Golden egg
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 to almost surprise the farmer found and
egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly
overcome with joy. 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 patient 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.
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