Chapter 3 Chapter 2. What did Lucy see?

"Good evening!" said Lucy.But the Goat Monster didn't have time to answer Lucy's greetings because he only picked up the paper bags on the ground.After he picked up all the things, he bowed slightly to Lucy. "Good evening, good evening," said the Faun, "I'm really sorry, but you must be Eve's daughter?" "My name is Lucy," replied Lucy, not quite understanding what he said. "Excuse me, are you a girl?" "Of course I'm a girl," said Lucy. "Are you really human?" "Of course I'm human," said Lucy, still a little confused.

"It must be, it must be," said the Faun, "what a fool I am! I have never seen the son of Adam and the daughter of Eve. I am glad, that is to say..." said Here he suddenly stopped talking, the words had come to his lips, as if he suddenly remembered that he shouldn't have said that. "Happy, happy," he went on after a pause, "permit me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus." "Nice to meet you too, Mr Tumnus!" said Lucy. "Ah, Lucy, daughter of Eve," said Mr. Tumnus, "how did you come to Narnia, please?" "Narnia? What's that place?" Lucy asked.

"This is the land of Narnia," said the Faun, "and all its land is between the Lamppost and the great castle of Cair Baravill on the East Sea. And you, from the Wild Woods to the west Did you come?" "I, I came in from a wardrobe in an empty room," said Lucy. "Ah!" said Mr. Tumnus in a somewhat melancholy voice, "if I had learned more geography when I was a boy, I should have known all about these strange countries, and now I regret it." "They're not countries at all," said Lucy, almost laughing. "It's not far behind me, and, really, it's still summer there."

"But," said Mr. Tumnus, "it is winter in Narnia. The winter is so long here. Well, we shall catch cold standing here talking in the snow. Ah, daughter of Eve, from Far away in the land of empty houses, where eternal summer reigns in the city of bright wardrobes. Will you come to my house and have some tea with me?" "No, Mr. Tumnus," said Lucy, "I must be going back, thank you." "It's just around the corner," said the Faun. "I have a big fire in my house, and I have toast, sardines, and chicken cakes." "Oh, that's very kind of you," said Lucy, "but I can only sit down a little while."

"Please take my arm, Eve's daughter," said Mr. Tumnus, "and then we may share an umbrella. Well, please come with me." And so Lucy walked through the woods, arm in arm with the strange man, as if they had been good friends from an early age. It didn't take long for them to come to a place where the road surface was uneven, there were stones everywhere, and rolling hills stretched into stretches.At the bottom of a small valley, Mr. Tumnus turned aside suddenly, and went straight for a large rock, until at last Lucy found him leading her to the mouth of a cave.As soon as they entered the cave Lucy felt that the fire was blinding her eyes.Mr. Tumnus crouched down, and with a pair of small pokers, lifted a burning stump from the fire, and lit a lamp. "It'll be ready in a minute!" he said, putting a kettle on the fire.

Lucy thought she had never been in a more comfortable place.The cave was not very big, the stone walls glowed red, and the interior was very clean, with a carpet on the floor and two small chairs ("One for me to sit in, and the other for a friend." Mr. Tumnus said), a table, a cupboard, and a ledge over the stove, and above the ledge hung a picture of an old Faun with a white beard.There was a door in one corner of the cave, which, Lucy thought, must lead to Mr Tumnus' bedroom.The closet by the door was full of books with titles: The Life and Learning of the Satyr, The Nymphs of the Mountains and Waters, Men, Monks and Gamekeepers, A Study in Folklore, Are humans mysterious? "Wait, when the goat set out the tableware, Lucy was flipping through these books.

"Okay, Eve's daughter, please eat." The sheep monster said. Tell the truth.It was a very hearty tea, first a dark yellow boiled egg, soft boiled, followed by sardines on toast, then butter bread, honey toast, sugar cake, everything else.When Lucy didn't want to eat any more, the goat started talking to her.He has many wonderful stories about life in the woods.He described to her the great midnight ball, and how the daffodils and tree-nymphs came out to dance with the fauns, and how the long hunting parties were after the milky fairy deer, which, if you caught it, would kill it. Gives you hope.And he told of feasts in the forest, and of treasure hunting in mines and caves deep above the ground with the clever red-haired dwarf.Finally, he talked about the summer in the forest.At that time, the trees were covered with green clothes, and the old satyr often came to visit them on a fat donkey.Sometimes Bacchus, the god of wine, also visits in person.When Bacchus came, the water that ran in the river was turned to wine, and the whole forest was immersed in festive feasting for weeks. "Where is it like now, winter is always endless!" He turned around, looking very sad.To cheer himself up, he took out of a case above the cupboard, and began to play on a small flute, which had a strange appearance, as if it were made of straw.The tune made Lucy want to cry, to laugh, to dance, to sleep.Lucy felt dazed all the time, and it was several hours before she woke up and said to the Faun:

"Oh, Mr. Tumnus, I'm so sorry to interrupt you. I like this tune very much, but I must go back, really, I only wanted to stay for a few minutes." "Not now, you know?" said the Faun, putting down his flute and shaking his head sadly at her. "Why not?" Lucy jumped up in fright, "What did you say? I'm going back right away. Others thought something happened to me!" Then, she asked the goat monster again: "Tumnus What's the matter, sir?" At this moment, tears filled the Faun's brown eyes, and the tears trickled down his cheeks, and rolled down from the tip of his nose.Finally, covering his face with his hands, he burst into sobs.

"Mr. Tumnus, Mr. Tumnus," said Lucy, feeling sorry, "don't cry! don't cry! What's the matter? What's wrong with you? Dear Mr. Me!" But the Faun kept crying, as if his heart was about to break.Lucy went over, put her arms around him, took out her handkerchief and handed it to him, and he was still sobbing.He took the handkerchief and wiped his tears while crying. When the handkerchief became wet and could no longer be used, he twisted it with both hands a few times. After a while, a small area under Lucy's feet was wet. "Mr Tumnus!" cried Lucy, shaking him in his ear, "stop, stop now! You should be ashamed of yourself, a great faun like you What is it that made you cry so sadly?"

"Woo, woo, woo," sobbed Tumnus, "I cry because I'm such a bad faun." "No, you're by no means a bad Faun," said Lucy. "You're a very good Faun. You're the best Faun I've ever met." "Woo, woo, you wouldn't say that if you knew the truth of the matter," replied Mr. Tumnus, sobbing. "I'm a bad faun. I think, since the beginning of the world, no Nor was there a worse Faun than me." "So what the hell have you done?" asked Lucy. "My old father," said Mr. Tumnus, "you see, that's his portrait hanging over the mantelpiece, would never do such a thing."

"What kind of thing?" Lucy asked. "What I do," replied the Faun, "is to serve the White Witch. That's what I do, and I was bought by the White Witch." "The White Witch? Who is she?" "Oh, do you need to ask? It is she who controls the whole of Narnia; it is she who makes Narnia winter all year round and there is never Christmas. Please think about it, what kind of Scenario!" "How dreadful!" said Lucy, "but what does she want from you?" "It's an insane thing she wants me to do," said Mr. Tumnus, with a long sigh. "I abduct children for her, and that's what I do. Can you believe that, Eve's daughter? I am Such a Faun, after I met a poor innocent child in the forest, I pretended to befriend him, invited him to my cave, and after tricking him into falling asleep, gave him to Bai sent by the witch." "I don't believe it," said Lucy. "I'm sure you wouldn't do such a thing." "But I have done it," said the Faun. "Well," said Lucy, slowing down (for she did not want to lie and to be too harsh on him), "it is very unconscionable indeed. But you should be so sorry for it, I am sure you would never Don't do that again." "Daughter of Eve, don't you understand?" said the Faun, "This is not what I did before, but what I am doing now." "What do you want?" Lucy screamed, her face suddenly pale. "That's the kind of boy you are," said Mr. Tumnus. "I've had orders from the White Witch that if I find the children of Adam and Eve in the woods, I must take them and bring them to her. .You are the first child I have ever met. I pretended to befriend you and invited you to tea, and I have been waiting to report to her when you are asleep." "Well, but you're not going to report it, are you? Really, really, you mustn't tell her!" "If I don't tell her," he said, weeping again, "she'll find out at last that she'll cut off my tail, saw off my horns, and pull out my beard. And she'll wave Her wand knocks off my beautiful cloven hooves, and turns them into a single hoof as hideous as a poor horse. If she gets angry, she turns me into stone, into a faun in her dreadful garden, till Until the thrones of the four kings of Kyle Baravel are occupied by humans. However, who knows when such a thing will happen. Whether it will happen or not." "I'm very sorry, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy, "but please let me go home." "Of course I want you to go home," said the Faun. "I must. Before I met you, I didn't know what it was like to be human. Now I understand. Now that I know you, I can't hand you over to you." The White Witch. But we must get out of here at once. I'll take you back to the lamppost. I think you'll find your way back to the wardrobe and the empty house when you get there." "I'm sure I can find it," said Lucy. "We went as quietly as possible," said Mr. Tumnus. "The whole forest was full of her spies, and even some trees stood on her side." They got up without even clearing the tea-things, and Mr Tumnus opened the umbrella again, which Lucy held between them, and they went out into the snow.They copied the path in silence, and hurried from the most hidden place in the woods until they reached the lamppost, and Lucy breathed a sigh of relief. "Daughter of Eve, do you know the way back from here?" Tumnus asked. Lucy looked carefully in the woods, and saw a bright light in the distance, which looked like sunshine. "Yes," she said, "I've seen the cupboard door." "Then go away quickly," said the Faun, "and, will you—will you forgive me for the bad things I wanted to do?" "Where's the point," said Lucy, shaking his hand very earnestly, "I just hope you don't get into trouble because of me." "Good-bye, daughter of Eve," he said. "May I take this handkerchief with you?" "Of course." After Lucy finished speaking, she hurriedly ran towards the place where there was light in the distance.After a while, she felt that it was no longer rough branches but soft clothes that brushed her body, and there was no "creaking" and "creaking" snow under her feet, but hard wooden boards.In the blink of an eye, she found that she had left the closet and came to the original empty room-this strange experience started from this empty room.She closed the cupboard door tightly, looked around, panting heavily.The rain was still falling, and she could clearly hear them still talking in the corridor. "Here I am," she cried joyfully, "here I am. I'm back, safe and sound." ① Eve - the ancestor of mankind in the "Bible" story.According to the "Genesis" records, God created man out of clay, named Adam, and made his wife Eve with Adam's bones, and put them in the Garden of Eden. Later, the two committed crimes by eating the forbidden fruit and were expelled from the Garden of Eden together.