Afandi brought five pounds of meat and lard from the market, gave them to his wife and asked them to prepare a rich, rich soup for the evening.
As soon as Afandi left, the wife called her friends and prepared a treat for them from the meat that her husband had brought. In the evening Afandi returned. Without lighting a fire under the cauldron, the wife sat down by the hearth.
Afandi asked:
- What does all this mean? The wife replied:
“I went to the stream for water, and the cat stole the meat and lard, ate it all at once and ran away.
Afandi quickly began to look for the cat, caught it in the corner of the yard, put it on the scales, weighed it and saw that it weighed exactly five pounds.
- Oh, stupid liar! In this skin I find on the scales all five pounds of meat and lard I brought! Where's the cat?
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru