Once upon a time there lived a poor villager who had no land of his own, but only a small hut and his only daughter.
So one day his daughter said to him: “Father, we should ask the king to give us a plot of arable land.” The king, having heard about their poverty, gave them, in addition to this plot, another piece of meadow, which the daughter and father were passing over and wanted to sow rye or other similar grain on it.
When they had dug up almost the entire meadow, they came across a mortar made of pure gold in the ground. “Listen,” the old man said to his daughter, “since the king was so merciful to us that he even gave us this field, then we must give him the stupa for this.”
The daughter did not want to agree to this and said: “Father, if we have a mortar and no pestle, then, perhaps, they will require more pestle from us, so it’s better for us to keep quiet about our find.”
But the father did not want to listen to her, took the stupa, took it to the king and declared that he had found it in his meadow, so would he be pleased to accept it as a gift?
The king took the stupa and asked the villager if he had found anything else? “No,” he answered. Then the king ordered him to deliver the pestle and mortar to the mortar.
The simpleton villager answered, “They didn’t find the pestle; but this did not lead to anything - the words remained words, and the simpleton was thrown into prison and ordered to sit there until he brought the pestle from the mortar.
The jailers, who were supposed to bring him bread and water every day, the usual prison food, heard him exclaim more than once: “Oh, why didn’t I listen to my daughter! Why didn’t I listen to my daughter!”
Then the jailers went to the king and reported to him that the prisoner was constantly exclaiming the same thing, and did not want to drink or eat.
The king ordered them to call the prisoner to him and asked him why he constantly exclaims: “Oh, why didn’t I listen to my daughter!..” - “What did your daughter tell you?” - added the king. “Or else she told me not to carry a mortar, otherwise they’ll demand a pestle from me.” - “Well, if your daughter is so smart, then let her come here to me.”
So the clever girl had to come to the king, and he asked her if she was really that smart, and invited her to solve the riddle that he would ask her; and if she figures it out, he will marry her. She immediately agreed and said that she was ready to solve the riddle.
Then the king said to her: “Come to me neither clothed nor naked, neither on horseback nor in a cart, neither on the road nor without the road, and if you can do this, then I am ready to marry you.”
So she went and took off all her clothes, therefore she was not dressed; she took a large fishing net and wrapped herself in it - which means she was not naked; and she hired a donkey for money, tied a net to its tail so that he had to drag it along with him - therefore, she neither rode on horseback nor in a cart; the donkey had to drag her along the rut so that she only thumb touched the ground - and it turned out that she was moving neither on the road nor without the road.
And when she appeared before the king like that, the king said that she had guessed his riddle and carried out everything according to his plan. Then he released her father from prison, took her as his wife and entrusted her with the entire royal treasury.
So several years passed, and one day the king happened to go to review his army.
Just on his way, several peasant carts accumulated in front of the castle, on which firewood was brought for sale; some were drawn by horses and others by oxen.
One man had three horses harnessed to his cart, one of them foaled; and the foal ran away from her and lay down between two oxen harnessed to another cart.
When the men gathered at the carts, they began to shout, swear and make noise, and the man who owned the oxen certainly wanted to keep the foal and claimed that it was born from his oxen; the other, on the contrary, argued that the foal was born from his horse and therefore belongs to him.
The dispute reached the king, and he decided that where the foal lies, that’s where it should stay; and thus the man who owned the oxen received the foal, to whom it did not belong at all. The colt's real owner went home in tears, lamenting his foal.
And he heard that Madam Queen was merciful to everyone, since she, too, was from ordinary villagers by origin; So he went to her and asked her to help him return his property. “I’ll help,” she said, “if you promise not to betray me. Then I’ll teach you, perhaps... Early tomorrow morning, when the king is at the review, stand in the middle of the street along which he will have to pass, take a large fishing net and pretend that "You catch fish; catch them, and shake out your net as if it were full of fish."
And at the same time she told him that he should answer if the king asks him.
This is what the man did: the next morning he began to catch fish with a net on land. When the king saw this in passing, he sent his walker to ask what this fool was doing there.
He answered: “Don’t you see, I’m catching fish.” The fast walker asked him, “How can you fish when there is no water here?” The man answered him: “If two oxen can produce a foal, then you can catch fish on land.”
The runner ran to the king and conveyed the man’s answer; and he called him to him and said: “You didn’t come up with this yourself! Who taught you this, now confess.”
The man never wanted to confess and said: “God forbid! I said it on my own behalf.”
Then the king ordered him to be laid out on a bundle of straw and beaten and tortured until he confessed that the queen had taught him.
Returning home, the king said to his wife: “Why are you being disingenuous with me? I don’t want to have you as a wife anymore: it’s over.” your time“Go again to the same place where you were before, to your peasant hut!” However, he allowed her to take with her from the palace what was most dear and dear to her, and leave with that.
She humbly answered: “Dear husband, if you order this, then I will fulfill your will,” and hugging him, began to kiss him and said that she wanted to say goodbye to him properly.
Then she ordered to bring a strong sleepy drink to drink with him at parting: the king drank it in one gulp, and she only drank a little.
Soon after this he fell into deep dream, and when she noticed this, she called a servant, wrapped the king in a clean white sheet and ordered him to be carried out and put in a cart, in which she took him to her hut.
There she put him to bed, and he slept the whole day, and when he woke up, he began to look around and said: “Oh, my God, where am I?” He began to call his servants, but not one of them came to the call.
Finally, his wife came to his bed and said: “Dear husband, you ordered me to take with me from your palace what is most dear and dear to me - and I took you from there.”
The king had tears welling up in his eyes, and he said: “Dear wife, you must be mine forever, and I must be yours,” and he took her with him again to the Royal Castle and ordered himself to be married to her a second time, and from then on they lived happily ever after, and yes, they still live like that to this day.
Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Clever Peasant's Daughter"
Genre: literary everyday tale
The main characters of the fairy tale "The Clever Peasant's Daughter" and their characteristics
- Peasant daughter, Queen. Smart, resourceful, reasonable, kind, loyal.
- King. Stupid, beautiful, fair in its own way.
- Peasant. Silly.
- Land for the peasant.
- Finding a mortar
- Daughter's advice
- The king demands a pestle
- In prison
- The king learns about his daughter's words
- Trial
- Neither naked nor clothed.
- Foal controversy
- Fishing in the city
- Execution
- The most expensive.
- The peasant begged the king for land and found a golden mortar on it.
- He gave the mortar to the king, and the king put him in prison and began to demand the pestle.
- The king found out about the peasant’s smart daughter and gave her the task of coming neither naked nor clothed.
- The daughter arrived in the net and became the queen
- She advised the owner of the foal to fish in the square, and he gave her to the king
- The king kicked the queen out, but she took with her the most precious thing - the king.
To be smart is to be happy.
What does the fairy tale "The Clever Peasant's Daughter" teach?
The fairy tale teaches the use of the mind, the ability to use existing knowledge, and practical acumen. Teaches you to be resourceful and proactive possible consequences of your actions. Teaches you to be fair and stand up for the offended.
Review of the fairy tale "The Clever Peasant's Daughter"
I liked this fairy tale, similar to numerous Russian ones folk tales. It also features a smart maiden who shows resourcefulness and thanks to this becomes rich and famous. All these fairy tales say that a person must be able to use his knowledge and his mind to achieve success.
Proverbs for the fairy tale "The Clever Peasant's Daughter"
You won't be puzzled by the resourceful one.
Wisdom is in the head, not in the beard.
Ingenuity will help in any matter.
Without success in school there is no success in work.
A stupid person will judge, but a smart person will judge.
Read summary, brief retelling fairy tales "The Clever Peasant Daughter"
Once upon a time there lived a poor peasant who had no land at all. And there were only a hut and a daughter. And so the daughter advised the peasant to ask the king for a piece of wasteland. The king graciously gave the peasant a piece of untouched meadow and the peasant began to plow it.
And while plowing, he found a golden mortar in the ground. The peasant was delighted and decided to give the mortar to the king to thank him for the land.
The daughter tried to dissuade her father, saying that they would ask him for the pestle, but the peasant did not listen to her.
He took the mortar to the king and he asked about the pestle. The peasant said that he did not find the pestle. But the king did not believe him and ordered the peasant to be put in prison until he returned the pestle.
In prison, the peasant was given bread and water, but he did not eat anything, but only ran around and insisted that he should not have listened to his daughter.
The jailers reported the prisoner's words to the king, and the king began to ask the peasant why he was saying that. The peasant said that his daughter advised him not to give the king the mortar, because they would ask him for the pestle.
The king ordered his daughter to be summoned and gave her a task. Come to him not dressed and not naked, not on horseback or in a cart, not by way and not by road
The peasant's daughter undressed and wrapped herself in a net, tied the net to a donkey so that he would drag it along the rut, and she touched the ground with only her thumb. So she completed the king’s task, and he liked it so much that he married the peasant’s daughter.
Several years passed and then there was a dispute between the peasants in the kingdom. They spent the night nearby and one had a horse with a foal, and the other had oxen. And at night the foal ran to the oxen and lay down with them. And the owner of the oxen began to claim that this foal was born from oxen.
The disputants complained to the king, and he decided that where the foal was found, that’s where it should have remained.
And the real owner of the foal began to seek intercession from the queen. And she advised him what to do, but asked him not to give her away.
The peasant began to catch fish with a net in the market square, and when asked what he was doing, he replied that just as a foal can be born from oxen, so he can catch fish on land.
The king began to torture the peasant, who advised him to answer this way. He even beat him with whips until the peasant betrayed the queen.
Then the king announced that he no longer wanted to live with the queen and sent her back to the peasant hut. But he allowed me to take the most expensive thing. And the queen gave the king a sleeping potion and ordered him to be taken to the peasant hut.
The king wakes up in the morning and does not understand where he is. And the queen announces to him with a smile that she has taken from the palace what is most precious to her - her husband.
After this, the king shed tears and ordered the wedding to be played again. And they lived happily ever after.
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Once upon a time there lived a poor peasant; He had no land at all, and he had only one small hut and his only daughter. So one day the daughter says to her father:
We should beg the king for at least some piece of wasteland.
The king heard about their poverty and gave them a piece of meadow. She plowed it together with her father, and they gathered to sow rye and something else on it. They had already plowed almost the entire field and suddenly found a mortar in the ground, and it was made of pure gold.
You know what,” the father said to his daughter, “the king was so merciful to us that he gave us this land.” Let's give him a golden mortar for this.
But the daughter did not agree to this and said:
Father, if we only have one mortar and no pestle, then they will also demand a pestle from us - it’s better if you keep quiet.
But her father did not listen, took the mortar and took it to the king and said that he had found it in the meadow and asked if he would accept it as a gift from him. The king took the mortar and asked:
Didn't you find anything else?
No,” answered the peasant.
And the king said to bring him the pestle too. The peasant said that they had not found anything like this, but this answer did not help him much - it was like talking into the wind. And they put him in prison so that he would sit there until he got the pestle. The jailers brought him bread and water every day - what was required in prison; and the jailers heard him repeating to himself: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter! Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter!” Then the jailers went to the king and reported that the prisoner kept screaming and repeating: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter,” and was refusing food and drink. And the king ordered the jailers to bring the prisoner to him, and the king asked him why he kept shouting: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter.”
What did your daughter say?
Yes, she said that I shouldn’t take the mortar to you, otherwise they’ll demand a pestle from me as well.
If you have such an intelligent daughter, then let her come to me.
And so she had to go to the king, and he began to ask if she was really that smart; and said that he wanted to ask her one task; if she decides, he will marry her. She immediately said “okay” and agreed to solve it. Then the king says:
Come to me not dressed and not naked, not on horseback or in a cart, not by road, but still on the road - if you can do this, then I will marry you.
So she went, stripped completely naked - and she stood naked; and she took a large fishing net, stood in it and wrapped herself in it - so she was not naked; She hired herself a donkey for money and tied that net to the donkey’s tail so that he would drag it, so she did not ride either on horseback or in a cart; and the donkey had to drag her along the rut, and she touched the ground with only her big toe - and so she walked neither on the path nor without the road. So she appeared, and the king said that she had solved the problem and completed everything properly. He then ordered her father to be released from prison, he took her as his wife and put the entire royal treasury at her disposal.
Several years have passed. And one day the king went to the parade; and it happened that the peasants, having sold their firewood, stopped with their carts at the castle; some carts were drawn by oxen, and others by horses. And one peasant had three horses, and one of them had a small foal; the foal ran away and lay down between the oxen harnessed to the cart. Having gathered, the peasants began to argue, fight among themselves and begin to make noise; the one who had the oxen wanted to take the foal for himself, claiming that he was born from his oxen, and the other said: “No, he was born from my horses, and he should stay with me.” And their dispute reached the king himself, and he pronounced a sentence: where the foal lay, there it should remain; and so the peasant who arrived on oxen received the foal, but it did not belong to him at all. And the other one had to leave with nothing; he cried out of grief for his missing foal. And then he learned that Madam Queen was very merciful, because she herself came from poor peasants; and he went to her and began to ask her if she could help him return his foal.
She said:
Okay, if you promise me that you won’t give me away, then I’ll tell you what to do. Early in the morning, when the king is passing to remove the guards, stand in the middle of the street where he will follow, take a large net and pretend as if you are catching fish, and keep pulling the net and shaking it out as if it were full of fish, - and she explained to him, what should he answer if the king asks him?
And so the next day the peasant began to catch fish on land with a seine. The king, passing by, saw this and sent his messenger to ask what this fool was doing there. He replied:
I'm fishing.
And the messenger asks how he can fish when there is no water. Then the peasant said:
Yes, just as two oxen can give birth to a foal, so I fish on land.
The messenger conveyed his answer to the king; and the king ordered the peasant to be brought to him and announced to him that he did not invent this himself, and let him immediately confess who taught him this. But the peasant did not want to confess and kept saying: “God forbid! I came up with it myself!” They then laid him out on the straw and began to beat and torture him until he finally confessed that the queen had taught him this.
The king returned home and said to his wife:
Why are you telling me lies? From now on I don’t want you to be my wife; your days are over, go back where you came from - to your peasant hut.
However, at parting, he allowed her to take with her what was dearest and dearest to her.
And she said:
Well, my dear hubby, if you tell me, then I will do so,” and she threw herself into his arms, began to kiss him and said that she would like to say goodbye to him properly. And she ordered to bring a strong sleeping potion to drink with him at last; and the king drank the whole cup in one gulp, and she barely took a sip. And soon he fell into a deep sleep; Seeing this, she called a servant, took a beautiful white blanket, wrapped the king in it and ordered the servants to take him out and put him in the carriage and took him secretly to her hut. She put him in her bed, and he slept all day and all night, and when he woke up, he looked around and said:
Oh, Lord, where am I? - and began to call his servant, but no one appeared. Finally, his wife came to the bed and said to him:
My dear king, you told me to take with me from the castle what is most dear and beloved to me, but for me there is nothing dearer and sweeter in the world than you, so I took you with me.
Tears came to the king's eyes, and he said to her:
Dear wife, you must be mine, and I must be yours,” and he took her again to his royal castle and ordered her to celebrate the wedding again; and they probably live to this day.
Once upon a time there lived a poor peasant; He had no land at all, and he had only one small hut and his only daughter. So one day the daughter says to her father:
“We should beg the king for at least some piece of wasteland.”
The king heard about their poverty and gave them a piece of meadow. She plowed it together with her father, and they gathered to sow rye and something else on it. They had already plowed almost the entire field and suddenly found a mortar in the ground, and it was made of pure gold.
“You know what,” the father said to his daughter, “the king was so merciful to us that he gave us this land.” Let's give him a golden mortar for this.
But the daughter did not agree to this and said:
“Father, if we only have one mortar and no pestle, then they will demand a pestle from us as well—it’s better if you keep quiet.”
But her father did not listen, took the mortar and took it to the king and said that he had found it in the meadow and asked if he would accept it as a gift from him. The king took the mortar and asked:
-Have you found anything else?
“No,” answered the peasant.
And the king said to bring him the pestle too. The peasant said that they had not found anything like this, but this answer did not help him much - it was like talking into the wind. And they put him in prison so that he would sit there until he got the pestle. The jailers brought him bread and water every day - what was required in prison; and the jailers heard him repeating to himself: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter! Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter!” Then the jailers went to the king and reported that the prisoner kept screaming and repeating: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter,” and was refusing food and drink. And the king ordered the jailers to bring the prisoner to him, and the king asked him why he kept shouting: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter.”
- What did your daughter say?
“Yes, she said that I shouldn’t take the mortar to you, otherwise they’ll demand a pestle from me.”
- If you have such a reasonable daughter, then let her come to me.
And so she had to go to the king, and he began to ask if she was really that smart; and said that he wanted to ask her one task; if she decides, he will marry her. She immediately said “okay” and agreed to solve it. Then the king says:
- Come to me not dressed and not naked, not on horseback or in a cart, not by way, but still on the road, if you can do this, then I will marry you.
So she went, stripped completely naked - and she stood naked; and she took a large fishing net, stood in it and wrapped herself in it - so she was not naked; She hired herself a donkey for money and tied that net to the donkey’s tail so that he would drag it, so she did not ride either on horseback or in a cart; and the donkey had to drag her along the rut, and she touched the ground with only her big toe - and so she walked neither on the path nor without the road. So she appeared, and the king said that she had solved the problem and completed everything properly. He then ordered her father to be released from prison, he took her as his wife and put the entire royal treasury at her disposal.
Several years have passed. And one day the king went to the parade; and it happened that the peasants, having sold their firewood, stopped with their carts at the castle; some carts were drawn by oxen, and others by horses. And one peasant had three horses, and one of them had a small foal; the foal ran away and lay down between the oxen harnessed to the cart. Having gathered, the peasants began to argue, fight among themselves and begin to make noise; the one who had the oxen wanted to take the foal for himself, claiming that he was born from his oxen, and the other said: “No, he was born from my horses, and he should stay with me.” And their dispute reached the king himself, and he pronounced a sentence: where the foal lay, there it should remain; and so the peasant who arrived on oxen received the foal, but it did not belong to him at all. And the other one had to leave with nothing; he cried out of grief for his missing foal. And then he learned that Madam Queen was very merciful, because she herself came from poor peasants; and he went to her and began to ask her if she could help him return his foal. She said:
- Okay, if you promise me that you won’t give me away, then I’ll tell you what to do. Early in the morning, when the king is passing to remove the guards, stand in the middle of the street where he will follow, take a large net and pretend as if you are catching fish, and keep pulling the net and shaking it out as if it were full of fish, - and she explained to him, what should he answer if the king asks him?
And so the next day the peasant began to catch fish on land with a seine. The king, passing by, saw this and sent his messenger to ask what this fool was doing there. He replied:
- I'm fishing.
And the messenger asks how he can fish when there is no water. Then the peasant said:
- Yes, just as two oxen can give birth to a foal, so I fish on land.
The messenger conveyed his answer to the king; and the king ordered the peasant to be brought to him and announced to him that he did not invent this himself, and let him immediately confess who taught him this. But the peasant did not want to confess and kept saying: “God forbid! I came up with it myself!” They then laid him out on the straw and began to beat and torture him until he finally confessed that the queen had taught him this.
The king returned home and said to his wife:
- Why are you telling me lies? From now on I don’t want you to be my wife; your days are over, go back where you came from - to your peasant hut.
However, at parting, he allowed her to take with her what was dearest and dearest to her.
And she said:
“Okay, my dear hubby, if you order, then I will do so,” and she rushed into his arms, began to kiss him and said that she would like to say goodbye to him properly. And she ordered to bring a strong sleeping potion to drink with him at last; and the king drank the whole cup in one gulp, and she barely took a sip. And soon he fell into a deep sleep; Seeing this, she called a servant, took a beautiful white blanket, wrapped the king in it and ordered the servants to carry him out and put him in the carriage, and took him secretly to her hut. She put him in her bed, and he slept all day and all night, and when he woke up, he looked around and said:
- Oh, Lord, where am I? - and began to call his servant, but no one appeared.
Finally, his wife came to the bed and said to him:
“My dear king, you told me to take with me from the castle what is most dear and beloved to me, but for me there is nothing dearer and sweeter in the world than you - so I took you with me.”
Tears welled up in the king's eyes, and he said to her:
“Dear wife, you must be mine, and I must be yours,” and he took her back to his royal castle and ordered her to celebrate the wedding again; and they probably live to this day.
Further Reading
Brothers Grimm. Clever peasant daughter
Once upon a time there lived a poor peasant; He had no land at all, and he had only one small hut and his only daughter. So one day the daughter says to her father:
“We should beg the king for at least some piece of wasteland.”
The king heard about their poverty and gave them a piece of meadow. She plowed it together with her father, and they gathered to sow rye and something else on it. They had already plowed almost the entire field and suddenly found a mortar in the ground, and it was made of pure gold.
“You know what,” the father said to his daughter, “the king was so merciful to us that he gave us this land.” Let's give him a golden mortar for this.
But the daughter did not agree to this and said:
“Father, if we only have one mortar and no pestle, then they will demand a pestle from us as well—it’s better if you keep quiet.” But her father did not listen, took the mortar and took it to the king and said that he had found it in the meadow and asked if he would accept it as a gift from him. The king took the mortar and asked:
“Didn’t you find anything else?”
“No,” answered the peasant.
And the king said to bring him the pestle too. The peasant said that they had not found anything like this, but this answer did not help him much - it was like talking into the wind. And they put him in prison so that he would sit there until he got the pestle. The jailers brought him bread and water every day - what was required in prison; and the jailers heard him repeating to himself: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter! Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter!” Then the jailers went to the king and reported that the prisoner kept screaming and repeating: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter,” and was refusing food and drink. And the king ordered the jailers to bring the prisoner to him, and the king asked him why he kept shouting: “Oh, if only I had listened to my daughter.”
- What did your daughter say?
“Yes, she told me not to take the mortar to you, otherwise they’ll demand a pestle from me.”
- If you have such a reasonable daughter, then let her come to me.
And so she had to go to the king, and he began to ask if she was really that smart; and said that he wanted to ask her one task; if she decides, he will marry her. She immediately said “okay” and agreed to solve it. Then the king says:
“Come to me not dressed and not naked, not on horseback or in a cart, not by way, but still on the road, if you can do this, then I will marry you.”
So she went, stripped completely naked - and she stood naked; and she took a large fishing net, stood in it and wrapped herself in it - so she was not naked; She hired herself a donkey for money and tied that net to the donkey’s tail so that he would drag it, so she did not ride either on horseback or in a cart; and the donkey had to drag her along the rut, and she touched the ground with only her big toe - and so she walked neither on the path nor without the road. So she appeared, and the king said that she had solved the problem and completed everything properly. He then ordered her father to be released from prison, he took her as his wife and put the entire royal treasury at her disposal.
Several years have passed. And one day the king went to the parade; and it happened that the peasants, having sold their firewood, stopped with their carts at the castle; some carts were drawn by oxen, and others by horses. And one peasant had three horses, and one of them had a small foal; the foal ran away and lay down between the oxen harnessed to the cart. Having gathered, the peasants began to argue, fight among themselves and begin to make noise; the one who had the oxen wanted to take the foal for himself, claiming that he was born from his oxen, and the other said: “No, he was born from my horses, and he should stay with me.” And their dispute reached the king himself, and he pronounced a sentence: where the foal lay, there it should remain; and so the peasant who arrived on oxen received the foal, but it did not belong to him at all. And the other one had to leave with nothing; he cried out of grief for his missing foal. And then he learned that Madam Queen was very merciful, because she herself came from poor peasants; and he went to her and began to ask her if she could help him return his foal. She said:
- Okay, if you promise me that you won’t give me away, then I’ll tell you what to do. Early in the morning, when the king is passing to remove the guards, stand in the middle of the street where he will follow, take a large net and pretend as if you are catching fish, and keep pulling the net and shaking it out as if it were full of fish, - and she explained to him, what should he answer if the king asks him?
And so the next day the peasant began to catch fish on land with a seine. The king, passing by, saw this and sent his messenger to ask what this fool was doing there. He replied:
- I'm fishing.
And the messenger asks how he can fish when there is no water. Then the peasant said:
- Yes, just as two oxen can give birth to a foal, so I fish on land.
The messenger conveyed his answer to the king; and the king ordered the peasant to be brought to him and announced to him that he did not invent this himself, and let him immediately confess who taught him this. But the peasant did not want to confess and kept saying: “God forbid! I came up with it myself!” They then laid him out on the straw and began to beat and torture him until he finally confessed that the queen had taught him this.
The king returned home and said to his wife:
- Why are you telling me lies? From now on I don’t want you to be my wife; your days are over, go back where you came from - to your peasant hut.
However, at parting, he allowed her to take with her what was dearest and dearest to her.
And she said:
“Okay, my dear hubby, if you order, then I will do so,” and she rushed into his arms, began to kiss him and said that she would like to say goodbye to him properly. And she ordered to bring a strong sleeping potion to drink with him at last; and the king drank the whole cup in one gulp, and she barely took a sip. And soon he fell into a deep sleep; Seeing this, she called a servant, took a beautiful white blanket, wrapped the king in it and ordered the servants to carry him out and put him in the carriage, and took him secretly to her hut. She put him in her bed, and he slept all day and all night, and when he woke up, he looked around and said:
- Oh, Lord, where am I? - and began to call his servant, but no one appeared.
Finally, his wife came to the bed and said to him:
“My dear king, you told me to take with me from the castle what is most dear and beloved to me, but for me there is nothing dearer and sweeter in the world than you - so I took you with me.”
Tears welled up in the king's eyes, and he said to her:
“Dear wife, you must be mine, and I must be yours,” and he took her back to his royal castle and ordered her to celebrate the wedding again; and they probably live to this day.