A priest lived by the main road.
At noon, passing soldiers came to the priest for lunch. For lunch, the soldiers gave the priest five gold rubles, and they went further along the high road. When the priest began to buy goods in the store, he looked in his wallet and couldn’t believe his eyes: in the wallet there were only slices of carrots.
The priest chased the soldiers. He caught up with them and said:
- Why did you deceive me, you only gave me slices of carrots!
“It’s not carrots, look, it’s gold coins,” the soldiers tell him.
The priest looked in his wallet and it was indeed gold. Pop went to buy goods again. He takes the goods, looks in his wallet - and again there are only slices of carrots. The priest chased after the soldiers again, now in threes.
He caught up with the soldier and said again:
- Why did you deceive me? You only gave me slices of carrots!
“No,” the soldiers tell him, “look carefully, it’s not carrots, but gold!”
The priest looked into the wallet and couldn’t believe his eyes, it was really gold. The priest turned and drove back home. He starts buying goods, looks in his wallet, there is not money there, but again carrots.
So the priest was deceived three times. Now the priest writes a complaint to the king.
The day of judgment has arrived. The priest and one soldier were invited to the trial. They compare the money, the brand and those given by the soldiers with the brand, everything fits.
The judge ruled:
“The soldiers did the right thing, they are not to blame. And you, priest, are completely stupid. Your hair is long, but your mind is short. Therefore, the court decides to cut your long hair.
So the priest was left without hair.
After the trial, the king asks the soldier:
- Is it true that you were showing your butt a trick?
“Yes,” says the soldier. “I didn’t give him gold, but slices of carrots.”
“If so, then show me your trick,” says the king.
“If you don’t kill me, I’ll show you,” says the soldier.
“No, I won’t order you to kill,” the king says to the soldier.
The soldier left the palace. At the same time, water rushed inside the door. The king was greatly surprised, his eyes widened.
“Let’s go up to the second floor,” says the soldier.
“Wait, I’ll get up too, otherwise I might drown,” the king shouted.
As soon as the king managed to get up, there was water on the second floor. We went up to the third floor. Lo and behold, there is water here too. Where to next? Now they have climbed onto the roof.
Frightened by the water, the king hugged the pipe and sat astride it.
They see a boat floating. They got into the boat and let's sail towards dry land. They swim to the ground, where they see a large village.
The king was very hungry. What is there?
- Let's hire ourselves as shepherds, otherwise we have nothing to eat. “I will be a contractor, and you will be a helper,” the soldier told him.
They tended the herd all summer and were well fed. Graze until autumn. They collected money from the people for herding the flock. They began to live like the rest of the people. The soldier was made a foreman, and the king a foreman. And the next year the soldier was appointed volost, the tsar - rural. But at this time the king made a big waste. The policeman arrived and the tsar was convicted and decided to be sent to Siberia. Before the trial, the police officer hit the king in the face.
Then the king woke up. He is the king again.
This whole story happened while the samovar was boiling. And before the second samovar boiled, the tsar was gone: he was overthrown.
Fairy tale - away, the king - under my heel.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru