green fairy tale book

Chapter 33
Once upon a time there was a king whose wife had long golden hair.The blonde queen's beauty is unparalleled in the world.But this year she was seriously ill, and soon she felt that she was going to die, so she ordered someone to call the king to her side, and said to him: "After my death, if you want to remarry, you must marry someone as beautiful as me. And a woman with long hair like mine, otherwise don't let anyone be your queen. Promise me!" After the king agreed to her request, the queen closed her eyes forever.

For many years after the queen's death, the king was so depressed that he didn't even think about remarrying at all.Finally, his ministers said: "The country cannot live without a queen, and the king must remarry." The king had to agree.He sent envoys in all directions to find for him a woman as beautiful as the late queen to be his bride.In the vast world, there is no woman whose beauty can be compared with the dead queen; even if there are occasional looks that meet the standard, they don't have blond hair like the queen.The envoys returned empty-handed one by one, and the queen's seat remained empty.

It is said that the king had a beautiful daughter, who was as beautiful as her mother, and had fair hair like her mother.When she grew up, the king found that she was exactly like his late wife.So he said to the ministers: "I plan to marry my daughter to one of you. After I die, her husband will become king, so she will become queen." But when the princess heard his decision She wasn't happy at all.She said to the king: "Father, before I get married as you wish, please fulfill my several requirements. First, I want three clothes: one of them must shine like the sun, and the second must be Silvery as the moon, and a third as bright as the stars; second, I want a cloak made of a thousand different furs, for every animal that lives in your kingdom Donate a pelt to it."

But in fact, what the princess thought was: "These things are simply impossible. If my father can't do it, I don't have to marry someone I don't like."

But the king did not change his mind.He ordered the most skilled maidens in the land to sew the three dresses for the princess, one shining golden like the sun, one silver like the moon, and one shining like the stars.Then he ordered his hunters to bring down one of each kind of beast that was in the kingdom, and to sew a cloak from each of them a little pelt.When all this was done, the king sent for the cloak.He spread it out in front of the princess with his own hands, and said to her, "Tomorrow is your wedding day."

Seeing that the king had made up his mind and there was no room for maneuver, the princess decided to run away.That night, after everyone had fallen asleep, she quietly got up, took out a gold ring, a gold yarn wheel and a gold thread spool from the jewelry box, and combined them with the three shining gold, silver and star lights. Put the clothes together in a small box, then put on the thousand-skin cloak, and paint my face and hands black with soot.Then she slipped out of the palace, walked all night in a panic, and finally walked into a big forest.She was tired and tired, so she climbed into a big tree hole to rest, and fell asleep after a while.

Before she knew it, the sun came out, but she still fell asleep and didn't wake up until noon.This forest belongs to the territory of another country, and it happened that the king of this country was hunting in the forest that day.His dog sniffed around a big tree, barking incessantly.So the king said to his hunters: "Go into the tree hole and see what kind of beast is in there." After a while the hunters reported to the king: "There is a magical animal lying in the tree hole, we don't know it." What kind of animal it is, and no animal like it has ever been seen. Its fur is made of a thousand different furs, but it is asleep now." The king said, "Try to see if you can catch it alive, and then put it on the ground." Strap it in the carriage and take it home."

The hunters rushed into the tree hole and caught the princess.The princess woke up and was terrified. She screamed, "I am a poor child. I have been abandoned by my parents. Have pity on me. Let me go with you!"

The hunters said to her, "The hairy monster, then you come with us, and I think you can dig out ashes in the kitchen." So they took her into the carriage and returned to the palace.They took her to a hut under the stairs, out of the sun's rays, and said to her, "Hairy monster, you live here." From then on, the princess worked in the kitchen chopping wood. Dirty work such as carrying water, lighting fires, washing vegetables, plucking chicken feathers, and digging out ashes.

The miscellaneous-haired girl's life of hardship and hard work lasted for a long time.well!Beautiful princess, what will happen to you now?

One day, a grand banquet was held in the palace.The motley girl said to the cook, "Can I go upstairs and have a look? I'll stand outside the door and watch." The cook said, "Okay, you can go up, but in half an hour, you have to come back here to dig out the ashes." ’ So she returned to her little stairwell with the oil lamp in her hand, took off her thousand-skin cloak, washed the soot from her face and hands, and at once her beauty shone like a ray from a dark cloud. Like a ray of sunshine.Then she opened the little box, and put on the dress that shone like the sun.When all this was done, she went to the banquet hall, and everyone made way for her, but no one knew her, but they thought she must be some king's daughter.The king went straight up to her and held out his hand to invite her to dance.As he danced with the princess, he thought to himself: "I have never seen such a beautiful woman!" At the end of the song, the princess bowed to him.When the king came back to his senses and looked around for her, he found that she had disappeared.He hurriedly called the sentry at the gate of the palace to inquire, but none of them had seen her.

It turned out that the princess had already run back to the stairwell, and she quickly took off her clothes, blackened her face and hands, put on a thousand-skin cloak, and turned into a black hairy monster again.Then she went into the kitchen and picked up the ashes.The chef said to her: "Tomorrow, you can dig out the ashes, and you can make me a bowl of soup for the king first, because now I also plan to go up and take a peek. Don't let your hair fall into the soup, or you will never be born." I want to eat!" With that, the chef left.The motley girl carefully cooked a bowl of soup, then quietly went back to the stairwell, fetched her gold ring and put it into the soup bowl.

After the ball, the king drank soup.The soup was so good that the king almost swallowed his own tongue. He thought he had never had such a good soup in all his life.When he had finished the soup, he found the gold ring lying in the soup bowl, so he ordered the cook to be brought to him.The cook was frightened to death when he heard this order, and he said to the motley girl, "You must have dropped your hair into the soup, and if that is the case, you will be beaten!"

The cook was brought to the king.The king asked him who made this bowl of soup, and he said, "I made it." But the king said, "No, the taste of this soup is different, and it is much better than the soup you used to make." So the cook Said: "I have to admit, I didn't make this bowl of soup, it was made by the mob."

"Bring her to me," said the king.When the motley girl was brought before the king, the king asked who she was.

"I'm just a poor kid with no parents," she said.

"What do you do in my palace?"

"I'm of no use except to be kicked out." The king saw nothing suspicious, so he had to let her go.

After a while, another banquet was held in the palace, and the motley girl asked the chef to let her go out to see the grandeur of the banquet just like last time.The cook said, "Well, but in half an hour you must come back and make the king his favorite soup."

She ran out of the kitchen and came to the stairwell, quickly washed herself clean, put on the silver dress, and walked towards the banquet hall gracefully.The king was glad to see her again.At this time the ball had just begun, so they danced together.But when the ball was over, she went away again so quickly that the King didn't even see which way she went.She ran back into the stairwell, transformed herself into the furry monster again, and went to the kitchen to make soup.While the cook was going upstairs, she put her gold yarn wheel into the soup.Soon the soup was brought to the king, who like the taste of this bowl of soup very much like last time.He ordered someone to call the chef, but the chef had to admit that the soup was still made by the mob.So the king ordered that the hairy monster be called to him.This time, she still said that she was useless except to be kicked out, and that she didn't know anything about the golden yarn wheel.

When the king held a banquet for the third time, the situation was still the same as the previous two.The chef said: "Hairy monster, I think you must be a witch. Because you always put such and such things into the soup, the king thinks it tastes better than my soup." But after her pleading Under the circumstances, the chef still agreed to let her go upstairs to have a look.This time she put on the dress that shone like stars, and walked into the banquet hall gracefully.

The king danced again with the fair maiden, and she seemed to him even more beautiful than the first two times.While they were dancing, the king slipped the gold ring on her finger, taking advantage of the princess's surprise, and then he gave orders that the dance should last longer.When the dance was over, the king tried to grab her hand, but she pulled it away from him, and fled quickly among the crowd.She quickly ran back to the stairwell, because she had spent far more than half an hour this time.She didn't have time to take off the beautiful dress, so she had to put the thousand-skin cloak on it.Then he hurriedly smeared soot on his face and hands. In his haste, there was still a little finger that was not blackened.Then the motley girl ran into the kitchen and cooked the king's soup.After the cook had gone, she put the gold spool into the soup.When the king had drained the soup and found the golden spool at the bottom of the bowl, he had the hairy monster brought to him, and he found her white finger with the gold ring on it which he had secretly put on Woolen cloth.So he held her hand tightly, and the motley girl wanted to break free, but her cloak was torn apart, and the clothes inside immediately shot out bright starlight.The king seized the hairy cloak and tore it off.Her long hair fell to her waist like quicksilver.This time she couldn't hide herself anymore.When she washed the soot from her face and hands, she was even more beautiful and unparalleled in the world.

The king said: "You are my beautiful bride, and we will never be apart again."

In this way, they held a grand wedding and lived happily ever after.

(End of this chapter)