Wooden princess maria

Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who had a very beautiful daughter named Maria. When the girl was fifteen years old, her mother contracted an incurable disease.

　　The king wept beside his wife and vowed never to marry again, but the queen said, "My dear, you are still young, and you have to raise your daughter. Well, I will leave you this ring, which girl's finger is right Put it on, and you must marry her as your wife."

　　After the mourning period, the king began to look for new bees. Many girls came to try on rings, but they all went back because some were too loose and others too tight.

　　"That means I shouldn't get married right away," said the king. "Well, let's not talk about it for now." He threw the ring aside.

　　One day, while Maria was rummaging around, she suddenly saw the ring in a drawer. She put it on her finger, but she couldn't take it back. "What will Dad say this time?" Maria was at a loss. She found a black cloth and tied it to the ring. When her father found the black cloth on her finger, he asked, "Son, what's the matter?"

　　"It's nothing, Dad, there's a scratch on my finger."

　　But a few days later, her father decided to take a look at her finger, took off the black cloth, and saw the ring. "Ah, dear daughter," he exclaimed, "you are going to be my wife."

　　When her father said this, Maria was taken aback, ran to the nanny to hide, and told her about it.

　　"If he mentions it again," said the nanny, "agree, but you ask him for a long dress for the bride; this dress should be grass green, and it should be printed with all kinds of flowers in the world. Actually, there is no such skirt at all, but then you have good reason to reject him."

　　When the king heard this condition, he immediately summoned a faithful servant, gave him a bag of gold markets and a steed, and sent him to the world to find grass-green dresses printed with various flowers. He traveled around for about half a year and couldn't see such skirts at all. Finally, he came to a city where the Jews lived and asked a cloth merchant, "Do you have such a silk material?" He explained the request to the Jewish merchants.

　　"You ask me if I have it, what is that!" said the Jewish merchant, unhappy. "I have something much better than what you want."

　　In this way, the king gave his daughter the kind of dress she wanted. Maria sobbed and flew to the nanny. "Don't cry, child. Ask him for another wedding dress: sea blue with all kinds of fish embroidered with gold thread."

　　A few months later, the servant of the state worker bought the dress again from the city where the Jews lived. So the nanny advised Maria again that she wanted a wedding dress that was far more gorgeous than those two dresses; the dress should be transparent and able to display the sun and the stars on the dress. Thus, the king's servant went out for the third time. Six months later, the dress was also in hand.

　　'Now, 'said the King,' there is not much time left, child. In a week we shall be married.

　　Preparations for the wedding are ready. But in the meantime, the nanny had someone make a wooden dress for the girl. She was wrapped in wood from head to toe so she could drift at sea.

　　On the day of the wedding, Maria told her father that she was going to take a bath. She caught two pigeons beforehand, tied them with a rope, and put one pigeon in the bucket and the other outside the bucket. A pigeon outside struggled to escape, so he pulled the pigeon in the bucket; so the pigeon in the bucket flapped its wings desperately, making the water rattle like someone was taking a bath. Maria took the opportunity to put on her wooden clothes, take her two long dresses and a dress, and escape quietly. Because the room where Maria bathed had been

　　There was the sound of rushing water, and her father did not doubt it.

　　Maria, wearing wooden clothes that could float, went to the sea and started walking on the water. She walked on the waves, and walked on the sea, and walked, and finally came to a place where a king's son and some fishermen were fishing. Seeing a wooden girl walking on the water, the prince said, "I have never seen such a fish, let's catch it and take a closer look." He cast his net, caught her, and dragged her to the shore. "Who are you? Where are you from?" asked the prince and the fishermen. Maria replied:

　　I am Maria the wooden man, from a far-flung country; a skilled craftsman carves me, and I am free on land and water.

　　"What can you do?" "Anything."

　　The son of the national worker took her back to the palace and told her to put the geese. The news that there was a wooden girl who put geese in the palace caused a stir, and people came from all directions to watch her follow the geese, walk up and down the grass and ponds, and watch her move freely on the water.

　　On Sundays, however, when no one came to watch, Maria took off her wooden clothes, and her long black and beautiful hair fell over her shoulders; she climbed up the tree, where she combed her hair, and her flock of geese surrounded her. Sing around the tree:

　　Quack, quack, quack, quack! The lovely girl sits high on the tree, she is as bright as the moon, she shines like the sun, she is the daughter of a king or an emperor, this is no lie!

　　Every evening, the wooden man Maria returned to the palace with a basket of goose eggs. One evening, she found that the king's son was about to go to a ball, and she joked with him.

　　Prince, where are you going? Well, I don't have to tell you! Take me to dance! I'm going to kick your ass!

　　The prince kicked her. Maria went back to her place, put on the grass-green dress with all the flowers in the world, and went to the ball alone.

　　There, the strange girl became the queen of the ball, and she wore a dress that no one had ever seen. The king's son invited her to dance with him, and asked her what her name was, and where she came from. Maria replied, "I am the Countess of Swarbut."

　　The prince had never heard of such a name, did not believe her, and no one else knew the lady. She was watertight except for the name "Swab". The king's son fell in love with her at first sight and gave her a gold bobby pin as a gift. She pinned the bobby pin to her hair and hurried away from the ball with a smile.

　　The king's son ordered the servants to keep an eye on her to see where she was going. But Maria threw a handful of gold markets behind her, and the servants stopped to pick them up, arguing with each other, and it didn't matter where the girl went.

　　The prince held out hope for the girl, but was disappointed and irritable. The next evening, he was about to go to the ball when Maria came back from outside with a basket of goose eggs, and she said, "Your Highness, you're going to dance tonight, aren't you?" "Don't be annoying. I'm sick of it!" "Will you take me there?"

　　The king's son got angry, grabbed a small shovel from the fire and hit her. Maria went back to her residence, put on the sea blue dress embroidered with various fish with gold thread, and went to the ball. The king's son danced with her happily again. "This time you're going to tell me, who are you?"

　　"I am the Marquess of Swarthover." After saying this, Maria said nothing again. The king's son gave her a diamond ring. Maria, as she had done the night before, put on the ring and left the ball in a hurry, and once again used Sargent's method to get rid of the stalking servants. At this time, the prince loved the girl even more.

　　The next night, the prince had no intention of playing with the wooden man Maria. He was riding his horse, and Maria came up to him and asked to take her to a dance, and he immediately slapped her on the back with a stiff rope. At the ball, the prince met the girl again, wearing the transparent dress that showed the sun and the stars, which was more beautiful than the dress she had worn the previous two nights. The girl told him that she was Princess Swarion. The prince gave the girl a large badge with his portrait. That night, the servants still failed to keep an eye on the girl.

　　The king's son was lovesick. He did not eat food or drink tea, and the doctors were helpless. His mother kept persuading him to eat something. One day, the prince said to his mother, "Well, I want to eat a baked pie. Mom, you will make it yourself."

　　The queen went to the kitchen, where the wooden man Maria was. She said, "Your Majesty the Queen. Leave this to me, I'll be happy to help you." After speaking, she began to mix noodles and bake cakes.

　　The king's son took a bite of the pie and thought it tasted good. He was about to say two words of gratitude to his mother when he suddenly bit something hard - it turned out to be a hairpin, the one he gave to the beautiful girl. "Mom, who baked this pie?" "Me, what's the matter?"

　　"No, not you. Tell me the truth, who baked it?"

　　The queen had to admit that it was the wooden man Maria who helped her. The prince said at once and told her to make another one.

　　When the second pie made by the wooden man Maria was delivered, the prince found his diamond ring in the cake. "Maria the wooden man must know about that beautiful strange girl," the prince thought. He ordered Maria to make a third pie.

　　When the prince found the badge with his portrait in the pie, he jumped out of bed and ran to the goose shed. When he got there, he found all the geese singing around a tree:

　　Quack, quack, quack, quack! The lovely girl sits high on the tree, she is as bright as the moon, she shines like the sun, she is the daughter of a king or an emperor, this is no lie!

　　The prince looked up at the tree right and saw the beautiful strange girl. She took off her wooden clothes and was combing her hair on the tree.

　　Maria told the prince what had happened to her. The two of them got married immediately and lived happily ever after.