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第29章 守卫矿井

原来啊，科迪突然想起，哥布林第一场打了败仗，一定会采取第二套方案。他们这会儿肯定已经在紧锣密鼓地进行了。矿井现在非常危险，洪水一淹过来，这里什么都得毁了，更别说矿工们的性命了。

他跑到矿口，把附近的矿工都叫醒了，这时他看到爸爸和一大帮人来了，正要进矿。他们匆匆忙忙赶到科迪之前发现的那条通往哥布林王国的矿道。原来彼得早就有先见之明，已经备好一大堆石头和水泥在那儿，用来加固哥布林盯上的薄弱地方。虽然空间不够，一次只能两个人一起干活，但他们想方设法，让其他人准备水泥、搬石头，打算在天黑前做好一个大石墩把整条通道堵住，再用碎石头把四处顶好。还没到他们平常收工的时间，矿工们就妥妥当当地把保护工作做好了。

他们一直都听到哥布林锤子打、锄子挖的声音，最后好像还听到了之前从没听到过的水声。他们出矿井的时候，整座山正被暴雨笼罩，所以还以为听到的是这场暴雨的声音。雷声轰轰，闪电从顶上一片巨大的乌云中劈下来。乌云边萦绕着浓雾。山下也是电闪雷鸣的，闪电直打到云里去。地上小河已经涨了起来，水流湍急，可见暴风雨已经扫荡了一整天。

狂风大作，像要把人从山上吹走似的。但科迪担心妈妈和公主，所以毅然冲进了狂风暴雨中。就算下暴雨前她们没有出门、待在家里，他也不能保证她们会平安无事。在这样的暴风雨里，他们那所破落的小房子也不安全。果然，他很快就发现，要不是背靠着一块大岩石、有它保护免了风吹雨打，小房子不被吹走也得被卷走。冲下来的洪水被岩石分成两股急流，在小农舍门前又汇聚起来。两股水流都在咆哮，危险重重，科迪的妈妈和公主根本过不去。科迪费尽力气才跨过其中一条，终于到了门前。

科迪的手刚摸索到门闩，就听到公主欢乐的呼喊声从风雨声中传了来来：“科迪来了！科迪！科迪！”

她裹着毛毯坐在床上，雨水从烟囱里进来把炉火浇灭了，妈妈在生火，生了一百遍也生不着。土地板一片泥泞，整个屋子看起来一片狼藉。但妈妈和公主却兴高采烈，仿佛灾难只不过让她们更开心了。一见她们，科迪就放声大笑起来。

“从没这么好玩过！住在山上的农房里真好啊！”公主说着，明眸皓齿，十分动人。

“这得看你心里的房子是怎么样的。”科迪妈妈说。

“我知道你的意思。”艾琳说：“我奶奶说的也是这个道理。”

等到彼得回来的时候风雨差不多停了，但水流还是很猛，水涨太高，天又渐渐黑了，公主根本不可能下山，就算是彼得或科迪，下山也是极危险的。

“大家找不到你肯定吓坏了。”彼得对公主说：“但我们也没法子，得等天亮了再说。”

在科迪帮忙下，他们终于生起了火，妈妈开始张罗晚餐。吃过饭他们三个都给公主讲了故事。直到她困了，妈妈就把公主抱到阁楼上的小房间，放在科迪床上。一上床，她就透过眼前屋顶的小窗看见了奶奶的灯，从远处往下照过来。她望着那颗闪烁银光的美丽圆球睡着了。

CHAPTER 29 Masonwork

He had all at once remembered the resolution of the goblins to carry out their second plan upon the failure of the first. No doubt they were already busy, and the mine was therefore in the greatest danger of being flooded and rendered useless—not to speak of the lives of the miners.

When he reached the mouth of the mine, after rousing all the miners within reach, he found his father and a good many more just entering. They all hurried to the gang by which he had found a way into the goblin country. There the foresight of Peter had already collected a great many blocks of stone, with cement, ready for building up the weak place—well enough known to the goblins. Although there was not room for more than two to be actually building at once, they managed, by setting all the rest to work in preparing the cement and passing the stones, to finish in the course of the day a huge buttress filling the whole gang, and supported everywhere by the live rock. Before the hour when they usually dropped work, they were satisfied the mine was secure.

They had heard goblin hammers and pickaxes busy all the time, and at length fancied they heard sounds of water they had never heard before. But that was otherwise accounted for when they left the mine, for they stepped out into a tremendous storm which was raging all over the mountain. The thunder was bellowing, and the lightning lancing out of a huge black cloud which lay above it and hung down its edges of thick mist over its sides. The lightning was breaking out of the mountain, too, and flashing up into the cloud. From the state of the brooks, now swollen into raging torrents, it was evident that the storm had been storming all day.

The wind was blowing as if it would blow him off the mountain, but, anxious about his mother and the princess, Curdie darted up through the thick of the tempest. Even if they had not set out before the storm came on, he did not judge them safe, for in such a storm even their poor little house was in danger. Indeed he soon found that but for a huge rock against which it was built, and which protected it both from the blasts and the waters, it must have been swept if it was not blown away; for the two torrents into which this rock parted the rush of water behind it united again in front of the cottage—two roaring and dangerous streams, which his mother and the princess could not possibly have passed. It was with great difficulty that he forced his way through one of them, and up to the door.

The moment his hand fell on the latch, through all the uproar of winds and Waters came the joyous cry of the princess:

'There's Curdie! Curdie! Curdie!'

She was sitting wrapped in blankets on the bed, his mother trying for the hundredth time to light the fire which had been drowned by the rain that came down the chimney. The clay floor was one mass of mud, and the whole place looked wretched. But the faces of the mother and the princess shone as if their troubles only made them the merrier. Curdie burst out laughing at the sight of them.

'I never had such fun!' said the princess, her eyes twinkling and her pretty teeth shining. 'How nice it must be to live in a cottage on the mountain!'

'It all depends on what kind your inside house is,' said the mother.

'I know what you mean,' said Irene. 'That's the kind of thing my grandmother says.'

By the time Peter returned the storm was nearly over, but the streams were so fierce and so swollen that it was not only out of the question for the princess to go down the mountain, but most dangerous for Peter even or Curdie to make the attempt in the gathering darkness.

'They will be dreadfully frightened about you,' said Peter to the princess, 'but we cannot help it. We must wait till the morning.'

With Curdie's help, the fire was lighted at last, and the mother set about making their supper; and after supper they all told the princess stories till she grew sleepy. Then Curdie's mother laid her in Curdie's bed, which was in a tiny little garret-room. As soon as she was in bed, through a little window low down in the roof she caught sight of her grandmother's lamp shining far away beneath, and she gazed at the beautiful silvery globe until she fell asleep.