Once upon a time there lived a girl of incomparable beauty, but she had neither a husband nor a groom. The fact is that a sage lived next to her, and he said: “Whoever decides to kiss the beauty will die!” Everyone knew that the sage was never wrong, so hundreds of brave horsemen looked at the girl from afar, not daring to even approach her. And suddenly one day a young man appeared who, at first sight, like everyone else, fell in love with the beauty. But he instantly climbed over the fence, came up and kissed the girl.
- Ah! - the horsemen cried out. - Now he will die! But the young man kissed the girl again, and again. And she immediately agreed to marry him. - But how can that be?! - the other horsemen exclaimed. “You, sage, predicted that whoever kissed the beauty would die?!” “So it will be,” answered the sage. “But I never said it would happen right away.” He will die someday later, when after many years of a happy life his time comes.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru