格林童话短篇小故事之《瘦莉莎》

《瘦莉莎》英文版

　　Lazy Harry and fatelina are always cautious and not disturbed by foreign things. Thin Lisa had the opposite idea. She was always busy from morning to night and asked her big husband Lenz to do a lot of work. But even so, they achieved nothing.

 

　　One night Lisa lay in bed, too tired to move, but too preoccupied to sleep. She elbowed the man next to her and said, "Lenz, listen, what am I thinking? If I find a gold coin and someone gives me another one, I borrow another one and you give me one, then I have four gold coins in total and I want to buy a cow."

 

　　The man thought it was good. He said, "although I don't know where to get you the gold coin, if you have the money, you can use it to buy a cow. If the cow has a calf, we can drink milk and refresh ourselves."

 

　　The woman said, "the milk is not yours. We let the calf suck it and make it fat and strong, so that we can sell it at a good price."

 

　　The man said, "of course, but we can also drink a little. It's not in the way."

 

　　The woman said, "who told you to treat the cow like this? I won't agree whether it's in the way or not. If you think in your head, you can't drink a drop of milk! You're such a greedy guy. Are you going to consume all the things I've earned?"

 

　　The man said, "wife, be quiet, or I'll cover your mouth."

 

　　"What?" She cried, "you're going to scare me, you greedy, you long pole, you lazy Harry." She tried to pull his hair, but Lenz, the eldest son, sat up, grabbed thin Lisa's two thin arms with one hand, pressed her hair on the pillow with the other hand, and let her scold until she finally fell asleep again.

 

　　The next morning, when they woke up, they didn't continue to quarrel. We don't know whether Lisa went out to find the gold coin she wanted.