The last joke

The last joke

It was a light-hearted funeral. The sun also came out to see Henry off. He was lying in the coffin, perhaps secretly enjoying himself. People laughed and told interesting stories about Henry's life.

"Remember that time he dressed up as a gypsy and went door to door telling fortunes to people? He actually earned 6 pounds."

"He saw some workers digging on the road He first called the police station and said that many students were digging holes on the road. Then he told the workers that some students were pretending to be police officers to stop them from digging holes. You can imagine what happened next..."

"He went to visit an abstract art exhibition. On the first day of the exhibition, he sneaked into the exhibition hall and turned all the paintings upside down. No one discovered it until the fourth day of the exhibition."

"It's hard to believe that Henry is actually a member of the Grande family."

He was born into a wealthy and prominent family, the eldest of five brothers. end. Everyone in the Grande family has a successful career and an enviable marriage, but Henry does not. Everyone is wondering why Grande's youngest son has become a man who has nothing to do.

The coffin was being lowered into the grave, and everyone was still telling stories about Henry. People wiped their eyes with handkerchiefs, not sadness, but tears of laughter.

There was a sumptuous breakfast after the funeral, attended by 13 of Henry's closest relatives and friends. Henry had already decided that his brother Colin would read his will at the funeral breakfast.

Everyone expressed great curiosity about Henry's will. Didn’t Henry achieve nothing? What would he leave to others?

Colin opened the will and began to read it carefully: "I, Henry Grande, make a will..."

When hearing that although Henry Grande He spent his whole life doing nothing, but he also benefited from smart investments. When he left an inheritance of 750,000 pounds, everyone couldn't relax.

"I want you to have a little competition. Each of you takes turns telling the funniest joke. Whoever gets the most laughs will inherit my legacy. Colin is the funniest joke. The only arbiter of stories that make people laugh. ”

“So, ladies and gentlemen,” Colin said, placing the will on the table, “it’s your turn to speak.”

The first person stood up and told a joke about an Englishman falling in love with an umbrella. At the end, he himself was laughing constantly, but others were unusually silent. They suppressed their blushes and squinted their eyes tightly. It was obvious that they thought the joke was funny. But no one wants to laugh off their chances of winning the game.

The second person told the story of a three-legged table. The story was told so well that a few years later, a director made a cartoon based on the story. But others buried their faces in handkerchiefs, coughed, pretended to sneeze, or threw their pencils under the table, all in an effort to hide their laughter.

The jokes were told one after another, each one more brilliant than the last, and each one made people laugh so hard that they couldn’t stand upright, but no one laughed.

When the 12th joke was told, each of the 13 people sat quietly, trying their best to suppress the laughter that was about to erupt, just like suppressing the volcano that was about to erupt.

Suddenly, Colin sneezed, a big sneeze. "Ah sneeze!" Then, he took out a surprisingly big red handkerchief and blew his nose, "Ah sneeze!"

That's enough, someone couldn't control it anymore and laughed loudly come out. In an instant, everyone was bent over with laughter, crying with laughter, and their shoulders were shaking with bursts of volcanic eruption of laughter.

Of course, they were not laughing at the sneeze or the 12 jokes. They were laughing at themselves, and understood Henry Grand's last and funniest prank.

The laughter finally stopped.

Colin cleared his throat again: "Excuse me for using a little trick. I've been practicing that sneeze for nearly a month." He folded the surprisingly large red handkerchief and stuffed it into his pocket.

"Of course, this is Henry's idea." He didn't need to add anything else, because the 12 guests had already understood that they had fallen into the trap designed by Henry.

"Ah, may I read the second half of the will?"

"Friends," the last paragraph of the will read, "forgive me, but I cannot bear it. One last joke. I'm glad to know that your love of laughter has finally overcome your love of money."

Colin paused to let everyone understand the meaning of this sentence. He then went on to read the last part of Henry Grande's will:

"My friends, thank you for giving me one last smile. Speaking of that money, because I love every single one of you , so my property will be divided equally among you. But please don’t forget me whenever you hear laughter.”