Ginseng little men. Korean princess dress

HISTORY FOUR. WHERE DID THE KOREAN PRINCESS DRESS DISAPPEAR?
 

There was an official reception of those guests who will participate in the competition. The competition was called "Bokkai Goku". The translation of the name "Bokkai Goku" is very simple - "Bohai Music". And in this competition, the prince and princesses will be called by official names. I already named the names of the princesses in the previous tale, the prince was the future ruler of Yongmingchen, and therefore I will not name his secret name yet.
Ginseng was a strange boy. More than anything, he loved to solve riddles. No matter what: chess, mathematical, fairy-tale - any riddles. And he really liked to help those who were in trouble, and unravel all sorts of mysterious incidents. This does not mean that the boy was sitting in his palace all day long. Ginseng loved to ride a horse, shoot from a bow, write in calligraphy, and could compose a poem in an evening. And the boy had many talents, which I will tell you about later.
One morning Nurse Ginseng brought the news. The contest, which was supposed to take place tomorrow, has been cancelled. The ceremonial dress of a Korean princess is missing. The king suspected a white shaman of the theft, but it turned out that she was not in the city. The shaman left the city three days ago on some business of her own. The queen's astrologer suspected the shaman's daughter of stealing, whom the shaman had not taken with her. But the girl could not steal the dress. The mother left her daughter in an altered state. The white witch turned her daughter, Jasmine Branch, into a fox. Moreover, so that her daughter would not run away, she put the fox on a thin chain. Ginseng is depressed. He so wanted to show off his talents together with his sisters. Sisters and brother adored all sorts of contests. Before the prince had time to digest one piece of news, there was another knock on the door of his chambers. Princess Peony has arrived.
So, there was a knock on the door, and Princess Pion ran into the prince's chambers. As you remember, Princess Peony had a favorite bird. Peony understood the language of birds and animals, and the bird often helped her. So today, Princess Peony sent the bird on some business, but the bird immediately returned. She excitedly chirped the news to the hostess. In the branches of a tree that is almost outside the city, Princess Peony's bird saw a boy who was trying to hide from his pursuers.
The boy looked strange, even ugly, in the eyes of a bird. The boy had white-white skin, light eyes and light brown hair. Peony saw the Russian princess and the servants who arrived with the princess, and therefore the description of the boy did not really surprise her. She was excited, but for a different reason. If the boy that the bird saw is one of those who arrived with the Russian princess, then what is he doing on the tree, and who is he afraid of? It was with this question that Princess Peony turned to her brother. Ginseng was no less excited.
The leaves from the trees had long since fallen, and the pursuers, whoever they were, would be able to easily find the boy. Soon all four children were on their way to the spot where the bird had seen the boy hiding. The bird flew ahead. Flying up to the tree, the bird suddenly started up, froze, and rushed to the hostess, the princess. Peony listened attentively to the birdie, and stopped the horse she was riding. After waiting for her brother and sisters to arrive, she told them the news. The boy, like her, hears the thoughts of birds and animals and can talk to them. The children were surprised. Peony was especially impressed.
She was sure that, in all of Yongmingchen, she was the only one who could hear the thoughts of birds and beasts from a distance. The children consulted, and then sent the bird forward again, but now the bird had a specific task. She needed to talk to the boy and warn that four, the prince and the princesses, were rushing to his aid. It turned out that help arrived on time, the boy almost fell into the hands of the children. The boy was thin, pale, his skin had a waxy hue. However, the boy spoke well in the language spoken by the children. His speech was correct and sonorous, and if it were not for the outlandish appearance, one would have thought that the boy was a native of the city of Yongmingchen. The prince gave the boy his cloak and put him on his horse in front of him. The children secretly took the malnourished boy to the palace, fed him, and only then asked him to tell his story. The boy's name was V. He was a slave. For as long as he could remember, he had lived in Yongmingchen.
The boy had no parents. From early childhood he lived in the palace of the king's astrologer. The king and queen had different astrologers. Everyone has their own. If the queen's astrologer was a gentle and kind person, and made his predictions according to the stars, then the king's astrologer was a real sorcerer. Evil sorcerer. He did not so much study the stars as he did dark magic. The king's sorcerer bought a white-skinned boy when the baby was only 2 years old. And now V was already seven years old.
By the age of five, the white-skinned slave knew everything that the sorcerer knew. The boy never went outside, he knew that a huge world was raging outside the windows of the palace, but the sorcerer never allowed him to even open the windows. InjectionDong had two more students. And then one day, V overheard their conversation. It turns out that, at the hour when the boy is 8 years old, the sorcerer will kill him and take away his gift. V really had a gift that only he had. He could hear the voices of trees, flowers, birds, animals. Even the hills surrounding Yongmingchen could speak. And the boy heard their voices.
The sorcerer did not possess such a gift, although he had lived on the lands of Yongmingchen for more than 900 years. He outlived the Bohai and Jurchen kings. The sorcerer was going to live on, but for this he needed the magical power of V and his life. V escaped as soon as he found out about the plans of the sorcerer. There were still six months before the boy's birthday, but V ran away at the same moment when he realized why the evil sorcerer needed him. The children understood that the sorcerer would not rest until he found V, and the queen's mother's palace was a weak defense against the omnipresent eyes of the evil astrologer. Peony enjoyed talking to V. It was a wonder to her that someone other than her brother and sisters could talk to those whom people considered stupid and low. With birds and animals. Peony was upset that she would have to part with a white-skinned boy, but she understood that they had no other choice. Wild Plum went to Mo.
Remember another little boy who was helped by the king's heirs? It was in the previous story. The four ginsengs then unraveled the mystery of the broken vase, and saved Brother Mo from certain death. Princess Plum asked Mo for help. Mo conveyed the princess's request to his brother, whose name was Li. The brother was not very pleased with the request of the princess. Lee was afraid of the royal sorcerer, but promised to fulfill the princess's request. Three days have passed. Early in the morning, V, dressed in the clothes of a boy from a noble family, sat in a palanquin. The children found a remedy to darken the boy's hair and skin. Now only the eyes could betray V, but the children could not do anything about it. Ginseng was sure that if he had three more days to spare, he would have solved this problem, but they did not have time.
The palanquin was carried by four porters. Lee rode a horse behind them. In parting, Peony tore off a button from her dress and put it in Vee's palm. The buttons on the princess's dress were made of precious jade and, in case of need, could save the boy from hunger. Moreover, with such a button, V could buy himself a luxurious house with a stable and a garden. V was grateful to Peony, and all the way he held the gift of a beautiful girl to himself, afraid of losing it inadvertently. Ginseng instructed Li to take V as far away from Yongmingchen as possible. The prince had jewels that were given to him for his birthday. Ginseng gave Li some of the jewels to take care of V's white boy's future.
After V left, Princess Peony walked around sad for a whole week. The sisters consoled her as best they could. And what about the dress of the Korean princess, you ask? Everything is fine with the dress. V, before leaving, told his new friends that he saw a piece of bright fabric, not far from where he was hiding. Four children went there, and, indeed, they soon found a dress. Near the dress, in the bushes, Peaches noticed a patch of red fur. The dress was also torn in some places. The wind carried it and ruffled it, and only the bushes stopped the flight of a beautiful dress.
All three sisters were famous as skilled embroiderers. This art was taught to them personally by the Queen. In the long winter evenings, she taught her daughters to embroider and told them stories. The sisters sewed up the dress so carefully that even the most captious seamstress would not notice the place of the darning. Wild Plum delivered the dress to its destination - to the dressing room of the great Korean princess. Soon the joyful news spread around the palace, the dress of the Korean princess was found!
And the next news made the four ginsengs very happy, the Bokkai Goku competition was scheduled for tomorrow. At midnight, Princess Peach burst into Peony's room, together they woke up the third sister and went to their brother's chambers. Peach found the clue to the dress thief by accident. Are you still curious to know who stole the dress of the Korean princess? Princess Peach had a favorite snake, Rose. The snake was going through a difficult period right now. She was shedding, shedding the old snake skin. While comforting Poppy, Peach suddenly realized who had stolen the dress.
Find out about this and you. The conclusion of the queen's astrologer was wrong. He thought that the daughter of the white shaman, Jasmine Branch, could not steal the dress because she was in the form of a fox. The girl's mother, a white witch, when turning her daughter into a fox, also did not take into account one thing: foxes have their own magic.
Turning into a fox, and waiting for her mother to leave the city, Jasmine Branch easily turned from a fox into a beautiful woman. The chain was broken. But here's the problem. The mother hid all her daughter's dress when she decided to turn her into a fox. So the dress had to be stolen. However, if you really steal, then the most beautiful! And the fox stole the dress of the Korean princess. However, I immediately realized that I had made a mistake. The search for the dress has already been announced. Smelling the smell of a flock of foxes, the girl threw her dress, and, again turning into a fox, ran away. The shaman never saw her daughter again. They say the hunters later sawand a beautiful fox. When they overtook her, the fox disappeared. But later, one of the young hunters came across a naked girl not far from the hunting place.
The girl lay down and wept bitterly. The hunter gave the girl his jacket and took her home. At first, the girl could not remember her name, and at night, either she cried, or howled at the moon, but then everything returned to normal. The hunter married a beautiful girl and was happy. Whether this is true, no one can say now, but what is absolutely certain is that the daughter never returned to her mother again.
By the evening of the next day, the children no longer remembered the dress. They were preparing for the competition, which was already to be held the next morning.
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