French folk story: Seven brothers

once upon a time, there was a farmer and a peasant woman who had seven children, both boys.

soon after, the eighth child was born, and the seven boys gathered to discuss it.

the youngest brother said, "what if we had a sister?" “we do not want to have a girl in our house,” the other six brothers say the same thing: “in order to predict whether a man or a woman was born, let us put a roller on the herbs and put a barley on the barn.

if the barf is barbed, the boy is born, and if the swab is rolled, the girl is born.” it's arranged.

every night, the seven brothers come back from the field and go to the farmhouse to see if the roller is swabing and to hear whether the barf is beating.

one night, they saw the roller coaster, and they were angry, and they all came out and went far away into the forest.

a girl was born, she grew up and didn't even know her brother.

one day, she was playing with kids of the same age and heard them say, "that's the little thing that pissed off the seven brothers." she asked what those kids were saying.

mom said, "they're joking." on another occasion, she walked in front of several laundry women, and she greeted them very politely.

but the washwomen said to her, "hello, take away the seven brothers!" she went to her mother's laundry ladies again to ask what they meant.

"they're joking, too." one day, she walked by a shepherd who was guarding the flock, and a dog came over and bit her, and the shepherd cried to her dog, and said, "don't touch the little things of the seven brothers." the little girl came home in a hurry and asked her to tell her what had happened at home the day she was born.

the little girl said, "mom, i'm going to find my seven brothers." mom said to her, "you have to ask the godmother before you go out." turns out the little girl's godmother was a fairy.

"you're too young," the godmother told her.

but the little girl repeatedly asked for her to go.

and the fairy said, "okay! i'll buy you a robe.

you'll leave when you break that robe." the fairies bought her a white iron coat.

when the little girl knocked with a rock and finally broke through the robe, she went to the godmother and said, "my robe is broken, let me go." "go." the fairy answered.

the fairies dressed her up, removed her apron and placed an orange in it.

"keep it safe.

if you hold it, i'll be with you.

you just call me when you need me.

but you don't drink water on the road, especially in front of silver springs." the little girl left.

she walked through a forest she'd never walked, and she was very scared.

and i said, "the godmother, the godmother, i'm lost." a voice from the oranges answered her: "boy, go, go, gogo, boy, go, go, go, go, go! a little further, she yelled, "the godmother, the godmother, i'm lost." the voice from the oranges answered the same.

but it's hot.

she's thirsty.

when she went to the silver spring, she was thirsty enough to hold her mouth in the spring, and her orange fell into the water, floating on the water, and she could not reach it.

the little girl keeps on driving, and she's so sad, she doesn't know where to go.

and she said, "the godmother, the godmother, i'm lost." the oranges were still floating on the water, and the little girl heard a slight sound and said, "boy, go, go, go, go, go, go!" a little further, she said, "the godmother, the godmother, i'm lost." she's scared.

she managed to walk to the side of a row of houses where a few barley-beaters worked in the barn.

she heard six flavours of wheat on the bar and saw another fowl by the door.

she asked herself, "that's probably my seven brothers out there.

i'm too tired to walk." she saw a door open and walked in.

there are seven pots of soup on the table and seven spoons next to it.

since she was hungry, she ate a bowl of soup and hid it under the bed.

the seven who hit the wheat were her seven brothers.

they came for dinner.

they came to make soup from each other, and the man who made it made it made soup, and called out to his brothers.

one of them said to the soup maker: "what's wrong with my empty pot? have you forgotten me?" i'll make you another bowl." the next day, the little girl saw another barley player making soup, and when he went out to inform the boys, she finished a bowl of soup like yesterday.

and the other brother said, "today, one of my pieces was lost! what's the point?" six days in a row.

on the seventh day, it was the youngest brother's turn to cook, and he said to himself, "i must understand why." instead of going out to call the brothers, he made soup, one of his feet was standing outside the door, the other was standing in the door, shouting, and soon came back and saw the little girl pick up a pot.

he grabbed her arm.

"ha! i got the thief!" “please do not blame me for anything.

i may be your sister." "where are you from? what's your name?" the little brother was surprised to recognize her as his sister.

he fed her a bowl of soup and told her to hide quickly, while he made another.

the brothers came there and he said, "ah! and if we had a woman together, we could have seven of us working.

"well, here's one.

she's our sister.

she's the one who ate our soup." the seven brothers saw this little girl be nice and nicethey were very happy, and they said, "you're with us.

you cook us, you wash our clothes.

we'll buy you some cotton, a roller coaster, and you'll spin us.

but watch out for the neighbors: it's brue wolf.

don't let your fire go out.

if your fire goes out, you'll have to ask him.

you'll have to pay a heavy price." the little girl found her brother and felt very happy.

she worked hard and grew up and became a beautiful young girl.

one day, she was baking alkaline, and the pot was crooked, and the boiling water poured into the fire and the fire went out.

so she had to go to brue wolf for a fire.

"i'd like to borrow a fire from the window, but there's one condition you have to suck your little finger every morning.

you put your finger in the little hole where the cat goes." the little girl had to accept his terms.

a few days later, the wolves took a lot of blood from her, her face turned pale and she was thin.

her brothers are upset.

initially, she was afraid to tell them that they had repeatedly asked for her to cry to admit that she had disobeyed their orders.

"i put out the fire, so i went to the wolf's house to borrow it." big brother says, "okay! tomorrow, when you go to his door, i'll go with you.

you do as i say.” the next day, big brother and his sister went out together.

he had his axe.

the little girl said, "i'm gonna suck your fingers, but i'm not gonna have the strength to reach in, so you can dig your head out of the cat's hole." the wolf came out of a small hole, and the big brother cut off his head and took it back to the garden.

a few days later, a fragrance and luminous flower grew in a place where wolves were buried.

the girls said to the brothers, "hey! look at the beautiful flowers.

i'm gonna put them in a bunch of balls." "beware, these are the flowers that were fumigated by the wolf's head.

don't touch them." however, the flowers were so beautiful that she could not help but harvest them and put them in the closet to smoke the clothes of her brothers.

next sunday, when the brothers were wearing white shirts, they were just dressed up and turned into birds.

fur! they flew out of the chimney.

only the little brother, who saw the brothers turn into birds, wanted to take off half his shirt, but it was too late for him to become a cow and stay home.

the little girl was very sad, and she began another life, leading her little brother, who had become a cow, to grass in the haystacks and the forest.

one day, when the king came to this place to hunt, and saw her beauty, surprised, he asked her, "are you just looking at a cow?" “yes, this is my brother.

i had seven brothers in the past, and now there is only one king who told her to tell her where she is; he has since come to see her often.

one day he said to her, "come with me, be my wife." i don't want to abandon my good brother"Take him with you." He'll be treated well.

You can see him every day." The little girl took her good brother to the palace and became the king's wife.

However, the King ' s aunt was very disapprove of the marriage because she had a daughter and she wanted to marry her daughter to her nephew.

She therefore began to hate the new Queen and was prepared to take the opportunity to murder her.

At this time, there was war.

The King cannot wait for the prince to be born, but must first take his army.

The King said to my aunt: “Take good care of my wife and send someone to tell me when the child is born.” It's a pretty boy.

But the evil aunt sent her to report the king that the queen had a big dog.

The king said, "Let's have him thrown into the dead well and stop talking about him." Some time later, the king came back and he saw his wife again very well.

But before the birth of the second child, Kuo-yu went out to fight again.

This time, the Queen gave birth to a beautiful boy, but a vicious aunt sent to tell the King that the Queen had given birth to a wolf.

The king said, "Throw him in the well as he did last time." However, the aunt told her to put her child in the well with her poor mother.

Since then, the cow has been standing next to the well, so sad that it doesn't want to eat anymore。