The greedy apple seller
Once upon a time,in a village near Bhopal,lived a man named Ramnath,who sold apples for his livelihood. Even though he owned the shop where he sold apples,that land belonged to a land lord. Ramnath used to pay a very low rent for the land.
Ramnath was a greedy person .When he started selling apples,he sold them for 120 rupees per kilogram.This price was a reasonable price and the appleshe sold in his shop were of high quality.So people used to buy apples from his shop.He slowly started to gain good profit and this made him more greedy.
He thought about increasing the prices of apples in order to get more profit.He increased the price by 30 rupees per kilogram.Even though people were not happy with this huge hike in price,they loved the taste of his apples so much that they continued to buy apples from him.
A few months later,he again thought about hiking the price to improve his profit.This time,he hiked the price of 1 kg of apples by 10 rupees.He also planned to cheat people with the quality of apples too.This new hike in price within a period of a few weeks,disappointed the people and they even argued with him,but he never listened to anybody and continued to sell at that price.Unfortunately,the poor people never realized that they were paying a higher price for a much lower quality of apples.This continued for days.
One day the landlord of Ramnath's shop heard about the taste of Ramnath's apples and he wanted to buy them.He sent his helper to Ramnath's shop to buy 1 kg of apples.The helper bought the apples and gave them to the landlord and told him about the huge price that Ramnath took for the apples.When the landlord held the apples in his hand,he that felt they were less than 1 kg.He weighed it and found that his doubt was correct.He questioned the helper about this,but the helper immediately replied that only that much apples were given by Ramnath.
The landlord got very angry and he went to Ramnath's shop and asked him to measure the apples again.He had to measure them in front of the landlord and thus his cheating was brought into the notice of the public.The landlord threatened Ramnath to close his shop and to leave from there at immediately.
Ramnath felt very ashamed and sand.He begged before the landlord to forgive him.He promised the landlord that if he is given one more chance, he will never ever do anything fraud in his life.
Finally landlord allowed him to continue to sell apples in his shop and strictly warned him against any malpractices.Ramnath realized his mistake and thereafter,he lived as an honest man,who never ever thought anything greedy.
 സാങ്കേതിക പരിശോധന - Sai K shanmugam തീയ്യതി: 12/ 02/ 2022 >> രചനാവിഭാഗം - കഥ
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