The tale of the hidden treasure. There was once a secret store that was rumored to sell a very rare and expensive core. The core was known to make the person who found it very rich. But no one knew how this core looked like or where to locate this secret store. This was a widely spread mystery that had been told over and over again that even the young children in the town knew about it. Time went by, with no one able to locate the secret store or the rare core. People started thinking that it could all just be a made-up story and a waste of time.
One day as a carpenter was carving out a gift for his niece’s birthday present, he realized he needed a circular object to help him complete the gift. He went from shop to shop and he searched for any circular object that would help him finish his gift until he found one that he thought was the perfect fit.
Unfortunately, his calculations were not quite right as he realized that the object he had just bought was bigger for than the space he needed to fit it into. He needed to make it slightly smaller. As he was carving it to a smaller size, he saw something interesting…. he had found a map!
At first, he was confused about what he had just seen until he remembered the one story they all had heard ever since they were young. The old man immediately took to the town. He wanted to ask if anyone wanted to buy the map. He was too old to go hunting for the treasure. Most of the people in the town though, could not afford the price that he had set for the map. There was one young man that wanted the map and he wanted to get it at whatever cost.
One evening, as the carpenter was on his way home, the young man ambushed him and stole the map that the carpenter had been trying to sell.
The young man started on his quest to find the hidden treasure. True to what the carpenter had said, he found the treasured rare core that had always been widely proclaimed. The only catch is that the rare core was no longer treasured. It was discovered that the treasured core was very useful 50 years ago but it was now useless.
To conclude, the young man could not believe the time wasted in his search.
Moral: Crime does not pay.
