The daughter of one khan had a goose with a goose and four goslings. Once there was a fire, and the golden palace where the khan’s daughter lived burned down. During the fire, the goose flew away, and the goose, protecting the children, burned. The khan's daughter found out about this and told her father that she would never marry.
Another khan lived in the neighboring village. He had a vizier, to whom he trusted all his secrets and gave the most important assignments. One day this khan had a dream that he fell in love with the khan’s daughter and held her in his arms. But the dream was unexpectedly interrupted: the vizier entered and woke him up. The Khan grabbed a saber and wanted to cut off the vizier's head. But the vizier quickly ran away. When the khan came to his senses somewhat, the vizier came in to greet him. Khan received him, but not as kindly as before. Then the vizier said to the khan:
“You yourself allowed me to come to you at any time.” I came to you on an important matter, and you are angry with me without any reason.
Khan said to him:
“I will not tell you the reason for my anger, because you will not be able to do anything that could extinguish the anger.”
“Tell me, takhsir,” said the vizier. “If I don’t fulfill your wish, you will cut off my head.”
Khan told him the dream.
– Do you remember the girl’s face? - asked the vizier.
“I remember,” said the khan.
“I promise to find her, just gather all the artists and craftsmen for me,” said the vizier.
When the artists and artisans gathered, the vizier described the girl’s appearance to them. Artists painted her portrait. Then the vizier ordered to surround the aul with a wall, build two gates - on one side of the aul and on the other, erect pillars and attach a portrait of the khan's daughter to the pillars. The guards were given an order: whoever approaches the pillars and laughs while looking at the image is to be seized and taken to the khan.
One day a passer-by approached the portrait. He looked at the portrait and was surprised:
- ABOUT! Where is this from?
The guards grabbed him and brought him to the vizier. He kindly greeted the traveler, treated him and asked:
- “Where from?” Why did you say these words when you saw the image of the girl?
He said:
– This image looks like the daughter of our khan. So I was very surprised: why is it here?!
The vizier asked if the girl had a husband. The man replied that she had given her word never to marry.
- Why? – asked the vizier.
“She had two geese,” said a passerby. – During the fire of the golden palace, the goose flew away, and the goose, saving her children, burned. The Khan's daughter thought that a man is never a woman's friend.
After listening to the story, the vizier went to the khan and told him what he had heard from a passerby. Then he returned to the passerby and promised him a big gift if he would take him to his village and show him where the girl lived. The vizier took the artists and artisans with him. When they arrived, the man said:
– We need to wait for the Khan’s daughter. Soon she will go out with forty friends for a walk, then you can meet her.
The vizier said:
- Go now to the khan’s daughter and tell her that you were in such and such an aul, recruited many artisans and skilled workers there and returned. And if anyone needs to do something, they will do everything skillfully.
The man did as the vizier told him. He told the khan’s daughter that he had been to one village and brought from there many artisans and skilled workers who could do everything.
The girl ordered to place them in her palace - she would give them a task. The artisans settled in the palace of the khan's daughter. The vizier also came with them. He asked the girl what to do and asked her to write everything down on a piece of paper. When the artisans finish their work, they will call her. The girl wrote everything down and left.
The vizier's people built a canal, drew a palace, made an image of two saigas and an image of the khan. They also wrote four saigas. These saiga babies drowned in the river, the saiga father rushed after them and also drowned. But the mother remained. When everything was ready, they invited the girl - the khan's daughter. She came, saw the portrait of the khan, and asked:
– What kind of image is this? The vizier replied:
– This is an image of our khan!
– Why did you portray him? – she asked. – Should we look at your khan every day? Then she saw the saigas and also asked:
- Why are they here? The vizier said to her:
– Our khan had two saigas. Their children began to drown in the canal, and the male, saving his children, also drowned. The female ran away.
Then the girl remarked:
– Your khan is suitable for me! The vizier asked:
- Why do you say that?
And she told him what happened to the geese in her palace during the fire.
“So,” she said, “I was wrong to think that only a woman thinks about children.”
“Our khan,” said the vizier, “also thought that only men think about children, and decided not to marry.”
Then the girl went to her father and said that she wanted to marry this khan, and showed him his portrait and images of animals.
The father agreed. We arranged a wedding. There was a forty-day celebration on this occasion. The vizier gave that passerby expensive gifts.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru