grey fairy tale book

Chapter 29 Cannetra
Once upon a time there was a king who ruled over a country called Belopju.In addition to having no children, he is very rich and has everything he wants.After many years of marriage, when he was old, Queen Renzuola finally gave him a beautiful daughter, named Kanetra.

She grew up to be a beautiful girl, as slim as a young cedar tree.At that time, the father called her to his side and said: "Daughter, you have reached the age of marriage and settling down. My father loves you more than everything in the world, and has no other requirements except wishing you happiness. I decided to let you give yourself Choose a husband. I believe you will fulfill my wish." Canetra was very grateful for his father's kindness and love, but said that he had no desire to get married and was determined to be celibate.

The king felt that he was old and weak, and wished to see the heir to the throne before he died, and when he heard this, he was very displeased, and begged his daughter not to disappoint him.

Seeing that her father insisted on getting her married, Kanetra said: "Well, dear father, I will marry you according to your wishes, because I don't want people to feel ungrateful. But if you want to find it, you must find it for me." The most handsome and intelligent husband in the world.”

Hearing this, the king was very happy. From morning to night, he sat by the window and carefully looked at the passers-by, hoping to choose a son-in-law among them.

One day, the king saw a handsome young man passing through the street, and hurriedly called his daughter and said, "Come, dear Cannetra, and look at that man, I think he is suitable to be your husband."

They invited the young man into the palace, put on a banquet, and entertained them with all kinds of delicacies.During the dinner, the young man spat out an almond, picked it up again, and quickly hid it on the tablecloth.

After the banquet, the stranger left, and the king asked Cannetra: "What do you think of this young man?"

"I think he's stupid," replied Cannetra, "for a man of his age to spit out almonds!"

After hearing this, the king looked at the window again.After a while, another handsome boy passed by.The king immediately called his daughter to see how it was.

"Call him in," said Canetra, "so we can have a closer look."

Another round of sumptuous banquet was prepared.After the stranger had eaten and drank and left, the king asked how Cannetra was doing.

"Not so much," replied the daughter, "what is the use of a man who cannot dress himself and has at least two servants to help him dress?"

"If you're picking on his little blemish," said the king, "I understand why. You don't want a husband on purpose. But you have to marry, and I don't want my name and family to die like that." gone."

"Well then, my lord," Cannetra replied, "I must tell you right away, you'd better not count on me, unless I can find a man with a golden head and teeth, I will never marry!"

The king was very angry when he saw his daughter so stubborn, but he accommodated her as always.He issued an announcement to the effect that: Any man with a golden head and teeth can come to marry the princess and take the Bero Pujiu Kingdom as a wedding gift.

At that time, the king had a sworn enemy named Theo Lavant, who was a very powerful magician.When he heard of this proclamation, he called together his elves' minions, and bade them gild his head and teeth.At first the elves said the task was beyond their power, and suggested that a pair of golden horns should be placed on his forehead, which would be easier and more comfortable to wear.But Theo Lavant was uncompromising, insisting on the best gold for the head and teeth.After putting it on his shoulder like this, he went for a stroll in front of the palace.As soon as the king saw his candidate appear, he called his daughter and said, "Look out of the window, that is exactly what you are looking for!"

Just as Theo Lavante was passing by, the king called to him: "Wait, man, don't hurry. If you come in, you can marry my daughter. I will send a companion to serve She, horses and servants, give as much as you please."

"Thank you very much," replied Theo Lavant, "I am more than happy to marry your daughter, and her company will be forfeited, please send me a horse, and I will put the princess in my saddle and take her home Come to my kingdom, where courtiers and servants are all available, in fact, there are many things your daughter needs."

At first, the king objected to Cannetra leaving just like that, but Theo Lavant was finally able to get his wish.He put the princess on the horse and rode ahead, and set off to return home.

In the evening he dismounted, went into the stables, and locked Cannetra in with the horses.He said: "Now, listen to me. I am going home now, seven years away from here. You must wait for me in this stable, and you must not leave a step, and you must not be seen. How dare you Disobeying orders, you'll be spoiled for choice!"

The princess replied meekly: "I am your servant. I will do as you order. But I want to know, what will I eat before you come back?"

"Eat what's left of the horse," replied Theo Lavant.

When the sorcerer left her, Cannetra felt deeply miserable and kept cursing her bad luck.She kept crying, regretting that the cruel fate drove her from the palace to the stables, from the soft goose down cushion to the straw nest, from the delicious food of her father's table to the feed that the horses had eaten.

She endured such a miserable life for several months, during which she never saw anyone feeding the horses or delivering water, because these tasks were all done by a pair of invisible hands.

One day, when she was feeling extremely desolate, she suddenly found a crack in the wall, through which she could see a beautiful garden with all kinds of flowers and fruits.Poor Cannetra could hardly restrain himself from looking at these delicacies.She said to herself: "I'm going to sneak out and pick some oranges and grapes, and I don't care what happens. Even if he knows that I disobeyed his orders, he won't do anything to me, because I am in a very bad situation." It's bad enough."

So she slipped out, picked the fruit, and rewarded her poor, starving belly.

But after a while, the husband came back suddenly.One of the horses immediately complained to him, saying that Cannetra had slipped into the garden while he was away, and ate some oranges and grapes.

When Theo Lavant heard this, she became angry, took a large knife from her pocket, and threatened to kill her disobedient wife.Kanetra hurriedly knelt down and begged for his life, saying that she did so because she was extremely hungry.In the end, she managed to soften her husband's heart.He said: "This time, I will spare your life. If you dare to disobey my order again, I will definitely kill you when I come back next time and hear that you have walked half a step out of this stable. So Be careful. I'm leaving soon, for seven years."

After speaking, he left.Cannetra burst into tears. She rubbed her hands and complained: "Why am I so miserable! Father, you have killed your miserable daughter! This is what I asked for, how could I What about complaining about the father? I found a nasty golden head, and he brought me bad luck. I disobeyed my father's order and deserved to be punished!"

A year has passed.One day, my father's cooper happened to pass by the stable where Cannetra was imprisoned.The princess recognized him and called him in.At first, Cooper didn't know the princess, and couldn't figure out who called his name.After hearing Cannetra's sad story, the cooper hid her in a big empty bucket he was carrying, partly because he pitied the poor girl, and partly because he wanted to win the favor of the king.Then he hung the bucket on the donkey's back, and thus brought the princess home.They did not reach the palace until four o'clock in the morning.Cooper knocked hard on the door.The servant hurriedly opened the door, only to find that the person standing at the door was a cooper.In a fit of anger, the servants yelled at him for coming too early and not too late, which woke everyone up.

When the king heard the reason for the quarrel, he sent for the cooper, thinking that the man must have something important to tell if he was disturbing the palace at this time.

The cooper begged to unload the donkey, and Cannetra climbed out of the barrel.At first the king couldn't believe that this was his daughter, because she had changed so much in the past few years, and she looked so pitiful with her thin and pale appearance.Finally, the princess showed a mole on her right arm, and the king believed that the poor girl was really his long-lost Cannetra.He kissed his daughter for a while, and then set a table of delicious food for her.

When his daughter was full, the king said to her, "My dear daughter, who would have thought that you would end up in such a state. I ask you, what is the matter?"

Cannetra replied: "The villain with the golden head and teeth treated me like a dog. Since I left my father, I have wanted to die many times. I can't tell you what I suffered, because I said, you I may not believe it. I am content to see my father again, and I will never leave you again. I would rather be your servant than be someone else's queen."

So Theo Lavant was back in the stables.A horse complained to him that Cannetra had been carried off in a barrel by a cooper.

When the wicked warlock heard this, he was almost mad.As soon as he arrived in Belop's country, he went directly to an old woman who lived directly opposite the palace, and said to her, "If you give me a place where I can see the king's daughter, I will give you whatever you want." What."

The woman asked for a hundred gold coins, and without further ado, Theo Lavant took out her wallet and gave it to her.The old woman took him to the roof of her house, where Canetra could be seen combing her long hair in the attic boudoir of the palace.

The princess looked out of the window accidentally, and when she found her husband looking at her, she was shocked, so she ran downstairs and came to her father: "My father, unless you lock me in the seven-story iron door, or I will disappear."

"That's all," said the king, "at once." And he ordered the seven iron gates to be locked.

Seeing this, Theo Lavant went back to the old woman: "If you are willing to enter the palace, hide it under the princess' bed, put this note under her pillow, and say, 'Except for the princess, may the palace Everyone sleeps soundly', I'll give you what you want."

The woman asked for another hundred gold coins, and then went to carry out the magician's will.As soon as she tucked the note under Cannetra's pillow, everyone in the palace fell asleep except the princess.

Then Theo Lavant hurried through the seven doors and opened them one by one.Seeing her husband, Cannetra cried out, but no one came to help, because the people in the palace lay there as if they were dead.Just as the warlock grabbed her from the bed and was about to take her away, the note under the pillow fell to the floor.

Kanetra kept calling for help, and everyone in the palace woke up suddenly and rushed to rescue.They captured Theo Lavant and executed him.He set a trap for the princess, and ended up falling into it—but, as things often do in the world: the biter gets bitten!

(End of this chapter)