The diligent host, went to the river to fetch water to the house. When he put the bucket in the river bottom in the bucket appeared a strange creature. Diligent man brought a bucket and placed a small creature on the beach. Fortunately, the creature was revealed to be alive, which made hard-working host happy.
Front of the fire water dried from the skin of creature. Its skin showed living color. Soon the creature opened his eyes and was startled hard-working man's relieved face.
The creature asked: What are you going to do to me?
Hardworking man replied: I found you from the river half dead state. Therefore, I pick you up and I put the fire to warm and make you recover.
Hard-working man talk and gave a piece of cheese, which was precious because of little livestock. The man asked, after giving the cheese. What are you?
The creature took the cheese and said: You don't seem to be lying. I'm a fairy Piu. Bunch of scary men tricked me and prisoned me for sale. The men began to fight for money shares and in the middle of the fight I fell in the river. More I don't remember. (fairys price in the town square would be equivalent to a family which works for more than a year)
Hard working man asked: can you move and can you find home from here?
Unfortunately, Piu´s wings were broken. Piu attempts to escape from the men and now Piu is unable to fly home.
Hard working man offers a night place to stay until the wings were healed. Piu thanked and accepted the invitation.
For the disappointment of Piu the lady of the house was considerably more nasty sort. Greedy mistress was teasing and cursing Piu when Hard-working man was working in the woods with a bad knee.
The greedy mistress intends to sell the Piu´s in secret, but too bad that Piu had put the message to come back home immediately after reading the message. Piu has to work cleverly, because Greedy mistress have a bad way of secret and diligent man is too pure in heart to believe his wife's actions.
Too bad for Greedy hostess to get off the hook once again by lying. Then Piu decided to put the surprise for tomorrow's departure day.
The wing healed. Piu thanked men and women for their hospitality and said: thank you for your kindness. I give you two sacks full of fairy world treasures. The second verse is half smaller than other one for a man and in a woman´s eyes second verse has a double fold to another.
Piu added: But just take one bag and leave another on the ground lying around. Thank you for everything goodbye.
Hard working man said goodbye and began to bear smaller bag to home. He chose the smallest, because he would be easier to carry smaller bags home. At home both marvelled at the content of the sack, there was the white silk brighter than the stars in the sky. They were stronger than any blade and lighter than chicken feathers.
Greedy mistress left secretly in the night to fetch another bag, but from the bag appeared monsters attacking the woman.
The next morning the man wakes up, he could not find his wife anywhere and go to church to pray for his wife's soul. His instinct said he wouldn´t see his wife ever again.
The end
And what happened afterwards?
You know I have answered that question already many times. Man lived happily ever after.
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But man lost his wife which is never coming back.
Listen that is not important. Important is learn from the story.
I know. Don´t say black lies, steal, prison, curse, be greedy and be a good human been.
That´s right.
Storyteller is my mother who keep children day care in our home when my father is working in carpenter workjob. My mother is last week in her pregnancy, so she's not supposed to do any heavy work in the house so she works as a part time job. There is four other children beside me. I turned 3 years old one week ago. One week is 6 days, but for some reason that doesn´t feel right. One of the kids turned 3 today. He is my friend from viscount house.
You had that same conversation dozens of times. But I´m happy that meaning is clear to everybody.
He is second oldest child in the noble house. His name is Rowan Herman. Rowan is this village´s noble name. Because of that rest of the citizens doesn´t have surname. If we go outside of the village we name ourselves by our village´s name Tetrao.
Herman you know we two were only ones listening to the story. Look at that.
Other 3 kids age of 7, 7 and 9 were playing with wooden swords in playground. They were playing war game in full harmony with each other. They know the same story without listening to it. They had permission to play as story was told. Because Herman wanted hear that story on his birthday.
Both I and Herman liked the story because there is fairy. Big kids have told us that fairies don´t exist. But even still we both hope that there is at least some magic in the world.
They look happy as they are playing, but they should had been little bit quieter. No matter let´s play with them.
We both run in the forest border and hide in the vegetation. We both were seperated by quite some distance of each other. We both took two slingshots and Herman started throwing pinecones at the children group by my hand signal. Children were suprised at first but soon recovered and started hunting game with we all had played more time than listening the story.
Where are you? Come out from hiding. Said oldest boy as girl and boy siblings behind him started to carry higbie full of mud water. Unfortunately we are not stupid enough to wall for so obvious lie anymore. As they approached Herman´s location I started to trow pinecones at the to make them pay attention to me instead of Herman.
This same patern of activity continued for about a minute because group is already accustomed to our plans. When I was about to be discovered Herman started to shout: I am here! They all started to go running place where sound was coming from. Soon they noticed picture of bee on the tree with arrow pointing location were shouting is coming from.
You think we would fall for so obvious trick. Start running.
Everyone did go without any doubt but soon they stopped moving completely. They saw beenest with full of bees swarming around it. It is no suprice they started tactical retreat file shouting: retreat retreat!
That was suprise they completely fell for your trap.
There were picture of beenest on the tree which was drawn by Herman yesterday. As for bees they were attract by plate filled with sugar-water and juice.
How did you know bees would come today at that time and in that place Sepro?
I just made trap by knowing now is end of the summer so bees will be leaving their nest and starting to find anything to eat. Yesterday bee came inside our house and I figured out using this bees wouldn´t be coming inside house anymore and we could use this as trap to scare kids of. It seems it worked perfectly. Hehe.
So are we going to make a plan for tomorrows attack?
No, this is enough. I don´t want to ruin our day by bee attack.
You are right. So what shall we do next.
Let´s just go inside and take my mother's rage past with.
As we approached house it was quiet and as Herman opened the door there was loud shout: congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!
Actually this was all planned in advance by me to distract Herman noticing his parents arriving to house. It seem to have worked perfectly by how happy his face look right now. Maybe I should had told other three my trap in advance. The play would had been enough without the bees.