There lived an old man with three sons. One day an old man fell ill and went to bed. The children treated their father poorly. The older brothers were brave and clever; The younger one was not like that. Everyone considered him a spoiled man.
Before his death, the father turned to his sons and ordered them to change their camp and migrate to a new place. Then he ordered them to walk through the taiga for three days, and on the third day to visit him.
The younger brother comes and sees that his father’s yurt is made of straw. He entered the house, and his father was sitting on the roof.
The father began to ask:
- Who are you? - I am Ivan.
- Why didn’t your older brother come?
- He's afraid of you.
“Next time let your older brother come.” The older brother beat the younger one and sent him to his father. He comes to his father, and he says:
“The day after tomorrow you will go into the thicket and shout: “Where is my golden horse saddled?” When the horse comes to you, catch it and throw off your clothes. The horse will bring a lot of clothes, you put them on. In these clothes, mount your horse and ride to the white king.
That's what the younger brother did. A horse has appeared. Only a beautiful girl was sitting on that golden horse, that girl hit the guy on the forehead and disappeared.
The younger brother is riding through the taiga, covering his forehead with his hat. Returned home, the brothers began to talk to each other:
- Tomorrow we will go to a holiday with the white king, the king will choose a groom for his daughter. The younger brother tells them:
- And I will go with you. The elder answered him:
- What are you going to do? I'm ashamed of you. No one will even look at you. You're snotty. They will laugh. He began to cry:
- I'll go...
- No! - the brothers answered.
They rode off on horseback, dressed up, but did not take the youngest. He was dirty and snotty.
They arrived for a feast. There are a lot of people. And the brother trails behind them. He came and stood far away from them.
The daughter of the white king walks around and looks for a groom among all the young men. He walks and looks. She looked at everyone and said:
“Bring that distant boy over there to have a look.” As they brought him in, she looked at him, raised her hat and recognized his wounded head. She grabbed and took that young man to her house. She washed him in the bathhouse and dressed him in flowery clothes. His brothers began to cry, saying:
- Why does she become the wife of a snotty man? All the people left, and the brothers also left. The white king began to say:
- Son-in-law, find me a golden horse with a saddle, a whip and a hammer.
Son-in-law said:
- I'll find it.
Father of the bride says:
“If you don’t find it, you can’t live with my daughter.” He said:
- I’ll find it!
He went into the thicket of the forest and began to call his horse. The golden horse came running. The boy brought a golden horse to the white king.
“Now,” says the father of the bride, “find me a boar.”
“I’ll find it,” he says.
Brought a boar.
Then the white king began to say:
- Get on the horse and hit him with a hammer. He drives, hits, the meat flies off. He beat and beat until the horse died, and the white king began to scold him for this:
“I’ll put you in a hot bathhouse.” If you come out alive, you will live with us.
The guy came out healthy.
No matter how hard the white king fought, he could not defeat him; His daughter’s husband carried out every order.
The king bowed to his son-in-law. Gave him a home, a good one. He began to live with his wife and make good money. And he always helped his older brothers.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru