The story of three brothers

Once upon a time, there was a man who had three sons. All his property is three hundred rials, and he hides under the bathroom floor. Once sick, he thought: I have three sons and three wives, all of whom are my heirs, but the money is too small. I want to tell each of them separately that the money is for him, but they can't know the details of the matter. He said to his wife, "I'm going to die soon." I only have three hundred rials, and the heirs are you and three sons. But they can't take money now. They must first go to Sultan Muric and get back the property he gave them. Only when they come back can they inherit my legacy. " He called his eldest son and said to him, "Son, I feel that I am not far from death. I want you to know that I hid 300 rials in the bathroom. This is your legacy. Don't tell your brother. However, you have to go to Sultan Muric and get the property he gave you before you can come back and get the money. " Then he called his second son and told him the same thing as his eldest son. Finally, call the youngest son and repeat the above words. In this way, every son has an illusion that his father loves him more than other sons, and the inheritance is only given to him. Father died and his sons buried him. After the funeral, the eldest son came to the bathroom at night and dug up the money his father said and took it away. The second son also came to dig for money, but found nothing. "Dad lied to me," he thought, and went home. The youngest son came to dig for money and found nothing. "Did my father lie to me?" He thought, "No, the money must be here, but who took it." He also went back to sleep. In the morning, he said to his two brothers, "Father said there were three hundred riels hidden in the bathroom. I went to see it, but I found nothing. " "Me too." The second brother said this. "Me too." That's what big brother said. "But my father said," the third brother continued, "that we can't get money until we get a reward from Sultan Muric. The person who got the money didn't do well. He went against his father's wishes. " The two brothers made an appointment to meet Sultan Muric. They set off with corn bread and water.

First brother goes, second brother goes, and third brother comes last. Big brother saw footprints all the way and said, "This is the footprint of an animal. This animal is a camel." "This camel is carrying iron bars," the second brother pointed out. The third brother said, "It came here an hour ago." They walked on and met a man. "Didn't you see an animal?" "Is this animal a camel?" My brother asked. "yes." "Is it carrying an iron bar?" The second brother asked. "yes." "Did it pass here an hour ago?" The younger brother asked. "Yes," they continued. They saw footprints under a tree by the roadside again. "Someone has sat here." Big brother said. "This man is a woman." Second brother said. "She is carrying a child on her back." The younger brother said. They didn't go far before they met a passerby. "Don't you see anyone here?" He asked. "Is this person a woman?" Big brother asked. "Yes, sir." "Is she wearing a gold bracelet?" The second brother asked. "Ah, yes, sir." "She is carrying a child, isn't she?" The younger brother asked. "Yes, sir." "We just left where she was sitting." Brothers say that finish and continue on their way. On the way, they saw a headless man who was killed.

"This man was killed. He is a man. " Big brother said. "He has a long beard." Second brother said. "This man is an old man, between 70 and 80 years old." The younger brother said. They walked on and met the dead man's son. "Don't you see anyone?" "Is he a man?" Big brother asked. "yes." "He has a long beard, doesn't he?" Second brother said. "yes." "He is very old. Are you seventy or eighty years old? " Brother is back. "yes." "That's where we saw him." The son walked not far before he saw his murdered father. "They killed it." He thought. Then the two brothers came to the home of Sultan Muric. The Sultan happily received them, gave them a house to live in and told them to treat their guests well. He asked the foreman of the plantation to cook rice and mutton for dinner. But when the food was served, Big Brother said, "There is something wrong with the rice." "There is also a problem with the next meal." Second brother said. The younger brother added, "Even the Sultan himself has problems." The slaves heard the brothers talking and ran to tell the Sudan.

"Call them." He said. When the brothers came, the Sudan said to them, "I invited you to come, but you still scolded me." "How can we scold you?" Brothers said. Before Sudan could answer, the owner of the camel they met on the road came. He came to Sudan and accused the young people of stealing his camel. Sudan asked their brothers, "Why did you steal camels?" "Did we steal it? Sudan? " The brothers were surprised. "Did he see us with camels?" The owner of the camel replied, "They told me all the characteristics of the camel. If they didn't see the camel, would they be so right? " "You didn't see the camel, how do you know its characteristics?" Asked the sultan. The eldest brother said, "You can tell it's a camel by the footprints." The second child said, "I know it carries an iron bar because its hoof has left a deep mark." It must be carrying heavy cargo. What is heavier than an iron bar? " The younger brother said, "I know it passed an hour ago because its footprints were trampled by people walking behind it." We met these people, but we didn't see the camels. " The Sudan said to the owner of the camel, "They didn't steal your camel. Find it yourself. " Before the man left, another man accused the young man of kidnapping his wife.

"Why are you doing this?" The Sudan asked the three brothers. "No, we didn't kidnap his wife." Cried the two brothers together. "If you didn't kidnap her, how do you know her situation so well?" The eldest brother said, "I asked him, are you looking for a woman?" Is this a turn, sir? The second child said, "I know this man is a woman because I saw a gold bracelet under the tree where she was sitting, but I didn't touch it." "My brother said," I know she has a child on her back, because women don't leave their bracelets. "She must have given the bracelet to the child to play with. The bracelet slipped from the child's hand, and my mother didn't know." "They are right." The Sultan said, "They haven't seen your wife. Go! " Then, the man whose father was killed came and said, "They killed my father." "Why are you doing this?" The sultan asked the young man. "No, sir, we didn't kill him." "Then where did you know what he looked like?" The man asked. The eldest brother said, "This man lives next to us. Asked if we met anyone, I asked him, is it a man? He said yes. Is this murder, my Lord? " The second child replied, "I know he has a beard, because I saw some long hair on his chest, so I know he has enough beard."

The younger brother said, "I know he is seventy or eighty years old, but according to his blood, his blood is very pale and contains a lot of water." This kind of blood, I know, usually belongs to the elderly. ""They are right, "said the Sultan." They didn't kill your father. Go home! "The Sultan was surprised by his brothers' clever answers. Now he wants to know what "problem" means. "Tell me, why do you say: there is a problem with rice, there is a problem with goat meat, and there is a problem with me?" The eldest brother replied, "there is something wrong with rice because it is long and thick." I know this kind of rice grows in the cemetery because the soil there is very fertile. Is there any problem with the rice in the cemetery? " The second brother said, "There is something wrong with goat mutton because it is too fat. I know this goat is not raised by a female goat. " The younger brother said, "I know from your appearance that there is something wrong with Sudan." Sudan is very angry. He called the foreman of the plantation and asked him about the rice. "Yes, sir, rice does grow in cemeteries." He replied. "Where is the goat?" "Yes, sir, when she was very young, the goat died. It was fed by the donkey. " "They are right." Sudan believes that. Then he called his mother and asked her to tell him the whole truth about his life. Her mother said to him, "Yes, my son, you are not the son of the late Sultan. You are the son of my first husband, a Bedouin. " "The wisdom of these young people is unparalleled." Sultan thinks he generously gave them a lot of money and gave them three good horses to go home. But the Sudan was afraid that they would tell people that he was not the son of the late Sudan, so he decided to kill them, but he could not let anyone know. When the brothers were ready to leave, he dressed them in three red clothes and told his three sons to wear white clothes. "Go and see the guests off." The sultan said to his sons. After they left, he called the soldiers and ordered them to follow and kill three young people in red. However, the three brothers have guessed the intention of the Sudan. They said to the three princes: "Red is a symbol of Sudan's strength, and we are not qualified to wear it;" White is a symbol of sadness, so it is suitable for us to wear it, because our father died not long ago. Let's exchange. "They exchanged clothes. The prince is dressed in red, and the brother is dressed in white. But the soldiers were ordered to kill three young people in red. They did so, killing three princes in Sudan and three brothers riding home. When the three brothers came home, their mother greeted them happily. Eldest brother took out the 300 taels of silver he had taken privately and gave it to his mother, asking her and her brothers to forgive him. In this way, the two brothers completed their father's will. They first received a bounty from Sultan Muric, and then returned to China to inherit their father's legacy.