Our son Dan the merchant tried to be successful in his country, so he didn’t succeed, and he faced poverty in his work and lost all his money. He believed that traveling to another part of the countries would help him achieve success, so he traveled in all the countries. He inherited a huge amount of very expensive iron from his ancestors, and when he was leaving, he pawned the iron to a nearby merchant in exchange for giving him his money for his travel, and he traveled in all the countries. His travel was successful, and then the son of the merchant decided to return to his birthplace.
After his return, he went to the place of the nearby merchant and asked him for the iron, saying to him: “Oh my dear merchant friend, please return the iron I had left with you.” The other merchant wasn’t generous in his generosity, so he said to him: “The iron is not there anymore, so we’re facing a problem with the weasels, they eat everything. So what will you do, on any case, there’s nothing you can do at all. It remains until eternity!”
The son of the merchant learned the truth at the same time, so he answered the merchant: “If the weasels ate the iron, there’s nothing you can do about it, on any case. Nothing can continue to eternity at all!”
The son of the merchant continued to tell him all the stories and explained to him how he lost his son the merchant’s son in the cave when he went to take a bath in the river, and he asked his servant boy to help him carry the items, and they told them during his taking of the bath. When the merchant the other heard this, he was angry and said to him: “You’re a liar! Since a jackal can’t carry a large boy like him at all, so leave my son alone.”
But the son of the merchant wasn’t convinced at all, and he said: “There’s nothing I can do about it, since the jackal ran with him carrying him between his hands on the edge of the river! I can’t do anything!”
When the other merchant heard this, he became angry, and the village chief shouted: “How can the jackal carry a child? What do you mean? Explain clearly!”
The son of the merchant answered: “Oh, sir. In the city where they eat the iron weasels, why can’t the jackal carry a small child at all? What does that mean? Explain clearly!”
So the son of the merchant told him all the stories and explained to him how he lost his son the merchant’s son in the cave to get the iron again, and when he heard the village chief hearing this, the other merchant was very ashamed, and he ordered the village chief the other merchant to return the iron to the son of the merchant immediately and restore his son from the cave.
(Story translated from: The Rat that ate Iron)