Grimm's fairy tale "Little Farmer"

Once upon a time, there was a village where people were very rich. Only one person is so poor that he doesn't even have a cow, let alone have the money to buy it. Everyone called him "Little Farmer". He and his wife both want to have their own cows, so one day he said to his wife, "I have a good idea." The talkative carpenter said that he wanted to make our little cow exactly like a real cow, and then paint it brown, so that it would gradually become a real cow. "The woman thought it was a good idea, so the carpenter cut and planed, and finally made a wooden calf that was bowing its head and eating grass, and then painted it with color.

The next morning, Cowherd was driving Cowherd out of the village. The little farmer pulled him into the house and said, "Look, I have a calf and I can't walk by myself. You have to take it. " The shepherd then took the Xiao Mu cow to the pasture and put it in the middle of the meadow. Xiao Mu cows always bury their heads in grass. The shepherd said, "Look at its drive to bury its head in grass. It won't be long before it runs away by itself. "

In the evening, the shepherd intends to drive the cattle back to the village. He said to the cow, "since you can eat, eat enough." When you are full, you can go back to the village by yourself. I don't want to hold you anymore. " But the little farmer stood at the door waiting. When he saw the cowherd driving the cow to the village, but he didn't see the Xiao Mu cow, he asked the shepherd where the calf was. "Still eating grass in the pasture. It won't come back with me. " The little farmer said, "I must get the calf back."

They came to the pasture together, didn't see the calf, and didn't know who stole it. The shepherd said, "It must have run away by itself." The little farmer said, "Don't give me that." Pulling the shepherd, he went to the mayor to judge. The mayor condemned the shepherd for his carelessness and fined him a calf to the farmer.

In this way, the little farmer and his wife have a cow of their own. They are really happy for this long-awaited thing. But they were too poor to feed it, so they had to kill the cow soon. They salted the beef and skinned it, intending to sell it and buy another calf. He passed a mill and saw a crow with a broken wing. He picked it up sympathetically and wrapped it in cowhide. Suddenly it began to rain heavily, and he had to go to the mill to take shelter from the rain. The miller's wife is alone at home. She said to the little farmer, "Lie on the haystack over there." He was given another piece of bread and a small piece of cheese. After eating, the farmer put the cowhide beside him and lay on the haystack. The miller's wife thought he was tired and fell asleep there. At this time, the vicar came, and the miller's wife warmly received him and said, "My husband is not at home, so we can have a good meal." When the little farmer heard them talking about delicious food, he was very unhappy and thought that he had only eaten a piece of bread and a little cheese. I saw the woman serving four different foods: barbecue, salad, cake and wine.

They were about to sit down and enjoy themselves when they heard someone knocking at the door outside. The woman said, "Oh, my God! It's my husband! " She quickly hid the barbecue in the oven, stuffed the wine under the pillow, hid the cake under the pot, hid the salad on the pot, and finally hid the priest in the closet on the porch, then opened the door for her husband and said, "Thank God, you are back at last!" " The storm is too big, just like the end of the world. The miller saw the little farmer lying on the haystack and asked, "What is this guy doing here?" "

"Oh, the poor guy caught up with the rainstorm and asked for asylum. I gave him a piece of bread and a little cheese and brought him here. " The husband said, "Let's go and get something to eat quickly." But the woman said, "There is nothing but bread and cheese." "Anything will do." The husband replied, "I think bread and cheese are good now." He looked at the little farmer and asked, "Come and have some with me." The farmer was rude, so he got up to eat. At this time, the miller saw the cowhide and crow on the ground and asked, "What is that?" "There is a fortune teller inside." The farmer replied. "What can you predict?" Asked the miller. "Why not!" The farmer said, "But it only says four things at a time, and the fifth thing is only known to itself." The miller said curiously, "Then let it say something." Said the miller. So the farmer poked the crow and made it "yeah, yeah" several times. The miller asked, "What does it say?" The farmer said, "It says, first of all, there is a bottle of wine under the pillow." "My God!" The miller shouted and rushed under the pillow, and really took out a bottle of wine from under the pillow. "Let it go on." Said the miller. The farmer poked the crow again to make it cry and said, "This time it said there was barbecue in the oven." "alas!" The miller screamed and ran to the oven and found the barbecue. The farmer asked the crow to predict again and said, "This time it said there was salad on the table." "Great!" With that, the miller went to the edge of the jungle and found the salad there. The farmer poked the crow for the last time and said, "Fourth, there is a cake under the bed." "That's not bad!" As he spoke, the miller looked down and saw that there really was a plate of cake.

At this time, the two of them were eating together, and the miller's wife was scared to death. She locked all the cupboard doors, held the key in her hand and went to bed. But the miller wants to know the fifth thing. The farmer said, "I'd better finish these four things quickly first." The fifth thing is not a good thing. " After eating and drinking enough, the miller still wanted to know what it was, so they began to talk about terms and finally agreed on 300 gold coins. The farmer poked the crow on the head, which made it cry with pain. The miller asked, "What does it say?" The farmer said, "It says that the devil is hiding in the cupboard on your porch." "Then you must drive it away." The miller opened the door and the woman had to hand over the key. The farmer opened the cupboard door for her and the priest ran away. The miller said, "Really! I saw the little black man with my own eyes! " In this way, the farmer left the mill the next morning with 300 gold coins.

The little farmer gradually paid attention to it and built a new house. The farmer in the village said, "The little farmer must have gone to the place where the gold fell in the sky. People there must have scooped up the gold and carried it home." So they brought the small farmer before the mayor and forced him to tell where his wealth came from. He replied, "I sold the cowhide in the city and got 300 gold coins."

Other farmers heard that cowhide could be sold at such a high price, so they ran home and killed and skinned the cow, hoping to get it to the city and sell it at a good price. The mayor said, "Let my servant go first." When the servant went to town, the dealer who collected cowhide bought a cowhide for only two gold coins. When other farmers arrived, the businessman even refused to pay the price, saying, "What do I need so much cowhide for?"

Farmers feel cheated and want revenge in a rage. They accused the small farmer of lying in front of the mayor, and unanimously agreed to sentence the innocent small farmer to death, and put him in a bucket full of holes and sank into the river. So the little farmer was taken to the priest to make his last confession. At this time, others must go away. The little farmer recognized that the priest was the man at the miller's house that night, and said, "If I let you out of the cupboard, you should also let me out of the bucket." At this moment, a shepherd came with a sheep. The little farmer knew that he always wanted to be the mayor, so he shouted:

"no! I didn't! Even people all over the world want me to be me! " Hearing this, the shepherd came over and asked, "What are you shouting? What are you? " The farmer said, "They said I could be mayor if I wanted to put myself in this bucket. I don't want to! " "If that's all I have to do as mayor, I'm happy." With that, he let the little farmer out and went in by himself. The little farmer covered the barrel for him and drove his sheep away. The shepherd returned to the crowd and said that the prayer was over, so they came and pushed the bucket into the river. When the bucket began to roll, they heard someone say, "I want to be the mayor." But they thought it was the little farmer talking, so they said, "We really intend to make you a farmer." But you have to look down first. "Then he pushed the bucket into the river.

The farmers walked home from one end of the village, and the little farmer silently drove the sheep into the village from the other end, looking very satisfied. They were surprised and asked, "Where are you from? Is it from the water? " "Yes," said the farmer, "I kept sinking and sinking, and finally I sank to the bottom of the river and pushed open the lid of the bucket. It turned out to be a beautiful prairie, and countless lambs were grazing. So I brought a bunch back. " The farmers asked again, "Is there anything left in that village?" "Yes!" He replied, "more than I want." Farmers decided to drive a sheep back, too. But the mayor said, "I'll go first." They came to the river together, and the white clouds just floated in the blue sky and reflected in the water. The farmers shouted, "We have seen the sheepfold below!" "The mayor pushed to the front and said," I'll go down and have a look. If it is really a lot, I will call you. " With that, he jumped into the water, which sounded like calling people on the shore to go down, so a group of people jumped together. Now, the whole village is dead, and the small farmer has become the only heir and suddenly became a monopolist.