One day the Sultan heard that a poor man had a beautiful wife. He immediately went and took her for himself.
When the poor man returned, his wife was not at home, and the neighbors said that the Sultan had taken her. The poor man wondered: what to do now? And I decided: “I’ll take a drum and start beating it, and when people ask what’s the matter, I’ll shout: war! war is coming!”
So he did.
And then rumors about the war reached the Sultan’s close associates. They ran and told him:
- War is coming!
The Sultan got scared and ran away, forgetting to even take the poor man's wife with him.
And the beauty returned to her husband and told him:
- The Sultan is a very bad person! All rich people are greedy. If they see that there is no one to intercede for a poor person, they take from him everything they want.
That's it!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru