Children's Bedtime Story: Soothing the Grumpy Princess

Everyone has bad tempers sometimes, but you shouldn't throw things around when you're angry. You should know that some things can't be restored once they're broken. Today's story is about comforting a princess with a bad temper.

The king's little princess had a bad temper, which caused great suffering to the people in the palace. The king offered a reward of one thousand gold coins to a wise man who could cure the princess' bad temper.

The potion maker came and showed the king 99 kinds of potions in beautiful long-necked bottles. Some of them could make summer flowers bloom until winter, some could make flies sing as beautifully as nightingales, and some could make fish fly in the sky...

The king asked, "Do you have a magic potion that can cure a bad temper?" The man nodded, picked up his medicine box and went to see the princess.

Soon, the medicine box, the long-necked bottle and the man were thrown out together and fell into the garden. All 99 long-necked bottles broke, and the garden suddenly fell into a magical frenzy. Until a hundred years later, people in the palace were still talking about the wonders of that day.

The best nanny in the country is here. She has subdued 300 crying little girls, 301 little boys who like to hit people with slingshots, and a baby dragon who likes to breathe fire and burn down the house.

The king had great confidence in her, but two minutes after the nanny went to see the princess, she resolutely left the palace and refused to go back no matter what.

After that, no one volunteered to treat the princess. The king gritted his teeth and raised the reward to 5,000 gold coins, and finally someone came.

The man had an ordinary appearance and ordinary clothes, and did not look like someone with great abilities. The king asked him, "What are you going to do?"

"I need your help, my king," the man bowed. "Please give me three of the princess' most beloved things."

The king agreed. He asked someone to bring the princess's favorite porcelain doll, a crystal hairpin and a kitten, and the man put them in three small wooden boxes that were roughly nailed together and took them to see the princess.

"Princess, I have brought three things that I guarantee you will like. Please gently open the box and take a look."

But the princess refused to listen to him and grabbed a small wooden box and threw it against the wall. The box broke and the porcelain doll also broke. The princess looked at the broken pieces in surprise and felt very distressed.

"It's okay, it's okay, there are still two." The man comforted the princess, who picked up the second small wooden box. She didn't dare to throw it away, but she didn't open the box properly. Instead, she ripped open the lid. This time, the nails were loose, and the small wooden box became a pile of scattered wood chips, and the crystal hairpin was broken.

The princess began to sob.

"There's one last one, Princess," the man said softly.

The princess obeyed this time and carefully opened the wooden box. Ah, her kitten was snoring inside, nothing happened. The princess hugged the kitten and smiled with tears in her eyes.

From then on, the princess' temper improved, and people in the palace no longer had to worry about something suddenly flying and hitting them on the head.