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The Lost Treasure

It is said that a man had seven children, and he wanted to ensure their income after he died. When his moment of death grew closer, he gathered his children and said to them: I have left you in the land that I own an expensive treasure. I hid it there. Go and get it out after my death, so you can make a living out of it.

When the father died, his children began to dig up the land inch by inch, but they couldn’t find the treasure, and their efforts were in vain. Then they looked and saw the land was plowed, so they agreed to grow wheat there, and they did.

The land yielded a great deal of wheat. They ate some and sold the rest and lived a comfortable life. Then they understood that the land was the treasure their father had told them about.