Once upon a time there was a poor millowner who had nothing but a mill and an apple tree behind the mill. One day, a strange old man said to him, "If you promise to give me what is behind the mill, I will make you rich." ”
The mill owner agreed, and when he got home he told his wife about it. "You've met the devil!" The wife shouted, "He wants our daughter, who just happened to be sweeping the yard behind the mill." ”
Three years have passed, and the devil is going to take their daughter, but the devil has no way to get close to their daughter, because the girl washed herself clean with water. So he asked the miller to cut off the girl's hands.
Three days later the devil came again, but the girl buried her head in her severed arm and cried, and the tears made her incomparably clean. The devil had no choice but to concede defeat! The mill owner was very happy, and he said to his daughter, "Because of you I have so much money, I want you to live the best life possible." ”
But the girl replied, "I'm leaving here, you don't have what I need!" After saying that, she left the house. When night came, the girl came to the outside of a palace garden, and she saw that the trees in the garden were full of delicious fruit. The girl was very hungry and could not go in, so the girl knelt down and prayed to God.
An angel appeared, and it brought the girl into the garden. The girl ate a fruit with her mouth, then went to the bushes and hid! All this was seen by the gardener, for there were angels at the girl's side who did not dare to alarm her.
The gardener reported what he had seen to the king, and the king was very curious and decided to stay in the courtyard tonight to see what was going on! Late at night the girl came out of the bushes, came to a tree, and bit down a fruit with her mouth, and there was an angel beside her.
The king took in the girl, and the beauty and kindness of the girl made the king fall in love with her, and he married her, and gave her a pair of silver hands. A year from now, the king is going to war! He entrusted the pregnant queen to his mother.
It wasn't long before the queen gave birth to a beautiful boy, and the king's mother immediately reported the news to the king. But the devil exchanged a false letter for a true letter, saying, "The queen has given birth to a freak." The king, though upset, wrote to the old mother to ask her to take good care of the queen.
The devil changed the letter again, asking the old mother to kill the queen and the child! The old mother could not bear it, and she asked the queen to leave the palace with her children and go to a place where there was no one. The poor queen tied the child on her back and walked away sadly.
When the king returned home after the battle, the old mother asked him with tears why he killed the queen and the child. The king thought his wife and children were dead, so he wept bitterly. The old mother told him that they were still alive, and the king heard this and said, "Even if I look all over the world, I will find them!" ”
The kind angel took in the queen, who stayed with the angel for seven years, and God let her hands grow back! And the king also looked for the queen for seven years, but he never found it!
Finally one day the king came to the place where the angels lived, and the angel led the king into the house and brought the queen mother and son to him and said, "This is your wife and child!" The king looked at her hand and couldn't believe it was true!
The angel took out the silver hands and showed them to the king, who was convinced that it was his wife and son, and they hugged each other tightly! Later they returned to the palace and lived happily together, never to be separated again.
This article is written by The Complete Book of Children's Stories