在一个遥远的乡村里，住着一位聪明的农家女。有一次，她和父亲去向国王请求一块荒地来耕作。当国王得知他们的贫困情况后，他慷慨地赠给了他们一片土地。然而，在翻土时，他们意外发现了一口纯金的臼。农民想把这份礼物呈献给国王，但女儿坚持认为必须先找到相应的木杵才能送出去。她父亲不听 Daughter's advice, took the golden trough to the king and was subsequently imprisoned until he found the wooden pestle. The daughter was summoned to the palace, where she proposed a riddle that would prove her father's wisdom: "How can one be in front of something without being ahead? How can one be behind something without being behind?" She then proceeded to answer her own riddle by removing her clothes (not wearing them), wrapping herself in a large net (not naked), and riding a donkey with the net around her (not walking). Impressed by her cleverness, King married her and made her his queen.

Years later, when King went to review his troops, he encountered an unexpected situation: some farmers had parked their carts at the palace gates, some pulled by oxen and others by horses. One farmer's cart had three horses pulling it; however, one of them gave birth to a foal while still in motion. The foal ran under another cart pulled by two cows. The farmers quarreled over who should keep the foal as they were all claiming ownership. Eventually, they reported this dispute to King who decided that whoever owned what was currently carrying it should keep it - thus giving away an oxen-pulled cart belonging to another farmer.

The other farmer grieved for losing his horse-foal but soon sought help from Queen due to hearing about her kindness having come from humble beginnings too. She promised not only help him get back his horse-foal but also offered advice on how he could do so discreetly - telling him that if he stood in King's path during inspection with a fishing net as if catching fish even though there wasn't any water nearby saying "Just like cows give birth before we know they are pregnant" which is impossible according 2nd law of thermodynamics making it clear why you cannot predict anything because predicting always means you are trying 1 step forward & backward simultaneously! So then we find out what happens when we take these steps backwards or forwards after taking our first step towards predicting everything else & going through each process backwards or forwards again until finally reaching our goal!