Story of the Foreign Fairy Chapter 87

"Yesterday's dinner was wonderful!" said an old female mouse to a mouse that did not attend the party. "I'm sitting in the twenty-first seat next to the old Mouse King, which is pretty good! Now let me tell you about the dishes one after another, how well arranged! Moldy bread, bacon rinds, grease candle heads and Sausages. Then it was like having two meals all over again. The atmosphere was pleasant, everyone talked happily, and there was nothing but sausages. So we talked about them, and then about sausage skewers for soup; we had all heard of it, of course, but no one had tasted the soup, let alone knew how to make it. At the banquet, everyone toasted to the one who invented this kind of soup. He deserves to be the director of the workhouse! It's fun, isn't it? The old mouse king stood up and said, who among the young mice can make this kind of soup? Whoever is the most delicious can be made his queen, and they can consider it for a whole year from that day."

"That's not too bad!" said the other mouse, "but how do you prepare this kind of soup?"

"'Yes, how to burn it?' All of them, all the female mice, young and old, also asked about this. They all wanted to be queens, but they were not willing to go to the middle of nowhere to find that kind of trouble. To learn in the world, and this is necessary! Besides, no one has the ability to leave home and hide in a corner. It is not every day that you can encounter cheese rinds and smell the bacon rinds. No, you will starve. , yes, he might be eaten alive by a cat. "

These are probably the ideas that scare most rats from going out to learn this craft. Only four mice, young and brave but poor, stepped forward. They would each like to go to one of the four corners of the world, so the question is, who has better luck. They only took with them a sausage skewer to remember what they were traveling for; it also served as their beautiful walking stick.

They set out at the beginning of May and returned a year later at the beginning of May. But only three came back, and the fourth one didn't show up, and no one heard anything about her. Now comes the day of decision.