The tale tells of how one day the king decided to marry his daughter to someone who would build a flying ship. The ship was made by the youngest peasant son with the help of a forest wizard. The wizard punished him to call everyone on the way to his ship. Having flown on a ship, on the way he picks up miracle fellow travelers. Miraculous artisans (Sagittarius, Skorokhod, Eaten, Opivalo, Frost-Cracker) help the hero get married, performing for him the difficult tasks assigned by the king ...
Flying ship read
There lived an old man and an old woman. They had three sons - the two older ones were known as wise men, and everyone called the younger one a fool. The old woman loved the elders - she dressed cleanly, fed deliciously. And the younger one walked around in a holey shirt, chewing a black crust.
- He, the fool, doesn't care: he doesn't understand anything, he doesn't understand anything!
Then one day the news reached that village: whoever builds such a ship for the tsar, so that he can sail on the seas and fly under the clouds, the tsar will give his daughter to him.
The older brothers decided to try their luck.
Release us, father and mother! Perhaps one of us will become the king's son-in-law!
The mother of the eldest sons equipped, baked white pies for them on the road, fried and boiled chicken and goose:
Step up, sons!
The brothers went to the forest, began to chop and cut trees. They chopped and sawed a lot. And they don't know what to do next. They began to argue and scold, just look, they will grab each other's hair.
An old man came up to them and asked:
Because of what do you, well done, argue and scold? Maybe I can tell you a word for your benefit?
Both brothers attacked the old man - they did not listen to him, cursed him with bad words and drove him away. The old man left.
The brothers also quarreled, ate all their supplies that their mother gave them, and returned home with nothing ...
As they arrived, the younger one began to ask:
Release me now!
Mother and father began to dissuade him and hold him back:
Where are you, fool, - the wolves will eat you along the way!
And the fool, know your own, repeats:
Let go - I'll go, and don't let go - I'll go!
They see mother and father - you can’t cope with him in any way. They gave him a loaf of black dry bread for the road and escorted him out of the house. The fool took an ax with him and went into the forest. He walked and walked through the forest and spotted a tall pine tree: this pine tree rests on the top of the clouds, it is just right for three to clasp it.
He cut down a pine tree, began to clean it of branches. An old man approached him.
Hello, - says, - child!
Hello grandfather!
What are you doing, child, why did you cut down such a big tree?
But, grandfather, the tsar promised to marry his daughter to someone who builds a flying ship for him, and I'm building.
Can you make such a ship? This is a tricky business, perhaps, and you can’t handle it.
Tricky is not tricky, but you have to try: you look, and I'll manage! By the way, here you are: the old people are experienced, knowledgeable. Maybe you can give me some advice.
The old man says:
Well, if you ask for advice to give you, listen: take your ax and cut off this pine tree from the sides: like that!
And he showed me how to trim.
The fool of the old man obeyed - he hewed a pine tree as he showed. He trims, a wonder is given: the ax walks on its own, and walks!
Now, - says the old man, - trim the pine from the ends: like this and like that!
The fool does not miss the words of the old man: as the old man shows, so he does.
When he finished his work, the old man praised him and said:
Well, now it’s not a sin to take a break and have a bite to eat.
Eh, grandfather, - says the fool, - there is food for me, this stale crust. How about something to feed you? You won't nibble on my treat, will you?
Come on, child, - says the old man, - give me your edge here!
The fool gave him a piece of bread. The old man took it in his hands, examined it, felt it, and said:
Not so stale your kraukha!
And gave it to the fool. The fool took a loaf - he does not believe his eyes: the loaf has turned into a soft and white loaf.
As they ate, the old man says:
Well, now let's adjust the sails!
And he took out a piece of canvas from his bosom. The old man shows, the fool tries, he does everything conscientiously - and the sails are ready, adjusted.
Now get into your ship, - says the old man, - and fly where you need to. Yes, look, remember my order: on the way, put everyone you meet in your ship!
Here they said goodbye. The old man went on his way, and the fool got on the flying ship, straightened the sails. The sails were inflated, the ship soared into the sky, flew faster than a falcon. It flies a little lower than walking clouds, a little higher than standing forests...
The fool flew and flew and sees: a man lies on the road - he crouched with his ear to the damp earth. He went down and said:
Hello, uncle!
Nice, well done!
What are you doing?
I listen to what is happening on the other side of the earth.
What is going on there, uncle?
What you, what hearing! Get on my ship, let's fly together.
Rumor did not begin to dissuade, boarded the ship, and they flew on.
They flew and flew, they see - a man is walking along the road, walking on one leg, and the other leg is tied to his ear.
Hello, uncle!
Nice, well done!
What are you jumping on one leg?
Yes, if I untie the other leg, then in three steps I will step over the whole world!
There you are, so fast! Sit down with us.
The speeder did not refuse, climbed onto the ship, and they flew on.
How many, how few have flown by, lo and behold - there is a man with a gun, aiming. And what he aims at is unknown.
Hello, uncle! Who are you aiming at - neither the beast nor the bird is visible around.
What you! Yes, and I will not shoot close. I aim at the black grouse that sits on a tree a thousand miles away. Here's a shot at me.
Come with us, let's fly together!
They flew, flew and saw: a man is walking, carrying a huge bag of bread behind his back.
Hello, uncle! Where are you going?
I'm going to get some bread for my dinner.
What else do you need bread for? Your bag is already full!
Whats up! Put this bread in my mouth and swallow it. And to eat my fill, I need a hundred times so much!
Look what you are! Get on the ship with us, let's fly together.
They fly over forests, fly over fields, fly over rivers, fly over villages and villages.
Look: a man is walking near a large lake, shaking his head.
Hello, uncle! What are you looking for?
I want to drink, so I'm looking for somewhere to get drunk.
Yes, there is a whole lake in front of you. Drink to your heart's content!
Yes, this water will only take me one sip.
The fool wondered, his comrades marveled and said:
Well, do not worry, there is water for you. Get on the ship with us, we will fly far, there will be a lot of water for you!
How many flew - it is not known, they only see: a man is walking into the forest, and behind him is a bundle of brushwood.
Hello, uncle! Tell us: why are you dragging brushwood into the forest?
And this is not a simple disease. If you scatter it, an entire army will immediately appear.
Sit down, uncle, with us!
They flew and flew, looking: an old man was walking, carrying a sack of straw.
Hello, grandfather, gray head! Where are you taking the straw?
To the village.
Is there enough straw in the village?
There is a lot of straw, but there is none.
What is yours?
And this is what it is: if I scatter it in a hot summer, it will become cold at once: snow will fall, frost will crackle.
If so, your truth: in the village you will not find such straw. Sit down with us!
Kholololo climbed into the ship with his sack, and they flew on.
They flew and flew and flew to the royal court.
The king at that time was sitting at dinner. He saw a flying ship and sent his servants:
Go ask: who flew on that ship - what kind of overseas princes and queens?
The servants ran up to the ship and saw that ordinary men were sitting on the ship.
The royal servants did not even ask them: who are they and where did they come from. They returned and reported to the king:
Anyway! There is not a single prince on the ship, not a single prince, and all the black bones are simple men. What would you like to do with them?
“It is shameful to give us a daughter for a simple peasant,” the tsar thinks. “We need to get rid of such suitors.”
He asked his courtiers - princes and boyars:
What are we to do now, how to be?
They advised:
It is necessary for the groom to set various difficult tasks, perhaps he will not solve them. Then we turn from the gate and show him!
The king was delighted, immediately sent servants to the fool with the following order:
Let the groom get us, until our royal dinner is over, living and dead water!
Fool thought:
What am I going to do now? Yes, I won’t find such water in a year, and maybe all my life.
What am I for? Skorokhod says. - I'll take care of you in a moment.
He untied his leg from his ear and ran for distant lands to a distant kingdom. He collected two jugs of living and dead water, and he himself thinks: “There is a lot of time left ahead, let me sit a little - I will have time to return by the deadline!”
I sat down under a thick, spreading oak, and dozed off ...
The royal dinner is coming to an end, but there is no Skorokhod.
Everyone on the flying ship was sunbathing - they don’t know what to do. And Slukhalo put his ear to the damp earth, listened and said:
What sleepy and dormant! Sleeping under a tree, snoring with might and main!
Now I'll wake him up! Shooter says.
He grabbed his gun, took aim and fired at the oak tree, under which Skorokhod was sleeping. Acorns fell from the oak - right on the head of Skorokhod. He woke up.
Father, yes, no way, I fell asleep!
He jumped up and at the same moment brought jugs of water:
Get it!
The king got up from the table, looked at the jugs and said:
Or maybe this water is not real?
They caught a rooster, tore off its head and sprinkled it with dead water. The head instantly grew. They sprinkled it with living water - the rooster jumped to its feet, flapped its wings, “ka-ka-river!” shouted.
The king became annoyed.
Well, - he says to the fool, - you have fulfilled this task of mine. I'll ask you another one now! If you are so dexterous, eat with your matchmakers in one sitting twelve fried bulls and as many loaves as are baked in forty ovens!
The fool was saddened, he said to his comrades:
Yes, I can’t even eat one bread for the whole day!
What am I for? - says Eating. - I can manage the bulls and their bread alone. There will be little more!
The fool told the king to say:
Bring bulls and loaves. Let's eat!
They brought twelve fried bulls and as many loaves as were baked in forty ovens.
Let's eat the bulls - one after the other. And the bread is so in the mouth and throws loaf after loaf. All carts were empty.
Let's do more! - yells ate. - Why did you save so little? I just got a taste!
And the king has no more bulls, no more loaves.
Now, - he says, - a new order for you: to drink forty barrels of beer at a time, each barrel of forty buckets.
Yes, I won’t even drink one bucket, - the fool says to his matchmakers.
What a sadness! Opivalo answers. - Yes, I'll drink all their beer, it won't be enough!
Rolled forty barrels-forty. They began to scoop up beer in buckets and serve it to Opival. He takes a sip - the bucket is empty.
What are you bringing me in buckets? Opivalo says. - So we'll go all day long!
He lifted the barrel and emptied it at once, without rest. He picked up another barrel - and that empty one rolled away. So all forty barrels and drained.
Is there, - asks, another beer? I didn't get drunk enough! Don't get your throat wet!
The king sees: nothing can take a fool. Decided to kill him with cunning.
Okay, - he says, - I will marry my daughter to you, get ready for the crown! Just before the wedding, go to the bathhouse, wash yourself, evaporate well.
And ordered to heat the bath.
And the bath was all cast iron.
For three days the bath was heated, red-hot. She radiates with fire-heat, you can’t approach her for five fathoms.
How will I wash? - says the fool. - I'll burn alive.
Do not be sad, - replies Kholololo. - I'll go with you!
He ran to the king and asked:
Would you allow me and my fiancé to go to the bathhouse? I'll spread straws for him so that he doesn't get his heels dirty!
King what? He allowed: “That one will burn, that both!”
They brought the fool with Kholodila to the bathhouse, locked him up there.
And Holodilo scattered straw in the bath - and it became cold, the walls were covered with frost, the water froze in the cast irons.
Some time passed, the servants opened the door. They look, but the fool is alive and well, and the old man too.
Eh, you, - says the fool, - yes, you can’t bathe in your bathhouse, but can you ride on a sleigh!
The servants ran to the king. Reported: So, they say, and so. The king rushed about, did not know what to do, how to get rid of the fool.I thought and thought and ordered him:
Post a whole regiment of soldiers in front of my palace in the morning. Expose - I'll give you a daughter. If you don't put it out - I'll drive it out!
And on his own mind: “Where can a simple peasant get an army? He won't be able to do this. Then we will kick him out in the neck!
The fool heard the royal order - he says to his matchmakers:
You rescued me, brothers, from trouble more than once or twice ... And now what are we going to do?
Oh, you found something to be sad about! - says the old man with brushwood. - Yes, I'll put up at least seven regiments with generals! Go to the king, say - he will have an army!
The fool came to the king.
I will fulfill, - he says, - your order, only in last time. And if you make excuses, blame yourself!
Early in the morning the old man called the fool with brushwood and went out into the field with him. He scattered the bundle, and a myriad army appeared - both on foot, and on horseback, and with cannons. Trumpeters blow trumpets, drummers beat drums, generals give orders, horses beat the ground with their hooves ...
The fool stood in front, led the army to the royal court. He stopped in front of the palace, ordered the trumpets to be blown louder, the drums to be beaten harder.
The king heard, looked out the window, from fear became whiter than the canvas. He ordered the governors to withdraw their army, to go to war against the fool.
The governors led out the tsarist army, began to shoot and shoot at the fool. And the bad soldiers march like a wall, the royal army is crushed like grass. The governors were frightened and ran back, followed by the entire royal army.
The tsar got out of the palace, crawls on his knees in front of the fool, asks to accept expensive gifts and marry the princess as soon as possible.
The fool says to the king:
Now you are not a pointer to us! We have our mind!
He drove the king away and never ordered to return to that kingdom. And he married the princess.
The princess is a young and kind girl. She has no fault!
And he began to live in that kingdom, to do all sorts of things.
(Ill. M. Belomlinsky, ed. Soviet Russia, 1987, Moscow)
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F or yourself a grandfather and a woman. And they had three sons: two smart, and the third fool. They take pity on the smart and groom them, the woman gives them white shirts every day, but they always scold the fool, laugh at him. And he lies on the stove in a black shirt; when they give him something, he will eat, but if not, then he is hungry.
But then a rumor spread that it was so, they say, and so: a royal decree came so that they would gather at the tsar for a feast, and whoever builds such a ship so that he himself flies, and flies on that ship, the tsar will give his daughter to him.
Clever brothers consult among themselves:
“Shouldn’t we go too, maybe our happiness is waiting for us there!”
They consulted and ask their father and mother:
“Let’s go,” they say, “to the tsar for a feast: if we lose, we won’t lose anything.”
The old people - there was nothing to do - took them and gathered them on the road, the woman baked white pies for them, fried a pig, and gave them a bottle of wine.
The brothers went into the forest. They cut down a tree there and began to think how to build a flying ship here.
An old grandfather comes up to them, as old as milk, white, beard to the waist.
— Hello, sons! Let the fire light the pipe.
- Once we, grandfather, mess with you. And again began to think.
“Your children will get a good pig’s trough,” said the old man. “And you won’t see the princess like your own ears.”
He said - and disappeared, as if he was not there. The brothers thought, thought, racked their brains - nothing came of them.
“Let’s go to the king on horseback,” says the older brother. “We won’t marry the princess, so at least we’ll just take a walk.”
The brothers got on their horses and rode off. And the fool sits on the stove and also asks:
“I will go where the brothers went!”
What are you thinking, stupid? - says the mother. - The wolves will eat you there!
“No,” he says, “they won’t eat it!” I'll go!
At first, his parents laughed at him, and then let's scold him. Yes, where is it! They see that nothing can be done with a fool, and finally they say:
- Well, go, but so that you don’t come back and don’t admit that you are our son.
Baba gave him a bag, put black stale bread in it, gave him a bottle of water and escorted him out of the house.
He went.
He walks and walks and suddenly meets his grandfather on the road: such a gray-haired grandfather, his beard is completely white - to the very waist!
- Hello, grandfather!
- Hello, son!
Where are you going, grandpa? And he says:
- I go around the world, I help people out of trouble. And where are you going?
- I'm going to the king for a feast.
“Do you,” the grandfather asks, “know how to make such a ship so that it can fly by itself?”
“No,” he says, “I can’t!”
"So why are you going?"
“And who knows,” he says, “why?” To lose - I won’t lose, but maybe there somewhere my happiness collapsed.
“Sit down,” says the grandfather, “let’s have a little rest, we’ll have lunch.” Get what's in your bag!
“Hey, grandfather, there’s nothing here, the bread is so stale that you can’t even bite into it.”
- Nothing, get it!
Here the fool gets it, and suddenly white pies became such from that black bread that he had never seen such: like the pans. The fool was surprised, and the grandfather grins.
They spread the scrolls on the grass, sat down, let's have dinner. We dined properly, the grandfather thanked the fool and said:
- Well, listen, son: now go into the forest and find the largest oak tree, whose branches grow crosswise. Hit with an ax, and you yourself rather fall flat and lie down until someone calls you. Then, - he says, - a ship will be built for you, and you get on it and fly where you need to, but along the way take whoever you meet there.
The fool thanked his grandfather and said goodbye. Grandfather went his own way, and the fool went to the forest.
He entered the forest, went up to the oak, whose branches grow crosswise, hit with an ax, fell flat and fell asleep ... He slept, slept ... And after a while he hears - someone wakes him up:
- Get up, your happiness is already ripe, get up!
The fool has woken up, looks - there is already a ship in front of him: he is golden, the tackle is silver, and the silk sails are inflated - just fly!
Here he, without thinking for a long time, boarded the ship. That ship rose and flew... How it flew below the sky, above the earth - and you can't catch up with the eye.
He flew and flew and sees: a man crouched on the road with his ear to the ground and listens. Fool and called out:
- Hello, uncle!
- Hello, brother!
- What are you doing?
“I’m listening,” he says, “if people have already gathered to the king for a feast.
— Are you going there?
- There.
- Sit down with me, I'll give you a lift.
He sat down. They flew off.
They flew and flew and see: a man is walking along the road - one leg is tied to his ear, and jumps on the other.
- Hello, uncle!
- Hello, brother!
Why are you jumping on one leg?
“Because,” he says, “if I untie the second one and step once, I will cross the whole world.” And I, - he says, - I do not want ...
— Where are you going?
- To the king for a feast.
- Sit down with us.
- Okay.
He sat down and flew off again.
They flew and flew and saw: a shooter stands on the road and aims from a bow, but nowhere is a bird or an animal to be seen.
The fool shouted:
- Hello, uncle! Where are you aiming! No bird or beast to be seen anywhere!
You can't see it, but I can see it!
Where do you see that bird?
“Hey,” he says, “there, a hundred miles away, he’s sitting on a dry pear tree!”
- Sit down with us!
He sat down. We flew.
They flew and flew and saw: a man was walking and carrying a full bag of bread behind his back.
- Hello, uncle!
- Great!
- Where are you going?
“I’m going,” he says, “to get bread for dinner.”
- Yes, you already have a full bag!
“I don’t even have enough for breakfast here.
- Sit down with us!
- Okay!
Sat down and this one. We flew.
They flew and flew and see: a man walks near the lake, as if looking for something.
- Hello, uncle!
- Great!
- Why are you walking here?
“I want to drink,” he says, “but I can’t find any water.”
- So in front of you is a whole lake, why don't you drink?
- Hey, how much water is there! I don't even have one sip.
- So sit down with us!
- Okay.
He sat down and they flew.
They flew and flew and saw: a man was going to the village and carrying a sack of straw.
- Hello, uncle! Where are you taking the straw?
“To the village,” he says.
“Isn’t there straw in the village?”
“Yes,” he says, “but not like that!”
Isn't this one simple?
- And such, - he says, - that no matter how hot the summer is, but just scatter this straw, then immediately - out of nowhere - frost and snow.
- Sit down with us! He sat down and flew on. They flew and flew and see: a man is walking into the forest and carrying a bundle of firewood behind his back.
- Hello, uncle!
- Great!
- Where do you carry firewood?
- In the forest.
- Ege! Is there no firewood in the forest?
- How is it not? There are, - he says, - but not like that.
— What are they?
“There,” he says, “they are simple, but these are such that as soon as you scatter them, then immediately, out of nowhere, the army is in front of you!”
- Sit down with us!
And he agreed, sat down, and flew.
How long did they fly, not for long, but they fly to the king for a feast. And there, in the middle of the courtyard, tables were set up, covered, barrels of honey and wine were raised: drink, eat whatever you want! And the people - almost half the kingdom came together: both old and small, and pans, and beggars. Like a market. The fool flew with friends on a ship and sank at the king in front of the windows. They got off the ship and went to dinner.
The king looks out the window and sees: the golden ship has arrived! He says to his footman:
- Go ask who flew there on a golden ship.
The footman went, looked, comes to the king:
- Some, - he says, - ragged men!
The king does not believe.
“It can’t be,” he says, “that the peasants would fly on a golden ship!” You probably didn't try.
He took it and went himself to the people.
- Who, - asks, - flew here on this ship?
The fool came forward
- I! - He speaks.
As soon as the king saw that he had a sweater - a patch on a patch, trousers - his knees climbed out, he grabbed his head: “How is it that I would give my daughter for such a peasant!”
What to do? And let him order the fool.
“Go,” he says to the footman, “tell him that even though he flew on a ship, and if he doesn’t get healing and healing water while people are having dinner, then not only will I not give up the princess, but the sword - his head is off his shoulders!”
Lakey went.
And Listeno, the same one who crouched to the ground with his ear, overheard what the king was saying, and passed it on to the fool. The fool sits on a bench at the table and is sad: he does not eat, does not drink. The runner saw this:
“Why don’t you,” he says, “do not eat?”
- Where can I eat!
And he said so and so:
“The king ordered me to get medicinal and healing water while the people were having lunch… But how can I get it?”
- Do not worry! I'll get you!
- Well look!
A lackey comes, gives him a royal order, and he has long known how and what.
“Tell me,” he answers, “what I’ll bring!” Skorokhod untied his leg from his ear, and as soon as he waved it, in an instant he jumped to the medicinal and healing water.
Got it, but very tired. “Well,” he thinks, “by the time lunch is over, I’ll have time to return, and now I’ll sit under the mill and rest a little.”
Sat down and fell asleep. People are already finishing their dinner, but he is not there. The fool sits neither alive nor dead. Gone!” - thinks.
Listening put his ear to the ground - let's listen. He listened and listened and said:
- Do not be sad, he sleeps under the mill, so that he is dashing!
- What are we going to do now? - says the fool. - How can we wake him up? And the shooter says:
Don't be afraid, I'll wake you up!
He pulled his bow and how it shoots - even chips from the mill fell down ... The speed walker woke up - and rather back! People are just finishing dinner, and he brings that water.
The king does not know what to do. Let's order the second order: if he eats six pairs of fried oxen and forty ovens of bread at a time, then, he says, I will give my daughter to him, and not eat it, so: my sword - and his head from his shoulders!
Listen and overheard it and told the fool.
- What should I do now? I can't even eat one loaf of bread! the fool says. And again mourned - crying. And Obedailo says:
- Don't cry, I'll eat for everyone, and it won't be enough.
The lackey comes: so and so.
“All right,” says the fool, “let them give it!” So they roasted six pairs of oxen, baked forty ovens of bread.
He ate as soon as he began to eat - he ate everything clean and asks for more.
“Oh,” he says, “not enough! If only they could give a little more...
The king sees - things are bad. Again he ordered the order that this time he should drink twelve barrels of water in one breath and twelve barrels of wine, and not drink: here is a sword - his head is off his shoulders!
He listened and told. The fool is crying again.
“Don’t cry,” says Opivailo, “I’ll drink, and it won’t be enough.”
Here they rolled out twelve barrels of water and wine.
As soon as he began to drink opivailo, he drank everything to the droplet, and even chuckles.
“Oh,” he says, “not enough!
The tsar sees that he can do nothing, and he thinks to himself: “We need him, this peasant, from the light of lime!”
So he sends a lackey to the fool:
- Go and say: the king said that you should go to the bathhouse before the wedding.
In the meantime, he orders another footman to heat the cast-iron bath: “There he, such and such, will bake!” The footman heated the bath so that the devil himself could be baked.
They told the fool. He goes to the bathhouse, followed by Frost with straw. There, Frost cracked the straw - and immediately it became so cold that the fool climbed onto the stove and fell asleep, because he had a chill as it should. The next day the footman opens the bathhouse, he thinks that only ashes are left from the fool. And he lies to himself on the stove and at least something. The footman woke him up.
“Here,” he says, “how soundly I slept! You have a good bath!
They told the king that it was so and so: he slept on the stove, and it was so cold in the bathhouse, as if it had not been heated all winter. The tsar is in pain: what to do? Thought and thought, thought and thought...
Finally, he says:
- The neighboring king is coming at us with war. So I want to test the suitors. Whoever gets me a regiment of soldiers by morning and leads them into battle himself, I will give my daughter in marriage.
Listening overheard this and told the fool. The fool again sits and cries:
- What should I do now? Where can I get this army?
Goes to the ship to friends.
“Help, brothers,” he says, “otherwise I have completely disappeared!”
- Do not Cry! - says the one who was carrying firewood into the forest. - I will help you out.
A lackey comes and gives the royal order.
"All right, I'll do it," says the fool.
At night, the comrade of the fool led into the field and carried with him a bundle of firewood. How he began to scatter those firewood there, so that no log is a soldier. And so the whole regiment tossed.
In the morning the king wakes up and hears: they are playing. He's asking:
Who is playing this early?
“This,” they say, “is the one that flew in on a golden ship, drills his army.
And the fool has become such that one cannot recognize him: the clothes on him simply sparkle, and he himself is so beautiful, where is there!
He leads his army, and he rides ahead on a black horse, followed by a foreman. Soldiers in the ranks - like a selection!
The fool led the army against the enemy. And he began to chop right and left so that he defeated all the enemy soldiers. Only at the very end of the battle he was wounded in the leg.
In the meantime, the king and his daughter drove up to see the battle.
The princess saw the bravest warrior, wounded in the leg, tore the scarf into two halves. She left one half for herself, and the other she bandaged the wound of that brave warrior.
This is where the fight ended. The fool packed up and went home.
And the king arranged a feast and decided to invite the one who defeated his enemies to visit him.
They searched, searched all over the kingdom - there is no such thing anywhere.
Then the princess says:
- He has a sign: I bandaged his wound with my handkerchief.
Again began to search.
Finally, two royal servants went to see the fool. They look, and indeed he has one leg tied with a princess scarf.
His servants seized him and began to drag him to the king. And he is nowhere.
“Let me at least wash myself,” he says. “Where can I go to the king so dirty!”
I went to the bathhouse, washed myself, put on the clothes in which I fought, and again became so beautiful that the servants even opened their mouths.
He jumped on his horse and rode off.
The princess comes out. I saw and immediately recognized the one to whom I bandaged the wound with my handkerchief.
She liked him even more.
Here they were married and such a wedding was celebrated that the smoke went straight into the sky.
Here's a fairy tale for you, and a bunch of bagels for me.
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Grandfather and grandmother lived in the same village. They had three sons: two smart, the third - a fool. Clever old people are loved, pitied, the woman gives them clean shirts every week, and the fool keeps scolding and laughing at him.
But the fool is not offended, lies on the stove in a dirty shirt and sings songs. If a woman gives him something to eat, he will eat; if he forgets to give it, he will not ask, and the hungry will fall asleep.
And then the following news came to their village: as if the king was calling the whole kingdom to his feast. And if someone builds a flying ship and flies on it to the king, the king will give his daughter for him. Smart brothers say to each other:
We still can’t build a flying ship, but we’ll go to the royal feast, we’ll see the world.
The fool asks them:
Take me with you too.
Where are you, - the brothers say, - to feast at the king himself! Your job is to lie on the stove!
The old people blessed their smart sons for the journey. The old woman baked them white bread, fried a piglet ... They left.
Fool says:
And I will follow my brothers. It hurts to go to the king for a feast.
The old woman replied:
The wolves will eat you along the way. That's who will feast!
But the fool does not retreat: I will go, and that's it!
The old woman got angry:
Go and don't come back, forget that you are our son!
She put the fool in a bag of black stale bread and saw her off.
There is a fool on the road. Suddenly, an old man met him, his head was white, his beard was up to his knees.
Hello, grandfather, - says the fool.
Hello son.
Where are you going?
I walk around the wide world, I help good people out of trouble. And where are you going?
And I'm going to the king for a feast. They say the king will give his daughter to someone who builds a flying ship.
Can you build such a ship?
No, the fool says. - Where to me!
Why are you going then?
I follow my brothers, I want to try my luck.
Well, says the grandfather. - And that's the thing. In the meantime, let's sit down and eat. What's in your bag, take it out!
Oh, grandfather, - says the fool, - I only have black stale bread there, you won’t eat it.
Take it out, let's see.
The fool climbed into the sack, took out bread, and it was as white and lush as only gentlemen have. The guy is surprised, and the grandfather grins. They ate, rested, the grandfather thanked the fool for the treat and said:
Now go to the forest, choose a thick oak, hit it three times with an ax and go to bed. The ship will build itself for you. You wake up, and the ship is ready! Get on it and fly to the king at the feast. Don't forget: take with you everyone you meet on the way.
The fool thanked his grandfather and went into the forest. There he found a thick oak, hit it with an ax three times and went to bed. And when he woke up, he saw: a ship was standing in front of him, golden itself, silver masts, silk sails, inflated by the wind! The fool, without thinking twice, jumped into the ship, and it took off, as if it was just waiting for him. The fool flies under the very clouds, flies, but he himself keeps looking at the ground. Suddenly he sees: a man crouched with his ear to the ground.
The fool went down to him.
Hello lad.
What are you doing here? What are you listening to?
I listen to whether people have gathered to the king for a feast.
Where are you going?
There, to the king.
Then sit down with me, I'll give you a ride.
The hearer sat down, they flew off.
They fly, fly, suddenly they see a man on the road - one leg is tied to his ear, jumping on the other leg. Went down to him.
Hello, kind person!
Hello good people.
What are you jumping on one leg?
I'm a Fast Walker, he says. - If I run on two legs at once, I will run around the whole earth in an instant.
Where are you?
To the king for a feast.
Then sit down with us. He sat down, flew again.
They fly, they fly, and suddenly they see: a shooter is standing on the road, the bow is drawn, and there is no game around, the field is clean. And they went down to him.
Hello, kind person. Where do you aim when you can't see any game around?
You can't see it, but I can see it.
A hundred miles away, a capercaillie sits on a dry branch. I want to shoot him.
Leave the capercaillie, sit down with us.
The shooter sat down, they fly again. They see: a man is carrying a full bag of bread.
Where are you, good man?
To the king for a feast.
Why bread? Do you think the king has little bread?
King's bread for one tooth. And I eat this bread.
Come join us on the ship.
An old man walks nearby, as if looking for something.
What are you looking for, grandpa? - asks the fool.
I am looking for water, I want to drink.
Is there a lake in front of you?
This water is one sip for me.
Come join us on the ship.
Where are you taking the straw?
And what, there is no straw in the village?
There is, but not like that.
What is yours?
I have a special one: if you scatter it in the summer, winter will come, the frost will hit.
Come join us on the ship.
They see: a soldier is walking, carrying a bundle of brushwood.
Where are you going with the sickness?
And what, there is not enough brushwood in the forest?
My sickness is special. If you scatter it, an armed army will appear before you!
Come join us on the ship.
The soldier sat down.
Soon they came to the king. And there, in the middle of the yard, there are tables, boilers are boiling, everything is fried, boiled - I don’t want to eat! And people have accumulated - more than half the kingdom! And the old, and the small, and the poor, and the rich, and the gentlemen, and the poor old men ... And the elder brothers of the fool are right there.
The fool and his comrades descended from the flying ship right at the king's window.
The king looks surprised. “I thought that an overseas prince would arrive on a flying ship, but a simple peasant, a ragamuffin, flew in. Something is wrong here. It can’t be that the peasant flew in on a golden ship.
The king came out of the palace and asked:
Who is on this ship?
The fool stepped forward.
I have arrived, your royal majesty. And these are my friends. I want to marry a princess.
The king looks at the fool, and on him is a shirt - a patch on a patch, tattered trousers, bare feet. The king thinks: “No, I won’t give my daughter to such a serf! What to do? I’ll give him a task so that he can’t complete it!” And says:
You flew on a flying ship, and I will give you my daughter, but first bring me living water. Hurry up! Have time to turn around while my guests are sitting at the table. If you don't have time - my sword, your head off your shoulders!
A fool came to his comrades - he hung his head, does not eat, does not drink.
What happened to you? - asks Skorokhod. The fool told. Speedwalker says:
Don't worry, I'll bring it.
He untied his leg from his ear and disappeared in an instant. In a moment he was already at the end of the world and there he drew living water. Typed and thinks:
“There is a lot of time ahead, the king will feast for a long time. I'll lie down near the mill and sleep a little." Lie down and fall asleep.
Now the royal feast is coming to an end, but it is still gone. The fool thinks: "Skorokhod is gone!"
The hearer listened to the earth and says to the fool:
Do not be sad! Our Skorokhod is alive and well, he sleeps calmly near the mill, he forgot about everything.
How to wake him up?
Shooter says:
I'll wake up now.
He drew his bow and shot an arrow into the mill.
The runner woke up, took two steps - he brought living water. The guests were still at the table.
The fool gave living water to the king, and he has a new task:
Eat with your comrades in one sitting twelve fried bulls and twelve sacks of bread - I will give my daughter for you, do not eat - my sword, your head off your shoulders!
Again the fool hung his head:
I can't even eat one bread in one sitting.
Eating says:
Do not be sad, I will help you out, eat everything, and there will be little more.
The king's servants roasted twelve oxen and baked twelve sacks of bread.
He ate as he began to eat - he ate everything clean, only the bones lie, and he screams:
The king gets angry and says to the fool:
Now you have to drink forty barrels of beer in one sitting! And do not drink - my sword, your head off your shoulders!
Opivalo says to the fool:
I'll drink everything alone, and there won't be much more.
The royal servants rolled out forty barrels of beer. Opivalo clean, blew them out, stroked his stomach and chuckles:
The tsar treats badly, he didn’t drink plenty of beer.
There lived an old man and an old woman. They had three sons - the two older ones were known as wise men, and everyone called the younger one a fool. The old woman loved the elders - she dressed cleanly, fed deliciously. And the younger one walked around in a holey shirt, chewing a black crust.
“He, the fool, doesn’t care: he doesn’t understand anything, he doesn’t understand anything!”
Then one day the message reached that village: whoever builds a ship for the king, so that he can sail on the seas and fly under the clouds, the king will marry his daughter to him. The older brothers decided to try their luck.
“Let us go, father and mother!” Perhaps one of us will become the king's son-in-law!
The mother of the eldest sons equipped, baked white pies for them on the road, fried and boiled chicken and goose:
- Go, sons!
The brothers went to the forest, began to chop and cut trees. They chopped and sawed a lot. And they don't know what to do next. They began to argue and scold, just look, they will grab each other's hair.
An old man came up to them and asked:
- Because of what you, good fellows, argue and scold? Maybe I can tell you a word for your benefit?
Both brothers attacked the old man - they did not listen to him, cursed him with bad words and drove him away. The old man left.
The brothers also quarreled, ate all their supplies that their mother gave them, and returned home with nothing ... As they arrived, the younger one began to ask:
- Let me go now!
Mother and father began to dissuade him and hold him back:
“Where are you going, fool, the wolves will eat you along the way!”
And the fool, know your own, repeats:
- Let go - I'll go, and don't let go - I'll go!
They see mother and father - you can’t cope with him in any way. They gave him a loaf of black dry bread for the road and escorted him out of the house.
The fool took an ax with him and went into the forest. He walked and walked through the forest and spotted a tall pine tree: this pine tree rests on the top of the clouds, it is just right for three to clasp it.
He cut down a pine tree, began to clean it of branches. An old man approached him.
“Hello,” he says, “baby!”
— Hello, grandfather!
- What are you doing, child, why did you cut down such a big tree?
“But, grandfather, the tsar promised to marry his daughter to the one who builds a flying ship for him, and I’m building it.”
“But can you make such a ship?” This is a tricky business, perhaps, and you can’t handle it.
— Tricky is not tricky, but you have to try: you look, and I'll manage! So you came by the way: old people are experienced, knowledgeable. Maybe you can give me some advice. The old man says:
- Well, if you ask for advice to give you, listen: take your ax and cut off this pine tree from the sides: like this!
And he showed me how to trim.
The fool of the old man obeyed - he hewed a pine tree as he showed. He trims, a wonder is given: the ax walks on its own, and walks!
“Now,” says the old man, “finish the pine from the ends: like this and like that!”
The fool does not miss the words of the old man: as the old man shows, so he does. When he finished his work, the old man praised him and said:
- Well, now it’s not a sin to take a break and have a bite to eat.
“Oh, grandfather,” says the fool, “there is food for me, this stale loaf. How about something to feed you? You won't bite my treat, will you?
“Come on, child,” says the old man, “give me your loaf here!”
The fool gave him a piece of bread. The old man took it in his hands, examined it, felt it, and said:
- Not so callous your knucklehead!
And gave it to the fool. The fool took a loaf - he does not believe his eyes: the loaf has turned into a soft and white loaf.
As they ate, the old man says:
- Well, now let's adjust the sails!
And he took out a piece of canvas from his bosom. The old man shows, the fool tries, he does everything conscientiously - and the sails are ready, adjusted.
“Get in your ship now,” the old man says, “and fly where you need to go.” Yes, look, remember my order: on the way, put everyone you meet in your ship!
Here they said goodbye. The old man went on his way, and the fool got on the flying ship, straightened the sails. The sails were inflated, the ship soared into the sky, flew faster than a falcon. It flies a little lower than walking clouds, a little higher than standing forests...
The fool flew and flew and sees: a man lies on the road - he crouched with his ear to the damp earth. He went down and said:
- Hello, uncle!
- Nice, well done!
— What are you doing?
- I listen to what is happening on the other side of the earth.
“What is going on there, uncle?”
- Vociferous birds sing and fill up there, one better than the other!
— What you, what hearing! Get on my ship, let's fly together.
Rumor did not begin to dissuade, boarded the ship, and they flew on.
They flew and flew, they see - a man is walking along the road, walking on one leg, and the other leg is tied to his ear.
- Hello, uncle!
- Nice, well done!
- What are you jumping on one leg?
- Yes, if I untie the other leg, then in three steps I will step over the whole world!
- You're so fast! Sit down with us.
The speeder did not refuse, climbed onto the ship, and they flew on.
How many, how few flew by, lo and behold - there is a man with a gun, aiming. And what he aims at is unknown.
- Hello, uncle! Who are you aiming at - neither the beast nor the bird is visible around.
- What are you! Yes, and I will not shoot close. I aim at the black grouse that sits on a tree a thousand miles away. Here's a shot at me.
"Come with us, let's fly together!"
He sat down and shot, and they all flew on. They flew and flew, and they see: a man is walking, carrying a huge bag of bread behind his back.
- Hello, uncle! Where are you going?
I'm going to get some bread for my dinner.
What else do you need bread for? Your bag is already full!
- Whats up! Put this bread in my mouth and swallow it. And to eat my fill, I need a hundred times so much!
- Look what you are! Get on the ship with us, let's fly together.
Look: a man is walking near a large lake, shaking his head.
- Hello, uncle! What are you looking for?
I'm thirsty, so I'm looking for somewhere to get drunk.
“Yes, there is a whole lake in front of you. Drink to your heart's content!
- Yes, this water will only take me one sip. The fool wondered, his comrades marveled and said:
- Well, do not worry, there is water for you. Get on the ship with us, we will fly far, there will be a lot of water for you!
Opivalo got into the ship, and they flew on. How many flew - it is not known, they only see: a man is walking into the forest, and behind him is a bundle of brushwood.
- Hello, uncle! Tell us: why are you dragging brushwood into the forest?
“And this is not a simple brushwood. If you scatter it, an entire army will immediately appear.
- Sit down, uncle, with us!
And this one sat down with them. They flew on.
They flew and flew, looking: an old man was walking, carrying a sack of straw.
- Hello, grandfather, gray-haired little head! Where are you taking the straw?
- To the village.
“Isn’t there enough straw in the village?”
- There is a lot of straw, but there is no such one.
- What is yours like?
- And here's the one: if I scatter it in the hot summer - and it will become cold at once: the snow will fall, the frost will crackle.
- If so, your truth: you will not find such straw in the village. Sit down with us!
Kholololo climbed into the ship with his sack, and they flew on.
They flew and flew and flew to the royal palace. The king at that time was sitting at dinner. He saw a flying ship and sent his servants:
- Go ask: who flew on that ship - what overseas princes and queens?
The servants ran to the ship and saw that ordinary men were sitting on the ship.
The royal servants did not even ask them: who are they and where did they come from. They returned and reported to the king:
- Anyway! There is not a single prince on the ship, not a single prince, and all the black bones are simple peasants.
What would you like to do with them? “It’s shameful to give us a daughter for a simple peasant,” the tsar thinks. “We need to get rid of such suitors.”
He asked his courtiers - princes and boyars:
- What should we do now, how to be?
They advised:
- It is necessary for the groom to set various difficult tasks, perhaps he will not solve them. Then we turn from the gate and show him!
The king was delighted, immediately sent servants to the fool with the following order:
- Let the groom get us, until our royal dinner is over, living and dead water!
Fool thought:
- What am I going to do now? Yes, I won’t find such water in a year, and maybe all my life.
- What am I for? Skorokhod says. - I'll take care of you in a moment.
He untied his leg from his ear and ran for distant lands to a distant kingdom. He collected two jugs of living and dead water, and he himself thinks: “There is a lot of time left ahead, let me sit a little - I will have time to return by the deadline!”
I sat down under a thick, spreading oak, and dozed off ...
The royal dinner is coming to an end, but there is no Skorokhod.
Everyone on the flying ship was sunbathing - they did not know what to do. And Slukhalo put his ear to the damp earth, listened and said:
- What a sleepy and dormant! Sleeping under a tree, snoring with might and main!
"Now I'll wake him up!" Shooter says. He grabbed “his gun, took aim and fired at the oak tree, under which Skorokhod was sleeping. Acorns fell from the oak - right on Skorokhod's head. He woke up.
- Father, yes, no way, I fell asleep!
He jumped up and at the same moment brought jugs of water:
- Get it!
The king got up from the table, looked at the jugs and said:
Maybe this water isn't real?
They caught a rooster, tore off its head and sprinkled it with dead water. The head instantly grew. They sprinkled it with living water - the rooster jumped to its feet, flapped its wings, “ka-ka-river!” shouted.
The king became annoyed.
“Well,” he says to the fool, “you have fulfilled this task of mine. I'll ask you another one now! If you are so dexterous, eat with your matchmakers in one sitting twelve fried bulls and as many loaves as are baked in forty ovens!
The fool was saddened, he said to his comrades:
“Yes, I can’t even eat one bread for the whole day!”
- What am I for? says Eating. “I can manage the bulls and their bread alone. There will be little more!
The fool told the king to say:
- Drag bulls and loaves. Will eat!
They brought twelve fried bulls and as many loaves as were baked in forty ovens. Let's eat the bulls - one after the other. And the bread is so in the mouth and throws loaf after loaf. All carts were empty.
- Let's do it again! yells. Why so little stock? I just got a taste!
And the king has no more bulls, no more loaves.
“Now,” he says, “a new order for you: to drink forty barrels of beer at a time, each barrel of forty buckets.
“Yes, I won’t even drink one bucket,” the fool says to his matchmakers.
- What a sadness! Opivalo replies. - Yes, I'll drink all their beer alone, it won't be enough!
Rolled forty barrels-forty. They began to scoop up beer in buckets and serve it to Opival. He takes a sip - the bucket is empty.
- What are you bringing me with buckets? Opivalo says. “So we’ll go for a whole day!”
He lifted the barrel and emptied it at once, without rest. Picked up another barrel and it rolled away. So all forty barrels and drained.
“Is there,” he asks, “more beer?” I didn't get drunk enough! Don't get your throat wet!
The king sees: nothing can take a fool. Decided to kill him with cunning.
“Okay,” he says, “I’ll marry my daughter to you, get ready for the wedding!” Just before the wedding, go to the bathhouse, wash yourself, evaporate well.
And ordered to heat the bath. And the bath was all cast iron.
For three days the bath was heated, red-hot. She radiates with fire-heat, you can’t approach her for five fathoms.
- How will I wash? - says the fool. - I'll burn alive.
"Don't be sad," Hollow replies. - I'll go with you!
He ran to the king and asked:
“Will you allow me and my fiancé to go to the bathhouse too?” I'll spread straws for him so that he doesn't get his heels dirty!
King what? He allowed: “That one will burn, that both!”
They brought the fool with Kholodila to the bathhouse, locked him up there. And Kholodila scattered straw in the bath - and it became cold, the walls were covered with frost, the water froze in the cast irons.
Some time passed, the servants opened the door. They look, but the fool is alive and well, and the old man too.
“Oh, you,” says the fool, “yes, you can’t bathe in your bathhouse, but can you ride on a sleigh!”
The servants ran to the king. Reported: so, they say, and so. The king rushed about, did not know what to do, how to get rid of the fool.
I thought and thought and ordered him:
“Put a whole regiment of soldiers in front of my palace in the morning. If you put it up, I'll give you my daughter. If you don't put it out - I'll drive it out!
And on his own mind: “Where can a simple peasant get an army? He won't be able to do this. Then we will kick him out in the neck!”
The fool heard the royal order - he says to his matchmakers:
- You rescued me, brothers, from trouble more than once or twice ... And now what are we going to do?
- Oh, you found something to be sad about! - says the old man with brushwood. - Yes, I will put up at least seven regiments with generals! Go to the king, tell him - he will have an army!
The fool came to the king.
- I will fulfill, - he says, - your order, only for the last time. And if you make excuses, blame yourself!
Early in the morning the old man called the fool with brushwood and went out into the field with him. He scattered the bundle, and a myriad army appeared - both on foot, and on horseback, and with cannons. The trumpeters blow the trumpets, the drummers beat the drums, the generals give orders, the horses beat the ground with their hooves ... The fool stood in front, led the army to the royal palace. He stopped in front of the palace, ordered the trumpets to be blown louder, the drums to be beaten harder.
The king heard, looked out the window, from fear became whiter than the canvas. He ordered the governors to withdraw their army, to go to war against the fool.
The governors led out the tsarist army, began to shoot and shoot at the fool. And the bad soldiers march like a wall, the royal army is crushed like grass. The governors were frightened and ran back, followed by the entire royal army.
The tsar got out of the palace, crawls on his knees in front of the fool, asks to accept expensive gifts and marry the princess as soon as possible.
The fool says to the king:
"Now you're not our pointer!" We have our mind!
He drove the king away and never ordered to return to that kingdom. And he married the princess.
The princess is a young and kind girl. She has no fault!
And he began to live in that kingdom, to do all sorts of things.
Grandfather and grandmother lived in the same village. They had three sons: two smart, the third - a fool. Clever old people are loved, pitied, the woman gives them clean shirts every week, and the fool keeps scolding and laughing at him.
But the fool is not offended, lies on the stove in a dirty shirt and sings songs. If a woman gives him something to eat, he will eat; if he forgets to give it, he will not ask, and the hungry will fall asleep.
And then the following news came to their village: as if the king was calling the whole kingdom to his feast. And if someone builds a flying ship and flies on it to the king, the king will give his daughter for him. Smart brothers say to each other:
We still can’t build a flying ship, but we’ll go to the royal feast, we’ll see the world.
The fool asks them:
Take me with you too.
Where are you, - the brothers say, - to feast at the king himself! Your job is to lie on the stove!
The old people blessed their smart sons for the journey. The old woman baked white bread for them, roasted a pig... They left.
Fool says:
And I will follow my brothers. It hurts to go to the king for a feast.
The old woman replied:
The wolves will eat you along the way. That's who will feast!
But the fool does not retreat: I will go, and that's it!
The old woman got angry:
Go and don't come back, forget that you are our son!
She put the fool in a bag of black stale bread and saw her off.
There is a fool on the road. Suddenly, an old man met him, his head was white, his beard was up to his knees.
Hello, grandfather, - says the fool.
Hello son.
Where are you going?
I walk around the wide world, I help good people out of trouble. And where are you going?
And I'm going to the king for a feast. They say the king will give his daughter to someone who builds a flying ship.
Can you build such a ship?
No, the fool says. - Where to me!
Why are you going then?
I follow my brothers, I want to try my luck.
Well, says the grandfather. - And that's the thing. In the meantime, let's sit down and eat. What's in your bag, take it out!
Oh, grandfather, - says the fool, - I only have black stale bread there, you won’t eat it.
Take it out, let's see.
The fool climbed into the sack, took out bread, and it was as white and lush as only gentlemen have. The guy is surprised, and the grandfather grins. They ate, rested, the grandfather thanked the fool for the treat and said:
Now go to the forest, choose a thick oak, hit it three times with an ax and go to bed. The ship will build itself for you. You wake up, and the ship is ready! Get on it and fly to the king at the feast. Don't forget: take with you everyone you meet on the way.
The fool thanked his grandfather and went into the forest. There he found a thick oak, hit it with an ax three times and went to bed. And when he woke up, he saw: a ship was standing in front of him, golden itself, silver masts, silk sails, inflated by the wind! The fool, without thinking twice, jumped into the ship, and it took off, as if it was just waiting for him. The fool flies under the very clouds, flies, but he himself keeps looking at the ground. Suddenly he sees: a man crouched with his ear to the ground.
The fool went down to him.
Hello lad.
What are you doing here? What are you listening to?
I listen to whether people have gathered to the king for a feast.
Where are you going?
There, to the king.
Then sit down with me, I'll give you a ride.
The hearer sat down, they flew off.
They fly, fly, suddenly they see a man on the road - one leg is tied to his ear, jumping on the other leg. Went down to him.
Hello, kind person!
Hello good people.
What are you jumping on one leg?
I'm a Fast Walker, he says. - If I run on two legs at once, I will run around the whole earth in an instant.
Where are you?
To the king for a feast.
Then sit down with us. He sat down, flew again.
They fly, they fly, and suddenly they see: a shooter is standing on the road, the bow is drawn, and there is no game around, the field is clean. And they went down to him.
Hello, kind person. Where do you aim when you can't see any game around?
You can't see it, but I can see it.
A hundred miles away, a capercaillie sits on a dry branch. I want to shoot him.
Leave the capercaillie, sit down with us.
The shooter sat down, they fly again. They see: a man is carrying a full bag of bread.
Where are you, good man?
To the king for a feast.
Why bread? Do you think the king has little bread?
King's bread for one tooth. And I eat this bread.
Come join us on the ship.
An old man walks nearby, as if looking for something.
What are you looking for, grandpa? - asks the fool.
I am looking for water, I want to drink.
Is there a lake in front of you?
This water is one sip for me.
Come join us on the ship.
Where are you taking the straw?
And what, there is no straw in the village?
There is, but not like that.
What is yours?
I have a special one: if you scatter it in the summer, winter will come, the frost will hit.
Come join us on the ship.
They see: a soldier is walking, carrying a bundle of brushwood.
Where are you going with the sickness?
And what, there is not enough brushwood in the forest?
My sickness is special. If you scatter it, an armed army will appear before you!
Come join us on the ship.
The soldier sat down.
Soon they came to the king. And there, in the middle of the yard, there are tables, boilers are boiling, everything is fried, boiled - I don’t want to eat! And people have accumulated - more than half the kingdom! And the old, and the small, and the poor, and the rich, and the gentlemen, and the poor old men ... And the elder brothers of the fool are right there.
The fool and his comrades descended from the flying ship right at the king's window.
The king looks surprised. “I thought that an overseas prince would arrive on a flying ship, but a simple peasant, a ragamuffin, flew in. Something is wrong here. It can’t be that the peasant flew in on a golden ship.
The king came out of the palace and asked:
Who is on this ship?
The fool stepped forward.
I have arrived, your royal majesty. And these are my friends. I want to marry a princess.
The king looks at the fool, and on him is a shirt - a patch on a patch, tattered trousers, bare feet. The king thinks: “No, I won’t give my daughter to such a serf! What to do? I’ll give him a task so that he can’t complete it!” And says:
You flew on a flying ship, and I will give you my daughter, but first bring me living water. Hurry up! Have time to turn around while my guests are sitting at the table. If you don't have time - my sword, your head off your shoulders!
A fool came to his comrades - he hung his head, does not eat, does not drink.
What happened to you? - asks Skorokhod. The fool told. Speedwalker says:
Don't worry, I'll bring it.
He untied his leg from his ear and disappeared in an instant. In a moment he was already at the end of the world and there he drew living water. Typed and thinks:
“There is a lot of time ahead, the king will feast for a long time. I'll lie down near the mill and sleep a little." Lie down and fall asleep.
Now the royal feast is coming to an end, but it is still gone. The fool thinks: "Skorokhod is gone!"
The hearer listened to the earth and says to the fool:
Do not be sad! Our Skorokhod is alive and well, he sleeps calmly near the mill, he forgot about everything.
How to wake him up?
Shooter says:
I'll wake up now.
He drew his bow and shot an arrow into the mill.
The runner woke up, took two steps - he brought living water. The guests were still at the table.
The fool gave living water to the king, and he has a new task:
Eat with your comrades in one sitting twelve fried bulls and twelve sacks of bread - I will give my daughter for you, do not eat - my sword, your head off your shoulders!
Again the fool hung his head:
I can't even eat one bread in one sitting.
Eating says:
Do not be sad, I will help you out, eat everything, and there will be little more.
The king's servants roasted twelve oxen and baked twelve sacks of bread.
He ate as he began to eat - he ate everything clean, only the bones lie, and he screams:
The king gets angry and says to the fool:
Now you have to drink forty barrels of beer in one sitting! And do not drink - my sword, your head off your shoulders!
Opivalo says to the fool:
I'll drink everything alone, and there won't be much more.
The royal servants rolled out forty barrels of beer. Opivalo clean, blew them out, stroked his stomach and chuckles:
The tsar treats badly, he didn’t drink plenty of beer.
The king thinks: “You can’t take him with anything. We need to get him out of the light." And sends a servant to the fool:
Tell me, I agree to the wedding, but first let him go to the bathhouse, put on new clothes.
And he himself ordered the iron bath red-hot. “Let the serf fry in this bathhouse!”
The fool went to the bath. Old man Morozko walks ahead with his straw.
And the bath is so hot that it is impossible to approach. Morozko scattered his straw - it began to snow, the frost hit, the bathhouse cooled down, the fool washed up somehow, he was cold. He climbed onto the cooled stove, warmed up a little, fell asleep.
The next morning the king's servants came. They thought they would only see ashes there, and in front of them was a fool, alive and kicking. He speaks:
The king's bath is cool.
The king was saddened. What to do? And says:
I need an army. Whoever puts a regiment of soldiers under my windows tomorrow, I will give the princess to him. And he himself thinks: “Where can a serf get a regiment of soldiers?”
The fool got sad. Where can I get a whole regiment? His friend, a soldier with a bundle of brushwood, says:
Don't worry, I'll save you.
They went together at night in the field. There, a soldier scattered his brushwood, and an army stood up out of nowhere. What kind of regiment is there - a whole army!
In the morning the fool brought his army to the king under the windows. Drums beat, trumpets play. The king woke up. "What? Why was I woken up?"
The servants answer:
This army was brought by the man who flew in on a flying ship.
The king went to the window and looked. And the fool is unrecognizable. He rides on a black horse, and the clothes on him are those of a general! The princess, as she saw it, clapped her hands:
That's what my fiance - handsome!
The king sees - it is no longer possible to resist. Hosted a wedding feast.
It was such a feast that the smoke reached the sky, became a cloud, I looked at the cloud, looked and fell, fell into a ditch. As he fell, so he got up, he told you a fairy tale.
Retold by Valentina Ilyinichna Sachkova
