Once upon a time there lived a husband and wife. When they were young, they lived for everyone to enjoy, but in their old age, it was as if someone had replaced them. As soon as the old man lowered his feet from the stove in the morning, a squabble began between him and the old woman. He tells the old woman, and she is two to him, he is two to her, and she is five to him, he is five, and she is ten. And such a whirlwind will curl between them, even if they run away from their hut.
And they will start to figure it out - there is no one to blame.
- Why would we have this, old woman, huh? - the old man will say.
- Yes, that's all you are, old man, that's all you are!..
- Yes, that’s enough! Am I? Isn't it you? With a long tongue!..
- Not me, but you!
- You, not me!
And again it’s great: again a quarrel started between them. Just once the neighbor listened to them and said:
- Maremyanushka, what is it that you and your old man are all at odds with? You should go to the edge of the village to see the little lady. The bastard whispers to some water... It helps people, maybe it will help you too.
“And really,” thought the old woman, “I’ll go to the mare...”
She came to the little girl and knocked on the window. She came out.
“What,” asks, “old lady, do you need?”
“Well,” the grandmother answers, “we’re having trouble with the old man.”
“Wait,” says the mare, “a little.”
And into the house herself.
The old woman brought out water in a wooden ladle and whispered to the water in front of her. Then she poured it into a glass container, handed it over and said:
“As soon as you come home and the old man makes noise in your place, you take a sip of water; don’t spit, don’t swallow, but keep it in your mouth until it calms down... Everything will be fine!
The old woman bowed to the mare, took a vessel with water - and went home. And as soon as she raised her foot over the threshold, the old man attacked her:
- Oh, these chirping women! The way they go, it’s as if they’re going to fail! It's time to install the samovar a long time ago, but you forgot to think! And where did you go?..
The old woman took a sip from the glass bowl, but did not spit, did not swallow, but, as the mare ordered, she kept it in her mouth.
But the old man saw that she was not answering and fell silent himself. The old woman rejoiced: “And indeed, it seems that this water has healing properties!”
She put a vessel with water, and she stood behind the samovar and started rattling the pipe.
The old man heard this:
- What a mess! Apparently the hands are stuck in the wrong end!
And the old woman wanted to answer him, but she remembered the mare’s order - and again for some water! She takes a sip and holds it in her mouth.
The old man saw that the old woman did not say a word to him, he was amazed and... fell silent.
And from that time on, everything went as planned between them: again, as in their youth, people began to live as a feast for the eyes. Therefore, as soon as the old man begins to make noise, the old woman will now - for the slanderous water!
Here it is, what strength it has!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru