The story is about a man who had a beautiful wife that he loved with all his heart, he had to leave his lover for a very important business trip for several days. Before he went to the business trip, he went to a place where all kinds of birds were sold. He bought a parrot that not only can speak fluently, but also has the talent to talk about things that had happened before. He bought it in a cage and asked his wife to put it in her room. Then he departed. After he returned home from the trip, he asked the parrot about what had happened in his house while he was away, but the answer that the parrot gave was not pleasing at all. It made the man disappointed. He scolded his wife and they quarreled.
The man's wife thought that one of their slaves had revealed her secret to her husband, but all of them told her it was the parrot's job. She became very mad and planned to revenge on the bird and gained her husband's trust back. The day when her husband were gone for a day, she commanded a slave to turn a hand-mill under the bird's cage, another slave to sprinkled water down to the cage to mimic the rain, and the third slave to hold a mirror and move it left and right against a candle. They did it great that night.
When the man arrived home, he asked the parrot how was his wife last night, the parrot answered that it was raining horribly that night that the parrot could not see anything. The husband knew that there was neither rain nor thunder that night. He became furious because he thought that the parrot was lying to him and grab the bird out from its cage and violently threw it to the floor. The parrot died. Yet afterwards, he knew that the parrot was telling the truth all the times because the neighbors had told him what his wife had been doing when he was away. He felt very regret for his action before.
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