Long time ago a remote village, in central China was
inhabited mainly with farmers and hunters.
One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock to
flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation.
Few days later, an old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity
on him.
He gave him a goose and said, “I don’t have any expensive
thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.”
A week later the farmer was surprised to have found an
egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly
overjoyed. Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had
forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift.
Strangely, the goose only laid one golden egg every six
months. The greedy farmer lost his patience and slaughtered his goose thinking
there were plenty of golden eggs inside its stomach. Though he very much
regretted for his foolishness, it’s already too late.
-FIN-
Read the Indonesian translation HERE
Author: Unknown
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