 132. Siren Wife

Once upon a time there was a beautiful woman who married a sailor.Sailors often go to sea for several years.While he was away, the king there fell in love with his wife, and at last persuaded her to run away with him.When the sailor returned home, he found his wife missing.Days passed, and then the king got tired of the woman and left her.Regretted, she returned to her husband, knelt down and begged his forgiveness. Although the sailor still loved his wife as much as before, he was very annoyed at her infidelity and refused her request."I will never forgive you. You deserve it. I will execute you," he said.

The woman was so frightened that she scratched her hair and begged him repeatedly, but to no avail.The sailor threw his wife aboard like a sack of provisions, and set sail. When he was on the high seas, he said, "Your time has come." Then he grabbed her by the hair and threw her into the waves. "Now I have my revenge." With these words he changed course and returned to the harbor. The sailor's wife just fell on the sea where the sirens gathered. "Look," said the sirens, "they have thrown a pretty woman into the sea! Oh, what a lovely thing to feed the fish! Let's save her mouth, and bring her to us."

In this way, they took the woman's hand and led her to the brightly lit underwater palace inside.One siren combed her hair, another siren put perfume on her arms and breasts, another siren put a coral necklace on her, and another siren put an emerald ring on her.She was speechless in astonishment. "Floss!" she heard them call her. "Come with us, Floss!" She understood, and that was the name they had given her.She went into the hall of their palace, and saw many women and handsome young men dancing there.She also started dancing. The sailor's wife was comfortable and happy here, and felt that her days passed quickly.But she often misses her husband and feels very sad.

The sirens asked her, "Floss, don't you enjoy being with us? Why are you always silent and frowning?" "Nothing, really," she always answered, but she couldn't help laughing. "Well, we'll teach you to sing." The sirens taught her their own songs; and sailors threw themselves into the water when they heard them.And so Floss joined them, and stood on the water in the moonlight and sang. One night the Krakens saw a boat coming fast, and they said to Floss, "Come, Floss, let us sing on the water!" And they began to sing: This is a song when the moon is full,

...the moon is so round, the opportunity is rare; Would you like to see a beautiful siren? Sailors, come to the sea and jump! At this time, a man on the boat was leaning on the railing, fascinated by the singing, and plunged into the waves.Through the moonlight, Flores recognized that this man was her husband. "We're going to turn this man into coral!" said the sirens. "Or turn him into white crystal! Or into a shell!" "Wait, please wait!" cried Floss. "Don't kill him! Don't put any more magic on him!" "Why do you have such sympathy for this man?" asked her companions.

"I don't know...I want to put a spell on him myself...in my own way, you'll see...please let him live another twenty-four hours." Seeing her frowning all the time, the sea monsters couldn't bear to refuse her request anymore.They imprisoned the sailor in a white palace above the sea.When it was daytime, the sirens were all asleep, and Floss walked near the white palace and sang such a song: I have become a siren, Singing a song of the moon-watching time, If I come to save you, they will condemn me, I know you, you don't know how to thank. The sailor listened with pricked ears.He could already tell that it was his wife who sang.He gradually had hope, and he had forgiven her in his heart, regretting that he should not have thrown her into the sea.

Sirens sleep during the day and go to sea to catch sailors at night.Floss waited until night, and then went to open the white palace, and reunited with her husband. "Keep quiet," she told her husband, "the sirens are out, but you can still hear us! Get on my back, I'll carry you." She swam, swam, and finally Saw a big ship. "Call the sailors of that ship to help," said Floss. 'Come here, come here, help! Help!' A small boat was lowered from the big boat.The sailors rowed towards the caller and pulled him into the boat. ． "The siren..." he said, 'the siren...the siren...my wife... ;…”

'He's gone mad in the water,' said the sailors who rescued him; 'well, my friend, you're out of danger.There are no sirens around here at all!" The sailor made it back to his town without incident, but has been missing his siren wife ever since.He was very sad and thought: "I threw her into the sea before, but she saved me now; I want to sail out to sea, and I will never stop until I find her; otherwise, I will jump into the sea and kill myself." ' As he thought, he walked through a forest and came to a walnut tree; it is said that fairies meet here.

'Young man, why are you so sad?' A voice came from beside him. When he turned around, he saw an old woman standing there. "My wife is a siren. I don't know how to get her back, so I'm worrying." ． "I see you are a fine fellow," said the old woman, "and I will help you get your wife back.But there is a condition, do you agree?' 'I promise anything, you say it. "; 'There is a kind of flower called 'Meizhongmei', which is only found in the siren's palace.You must get that flower and bring it here at night and put it under this walnut tree.Then your wife will be saved. "

'Go to sea and get flowers?' How can I do that?" 'If you want to save your wife, you have to find a way. ' 'I'll try it,' said the sailor. He returned to the harbor at once, boarded his ship, and set sail. When the ship was in the open sea, he called his wife's name. He heard the sound of splashing water, and saw She swam up at the stern of the boat. The sailor said, "My dear, I want to save you, but I must get a flower called 'Meizhongmei', which is only found in the siren's palace. " "It is impossible," said his wife, "that flower grows there and exudes a wonderful fragrance. It was stolen from the fairies by the sirens. If one day this flower comes back to the fairies, All sirens die. I am a siren too, and I shall die."

"You will not die," said the sailor, "the fairies will save you." "Come back tomorrow and I'll give you an answer." The next day, the sailor came, and his wife appeared on the sea again. "How?" he asked. She replied: "In order to make it possible for me to get the 'America in America' flower, you have to sell all your property, and use this money to buy precious jewelry from goldsmiths in all the cities of this kingdom. Sea As soon as the demons see the jewels, they will leave the palace, and I can pick the flowers." The sailor immediately sold all his property, and bought all the jewels in the kingdom.He loaded the jewelry into the boat, and hung it in bunches on the yard of the boat, where it glistened in the sun.In this way, he sailed on the sea. Krakens love jewellery.They swam out into the waves on the surface and sang after the boat: It is the song of the noonday sun, The jewels of your ship are shining with gold; Good sailor, stop and leave it to us, Those rings, necklaces, and brooches are gorgeous! But the sailors went on, and the sirens followed the ship farther and farther away from their palace. Suddenly, there was a loud rumbling sound underwater, and the waves on the surface of the water were so violent that the Krakens were swept underwater and drowned.At this moment, a goshawk flew out of the water, and the old fairy and the sailor's wife rode on it.In a blink of an eye, the goshawk flew into the distance and disappeared. When the sailor came home, his wife was waiting for him. (Taranto area)