Dwarf King

Pegasus Hoggle has been to many places and can be considered to have seen a lot of knowledge. However, one day he passed through a country, but was amazed, because the people here are walking on bent legs, and look very funny.

Hoggle full of suspicion, flew down to find out what is going on here.

He walked down the street and saw soldiers on patrol marching with their legs bent. He went up to an officer and asked him. The officer gave him a stern look, did not answer, just walked forward.

Then he asked a big man who was driving a cart with his legs bent to inquire. The man seemed to be deaf, looked at him, and did not say anything.

Hoggle was even more puzzled. He went on and saw a man trying to pick the fruit from a tree, but he was so close that he couldn't pick it.

"Sir, you just stand up straight and you can pick the fruit, why are you straining to bend your legs like this?" Hoggle said.

The man heard Hoggle say so, scared face suddenly white, shaking his hand, signaling him to stop, then, pulled him to his home, closed the doors and windows, listened to the side for a while, and said: "Our king is only four feet tall," he made a decree. All those who are taller than him are to live with their legs bent, or his legs will be cut off and cut to less than four feet tall."

Hoggle understood and felt indignant.

Alas, this was a terrible place! The people had no freedom to talk about the king and his decrees and had to live with their legs bent in fear all day long. The king would kill at every turn, and even his cook was once beheaded when he accidentally stood up straight.

Hoggle was a fast-talking man, so he was soon targeted by secret agents and arrested.

The king was fuming over the killing of the cook and not being able to eat the delicious soup, so he waved his hand impatiently and said, "Kill him!"

It would be a terrible injustice to die in this way for no reason! Hogarth had an idea and said, "King, don't you want to eat delicious soup?"

Immediately the king's eyes widened and his mouth watered: "In that case, you can cook?"

"No." Hoggle said calmly, "But I have a way to get the kind of soup you want to eat."

"Then, you bring it to me within 24 hours, or I will not spare you!"

"All right."

Hoggle left the palace and immediately set out to find the soup. When he passed a cave, he smelled a strong aroma and knocked on the door to enter.

The owner of the cave was a giantess with a very ugly appearance.

"I dare to conclude. You are a skilled cook." Hoggle said.

"You flatter me." The giantess said modestly, "But you can try my soup."

Hoggle also did not refuse, pick up a bowl of hot soup, and drank. The soup tasted so good, and, after drinking half a bowl could hear the beautiful music of the sky.

"The king must like this soup." Hoggle thought, so, said to the giantess; "The king is looking for a cook, would you like to go?"

"I am 8 feet tall, even if I cut off all my legs, my body is still over 4 feet." The giantess said, "I can't be in that hellhole, otherwise, I won't live a day!"

Hoggle thought about it, so he asked the giantess for a bowl of soup and hurriedly flew back to the palace and handed it to the king.

The soup was delicious and amazing! The king drank the first sip, he felt comfortable, a little floating; drink the second sip, feel as if lying in the colorful flowers; drink half a bowl, even the heavenly music can hear clearly.

The king asked Hoggle to ask the cook and promised her that she could walk straight. But: the giantess politely refused.

Now the king was furious and led the troops himself to teach the giantess a lesson. The giantess cried. Back the king saw the tears for the first time softened his heart, so he ran up and said gently: "Why do you not want to be my cook? I am the king, and no one has dared to disobey me so far."

"You think you can do anything just because you are a king?" The giantess said, "So, you tell people to walk with their legs bent?"

"Of course! That's the only way people can obey me."

"But, by doing so, you make people remember you as a dwarf even more!"

"How awful! That's exactly what I want people to forget."

"It is inevitable that a person has physical shortcomings, and it is possible to ask people to forget them.

Like I learned to make delicious soup so that people would forget that I am tall and ugly."

The words of the giantess deeply moved the king, so he abolished the original decree, allowing people to stand straight walking. From then on, the country returned to normal and everyone lived a comfortable life.