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That was the deal in the original fairytale, which was more or less illustrated in the season 2 episode 'The Miller's Daughter'

The Cinderella one was more or less between the two fairytales (coz Rumple absolutely has to meddle with everything) the deal and Cinderella eventually fooling Rumple was a reference from the "Rumplestiltskin" fairytale.

As far as I know it wasn't exactly clarified why he wanted it. But that's just one in a long list of deals, honestly, I didn't understand the motive behind most of his season 1 deals, except for stocking his shop.