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.
A man with money trusted all his secrets to a servant at the hour of his death. He had 3 sons, and the youngest was called Balogu.
That man was a King. Three days before his death he went with the servant to bury all the money he had and asked him not to tell anyone: he did not plan to leave anything to any of his sons. He set aside only what he worked out he would need while the sickness lasted, and some clothes.
When the father died, the oldest son started looking for the money without finding anything. The second one tried the same, with the same result.
Then the government passed to the oldest, who died; and so it went with each one until it was the turn of the youngest. Someone advised him to have a reading at Orunmila's house, since he had seen the others die when they wanted to govern.
He listened and went there. Orunmila made osode (reading) for him, saw this Ifá and marked him ebbó with a rooster and a goat, 2 hens and 1 dove, plus a whistle to call Eshu. He warned him that his father had left a fortune when he died, that only one servant knew about it, and that he should go look for him once the ebbó and the rogación were done.
He did it that way. When he found the servant, he greeted him: "Your blessing, my father." The other answered: "I am not your father; your father died, I was only his servant." Then the boy explained that he had come for him so he would help him govern.
Once the two of them were settled in the house that had been his father's, he ordered the old servant to sit at the table for lunch. The old man resisted, but he ended up sitting down. At dinner time he did the same, and the old man, moved by the way the boy treated him, ended up revealing his father's secret.