The old man went to the field to plow and plowed up a treasure trove of money, a lot of gold - a whole cartload. He brought the treasure home and hid it. And he says to his wife:
- Old woman, don’t tell anyone! - And he began to follow the old woman.
And the old woman went to her neighbor and said:
“Neighbor, the old man found a treasure, but don’t tell anyone.”
The old man heard her talking about the treasure and ordered her to bake pies and pancakes. In the morning, when he got up, he called the old woman, they got into the cart and went to the field. And the old man grabbed the pancake pies. And he seated the old woman backwards. He scattered the pies along the road. The old woman saw and shouted:
- Old man, there are so many pies! And he says:
- Collect, old woman, this is a cloud of cake. The old woman collected and put everything in a bag. Let's move on. And the old man scattered the pancakes. The old woman shouts:
- Old man, how many pancakes! And the old man says:
- This cloud has fallen, old woman, pancake house, collect it. The old woman also collected pancakes. They went through the forest.
“Wait, old woman,” says the old man. “I’ll go and have a look: I have a network here.”
He went and brought the fish. We reached the river. The old man went and brought a trap with a hare from there.
We worked for a day. In the evening we left the field. The old man drove the old woman past the manor's house. And the master had a ball. The old man says:
- That's how they yell; Apparently, the devil is tearing the master apart.
A few days later, word spread and reached the master: the old man had found the money. The master wanted to take away this treasure. He calls the old man and asks:
-Have you found the treasure, old man?
“What,” says the old man, “is it a treasure?” I don't know any treasure.
- How do you not know? Your old woman says he found it. They called the old woman.
They began to ask her:
- Isn’t it true, grandma? The old man says:
- No, I don’t know any treasure. And the old woman assures the old man:
- How did you not find it? I found it, old man. Do you remember, old man, when you and I went to the field, a cloud of cake fell out?
“I don’t know,” says the old man.
- How do you not know? - the old woman assures. - Has the pancake cloud fallen? Forgot, old man? The old man still refuses.
“Do you remember,” she says, “when we caught a fish in the forest, and caught a hare in the river with a trap?”
“I don’t know,” says the old man. The old woman got angry:
- How - I don’t know? Do you remember how we drove past the master’s yard when the devils were beating the master?
The master got angry and said:
- Kick her out!
So the old man still had money.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru