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Carefree Monastery

They lived in a monastery abbot yes three hundred monks. The monastery was a rich, a lot of revenue. And the monks live happily ever after. Drink, eat sweet sleep long, and there is no work.

Heard about carefree monastic habitation Tsar Peter the Great and thought: "How so? All our people and myself all in the works but in cares and relax once. Day or night, no rest, and then three hundred people live, live like a lord. Drink, eat sweet sleep long. No worries, no work do not know. Quite ozhireli on light bread. "

And the king sent a messenger at the monastery:

- Go on, tell the Abbot: de king ordered to count the stars in the sky and see whether the earth is deep, so let him abbot know what I think that I, the king, on his mind. Grant date for three days. On the fourth day the abbot to let him answer will come to me. If you do not obey, and all the monks of the Abbot'll have to work to share, and to close the monastery.

Abbot of the monastery received a carefree royal decree and zatuzhil, zapechalilsya:

- Oh, trouble came neminuchaya!

And he told the monks as it is. Monks head hung. I thought and thought, could not think of anything.

And at that time came to the monastery retired soldier and asked:

- What, old, grieving? Always lived without need, without sorrow, and now heads hung.

Monks answers:

- Oh, the soldiers do not know our great sorrow! He caused three riddles to guess, and three days to answer the Abbot to come to the palace.

- What are the king put forth a riddle? - Asks the soldier.

- It is necessary to count how many stars there is no heaven, know whether the earth is deep, and say that the king's mind, what he was thinking.

Listened to the soldiers and said:

- I knew I would like to keep the king word again, as would be in your place.

The monks ran to the Abbot:

- That soldier is taken riddles and guess the answer to the king.

Abbot asks the soldier:

- Bury, soldier, what you want, only benefits our grief and learn how to answer the king!

A soldier and said:

- I do not need anything. Come thy shalt, I instead of you going to the king.

Delighted abbot and the monks cheered:

- Well, thank God, that the trouble was over! As a chip on my shoulder off!

A soldier to treat:

- Drink, eat, anything your heart desires.

And do not forget yourself - so naugoschalis that the day after the rest up. And here is come to the king, and it's time to go. Soldiers dressed in the abbot's clothes and went to the palace.

Asked the king

- Well, you guessed my riddle?

- Guess Your Majesty.

- How many stars are recited in the sky? - Asks the king.

- Seven hundred forty-two thousand four hundred eighty-nine stars.

- Tell the truth?

- I, Majesty, counted correctly, and if you do not believe me, tell the self check.

The king smiled, and asked:

- Okay. And there is great depth of the earth?

- Deep Earth firmly high.

- What do you know?

- Why, my father went into the ground, will soon be thirty years ago to this day can not be undone - so firmly great depths of the earth.

- Well, now tell me - asks the king - what am I thinking? That I, the king, in mind?

- You, Majesty, thinking now: "Good Abbot - he was able to give me an answer!"

The king praised:

- Truth is yours! Fellow abbot, guessed my riddle!

A soldier says:

- That's where you went wrong and, Your Majesty.

- How so? - King frowned.

- Yes, that's this: you took me for a retired soldier abbot.

Surprised the king, began to ask questions and find out who he guessed the riddle. The soldier told the whole truth. The king laughed and told the soldier's award, and the Abbot yes monks ordered to work to send.