One day, King Akbar was talking with nine of his best courtiers. These were nine of the most talented and creative people in the kingdom. Akbar sometimes had quirks: he could suddenly do something like that... And, of course, you can’t ask the king: “Why?”
Suddenly Akbar hit the man standing nearby. It turned out to be Birbal, the smartest man at court. Birbal waited for a few seconds, probably wondering what to do, but something had to be done! And so he turned around and slapped the man standing next to him. It turned out to be one of the ministers.
Nice job! He was simply taken aback: “What’s going on? What kind of joke is this? Then, without thinking twice, he slapped the next one in the ear... They say that this slap went around the entire capital. And at night Akbar was suddenly hit by his own wife. He asked:
- What are you doing?
And she answered:
“I don’t know what’s going on, but this is happening all over the capital. Your elder wife hit me today. But she is older than me, so I could not answer her in the same way. And besides you, I have no one to hit.
“Wow,” Akbar said thoughtfully. “My own slap came back to me.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru