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In the mountains lived a young man named Dulin. He worked in a rice field, and one day a wonderful lily grew in a crevice, singing a quiet song. Day by day, the flower helped the young man bear his toil, until one day the animals trampled it. Dulin felt sorry for the lily, brought it home, and planted it in a mortar. In the evenings, while weaving baskets, he listened to its fragrant songs and smiled.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lamp suddenly flared up, and from the fiery-red flower emerged a beautiful fairy. She became Dulin's wife. Together they worked: he wove baskets, she embroidered, and soon their hut turned into a large house, the barns filled with rice, and the enclosures with livestock.

Having become rich, Dulin stopped working. Instead of a hoe, he bought wine, strolled with a pipe and a bird, played dice, and ignored his wife's requests. One day, on the very same holiday, the lamp flared up again — a peacock flew out of it and sang that the lazy husband did not want to help, and the fairy was leaving. His wife flew away with the peacock, and Dulin managed to grab only one feather, seeing how she was taken to the moon.

Moral:

Do not hope that a miracle will feed you forever — both fairies and bull trends fly away from those who stop working.