Adventures in the Fantasy Forest

Originally a story in Grimm's Fairy Tales, an animation based on this story:

On the edge of a big forest, there lived a poor woodcutter, and his wife and two children lived alone with him. His son's name is Hansel and his daughter's name is Gleiter. Their family was originally short of food and drink, but this year just happened to meet the soaring domestic prices, and the woodcutter's family ate every meal, and even the daily bread could not be guaranteed. On this day

at night, the woodcutter in trouble sleeping was so worried that he was lying in bed. He sighed and groaned. At last he said to his wife, "What shall we do?"! I don't have any food myself, so what can I do to support our poor child? "

"Listen to me, father," his wife replied, "Tomorrow morning, we'll take the children to a forest far away, make a fire for them there, and give each of them a small piece of bread. Then we'll pretend to do our work and leave them alone. They don't know the way and can't go home, so we don't have to

raise them. "

"No, honey," said the woodcutter, "I can't do that. How can I have the heart to leave my children in the jungle to feed the wild animals! "

"hey, you idiot," said his wife, "if not, all four of us will starve to death!" Then

she talked to him endlessly, and finally, he had to acquiesce.

At that time, the two children were too hungry to sleep, and they just heard all the conversations between their stepmother and their father. Hearing her stepmother's advice to her father, Gleiter began to cry sadly and said to Hansel, "Now we are all finished."

"Be quiet, Gleiter," Hansel comforted her. "Don't worry, I'll figure something out."

When the two adults were fast asleep, he put on his little coat, opened the back door and sneaked out of the room. At this time, the moonlight was

bright, and the bright moonlight shone on the white pebbles in the open space in front of the house, like pieces of silver coins.

Hansel crouched down and tried to fill his coat pocket with white stones. Then he went back to his room and said to Gleiter, "Don't worry, < P > Little sister, just have a good sleep. God will be with us."

with that, he went back to his crib to sleep.

Just before dawn, before the sun jumped out of the horizon, the woman woke up two children. "Get up, get up, you two slackers!" " She cried, "We're going into the mountains to cut wood." With that, she gave a child a small piece of bread and warned them, "This is your lunch, so don't eat it in advance, because you'll never get anything again." Gleiter took the bread and hid it under her apron, because Hansel's pocket was full of white stones.

then, the whole family headed for the forest. Hansel always walks for a while and then stops to look back at his home, and then stops to look back at his home. His father saw it and said, "Hansel, what are you always looking back at?"

concentrate on your way. "

"Oh, Dad," Hansel replied, "I'm looking at my white cat. He's crouching high on the roof.

He wants to say goodbye to me!"

"That's not your kitten, you idiot," said the stepmother. "That's the morning sun shining on the chimney." Its

real Hansel is not really looking at the kitten. He quietly takes the bright white stone out of his pocket and throws it on the road one by one.

When they reached the depths of the forest, their father said to them, "Hey, children, go and get some firewood, and I'll make a fire for you."

Hansel and Gleiter picked up many dead branches and piled them as high as a hill. When the dead branches were lit and the flame of the fire rose high, the stepmother said to them, "You two lie down by the fire and stay well. Your father and I will cut wood in the Woods." We'll take you home when we're done. "

So Hansel and Gleiter sat by the fire and waited for their parents to finish their work before picking them up. At noon, they ate their little piece of bread. Because they can always hear the thump and thump of an axe chopping trees,

they believe that their father is nearby. In fact, what they heard was not the sound of an axe at all. It was the sound of a dead branch tied to a small tree and hit the trunk under the wind. Brother and sister have been sitting

for a long time, and they are so tired that their upper eyelids and lower eyelids are fighting. Before long, they both fell asleep.

When they woke up from their dreams, it was dark night. Gleiter cried in fear and said, "Now we

can't find our way out of the forest!"

"Don't worry," Hansel comforted her. "When the moon comes out, we will soon find our way out of the forest."

Soon, when a full moon rose, Hansel took his sister's hand and walked along the road guided by those white stones shining on the ground like silver coins in the moonlight. They walked all night and returned to their father's door at the first break of dawn. They are knock knock, and it is their stepmother who answers the door. When she opened the

door, she saw Hansel and Gleiter, and said, "Why did you sleep in the forest for so long? We thought you

didn't want to go home!"

My father was overjoyed at the sight of the children, and he felt very sad because he abandoned the two children in cold blood.

Their family is living a hard life together again. But not long after, there was a nationwide famine. One night, the two children heard their stepmother say to their father, "Oh dear! We've eaten all we can eat, and only this half

loaf is left. What do you think we can do in the future? We still have to lighten the burden and throw away our two children! This

time, we can take them into deeper and farther forests, so that they can never find their way back. Only in this way can we save ourselves. "

The woodcutter was very sad when he heard his wife say that she would abandon the child. He thought to himself, it's better for everyone to share the last piece of bread with

. But like all men in the world, it is too difficult to say "no" to a woman, and the woodcutter is no exception. Just like the truth that "whoever puts on the halter must pull the cart"

, since the woodcutter made the first concession to his wife, he will certainly make the second concession, and

he will no longer object to her suggestion.

however, the children heard all their conversations. After his parents were asleep, Hansel got out of bed again and tried to sneak out of the door. Like last time, he went outside to pick up some pebbles, but this time he found the door locked by his stepmother. But he had a new idea in his heart. He comforted his little sister and said, "Don't cry, Gleiter, < P > don't worry, have a good sleep. God will help us. "

Early in the morning, the stepmother pulled the children out of bed. She gave each of them a piece of bread, but

it was much smaller than the last piece.

On the way to the forest, Hansel crushed his bread in his pocket, and stopped from time to time to scatter crumbs on the road.

"Hansel, what are you looking at in the back?" His father asked him when he saw that he was always falling behind.

"I'm looking at my little pigeon. It's standing on the roof and cooing goodbye to me." Hansel answered

.

"You idiot," cried his stepmother, "that's not your pigeon, that's the morning sun shining on the chimney." But Hansel scattered his crumbs bit by bit on the road.

their stepmother led them for a long time and came to a forest they had never been to. Like last time,

made a big fire, and the stepmother said to them, "Stay here, children, and take a nap if you are sleepy. We will go to a far place to cut wood, and we will pick you up when we finish the work."

At noon, Gleiter shared her bread with Hansel, because Hansel's bread was already scattered on the road. Then, they both fell asleep again. Until midnight, there was still no one to pick up the two poor children. They woke up in total darkness. Hansel comforted his sister and said, "When the moon comes out, we will see the crumbs I scattered on the ground. It will definitely show us the way home."

But when the moon rises, they can't find any crumbs on the ground. It turns out that they are all

pecked by birds flying around in the Woods and fields.

Although Hansel was a little anxious, he comforted his sister and said, "We will definitely find the way, Gert."

But they couldn't find their way. Although they walked for a day and a night, they just couldn't get out of the forest. They have been

dizzy with hunger, because they haven't eaten anything except a few mold found on the ground. At this time, they were

so tired that they couldn't even walk, and fell asleep under a tree.

It's the third morning since they left their father's house. They are lost in the jungle. If they don't get help again, they will die. At this moment, they saw a white and extremely beautiful bird standing on a branch and singing. It sang beautifully, and their brother and sister couldn't help but stop to listen to it. After singing the song, it spread its wings and flew in front of them, as if to signal them to follow it.

So they followed it until they came to the front of a hut, and the bird stopped on the roof of the hut.

Only then did they realize that the hut was actually made of delicious bread, with thick cakes on the roof and bright candy bars in the windows.

"Let's let go of our bellies," Hansel said. "Now it's time for us to have a good meal. I want to eat

a small piece of roof, Gleiter. You can eat the window. It must be delicious and sweet. "

With that, Hansel climbed up and broke off a small piece of roof and tasted it. Gleiter stood at the window, eating the sweet window with his mouth. At this moment, suddenly a voice came from the room:

"Chew! Chew! Chew, chew!

Who is eating my little house? "

The children replied:

"It's the wind, it's the wind,

it's a little doll in heaven."

they ate and answered without being disturbed at all.

Hansel thought the roof tasted particularly beautiful, so he took down another big piece. Gleiter also simply pulled out a small round window and sat on the ground to enjoy it slowly. Suddenly, the door of the house opened and an old woman came out trembling with a cane. Hansel and Gleiter were so scared that their legs trembled and the food in their hands fell to the ground.

The old woman shook her trembling head and said, "Good children, who brought you here? Come on,

come into the house with me, no one will hurt you here! "

As she said this, she took her brother and sister by the hand, led them into her hut, and prepared a sumptuous dinner for them, including milk, sugar cakes, apples and nuts. When the children finished eating, she made two small white beds for them. Hansel and Gleiter lay down on the beds and immediately felt that they were in heaven.

In fact, this old woman hides a knife in her smile, and her friendliness is only for them to see. In fact, she is an evil witch who

seduces children, and her house built with delicious food is to let children fall into her trap

. Once a child falls into her clutches, she will kill him and cook him and eat him. The witch's

red eyes can't see far, but her sense of smell is as sensitive as that of a wild animal, and she can smell people from far away. As soon as Hansel and Gleiter approached her house, she knew it, and she burst into laughter with joy. Then < P > sneered and made up her mind: "I will hold them firmly and never let them run away."

the next morning, she got up before the children woke up. Looking at the red and round faces of the two little guys, she couldn't help drooling: "What a delicious meal!" " Then he grabbed Hansel's little arm,

carried him into a small stable and locked him up with a fence. Hansel shouted in it, but it was useless. Then, the old witch went over and woke Gleiter up and shouted at her, "Get up, lazy girl! Go to

fetch water and cook something delicious for your brother. He's locked up in the stable outside. I'm going to fatten him up for nothing, and then I'll eat him. "

Gleiter was so sad that she burst into tears, but she still had to do what the old witch told her to do.

So Hansel can eat many delicious foods every day, while poor Gleiter only eats crab shells every day. Every

morning, the old witch goes trembling to the stable and calls Hansel, "Hansel, put out your finger

and let me feel if you have gained weight!" But Hansel always gives her a gnawed little bone.

The old witch with dim eyes can't see clearly at all. She really thinks it's Hansel's finger! She felt very puzzled. Why hasn't Hansel gained a little weight?

after another four weeks, Hansel still looks very thin. The old witch lost patience and threatened that she didn't want to wait any longer.

"Come here, Gleiter," she shouted at the little girl. "Go and fetch water quickly! Whether he is fat or thin, I will kill Hansel tomorrow and cook him. "

The poor little sister was forced to fetch water to cook her brother. She was very sad all the way, and tears streamed down

cheeks! "Dear God, please help us!" She shouted, "It is better to be eaten by wild animals when < P > was first in the forest, then we will always die together!"

While the old witch was away for a while, poor Gleiter seized the opportunity to run to Hansel's side and told him

everything she had heard:

"We must run away as soon as possible, because this old woman is an evil witch and she is going to kill us."

But Hansel said, "I know how to get out, because I've unlocked the bolt. However, you

have to steal her wand and the flute hanging in her room first, so that if she comes after us, we won't be

afraid of her. "

After Gleiter managed to steal both the wand and the flute, the two children ran away.

At this moment, the old witch came to see if her delicious meal was ready, and found that the two children were gone. Although her eyes were bad, she saw the two children who were running away from the window.

She flew into a rage. She quickly put on her Shuang Yi boots, which can walk a few yards away, and soon she will catch up with the two children. Seeing that the old witch was about to catch up with them, Gleiter turned Hansel into a lake with her stolen wand, and turned herself into a cygnet swimming in the lake. The old witch came

to the lake and threw some crumbs into the lake to cheat the little one.