Once upon a time, there was a king whose wife had blonde hair, and her beauty was unparalleled in the world. Unfortunately, she is ill and will die soon. She called the king to her side and said, "If you want to marry another woman after my death, promise me that you must marry a beautiful blonde like me." The king agreed and the queen closed her eyes and died.
The king was sad for a long time and had no intention of marrying again. At last his ministers said, "It can't go on like this. The king must marry another one so that we can have a queen. " So he sent messengers from all directions to find a beautiful girl like the late queen. However, the whole country is looking for it, but it can't be found. Occasionally, they found a beautiful blonde without the queen's blonde hair, so the messengers had to go home empty-handed.
The king has a daughter who looks exactly like her mother and has blonde hair. She grew up day by day. The king looked at her and felt that she looked like her late wife everywhere, so he had a strong love for her. He said to the ministers, "I want to marry my daughter, who is the reappearance of my ex-wife." I can't find anyone more like her. The ministers said in utter amazement, "God forbids fathers to marry their daughters. No good result will come from committing such a crime, and the whole country will suffer. "
The princess was even more shocked when she learned her father's plan, but she hoped to make him change his mind. So she said to her father, "Before I agree to your request, I must get three clothes: one is as golden as the sun, one is as silver as the moon, and the other is as bright as the star." Besides, I want a cloak, which must be sewn from the fur of thousands of different animals. Every animal in your country must offer a piece of fur. "The princess thought," This is impossible. This will make my father change his mind. However, the king did not give up. He asked the most skilled girl to knit those three clothes ... one is as bright as the sun, the other is as silver as the moon, and the other is as bright as the stars. He also told the best hunters to catch every animal, then take its fur and sew a cloak with thousands of skins. When everything was ready, the king spread his cloak in front of the princess and said,
"We will have a wedding tomorrow."
As soon as the princess couldn't change her father's mind, she decided to fly away. At night, while people were sleeping, the princess took out a gold ring, a gold spinning wheel and a gold spool from the jewelry box, then put three clothes, such as sunshine, moon and stars, into a small box, blackened her hands, feet and face with soot, put on a cloak with a thousand layers of skin and set off. She resigned herself to walking all night and came to a big forest. She was so tired that she climbed into a tree hole and fell asleep.
The sun came out and the princess didn't wake up; At noon, she was still asleep. This forest belongs to a king (not the princess's father, and none of the kings below are the princess's father). He happened to be out hunting that day, and the hounds ran to the tree hole and sniffed around, then barked around the tree. The king said to the hunter who followed, "Go and see what wild animals are hiding there." After the hunter went, he came back and said, "There is a strange animal sleeping in a tree hole. Its skin is made up of thousands of skins." We have never seen such an animal before. The king went on to say, "Let's see if we can take him alive." If you can, tie it up and take me back to the palace. "The hunter caught the princess, and the girl cried in horror," I am a poor child abandoned by my parents. Have pity on me and take me away. "The hunter said," Thousand skins beast, I think it's okay for you to go to the kitchen to help sweep the dust. "Come with me." They put the princess in a carriage and took her back to the palace. They pointed to an opaque cloakroom under the stairs and said to her, "Mao, you can live here." From then on, the princess was sent to the kitchen to pick firewood, carry water, sweep the ashes, pluck chicken and duck feathers, pick vegetables, dig out the stove, and do all kinds of dirty and tired work. Thousands of animals lived a miserable life there for a long time. Ah, beautiful princess, what have you become now!
One day, however, there was a banquet in the palace. The princess said to the chef, "Can I go upstairs and have a look?" Just look outside the door. ""Go ahead. " The cook said, "but you must come back in half an hour and dig up the ashes." The princess picked up the oil lamp and returned to her room. She took off her fur cloak and washed the black smoke from her face, hands and feet. Her beauty immediately sparkled. She opened the small box, took out the golden dress and put it on, and went into the banquet hall. People made way for her. Although no one knows her, everyone thinks she has the temperament of a princess The king came over and held out his hand to invite her to dance, thinking, "I have never seen such a beautiful person!" At the end of the song, the princess knelt down to the king. When the king looked up again, the princess had disappeared. He called the guards standing at the gate of the palace to ask, but everyone said they had never seen them. The princess ran back to the room, quickly took off her clothes, redrawn her face, and her hands and feet were covered with black soot. She put on a fur cloak and went to the kitchen to sweep the ashes. The cook said, "Let's sweep the ashes tomorrow morning. Let's make a bowl of soup for the king first. I'm going upstairs to have a look. " Be careful not to drop dirty things like hair into the soup, or I will punish you for starving! "When the cook left, Qianpi beast made a bowl of bread soup for the king, which was her best bowl, and then put the gold ring she brought into the soup.
After the king finished dancing, he asked someone to bring the soup. He likes that soup very much. It seems that he has never tasted such delicious soup. After drinking, he found the gold ring. He couldn't believe it. He sent for the cook. When the cook heard the king's call, he was so scared that he said to the beast, "You must have dropped your hair in the soup. If so, I'll give you a good beating. " He came to the king, who asked him who made the soup. The chef said, "I made it." The king said, "No, the soup tastes much better than before, and the method is different." The chef replied, "I admit that I didn't make the soup, but that hairy guy did." The king said, "Call him." A thousand skins came to the king, and the king asked, "Who are you?" "I am a poor girl without parents." The king asked again, "What's the use of you in my palace?" She replied, "My job is to be kicked." The king then asked, "Where did you get the gold ring in the soup?" "I don't know any gold rings." When the king saw that he couldn't ask anything, he had to let her go back.
Soon, the king held another dance. Thousands of skins begged the chef to let her go upstairs to watch the excitement as before. The cook said, "Go ahead. But you must come back in half an hour to make the soup that the king likes. " She promised to run back to her room, quickly wash away the smoke and black, put on a moonlight dress and walked into the ballroom like a princess. The king came forward and was glad to see her again. When the dance music started, they danced and danced together, but when the music ended, she quickly disappeared again, so fast that the king himself didn't see where she had gone. The princess ran and jumped into her room, turned herself into a furry animal and ran back to the kitchen to prepare the king's soup. When the cook went upstairs to watch the excitement, she quietly put the golden spinning wheel into the soup bowl. The servant brought the soup to the king, who liked it as much as last time. He called the chef and admitted that the soup was made by a thousand skins beast. The king called her again, but her answer was the same as last time. She said she knew nothing about the golden spinning wheel.
When the king held another dance, everything was the same as before. The cook asked, "Mao, you must be a witch." You always put something in your soup, which makes the king love your soup more than I do. "But because of her well-meaning request, the chef promised to let her go upstairs to see it, but she must return within the specified time. This time, the princess put on Starlight Glimmer's dress and came to the hall. The king came forward to dance with her again, thinking that she was more beautiful like this, and put a ring on her when she was not looking. The king ordered the dance music to be extended, so when a song ended, the stipulated time had exceeded. The king tried to grab the princess's hand, but she broke free and quickly disappeared into the crowd. She didn't have time to take off her gorgeous clothes, just put on a cloak of animal hair. In a hurry, she didn't pay attention to painting all the parts carefully, and even missed painting with one finger. She hurried back to the kitchen to make soup for the king, and put the gold spool in the soup while the chef was away. The king found the golden spool in the bowl, immediately called a thousand-skinned beast, found the white finger that was not blackened, and saw the ring he put on her when dancing. He gripped the hand tightly and the princess tried to break free. The cloak opened a crack, and the starlight on the clothes immediately leaked out. The king grabbed the cloak and pulled it, and the princess's golden hair suddenly shone. She stood there, slim and elegant, unable to hide any longer. When she washes away the black smoke, that kind of beauty will be unparalleled. The king said, "You are my dear bride. Please don't leave me again "They got married at that time and lived happily ever after.