Misers who spend their whole lives hoarding wealth end up dying on their money.
One owner was very rich and stingy. He took a lot from everyone, but he didn’t want to pay others. He kept the money in the basement and every day he went down there to sit near his gold. He began to fear that thieves might break into the basement lock and steal the money. He went to the blacksmith and ordered him to forge a lock that doesn’t even need to be locked, it locks itself. So the blacksmith made the lock as ordered, and also strictly ordered the owner not to forget to remove the Lock every time he entered the basement, otherwise he himself would remain locked up. But. One day the owner forgot about the order. I went into the basement but didn’t remove the lock. The lock latched, and the owner had to die on his money.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru