Musicians from Bremen
Fables are a type of literary genre. A story that contains an allegorical or obvious moral lesson. It has a short structure and often uses metaphorical techniques to embody instructive themes or profound truths in simple stories. Below I recommend two fables rich in philosophy. You are welcome to read and appreciate them. More exciting stories are available in Chinese Language Fans.
(1) Musicians from Bremen
Once upon a time, there was a man who raised a donkey. It has been working tirelessly to carry bags of wheat to the mill for grinding for many years; but its strength is gradually running out and it is increasingly unable to work. The owner wanted to take it out of the pen and kill it. The donkey heard the bad news and fled to Bremen. It wanted to be a town musician there. It walked for a while and saw a hunting dog lying on the road and yawning, as if he was tired from running. The donkey asked: "Well, hunting dog, why are you yawning?" The dog said: "Ah, because I am old and my strength is getting weaker day by day, and I can no longer hunt; my master wants to kill me, so I escaped; But how will I earn a living now?" said the donkey. "You see, I'm going to Bremen to be a town musician there; you go with me, and let the music band hire you. I'll play the piano and you the drums." The dog agreed, and together they went to Go forward. Not long after, they met a cat sitting on the side of the road with a very sad face. The donkey said: "Well, Old Beard, what are you unhappy about?" The cat replied: "Whose life is in danger, can he still be happy? I am old and my teeth are blunt, and I only want to sit I was snoring behind the stove and refused to catch mice, so my mistress wanted to drown me; although I escaped, there was nothing I could do about it. Where should I go?" "Come with us to Bremen. You can play nightly music and you can be a town musician." The cat thought it was great and went along. Later, the three refugees who had fled their hometown walked past the door of the farm and saw a rooster standing in front of the door and shouting as loud as possible. The donkey said: "Why do you bray so horribly?" The rooster said: "I am predicting good weather, because today is the feast day of the Virgin washing and drying the clothes of the little Christ. Tomorrow is Sunday, and there are guests coming. The housewife is cruel and crows The female chef Ming Yao used me to make soup and asked her to kill my head tonight. Now I want to scream loudly while I am still alive." The donkey said: "Hey, red head, what are you talking about? Come with us. , let's go to Bremen. No matter where you go, it will be better than death. You have a good voice. It will be fun if we play music together." The rooster agreed, and the four of them walked together.
But they could not go as far as Bremen in one day. They came to a forest at night and had to spend the night there.
The donkey and the dog lay down under a big tree; the cat and the rooster climbed among the branches; but the rooster flew to the top of the tree, where he was safest. Before the rooster went to sleep, he looked around in all directions. When he saw a spark in the distance, he said to his mate that there must be a house not far away because there was a lamp burning. The donkey said: "Then we should get up and go there, because this is not a good place to pay attention." The dog thought, there might be a bone there, and there might be some meat on it, and it would be good for it to go there. So they got up and went to the place where the lamp was lit. Soon they saw the light brighten, and get brighter and brighter. They came to a brightly lit robber's house. The donkey was the tallest. He walked to the window and looked inside. The Cock asked, "Gray Horse, what do you see?" The Donkey replied, "What do I see?" A table was covered with a tablecloth, and on it lay good food and drink; and the robbers sat beside it and feasted. Shouted. "I wish it was ours," said the rooster. "Ah, yes, yes, I wish we could sit there," said the donkey. So they discussed how to drive away the robbers. Finally they came up with a solution. The donkey climbed on the windowsill with its front feet, the dog jumped on the donkey's back, the cat climbed on the dog, and finally the rooster flew up and stood on the cat's head. After standing thus, they gave a signal, and all began to play music. Donkeys brayed, cats brayed, cocks crowed, and dogs barked: then they burst into the room through the windows, and the glass broke with a crashing sound. When the robbers heard this frightening howl, they jumped up, thinking that a monster had come in. They were very frightened and fled into the forest. Then the four friends sat down at the table and ate and drank the remaining food with satisfaction. , as if I had been hungry for a month. After the four musicians had finished eating, they blew out the lights and went to find a comfortable place to sleep according to their own instincts. The donkey lay on the dunghill, the dog lay behind the door, the cat lay among the hot ashes of the stove, and the rooster squatted on the roof beam. They had traveled a long way, were very tired, and soon fell asleep. Midnight passed, and the robbers saw from a distance that there were no lights in the house and everything seemed quiet. The leader said: "Let's not be afraid." So he sent a man to reconnoiter the house. When the man saw that everything was quiet, he went to the kitchen to light a lamp. He used the red cat's eyes as burning coals and took them. Holding a sulfur match to light a fire. But the cat didn't know how to joke. It jumped on his face, spat and scratched him. He was startled and jumped up quickly, trying to get out through the back door. The dog lay there, jumped up and bit his leg. He ran across the yard and came to the dung pile. The donkey kicked him hard with its hind foot.
The rooster was awakened by the clamoring sound, and crowed down from the beam: "Oh, oh, oh, oh!" The robber ran as hard as he could to the leader and said, "Ah, there is a very fierce witch sitting in that room. She blew at me. Angry, he scratched my face with his long fingers; there was a man standing at the door with a knife in his hand, poking my legs; there was a black monster lying in the yard, beating me with a stick; there was a judge sitting on the roof, Shouting: 'Bring me that bad guy.'" I had to run away. From then on, the robbers no longer dared to go into that house. Four musicians from the town of Bremen lived there and were very happy not to go anywhere else. The person who told this is still alive.
(Translated by Wei Yixin) ① There are still statues of these four "musicians" in Bremen, Germany. It is said that this interesting statue has become a symbol of the city of Bremen.
(2) The blind fox clears the nest
Even if maternal love is buried in the mud, beautiful lotus flowers will bloom.
Red foxes have the habit of clearing their nests. The so-called nest clearing means that adult foxes drive one-year-old fox kits out of their nests and force them to leave their homes.
It’s almost mid-spring, and it’s time for the red foxes to clear their nests. But I don’t think Butterfly Spot, the female fox living under the water mill behind the village, will be able to clear her nests.
There is a striking butterfly-shaped black spot on Butterfly Spot's forehead. In the spring of the previous year, after she married the male fox Gray Back, she gave birth to a female fox with yellow chest hair and a male fox with a black nose. She was the happiest vixen in the world. Who knows that there will be unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and the fox will also have misfortune and good fortune. One evening two months ago, a family of red foxes emerged from the stone trough under the water mill. They had just walked to the swamp on the river beach. Suddenly, a monitor lizard jumped out of the reeds and bit the male in one bite. The fox had a gray back, and then with a sweep of its big tail, the yellow chest hair of the little vixen was swept away for more than ten feet, and she lay straight on the ground unable to move. The female fox Butterfly Spot screamed and threw herself at the ugly face of the monitor lizard. The monitor lizard raised its claws and grabbed Butterfly Spot's face. Butterfly Spot screamed and fell down. On the ground, covering his face with his claws, he rolled on the ground...
In a minute at most, two of the happy red fox family were killed and one was injured. What's even more unfortunate is that Butterfly Spot was blinded.
After this, I saw Butterfly Spot holding the tail of the black nose of the little male fox several times while going out to look for food.
How could a female fox, which was completely dependent on her sons, clear her nest?
That day, it was getting dark, and I suddenly heard the ferocious howling of the fox, heading towards the stone. Cao looked over and saw Butterfly Ban pressing Hei Bi Tou's chest with his forehead, rushing to the entrance of the stone groove and pushing Hei Bi Tou out with a fierce push. Black Bitou screamed, got up and squeezed desperately into the stone trough. Butterfly Spot blocked the stone trough with its body, and used its teeth and claws to prevent Black Nose from returning home. This is quite a typical scene of a red fox clearing its nest. I was very confused. The female fox Butterfly Ban drove Black Nose out of the house, which was tantamount to committing suicide!
After tossing until the night fell, both parties were exhausted. Black Nose howled sadly and angrily. He left with regret.
In the early morning of the third day, I saw Butterfly Spot lying on the edge of the stone trough, his hair unkempt and his face even more haggard.
Suddenly, a red fox emerged from the grass, with a dark nose on its thin face. It was the black nose of a young male fox.
The black-nosed body rubbed against the wormwood in front of the stone trough, making a squeaking sound. After the female fox Butterfly Spot heard the movement, she sniffed a few times with her nostrils, and her face suddenly changed. Be alive. With its ears firm, it stood up involuntarily, took half a step out of the stone trough, and assumed a welcoming posture.
Heibitou holds a small hamster in his mouth. It took the little hamster into Butterfly Spot's lips and kissed it, shook its head, and gently patted Butterfly Spot's cheek with the little hamster. Butterfly Spot instinctively and impatiently bit the little hamster and swallowed it into his mouth, leaving only a rat tail hanging out of the corner of his mouth. Suddenly, it stopped chewing and spit out the little hamster. Black Bi Tou picked up the little hamster from the ground and brought it to Butterfly Spot's lips for a kiss. Butterfly Spot raised its tail as if facing a formidable enemy, howled sharply, jumped forward, opened its mouth and bit Black Nose. Black Nose was unprepared, and Butterfly Spot bit its left ear. The pain made it howl and scream desperately. struggle. But Butterfly Spot bites Black Nose's ear like it's dealing with a sworn enemy. Hiss - Black Nose's ears were torn open, turning into V-shaped ears that are unique in the world. Only then did it break free from Butterfly Spot's mouth, howling mournfully, and fled from the water mill.
Butterfly Spot screamed in the direction of Hei Bi Tou's escape, as if to warn Hei Bi Tou: If you come back again, you will die without a burial place!
Strange Unfortunately, when Black Nose escaped without a trace, Butterfly Spot collapsed on the ground like a deflated pig urine bladder, huddled up, and let out a pitiful howl...