THE WICKED MONEYLENDER A Logic Thought Story In English : Kids Story To Read Book Online In English
Long, long ago, there lived a very rich moneylender, Kanhaiya Lal. He was a miser. He used to cheat the poor and uneducated villagers by taking a large amount of money as interest.
The poor villagers had no option but to borrow money from Kanhaiya, for in those days there were no banks where they could get loans. As you can imagine, Kanhaiya was getting richer and richer, day by day.
One day, after doing a lot of business in the market, Kanhaiya was returning home. On his way, he lost a bag of gold coins. The next day, he announced a reward of a gold coin to anyone who found and returned his bag.
Now, there were twenty coins in the bag. In his announcement, he did not mention this fact, because he had thought of a plan to avoid giving the reward.
The next day, a poor farmer called Bhola, came to Kanhaiya's house. He had found the bag of gold coins 20
and wanted his reward. Kanhaiya took the bag and counted the money. "There are twenty coins in this bag," he said. " When I had lost it, the bag contained twenty-one coins. It seems you have already taken your reward.''
Bhola was stunned.“ God is my witness, I have not opened your bag” he said. "Get out of my house, you liar," shouted Kanhaiya.
In his anger, Bhola went straight to the village Mukhiya and told him the whole story. The Mukhiya called Kanhaiya and said, “When you lost the bag, how much money was there in it ??? “Twenty-one gold coins," said Kanhaiya.
''How much money is there in the bag that Bhola found ??? “Twenty coins," said Kanhaiya.
"It seems that Bhola has found some other lost bag, because yours had more money in it. Since no one has claimed this bag, Bhola can keep it, decided the Mukhiya.
Thus he taught Kanhaiya a lesson he would never forget.
Justice favours the honest.
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