Cinderella

Author: (German) Green He Jun
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Once, there was a rich man whose wife fell seriously ill. Before her death, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, "My dear daughter, after Mom leaves, I will guard and bless you from the underworld." With that, she closed her eyes and died. She was buried in the garden. The little girl was a devout and kind-hearted girl, and she went to her mother's grave every day to cry. Winter came, and a white blanket of snow covered her mother's grave. When the spring breeze arrived, the sun took off the silver attire from the grave. With winter gone and spring coming, time passed, and her father married another wife. The new wife came to live with her two daughters she had had with her previous husband. They were outwardly beautiful but inwardly very ugly and evil. The moment they arrived was also the beginning of the poor girl's suffering. They said, "What use is this useless waste of food in the hall? Whoever wants bread must earn it themselves. Get rolling to the kitchen and become a kitchen maid!" After saying this, they took off her beautiful clothes and dressed her in a gray, old overcoat, teasing her like a prank and drove her to the kitchen. She was forced to do hard labor. Every day, before dawn, she had to fetch water, start fires, cook, and wash clothes, and she had to endure the indifference and torment of her sisters. At night, when she was exhausted to the bone, she didn't even have a bed to sleep on and had to sleep among the ashes by the stove. As a result, she was covered in ashes, dirty and unattractive. Because of this, they called her Cinderella.