Once upon a time, there was a rich man whose wife died early, leaving him with an only daughter. Later, he married a step-wife. She was very bitter and cruel. She also has two daughters with the same temperament as her mother. As for the daughter and daughter of the previous wife, she is both beautiful and beautiful, with a gentle and kind temperament like her mother when she was alive.

Originally envious of her son-in-law, who was loved by everyone more than her two ugly daughters, she forced her sister to work hard all day to serve the whole family: carrying water, cooking eating, washing dishes, cleaning the stairs, cleaning her own room and that of her two sisters. Moreover, the older sister had to sleep alone in the loft containing dark, dusty furniture. The two younger sisters slept in a luxurious room on pure white mattress beds, including glossy mirror cabinets.


The poor girl had to patiently suffer and did not dare to complain to her father because he was completely overwhelmed by his wife's beatings. Every evening, when everything is done, she often sits in a corner of the kitchen, so her body is covered with ashes. So everyone used to call her Cinderella.




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One day, a young prince held a jubilant ball in the capital. Cinderella's two sisters were also invited to attend because they were both the children of a prominent family in the area. After putting on makeup and wearing fancy clothes, the two girls got into the car to go to the prom. Cinderella could only stare blankly at the two sisters until the car disappeared. Then she ran into the kitchen and cried.

Suddenly, a beautiful, gentle fairy appeared asking why she was crying. Cinderella sobbed speechless. The fairy immediately understood and asked:

"You want to go to the prince's ball, don't you?"

- Yes, ma'am, yes!

– Okay, you are a good girl and really cute! She will prepare you to go to the party. Go to the garden and pick me a pumpkin!

Cinderella went to the garden to pick the biggest and most beautiful pumpkin and bring it in. The fairy cut open the squash, scraped out the intestines, and lightly tapped the pumpkin with her wand, and immediately a brilliant golden carriage appeared.

Then she went to the corner of the kitchen and brought out a mousetrap in which six mice were trapped. She told Cinderella to open the trap door a little, and for each mouse that came out, she used her magic wand to lightly hit him on the head, turning him into a tall, beautiful white horse; That's enough for a chariot of six to pull the cart.

Missing a driver, she told Cinderella to go to the back of the house and carry the rat trap in. She caught the biggest rat, used her wand to turn him into a strong, handsome driver with the best mustache in the world.

When she was done, she turned to look at Cinderella, then lightly tapped her old, dirty clothes with her wand. Instantly it turned into an extremely splendid dress, sparkling full of diamonds, gold and jewels. She waved her chopsticks again, and a pair of pretty jewel-encrusted glitter shoes appeared. So all the preparations were done.

Sending Cinderella away, the fairy told her not to go past twelve o'clock at night, because past that time she would encounter bad things. Cinderella promised to remember what her grandmother told her and she cheerfully got into the carriage that took her straight to the capital for the festival.

The extremely luxurious carriage had just brought Cinderella to the front of the king's palace, the guards at the entrance to the newspaper, the prince hurriedly ran out and helped the beautiful young girl to step out of the carriage and lead her into the bedroom. festival.

The whole large room filled with five-color lights that were bustling and jubilant in dances suddenly fell silent. Everyone was dumbfounded, admiring the beautiful princess like a fairy that no one knew her name. The prince invited the girl to sit in the most honorable place to enjoy with him all the most precious and fragrant flowers in the world. Then the prince invited her to dance with him. She danced very gracefully and politely, making everyone even more full of praise.

Cinderella attended the ball until twelve o'clock before politely said goodbye to the prince and hurried home to the car. When she got home, she asked the fairy godmother's permission to let her go to another ball tomorrow night, because she was invited by the prince. After a while, the two sisters returned. One girl boasted to Cinderella:

"If you can go to the ball, how happy you must be: the most beautiful princess in the world has come to the party!"

The next night, the sisters went to the ball again, and Cinderella went too. Tonight she was more beautiful, more gorgeous than the night before. As for the prince, he kept twirling around, making her so busy that she forgot what the fairy told her. When she knew it was late, she panicked and hurried out, running as fast as a squirrel. The prince hurriedly ran after him but could not catch up.

While in a hurry to run away, Cinderella dropped a shoe. The prince picked it up and brought it to the ballroom. And Cinderella had just run out of the palace into the car and drove about half a mile when the big clock in the capital struck twelve o'clock. The carriage suddenly turned into a pumpkin and rolled on the side of the road. The horses became rats again. The splendid clothes turned out to be ragged and dirty as before. Only one shoe the fairy thought was left intact. Just like that, Cinderella ran all the way home.

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