The wife reproached Mushfiqi:
- All your days you sit at home, idle... Really, like all other men, you can’t find some profitable occupation for yourself?
Mushfiqi thought for a long time about these words of his wife and finally decided that the most suitable occupation for him was retail trade in pharmaceutical drugs.
In the middle of the market square he poured a pile of ashes and, wrapping pinches of it in paper, began to shout:
- I sell mouse poison!
The first buyer asked Mushfiqi how exactly this poison should be used.
Mushfiqi explained:
- Catch the mouse and, holding it by the tail, hit it hard on the ground; when you see that the mouse is not moving, pour this poison into its mouth and nose. She will die immediately!
“Strange!” the buyer was surprised. “If I catch a mouse, I can kill it without your poison!”
“It’s important to me that you buy the medicine, and then it’s up to you how you kill the mouse: in my way or in your own way!”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru