Section 1
Once upon a time, there were two siblings, one affluent and the other indigent. The wealthy one worked as a goldsmith but had a malevolent nature. Meanwhile, the destitute one earned a living by crafting brooms and was known for being virtuous and upright. The less fortunate sibling had twin sons who were identical and looked like two peas in a pod. The two boys would frequently visit the opulent house and would sometimes receive leftovers to eat. One day, while the impoverished man was on his way to gather brush-wood in the forest, he stumbled upon a magnificent bird. The bird's feathers were made of pure gold, and it was more stunning than any bird he had ever seen before. In an attempt to catch the bird, the man hurled a small stone at it and luckily managed to strike it. However, only one golden feather fell from the bird, and it quickly flew away. The man picked up the feather and brought it to his brother, who examined it closely and exclaimed, "This is pure gold!" He then offered the man a considerable sum of money for the feather. The following day, the man climbed up a birch-tree with the intention of cutting off a couple of branches. As he was about to start, the same bird flew out of the tree. The man decided to investigate and found a nest inside the tree. To his amazement, he discovered that there was a golden egg inside the nest. The man brought the golden egg home with him and presented it to his brother, who once again confirmed that it was pure gold. The goldsmith then expressed his desire to acquire the bird itself. The impoverished man went into the forest for the third time, and once again spotted The Two Brothers sitting on the tree. He picked up a stone and struck the bird, causing it to fall down. He then brought the bird to his brother, who gave him a vast sum of gold for it. "With this money, I can finally get by," he thought to himself, and he went home, feeling content.
The goldsmith was a shrewd and scheming man, and he knew precisely what type of bird it was. He summoned his wife and instructed her, "Roast the golden bird for me, and ensure that none of it goes to waste. I want to savor it all by myself." The bird was no ordinary bird. It possessed a remarkable trait whereby whoever consumed its heart and liver would discover a piece of gold beneath their pillow every morning. The goldsmith's wife prepared the bird, placed it on the spit, and roasted it to perfection. As fate would have it, while the bird was roasting over the fire, the goldsmith's wife was compelled to leave the kitchen to attend to some other task. In her absence, the two sons of the impoverished broom-maker entered the kitchen, approached the spit, and rotated it a few times. Coincidentally, at that precise moment, two small pieces of the bird dropped into the dripping pan. One of the boys exclaimed, "Let's eat these two little pieces; I'm starving, and no one will ever notice that they're gone." The two boys proceeded to devour the pieces of bird, but the goldsmith's wife returned and caught them in the act. She asked, "What have you been eating?" To which they replied, "Just two small pieces that fell out of the bird." "That must have been the bird's heart and liver," exclaimed the woman, taken aback. Fearing her husband's wrath if he discovered that the heart and liver were missing, she promptly slaughtered a young rooster, extracted its heart and liver, and placed them next to The Two Brothers. The goldsmith's wife then served him the roasted rooster, which he devoured in solitude, leaving nothing behind. However, the following morning, when he reached beneath his pillow expecting to retrieve the customary piece of gold, he found none. There were no more gold pieces than there had always been.
