Once upon a time there was a poor man who was so poor that he could not even support his own son. The son said to him: "Good dad, our life is so bad now, and I am a burden to you. I want to leave home now to see if I can earn a meal."

His father blessed him and sent him out of the house with grief. At this time, the king of a powerful empire was fighting with people, so he joined the king's troops and went to the front to fight. When he arrived at the front, he happened to catch up with the fierce battle, and the situation was very critical, and his comrades fell into the enemy's rain of bullets. When the commander also died, the remaining people planned to escape, but the young man stood up and shouted to them with courage: "We must not let our motherland perish!" So others followed him and defeated the enemy under his leadership. When the king learned that the victory was entirely up to him, he raised him to the highest position, gave him a lot of wealth, and made him the most prominent figure in the country at once.

The king had a daughter who was very beautiful and had a very strange temper. She only promised to marry someone who promised to be buried alive by her after her death. "If this person really loves me," she said, "What's the use of him living after I die?" In turn, she was the same. If her husband died first, she would be buried in the grave with him.

Her strange vow scared people to propose to her, but the young man was fascinated by the princess's beauty and asked the king to marry his daughter to him regardless of his fate.

"Do you know what kind of commitment you are going to make?" asked the king.

"If I live longer than her, I have to be a burial for her," he replied, "but I love her very much and don't care about this danger at all." Then the king agreed, and they held a grand wedding.

The young couple lived happily and happily for a while, and his wife suddenly fell seriously ill, and none of the doctors could cure her. After she died, the young husband remembered his promise and knew that he had to be locked in the grave alive. He couldn't help but feel frightened, but there was no other way. The king sent a post at all gates of the palace, so he could not escape this misfortune. On the day when the body was buried, he was also taken to the royal tomb, and the tomb door was closed and the latch was also put on.

There was a table next to the coffin with four candles, four bread and four bottles of wine on it. After these things were consumed, he would starve to death. He was in great pain and sat there in great sadness, eating only a little bread and drinking only a sip of wine every day, but the god of death was still approaching him day by day.

Just as he was sitting there in a daze, he saw a snake crawling out of the corner of the tomb and crawling towards the dead body. He thought the snake was going to bite her flesh, so he pulled out his sword and said, "As long as I am still alive, you can't touch her." After that, he cut the snake into three sections.

After a while, another snake crawled out of the hole. When it saw that the first snake had been cut into three pieces and was dead, it crawled back. But after a while, it crawled out again, holding three green leaves in its mouth. Then, it put together the three pieces of the dead snake and covered each wound with a leaf. In an instant, several parts of the broken snake grew together. The snake moved a few times and came alive, and then ran away with the second snake, while the three leaves remained on the ground.

The unfortunate young man who witnessed all this suddenly had an idea: I wonder if the magic of these leaves that resuscitated the dead snake could save people. So he picked up the leaves, put one on his dead wife's mouth, and placed the other two on her eyes. As soon as he put the leaves, blood began to flow in her blood vessels, slowly pouring onto her pale cheeks, making it red again. Then she took a breath, opened her eyes, and said, "Ah, God, where am I?"

"You are with me, my dear wife," he replied, and told her about everything he had lived and what he had saved her. He gave her some wine and some bread. When she recovered her energy, he helped her stand up and walked to the door of the tomb, knocking and shouting.

After hearing this, the guards went to report to the king. The king came to open the tomb door in person, and found that they were healthy and energetic, and couldn't help but be very happy that the sad thing was finally over. The young man brought out the three snake leaves and handed them to a servant, saying, "Keep it carefully and keep it with me at all times. God knows what more trouble we will encounter? Maybe we still need them!"

But his wife had changed, and after she was resurrected from the dead, she seemed to have completely lost her love for her husband. After a while, the young man wanted to go across the sea to see his old father. After they got on the boat, she forgot the deep love and loyalty her husband showed to her, and forgot his life-saving grace to her, and became obsessed with the captain.

One day, when the young man fell asleep, she called the captain, hugged her husband's head, the captain grabbed his feet, and the two threw him into the sea together. After doing this shameful act, she said, "We will go back now and say he is dead on the road. I will praise you greatly before my father, praise you, and make him agree to marry me and make you the heir to the throne."

But the loyal servant witnessed everything in secret. He untied a small boat from the big boat, sat on it to find his master, and no longer cared about where the two bad guys were heading. He picked up the young man's body from the water, placed the three snake leaves on his eyes and mouth, and luckily saved him.

They rowed hard day and night, and the boat sailed like a flying boat, but they returned to the old king's palace before the others. The old king was naturally surprised to see them coming back alone, so he asked what happened. After hearing about his daughter's abominable behavior, he said, "I don't believe she would do such a despicable thing, but the truth will be revealed soon." He ordered them to hide in a secret room and not let anyone see it.

Soon, the big ship sailed back, and the shameless woman came to see her father with a sad face. The old king asked, "Why are you back alone? Where are your husband?"

"Oh, my dear father," she replied, "my heart is about to break. My husband suddenly died of illness on the way. If this kind captain hadn't helped me, I would have been miserable! He was there when my husband died, and he could tell you everything."

The king said, "I want to resurrect the dead!" Then he opened the secret room and asked the master and servant to come out.

When the woman saw her husband, she knelt down as if she was struck by thunder and asked for forgiveness. The king said, "You must not forgive me! He is willing to die with you and save you, but you kill him while he is asleep. You deserve it."
Chapter completed!