Cunning Peter is good for everyone - he is smart, dexterous, and handsome. Only he doesn’t have a wife. Cunning Peter decided to get married. But where can you find a wife to match yourself - both beautiful and hard-working?
Cunning Peter thought and thought and came up with this. In his garden there grew a plum tree with unprecedented plums - either the size of a big apple or the size of a small fist. The daredevil collected a cart full of plums and rolled it out to the market square on market day.
- Hey, here, young ladies! Come, pretty girls! Plums! Plums! I sell plums without money!
People came running: how do they trade without money? And Cunning Peter explains:
- Take the plums, housewives, and I won’t take a single hundred from you. I just sell plums for garbage - as much garbage as there is plums.
The people became alarmed and ran home. The housewives raised a cloud of dust - they collected garbage in baskets and bags, sent their daughters to the square.
Now the square is filling up: one is carrying garbage from the house in buckets, another is dragging a basket behind her, the third is groaning and rolling a cart with garbage in front of her. Of course, some carried it in a basket - not everyone had enough trash at home. But there was enough drain for everyone, Cunning Peter only had time to weigh and joke:
- What kind of trash you have, girl, choice and large!
All! We've run out of plums. The people began to disperse, and Peter stood there saddened for some reason - he realized that his idea had failed. Suddenly he sees a girl walking across the square, carrying something in a handkerchief and bursting into tears.
- Who is this? - asks Peter.
“And this is orphan Daniela,” the other housewives answer him with a grin, “she, poor thing, never has her own garbage, she borrowed a handful from her neighbor.” Apparently, she won’t be able to eat enough plums...
“Hey, Daniela,” Cunning Peter shouted here,
- will you marry me?
Daniela wiped away her tears, and everyone saw how her beautiful face was shining.
Here they celebrated the wedding, and they began to live and live well. Cunning Peter, of course, did not give up his jokes - it’s not for nothing that all of Bulgaria tells stories about him - but he stopped offending people with his pranks. They say it's from Daniel's plum jam. It's too sweet and delicious.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru