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Chapter 168 195. Convents and convents

italian fairy tale 卡尔维诺 2653Words 2018-03-22
There was once a tailor whose daughter was named Janina.Janina is not only a beautiful girl, but also read.Because she was very pretty, a young man named Jani kept pestering her.Janina didn't know how to avoid him.Then, one day, she said to her girlfriend, "Shall we start a monastery together?" "Okay, let's do it." The girls replied. Among these girls were daughters of kings, knights and nobles.The twelve of them told their father separately what they thought. "We're going to start a monastery." "What! You want to build a monastery just because of you guys?"

However, they were determined, so they chose a place far from the city to set up a convent.The twelve girls brought enough food and lived in the monastery.Janina was elected dean. However, Jani has always loved Janina, and he said to his friends: "I haven't seen Janina for a while, where is she?" "You still want to ask us?" "Now that my love is gone, I'm going to become a monk. Why don't we start a monastery together?" So they opened a monastery. One night the convent ran out of food.Dean Janina is in charge of serving the food.She stood on the balcony and looked around, and found that there was a light in the distance, so she walked towards that place, trying to get some food back.She came to a house, walked in, and found that there was no one in the house.On the table there were twelve glasses, twelve spoons, twelve napkins, and twelve large plates of pasta.Janina put twelve plates of macaroni in her basket and returned to the convent.She rang the dinner bell, the nuns gathered around, Janine gave them each a plate, and they all started eating.

The house Janina goes to happens to be a friary.When the monks came back, they found the table was clean. Abbot Gianni said, "Who stole our supper? We have to keep watch tomorrow night." The next night they left a man in charge, and told him, "As soon as you whistle, we will be on your way. Be careful not to fall asleep." But after a while the friar appeared like a Snoring like a dormouse. The abbot came again.She saw twelve plates of macaroni on the table, looked around, and saw the monk sleeping soundly.Gently she put the macaroni into the basket, and then, taking the pan, she spread the grease from the bottom on the face of the sleeping friar.

She went back to the convent, rang the dinner bell, and the nuns ate macaroni. When the abbot Jani saw the black-faced friar, he said, "Look what a good guard you are!" The next night he put another monk in charge of guarding.But this monk, like the previous one, also fell asleep, and when he woke up, he also found himself with a black face.In this way, although the monks took turns guarding the house every day, the same thing happened on the eleven nights.Until finally, it was Dean Jani's turn to stay and watch. Jani pretended to be asleep but remained awake.Janina, after she had put the macaroni in her basket, came up with the pot and was about to smear his face.At this moment, he stood up and shouted: "Stop! You will never succeed this time!"

"Ouch!" said Janina, "please! don't hurt me!" "I won't hurt you, but you must bring me the eleven nuns." "Yes, but there is one condition: you can't hurt a single hair of them." "I promise." So the Abbess went back to the monastery with her basket of macaroni.After supper she said: "Listen, sisters, we must go to the friary." "What will they do to us?" "They promised not to harm us." The nuns went to the convent. "We need to have a special room that can be closed from the inside."

Abbot Jani vacated a room containing twelve beds, and the nuns went to bed. When the other monks came back, they found the table was clean and there was nothing to eat. "What! Our dinner was stolen even with our dean personally guarding it!" "Be quiet!" said the dean. "We have caught the thief." "Really?" "It's true. And she's got eleven other people with her, and they've got to make us macaroni." He knocked on the doors of the nuns and said, "Get up! You've got to make us macaroni. " "My nuns cannot work without musical accompaniment," said the Superior.

Although the monks were starving, they picked up their trumpets and violins and began to play.However, instead of preparing supper for the monks, Priest Gianina and the nuns threw the quilts out of the window. Then, joining the quilts together, they slid down the quilts one by one from the window and jumped on the quilts. superior.They hurried back to the convent and locked the door. At this time, the monks were still playing music, and all of them were starving to death. "How is the macaroni?" they asked. "Is it not ready yet?" The monks knocked on the door of the nuns' room, but there was no answer.They broke in and found that the house was empty, and the bedding on the bed was gone. "Hey, we've been fooled! Well, let's find a way to get back at them."

The monks made a large wooden barrel and hid Abbot Gianni in it.They came near the convent and hid themselves.At night, a monk rolled the barrel to the door of the nunnery, knocked on the door, and said to the nuns who came out: "Please help us keep this barrel overnight?" He rolled the barrel into the yard, and left. However, the headmistress saw through the trick. "Unlucky for us!" she said to herself.At supper she said: "Sisters, there is no telling what might happen here. Please don't be afraid." Sure enough, while they were eating, the abbot climbed out of the barrel, and Knocking on the restaurant door.

"Who is it?" "Open the door." The nuns opened the door, and the abbot Jani entered. "Good evening, please sit down!" The abbot sat down to eat with the nuns, chatting with them while eating.At the end of supper he drew a holy bottle from his pocket and said, "Drink, sisters." The nuns drank it all, but when the Abbess drank, she poured all the water from the chalice over her clothes.All the nuns fell asleep, only Janina was awake, but she also pretended to be asleep.Seeing that the nuns were sleeping soundly, Jani tied a rope around each nun's waist and tried to let them down from the window.When she went to the window to call the other monks, Janina came quietly behind him, grabbed him by the ankles, and threw him headfirst.

Then she woke up her companion again: "Quick, we have to get out of here! We have to write to our father and tell them to come and pick us up. We are enough nuns!" So, they each went home.The monks also left the monastery and went home. Janine fell in love with Janina all over again.With a bandage on his head, he comes to propose to Janina.Janina finally agrees.Before getting married, though, Janina made a sugar doll of her exact size. On the wedding night, she said to her husband: "When you enter the house, put out the candles. I have developed a habit of smearing in the monastery."

On their wedding night, Janina goes into the bedroom, puts the sugar doll on the bed, and hides herself under it.She uses a string to maneuver the sugar doll.Her husband walked into the bedroom with a sword in his hand. "Hey, Janine," he called, "do you remember what you did to me? Do you remember when you stole our dinner?" Sugar Doll nodded. "You threw me out the window and broke my head, remember?" Sugar Baby nodded and said, "Yes, I do." "How dare you agree with the cheek?" He raised his sword and stabbed Sugar Doll in the heart. "Janina, I have killed you, and now I want to drink your blood!" As he said, he licked the sword with his tongue. "Janina, you were so lovely when you were alive, and you are still so sweet after death!" After that, he aimed his sword at himself, and was about to commit suicide.At this moment, Janina jumped out from under the bed: "Stop! Don't kill yourself, I'm still alive!" They hug each other.Since then, they have become a happy couple. (Nura Region)
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