One day, speaking of her heavy burden, she persuaded a count to carry it for her up the mountain.
The count wandered the woods for three days before he arrived at a town where a king and queen reigned.
She told him that her youngest daughter had been a beautiful girl who wept pearls and jewels.
The king divided his kingdom between the two older girls and drove the youngest out, giving her only a sack of salt.
When the queen had opened the box, a pearl just like how her daughter's jewel tears looked like was in it.
The girl was upset, and asked what would happen to her, but the old woman said that she was disrupting her work and sent her to wait in her room.