One winter night, they peeled broad beans to prepare tomorrow's meal. They sat face to face on both sides of the table, peeled the pods and threw the peeled broad beans into the basin. After peeling for a while, the old woman gathered on the basin to see how many broad beans were peeled.
She sighed and said, "Alas! If only these broad beans were children! "
Immediately, all the broad beans became children; White broad beans become little boys, and colored broad beans become little girls. These children all jumped out of the basin, ran to the table, circled, rolled, played games and fought. Some children slipped from the foot of the table and ran on the slate. Then, all directions heard the voice of shouting:
"Mom, I'm hungry. Give me a piece of bread with jam. "
"Dad, I'm thirsty. Give me something to drink. "
"My brother pulls my hair."
"Sister hit me."
"Wipe it for me, my nose is dirty."
"I want that kettle."
"I want this, I want that."
Ah! What a noisy sound ... these two nice guys are almost deafened by the noise.
They said, "What shall we do with these children? If only they could become broad beans again. " Suddenly, all the children on the table jumped into the basin and turned back into broad beans. However, those children on the slate can never climb the table again. And it should be said that none of them want to turn back into broad beans, because they think it is much more interesting to be a playful child than to be a broad bean that is about to be cooked. What will they do? They hide in every corner, under the bed, under the cupboard, in the clogs and slippers. The old man and the old woman hurried to find them, dusted the furniture with feather dusters and emptied their shoes. They grabbed the children and threw them into the basin, and they became broad beans again. After a while, the old man and the old woman can't find their children anymore.
They continue to peel broad beans and prepare tomorrow's meal. They sat face to face on both sides of the table, peeled the pods and threw the peeled broad beans into the basin. After a while, the old woman came to the basin again to see how many broad beans had been peeled.
She said, "Alas! Peeling is very slow. We were stupid just now. If we leave a child, just one ... he is so small that he won't give us any trouble and can help us peel broad beans. " So, they heard a little voice saying, "Mom, don't worry, there is another one."
"Where are you?" "I'd like to tell you, but please promise not to throw me into the basin first."
"I promise you." "I'm, I'm in a mouse hole under the corner."
Then he ran out of his hiding place and appeared in front of the old man. The two nice guys are very happy. They put him on the table and put him among them. The child began to peel the beans quickly and quickly threw the peeled broad beans into the basin. He cooked so fast that broad beans fell like hail. In a blink of an eye, the pot was full and the broad beans were peeled.
Two good guys are very happy to have such a child. They just call him John Bean. John Bean is a little boy. His body is as big as a broad bean. He can't stay still in one place, he is active all day. In winter, he does housework, saws firewood, makes a fire, cooks vegetables and watches cows instead of the two old people.
After the snow melted, he went out to buy things. He went to the bakery to buy bread. When he paid the shopkeeper, he said, "Madam shopkeeper, please give me three buns."
The female shopkeeper opened her eyes and said, "I obviously heard a voice. I clearly see the money shaking, but I can't see anyone. "
She finally found him and gave him three buns. John Bean is a playful child. He took the opportunity to take the bread home, used it as a wooden circle for the game, and rolled it up one by one.
People in the village saw it and asked in surprise:
"How did these breads get to the nice guy's house by themselves?"
When a sunny day came, the old man said:
"Now, it's time for me to plow."
John Bean wanted to work in the field instead of the old man, but the old man didn't agree. He said, "To get there, you must cross a forest and a stream, where wild animals will eat you, or you will drown in the stream."
However, John Bean refused to remain silent. When the old woman was ready to deliver lunch to her husband, he insisted on delivering it for her.
He set off with a basket on each arm. How can he cross the stream when he walks to it? He saw a shepherd boy herding sheep nearby and shouted:
"ah! Shepherd boys of these sheep, help me cross this stream! "
The shepherd boy approached him and said, "Who is talking? I can't see anyone. "
"It's me, can't I count?" John Bean said, propping up his little body. However, he was in vain and the shepherd boy still couldn't see him.
"I clearly see two baskets, but I can't see anyone holding them."
So John Bean stood on a basket so that people could see him, and the shepherd boy helped him cross the stream.
John Bean came to the field and called his father to eat. Dad is working in the shade of a small tree nearby.
John Bean said, "I will continue to plow while you are eating. You put me in the horse's ear and the whip is in my hand. "
So he started shouting, "Whew! ..... oh! ..... and! ..... ears! ..... "Whip the whip. As expected, the horse stepped forward and obeyed his command.
Several thieves passed by on the road and saw the horse plowing alone, waving a whip and shouting.
They said, "Ah! This is really a good horse. Let's take it away. "
They approached the horse and tried to take it away. Bean John shouted to them:
"Don't come near, or I'll whip you in the face."
He shouted again: "Dad! Dad! Thief! ……"
Dad has arrived. The thief was surprised and asked him who was talking. Dad introduced John Bean to them. John Bean was rude to them. He raised his whip and clenched his fist.
The thief said, "Please lend him to us for a few days. He can help us a little. " Dad refused, but the thief kept asking. The number is large and the momentum is fierce.
Naughty John Bean said to his father, "Let me go with them. I want to play a trick on them."
The thieves took him away and told him what they wanted him to do.
"Tonight we are going to steal from a rich landlord's house. You were born very, very small. You can go through the keyhole. As soon as you get inside, pick out the most valuable things and throw them to us from the window. "
John Bean replied, "OK."
At night, the thieves crept to the grange, and everyone in the grange fell asleep. They ordered John Bean to go in through the keyhole. John Bean went to the house, opened a window slightly and closed it. Then he shouted to the thieves vigorously, "Here are gold, silver and jewels. Tell me, thieves, what do you want?"
The thieves said, "Don't shout so loudly! Don't shout like that! You'll get us caught. " John Bean shouted even louder: "There are gold, silver, jewels and thieves here. Tell me, what do you want?
The shouts were so loud that everyone in the grange was awakened. The landlord shouted, "Stop the thief!" The servants came with big forks, so the thieves had to run away quickly.
John Bean thought, "What shall I do now? If they find me, they will treat me as a thief and hang me. "
He slipped outside, fled to the barn and hid in a pile of straw. After a hectic day, he was very tired, so he fell asleep in the straw.
In the morning, the little girl in the grange came to feed the cows. She put the bunch of straw in the barn in the trough. Needless to say, the cow and John Bean swallowed the straw together. John Bean didn't feel well when he woke up in the cow's belly.
He thought, "If people feed this animal grass again, I will be suffocated by food." So he shouted, "Don't feed the grass, I'm not hungry."
The little girl was taken aback and said, "My cow can talk!" " "
However, the cow can't talk, and she is relieved.
She said, "I'll give it some water anyway."
She went to the well and hung a bucket of water. When John heard that she was back, he thought, "If this cow drinks this bucket of water, I will drown!" " "
So, he shouted again: "I don't want to drink water, there is too much water."
This time, the little girl was so scared that she fell down and even the bucket was knocked over.
She quickly got up and ran back to the village to report to her master: "Our cow can talk! Our cows can talk! " She told him the whole story.
The owner came to see it and fed the cow straw. He heard a voice: "Don't give me a straw, I'm not hungry."
The landlord said, "It does talk. It was possessed. We should kill it. "
They killed the cow that day and threw John's stomach with beans hidden.
A hungry wolf walked around the grange looking for food. He found the cow's stomach and swallowed it. Now, John Bean has entered the wolf's belly. He is no more comfortable than in a cow's stomach.
He said to himself, "if the wolf eats again, I will suffocate." I must stop it from eating again. " Whenever the wolf sneaks to the sheep to eat the lamb, Bean John shouts, "Shepherd boy, shepherd boy, let your dog out, the wolf is coming, the wolf is coming."
The shepherd boys immediately released the dog and came with weapons, so the wolf had to run away quickly.
The wolf approached a farm and craned his neck to catch a chicken or goose. John Dou shouted again: "Master Zhuang, let your dog out, the wolf is coming! The wolf is coming! "
The wolf can't steal or eat, so he lost weight ... He went to his friend Fox and asked him for advice.
"Go into the Woods and find a tree with branches crossing. You push hard between the two branches of the tree and squeeze yourself tightly, and the little guy comes out. "
The wolf came to a tree with branches crossing, put himself between the branches, groaned and squeezed hard. Suddenly, John Bean was squeezed out and fell to the ground. As you can imagine, he is a little dirty. He bathed in the pool. He heard footsteps and quickly hid under a pile of twigs.
An old woman came, carrying a basket on her back, looking for firewood for the fire. She picked up twigs from where John was and threw them into the basket.
The old woman picked up firewood and went home. John Bean looked out of the small hole and saw the old woman passing by his house. He shouted:
"Good old woman, Benedict! There is a devil in your basket. "
The old woman thought she really heard the devil talking. She was so scared that she threw the basket on the ground and ran away in a hurry.
John Bean happily walked out of his hiding place and went back to his parents. At first they thought he was lost, but now they are glad to see him back.
John Bean continued to help the two old people until they died of old age.