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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