Raindrop necklace

Mr Jones and his wife live not far from the seaside. One stormy night, Mr. Jones was in his garden and saw the holly tree suddenly shaking at the door. ?

A voice shouted, "Help me! I'm stuck in a tree! Help me, or the storm will last all night. " ?

Mr Jones was very surprised and went to the tree. Among the branches, there is a tall man, wearing a long gray cloak, with a long gray beard and surprisingly bright eyes. ?

"Who are you?" Mr. Jones asked, "What are you doing on my holly?" ?

"Can't you see I'm stuck? Put me down, or the storm will stay underground all night. I am the north wind, and my job is to blow away the storm. " ?

Mr Jones saved the north wind from holly. The hands of the north wind are as cold as ice. ?

"Thank you," said the North Wind. "My cloak is broken, but it doesn't matter. You helped me, so I have to do something for you. " ?

"I don't need anything." Mr Jones said, "My wife just gave birth to a little girl. I am the happiest person in the world. " ?

"In that case," said the North Wind, "I will be the godfather of the child. This raindrop necklace is my birthday present to her. " ?

The north wind took out a thin silver necklace from under the gray cloak, and three bright raindrops hung on the chain. ?

"You put the necklace around the girl's neck," he said. "Raindrops will not get wet and will not fall. Every year on her birthday, I bring her a raindrop. When she has four raindrops, no amount of rain will get her wet. When she has five raindrops, no lightning can hurt her. When she has six raindrops, the strongest wind can't blow her away. When she has seven raindrops, she can swim in the deepest river. When she has eight raindrops, she can swim across the widest ocean. When she has nine raindrops, she can stop them with a clap of her hands. When she has ten raindrops, it will rain when she blows them with her nose. "

"Stop it, stop it!" Mr. Jones shouted, "It is enough for a little girl to know so much!" ?

"Well, forget it." The north wind said, "Remember, never let her take off her necklace, or it will bring her disaster." I have to go now. I must blow away the storm. On her birthday next year, I will come back with the fourth raindrop. " ?

After that, he flew into the sky, pushed away the dark clouds and let the moon and stars shine again. ?

Mr Jones came home and put a necklace with three raindrops around his daughter's neck. The girl's name is Laura. ?

A year passed quickly. When the north wind returns to this small house by the sea, Laura can climb up and play with her three glittering raindrops, but she never takes off her necklace. ?

The north wind gave Laura the fourth drop of rain. Even the heaviest rain won't wet her. Her mother can let her lie in the stroller and put it in the garden. Passers-by will say, "Look at this poor baby, she will catch a cold in such a heavy rain!" " ?

But what little Laura did was very happy. While playing with raindrops, she waved goodbye to the godfather of the north wind who was flying away. ?

The next year, the north wind brought her the fifth drop of rain. Another year passed, bringing a sixth one. One year, bring the seventh. Now the fiercest storm can't hurt Laura. If she falls into a pond or river, she will float on the water like a feather. When she had the eighth raindrop, she could swim across the widest ocean ―― but she lived happily at home and never tried. ?

When she got the ninth raindrop, Laura found that she could stop the rain with a clap of her hands. So the weather by the sea is often sunny. But on rainy days, Laura doesn't always clap her hands, because she especially likes to watch silver raindrops fall from the sky. ?

It's time for Laura to go to school. You can imagine how much the children like her! They shouted, "Laura, Laura, please stop raining." When it stops, we can play outside. " ?

Laura always gives them what they want and stops the rain.

But a little girl named Meg said to herself, "It's not fair. Why does Laura have such a lovely necklace and keep out the rain? Why shouldn't I have it? "

So Meg ran to the teacher and said, "Laura is wearing a necklace." ?

Later, the teacher said to Laura, "honey, you must take off your necklace when you go to school." This is the school discipline. " ?

"But taking off the necklace will bring me disaster!" Laura said. ?

"No, I'll put the necklace in the box for you, keep it safe and give it to you after school." ?

The teacher put the necklace in a box. ?

However, Meg saw where the teacher put the box. When the children went out to play and the teacher went to eat, Meg ran to put the necklace in her pocket. ?

When the teacher found the necklace missing, she was angry and sad. ?

"Who took Laura's necklace?" She asked. ?

But no one answered. ?

Meg put her hands in her pockets and held the necklace tightly. ?

Poor Laura cried all the way home. She walked along the seashore, and tears rained down her cheeks. ?

"Oh, what will happen to the godfather if I tell him that the gift he gave me is lost?" She cried.

A fish stuck its head out of the sea and said, "Good Laura, don't cry. When the waves washed me up on the beach, you put me back in the sea. I will help you find the necklace. " ?

A bird fell and cried, "Good Laura, don't cry. You saved my life when the storm blew me onto your roof and broke my wings. I will help you find the necklace. " ?

A mouse poked its head out of the hole and said, "Good Laura, don't cry. Once I fell into the river and you saved me. I will help you find the necklace. "

Laura dried her tears and asked, "How can you help me find it?" ?

The fish said, "I'm looking at the bottom of the sea. I need my brothers to help me." ?

The bird said, "I am flying in the sky and patrolling fields, forests and roads. I want my brothers to help me." ?

The mouse said, "I will look in the house. I will invite my brothers to search every corner and closet of every house in the world." ?

They all went to work separately.

What was Meg doing when Laura was talking to her three friends?

She walked in the rain wearing a necklace, but the rain poured all over her like a drowned rat! She clapped her hands to stop the rain, but it not only ignored her, but also rained harder than before.

It turns out that this necklace only serves the real owner.

Meg was angry, but she still wore the necklace and her father saw her.

"Where did you get the necklace?" He asked.

"I picked it up on the road." Meg said. She is lying!

"This necklace is too good for children to wear," her father said, and took it away. Meg and her father didn't know that a little mouse saw all this in a hole in the wall.

The little mouse ran to tell his friend that the necklace was at Meg's house. So ten mice brought it back to drag the necklace. But when they arrived at Meg's house, the necklace was gone. Meg's father sold the necklace to a silversmith and sold it for a lot of money. Two days later, a little mouse saw the necklace in the silversmith's shop and ran to tell his friend. But before they were towed away, the silversmith sold the necklace to a businessman who bought a precious gift for Princess * * * *' s birthday.

A bird saw the necklace and flew to tell Laura.

"The necklace is on a ship, which is heading for the peninsula at sea."

"Let's follow the boat," said the fish. "We'll show you the way and you swim with us!"

"I didn't wear a necklace. How can I swim so far? " She cried.

A dolphin said, "I swim with you on my back." When I am hungry, you often throw me delicious food. "Dolphins carrying Laura, fish swimming in front, birds flying in the sky, after many, many days, they finally came to the peninsula.

"Where is the necklace now?" The fish cried and asked the bird.

"The king of the peninsula in * * *. He will give the necklace to the princess on her birthday tomorrow. "

"Tomorrow is my birthday, too." Laura said, "Oh, my godfather is coming to give me the tenth raindrop. What will he say if he finds that there is no necklace around my neck? "

The bird took Laura into the king's garden, and she slept under the palm tree all night. The grass there is dry and the flowers are yellow, because the weather is too hot and it hasn't rained for a year.

The next morning, the princess went into the garden and opened her present. She got many lovely things: singing flowers; There is a birdcage full of birds with green and silver feathers; There is a book that can never be finished because it has no last page; A cat can shake the cradle; There are cobweb-like silver skirts and fish-scale gold skirts; There is a clock that tells the time by the real cuckoo; There is also a boat made of oversized pink shells. Laura's necklace is also among these gifts.

As soon as Laura saw her necklace, she ran under the palm tree and shouted, "Oh, sorry, that necklace is mine!" " "

The king was angry: "who is this girl?" Who let her come to my garden? Take her away and throw her into the sea! "

But the beautiful little princess said, "Wait a minute, Dad." She asked Laura, "How do you know this necklace is yours?"

"Because this is my godfather gave it to me! I wear this necklace, standing in the rain will not get wet, the storm will not hurt me, I can swim across rivers and oceans, and I can stop the rain. "

"Then can you make it rain?" Asked the king.

"Not yet. Just wait for me. michel platini will give me the tenth raindrop. " Laura replied.

"If you can make it rain, I will give you the necklace, because our country needs rain so much." Said the king.

Laura was very sad because she couldn't make it rain without the tenth raindrop.

Just then, the north wind flew into the king's garden.

"So there you are, goddaughter!" He said, "I have searched all over the world to give you a birthday present. Where's your necklace? "

"At the princess's house." Poor Laura said.

The north wind is angry. "You shouldn't take off your necklace!" He said. The north wind dripped raindrops on the hay and the raindrops disappeared. Then he flew away. Laura began to cry.

"Don't cry," said the kind little princess. "You can take the necklace. I can see it's yours. " The princess took the necklace off Laura's head. At that moment, Laura's tears just fell on the necklace, hanging on the necklace with nine other raindrops, becoming the tenth. Laura smiled. She dried her tears and blew her nose. Guess what? As soon as her nose sprayed, it began to rain! It's raining, it's raining, the trees are sticking out their branches and leaves, the flowers are spreading their petals, they are drinking heartily and are very happy.

Finally, Laura clapped her hands and the rain stopped.

The king said happily, "I have never seen such a good necklace!" Can you come and live with us every year and bring us enough rain? " Laura agreed.

Later, they sent the princess home in a pink shell boat, with birds flying overhead and fish swimming in front.

"I'm glad to find the necklace," Laura said, "but I'm even happier to have made so many friends."

What happened to Meg? The mouse told the north wind that Meg had taken Laura's necklace. So the north wind came, blew away the roof of her house, let the rain fall in, and she just soaked in the water!

Raindrop necklace