Ginseng little men. Fan of the Japanese prince

HISTORY SECOND. WHO STole THE JAPANESE PRINCE'S FAN?

One morning, three sisters and a brother met in the hall of celebrations. The children must be five years old. On this occasion, the father and mother decided to arrange a grand celebration and invite crown princes and princesses from neighboring countries.
Mother doted on her children. The children grew up obedient, smart and, most importantly, friendly. And the children were very similar ... to their father, the king of the city of Yongmingchen. The third sister was especially similar to her father. Her name was Wild Plum. Well, if you already name the little princesses, then completely. I hope you don't let me down and tell the enemies of Yongmingchen City what the names of the heirs are. The boy was named Ginseng. The first sister was named Peach, the second was named Peony, and the third was named Wild Plum.
Children responded to these names at various ceremonies.
At home, in the queen's quarters, the children were named after their mother. One of the sisters was named Phoenix, the other was Unicorn, and the third daughter was affectionately called Tigress by her mother. The son remained Ginseng. That was his home name.
Ginseng loved books. Peach - to sing, draw and treat animals, Peony - to guess and guess riddles, hear what birds and people think about. Wild Plum could do everything everyone else could, but she could also climb trees, ride a horse, shoot a bow, and fight. She was proficient in martial arts.
There were five days left before the fifth anniversary when the first delegation arrived. The Crown Prince of the Japanese Emperor Takeshi sailed from across the sea. The Japanese prince was settled in the palace where Prince Ginseng lived. The Chinese princess arrived the next day. The army that accompanied the princess was so huge that the people of Yongmingchen became worried.
Those who did not know that the Fifth Anniversary holiday was approaching thought that the war had begun. The Chinese princess settled in the chambers that were reserved for Princess Peach. The Korean princess arrived on the third day. The army that accompanied her was not so numerous, but the Korean princess had a very beautiful and unusual dress.
The Korean princess was settled in the chambers of Princess Pion. The army that accompanied the Russian princess was very small. However, the soldiers of the Russian Tsar had an unusual uniform. The soldiers wore beards and spoke in low voices. The Russian princess was blonde and blue-eyed. The princess was very tired, she had to get to Yongmingchen the longest. She has been on the road for almost a month. The Russian princess enjoyed walking around the palace in which she was settled. She was lucky, the Wild Plum Palace was the largest in Yongmingchen City.
The King of Yongmingchen ordered that the guests be given every respect and the warmest welcome.
When there was one day left before the holiday, Princess Wild Plum appeared in Ginseng's room. Since the children had to give up their palaces to the guests, they were temporarily placed in the palace of the queen mother.
Ginseng was solving a chess problem when Wild Plum burst in without knocking
“Brother,” she said excitedly, “I trained in the forest and this is what I found.
Princess Wild Plum gave her brother a fan.
— Where did you find it? Ginseng was surprised.
“Five kilometers from here. Do you remember where the wall stands, which was left from the palace of the Bohai king. Everything was overgrown with trees, and no one could stop me from training.
The King of Yongmingchen ordered a tutor from the state of China for Princess Wild Plum. The king was serious about the education of children and did not spare money for teachers. Today's lesson was to learn how to run up walls. Actually, it was homework. The lesson with the teacher took place yesterday.
Ginseng turned the fan in his hands. The prince was an observant boy and immediately noticed that the fan had only recently been made.
“The fan is new,” Ginseng said and returned the fan to Wild Plum.
- Why do you think so? - the sister was surprised, - maybe he lay there for a long time? Maybe some court lady from the royal palace of the former king lost this fan.
“Look carefully,” the brother laughed, “the hieroglyphs are still fresh!” They were applied this morning, or yesterday. Here, a few hieroglyphs have even been erased. The one who wrote these hieroglyphs tried very hard, but put too much ink on the pen, and the writing did not have time to dry.
“And what do we do with this fan now?”
- Call your sisters. This is where we all need to think together.
Princess Peony played the flute, but immediately put down the instrument as soon as the Wild Plum called her.
For a long time they could not find Princess Peach, finally the princess's nanny said that Princess Peach was at the stable, treating one of the horses with a medicine that she herself had made from herbs. Princess Peach was forbidden to do this, so the nanny asked Wild Plum not to tell anyone about her sister's secret.
Finally, all four gathered in the games room.
Wild Plum told the sisters about the find.
The sisters twirled the fan for a long time, but could not add anything to what Prince Ginseng had already said.
Finally, Princess Peony spoke up. She was the tallest among the sisters, but alsoMay is timid.
“If my brother allows me, I will call on my beloved bird to help,” the princess said in a quiet and gentle voice.
“Yes, of course,” Ginseng nodded his head, “do as you see fit.”
The peony called the bird. When the bird flew in, Peony chirped a few sounds, the bird clicked its beak several times and flew away.
Peony turned to her brother and sister
- Do you understand everything?
Ginseng, Peach and Plum nodded their heads
“Yes, we all understood,” Princess Peach repeated, “it’s a pity that we don’t know how to speak the language of birds and animals, just like you. Well at least we understand what they are talking about!
But not everyone has the same gift that four children had, so I will explain what Princess Peony asked the bird and what answer she received. Peony asked the bird to fly to the place where the fan was found and to interrogate the birds that live near the place where Wild Plum trained. The bird clarified what place they were talking about, Peony said that the fan was found where the castle of the Bohai king used to stand a hundred or two hundred years ago.
While the bird was away, Ginseng invited the sisters to play chess.
The birds were gone for a very long time. After finishing playing chess, Prince Ginseng picked up the fan again. He examined it from all sides, and then told the sisters.
- But this fan was intended for us!
The sisters did not believe their brother, and Ginseng was forced to explain to the sisters why he thinks so.
“Dear sisters,” the brother smiled, “you all examined the fan together, but did not see anything. This is because you really wanted to get inside the fan. However, the fan is locked. You became annoyed, and you stopped thinking about the riddle of the fan. However, I will prove to you that you can find out who the fan is for without even opening it!
“Dear brother,” laughed Wild Plum, “are you boasting again?
“Look,” Prince Ginseng took the fan and, ignoring his sister’s words, raised the thing above his head, “the fan is closed, of course, but look at its side surfaces!” Probably, the fan consists of four plates! And now look! The first sidewall is painted green - this is the color of the Phoenix!
“Yes,” Peony clapped her hands, “this is my color!”
“The second one is in blue-violet-black — that’s the color of the Wild Plum!”
The princess nodded her head!
- The third, - but the prince did not have time to finish, when Peaches snatched the fan from him.
- The third color is mine! Unicorn color!
“Yes,” Ginseng nodded, “this is your color!”
And the fourth color is mine! Black is the color of a warrior! The color of a man! Look! The fourth plate from below is edged with sharply sharpened metal. The fourth plate is that plate of a warrior! Sister, did you scratch yourself when you lifted the fan?
- No, - Wild Plum smiled, - thanks for your concern, brother, but I am also a warrior, even though I am a girl, and I know what these plates are for.
The girls grabbed the fan again and began to twist it in all directions, but at that moment the bird returned.
She flew with difficulty. It was clear that she was seriously injured. Princess Peony hugged the bird to her.
The bird told Peony everything she had learned and hung her head on her side.
Peony recounted everything she had learned from the bird and burst into tears. Peach immediately took the bird from Peony's hands and rushed to her room, promising her sister-princess that she would save her beloved bird.
Now the brother and sisters knew who stole the fan, find out about it you too!
However, for this we will have to go back four years.
When the children were one year old, an old woman came to Yongmingchen and brought her daughter with her. The old woman wanted the king to marry her daughter and make her the second queen. However, the king informed the old woman that for a year now, his order to search for a second wife had been canceled. The king now had four children, and he did not need a second wife. The old woman fell at the king's feet and confessed that she now had nothing.
To buy her daughter's wedding dress, the old woman sold everything that was in the house. And then she sold the house as well, because she needed money for the road. Yongmingchen was far from her village. The old woman, along with her daughter, traveled to Yongmingchen for six months and therefore did not hear that the decree had been canceled. The queen invited the old woman and her daughter to stay in the palace. The daughter of an old woman could become a court lady of the queen. However, the old woman only hissed angrily and left. The daughter really wanted to stay and live in a beautiful palace, but her mother did not allow her. They settled on a hill where eagles lived, and the old woman built a white monastery with the rest of the money. Now the queen, king and children began to pursue misfortune. The old woman turned out to be an evil witch.
From that day on, it happened like this: an evil witch lived on one hill, and a kind one lived on the other. People bypassed the White Monastery, they went to the Red Monastery for help. The king and queen were afraid of the white witch and did not dare to drive her out of the city. The white witch especially disliked children. She tried all the time to destroy them, but the red sorceress was on the alert and did not allow the plans of the white shaman to come true.
The daughter of a white shaman was a beautiful, but naive and stupid girl. The shaman turned the girl into various animals all the time and tried to use it for her own purposes. But here's what's interestingdream: even turning into an animal, the girl still remained beautiful and meek. As a result, all the animals that the Jasmine Branch turned into, that was the name of the daughter of the sorceress, were just as beautiful and kind. And just as clueless.
This is what the bird told Princess Peony. An evil witch turned her daughter into a white monkey and told her to steal a fan from one of the guests invited to the party. The monkey stole the fan. Running past the forest, she began to play with the fan, and then dropped it.
The nature of monkeys is such that they lose interest in what they have lost. The monkey did not look for the fan. She immediately forgot about him and, clinging to the branches of trees, jumped towards the white monastery. A little later, Princess Plum found this fan. It was now clear to the children who had stolen the fan. But there were two more questions: why did the old woman send her daughter to steal the fan? And who was the man from whom the fan was stolen?
The princesses were tired and wanted to sleep. It was time for midday nap. The brother said goodbye to the sisters, and they went to their bedrooms. Prince Ginseng also tried to sleep, but couldn't! Finally, sleep overtook him. After sleeping and having an afternoon snack, the children again gathered together. After the rest, everyone was cheerful, cheerful and everyone's head worked well. Princess Peach said she saved the bird. During the treatment, the bird told Princess Peach that, at the moment when she was asking the surrounding birds, an eagle flew at her, who lived on Eagle Hill with a sorceress, and almost pecked her to death. The eagle was looking for a fan that the monkey had dropped.
Prince Ginseng took out the fan again and examined it carefully once more.
“The fan means something to the white shaman!” That's just what? How would you know?
“We need to find out who owns the fan, then everything will become clear!” - Wild Plum said thoughtfully, - Since the fan was made especially for us, then this is one of the invited guests!
“Well done little sister,” Prince Ginseng clapped his hands, “let’s all think together!”
— A Korean princess, a Japanese prince, a Chinese princess and a Russian princess came to visit us.
“That’s the thought that came to me,” Princess Peony sang, “the master is the one who writes in hieroglyphs!”
- But sister, all three can write hieroglyphs, and for the fourth, the Russian princess, a special person who knows the art of writing hieroglyphs could write! Peach laughed.
- No, sister Peach, you are wrong, Peony said the right thing, we need to peep which of the guests writes, and we will find the owner!
“Wait,” Peaches stopped laughing, “I remembered!” The bird said that she survived because the eagle was in a hurry and did not look to see if the bird he attacked was still alive. The mistress told the eagle to find a fan today! And she said that tomorrow she would no longer need a fan!
“It means that we also don’t have time,” Prince Ginseng saddened, “it takes a very long time to search for the handwriting!”
“We must look for that guest whom the loss of a fan can do much harm to! Princess Wild Plum reminded her brother and sisters, “I can climb the wall into the rooms where the guests are now living and rummage through their notebooks, but this is not good!” And, as Ginseng says, it will not give anything!
— Yes, this is a complex riddle and it must be solved today, now! - Prince Ginseng raised his finger, - say, who is thinking about what!?
“The loss of a fan for all three overseas princesses does not mean anything,” Ginseng spoke again, seeing that the sisters were silent, “well, they will scold them at home ... Not even that, usually the servants pay for the loss for some reason. Call the servants!
But the crown prince of the emperor of Japan, if this fan, of course, belongs to him, will be punished seriously! Unfortunately, Prince Takeshi will have to punish himself!
- What is it like? Princess Peony was scared
The prince is already 10 years old. His father treats him like an adult. And therefore, if it turns out that the prince could not fulfill the order of the emperor, then the prince will have to kill himself.
The princesses were so frightened that for some time there was crying in the room. Finally everything calmed down
— But what to do? Peach asked, “we can’t let such a pretty boy suffer because of the wickedness of the sorceress!” He is so polite! And he has such a beautiful saber!
“The most important thing is to understand why the sorceress needed to steal this particular gift!”
- I understand! - Wild Plum suddenly shouted, - Last week my teacher told me about the strange laws that reign in Japan. If the prince does not comply with the emperor's command, he must make himself a sipuku! That is to kill yourself. The emperor will be proud of his son. But in the depths of his soul, the emperor will be hurt, because his son will die due to the fact that it was in our country that a gift was stolen. The emperor will not show the form, but in his soul he will grieve. And as soon as a reason presents itself, he will go to war against our country. And then we all die. After all, Yongmingchen is only a small city, and Japan is a great and ancient country!
“That means what the idea of ;;the White Shaman was!” Fortunately, I have the best and smartest sisters in the world,” Ginseng laughed, “and we will prevent trouble!”
- And dad and mom evenThey won’t know that we stopped the war from starting,” Princess Peach laughed.
- Well? - Wild Plum looked around at everyone, - did everyone understand who will return the fan to its place?
“Yes,” the brother and sisters shouted, “we understand that you will do it!”
The kids started throwing pillows. Don't forget that they were only five years old and it was hard for them to stay serious for long. Then Wild Plum took the fan and went secretly to the palace where the son of the Japanese emperor now lived. Climbing the wall for her, as you already understood, was not difficult. The fan was delivered to its destination!
The next day, during the presentation of gifts, Prince Takeshi solemnly opened the lock on the fan and the sisters saw that Brother Ginseng was right. Each plank on the fan had its own color. When the fan was opened, it turned out that each plate was decorated with its own riddle. The birthday people guessed riddles and received gifts from the Japanese prince. And then the celebration began. But that's a completely different story. Which I will tell tomorrow.
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