The farmer and the magical pot

The farmer and the magical pot

mom: What is wrong tofu ?

Tofu: I don't want to go to school today. Jim and Jerry took all the tokens I had collected for the charity and submitted it as their own. Now they are going to win the appreciation sticker.

Mom: Don't worry about it Tofu sometimes it's ok to let go of things and just hold on to the joy they brought you.

Tofu: I don't know dear do you know a nice story to help me believe.

Mom: Sure I'll tell you a story .

Once upon a time a poor farmer was plowing his field.

When he hit something hard it was a large metal pot.

Farmer: "What's this!! a metal pot. I wonder if there is something more valuable underneath". In the hope that he could find something more valuable the farmer dug deeper and wider. Tired after hours of searching. The farmer decided to rest. He left his faith in the pot and lay down under the tree.

A while later when he got up and went back to the pot. He was surprised. How is this possible??

The pot is full of hundreds of spades.

Farmer:" I had left only one in it

Looks like this is a magical pot. Let me see what will happen if I put a mango in it??

And just as the farmer had thought...The one mango turned into hundreds of mangoes when he left it in the pot.

This is truly a magical pot.

Farmer: "I will take it home and use it to tide over our troubles". The farmer went home and hid the pot at a safe place. He then went to the market and sold the mangoes. He earned a handsome sum for them. On the way back he brought some grapes. He went home and put each one of them in the pot one by one.

Soon he had enough of grains to last his family for the rest of the years. The farmer called his wife and told her everything that has happened.

Farmer's wife: "This is a blessing we should use it wisely to become rich but also keep it safely hidden"

The farmer agreed with his wife. Over the year he slowly started putting things in the pot. Fruits, vegetables, textiles and in some years he turned around his family's fortune. Though they had been secretive and very careful about the magic pot, people started noticing how they had become rich and soon the secret was out. It even reached the Kings ear.

King: "Such a powerful magical pot should be a part of the King's Treasury. The farmer has no right to keep it. Only I have the right to own that pot". The king ordered the soldier to bring the pot to the palace. The soldiers stormed into the farmers house and confiscated the pot. They produce it to the king.

King: "Let me see what is inside the pot that makes it so magical. Once I find what it is I will become a hundred times more powerful." The King peered over the pot and looked into it. As he did he lost his balance and fell into the pot. As he fell he hit his head on the edge of the pot and became unconscious. When he woke up,.he saw that there were hundreds of kings like him. They all fought each other to get to the throne.And died soon.

The news reached the farmer and his wife.

Farmer's.wife: "Should we get the pot back now?"

Farmer: "The king was foolish and his curiosity killed him. But it is not safe to keep the pot anymore. We have enough money and riches to take care of us and our many next generations. Let us leave the pot with in the Kings Treasury."

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Thank You Mom, said Tofu, that was indeed an inspiring story and I feel much better now. Letting go off those tokens.

Mom: Good to know that tofu now will you please finish his cereal so that we can go for your favorite crimes stories.