Government fed by rivers and streams Peudada Peusangan been ruled by a king who loves fish.
One day he was sitting with daughter the Queen in the palace garden directly opposite the riverside Peusangan, which at that time stretched the beautiful line of the boat; and with a full view of the boats were on the slide, where on a boat sat a fisherman who has caught a big fish.
Realizing that the king watched, and knew that the King was very fond of certain fish, the fishermen salute the King and the members brought their boats to shore, come and kneeling on the king and begged the king to accept the fish as a gift. The King was very pleased with it, and ordered that a large amount of money was given to fishermen.
But before fishermen leaving the palace garden, Putroe / daughter turned to the king and said:
"O my king, my husband, you have done something wrong."
The king was shocked to hear Putroe / daughter says so and asked how could. The Putroe / Princess reply:
"You give a large number of gifts for gift so small would be rapidly spread throughout the kingdom and will be known as the reward fishermen. All the fishermen were probably caught a big fish will bring him to the palace, and if they are not paid by fishermen first, they will go with the dissatisfaction, and quietly going to talk bad about the king among his friends. "
You speak the truth, and this opened my eyes, "said the King," But do not you see what it means to be a king, if for that reason he pulled back a gift that was given? "
Then after that the princess felt ready to argue with that, he turned angrily and said, "It is finished and need not be discussed again."
However, on the next day, when the King's mind is happy, lady approached him and said that if the reason that the King could not revoke the prize was awarded, he himself would arrange it. "You have to call back fishermen," he said, "And then ask," Is this fish male or female? ' If he said the male, then you are saying that we want is a female fish, but when fishermen say that the fish are female, you will respond by saying that you want a male. In this way we can adjust it properly. "
King argues that this is the best way to get out of trouble, and ordered that the fishermen had brought to him. When the fishermen, who turns out is a very smart man, berdaulah before the King.
The king said to him, "O Fisherman, tell me, you brought yesterday's fish is male or female?"
The fisherman replied, "A fish does not male and not female, my king." At that time the King smiled at the answers are very clever, and to add to the aggravation of the Putroe, he ordered the palace treasurer to give some more money to the fishermen.
The fisherman then kept the money in a leather pouch, thanked the King, and hoisted the bag on his back and hurried away, but not long after, she realized that she had dropped a small coin. By putting the bag back to the ground, he bent down and picked up the coin and went on his way back, followed by the King's eyes and Putroe which oversees all actions.
See! How pelitnya him! "Said the Queen / princess - with pride over the victory." He actually lowered his pocket just to collect the fruit of a small coin because maybe she would feel lost just by thinking that the coin will be taken by one a waiter king, or who are poor, who need to buy a bread and begged the King was blessed with longevity. "
"Again you speak correctly," replied the King, feel the truth of the words of Mr. Putroe; and once again the fishermen were taken to come to court.
"Do you have a human or beast?" The king asked him.
"Although you may have rich without having to work again, but the stingy nature in you do not allow you to leave a small coin to another person." Then the king ordered the fishermen to go and no longer show his face in the royal city.
When the fishermen were immediately worship the king both feet and cried.
"Listen Servant, oh, the King, protector of the poor! May God bless the lord with a long life. Not the value of the coin is that servant picked, but because on one side of the coin is the lettering praise the name of God, and on the other is reflected face king. the servant was afraid that someone, perhaps unintentionally because they do not see the coin, will be stepped on it. Let the king that determines whether I did this deserves to be condemned or not. "
The answer made the King very happy not infinite, and give more fishermen are large sums of money. And the anger of the princess / Putroe then also be abated, and she became aware of and viewed with a friendly against the fishermen who went with pockets loaded with money.
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if there is a designation Putroe in this writing, it means the title of Queen in the Acehnese language .
