Lazy Tuny and Idler Uri
In a village, there lived a lazy husband named Tyuni and his idle wife named Uri. Tyuni and Uri did nothing all day long except sleep. They were even too lazy to boil tea for themselves or get up to drink water.They had a donkey, but it was fed by Tyuni's parents. After the death of his parents, the couple continued to live the same way. The villagers decided to teach the lazy couple a lesson: they planned to bury them alive so they wouldn't set a bad example for the youth. The idlers were placed on a cart, covered with an old, worn-out carpet, and taken to the cemetery.
On the way, under the scorching sun, Uri felt unwell and threw off the carpet. When the cart arrived at the cemetery, Tyuni and Uri began to moan and groan. At that moment, a rider appeared at the cemetery gates and asked:
"Where are you taking these people?"
"These people are idlers. We want to bury them so they won't have a bad influence on our youth," answered one of the peasants.
"Anyway, they have no bread to feed themselves, and in the end, they'll die of hunger," added another.
The rider felt sorry for the lazy couple and said:
"Don't bury them alive. I'll give them wheat, and they'll survive."
Hearing the rider's words, Tyuni shouted:
"Is the wheat already threshed, or do we still have to thresh it?"
"And will he bake the bread or not?" asked the lazy Uri in turn.
"Baaah, do such people still exist in this world?!" the rider exclaimed in surprise and galloped away.
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