An old man and an old woman live. They have eight deer. No one lives near them. The old man is completely blind, and the old woman has good eyes. The old woman killed one deer. The old man did not know that the old woman had killed the deer; the old woman did not tell him. The old woman dried the meat and cut it into small pieces. She cut it and put it in her bag. The old woman does not allow the old man to eat meat. When going to pick berries, the old woman took the meat with her and ate it alone in the forest. The old woman spent a long time in the forest, and the old man sat all
hungry day, not going anywhere. One day, when the old woman went to pick berries, the old man began to crawl inside the yurt, hoping to find something to eat. And just like that, crawling, he crawled into the old woman’s utility corner. In this corner I found a bag, and the bag was full of meat. The old man untied the old woman's bag and ate. After eating, he climbed inside the old woman’s bag. He climbed in and covered himself with meat. When it got dark, the old woman came. I crept up to my yurt and looked inside. The old man is gone. The old woman said:
- Darlings, is my old man lost? The old woman dragged her bag wherever her eyes looked.
He can barely drag it, he’s exhausted from the weight, they don’t know that he’s dragging a bag with an old man in it. And just like that, when the old woman was walking, she found a backwater. I began to walk around this backwater along the shore, and jumped in a narrow place. When the old woman jumped over, exhausted from the weight, the old man laughed.
Then the old woman said:
- Darlings! The old man has already begun to seem strange to me. The old man laughed even harder. Only then
The old woman guessed that the old man was laughing inside the bag. The old woman quickly untied the bag, and inside her bag, as if nothing had happened, the old man was eating meat.
After this, the old man and the old woman began to fight. And so, when they were fighting, they fell into the backwater and almost drowned. We barely made it out.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru