Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Edmund and the Wardrobe

Lucy ran out of the empty room, ran into the corridor in one breath, and found the other three people. "Okay, okay." She said repeatedly, "I'm back!" "Lucy, what are you making a fuss about?" Susan asked. "Huh?" Lucy was surprised. "Why don't you ask me where I've been?" "You hid, didn't you?" said Peter. "Poor Lou, you just hid for a while, and no one would bother you. If you want people to come to you, you'll have to hide longer." .” "But I've been there for hours!" said Lucy. All three of them stared in surprise, I look at you, you look at me.

"Crazy!" said Edmund, patting him on the head. "Crazy indeed!" "What are you talking about, Lou?" Peter asked. "I mean," replied Lucy, "after breakfast I went into the wardrobe, and I stayed in it for hours, and I was offered tea, and a lot of strange things happened to me." "Don't be silly, Lucy," said Susan, "we've just come out of the empty house where you've been hiding for a while." "She's not stupid at all," said Peter. "She's making up a very interesting story, isn't she, Lucy? What's wrong with that?"

"No, Peter, I'm not making up a story," she argued. "It's a very mysterious wardrobe, and there's a forest in it, and it's snowing, and there's a Faun and a witch, and the country is Nani. Ya, come and see." When she said this, the rest of the people were still more puzzled, but Lucy's words became more and more excited, and they all went back to the house with her.She hastily pushed open the cabinet door first and said, "Here, go in and see for yourself." "You idiot," said Susan, poking her head into the closet and pushing the leather jacket aside, "it's just an ordinary closet. Look, isn't that the back wall of the closet!"

Everyone looked into the wardrobe carefully, and when they pulled the leather jackets aside, they all saw--Lucy saw it herself--it was just an ordinary wardrobe.There was no wood or snow in it, just the back wall of the wardrobe with some coat hooks nailed into it.Peter stepped into the wardrobe and tapped lightly with his finger to confirm that it was indeed the back wall of the wardrobe. "You really know how to lie, Lu." He said as he walked out, "I have to admit, we were really deceived by you, and we almost believed what you said." "I'm not lying a bit," said Lucy. "It's true, it's not like that. I can swear it's true."

"Come here, Lu," Peter said, "this is even more wrong. You lied, and you still don't want to correct it." Lucy's face was flushed with anxiety, she wanted to argue, but she didn't know what to say. Suddenly, she burst into tears. For several days after that, Lucy was depressed.If she casually admits, regardless of the facts, that the story was just made up to keep everyone entertained, she can easily make up with everyone at any time.But Lucy is a very honest little girl, she firmly believes that she is right, and she refuses to speak casually.But others thought she was lying, and she told a very stupid lie, which made her feel very wronged.Peter and Susan did not intend to ridicule her when they criticized her for lying, but Edmund was a little deliberately finding fault. This time, he kept making fun of Lucy as if he had grasped the excuse, and asked her again and again if she was in the house. Other countries were found in the cupboard.Those were supposed to be very pleasant days, the weather was fine, and they were out all day long, bathing, fishing, climbing trees, digging out nests, and playing in the heather. Lucy was not at all interested in these.This situation continued until another rainy day in the future.

That day, until the afternoon, the rain did not stop, and there was no sign of clearing up at all.They decided to play a game of hide-and-seek, with the other three hiding, and Susan was in charge of "catching".No sooner had they dispersed than Lucy went into the empty room where the wardrobe was kept.She didn't want to hide in the closet, because she knew that doing so would only bring about the embarrassing incident again.But she wanted to look in the cupboard very much, for these days she was beginning to suspect that Narnia and the Faun were only dreams.She thought, the house is so big and the structure is so complicated, but there are so many places to hide, first go to the closet to have a look, and then hide in another place, there is always time.But as soon as she walked into the closet, she heard footsteps in the corridor outside. She had no choice but to jump in and close the closet door.She did not close the door, for she knew that, even if it were not a mysterious wardrobe, it would be very foolish to shut oneself in it.

It turned out that Edmund ran in. He walked into the house just in time to see Lucy disappear into the wardrobe.He hurried after her, not so much because he saw the closet as a good place to hide, but because he wanted to continue laughing at the stories she made up about the country.He opened the cupboard door, and there were coats hanging inside as usual, and there was still the smell of mothballs. It was dark and quiet, and there was no sign of Lucy. "She thought it was Suzanne who came to her," said Edmund to himself, "so she hid in the wardrobe and said nothing." So he stepped in, closed the door, and forgot How silly to do that.Then he started groping in the dark, thinking he would be able to touch her in a few seconds, but to his surprise, he couldn't.He tried to open the door to let some light in, but he couldn't find the cupboard door.He fumbled around angrily, and shouted loudly:

"Lucy, Lu! Where are you hiding? You haven't come out yet. I know you are here." There was no answer, and Edmund found his voice to be very strange, not the kind you might imagine in a cupboard, but a voice made in the wilderness.He felt strangely cold.Just then, he saw a ray of light ahead. "Thank God," said Edmund, "the cupboard door must have swung open by itself." He had completely forgotten about Lucy, and walked toward the light, which he thought was the open cupboard door. .But he found at once that he had not gone out of the closet and returned to the empty house, but had entered a clearing in the forest from the thick fir-tree shade.

The snow was dry and brittle under his feet, and there were clusters of snow on the woods, and above him was a blue sky, the color one sees in the sky on a clear winter morning. .The sun had just risen between the tree trunks directly ahead, bright red.There was silence all around, as if there was no living being in that country except him.There was not even a robin or squirrel in the middle of the woods, and the forest stretched out in every direction as far as the eye could see.He couldn't help shivering. Then it occurred to him that he had come to look for Lucy, and he also thought how disgusted he had been with her story, and that everything around her now proved her story to be true.He thought Lucy must be somewhere near, so he called out, "Lucy! Lucy! I'm Edmond, and I'm coming too."

no answer. "She is angry with me for my lately wronged her," thought Edmund.Although he didn't want to admit that he was wrong, he didn't want to stand alone in this strange, cold and lonely place, so he shouted again: "Well, Lucy, I beg you to forgive me for not believing what you said before. Now I see that you are right. Come out, and we will make up." Still no answer. "It's very girlish," said Edmund to himself, "to keep making a fuss, and she's paid her an apology, but she doesn't pay any attention." He looked around again, and found it unnecessary to linger. .Just as he was about to go home, he heard a bell ringing in a distant wood.He listened carefully.The bells came closer and closer, and at last he saw a sleigh coming galloping, drawn by two reindeer.

The reindeer were about the size of a Shetland pony, and their coats were whiter than snow, and their antlers gleamed red in the morning sun.Their neck harnesses are of crimson leather with bells on them.The deer driver in the sledge was a fat imp, about three feet high if he stood upright.He was dressed in polar bear fur, and around his head was a red turban with long golden tassels hanging from its crown; .Behind him, on a much higher seat in the middle of the sled, sat a woman unlike any other, taller and taller than any woman Edmund had ever seen before.She is also dressed in snow-white fur clothes, holding a long and straight golden rod in her right hand, and wearing a golden crown on her head.Except for her blood-red mouth, her face was as white as snow or paper or rock candy.Her face was fair enough, but it was haughty and cruel. The sleigh was galloping towards Edmond, the bells were jingling, the goblin was waving his whip, and the snow was splashing on all sides of the sleigh, it looked like a beautiful picture . "Stop!" said the woman in the sleigh, and the goblin gave the reindeer such a jerk that it almost sat up.They quickly returned to their original shape, standing there, biting the bit in their mouths, panting.In this freezing weather, the hot air from their nostrils looks like smoke. "Well, what's your business?" asked the woman, looking intently at Edmund. "I, I, my name is Edmond," said Edmond awkwardly.He was very dissatisfied with the way she looked at him. The woman frowned. "Is that how you address the Queen?" she said, looking more stern. "Forgive me, Sire, but I did not know you were queen," said Edmund. "Don't know the Queen of Narnia?" she shrieked. "Ha, you'll soon. Answer me: what on earth do you do?" "Your Majesty," said Edmund, "I do not understand you. I am at school--it is true, Your Majesty--the school is closed for a few days."