📒 Two sons of the king

Once two sons of a king went out in search of adventure. But he did not return home because he fell into bad company and indulged in bad entertainment. They called the younger brother Gobuchandra! He looks for his older brothers. When he met his brothers, they made fun of him. He said, nothing will happen with Hadagangaram like him. He said, clever people like them who could not do anything in the world will not care about people like him.

Anyway, going together they reached an ant hill. The elder brothers said that they would be very amused to break the mound and see the ants running around with their eggs in their mouths. But their foolish younger brother said, “Ah, why destroy the poor ants? I will not let the mound be broken.”

They went a little further and reached a lake. Many ducks were swimming there. The elder brothers said that they will eat two ducks from there. But their foolish younger brother said, “Oh, don't kill the poor people. I will not let them kill."

Going further, they saw a beehive full of honey in a tree. Honey was dripping from the dew of the tree. The elder brothers said that they would light a fire under the tree and drive away the bees with smoke and take honey. But their foolish younger brother said, “Ah, poor thing; Why will the bees perish? I will not let them burn."

At last the three brothers reached a fort. The horses in the stable were turned to stone But no one was seen by the people. After going through all the houses they reached a door. It had three hooks. Peering through the small hole in the middle of the door, they saw sitting in front of a table in the room: a small man. Her hair is ripe. They called him a couple of times. But he didn't seem to hear them. After the third call the man got up and opened the door and came to them. Without a word he led them to a table full of food. After eating and drinking, he took them to three different bedrooms.

The next morning the little old man came and took his elder brother by the hand and led him to a stone table. There were written about three tasks to remove the m

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agic of the castle! The first task is; To find the thousand pearls that the princess planted in the swamp in the middle of the forest. If the searcher does not find all the pearls before dusk, he will turn to stone. All day the elder brother looked for the pearls—but by evening he had found no more than a hundred. So according to the writing of the table he became a stone. The next day, Mezovai went in search of the pearl. But like his elder brother, he could not find all the pearls. He got only two hundred. So he became a stone.

Finally, it was the turn of the foolish younger brother to find the pearl. He began to search for pearls in the marshes. But finding it impossible to do the work, he sat on a stone and began to cry. At that time the king of the ants appeared with five thousand subjects, whose lives he saved. In a moment, the tiny bugs found all the pearls and put them in one place.

The second task is: retrieve the key to the princess's bedroom from the bottom of the lake. As the younger brother approached the water, the ducks he had saved swam away. And after that they dived into the water and brought out the key.

But the third task was the most difficult. It is this: pointing out by hand the youngest and most beautiful of the three princesses who are sleeping. All three princesses look exactly alike. The only difference between them is that before going to sleep, the elder princess ate a piece of candy, the mezzo ate a choke syrup and the younger one ate a spoonful of honey.

But the queen bee came to help the younger brother, whom she saved from the fire. The queen bee flew over the faces of the three princesses. Then he landed on the lips of the princess who had eaten the honey. The younger brother immediately showed him.

The castle became free of magic. Immediately everyone there woke up to their magic. Those who had turned to stone regained human bodies. The younger brother whom everyone called a fool married the most beautiful little princess and became the king after her father's death. His elder two brothers married the other two princesses.