Once upon a time, there was a man whose wife died, and a woman whose husband died. The man had a daughter, and the woman also had a daughter. The two little girls knew each other and often went out for walks together. One day, they came together after taking a walk.
When they arrived at the woman's house, the woman said to the man's daughter: "Listen, tell your father that I am willing to marry him. From now on, you can wash your face with milk every morning and drink wine, but my own daughter can only
Wash your face with water and only drink water."
The little girl returned home and told her father what the woman had said. The man said, "What should I do? Marriage is a happy event, but it can also bring pain." He couldn't make up his mind for a long time, and finally took off one of his boots.
Said: "There is a hole in the sole of this boot. Take it to the attic, hang it on a big nail, and then pour some water into it. If the water does not leak out, I will marry another wife."
"But if the water leaks out, I won't marry you."
The girl did as her father said. However, the water caused the hole to swell, and the boots were filled with water but did not leak out. She told her father the result, and the father came up to check in person. When he saw that the situation was indeed the case, he
He went to propose to the widow, and then the wedding was held.
On the first morning, when the two girls got up, in front of the man's daughter there was indeed milk to wash her face and wine to drink, while in front of the woman's daughter there were only water to wash her face and water to drink. The next day
In the morning, the man's daughter and the woman's daughter had water to wash their faces and water to drink in front of them. On the third morning, the man's daughter had water to wash her face and water to drink in front of her, and the woman's daughter had water in front of her.
But there was milk for washing her face and wine for drinking. It was like this every day from now on. The woman became her stepdaughter's mortal enemy and treated her worse every day. She was also extremely jealous of her stepdaughter because her stepdaughter was beautiful.
Cute, while her own daughter is ugly and annoying.
Winter is here, everything is frozen as hard as stone, and the mountaintops and valleys are covered with heavy snow. One day, the woman made a dress out of paper, called her stepdaughter over, and said, "Listen, you put on this dress."
clothes, go to the forest and pick me a basket of strawberries, I really want to eat them."
"Oh my god!" said the girl, "how can there be strawberries in winter? The ground is covered with ice, and heavy snow has covered everything. Besides, how can I go out wearing this paper suit? It's so cold outside that I can't even breathe.
It will freeze. The wind will blow into the clothes and the thorns will tear them."
"You dare to talk back to me?" said the stepmother, "Go away quickly! If you don't pick a basket of strawberries, don't even think about coming back!" Then she gave the girl a small piece of hard bread and said: "
This is your daily ration." But I was thinking in my heart: "You will either freeze to death or starve to death outside, don't even think about coming back to bother me again."
The girl had no choice but to put on the paper clothes obediently, carry the basket and go out. It was freezing and snowy outside, and not even a green grass could be found. When she came to the forest, she saw a small house with three dwarfs inside.
Looking outside, she greeted them and knocked gently on the door. They called "Come in," and she went inside, sat on the bench by the stove, warmed herself, and ate her breakfast.
The dwarfs said: "Give some to us too."
"Okay." She said, breaking the bread in half and giving them half.
They asked: "Why are you wearing these thin clothes in the forest in winter?"
"Well," she replied, "I have to pick a basket of strawberries, or I won't be able to get home."
After she finished eating the bread, they handed her a broom and said, "Go help us sweep the snow off the back door."
But after she went out, the three dwarfs started discussing: "She is so cute and gave us the bread. What should we give her?"
The first dwarf said: "My gift to her is that she becomes more beautiful every day."
The second dwarf said: "My gift to her is that she spits out gold as soon as she speaks."
The third dwarf said: "My gift to her is that a king will marry her as his queen."
The girl was following their instructions and sweeping away the snow behind the hut with a broom. What did she see? Red strawberries were exposed under the snow! She was so happy that she quickly filled a basket full and thanked the dwarf.
She shook hands with them one by one and said goodbye, and then ran home with the things her stepmother coveted. Unexpectedly, as soon as she said "good evening" when she entered the door, a piece of gold fell out of her mouth! So she put herself in
He told me about the things he had encountered in the forest, and every time he said a word, a piece of gold fell out of his mouth, so the house was soon filled with gold.
"Look at her virtues!" cried the stepmother's daughter, "throwing away gold like this!" She was terribly jealous, and longed to go to the forest to pick strawberries.
But her mother said: "No, my good daughter, it's too cold outside, you will freeze to death."
But her daughter persisted, so she finally gave in. She sewed a fur coat for her daughter and forced her to wear it; then she gave her buttered bread and cakes to eat on the road.
After the girl entered the forest, she walked straight to the hut. The three dwarfs were looking out of the house again, but she did not greet them at all, neither looked at them nor spoke to them, and walked into the house in a swaggering manner.
He sat down by the stove and ate his bread and cake.
"Give us some," said the dwarfs.
But she replied: "This is not enough for myself, how can I share it with others?"
After she finished eating, they said, "Here is a broom to sweep the snow off the back door."
She replied: "I am not your servant."
Seeing that they would not give her any gifts, she rushed out of the house.
The three dwarfs discussed: "She is such a bad-hearted lazy person and refuses to give anything to others. What should we give her?"
The first dwarf said: "I made her look uglier every day!"
The second dwarf said: "I made her speak and a toad jumped out of her mouth!"
The third dwarf said: "I made her die badly!"
The girl was looking for strawberries outside the house, but couldn't find any, so she had to go home angrily. She started to tell her mother what she had experienced in the forest, but every time she spoke, a strawberry popped out of her mouth.
The toad scared everyone.
This made the stepmother even more angry. She tried every possible means to torture her husband's daughter, but the girl grew more beautiful day by day. Finally, the stepmother took out a pot, put it on the fire, and boiled the thread in it.
After the thread ball was boiled, she took it out and put it on the girl's shoulders. Then she gave the girl an ax and asked her to go to the frozen creek, dig a hole in the ice, and rinse it in the hole.
The girl obediently came to the river and walked to the middle of the river to cut the ice.
While she was chiseling, a gorgeous carriage drove up from the shore, with the king sitting in it. The carriage stopped, and the king asked: "Girl, who are you? What are you doing here?"
"I'm a poor girl here rinsing skeins of thread."
The king felt sorry for her and saw how beautiful she was, so he said to her, "Will you come with me?"
"Of course I do," she replied, for she was very happy to be away from her stepmother and her daughter.
The girl sat in the king's carriage and returned to the palace with the king. The wedding was held immediately, just as the three dwarfs had promised. A year later, the young queen gave birth to a son. Her
The stepmother had already heard that she had good luck. At this time, she also came to the palace with her own daughter, pretending to come to see the queen. However, when she saw that the king had just left and there was no one else around, the evil-hearted woman caught him
The queen's head, her daughter took hold of the queen's feet, lifted her from the bed, and threw her out of the window into the river. Then the stepmother's ugly daughter lay on the bed, and the old woman covered her from head to foot.
stand up.
When the king returned to the room and wanted to talk to his wife, the old woman shouted: "Hush, hush, don't disturb her, she is sweating now. Don't disturb her today."
The king had no doubt at all and waited until the next morning before coming over. He was talking to his wife, but as soon as she opened her mouth, a toad jumped out of her mouth instead of gold as before. The king asked what happened.
The old woman said that it was caused by sweating and would be cured soon. But that night, the little helper in the palace saw a duck swimming out of the sewer and heard it say: "King, what are you doing?"
What? Are you asleep or awake?"
Seeing that the little helper didn't answer, it asked again: "What are my two guests doing?"
The helper said: "They are fast asleep."
The duck asked again: "What is my little baby doing?"
The helper replied: "He is sleeping soundly in the cradle."
The duck turned into a queen, went up to feed the baby, rocked his crib, covered him with a quilt, then turned into a duck again and swam away from the sewer. She stayed like this for two nights in a row, and on the third day
In the evening, she said to the little helper: "Go and tell the king to take his sword, stand on the threshold, and wave it three times over my head."
The little helper hurriedly ran to tell the king. The king came with a sword and waved it three times over the ghost's head. As soon as he danced for the third time, his wife stood in front of him, as healthy and strong as before.
The king was very happy, but he still hid the queen in the secret room and waited for the day when the baby would be baptized on Sunday. After the baptism, he said: "If someone drags someone out of bed and throws them into the river, that person will
What kind of punishment should be received?”
The old woman said: "The best punishment for such a bad-hearted person is to put him in a barrel filled with nails and roll him down the hillside into the river."
"Then," said the king, "you have passed your sentence."
The king ordered that such a barrel be brought in, the old woman and her daughter were put into it, the lid of the barrel was nailed, and the barrel rolled down the hillside until it reached the middle of the river.