It was a long time ago. Once, the narrow-eyed Khan Olzoy, having nothing better to do, issued a decree: “Whoever manages to deceive me so that I believe, I will give him a full cup of gold.”
The shepherd Malaasgai learned about this decree, came to the narrow-eyed Khan Olzoy and said:
- Khan-father, my father had such a long pole that he could use it to mix the stars in the sky.
- Yes, this is nonsense. When my khan father lit his pipe in the yard, he lit it directly from the sun. That's how long his pipe was.
The shepherd Malaasgai heard this and silently left. The tailor Olyodoy heard about this decree, came to the narrow-eyed Khan Olzoy and said:
- Khan-father, yesterday thunder roared so loudly that it tore the seam of the sky - the Milky Way. I had to stitch these stitches until late in the evening.
- Yes, my tailor Olyodoy, you did a good job. But you sewed it up poorly, it rained recently this morning,” says Olzoy Khan, chuckling at Olyoodoy.
Tailor Olyodoy fell silent and also left silently.
The peasant Tarkhas, who was sowing millet at the top of the Taryaat ravine, heard about the decree. He rode up on a cart with an empty barrel. The narrow-eyed Khan Olzoy was very surprised by this and asked:
- Oh! Peasant Tarkhas, what kind of empty barrel did you bring with a roar?
“I came to collect my debts,” he answers.
-What kind of debt? When was this? When did I owe you? “I don’t remember about this,” says Khan.
“You forgot how you took this barrel filled with gold from me,” says Tarkhas.
- Don't lie.
- If I'm lying, give me a full cup of gold!
- No, you’re not lying, it’s true!
- If true, then give me a barrel of gold!
So the narrow-eyed Khan Olzoy lost a cup of gold that he treasured to the resourceful peasant Tarkhas.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru