The Princess and the Pea · chapter 3 of 3
The Pea in the Museum
博物馆里的豌豆
Morning comes, and the princess has a complaint. The queen has a secret, and the prince has a question.
Read what you hear
- Narrator 天亮了。大家都在等公主起床。
Tiān liàng le. Dàjiā dōu zài děng gōngzhǔ qǐchuáng.
Morning came. Everyone was waiting for the princess to get up.
- The Queen 早上好，公主！你睡得好吗？
Zǎoshang hǎo, gōngzhǔ! Nǐ shuì de hǎo ma?
Good morning, Princess! Did you sleep well?
- The Princess 不好，王后！我一夜都没有睡！
Bù hǎo, wánghòu! Wǒ yí yè dōu méiyǒu shuì!
No, Your Majesty! I didn't sleep all night!
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- The Prince 怎么了？床不舒服吗？
Zěnme le? Chuáng bù shūfu ma?
What happened? Wasn't the bed comfortable?
- The Princess 床里有一个硬东西！很硬很硬！
Chuáng lǐ yǒu yí gè yìng dōngxi! Hěn yìng hěn yìng!
There was something hard in the bed! Very, very hard!
- The Princess 你看，我身上有黑黑的地方！
Nǐ kàn, wǒ shēn shang yǒu hēihēi de dìfang!
Look, I have dark marks all over me!
- The Prince 妈妈，你听到了吗？她说床里有东西！
Māma, nǐ tīngdào le ma? Tā shuō chuáng lǐ yǒu dōngxi!
Mother, did you hear that? She says there's something in the bed!
- The Queen 听到了！哈哈哈！
Tīngdào le! Hāhāhā!
I heard! Ha ha ha!
- The Princess 你为什么笑？我很疼！
Nǐ wèishénme xiào? Wǒ hěn téng!
Why are you laughing? I'm hurting!
- The Queen 对不起，孩子！我在床垫下放了豌豆。
Duìbuqǐ, háizi! Wǒ zài chuángdiàn xià fàng le wāndòu.
Sorry, child! I put a pea under the mattresses.
- The Princess 一个豌豆？二十个床垫，我也知道？
Yí gè wāndòu? Èrshí gè chuángdiàn, wǒ yě zhīdào?
One pea? Under twenty mattresses, and I still knew?
- The Queen 对！只有真公主能感觉到。
Duì! Zhǐyǒu zhēn gōngzhǔ néng gǎnjué dào.
Yes! Only a real princess can feel it.
- The Prince 你是真公主！我要和你结婚！
Nǐ shì zhēn gōngzhǔ! Wǒ yào hé nǐ jiéhūn!
You're a real princess! I want to marry you!
- The Princess 结婚？我们才认识一天！
Jiéhūn? Wǒmen cái rènshi yì tiān!
Marry? We've only known each other one day!
- The Prince 一天就够了！我找了一年了！
Yì tiān jiù gòu le! Wǒ zhǎo le yì nián le!
One day is enough! I've been looking for a year!
- The Princess 可是，我要一张舒服的床！
Kěshì, wǒ yào yì zhāng shūfu de chuáng!
But I want a comfortable bed!
- Narrator 很多年过去了。豌豆在博物馆里，大家都来看它。
Hěn duō nián guòqù le. Wāndòu zài bówùguǎn lǐ, dàjiā dōu lái kàn tā.
Many years passed. The pea was in a museum, and everyone came to see it.
- The Museum Guide 大家好！欢迎来博物馆！这就是有名的豌豆！
Dàjiā hǎo! Huānyíng lái bówùguǎn! Zhè jiù shì yǒumíng de wāndòu!
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the museum! This is the famous pea!
- The Museum Guide 它很小很小。可是，它找到了真公主！
Tā hěn xiǎo hěn xiǎo. Kěshì, tā zhǎodào le zhēn gōngzhǔ!
It's tiny, so tiny. But it found the real princess!
- The Prince 你听，大家在说我们的事。
Nǐ tīng, dàjiā zài shuō wǒmen de shì.
Listen, everyone is talking about us.
- The Princess 别说话。我们是来看老朋友的。
Bié shuō huà. Wǒmen shì lái kàn lǎo péngyou de.
Hush. We came to see an old friend.
- The Princess 小豌豆，你好。你让我疼了一夜！
Xiǎo wāndòu, nǐ hǎo. Nǐ ràng wǒ téng le yí yè!
Hello, little pea. You hurt me all night long!
- The Prince 它也让我找到了你，我的公主。
Tā yě ràng wǒ zhǎodào le nǐ, wǒ de gōngzhǔ.
And it helped me find you, my princess.
- The Museum Guide 两位，请小声一点！博物馆里不能大声说话！
Liǎng wèi, qǐng xiǎoshēng yìdiǎn! Bówùguǎn lǐ bù néng dàshēng shuōhuà!
You two, please keep it down! No loud talking in the museum!
- The Prince 对不起，对不起！公主，我们走吧。
Duìbuqǐ, duìbuqǐ! Gōngzhǔ, wǒmen zǒu ba.
Sorry, sorry! Princess, let's go.
- The Princess 好！今天晚上，我要睡舒服的床！
Hǎo! Jīntiān wǎnshang, wǒ yào shuì shūfu de chuáng!
Yes! Tonight, I'm sleeping in a comfortable bed!
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What changed in the story?
- Why didn't the princess sleep?
“我一夜都没有睡！”……“床里有一个硬东西！”
- Why does the queen laugh?
“我在床垫下放了豌豆。”
- What does the prince want to do?
“我要和你结婚！”
- What does the princess ask for?
“我要一张舒服的床！”
- Where is the pea many years later?
“豌豆在博物馆里。”