The Wizard’s Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, a mother gave birth to three daughters. The eldest daughter is impolite and has a bad heart; the second daughter has shortcomings, but she is much better than the eldest daughter; only the youngest daughter is filial and well-behaved. But this mother is very weird. She likes the eldest daughter the most, but doesn't like the youngest daughter, and wants to get rid of her all day long. So she used to send the poor little girl out into a great wood, so that she might get lost and never come home, and thus drive her away. But every good child has his own protective angel, the angel did not abandon her, every time he showed her the right way to go home. Once the Patronus seemed not to be with her, and the little girl could not find her way out of the forest, and she kept walking and walking until night fell. At this time, she saw a faint light in front of her, and immediately ran forward, and came to a small wooden house. She knocked, and it opened; she went to the second door, knocked again, and it was opened to her by a respectable-looking old man with a white beard. It was none other than St. Joseph himself. The old man said kindly to the girl, "Come in! My dear child, sit in my little chair by the fire and warm yourself! You are thirsty! I will get you some water to drink, for there is nothing else in the forest." There are only a few carrots for you to eat, and you have to scrape them clean before cooking them."

St. Joseph handed her the radishes, and the little girl scraped them carefully, then took out the pancakes and croutons her mother had asked her to bring. She put everything in the pot and made a pot of porridge. When the porridge was ready, St. Joseph said, "I'm very hungry, give me some porridge!" The little girl happily poured out more than half of it for the old man. But with God's blessing, she was still full. After eating, St. Joseph said: "Now it's time to go to bed, but I only have one bed, go to bed and sleep, I will sleep on the grass on the ground." "Oh, no," said the little girl "You'd better sleep on the bed! The straw bed is soft enough for me." But Joseph picked up the little girl and put her on the bed. After the girl said her prayers, she fell asleep. When she woke up the next morning, she wanted to say "good morning" to the old man but found that he was no longer there. She hurriedly got up to look for him, but there was no sign of him, and finally she found a bag of money left behind the door, just enough for her to carry. It read: To the girl who slept here last night. After seeing these words, the little girl picked up her purse and went home. She returned to her mother safely and handed over all the money to her mother, who had no choice but to express her satisfaction with her.

The next day, the second daughter also wanted to go into the forest with great interest. Mother gave a much larger pancake and bread. The situation she encountered was the same as that of her younger sister. In the evening, she also came to the cabin of St. Joseph, and the old man handed her the radish and asked her to make porridge. When the porridge was ready, the old man also said to her: "I'm very hungry, give me your share!" The little girl said: "You can drink it together!" The girl gave her the bed and wanted to sleep on the grass, but the girl said, "No, let's lie on the bed, this bed is big enough for the two of us." St. Joseph picked her up and put her on the bed, but she said Lie on the grass and fell asleep.

The next morning, the girl woke up to find St. Joseph, but he was gone. But behind the door the girl found a hand-sized money bag with the words: For the child who slept here last night. The girl picked up the purse and trotted home, handed the purse to her mother, but kept two dollars for herself.

The eldest daughter was already curious, and insisted on going into the big forest the next day. Mother gave her as many pancakes as she wanted, plus some bread and cheese. Like the two sisters at night, she too discovers the cabin of St. Joseph. When the porridge was ready, St. Joseph said: "I'm very hungry, give me some of your food!" The answer was: "What's the hurry! What's the hurry! When I'm full, you can eat later !” But she ate almost nothing left, and the old man could only scrape the bottom of the plate. After the meal, the old man let her sleep on his own bed, and he planned to sleep on the grass. Without hesitation, the girl lay down on the bed and fell asleep, leaving the hard straw bed to the old man. When she woke up the next morning, she also found that the old man had disappeared. She didn't bother to look for it, so she went straight to the door to find the purse. She seemed to find something on the ground, but because she couldn't tell what it was, she bent down and accidentally touched the thing with the tip of her nose. She stood up and saw the other nose joined to her own, and in a moment of horror she began to howl. But that was of no use at all, the nose stretched out so long that you had to look at it if you didn't want to. She ran out of the house screaming and met St. Joseph again. She knelt at the old man's feet and kept begging for mercy. Finally, out of sympathy, the old man took off her nose and gave her two coins before she turned back and went home. Mother was standing in front of the door, and as soon as she saw her, she asked, "What have you got?" She lied quickly and said, "A bag of gold, I got a bag of gold, but I lost it on the way." It’s gone.” So her mother took her by the hand and asked her to go find the gold together. At first she cried and refused to go, but then she went anyway. Unexpectedly, there were many lizards and snakes rushing towards them on the road, and they could do nothing about it. In the end, they killed the evil child, and the mother's foot was also bitten, because she did not educate her daughter well. .