Nasreddin carried his donkey, loaded with baskets of straw, across the border every day. Since everyone knew that he was a smuggler, border guards searched him from head to toe every time he crossed the border. They searched Nasreddin himself, examined the straw, immersed it in water, and from time to time even burned it, and Nasreddin himself lived better and better.
In the end, he retired from business and moved to live in another country. Many years later he was met by one of the customs officers. He said:
“Now you have nothing to hide, Nasreddin.” Tell me what you were smuggling across the border when we couldn't catch you?
“Donkey,” Nasreddin answered.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru