Kanji was a wealthy but miserly businessman who lived in a small village. Fearing that keeping his money in his house was unsafe, he decided to bury it in a pot underground near a tree in his backyard. Every night, Kanji would dig up the pot to count his money before going to sleep. However, his suspicious neighbor observed Kanji's nightly routine and stole the money, replacing it with pebbles. When Kanji discovered the pebbles, he was distraught. The village headman consoled Kanji, telling him that as long as he could continue counting, the money was serving its purpose, even if replaced with pebbles.

1. Miser’s Wealth
Kanji was a rich businessman, he made a lot of money
but he never spent it, he was a great miser.
Since he lives in a small village it was not safe for him to
keep all the money in house. After a lot of thinking he
decided to bury the money underground.
There was a tree in his backyard. He then took a pot, put
all his money in it, cover it with a piece of cloth. He then
dug a deep hole under the tree and buried his pot there.
He was worried that someone might steal his buried
wealth so, every night he goes to backyard, took out the
pot ,count his money and then go to sleep peacefully.
Kanji had a neighbour who was suspicious by nature. He
thinks, “Kanji goes to backward every night , digs the
ground; why does he do this?” He then decided to keep a
close watch on Kanji, he hid himself behind the tree and
watched everything.
The next day when Kanji was away, the neighbor went to
backyard, dugs the ground took out the pot, remove all

2. the money and then filled the pot with pebbles. He
leveled the ground and went away.
After neighbor had finished his job, kanji as usual came
to count the money. He was shocked to find pebbles in it.
He started crying loudly. Hearing his cries, all the
neighbor gathered around him. They found it difficult to
console and pacify Kanji.
Meanwhile village headman also came there .He listened
Kanji’s story and advice him, “please don’t cry, you have
lost nothing the thief has kept pebbles for you to count,
you can continue your counting. You need money only to
count , you were not using it.”
“If money is not put to good use, it is no better than
mere pebbles.”