سندبادنامه 236.7

236.7

The Story of the Beautiful Woman and the Grocer
The minister said: 'I have heard from trustworthy transmitters that in times past,
there was a peasant who was chaste, religious, abstinent, and pious. He had a wife who, after the custom
of worldly people, took wider strides in the pursuit of desire and craving, and counted the pursuit
of amusement and frivolity among the necessities of her life. One day that peasant gave her
a scrap of money to buy rice. The woman went to the bazaar and came to a grocer;
she gave the coin to the grocer, and with an amorous wink and coquetry said: 'Give me rice for this coin!'