Once upon a time there was a man and a woman. They always wanted a child, but they couldn't get it. In the end, the woman had no choice but to hope that God would give her a child. There was a small window at the back of their house, from which they could see a beautiful garden full of exotic flowers and plants. However, there was a high wall around the garden and no one dared to enter because the garden belonged to a witch. This witch has great power and everyone in the world is afraid of her.

One day, my wife stood at the window and looked into the garden, and saw very beautiful lettuce growing on a vegetable patch. These lettuces were green and juicy, which immediately aroused her appetite and she wanted to eat them very much. This desire increased day by day, and when she knew that she could not eat it anyway, she became very haggard, pale, and miserable. Her husband was frightened and asked her: "Honey, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah," she replied, "If I can't eat the lettuce in the garden behind our house, I will She will die."

Because the husband loved her very much, he thought: "Rather than let my wife die, let's get her some lettuce and don't care what happens to her."

At dusk, he climbed over the wall, 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 the lettuce into a salad and devoured it. The lettuce tasted so good. The next day she wanted to eat twice as much lettuce as the previous day.

In order to satisfy his wife, the husband had to decide to enter 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, "to sneak into my garden and steal my lettuce like a thief!"

"Oh," he replied, "how pitiful it is. Have mercy on me, please forgive me. I have no choice but to do this. My wife saw the lettuce in your garden from the window and wanted to eat it. She would die if she couldn't eat it. ”

After hearing this, the witch gradually became less angry and said to him: "If things are really like what you said, I can let you pick as much lettuce as you like, but I have one condition: you must give birth to the child your wife will give birth to. Leave it to me. I will make her live well and treat her like a mother." Out of fear, the husband had no choice but to agree to all the witch's conditions. As soon as the wife gave birth to a child, the witch came, named the child "Lettuce", and then took the child away.

"Lettuce" slowly grew into the most beautiful girl in the world. When the child was twelve years old, the witch imprisoned her in a high tower. This tall tower is in the forest. It has no stairs or doors, just a small window at the top. Whenever the witch wanted to go in, she would stand under the tower and shout: "Rapunix, Lettuce, let your hair down."

The Rapunzel girl had long hair as thick as gold. As soon as she heard the witch's cry, she loosened her braid, looped the top around a window hook, and lowered it twenty meters. The witch climbed up along the long hair.

A year or two have passed. One day, the prince was riding through the forest and happened to pass this tower. At this time, he suddenly heard beautiful singing and couldn't help but stop and listen quietly. The singer was none other than Rapunzel, who had no choice but to sing to pass the time in her loneliness. The prince wanted to climb to the top of the tower to see her, so he looked around for the door, but he couldn't find it. When he returned to the palace, the singing had moved him so deeply that he rode into the forest to listen to it every day.

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

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

The next evening, he came to the foot of the tower and shouted: "Lettuce, Lettuce, take you The hair fell down."

The hair fell down immediately, and the prince climbed up.

When Rapunzel saw a man climbing up, she was really surprised, because she had never seen a man before. But the prince spoke to her kindly, and told her how his heart was so moved by her singing, that he could not find peace for a moment, and insisted on coming 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 she thought: "This man will definitely like me more than that godmother." So she said He agreed and held out his hand to the prince. She said: "I am very willing to go with you, but I don't know how to get down. Every time you come here, bring me a silk thread. I will use the silk thread to weave a ladder. When the ladder is finished, I will Climb down and you can carry me on your horse."

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

"Ah! You bad boy!" the witch shouted, "What are you talking about? I thought you were isolated from the world, but I didn't expect you to lie to me!"

She angrily grabbed Rapunzel's beautiful braid, twisted it twice in her left hand, then held up a pair of scissors with her right hand, chirped a few times, and the beautiful braid fell to the ground. Then, she cruelly sent Rapunzel to a wilderness, where she lived in misery and misery.

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

The witch let down her hair, and the prince climbed up. However, he did not see his beloved Rapunzel, but saw the witch glaring at him fiercely.

"Aha!" she mocked the prince, "are you here to pick up your sweetheart? But the beautiful bird will no longer sing in the nest. She was caught by the cat, and The cat will dig out your eyes. Your Rapunzel girl is finished, and you will never see her again." The prince was in great pain and jumped from the tower in despair. He fell into a thorn bush and although he was not killed, his eyes were blinded by the thorns. He walked aimlessly in the forest, eating only roots and berries, and cried sadly every day for the loss of his lover. He wandered in pain in the forest for several years, and finally came to the wilderness where Rapunzel suffered.

Girl Lettuce has given birth to a pair of twins, a son and a daughter.

The prince heard a voice and felt that the voice was familiar, so he walked towards it. As he approached, Rapunzel recognized him at once, threw her arms around his neck and began to cry. Two of her tears moistened his eyes and restored their brightness. He could see again as before. He returned to his kingdom with his wife and children, and was warmly welcomed by the people. They live happily ever after.