Once upon a time, there was a young hunter who went hunting in the forest. He was in great spirits and was very happy. As he walked, he played a little tune on the leaves. Suddenly he met an ugly old woman, and the old woman said to him: "Hello,
Dear hunter! You seem happy and satisfied, but I am hungry and thirsty. Give me some charity!"
The kind-hearted hunter felt sorry for the poor woman, so he reached out and took something from his pocket and gave it to her. After giving it to her, he wanted to go forward. But the old woman stopped him and said: "Listen, dear hunter, in return for
For your kind heart, I want to give you a gift. You go forward and you will come to a big tree in a while. There are nine birds squatting on the tree, holding a cloak in their claws. You have to raise the shotgun.
Shoot among them. The cloak will fall to the ground. One of the birds will be hit and fall to the ground. Pick up the cloak quickly. It is a wishful cloak. You just need to put it on your body.
Wherever you want to be, you will be there soon. You have to take out the heart of the dead bird and swallow it whole, so that when you get up every morning, you will find a gold coin under your pillow."
The hunter thanked the old wise woman and thought to himself: "The thing she promised is really great, but will all this be true?" He raised his foot and stepped forward, but who knew that within a hundred steps, he was about to die?
Hearing the chirping of birds among the branches, I hurriedly looked up and saw a group of birds grabbing a piece of cloth with their beaks and claws and pulling it back and forth. They were snatching at each other and quarreling with each other. Everyone wanted to get the cloth.
make it their own.
"Ha, it's so strange!" The hunter couldn't help shouting, "It's just like what the old woman said." He immediately took off his shotgun and fired a shot into the middle of the flock of birds, which made the birds' feathers fly everywhere and scared them all away.
Then one of the shot birds fell from the tree, and his cloak also fell off. Following the old woman's instructions, the hunter cut open the dead bird, took out the heart and swallowed it, and then returned home with his cloak.
When he woke up the next morning, he remembered the old woman's promise and wanted to see if everything had been fulfilled. But as soon as he turned over his pillow, there was a piece of gold shining in front of him. The next morning he found another piece.
It was like this every day when he got up. He accumulated a lot of gold, but in the end he thought: "If I stay at home all the time, what's the use of all this gold? I want to go out and see the world."
So he said goodbye to his parents, put on his backpack and shotgun, and went out into the world.
One day, he walked through a dense forest and came to a plain. He saw a majestic palace standing in front of him. In one of the windows of the palace, stood an old woman, and next to him was a very beautiful girl, looking downstairs.
Looking around. The old woman was a witch. She told the girl: "There is a man walking out of the forest over there. There is a treasure in his body. We must deceive it into our hands. My beloved little daughter, you know, we are more worthy of it."
That baby. He has a bird's heart in his belly, so he can find a nugget of gold under the pillow every morning." Then, she told the girl how to attack and how to act, and finally glared at the girl fiercely and threatened: "You
If you don't listen to me, you will be in trouble!"
At this time, the hunter came closer, saw the girl, and said to himself: "I have been wandering around for a long time, and now I want to take a rest. I want to go to that gorgeous palace for a while. Anyway, I have a lot of gold."
Even so, the real reason is that he has fallen in love with that beauty.
He stepped into the palace gate and was greeted cordially and politely. It didn't take long for him to be completely obsessed with the witch's daughter. He couldn't care about anything. He always looked into her eyes. Whatever she asked for, he
Everyone is happy to do it.
At this time, the old witch said: "Well, we have to take the bird's heart now. He will not feel anything after losing it." Then they prepared a potion, boiled it, and poured it into a cup.
The old witch handed the cup to the girl and ordered her to give it to the hunter. She said to him: "Oh, my dear, drink it, for me!" The hunter took the cup, and as soon as he swallowed the potion, it immediately fell from his stomach.
The bird's heart vomited out of it. The girl quietly picked it up and swallowed it, because the old witch wanted her to do so.
From then on, no gold was found under the hunter's pillow. The gold found its way under the girl's pillow, and the old woman would go get it every morning. But the young man fell in love with the girl so much that he didn't think about anything else. He only wanted to be with her.
Spend time together.
At this time, the old witch said again: "We have the bird's heart, but we must also take the wishful cloak."
But the girl replied: "Let's leave the cloak to him, but he has lost his wealth."
When the witch heard this, she was furious and said, "That kind of cloak is a rare treasure in the world. I must have it!"
She gave the girl some tips and said that if she disobeyed, she would definitely suffer. The girl had no choice but to do as the old woman said, and then she walked to the window, looked into the distance, and pretended to be melancholy.
The hunter asked: "Why are you standing there sadly?"
"Well, my dear," she answered, "there is a mountain of gems opposite, where are produced rubies of the most exquisite kind. I long to have them so much that the thought of them makes me very sad; but who can get them for me? Only
Birds can fly up to the mountains, but people can never go there!"
"If that's all you're worried about," said the hunter, "I'd like to relieve your troubles right away."
After saying that, he pulled her under his cloak, thinking about going to the Gemstone Mountain opposite. In the blink of an eye, the two of them were already sitting on the mountain. But seeing the gems sparkling all around, it was really happy to look at it.
They picked the most beautiful and precious ones and collected some. At this moment, the old witch was doing her magic. The hunter suddenly felt his eyelids heavy, so he said to the girl: "Let's sit down and have a rest. I'm so sleepy that I can hardly stand."
stable."
They sat down, and the hunter put his head in the girl's arms and fell asleep. As soon as he fell asleep, she took off the cloak from his shoulders, took it and put it on herself. Then she picked up the gems on the ground and vowed to go home.
went.
The hunter woke up after enough sleep and found that his beloved had deceived him and left him alone on a barren mountain. "Oh," he sighed, "there is such a big liar in the world!" He sat there worried,
The heartache is unbearable, but I don’t know what to do.
This Gemstone Mountain belongs to a group of violent and rough giants. They live on the mountain and do mischief on the mountain. Not long after the hunter sat there, he saw three giants coming. He quickly lay down on the ground and pretended to be sleeping soundly.
The giants came over, and the first one kicked him and said, "What kind of insect is this? It dares to lie here and daydream?"
"Crush him to death!" said the second.
"Is it worth the effort?" the third said disdainfully, "leave him alive, he won't stay here long, as soon as he climbs up to the top of the mountain, the white clouds will wrap up around him and take him away.
of."
They were talking and walking forward. But the hunter remembered what they said. As soon as they were far away, he stood up and climbed towards the top of the mountain. He sat on the top of the mountain for a while, and a white cloud came leisurely and rolled him up.
It took him flying in the sky for a while, and finally landed in a large vegetable garden. The vegetable garden was surrounded by high walls, and he slowly landed on the ground among cabbages and other vegetables.
The hunter turned around and looked around and said: "I just need something to eat. I'm really hungry. It will be very difficult to walk forward like this! But there are no apples, pears or other fruits here. There are vegetable leaves everywhere, except vegetables."
Leaves are still vegetable leaves." Finally, he thought: "I can eat some lettuce as a last resort. Although it doesn't taste very good, it can lift my spirit."
So, he chose the thickest one in the litter and ate it, but after just a few mouthfuls, he felt mentally disturbed, as if he had completely changed. Sure enough, he had four legs, a big head, and two long ears:
He was horrified to see that he had turned into a donkey.
Still hungry, and determined by his current nature, the juicy lettuce became very flavorful, and he ate it greedily, eating and eating. Finally he came across another kind of lettuce, but he had just eaten it.
After a while, he felt a change again: he returned to his original self.
At this time, the hunter lay on the ground and fell asleep, eliminating fatigue. When he woke up the next morning, he picked a bad lettuce and a good lettuce each, thinking: "They will help me get back my things and punish the unfaithful ones."
of people.”
Then, he hid the lettuce on his body, climbed out of the wall, and set off to find his lover's palace. He walked around for many days and luckily found it. He immediately turned black and called his biological mother.
Don't even think of recognizing him when you see him, so he went to stay in the palace.
"I'm exhausted," he said, "I can't go any further."
"Who are you, fellow countryman? What kind of business do you do?" asked the witch.
He replied: "I am the king's messenger, sent out to find the most delicious lettuce that grows in the world. I was very lucky to find it, and it was hidden on my body. It's just that the sun has burned it too much, and I'm worried about the fresh leaves.
It will wilt, I don’t know if I can deliver it.”
When the old woman heard about the delicious lettuce, she became greedy and said, "Dear fellow villager, can you let me try that wonderful lettuce?"
"Okay, okay," the hunter replied, "I have two trees, and I'm willing to give you one." He opened his pocket and handed the broken one to her.
The old woman was unprepared. She wanted to eat that novel dish and her mouth was watering. She hurriedly went to the kitchen to cook it herself. After it was done, she couldn't wait to put it on the table. She reached out and grabbed a few leaves and stuffed them into her mouth.
As soon as she swallowed it, she lost her human form and turned into a donkey and ran into the yard.
At this time, the witch's maid walked into the kitchen and saw that the lettuce was ready. She wanted to put it on the table, but she also made the mistake of tasting a little secretly and ate a few leaves. As a result, the wonderful effect of lettuce started again.
It was revealed that the maid had also turned into a female donkey and ran away with the old witch, while the big bowl of lettuce fell to the floor.
During this time, the "King's Messenger" was sitting with the beautiful girl. She had been waiting for a long time and was greedy for the food, so she asked: "I wonder where the lettuce is?"
The hunter thought that the dishes must have worked, and said, "I'll go to the kitchen and have a look."
He walked downstairs and saw two female donkeys circling in the yard, with lettuce scattered all over the floor.
"Okay," he said, "those two have been punished." He picked up the remaining vegetable leaves, put them in a bowl, and brought them to the girl.
"I've brought you delicious food so you don't have to wait too long," he told her.
The girl then ate some and immediately lost her human form like the other two and turned into a female donkey and ran into the yard.
The hunter washed his face first so that the guys who turned into donkeys could recognize him, and then walked into the yard and said: "It's time for you to get the retribution for your treachery!"
He tied three female donkeys with a rope and drove them to a mill. He knocked on the window, and the miller stuck his head out and asked what happened. The hunter replied: "I have three stupid donkeys, and I don't want to keep them anymore."
If you are willing to take them in, feed them, trap them, and treat them as I say, I will give you as much as you want."
"Of course, of course," replied the miller, "but what shall I do with them?"
So the hunter told him that the old donkey was the former witch, and he had to beat it three times a day, but only gave it one meal of fodder to eat; the younger female donkey was the former maid, and he had to beat it three times a day.
, feed it three times; the youngest donkey is the beautiful girl in the past, he does not need to beat it, he only needs to feed it three times.
You know, the hunter still couldn't bear to let the girl get beaten. Then he returned to the palace and found everything he needed there.
A few days later, the miller came to report that the old she-donkey, who had been beaten but only fed once a day, was dead.
"Although the other two animals survived and received three meals of fodder," he said, "they looked very sad and looked like they wouldn't last long."
After hearing this, the hunter softened his heart, suppressed his resentment, and told the miller to drive them back to him. When the two female donkeys came back, he fed them good lettuce, and they immediately turned into humans again. The beautiful girl knelt down.
In front of the hunter, say: "Oh, dear, forgive me for the bad things I did to you! My mother forced me to do it, and I didn't want to do it, because I like you from the bottom of my heart. Your Ruyi Cloak
Hang it in my closet; I'll drink the vomiting pills and spit out the bird's heart to give it back to you."
After hearing this, the hunter changed his mind and said: "Keep it, it's the same anyway, because I want to marry you and make you my faithful wife."
The wedding followed, and they lived happily and harmoniously until their death.