There lived one beautiful, smart, kind and hardworking girl. When she turned eighteen, her parents married her away from her home.
And the husband turned out to be such a lazy person as the world has never seen. He was lazy even to eat. If his wife doesn't feed him, he'll be hungry all day.
All housework fell on the wife. She worked in the fields, and did laundry, and cooked dinner, and cleaned, and looked after the children, and chopped wood, and carried water. And my husband dozed in bed all day.
One day, my wife was planning to go with her children to visit her old mother. The husband stayed at home - he was too lazy to go on a visit.
The wife thought: “How to leave such a sloth alone at home, because he will die of hunger.”
And she came up with an idea: she baked a big, big flatbread, such that you wouldn’t be able to eat it for several days; She made a hole in the middle of the cake and put the cake around her lazy husband’s neck.
“All he has to do is move the cake around his neck and eat. That’s what he’ll do!” - thought the wife.
My wife left. And when she returned home a few days later, she found her husband in bed. Only the part of the cake that was near the mouth was eaten.
The wife was surprised that her lazy husband ate so little in just a few days. I came closer to him, but he was already barely alive, dying of hunger, but he didn’t want to move his hand or turn the flatbread. What a sloth!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru