The Golden Flute

The Golden Flute, a Yao folk tale retold by Robert Morgan. Illustrated by Anik McCrory.

《金笛子》，瑶族民间故事，罗伯特·摩根改写 安妮克·麦克罗里 绘图

Once upon a time, a woman and her daughter lived in the mountains. The daughter liked to dress in red. For this reason, she was called Little Red. One day Little Red and her mother were working in the fields. All of a sudden, a gale blew up, and in the sky there appeared an evil dragon. It stretched down its claws, caught Little Red in a tight grip, and flew off with her

很久很久以前，山里住着一对母女 女儿最喜欢穿红衣裳 大家因此都叫她小红 一天，小红和妈妈在田里干活 忽然狂风大作，天空里冒出了一条恶龙 它伸下爪子，紧紧抓住小红，带着她飞走了

Little Red's mother vaguely heard her daughter's words carried on the wind. Oh mother, oh mother, as dear as can be, my brother, my brother, will rescue me. Wiping away her tears, Little Red's mother gazed into the sky and said, But I only have a daughter. Who can this brother be?

小红妈妈隐隐听见风里飘来女儿的话 好妈妈呀好妈妈，我的哥哥会来救我呀 小红妈妈擦干眼泪望着天空说，可我只有一个女儿呀 这个哥哥到底是谁呢

Little Red's mother staggered toward home, and when she had gotten halfway there, her hair caught in the branches of a bayberry tree growing by the roadside. While she was untangling her hair, she spotted a red, red berry dangling from a twig. She picked it and swallowed it without thinking. When she arrived home, the woman gave birth to a boy with a round head and red cheeks. She named the boy Little Bayberry.

小红妈妈踉踉跄跄往家赶，走到半路，头发被路边杨梅树的树枝勾住了 她解头发的时候，瞧见一根细枝上挂着一颗鲜红鲜红的杨梅 她摘下杨梅，想都没想就吞了下去 回到家后，这位妈妈生下了一个圆脸红扑扑的男孩 她给男孩取名叫小杨梅

Bayberry grew up very quickly, and in a few days he was a young boy of 14 or 15. His mother wanted to ask Bayberry to rescue his sister, but she couldn't bring herself to give him such a dangerous job. All she could do was weep to herself in secret.

小杨梅长得非常快，没几天就长成了十四五岁的少年 妈妈想让小杨梅去救姐姐，可又不忍心让他去做这么危险的事 她只能偷偷暗地里抹眼泪

One day a crow landed on the roof of the woman's house and cried, Your sister is suffering out there, out there. She's weeping in the evil dragon's lair. Blood stains on her back. She's digging rocks with hands so bare.

一天，一只乌鸦落在妈妈家的屋顶叫：你的姐姐在外面受苦啦，受苦啦 她在恶龙的洞穴里哭泣呢 背上满是血痕 她赤着双手挖石头呢