There lived a farmer in Conville, on the western border of England. He has an only son named Jack.
Jack is a brave and clever young man. He has never been defeated by anyone, and nothing has stumped him.
At that time, in the mountains of Conville, there was a giant named Kolmoran. This Colemoran is six meters tall and three meters around the waist. He looks terrible. People in the village will tremble with fear when they hear his name. He lived in a cave in the mountains. When he was hungry, he went across the ocean to England. No matter what he meets, he rushes to eat. Therefore, whoever hears that Colemoran is coming will run away from home and run for their lives.
Colemoran can catch six cows at a time and carry them on his back effortlessly. Catching sheep and pigs is as easy as catching grass. In this way, I don't know how many years later, people living in Conwell County have had enough of his torture.
One day, Jack went to the assembly hall in the street and heard the judge there talking about Colemoran.
"if someone kills colmoran, what reward can they get?" Jack asked.
"Give all his property to Colemoran." The judge replied. So Jack said:
"Well, let me kill him!"
Jack set off with a horn, shovel and pickaxe made of conch shells. On a winter evening, I arrived at Conwell Mountain and started working at once. The next day, before dawn, he dug a big pit seven meters deep and almost seven meters wide, and propped it up with a long stick and straw. Sprinkle some soil on branches and straw, which looks like ordinary ground. Then, sit down not far behind Colemoran Cave. At dawn, Jack took out the horn made of conch shell and blew it hard. The giant woke up with a start, walked out of the cave and said angrily:
"What bad guys come here to let me sleep, probably live impatient! I must roast you whole for breakfast. "
Before the words were finished, the giant had fallen into the hole dug by Jack. When he fell, the mountains were shaking because they were too heavy.
"ah! Everybody! Where are you now? Oh! I see, you are in prison. You like to scare others, and now you get what you deserve. Aren't you going to bake me for breakfast? Is there a company besides me? " Jack said derisively, then picked up a pickaxe and cut it at the giant's head.
Chop him to death immediately.
After jack filled the hole with soil, he went to check the giant's cave and found that there were many treasures in it. When the judge learned the news, he immediately posted a notice asking everyone to call Jack "Jack who destroyed the giant" from now on, and at the same time gave Jack a sword and a belt, which read in gold:
"Conville soldiers who destroyed the giant Kolmoran."
Jack's story soon spread all over the west of England. There is also a giant named Brad Bauer. He made up his mind that if one day he met Jack, he would avenge his friend. The giant lives in a wizard city in a desolate forest.
After Jack killed Colemoran, about four months later, on his way to a place called Wells, he passed by this forest and fell asleep by a spring because he was tired from walking. When Jack was asleep, it happened that Brad Bauer also came to the spring to fetch water. When he saw the words on Jack's belt, he knew that this man was the famous Jack who destroyed the giant. Suddenly, he put Jack on his shoulder and took him back to his castle.
When the giant walked through the forest, Jack was awakened by the rustling of leaves. Jack opened his eyes and found himself shouldered by a giant. He was taken aback. That's not all that surprised him! When he approached the huge castle, Jack saw human bones all over the floor. The giant said to Jack:
"Your bones will soon pile up with these bones!"
The giant locked Jack in a very big house, and then invited the giant brother who lived in the same forest to eat Jack's meat.
The giant walked for a while, and Jack looked out of the window. Two giants are coming towards the castle from opposite sides.
"ah! I am really faced with success or death now! "
Jack said to himself and looked around. When he saw some strong ropes in the corner, he took two, tied a slipknot on the head of each rope, then opened the window and quickly threw them at the heads of two giants who were opening the iron gate of the castle. The rope is just around the giant's neck. Jack hung the other end of the rope on the beam and began to pull hard. Seeing that the two giants were flushed and had no strength, Jack slipped down the rope and killed them with a knife. Then I found Brad Bauer's key, walked into the room and found three beautiful women with their hair tied together. They were starving.
Jack untied their hair and said to them, "Ladies! I have killed the monster and his savage brother. "
After that, I gave them the key and continued to March into Wales.
Jack walked as fast as he could, but unfortunately, he got lost at night. He looked around, there was not even a home, so he had to go on. When he came to a narrow valley, he saw a big house. I got up the courage to knock for the night. Oh, dear!
It's a two-headed monster who came out to open the door! But this monster doesn't look as terrible as those giants before. In fact, this Welsh giant is a gentle guy who does bad things in secret. After Jack explained his purpose, the giant took him to a bedroom.
In the middle of the night, Jack heard his master mutter in another room:
"The man who stays here tonight, I must kill him with a stick!"
"good! So you have ulterior motives. I'm afraid I won't be killed by you so easily! " Jack said to himself, then quietly left the bed, made the quilt into the shape of a person and pretended that he was still sleeping there.
He hid himself in the corner.
In the middle of the night, the giant of Wales came. He knocked on the bed with a stick, I don't know how many times, as if to smash every bone of Jack to pieces before he stopped.
The next morning, Jack felt funny in his heart, but his face looked as if nothing had happened, thanking the giant again and again.
"Did you sleep well last night? Did you hear anything? " The giant asked tentatively.
"alas! It's nothing. It's like a mouse throwing its tail at me a few times. " Jack answered easily.
The giant was surprised. Hurry up and invite Jack to have breakfast, and put a big bowl with 10 liters of porridge in front of Jack. Jack can't eat so much porridge, of course, but he can't tell the giant clearly. When the giant was not looking, he stole the porridge and poured it into a leather bag in his loose clothes. Then he asked the giant to perform magic tricks for him, and then he cut a piece of the bag with a knife, and all the porridge was poured out at once.
The monster saw it and said to Jack, "I'll do whatever you can." I cut open my stomach with a knife and died on the spot.
At that time, a son of King Arthur asked King Arthur to give him a lot of money. The reason is that a beautiful woman in Wales is possessed by seven evil spirits, and he wants to practice martial arts with her. King Arthur tried to stop it, but he wouldn't listen. Finally, I had to agree to his request. When the prince set out, he took two horses, one carrying money and the other riding by himself.
I don't know how many days I walked continuously. The prince came to a street in Wales and saw many people gathered there. He went up to him and asked what was going on. It turned out that a man borrowed a lot of money from others, and before the money was returned to others, that man died. The person who lent him money now found the body of the deceased and gathered around to watch. The prince felt that those who lent him money were cruel, and he felt unbearable.
"Quick buried the body! The person who lent him money can come to me and I will pay it back for him! " Said the prince.
Because there are too many people who come to ask the prince for money, it is not evening yet, and there are only two pence left around the prince.
Jack, who destroyed the giant, happened to be here at this time. Seeing the prince's generosity, he sincerely admired him and hoped to be his attendant. They talked for a while, and the next morning, the prince set out with Jack.
When they were about to walk out of the street, an old woman loudly said to the prince:
"The dead man lent me two pence before he died, and someone else's money was paid back. Please give me back the money you owe me! "
So the prince took out all the remaining money and gave it to the old woman. When Jack bought them food with a little money, their pockets were empty.
When the sun went down that day, the prince said:
"Jack! None of us have any money. Where are we staying tonight? "
Jack replied:
"Please don't worry, I have an uncle who lives about eight kilometers from here. He is a three-headed giant. During the war, even 500 soldiers in armor could not catch him. "
"That's too bad! If we go there, I'm afraid that guy will tear us to pieces and maybe eat us! "
"No .. I walked first, and I'll ask you when I have arranged it. Please don't leave here until I come back. "
Jack flew to the front of the city gate and banged against it.
Hearing a knock at the door, the giant roared:
"Who is that boy?"
"It's your relative Jack."
"Turns out to be jack. What can I do for you? "
"Uncle, no, something very difficult happened."
"What's the fuss. Is there anything I can't do here? Don't you know that I am a three-headed monster, and even 500 armored soldiers can't compete with me? "
"Uncle! It's windy now. The king sent his son to lead 1000 soldiers in armor to kill you and smash all your things. "
"Jack! If so, it will be difficult to deal with. I'm going to hide now. You lock the door of this house and hold it firmly. No one is allowed to go to my hiding place until the prince leaves here. "
After the giant hid, Jack went to welcome his master into the city. They were very happy while drinking and singing, but the poor giant was shivering in the cellar!
The next morning, Jack took some gold and silver from the giant to the prince, and then sent the prince ten miles away, lest the giant hurt him. When the giant heard that the prince had left, he came out of the cellar. Because of Jack, he felt safe, so he asked Jack what he liked.
"Uncle, if you want to give me anything, I don't want anything except the old coat and hat hanging by your bed, the rusty knife and those boots." Jack said.
"Those things you want are the most precious of all my things. Put on that coat so that others can't see you; Put on that hat and you will know what you want to know. No matter what touches that knife, it will break; As for those boots, they can run as fast as flying. Because you have helped me a lot, I am very happy, so I will give it all to you according to your requirements! "
Jack thanked Uncle Monster and took Four Treasures to see the prince. He put on those boots and soon caught up with the prince. Soon, he found the home of the woman the prince had been looking for. Knowing that the prince intended to marry her, the woman prepared a grand banquet.
However, as soon as the banquet was over, the woman told the prince that he had to do something before he got married. Then she wiped the prince's mouth with a handkerchief and said:
"You must get this handkerchief tomorrow morning. If you can't do it, behead it. "
As she spoke, she stuffed her handkerchief into the clothes on her chest. The prince felt a headache about it.
Jack comforted the prince that the clever hat would definitely tell him how to get the handkerchief and let the prince sleep in peace.
At midnight, the woman called an elf out and asked the elf to take her to the devil.
She didn't know that Jack had put on the invisibility cloak and followed her secretly.
When the woman arrived at the devil's house, she gave the devil the handkerchief and the devil put it on a shelf. Jack stole the handkerchief and went back to the prince. The next morning, the prince gave the handkerchief to the woman and finally saved his life.
On that day, the woman kissed the prince on the mouth and told him that if she didn't see who she kissed on the lips the next day, she would be beheaded.
"If you stop kissing others, then I can show you my mouth." The prince said anxiously.
"That's another matter. Anyway, if I don't see it at that time, your life will be over. " The woman said mercilessly.
In the middle of the night, the woman went to the devil again. She lost her temper with him about the handkerchief being stolen, and then said:
"This time, I told the prince something he couldn't do. I want to kiss you, and the prince can never show me your lips. "
After that, the woman kissed the devil. However, as soon as the woman left the demon king, Jack cut off the demon king's head, hid it in an invisibility cloak and brought it back to the prince.
The next day, after the prince hung the devil's head on the corner to show it to the woman, the magic originally attached to the woman suddenly disappeared, and the woman recovered her original beauty and stood in front of the prince.
After the prince and the woman got married, they returned to King Arthur's city together. In order to reward Jack's contribution, King Arthur promoted him as a knight of the Round Table. All the samurai, regardless of rank, sat around a round table.
After a while, Jack rode out again to look for the giant. After a short walk, I saw a cave. At the mouth of the cave, there was a giant, with a big iron bar in his hand, sitting on a log with a juryman face and eyes as if to ignite a raging fire. The beard is hard and hard, much like a bundle of steel wires; Tall, bulging shoulders, covered with long curly hair, look like a snake.
Jack jumped off his horse, put on his invisibility cloak, came to the giant and whispered to him:
"ah! Boy! Listen carefully. I want to grab your beard and grab you. "
So he cut off the giant's head with a knife. Because he couldn't cut it correctly, he only cut off his nose.
The giant cried out in pain, and then, like a madman, raised his stick and kept hitting near Jack. Jack took the opportunity to go around the giant's back, raised his knife and stabbed the giant in the back. The giant will die soon. Jack cut off the giant's head, hired a carriage and sent it to King Arthur's men.
After the death of the giant, Jack went into the cave, looked around and found a wide passage. He walked along the passage and came to a big house with a stone floor. Opposite the house, there is a big stove, cooking, and there is a big dining table on the right for the giant to eat. Opposite the dining table, there is a door separated by an iron fence.
Jack looked inside and saw many poor prisoners. When the prisoners saw Jack, they scrambled to ask:
"Poor young man! Are you in this miserable prison like us? "
"So, you are all prisoners of giants?"
Jack asked them. Some of them replied:
"We were caught by the giant as food for the party. Every time the giant holds a party, he will choose the fattest one from us to kill. Many people have been killed! "
"alas! There is such a tragic thing! "
Jack opened the door at once and let all relevant personnel out. Then he opened the giant's treasure chest, distributed all the gold and silver equally to each prisoner, and then took them to a nearby city.
Just as those people were celebrating each other's rescue from a narrow escape, people from the city came to report that a giant named St. Dabaier had heard that his giant relatives had been killed and came from the valley in the north to find Jack to avenge his relatives. The giant has two heads, and now he is two kilometers away from the city, and everyone nearby is scared to run away.
Jack didn't panic at all when he heard the news.
"Let him come! I will kill him easily. Please go to the yard and see how these two giants died. "
The city where Jack and others live is built on an island. There is a moat with a depth of15m and a width of 7m around the city. There is a suspension bridge over the river. Jack first hired someone to cut the hanging ropes at both ends of the suspension bridge to the place near the center with a knife, then put on the invisibility cloak and walked in the direction of the giant.
Although the giant can't see Jack, his nose is smart. When he smells someone nearby, he will say:
"ah! It's human smell!
Yes, it's the smell of people!
Dead or alive, I will grind his bones into bread. "
"What a big breath! I'm afraid your bones have to be ground into powder before others can eat it as flour! " Jack said loudly. The giant heard this and roared:
"You are the villain who killed my relatives! I disagree with you. I want to eat your flesh, drink your blood and grind your bones into powder! "
"Then you won't have to be caught by me!"
With that, Jack took off his invisibility cloak, put on his flying shoes and deliberately ran away from the giant.
The giant immediately caught up with him, and his heavy footsteps seemed to tremble when he stepped on the ground.
In order to show everyone, Jack deliberately ran around the circle for a while, and then flew into the city from the suspension bridge. The giant waved a stick in the back and chased Jack desperately. When he caught up with the middle of the suspension bridge, it broke with a bang because it was too heavy, and the giant plunged into the moat. Jack stood by the moat and laughed at the giant. The giant was so angry that he spat bubbles in his mouth and kept sinking. Although he wanted to swim ashore for revenge, he couldn't.
Jack took two thick ropes, threw them into the river, put them on the giant's head, dragged the giant to the water with the strength of several horses, and then cut off the giant's two heads with an invincible knife and gave them to King Arthur's men.
After that, Jack played happily in this city for a few days. In order to try new adventures, he set off again. One day, when he was walking through a big forest, the foot of a high mountain appeared in front of him. At that time, it was getting late. He saw a house at the foot of the mountain and knocked at the door. After a while, an old man with white hair opened the door.
"Old man! I took a few steps because of greed, and it was already dark. Can you stay with me for one night? "
"If you don't mind my humble cottage, I hope you can stay here." The old man replied.
When Jack entered the room, the old man told him to sit down and said to him:
"Young man! Judging from that belt on your body, you are probably the bane of that great giant! Alas! At the top of this mountain, there is a city of witchcraft. There is a giant named Grigan Qiu Er in this city. With the help of an old wizard, the bad guy lured many knights and women and turned them into various shapes with witchcraft. The saddest thing is that a duke's eldest daughter was taken into the city by bad people while walking in the yard. Now she has been turned into a white deer by witchcraft.
"There are many knights who want to crack the giant's witchcraft and rescue the duke's daughter, but no one can do it. Because there are two Griffins (monsters with heads and wings like vultures and bodies like lions) guarding the city gate, all those who want to break into the city are killed there. However, I think: a person with wisdom and courage like you may be able to get through that door! As for how to crack witchcraft, as long as you stand in front of the house where the giant lives, you can see the big characters written there. "
After listening to the old man, Jack squeezed the old man's hand and said:
"At dawn, I will fight my life to save that girl."
The next morning, Jack put on his invisibility cloak and flying shoes, put on his magic hat and set off. When he reached the top of the mountain, he saw two Griffin guards there. Because he is wearing an invisibility cloak, he can swagger past. He saw a Jinjiao with a silver chain, engraved with a few lines:
"If someone can blow the horn,
You can defeat giants,
Cracking witchcraft,
Restore world peace! "
After jack finished reading, he immediately picked up the horn and blew it hard. The horn rang. In a flash, I saw the giant and the old wizard hobble out of the room. They seem to know that disaster is coming, biting their fingers and grasping their hair, panicking.
The giant saw Jack and was about to pick up his stick when Jack picked up a knife and cut off the giant's head. Seeing that the situation was wrong, the old wizard jumped up and ran away like a whirlwind.
So witchcraft suddenly disappeared. Knights and women who have been turned into birds and beasts for a long time have changed back to their original appearance, and the city of witchcraft suddenly disappeared.
Jack cut off Grigan Churchill's head and gave it to King Arthur's men as quickly as in the past. The next day, I took the rescued knights and women to the king's city to meet King Arthur.
In order to reward Jack's contribution, King Arthur proposed to the daughter of the rescued duke for him, and the duke readily agreed.
When Jack married the duke's daughter, everyone gave them sincere wishes.
After the marriage, King Arthur gave Jack a magnificent castle and a beautiful territory, and the husband and wife lived happily all their lives.