Japanese Folklore Story: The Elie of Seacot

the japanese are very clean.

under their traditional “snap rice” (beds), there is always a clean seat.

they eat, sit, walk and sleep on the mat, and they have a mysterious feeling about the mat.

they devoutly believed that there was a large group of angel-like leprechauns living under the mat, and that they were the protection gods of the japanese people.

they are most afraid that their careless children will make the mat dirty and make it impossible for them to live.

however, there are some lazy people among japanese children.

legend has it that, a long time ago, hokkaido had a little lazy guy named sadako.

sadako was rich from her childhood, she had a mouth, a coat, and she was surrounded by a large group of domestic servants who would serve her comfort as long as she coughed.

the day went on so fast that she could not wash her face until she was 17, and none of the young men in her neighbourhood fell in love with her.

however, it is also a coincidence that one time a famous samurai from tokyo proposed to sadako when he visited his father in his name.

the samurai, though broke, was brave, handsome and suddenly won the heart of sadako.

soon they got married, away from their parents and came to tokyo.

poor sadako had no money to pay, but not a maid who served her all day made it difficult for her because she could not even wash her hands.

as a result, she was lying on her back every day, like a dying patient, and had to be served exclusively by her husband.

after three meals a day, picky toothpicks are always thrown under the mat.

for a long time, a pile of dirty and stinking toothpicks piled under the mat, causing the leprechauns to sleep.

soon the husband went on a expedition.

just over two o'clock on the night of the first day and suddenly sadako woke up by a strange sound.

in the dark light, she saw a large group of high-ranking soldiers coming out of the mat, waving their swords, saying words in their mouths, turning their mouths at sadako's teeth, and shooting them in a vicious manner.

“ah!” sadako is in a state of shock, and it's too late to escape.

but it was late that the dwarfs had come up and torn the covers, and countless swords had killed sadako and wounded her, and she fought hard and took away a group.

another one.

it's been a whole night.

sadako is so scared.

every day after that, sadako became thinner and shrouded with horror, but she was afraid to tell the people around her.

half a month later, the husband finally returned.

"honey, what's the matter with you?" when she met her husband, sadako couldn't stop her fear and pain, she cried and told the brave warriors where she was from.

"i'm hiding in the closet tonight, let me take care of these boys!" the decisiveness of the husband finally settled the wife.

at night, the samurai hiding in the closet saw what sadako had said again.

he went up and down with a loud shout, and his pompous winds deterred these short warriors, and they got scared and finally showed upShape.

"Hah! It's a bunch of dirty toothpicks." The samurai shouted, and in the joy of victory appeared contempt and surprise.

“Who the hell threw the toothpick?” he shouted.

But he didn't get an answer.

Because the answer was hidden in the heart of Sadako, she was ashamed and her face was red and her head was silently down.

What the hell is going on? So it was the little leprechauns who turned these toothpicks into warriors to trick lazy Sadako.

At this moment, the wives' repentance fell into the eyes of the leprechauns, and they departed with satisfaction.

Since then, Sadako has changed and has become very hardworking.

There were no more dirty toothpicks she threw under the mat.

The leprechauns don't do anything anymore。