Once upon a time there lived a beautiful white mouse, very beautiful. His skin was unusually white, and his manners were truly regal.
The time has come for the mouse to get married, and the parents decided that such a handsome man should have an extraordinary wife. Perhaps only in the family of God can one find a bride worthy of a beautiful white mouse. Who doesn’t know that there is no one more powerful than God in the world?!
According to custom, three elders of the mouse tribe were chosen - let them go to God and ask him for a wife for a beautiful white mouse.
The elders approached the house of God and stopped in indecision.
- Why are you standing at the door? - God asked them and invited them to enter.
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful white mouse, very beautiful.
They entered the house and said:
— We were sent by the family of a beautiful white mouse. There is no one more beautiful than him in the world, and we are looking for a worthy bride for him. We think that only in your family, great and strong, can we find a wife for him.
God was silent for a while and smiled at the elders:
- Well thought out. Such a mouse really should have a worthy wife. But, alas, you are in the wrong house. There is a stronger family than ours. The wind family, for example.
“Aren’t you stronger than the wind?” - the elders were surprised.
- It only seems so. The wind is more powerful than me. As soon as he blows it harder, such dust rises that it gets into my eyes and blinds me. Of course the wind is stronger than me.
The envoys consulted among themselves and decided that, perhaps, the wind family was worthy of their beautiful white mouse.
-Where does the wind live? - they asked.
God smiled and showed them the way. The elders approached the house of the wind and stopped in indecision.
- Why are you standing at the door? - the wind asked them and invited them to enter.
Then they entered and said: “We are looking for a wife for the most beautiful of the mice.” We were in the house of God, but he said that you, the wind, are stronger than him. That's why we came here. Is there a suitable bride for us in your family?
“Thank you,” the wind bowed. “But the fact is that my family is not at all the most powerful.” Yes, I can do a lot, but I can’t do anything about the mountain. No matter how much I blow, the mountain remains motionless. She is, of course, stronger than me.
-Where does the mountain live? - asked the elders. The wind told them how to find the house of the mountain. The elders thanked him and set off on their way.
They came to the mountain, and she asked them:
- Why are you standing at the door? The elders entered the house, and the mountain greeted them according to custom:
- How are you doing? What's the news? How are your livestock? How are your children?
The elders politely answered the mountain, and then told about a beautiful white mouse for whom they were looking for a bride.
- Of course, of course! Such a lovely creature should have a worthy wife! - exclaimed the mountain.
“But you won’t find her in my family.” There is a being stronger than me. Day and night it undermines my power and even destroys me little by little. I think this family is the most powerful in the world.
- Who is this? - said the elders. - How can we find him?
The mountain showed them the house, and the elders headed there.
- Why are you standing at the door? - asked the mouse and invited him to enter.
The elders explained why they came. The mouse listened to them politely and said:
- In our family you will definitely find a bride for a beautiful white mouse. How good it is that we will become related!
So the beautiful white mouse found himself a worthy wife - a mouse.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru