Chapter 141 140. The Kneaded King

Once upon a time there was a king whose wife died and left him a daughter.When the girl reached the age of marriage, some princes and sons of princes and nobles came to propose to her, but she refused all of them. The father called her to him and asked, "Son, why don't you want to get married?" "Father," she replied, "you want me to marry you will give me one hundred and seventy-six pounds of flour, and the same amount of sugar, and I will make a dough with my hands to be my fiancé." .” The king shrugged his shoulders and said: "Well, I will give you these two things." The king gave his daughter sugar and flour.The princess shut the door of her own room, and inside she sifted the flour with a kneading trough and a sieve.She sifted and sifted for six months; then kneaded the flour, kneaded and kneaded for six months.The dough was finally made, but she didn't like the way it looked.So, she destroyed the dough again and kneaded it again.This time, she finally pinched into the dough person she likes.Finally, she stuck a pepper in the dough man's face for a nose, and placed the dough man in an alcove.She called her father and said, "Papa, papa, look at my fiancé. His name is King Pepper."

The king looked him up and down, and liked the doughman very much. "He's pretty handsome, but he can't talk!" "Just wait and see! Then he will speak." Every day, the king's daughter went to the alcove and sang to the pepper king: O king pepper squeezed, listen to what I say to you: For six months I sifted flour finely, for six months , I finished pinching you, in six months, I took you apart again, in six months, I pinched you better, in six months, you squatted in the alcove, hurry up, people language! The girl sang that song to King Pepper for six months.By the end of the sixth month, the King Pepper was talking.

"I can't talk to you," he said, "I must talk to your father first." The girl ran to her father and said, "Go and see, father, my fiancé has spoken!" The king went, and he chatted wildly with King Pepper.Finally, King Pepper proposed to his daughter.The king was very happy, ordered a large banquet, and invited King Pepper to the banquet.Preparations for the wedding began.Two days later the wedding was held, and kings from far and near came to the wedding. Among the distinguished guests was a queen named Turk Doug.The queen, as soon as she saw King Pepper, was fascinated by him, and determined to steal the pinched king away.

After getting married, the newlyweds lived a happy life, but King Pepper never went out.Later, the king told his daughter about it. "Son, why don't you and your Zhangmo never go out? Going out often will be good for you!" "Yes, father, you are right. In fact, I was thinking of going out in a carriage today." When the carriage was harnessed, the princess and King Pepper went on a journey together.Queen Turk Doug had been waiting for an opportunity to abduct King Pepper; and at this moment she also got into her carriage and followed closely behind.When the carriage reached the country, King Pepper decided to get out and go for a walk.Suddenly, a gust of wind blew King Pepper onto Turk Dogg's carriage, and she spread her cloak to catch him.His wife and the coachman looked for him everywhere, but they were nowhere to be found.The princess was heartbroken and returned to the palace. "Where's your husband?" her father asked.

"A gust of wind blew him away! Since then, I have suffered in my own room, never wanting to go out again, and never wanting to hear anything." However, she did not stay in her room for long before she could bear it no longer.She took a horse and a bag of money, and with her father's permission, she rode out to find King Pepper. One night, in the forest, she heard the howling of wild animals, and then saw a light ahead, and she went to knock on the door. "Who's knocking at the door?" "A good Christian. Do me a favor and let me stay; or the beast will eat me."

"Christians don't come here! Only poisonous snakes and beasts come here. If you are a Christian, cross yourself." "For the sake of God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, let me in." The door opened, and an old man with a long beard stood at the door. He said, "Princess, this is a desolate place where wild animals are infested. Why do you come here?" 'I'm out to try my luck.A few days ago, I made myself a husband with my hands..." She told the old man what happened from the beginning to the end. "Princess," said the old father-in-law, "of course you should go to your husband.Take this chestnut with you, and don't lose it.Tomorrow morning, you are on your way.You'll see another house where my brother lives.Then you can ask him again! "

The next day, the princess found another hermit, who gave the princess a walnut, told her to put the walnut and chestnuts together, and then told her how to find their third brother.The third hermit was older than his two younger brothers combined.The hermit gave her a hazelnut and said to her, "Follow this road and you will see a large palace. This palace belongs to Turk Doug. Next to the palace is a very Ugly house, that's a prison. When you go under the window of this palace, you break open this chestnut, and there's a treasure inside. You sell this treasure to the palace. Turk Doug's maid hears Your cries, you'll be called in. Turk Doug will ask you how much the thing is. You say no money, just a night alone with Turk Doug's husband. He's either King Pepper. If you can't manage to speak to King Pepper tonight, you'll crack open the nut and sell its treasures. If you don't succeed next night, crack the hazelnut again."

When the princess came to the palace, she broke open the chestnut.There is a golden loom inside, and a young girl is sitting beside the loom, weaving cloth with pure gold thread.The princess cried out, "Hey! Who wants to buy a beautiful loom? A girl is weaving cloth with threads of pure gold. Who wants to buy it!" The maid of the palace looked out of the window, and said to Turk Dogg: "Look at that thing for sale, Your Majesty! Buy it, those are two wonderful things, and put them in your showroom." Isn't it great?" The princess was called into the palace, and went upstairs.Turk Doug asked her, "How much do these things cost?"

"I don't want money, I just want to stay alone in a room with your majesty your husband for one night." Turk Doug was unwilling to make the deal, but her maid persuaded her to accept the condition.So Turk Doug gave King Pepper a potion and put him in bed, and said to the loom girl, "Now you may go in." The princess couldn't wake up King Pepper.She sang to him; O king of hand-squeezed pepper, listen to what I say to you: In six months I will sieve flour, in six months I will finish you, in six months, I took you apart again, and in six months, I made you look better.But now, Turk Doug has you, wake up, my king, let's escape together!

But King Pepper heard nothing.In this way, she sang and cried until dawn. She left the palace in despair. At this moment, she suddenly remembered what the hermit had told her, and hurriedly knocked open the walnut.Inside the walnut was a gold trellis for embroidery, and a girl who was embroidering with pure gold thread.The princess cried out, "Hey! Who wants to buy a gold frame for embroidery? A girl is embroidering with pure gold thread. Who wants to buy it?" The maid of the palace looked out, and then told her to come in. "How?" Turk Doug asked. "I don't want money, just stay with your husband for one night."

However, Turk Doug also gave King Pepper a potion that night.As a result, the princess cried and sang all night in vain. The prisoners in the house adjoining the palace were so disturbed that second night by the princess's singing and crying that they resolved to call King Pepper at the barred window when he came out in the morning, Tell him that the woman's crying made them sympathize, and it also made them sleepless all night. ． When King Pepper came out of the palace, the prisoners stretched out their hands over the bars of the window, beckoned to him, and shouted, "How did you sleep so soundly at night? We heard someone crying, and shouted: 'Pepper O king, I am thy wife!' We heard her sing that she made you with her hands; it took her six months to make you, and six months more Make you look better. How come you can't hear at all?" The Pepper King thought: Turk Doug must have put a narcotic in my drink, so I can't hear a thing.I won't drink any alcohol tonight! At this moment, the poor girl was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, because she had only one hazelnut in her hand.She broke open the hazelnuts, and inside was a little golden basket, and a girl who was making a dress with gold thread."Hullo," cried the princess, "who wants a pretty little golden basket? There is a maiden who is making dresses out of gold thread. Who wants to buy it?" She was taken to the palace, and the same terms were agreed upon as on the previous two nights. Everyone else left but she was alone with King Pepper who was sleeping.The girl was about to sing again, when King Pepper (who pretended to have drunk and now pretended to be asleep) opened his eyes suddenly, and said, "Hush—my wife, let us run away to-night. How did you find me?" "King Pepper, I have been looking for you!" Then the girl told him all the pain she had suffered. King Pepper explained to her that Turk Doug always put a spell on him to keep him from escaping.But at this moment, Turk Doug thought he was drugged, and the power of the spell was weakened. They opened the door and saw Turk Doug sleeping soundly, and they rode on the princess's horse and fled away as fast as they could. The next morning, Turk Doug found them running away and was so angry that he The hair was torn off one by one, and as a result, her hair was torn off, and she was gone to heaven. The couple rode back to the princess' father's palace.At this moment, the king was standing on the balcony, and when he saw them coming on horseback, he cried out: 'My daughter! My daughter!' "They sang and danced, ate and drank, but never made me happy. (Calabria region)