Once upon a time, in a village which had two people they are brothers. While older brother lived in wealth the other lived in poverty but he didn’t care of his bother, he made friends with people who drank and played card everyday. Although he was very generous with friend but with his brother he didn’t. The younger bother also didn’t complain a word.
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His wife had advised him to avoid bad friends many times. She said: “While you have position they are pleasant to throw their arms over your shoulder but when you fall you will not see one of them around you.”
“You are wrong. My friends are good people.”, he said.
His wife knew she could not gave him a words-advice so she planed to give him another kind of advice.
One day, he was out. She stayed at home killed a big dog then she wrapped it and tied carefully that it was very hard to unwrapped. She set it at corner of front yard. Afternoon, he came back she pretended that she was frightened. She said in interrupted tone:
“Today, when you go out a child-beggar came. I did not yet give him he had shouted loudly. I was made angry so I shot him a hit by a rod. Unfortunately, i shot him at exact deadly spot so he died. I had to wrapped him and set in yard. Now, you can find anybody who you can trust to help. We have to bury him without others’s noticing.”
His face was white after hearing each word she talked. But he took his calm again because he thought his friends would helped him. He sprinted to find them but when he finished his story each them expressed fear with white face. They scared and course they denied. At last he had to came back without help.
His wife asked him immediately: “Why don’t you asked your brother?”
He sprinted to find his brother.
The younger brother came immediately. When he knew whole story he talked them to do immediately and gave a hand to bury.
After all things done.
“Did you see your friends’ heart and your brother’s heart. If we don’t have your bother how could it done.”, she said.
He changed that he treated his brother better and treated the friends colder. But he had never thought that the friends betrayed. They threatened that he had to give them money or they would report to judge. He felt threatened and nearly took money to give them but his wife stopped him from doing; she said his friends that they could do anything the wanted, she and his husband would not give them money.
Therefore, the friends reported to judge the they were caught. In court the wife said the judge whole story that she had killed a dog to advise her husband.
The judge ordered soldier to come and dig. As she said they found a dead dog. The judge let them go home immediately and ordered soldiers beaten the bad friends.
This is a valuable lesson.
THE END
"Translated by Hung Nguyen"
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