A Romantic Story of Celt

About the Book

Before Christianity reached the Celtic territory, a rich landlord Dinkins had many women. The one he loved mostly was called Sophia. Sophia loved him too. One day, Dinkins saved a pretty girl named Vipy, in a wild mountain pass. Since she was homeless, Dinkins kept her living with him. They lived happily, before a Christian apostle Farley told Dinkins that he was bewitched by a monster. Farley gave him a cross and told him that it could protect him from danger.

Soon, Dinkins found Vipy was in fact a werewolf under a beautiful skin. The cross though worked a little but it wasn't enough as protecting him and it revealed his unfaithfulness to their love. It rouse Vipy's wrath. As a monster, she didn't know how to win the heart of a human being so she gouged out Dinkins'; physical heart and left him dead. Sophia turned to Farley for help. Farley killed the werewolf but he could not return the life of Dinkins; only Death had the power to do it. After being humiliated and insulted by the Death, Sophia did have her husband's heart back and saved him.

When Dinkins revived and was told what Farley had done for him, he donated all his property to church. For this reason, many years late, when his son Xu grew up, the family was poor and no girl wanted to marry him.

At Lughnasadh (a Celtic festival), Xu met a beautiful girl. In despite of many pursuers, she loved him. Xu was exited and worried by this unmatched love but his sister warned him that the girl might be another monster like Vipy. She told him a good method to test it. At the night of Halloween, Celt used to drink whisky with pumpkin, for it was the poison of monsters; the smell could protect innocent people from them. The sister told her brother to drink it with the suspected girl at that night.

About the Author

1953 I was born in Beijing China. At the age of 13, the whole country was involved into the Great Cultural Revolution. There was no school. I had to learn anything on my own. During that time political turmoil, I read plenty stories of ancient world.1978 I enrolled a technique university for at that time a technician was easy to find a job.

Until few years ago, I found there were more and more fictions attracted the sight of people. The reason was that after the information explosion, only the good fiction could give people the purport of any subject. In other word, you could not let every body know the detail of any event during one's life span; too many words to be read. You had to concentrate the substance of the whole event to the audience. Then I started to write my stories. Besides this I found that there were so many stories that were hard to translate into English. So I have to explain them in different way to seek understanding of the audience.