Once upon a time there was a wealthy king who had three daughters. They went for a walk in the palace garden every day. The king liked all the beautiful trees very much, especially an apple tree. If someone picked an apple from the tree, he would curse him to the eighteen levels of hell.

Whenever the harvest is good, the apples on the tree are as bright as blood. The three daughters go under the tree every day to check if the wind will blow the apples down, but no one has ever appeared. The apples hanging on the tree almost crushed the tree, and the branches have hung to the ground. The king's youngest daughter wanted an apple very much. She said to her sisters: "Our father loves us very much. He will not curse us to hell. I believe he is just like this to strangers."

While saying that, she picked a big apple and ran to her sisters, saying, "Try it, my dear little ladies, I have never been born to taste such delicious things."

Her two sisters also ate a few bites of apples, and at this moment, all three of them fell deep into the ground, where they could no longer hear the rooster crowing.

At noon, the king wanted to ask them to come back for dinner, but he could not find them anywhere. He searched all the palaces and gardens, but still could not find them. He felt in great trouble, so he told the whole country that whoever could find his daughters would marry one of them.

They are kind, beautiful and generous, so they are loved by everyone, so many young people travel all over the country to search for them.

Three young hunters also went out to search. When they reached the eighth day, they arrived at a big castle, and there was a beautiful house in a house with a table with exquisite dishes on it. The dishes were still steaming, but there was no one in the whole castle. They waited there for a long time, but the food was still steaming. Finally, they were really hungry and sat down to have a meal. Everyone agreed to live in the castle, but they had to draw lots to choose one to stay in the house, and the other two went out to find the king's daughter. They started drawing lots, but the boss won the lottery. The next day, the two younger brothers went out to search, and the boss stayed in the house.

At noon, a very small dwarf came to ask for a piece of bread. The hunter found a loaf of bread and cut it off to give it to him. But the dwarf did not pick it up. The bread fell to the ground. The dwarf asked the hunter to pick up the bread and give it to him. When the hunter bent down to do so, the dwarf picked up a stick, grabbed his head, and beat him hard.

The next day, the second child stayed in the house, and the same happened to him. In the evening, the other two came back and the eldest brother asked the second child: "How are you today?"

"Hey, it's so unlucky," he said, and then they secretly confide in each other's bitterness, but they didn't tell their third brother that they didn't like him at all, and often called him stupid Hans because he didn't understand the worldly style at all.

On the third day, the third brother stayed in the house and the dwarf came to ask for another slice of bread. When the third brother gave it to him, as before, he let the third brother fall off again and then asked the third brother to pick it up for him. But Hans said, "Why can't you pick it yourself? If you are unwilling to pay for such a little work, you are not qualified to get the food every day."

The dwarf was so angry that he insisted on letting him pick him up, but Hans not only refused to do it, but also grabbed the dwarf and beat him up quickly. At this time, the dwarf cried hard: "Stop hitting, stop hitting, if you spare me, I will tell you where the king's daughter is."

When Hans heard this, he let him go. The dwarf told Hans that he was a land god, and there were thousands of people like him. If Hans was willing to go with him, he could take Hans to the hideout of the king's daughters. So they came to a deep well, which was a dry well.

The dwarf told Hans that he knew that Hans' companions were dishonest to Hans, so if he wanted to send the king's daughters back, he had to do it alone. Once his two brothers knew that the king's daughters had been revealed, they would be very happy, but they would not give any labor or risk. So Hans had to take a big basket himself, and he had to sit in the basket with his hunting knife and a bell and sank it to the bottom of the well. There were three houses under the well, each with a princess in each room, and each princess was catching lice for a long dragon, and he had to cut off the head of each dragon. After saying this, the dwarf disappeared.

The two brothers came back in the evening and asked him how he was. He said, "It's pretty good." He told them that they saw a dwarf at noon today. The dwarf came to beg for a piece of bread from him. He gave the dwarf some, but the dwarf let the bread fall to the ground and asked Hans to pick it up again. He didn't agree, the dwarf started to scold him, and made him angry, and beat him up. The beaten dwarf told him where the king's daughters were hiding.

After hearing this, the two brothers were so angry that their faces turned green and yellow. The next morning, they came to the well together and decided who would take the first place to sit in the basket. The boss won the lottery again, and he sat in the basket with a bell. Then he reminded him: "As soon as I ring the bell, you will pull me up."

As soon as he went down a little, he started ringing the bell and they immediately pulled him up.

The second child sat in the basket, but he came up soon like the eldest child.

It was the third brother's turn, and he went down to the bottom of the well. He came out of the basket, pulled out the knife, and walked to the first door to stop. He heard the sound of dragon snoring, so he slowly opened the door and saw a princess sitting there, nine heads of nine dragons resting on her legs, and she was catching lice for the dragon. He raised the knife and chopped off all nine heads of dragons. The princess jumped up, put his arm around his neck, hugged him and kissed him enthusiastically, and hung her pure gold chest ornaments on his chest. Then he rescued the second princess who grabbed lice for five dragons, and finally he rescued the little princess who caught lice for four dragons.

The three princesses were very happy and hugged him and kept kissing. At this time, he roamed the bell hard so that the people above could hear it. He first put the princesses into the basket one by one and pulled them up. But when it was his turn, he remembered the words of the dwarf to warn his companions to harm him. So he picked up a large stone at the bottom of the well and put it into the basket. When the basket rose to mid-air, the hypocritical brothers on the ground cut off the ropes, and the basket and the stone fell to the bottom of the well.

They thought he was dead, so they fled with the three princesses, and forced them to promise to tell their father that they had rescued them. So they met the king and asked each to marry a princess.

At the same time, the youngest hunter was wandering around the three rooms in panic, no longer hoping for whether he could survive. When he saw the flute hanging on the wall, he said, "Where are you doing? No one is happy here." He looked at the dragon's head and said, "You can't help me now." He walked back and forth for a long time, and the ground made him step smoothly.

In helplessness, he took off the flute from the wall and blew a few notes. Suddenly, a few dwarfs appeared. Then every time he blew a sound, a dwarf appeared. So he kept blowing until the room was full of dwarfs.

They all asked him what he was going to do, and he said he wanted to go back to the blue sky on the ground. After hearing this, the dwarfs grabbed every head on his head and flew to the ground. As soon as he came up, he immediately went to the palace. At that time, when a princess was preparing to hold a wedding, he walked into the room of the king and his three daughters. The princesses fainted when they saw him.
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