There was a king who was so old that he couldn't see. He had heard from others that far away there was an apple orchard with a long-lived apple, and a well with fairy water in it. The old man will rejuvenate after eating an apple, and the blind person can regain his sight by washing his eyes with well water. The king had three sons. He sent his eldest son on horseback to the apple orchard to pick apples and fetch water from the well. He wants to rejuvenate himself and see again. The eldest son got on his horse and walked away, and he walked and walked, and came to a three-basin junction, where he saw a road sign. The road sign points to three paths: first, the horses are full and the people are hungry; The second is a dead end; The third horse is hungry and full.
The eldest son thought about it and decided to take the third path. Walking and walking, I saw a very nice house in the field. He walked towards the house, looked closely, pushed open the door, and rode into the courtyard. The owner of the house is a widow and not very old. She called her eldest son to her and said, "Warm welcome, honored guest." She led her eldest son into the house, sat him down at the table, brought him something delicious, and set it with mead. When the youngest son had eaten and drunk, he hid on a bench and slept. The hostess said to him, "How can a young man, a dignified man, sleep alone!" Sleep with my beautiful daughter Tonya! He happily agreed, and went to sleep with Tonya. Tonya said to him, "Come closer, be warmer." He shifted and was about to lean over to Tonya, but he crushed the bed through and fell into a pit, unable to climb out. The old woman forced him to grind flour every day. The father waited and waited, but he did not come back.
The king sent his second son to find apples and fairy water. The second son took the same route as his elder brother and suffered the same fate. The king waited a long time, and his two sons did not return, and he was very sad.
The younger son begged his father to send him. The king strongly disagreed, and said to him: "You will suffer, child." Your two brothers are gone, and you are so small, it is easier to be deceived. The youngest son pestered his father, determined to get back what his father wanted and his two older brothers. My father thought about it and thought about it, but he agreed. The youngest son is on the road, and he encounters the same situation on the road as the two older brothers. He came to the widow's door, dismounted, knocked on the door, and asked to stay for the night. The hostess was as warm as ever: "Warm welcome, rare guest, rare guest!" She sat down at the table and brought out the good food, and set the wine on the table, and when the younger son was full, he wanted to go to bed on the bench. The hostess said, "How can a young man, a dignified man, sleep alone!" Go sleep with my pretty Tonya! "No, auntie. Passers-by can't do that. It's better to boil some hot water and let me and your daughter go to the bath. ”
The widow boiled very hot water and bathed him and his daughter Tonya. As bad as her mother, Tonya told her youngest son to walk in front of her, and as soon as he entered the bath, she closed the door and hid somewhere. The youngest son opened the door, locked Tonya inside, and beat Tonya with a stick. Tonya begged for mercy. The youngest son said to her, "Tell me, bad thing, where did you get my two brothers?" Tonya said that they were grinding flour in the cellar. The youngest son let go of her, and the two of them went into the house, connected several ladders and lowered them, and rescued the two brothers and let them go home. The elder brother was embarrassed to go to see his father, because he had slept with Tonya and had not done anything. They wandered in the fields and wandered in the woods.
The younger son went on, and walked, and walked, and came to a house, and walked in. A beautiful woman knits towels in the house. He said, "God bless you, beauty. The beauty replied, "Thank you, good little son, did you come here to be lazy or something?" "Something, beauty. He said. "I'm going to a place far away to find longevity apples and fairy water for my old father, and his eyes are out of sight. The beauty said, "It's hard, it's hard for you to find this apple orchard." But you can go ahead and look for it, I have a sister. She knows more than I know and will tell you what to do. ”
He walked for a long time, saw the beauty's sister, said hello and introduced himself as if he were to the first beauty. The girl asked the younger son to leave the horse, and the two-winged horse went to the eldest sister. The eldest sister would tell him the way to the apple orchard and how to get apples and fairy water. He walked for a long time and found the eldest sister of the beauty. The eldest sister gave him her four-winged horse and said to him, "Be careful, my aunt lives in the apple orchard, and she is a very fierce witch." When you get to the apple orchard, don't be reluctant to give up my horse, but jump over the wall at once. If the horse hits the wall, the bell on the wall will ring. As soon as the bell rings, she'll wake up and you won't be able to run. Her horse has six wings, and you cut off the veins of the horse, so that the witch does not ride after you. ”
The youngest son complied. He rode over the wall, his tail striking the bell, but the sound was small. The witch woke up, didn't hear the bell clearly, yawned a few times, and fell asleep again. The youngest son took the longevity apple and fairy water, mounted his horse and ran. He passed by where the three sisters lived, changed horses, mounted his own horse, and hurried back to China. Early in the morning, the witch found that the apples and fairy water had been stolen, and immediately mounted a horse with six wings, walked to the place where the first niece lived, and asked, "Do you see anyone calling here?" The niece said, "There was a handsome young man who had passed, but it had been a long time. She walked forward and asked the second and third nieces, and the answer was the same. When she was about to catch up, her youngest son was already on the territory of his own country, and he was not afraid of her. The witch didn't dare to go forward, but just looked at her little son and said in a hoarse voice: "Good boy, you thief, count yourself lucky!" If you can run away from me, your two brothers will call you unlucky!" She cursed, turned and went back to her youngest son's return to his own country, where he saw her brother, two homeless men, sleeping in the fields. He did not wake them up, tied up his horses, and slept beside them. The two elder brothers woke up and saw that the younger brother had returned, gently took out the longevity apple and fairy water from his arms and threw him into the hole. His body flew in the air for three days and fell into a pitch-black underground kingdom. The people here are all holding torches in their hands. He walked forward, and saw all the people with sad faces and wept bitterly. He asked them what they were crying for, and they told him that their king had only one daughter, and she was very beautiful, and her name was Princess Poliusa, and she was going to be sent to the monsters to eat tomorrow. They also said that every month they had to send a girl to the seven-headed snake, and who to send first and then had been stipulated, and now it was the turn of the princess. When the younger son heard this, he went directly to the king and said to him, "I can save your daughter, king." But you have to do a few things for me personally, and tell you what you will do later. The king was overjoyed, and promised to do so, and to marry his daughter to him.
On this day, the princess was sent to a three-walled castle by the sea, and the younger son went with her. He carried an iron rod of dozens of catties with him, and waited with the princess for the monster to come. They talked while they waited. He told the princess about what he had been through, and told her that he had fairy water. The younger son said to Princess Polyusa, "Catch lice on my head, and if I fall asleep, beat me with an iron rod, or I will not wake up." He fell asleep on the princess's lap. The princess scratched lice on his head, and he fell asleep. The youkai flew and flew around the princess's head. The princess couldn't bear to hit her with a stick. He pushed and shouted, but no matter how he shouted, he couldn't wake him up, so he was so anxious that he cried, and tears fell on his youngest son's face. The youngest son woke up and suddenly shouted, "Ouch, what are you burning me with?" Then the monster pounced on them, and the youngest son picked up the iron rod and broke five heads of the monster at once, and then the remaining two heads. He picked up the head of the youkai, buried it at the foot of the wall, and threw the body of the youkai into the sea.
When a villain saw this, he crept out from behind the wall, cut off the head of his youngest son and threw him into the sea, forcing the princess to tell her father that he had rescued her, and to pinch her to death if he didn't say so. The princess had no choice, cried for a while, and went with the villain to see her father. The king greeted them. The princess told her father that it was the young man who saved her. The king did not know how happy he was, and immediately prepared for the wedding, and the guests came from many countries, including kings and princes. They drank, sang, and had a lot of fun. Only the princess was sullen, and went to a corner under the hut, and secretly shed tears, thinking of saving her little son.
The princess came up with an idea and begged her father to send someone to the sea to fish, and she went with her. The big fishing net was cast and many fish were caught. The princess took one look and said, "This is not the fish I want!" He cast another net and caught the head and body of his youngest son. The princess hurriedly walked up, took out a bottle of fairy water from his bosom, put her head back on her body, sprinkled it with fairy water, and the little son came back to life. The princess tells her youngest son that she wants to catch the villain. The youngest son comforted her for a while, telling her to go back first, and then he would come later, and there was a way to clean up the bad guys.
The youngest son walked into the palace, and the guests were drunk and smoky, dancing hand in hand. He said he could sing all kinds of songs. The guest was very happy to hear it and asked him to sing. He sang a happy tune first, and the guests were so happy that they praised him one by one. He then sang a sad tune and made the guests cry. The younger son asked the king who had saved his daughter. The king pointed at the villain. "Well, King, we will go to the castle with your guest, and if he can find the head of the monster, I believe he saved the princess. "Everyone came to the castle. The bad guy pulled hard, and didn't pull out a single one. The youngest son took it out casually. At this time, the princess told the truth of the matter, who had saved her. Everyone admits that it was the youngest son who saved the princess, tied the villain to the horse's tail, and dragged him to death. The king wanted the younger son to marry his daughter, and the younger son said, "No, king, I don't want anything but to go back to the world, and I haven't done what my father is going to do, and he is waiting for me to bring back the fairy water, and his eyes can't see." "The king could not keep his younger son, and the princess did not want to part with his younger son, and wanted to go with him to earth.
The youngest son returned to his hometown with the princess. His father greeted them with joy. The younger son saw that the king had eaten the apple and became younger, but his eyes were still invisible, so he took out the fairy water and wiped his father's eyes, and the king immediately saw it, and kissed his son and his fiancée passionately. The younger son told his father that it was his two older brothers who stole the apple from him. The two brothers were frightened and jumped into the river and drowned. The youngest son and the princess got married, and many banquets were held. I ate there, drank wine, and ate a strange cabbage as if I hadn't eaten.