豌豆公主

每天五分钟听经典英文故事，读绘本，磨耳朵。一个关于真伪与敏感的经典童话，一颗小小的豌豆揭开真正的公主身份。The prince had always wanted to find a real princessIt was not that he had never seen princesses beyond the castle walls the world was vast palace after palace crown after crown and many young ladies claimed to be of noble birth welcomed as princesses wherever they wentThe prince traveled from place to place and saw splendid gowns sparkling jewels and grand halls filled with perfect manners Yet every time a small doubt lingered in his heartPerhaps they were princesses and perhaps they were notSomething about them was hard to put into words something simply did not feel right What exactly was wrong he could not quite say What a real princess should look like it seemed as though everyone knew yet no one could offer any proofAnd so the prince returned to his own castleHe was very sad What he wanted was not someone who merely looked like a princess but a real one Yet after traveling so far and meeting so many young ladies of distinguished families he had come home empty-handedThat night the weather suddenly turned terribleThe wind howled outside the castle walls and the rain poured down as if the sky were emptying whole buckets at once Thunder rolled across the rooftop and with every flash of lightning the windows and stone walls seemed to split open for an instant Everyone inside the castle stayed warm and dry while beyond the great gate the wind and rain still raged in the darknessOn just such a night someone knocked at the castle gateThe old king himself went to open itOutside stood a young ladyShe was drenched from head to toe Rainwater ran down her hair streaming from her cheeks to her neck and dripping from her clothes and shoes She stood there looking so bedraggled that she did not seem like anyone who could have come from any palace at allBut she spoke up and said that she was a princessThose words sounded very strange amid the noise of the wind and rain How could a real princess arrive alone at a castle door on such a night How could a real princess be caught in the rain like thisThe old king welcomed her inside Inside the castle there were lights a fire and warm dry rooms But the identity she claimed did not become believable just because she had been brought through the doorThe old queen said nothing at allShe did not question her on the spot nor did she send anyone to verify her story She simply turned and walked into the bedchamber to prepare a bed for the young ladyThe bed was going to look very soft indeedBut at the very bottom right on the bedboard the old queen first placed a tiny little peaJust a single pea Round and hard it lay there quietly with almost no weight at all Once it was in place the old queen piled twenty mattresses on top of itLayer upon layerThe mattresses rose higher and the pea was pressed beneath them all completely out of sight But the old queen was not finished yet She had twenty eiderdown quilts laid on top as wellThe bed grew taller and taller coming to resemble a soft little mountain Anyone who saw it would think that a night spent there would be a wonderful sleep With such thick mattresses and such light fluffy eiderdown someone who had been battered by wind and rain all night would surely sink right in and sleep warmly until dawnThe young lady was shown to the very top of it allThe night deepened and the castle grew quiet The rain outside was still falling and the lights inside the rooms slowly went out one by one That tiny pea lay at the very bottom hidden beneath twenty mattresses and then twenty eiderdown quiltsNo one could see itBut the next morning everyone asked the young lady how she had sleptHer answer made everyone stop in their tracksShe said she had barely slept at allShe said it felt as though there was something terribly hard in the bed She lay there tossing and turning unable to get comfortable no matter what she did The thing pressed into her and tormented her keeping her from resting all night long By morning she felt black and blue all overOnly then did the people in the castle understandThe young lady who had been soaked by the rain whose clothes had dripped with water who had stood so wretchedly at the gate she truly was a princessFor only a real princess could feel a tiny little pea at the very bottom through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdown quiltsThe prince had finally found the one he had been looking forAnd he married herThe pea was not simply thrown away It was sent to a museum and preserved like a precious piece of evidenceUnless someone has taken it it may still be there to this day前往小宇宙评论区与主播互动