Once a merchant had a very beautiful wife for whom he built a pavilion away from the city with tall walls and guards that no one could dare enter or even look at her. He had several locks to the house and carried the keys around his neck. When he went abroad on business, the King’s son happened to see his wife and wrote her a letter and got a reply too. He then sent a key to her through a thread. Then he made the Wazir send him to the merchant’s house inside a chest telling the merchant that it was for safekeeping. The merchant agreed since the request came from the Wazir. Once the chest was inside the house, the wife opened the chest in the merchant’s absence with the key given by the Prince and they lived happily till the merchant came back. Again when the merchant left, the same continued. When the King asked for the Prince, the Wazir brought back the chest from the house but the check was not locked and in front of the merchant, the Prince was found in the chest. The merchant put away his wife and decided never to marry again.
The King’s Son and the Merchant’s Wife
