One day Happiness, Intelligence and Wealth argued among themselves.
- I am stronger than all of you! - Wealth boasted.
“Without happiness, wealth is useless,” objected Happiness.
“If there is no intelligence, neither wealth nor happiness will help,” said the Mind.
They bickered and argued for a long time, did not come to an agreement and agreed to actually check: which of them is right? Let's go travel around the world. We saw a poor man sowing corn in his small field. Mind, Happiness and Wealth stopped.
Wealth waved his hand:
“Come on, cover yourself, poor man’s field, with pure gold!”
But Mind, in order to prove his power, immediately deprived the poor man of his mind.
The poor man looked at the field covered with gold nuggets, and ran to the bai to complain:
- Bye, bye! Instead of corn, stones grew in my field!
Bai was not lazy and went to see what kind of stones were there. He saw pure gold and said to the poor man:
- Let's change! You take my best field from me, and give me yours with stones.
The poor man was very pleased with this exchange. Bai took the gold on carts to his yard, and the poor man went to sow his corn. Then Happiness, to prove its power, looked at the poor man and said:
- Be happy, man!
Immediately, out of nowhere, a detachment of warriors appeared in front of the poor man.
“We are looking for a boss,” they said. - We ask you to be our leader!
The poor man, out of stupidity (he had lost his mind!) didn’t even know what to answer, he just nodded his head. The horsemen gave him silver armor, put him on a black horse, girded him with precious weapons, and put him at the head of the detachment. The poor man has become such a fine fellow that it is impossible to recognize him!
The detachment stopped for the night in the village of the same bai who exchanged the corn field for gold. And this bai had a beautiful daughter.
- Let's marry our boss to the bai's daughter! “So the horsemen decided and sent matchmakers to the bayou.
Bai agreed, and the poor man became his daughter’s groom; They called the people to have fun at the calamus, to see their future son-in-law. But the son-in-law does not open his mouth, he cannot utter a word. And he was silent at the feast. The day is silent. The other is silent. The bride's relatives began to be offended:
- Why is he silent? Apparently very proud? Or maybe he decided to laugh at us?
On the third day, the Bai himself became very angry.
They see Wealth and Happiness that things are bad, they began to ask the Mind:
- Give the poor man back his sanity! The Mind took pity, restored the poor man’s sanity, and the poor man immediately spoke, so intelligently and smoothly:
“When I was still a child, our village was attacked by enemies. Everyone - both old and young, both women and men - defended themselves against them... And one girl, dressed as a warrior, fought more bravely than all of them. So I was silent for two days, I kept thinking: can this girl be considered a fighter on an equal basis with men?..
The bai was delighted:
- There it is! - he says. “And we thought you were making fun of us!”
They immediately played a cheerful wedding, and that poor man began to live in contentment and joy.
If a person has no intelligence, neither wealth nor happiness will help him.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru