Once upon a time there lived a Joker guy. One day this guy is walking, and a rich man meets him. The rich man says to the Joker:
- Joker, tell me your jokes.
“I would tell you a joke, but I forgot them all at home,” the Joker answers him. “Give me your horse and I’ll bring my jokes.”
The rich man gave him his horse. That guy took the rich man's horse and went home. On the way, I stopped at the house of some rich people. The rich man's wife asks the Joker:
-Where are you from, Joker? The guy answers her:
- I came to you for money.
– What money are you asking me for? “I don’t owe you,” the rich man’s wife gets angry.
“It was your relative who sent me to you for money,” the guy answers. “He even gave me his horse so I could come here.” If you don't believe me, look, she's standing in the yard.
That woman looked out the window, and her uncle’s horse was indeed standing there.
– Do you recognize this horse? - asks the guy.
“Yes, this is my uncle’s horse,” she answers.
“Since you recognized your uncle’s horse, you will have to give you money,” the guy tells her.
The rich man's wife gave the guy an armful of money. The Joker took the money, got on his horse and rode on.
A guy is riding, and merchants with three carts of different goods meet him. Seeing them, the Joker pulled out money from his bosom and pushed it under the tail of his horse. The merchants arrived. The joker asks them:
– What do you trade?
“We have everything you want,” the merchants answer,
“Show me your goods,” asks the Joker.
The merchants opened their chests and boxes and showed their goods.
– How much does this product cost? - asks the guy.
The merchants responded.
The Joker rummaged in his pocket and said:
- Oh, I forgot my countless money at home... Wait a minute, my horse defecates money.
Having said this, the Joker hit his horse with a whip. The horse jumped up and money immediately fell from under his tail. One merchant was greatly surprised and dumbfounded. The joker bought goods for himself with that money. The merchant coveted this horse.
“Give me your horse and take three cartloads of goods,” the merchant asks.
Joker says:
“God forbid,” you said the impossible, I wouldn’t trade this horse for anything.
But the merchant decided to exchange the horse at any cost and begged him from the Joker. He arrived home and said to his wife: “Until our death, we will not need money now. I got myself a horse, from which instead of g... silver and gold pour in.”
One day a merchant really needed money, and he began to beat his horse with a whip. Several coins fell out. The merchant calmed down and lived for himself, not sad about anything.
Meanwhile, the Joker brought home three cartloads of goods and undressed his children and wife.
One day, going to the field, the Joker took with him three rolls and one crooked stick. He put his rolls in a hole and sits by the road. A rich man is driving along the road with three carts of flour to sell it in the city.
- Why are you sitting here, Joker? - asks the rich man.
– Ready-made rolls come out of this pit, so I want to bring home rolls and rolls.
- What are you saying nonsense, fool! - says the rich man.
“If you don’t believe me, then I’ll pull out the rolls with my crooked stick,” says the guy.
In front of the rich man's eyes, the Joker pulled the kalach out of the pit. The rich man was very surprised.
- What is it, anyone can pull out rolls?
“Why not,” the Joker answers him. Rich man:
- Take my three cartloads of flour, and give me this stick.
“I never wanted to change my wand, but I’m only changing it because you ask.”
The Joker brought three cartloads of flour home and lives happily ever after, needs nothing.
Meanwhile, the horse stopped defecating money. The merchant guessed that the Joker had deceived him and went looking for him to kill him. Having learned about this, the Joker killed his black ram, filled the ram’s stomach with blood, put it under his wife’s arm, put clothes on her and said to her:
- When the merchant comes, do not prepare food for him. When I say: “Wife, prepare a meal for the guests,” you scold me and say: “You take every rogue for a guest.” As soon as you say that, I will take a knife and stab you into the lamb stomach that is under your arm. You should immediately drop down as if dead. When you fall, I will say: “Where are you, my whip, raising the dead and enriching the poor?” Then I will take the whip from the right wall and hit you with it. You must jump up immediately.
While they were thus negotiating, the deceived merchant arrived. Joker says:
- Uh, a guest has come to us! Come here, come here,” he sits him down at the table.
“Joker, you fooled me,” says the merchant.
- Really?
Having said this, he turned to his wife:
- After all, the guest has arrived, prepare a treat quickly! Wife:
- You take every rogue for a guest! A joker with the words: “Oh, you filthy woman!” – he stabbed his wife under the arm with a knife and ended up in a lamb’s stomach filled with blood.
The wife fell backwards, and blood hissed out of the lamb’s stomach. The merchant was frightened and completely dumbfounded.
“I killed my wife in rage,” the Joker says to the merchant. -Where is my whip that raises the dead and enriches the poor?
Saying this, he took the whip from the right wall and hit his wife with it three times. The wife immediately jumped to her feet. The merchant was more surprised than ever.
- Joker, and Joker, why do I need my goods? Better give me this whip. Then we will be even with you.
“I’m giving this whip only because you ask for it; I wouldn’t give it to anyone else,” the Joker conceded.
The merchant took the whip and went home. He comes home, and his guests are sitting. The merchant says to his wife:
- Prepare the treat quickly!
“There’s nothing ready now,” his wife answers.
- Oh, you filthy woman, you still shout at me! - the merchant shouted and killed his wife.
“Resurrecting the dead, enriching the poor, where are you?” - says the merchant, grabs a whip and begins to whip his wife with it.
Of course, don’t beat the dead thing, it still won’t rise. The guests, thinking that the merchant had gone crazy, reported this to the khan and the noyons. They ordered to hide the merchant in a pit prison. The joker deceived the merchant, and then with his skill and dexterity he defeated the rich and noyons. Since then he has lived happily ever after.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru