In ancient times, there was a man who worked as a baker. All he owned was a mill and a donkey. The baker was married to a woman who used to hate him and treated him badly despite the fact that he loved her extremely and wished to earn her approval.
One day, his wife loved a neighbor, but this neighbor hated her extremely. One time, her wife saw him in a dream that someone was talking to him and telling him to dig in a place beside the millstone, and he would find there a great treasure.
The baker woke from his sleep and told his wife what he had seen in the dream, and said to her to keep the secret and not tell anyone. But the wife was trying to get close to their neighbor, so she went and told him about the dream, and they agreed that she would come to him at night and they would dig together to get the treasure found beside the millstone.
At night, they went as they had agreed and found the treasure buried in the place his wife had told him. The neighbor said to her, “What will we do with the treasure?” She said to him, “We can divide it in half and you leave your wife, and I’ll begin solving problems to leave my husband and get married. So we’ll collect money together.” The neighbor said, “I fear the devils will take you instead of me. Therefore, I must keep the money in my house, and after you get rid of your husband, come to me after that.”
The wife said to him that she also feared what he feared and that she wouldn’t give him her share, especially that she was the one who had guided him to the treasure from the beginning. After the two differed, the neighbor stood killing her and left without doing her favor, took the treasure, and fled.
In the morning, the baker woke up and didn’t find his wife. He entered the side of the millstone and found his donkey hung in the millstone. He screamed at it and moved it, but it stopped and didn’t move anymore, however much the baker tried to move it. He saw his donkey, the baker’s wife, dead.
The baker began beating the donkey and speaking in its face to make it move, but without avail. The baker didn’t understand the secret of what the donkey was doing. He beat it until it moved without avail, and from the intensity of anger he killed it. The donkey fell, and after it died, the baker saw his wife dead beside the place of the treasure. The baker was sad at the loss of his wife and donkey and the treasure also, and all this was because of his wife who had betrayed him and didn’t keep the secret.
The aim of our story today is that sometimes exposing secrets leads to destruction, but the wife’s exposure from the beginning was an exposure not worthy of her loyalty and trustworthiness, as the baker made a mistake in his killing of the donkey without any guilt.