Once lived two friends. But these were, indeed, friends. They did everything for each other. One of the friends was very naive, with a pure heart, in short a kind soul. The other was very cunning, also a kind soul, but he understood much better in life than his friend.
Somehow it turned out that the cunning got into trouble, became bankrupt. He comes to his naive friend and asks him for help and money, respectively.
The naive gives him everything that he has. Then, after a while, the naive begins to date the girl and is about to get married. Sly comes to him and says:
- I really like your bride, give her to me.
The naive thinks for a long time, but gives his friend to his bride. And remains naive without a bride.
After a while, the naive is left without work. He comes to the factory to his friend and asks for his work. And he, in turn, refuses to give him work. The naive is very upset by the situation, he did not expect this from his closest friend. Offended, he leaves him. After that, friends stop communicating.
One day, while walking in a park, a sick-looking old man comes up to the naive and asks him for money for medicine and a doctor. The naive takes him to the hospital, helps him with what he can. But, despite his help, the old man dies. And then it turns out that the old man is very rich and left him his entire fortune.
A naive friend buys a mansion opposite the factory of his former friend. On the one hand, he wonders how his friend is doing, and on the other, he has a grudge in his soul.
After some time, someone knocks on the door to the naive. Having opened, he sees on the threshold an adult woman who asks him for some food. He treats her than he can, and then invites her to stay with him, look after the house, cook food for him.
Once a woman tells him:
“It's time for you to marry.”
Naive thoughts are a thing of the past, but he says that he does not have a girlfriend and it is very difficult for him to find one that he would like. The woman says that she has one girl in mind and introduces them. A naive girl really likes. And they decide to get married. Organize a wedding, send invitations. And at that moment, the naive recalls his former friend.
Although he is offended by him, he still decides to invite him to his wedding. At the wedding, the naive gets up and speaks:
- I once had a friend, I loved him very much, I did everything for him, I never refused him anything. Once he had problems with money, I gave him everything I have. Once he liked my bride, I gave her to him. And then I got into a difficult situation. And he didn’t even give me a job. Here is such a life.
Then his cunning friend gets up and says:
- I once had a friend. He did everything for me. But he was very naive. He did not understand people. Once I got into a difficult situation, and he gave me all the money he had. And then he was going to get married, I found out that his bride was a prostitute, I asked my friend to give her to me, I didn’t like her, I just wanted them not to get married. Then my friend had problems, he asked me for a job, but I didn’t want my friend to work under my bosses and therefore I refused him. I had a sick father, he was dying, I sent my father to him to ask my friend for medicine, and had my father leave all his inheritance to my friend. Then I sent my mother to him to take care of him, since I was not sure that he alone could live, and the girl he would marry - my sister, would be his best and most faithful wife.