Just at this moment, the white haired old man came in and, with a stern expression on his face, said to the y

oung man, You cannot take that one. Ill give you an empty one. Every day you can take one tael of silver out of it, and no more. The woodcutter reluctantly agreed. He took the empty moneybag and, clinging onto the enormous rope, he was lowered to the ground.

Once home, he gave the moneybag to his wife and told her the whole story. She was most excited. In the daytime they went as usual to cut firewood. But from then on, whenever they returned home after dark, they would close the door and open the moneybag. Instantly, a lump of silver would roll jingling out. When they weighed it on the palm of their hand, they found it to be exactly one tael. Every day one tael of silver and no more came rolling out of the bag. The wife saved them up one by one.

Time went slowly by. One day the husband suggested, Lets buy an ox.

The wife didnt agree. A few days later, the husband suggested again, How about buying a few acres of land?

His wife didnt agree with that either. A few more days elapsed, and the wife herself proposed, Lets build a little thatched cottage.

The husband was itching to spend all the money they had saved and said, Since we have so much money in hand, why dont we build a big brick house?

The wife could not dissuade her husband and reluctantly went along with his idea.

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