Grimm's Fairy Tales is the most classic fairy tale. Brothers Grimm, with their rich imagination, have hidden little truths in interesting stories. Here are some stories about Rapunzel.

Lettuce girl

Once upon a time, there was a man and a woman who always wanted a child, but they never got it. Finally, the woman had to hope that God would give her a child. There is a small window at the back of their house, from which we can see a beautiful garden full of exotic flowers and plants. However, there is a high wall around the garden, and no one dares to go in, because the garden belongs to a witch. This witch is so powerful that everyone in the world is afraid of her.

One day, my wife stood in the window and looked into the garden. She saw a vegetable field with beautiful lettuce. These lettuce are green and watery, which immediately aroused her appetite and wanted to eat them very much. This desire is increasing day by day, and when she knows that she can't eat it anyway, she becomes very haggard, pale and miserable. Her husband was frightened and asked her, "Honey, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah," she replied, "if I don't eat lettuce in the garden behind our house, I will die."

Because the husband loved her very much, he thought, "It's better to get her some lettuce than to let his wife, no matter what happens."

At dusk, he climbed over the fence, slipped into the witch's garden, quickly pulled out a handful of lettuce and brought it back to his wife to eat. The wife immediately made lettuce into salad and wolfed it down. This lettuce tastes so good that she wants to eat twice as much lettuce the next day as the day before. In order to satisfy his wife, the husband decided to turn into the witch's garden again. So, at dusk, he sneaked into the garden, but as soon as he climbed down from the wall, he was startled because he saw the witch standing in front of him.

"How dare you," she said angrily, "sneak into my garden and steal my lettuce like a thief!"

"Well," he replied, "have pity on me and give me a break. I have no choice but to do so. My wife saw the lettuce in your garden from the window and wanted to eat it desperately. If she didn't eat it, she would die. "

After listening to this, the witch's anger subsided a little, and said to him, "If things are really like what you said, I can let you pick as many lettuce as you like, but I have one condition: you must give me the baby your wife is going to give birth to." I will let her live well and treat her like a mother. "

The husband was afraid and had to agree to all the conditions of the witch. No sooner had the wife given birth to the child than the witch came, named the child "Lettuce" and took the child away.

Lettuce slowly grew into the most beautiful girl in the world. When the child was twelve years old, the witch put her in a tall tower. This tall tower is in the forest. There are no stairs or doors, but there is a small window at the top. Whenever the witch wants to go in, she stands under the tower and cries, "Lettuce, Lettuce, let your hair down."

Rapunzel has long hair as thick as gold. As soon as she heard the witch's cry, she loosened her braid, wrapped the top around a window hook, and then put it down for 20 meters. The witch climbed up along the long hair.

A year or two has passed. One day, the prince rode through the forest and happened to pass the tower. At this moment, he suddenly heard a beautiful song and couldn't help but stop and listen quietly. It was Rapunzel who sang, and she had to kill time by singing in loneliness. The prince wanted to climb to the top of the tower to meet her, so he looked for the door everywhere, but he couldn't find it. He returned to the palace, and the song touched him deeply. He rode to the forest to listen to it every day.

One day, standing behind a tree, he saw the witch coming and heard her shouting at the top of the tower, "Lettuce, Lettuce, let your hair down."

Rapunzel immediately lowered her braid, and the witch climbed up along it. The prince thought, "If that is the ladder for people to climb, I can try my luck."

The next evening, he came to the bottom of the tower and shouted, "Lettuce, Lettuce, let your hair down."

The hair fell down at once, and the prince climbed up.

Rapunzel was really surprised when she saw a man climbing up, because she had never seen a man before. But the prince spoke kindly to her and said how his heart was moved by her singing, and he couldn't get peace for a moment, so he had to come to see her.

Rapunzel gradually lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would marry him, she saw that the prince was young and handsome and thought, "This man will definitely like me more than that godmother." She agreed and gave her hand to the prince. She said, "I'd like to go with you very much, but I don't know how to get down." Bring me a silk thread every time you come. I want to weave a ladder with silk thread. When the ladder is finished, I will climb down and you will carry me on your horse. "

Because the old witch always comes during the day, they agreed to let the prince come every evening. The witch found nothing until one day Rapunzel asked her, "I ask you, godmother, why do I always feel that you are much heavier than that young prince when I pull you?" He came up at once. "

"ah! You bad boy! " The witch cried, "What are you talking about? I thought you were isolated from the world, but I didn't want you to cheat me! "

She grabbed Rapunzel's beautiful braid angrily, wrapped it around her left hand twice, and picked up a pair of scissors with her right hand. After a few clicks, the beautiful braid fell to the ground. Then, she cruelly sent Rapunzel to a wilderness and let her live there in misery.

On the day when Rapunzel was sent away, the witch tied the cut braid to the window hook at the top of the tower. The prince came up and shouted, "Lettuce, Lettuce, let your hair down."

The witch put down her hair and the prince climbed up. However, instead of seeing his beloved Rapunzel, he saw the witch glaring at him.

"Aha!" She mocked the prince and said, "Are you here to meet your sweetheart? But beautiful birds won't sing in their nests any more. She was taken away by the cat, and the cat will gouge out your eyes. Your Rapunzel is finished, and you will never see her again. "

The prince was in great pain and jumped down from the tower in despair. He fell into a thorn bush. Although he was not killed, his eyes were blinded by the thorn. He walked aimlessly in the forest, eating only grass roots and berries, and crying sadly for the loss of his lover every day. In this way, he walked around the forest in pain for several years, and finally came to the wilderness where Rapunzel suffered.

Rapunzel has given birth to twins, a son and a daughter.

The prince heard a voice and thought it was familiar, so he went there. When he approached, Rapunzel immediately recognized him and put her arms around his neck and began to cry. Her two tears moistened his eyes and brought them back to light. He can see things as before. He returned to his kingdom with his wife and children and was warmly welcomed by people. They live happily ever after.