Stone man

Stone man

A long time ago, there was a king and queen. They were young and beautiful, but they had no children.

One day, a black man offered an herb, saying that if he drank it, he would give birth immediately. The queen ordered the cook to decoct the medicine, but she did not tell her what the medicine was for. After the cook decocted the medicine, out of curiosity, she tasted it before giving it to the queen. Soon, the queen and the cook were both pregnant, and after full term, they each gave birth to a baby, the most beautiful baby in the world. One was named Daphne, and the other was named Affin.

Many years passed, and Prince Duffin looked through a small telescope and saw a castle built entirely of gold. In the castle lived a girl who was as delicate as a flower and as beautiful as a fairy. From then on, the prince became lovesick, and the wizard told the king that the child would not get better unless he married Princess Kiralina. The king sent messengers to Kiralina's country, but her father did not want her to marry.

Hearing the news, the prince decided to go and propose to her in person. He told Affin about it. The next day, they set off together. They got a way to find Princess Kiralina from Mother Spring Breeze.

Dalfen and Affin continued on their way. Until dusk, when suddenly they heard the roaring sound of the river, and saw a big river with black lacquer flowing in front of them, and the black lacquer water was roaring and throwing stones into the sky. The prince was terrified, but Affin said, "Don't be afraid, come with me into the forest, and do what I tell you to do."

They went into the forest and saw the fairies' wood, so they rode on the dirt and kicked it three times with their boots, and the wood immediately became a chariot of twelve dragons. The chariots flew as high as the wind, and finally fell in front of the gate of Princess Kiralina. As soon as they landed, the chariot turned into a piece of wood again, and Prince Duffin and Affin were standing under the sapphire-studded castle.

Princess Killarine, dressed in gold adorned with pearls, sat by the window.

As soon as she saw the prince, she fell in love with him so passionately that she fell ill, so ill that it was feared that she would not live long.

The poor king was very sad that he could not improve his daughter's illness by all means. One day, an old witch came to him and said, "Oh, Your Majesty, may you live long! If you want your daughter to recover, just find a golden deer that sings like a bird, and you must let her stay in the house for three days, and you will see that the princess will recover quickly."

The king sent ambassadors to the whole country. Three days later, the cook's son Affin patted the wood three times with his hand, and the wood immediately turned into a beautiful golden deer. Affin hid the prince and sent him into Princess Kiralina's room to meet the princess.

At noon, the king and Affin came in, and Affin had come to collect his golden deer. Princess Kiralina suddenly said in tears that she could not let the deer go, and Affin whispered to her quickly: "Ask the king to let you send the golden deer to the gate of the city. A chariot of twelve fire dragons will be waiting for us there. We get in the chariot, and it will take us to the country of the beautiful prince, your sweetheart."

The king granted Princess Kiralina's request. The princess took a large entourage and sent the golden deer out of the city. When they reached the city gate, Affin patted the golden deer three times on its stomach, and the golden deer immediately turned into a chariot of twelve fire dragons. He pulled Princess Kiralina and Daffin up, and in an instant, the chariot took them without a trace. After a long, long time, they reached the other side of the world - the country of Daffin and Affin.

One day, the princess - now the queen - Kiralina bought a robe to wear, and soon she became ill, and it was getting worse and worse, and people said she was dying.

When Affin heard the news of the queen's illness, he went into her room in the middle of the night and poured on her the tears of turtledoves that had already been collected. The guards caught him and said he had insulted the queen.

Affin recounted to King Duffin the experience he and the king had a long time ago when they went to marry the queen. When he talked about taking King Duffin to the Black Forest and riding on the fairy's wood across the dark river, his knees began to turn into stone. Seeing this, the ministers and the queen were horrified, but Affin continued. When he talked about how he turned the wood into a golden deer and told the king to hide inside so that he could see the queen, everything from the waist down turned to stone. At this time, the king and queen realized that Affin was innocent, and began to cry and begged him to stop talking, but Affin refused. When the story was over, Affin's whole body was turned to stone. King Duffin and Queen Kiralina wept for three days and three nights, and then descended the stone body of their benefactor and moved it to their room to remember him forever.

A few years later, they had a child.

One morning, King Duffin and the queen had the same dream, dreaming that a woman in white said that if he wanted to bring his stone brother back to life, they had to poke their children to death and put blood on the stone man. So they killed their own children, and when they sprayed the baby's blood on the stone statue, the stone man shook and was resurrected in a moment.

"Oh, dear brother," said the king, "if we had not killed our child and spilled his blood on you, you would have slept here forever."

Affin was very moved when he heard this. He pricked his finger and let the blood drip on the child, and the child was immediately brought back to life. The king held a grand banquet, and the whole country was immersed in joy.