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Good Years, Year 3

Year 3

Camel Travel was seeing excellent growth over the year, and Reuben benefited from the growth as well. He was promoted to a managerial position and had his salary increased to 3650 shekels of silver.

Having borrowed even more money from friends and family, Reuben excitedly went back to the hut in a bid to buy it down. But to his dismay, it had already been bought by another couple!

Reuben knew he had no time to be disappointed, and quickly looked for the next best alternative, the riverside cottage. Fortunately for him, with his salary increment and the borrowings he had made, the 24,000 shekels of silver he had was just enough to make the down payment for that property.

“The hut does not suit the image of a manager like me anyway; huts are for poor people after all”, Reuben contemplated to himself, “it’s only right for someone of my status to live in a cottage!” The cottage was also selling for a good price, and it would surely appreciate over the years, so Reuben decisively concluded the deal with the cottage’s owner.

Before moving in, as Reuben was busy with his work, he sent his wife to the market to buy whatever was needed to refurnish the house. Little did he expect that the bill at the end of the day would come as the shock of his life.