A King buried his fortune, trusting only his servant with it; his elder sons died looking for it, and the youngest, through his humility toward the old servant after making ebbó, received his father's secret.
There was a father who had money and who, on dying, entrusted all his secrets to a servant. There were three brothers, and the youngest was called Balogu.
The father, who was a King, three days before dying buried all the money, with his servant along, and told him not to say anything to anyone, because he was going to leave nothing to any of them. He left out only the money needed for the days he thought he would be ill, and some clothes as well.
When he died, the eldest son came to look for the money and found nothing. Then the second son did the same and found nothing either.
Afterward the government was given to the eldest, and he died. And so on, until it came to the youngest son. Someone advised him to go to Orunmila's house to be read, since he had seen the others who had tried to govern and had died.
He obeyed and went to Orunmila's house, who made osode for him and saw this Ifá, where he told him to make ebbó with: a rooster, a goat, two hens, a dove and a whistle to call Eshu. He told him that his father had died leaving a fortune and that a servant was the one who knew of it; that after making the ebbó and the rogation, he should go and find him.
So he did, and when he arrived, he saw the servant and said: «Your blessing, my father.» The servant answered: «I am not your father; your father died, I was only his servant.» The boy told him he had come to fetch him so he would help him govern.
Once the two of them were in the house that had been his father's, he had the old servant sit at the table for lunch. The old man did not want to, but in the end he sat down. At dinner time he did the same, and the old man, seeing the boy's kindness, showed him his father's secret.