The fifth story of the little robber girl

They walked through the dense woods in a car. But the car shone like a torch, making some robbers' eyes dizzy, and they could no longer bear it.

"That's gold! That's gold!" they shouted. They rushed forward, stopped the horses, killed the riders, drivers and servants, and finally dragged Gerda out of the car.

"She is very fat...she is very beautiful...she grew up eating walnut pits!" said the old robber. Her beard was long and hard, and her fluffy eyebrows covered her eyes.

"She is like a fat little lamb! No, it's delicious!"

So she pulled out a bright knife - the knife shone so scared that it was afraid of people.

"Ouch!" the old woman screamed at the same time, because her biological daughter crawled on her back and bit her ear; she was a naughty and savage child who liked to find such happiness. "You troubled kid!" said the mother, so she would not have time to kill Gerda.

"I want her to play with me!" said the little robber girl. "She has to give me her hand warmer and beautiful clothes and sleep with me in the bed!"

So the child bit her again, causing the old robber to jump up and spin; the other robbers laughed and said, "Look, how good she and her little devils are!"

"I'm going to get into that car!" said the little robber girl.

She would do whatever she wanted, because she was a very stubborn and stubborn child. She and Gerda sat in the car, galloping over the stumps and thorns, and ran into the forest. The little robber girl was the same age as Gerda, but she was stronger and her shoulders wider. Her skin was brown, her eyes were dark, and she almost looked gloomy. She hugged the little Gerda around her waist and said:

"As long as I'm not angry with you, they can't kill you. I think you are a princess, right?"

"No." said the little Gelda. So she told her about what she had encountered and how she liked the little Gai.

The little robber girl looked at her seriously, nodded gently, and said, "Even if I am angry with you, they can't kill you, because I will do it myself."

So she wiped Gelda's tears and put her hands into the soft and warm hand warmer.

Now the carriage finally stopped. They walked into the yard of the robber palace. The palace was covered with cracks from the top to the ground. The Dadu birds and crows flew out from the open holes, and the big trumpet dogs—each as if they could swallow a man—jumped high, but they did not bark, because this was not allowed.

In an old, smoky room, a fire was burning on the stone floor. The smoke was spinning under the ceiling, trying to find a way out. A large jar of soup was boiling, and many domestic rabbits and hares were roasting on the iron rod.

"Tonight you sleep with me and my little animal," said the little robber girl.

They ate and drank some things, and then walked to a corner of the wall with straw and carpets. There were more than a hundred pigeons perched on the slats and perched. They were all about to fall asleep. But when the two girls arrived, they dropped their heads and took a look.

"These things belong to me," said the little robber girl. So she immediately grabbed one of the ones in her hand, shook it a few times, until it flapped its wings. "Kiss it!" she shouted, slapped Gerda in the face, "There are a few slaps in the woods there," she continued, pointing to a hole blocked by wooden strips on the wall. "These two are slaps in the woods. If you don't close them, they will fly away immediately. Now look at my old lover's 'Bow'." She grabbed the horns of a reindeer and dragged it out. It was covered; there was a bright copper ring on the neck. "We have to put it firmly, otherwise it will escape. Every night I scratched the neck with a sharp knife - it was very afraid of this hand."

The little girl then pulled out a long knife from the crack of the wall and put it on the reindeer's neck and slid it a few times. The poor animal was flicking her legs. The little robber girl laughed and dragged Gerda into the bed.

"Do you put this knife next to you when you sleep?" Gerda asked, looking at the knife in horror.

"I always sleep with my knife!" the little robber girl replied, "Because no one knows any accidents will happen. But now please tell me about the things about Gayi and why you came to this big world."

Gerda said again from the beginning. The turtledove was croaking in the cage above, and the other turtledoves fell asleep. The little robber girl put one hand around Gerda's neck and the other hand with a knife, and fell asleep - people could hear these movements. But Gerda couldn't close her eyes anyway - she didn't know whether she was going to live or die.

The robbers sat around the fire, singing while drinking. The old robber woman turned around and turned around. A little girl was really scared to see this scene.

So the turtle doves said, "Gu! Gu! We saw a little Gai. A white hen carrying his sled: He was sitting in the Snow Queen's car. When we were in the nest, the car flew over the woods. She blew a breath on our little turtle dove: Everyone except us were dead. Gu! Gu! Gu!"

"What are you talking about above?" Gerda asked. "Where did Snow Queen travel to? Do you know?"

"She probably went to Lapland 1, because there was snow and ice all year round. Go and ask the reindeer that was wrapped with a rope."

"There are ice and snow there, and there is magnificent!" said the reindeer. "There are people who can jump freely in the shiny valleys! There, the Snow Queen set up her summer tent, but the palace she often lives in is on an island called Spitsbergen 2 near the Arctic."

"Ah, Gai, little Gai!" Gerda sighed.

"You have to lie quietly," said the little robber girl, "or I'll stab the knife into your belly!"

The next morning, Gerda told her everything the turtledove said. The little robber girl looked very serious, but she nodded and said, "It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter! Do you know where Lapland is?" she asked the reindeer.

"Who knows better than I do?" said the reindeer, his eyes twitching on his head. "I was born there, grew up there. I jumped over the snow there."

"Listen!" said the little robber girl to Gerda. "You must know: our men are gone. Only mother is still there, and she will stay here. But near noon, she will drink something from the big bottle, so she will take a nap, and I'll help you again!"

She jumped out of the bed, hugged her mother's neck, pulled her beard, and said, "Good morning, my dear old mother goat."

Her mother knocked her nose a few times, making her red and blue—but this was entirely based on real maternal love.

After mom drank something from the bottle, she fell asleep. The little robber girl walked to the reindeer and said, "I really want to stab you with a sharp knife, because you look funny. But it doesn't matter, I will untie your rope and let you run to Lapland. But you have to use your legs well and take this little girl to the palace of Queen Snow White—her playmate is there. You have heard what she said to me because she spoke loudly, and you are eavesdropping!"

The reindeer jumped up happily. The little robber girl carried the little Gerda to its back and carefully tied her up, even giving her a small mat as a seat.

"It doesn't matter," she said, "you'll wear your leather boots because the weather is getting colder. But I'm going to leave this hand warmer because it's cute! But you still won't feel cold. This is a pair of big gloves from my mother, and you can put them all the way to your elbow. Put them on! Your hands are really like my ugly mother's hands now."

Gerda cried happily.

"I can't stand it!" said the little robber girl. "You should look very happy now. Take these two pieces of bread and a piece of ham to avoid starvation."

These things were tied to the reindeer's back. The little robber girl opened the door and coaxed some of the big dogs into the room. So she cut the rope with a knife and said to the reindeer:

"You run away! But please take good care of this little girl!"

Gerda stretched her hands in big gloves to the little robber girl and said, "Goodbye!" So the reindeer ran up on the stumps and shrubs, through the woods, across the swamps and prairie, and ran as soon as possible. Jackals were whistling, and crows were croaking. "Shh!Shh!" This was the sound from the air. The sky seemed to be burning.

"That's my dear old Northern Lights!" said the reindeer, "Look, how bright it is!" So it ran faster, running day and night.

After the bread and ham were finished, they arrived in Lapland.

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1 Lapland is a place in Sweden, Norway and northern Finland, very cold.

2Spiyzbergen is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean and belongs to Norway.

The sixth story Lapland woman and Finnish woman

They stopped in front of a small house. The house was very simple; its roof was so low that it almost touched the ground; its door was so short that when the people in the family were about to go out and enter, they had to lie on the ground and climb. There was nothing in the house except an old woman, who now fryed fish on an oil lamp. The reindeer told all of Gerda's experiences, but it first talked about its own, because it felt that it was the most important. Gerda was so cold that he had no strength and could not even speak a word.

"Oh, you poor things!" said the Lapland woman, "The road you are going to run is still very long! You have to run more than three hundred Danish miles to get to Duffinmak 1, because the Snow White Queen is on vacation in the countryside there. She sets up blue fireworks every night. I will write a few words on a dry cod, because I have no paper, you can take it to a Finnish old lady-she will tell you more."

After Gerda warmed up for a while, ate and drank something, the Lapland woman wrote a few words on a dry cod, and told Gerda to take it well, and tie her to the reindeer's back, and the deer immediately jumped away, "Huh! Huh!" it said in the sky. The most beautiful, blue northern lights were shining all night.

Then they arrived at Finmark, and they knocked on the chimney of the Finnish woman, because she had no door.

The heat in the room was very hot, and the Finnish woman lived there almost naked. She was very small and dirty. She immediately untied Gerda's clothes and took off her big gloves and boots, otherwise Gerda would feel too hot. She put a piece of ice on the head of the reindeer and read the words written on the cod - she read them three times in a row. When she memorized the words, she threw the fish into a soup pot and cooked because it was edible, and she was a man who never wasted anything.

The reindeer first told her own story, and then told the story of Little Gerda. The Finnish woman blinked her smart eyes and said nothing.

"You are very smart," said the reindeer. "I know you can sew all the winds in the world together with a stitch. If the captain untied a knot, he can have good wind; if he looses the second knot, the wind will blow even harder; but when he untied the third and fourth knots, there will be a storm that can blow the woods down. Can you give this little girl something to drink so that she can have the power of 12 people to subdue the Snow Queen?"

"That's as powerful as 12 people!" said the Finnish woman, "this is so useful!"

She walked to the cabinet lattice, held a large bundle of skins, and opened it. It had many strange letters written on it. The Finnish woman read it until sweat dripped from her forehead.

However, the reindeer begged for the little Gelda very earnestly. Gelda himself looked at the Finnish woman with tears filled with tears. The woman also began to blink and led the reindeer to a corner of the wall. While putting a piece of fresh ice on its back, she said: "The little Gel is of course living with Queen Snow. He felt that everything was in his appetite and thoughts there. He thought that it was the most beautiful place in the world. But this was because there was a fragment of a mirror in his heart and a fragment of a mirror in his eyes. They must be taken out first, otherwise he will never be human. But Queen Snow will do all her strength to keep him!"

"But can you give the little Gerda something to give her the strength to overcome all difficulties?"

"I can't give her a greater power than all her current power: don't you see how great this power is? Don't you see how humans and animals serve her? Don't you see how many roads she has run in this world with barefoot? She doesn't need to know her own power from us. Her power is in her heart; she is an innocent and lovely child-that's her power. If she can't go to Queen Snow and take the glass fragments out of the little Gay, then we can't help her! Queen Snow's garden starts from the place that leaves the two Denmark roads here. You can take this little girl there: put her next to a large bush on the snow with red berries. Don't stay there and chat, hurry up and come back here!"

So the Finnish woman carried Gerda to the back of the reindeer and ran away as soon as possible.

"Oh, I didn't wear boots! I didn't wear big gloves!" the little Gelda shouted.

She felt the prickly coldness; but the reindeer dared not stop: it ran to the bush full of red currants in one breath. It put Gerda down and kissed her mouth, and a large shiny tears flowed to her face. It ran back as soon as possible. Poor Gerda stood there, in the terrible, cold Fenmark, without shoes or large gloves.

She ran forward desperately. A snowflake rolled over. It did not fall from the sky, because it was very clear and it also shot out the northern lights. The snowflakes rolled along the ground. The closer it approached, the bigger it became. Gerda remembered that when she looked out through the hot glass, how big and beautiful the snowflakes were. But here they looked very large and terrifying-they were alive. They were sentries of the Snow White Queen, and they were strangely shaped. Some looked like ugly big hedgehogs; some were like many snakes with their heads stretched out, and some were like chubby little fat bears with their hair standing upright. They were all white and alive.

The little Gerda was chanting the Lord's Prayer. The weather was so cold that she could see the breath she exhaled from her mouth like smoke. The breath became thicker and thicker, forming a bright little Angel. As soon as they touched the ground, they became bigger and bigger. They were all wearing helmets, holding spears and shields. Their number was increasing. When Gerda finished reading the prayer, a large army appeared around her. The soldiers stabbed these terrible snowflakes with spears and smashed the snowflakes into countless pieces. So the little Gerda moved forward steadily and bravely again. Angel caressed her hands and feet, so she felt less cold. She hurriedly advanced towards the palace of Queen Snow.

But now we need to see what Gayi is doing first. He didn't think of the little Gerda at all, let alone she was standing at the door of the palace.

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1Fenmark is a county in the northernmost part of Norway and a region in the northernmost part of Europe, and is extremely cold.

2 refers to the Northern Lights.

The Seventh Story What happened and the result in the Snow Queen's Palace

The walls of the palace are made of snow, and the biting cold wind is its windows and doors. There are more than a hundred houses here, all formed by snowflakes. The largest of them are several long Denmark miles long. The strong northern lights illuminate them; they are very large, very empty, very cold and very bright. There has never been any joy here, and there is not even a bear dance party. In fact, the blizzard is likely to play a little music here, allowing the polar bears to stand on their hind legs and perform their outstanding postures. They do not even have gadgets to hit their mouths or feet. The young white fox girls have never held any small tea party.

The Snow Queen's hall is hollow, vast and cold. The northern lights are so accurate that you can figure out when it is highest and when it is lowest. In the middle of this hollow, borderless snow hall there is a frozen lake - it cracks into a thousand pieces; but each piece is exactly the same as the other small pieces, so it is like a perfect set of art. When Snow Queen is at home, she sits in the middle of the lake. She herself says she is sitting in a sane mirror, and it is the only, the best mirror in the world.

The little Gai was cold blue - indeed, almost black, but he didn't feel that because the Snow White Queen kissed the chills on his body. His heart was like a piece of ice. He was carrying a few pieces of flat and sharp ice, trying to make something. It was like we wanted to make a pattern with a few pieces of wood - the so-called Chinese toys 1. Gai was also puzzled - the most complex pattern.

This is called the game of rational ice. In his eyes, these patterns are the most amazing and very important things; this is entirely because of the fragments of the mirror in his eyes. He put these patterns out and formed a word - but they can't form the word he hoped for - "eternity". So Queen Snow said: "If you can spell this pattern, then you are your own master. I will give you the whole world and a pair of new ice skates as a gift."

But he couldn't make it.

"Now I'm anxious to fly to the warm country!" said Snow White Queen, "I'm going to check out those black jars!" She's referring to those volcanoes, which we call Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius 2. "I'll make them whiter! There's this need; it's good for grapes and lemons."

So Queen Snow flew away. Gay sat alone in the large and empty ice hall with a few Denmark roads, staring at his ice cubes. He fell into deep thought, almost thinking about it. He sat straight and motionless, and people might think he was frozen to death.

At this time, the little Gerda happened to walk into the gate and came to the palace. The wind was very sharp here, but after she finished her evening prayer, the wind calmed down, as if she had fallen asleep. She walked into the wide, empty, cold room and saw Gayi. She immediately recognized him. She fell on him, hugged him, hugged him tightly, and shouted:

"Gayi, dear little Gayi! I finally found you!"

But he sat motionless, straight and cold. So little Gerda shed many hot tears. Tears flowed to his chest and penetrated into his heart, melting the snow in it, and breaking down the fragments of a small mirror in it. He looked at her and she sang a hymn:

The roses grow lushly in the valley,

There we meet the Holy Infant Jesus.

At this time, Gayi started crying. He cried so hard that even the mirror powder in his eyes flowed out. Now he recognized her, so he shouted happily: "Gerda, dear Gerda! Where have you been to so long? Where have I been to?" He looked around. "How cold is this place! How vast and empty is this place!"

He hugged Gerda tightly. She was so happy that she cried and laughed. They were so happy that even the ice cubes around her danced happily. When they lay down due to fatigue, the two of them formed a pattern of one word. Queen Snow once said that if he could spell this pattern, he would become his own master, and she would also give him the whole world and a pair of new ice boots.

Gerda kissed his cheeks: their cheeks were like blooming flowers; she kissed his eyes: their eyes were as bright as her own; she kissed his hands and feet, and he became healthy and lively again. Queen Snow could return home at this time, but the proof of his liberation had been printed on the ice cubes.

They walked out of the huge ice palace with their hands. They talked about their grandmothers and about the roses on the roof. Wherever they went, the wind stopped and the sun was exposed. When they came to the bush of red berries, the reindeer was waiting for them. It also brought another little doe. The doe was full of bulging, so she gave the two little children warm milk and kissed their mouths. They sent Gai and Gerda to the Finnish woman. They warmed her warm room for a while and got some instructions on the way home. Then they went to the Lapland woman. The woman had prepared new clothes for them and had repaired her sled.
To be continued...