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THE MIRACLE BLOWPIPE

Once upon a time, there lived a man named Ali. He was poor. He only lived with his mother because his father had passed away. Ali didn’t have anything. He only has a blowpipe that always used to caught a bird. The bird that he caught only sold for daily needs or he cooked it for food. He didn’t want to live like this, so he planned something to make him rich.

One day Ali went to caught a bird. He only caught one bird and then went home. Someone named Hasan has been noticed by Ali. He nervous that why Ali always bring a bird back. So, one day after Ali caught a bird, Hasan ask to Ali why he always caught a bird perfectly. Ali said that his blowpipe hs a supernatural power. It always got a bird when we blew it. Hasan was very interested and wanted to buy the blowpipe. Hasan was a greedy person so he wanted to caught as many birds to sold. He offered three bags of gold to make sure Ali accepted it. Without thinking, Ali accepted it. But Ali gave a condition to kept the supernatural power of the blowpipe. He said that the blowpipe musn’t touched by ants. If it happens, the power will be disappeared. Hasan accepted it and went back to his home.

At the night, Ali sneaked into Hasan house. He was searching for the blowpipe. Then he found it near Hasan’s bed. He poured the tip of the blowpipe with sugar. Then he went back home. In the morning, Hasan saw that his blowpipe was filled with ants. He was very disappointed with himself. He knew that his blowpipe has lost it’s power. But he realized that the tip of the blowpipe is filled with sugar, he know someone had doing this work. No more person except Ali. He was so angry and went to Ali’s house. But Ali is clever. He moved out to another place. So Hasan lost Ali.

Ali lived happily with his mother in another place. He ate healthy and luxury foods, lived in a big house. Beside that, Hasan lived poorly because he wasted his money to buy the powerless blowpipe. Ali wasted his money until his finance became low. He afraid that he would lose his happy life. So, he planned something again. He tricked anybody with his new fake item. He was very sly. He became rich and richer with his trick.

And one day, he was doing something cruel. He ordered his men to raid the whole village. He did it in every village that he visited. Then he disappeared again. He once doing something tricky. He called himself a guest from abroad country. He said that he want to collect money to help his country that have an accident. Then he sometimes calls himself a tax collector in order to gain money to every people. Not only that, he also sold some fake treasures to other people. He said that there was coming from other countries and those are rare.

He tricked everybody with his foolish trick. Although he was happy with his life now, he sometimes feels sad. He has lost his blowpipe. He really loves his blowpipe because it was from his father. He promises to his father that he will keep his blowpipe for his remember with his father. He was sad because only for this new life he sacrifices his beloved blowpipe. He sacrifices his father. He fails to keep his promise to his father. Then he began to searching for his blowpipe.

He searched in many places and also ordered his men to search the blowpipe, but it cannot be found. Then he remembered that his blowpipe now is in Hasan’s hand. He afraid that Hasan now was searching for him and wanted to kill him. So he gave up his search for his blowpipe and began to trick other people again. He did it in many tricks. People became discontent with what’s Ali doing

Someday, anybody that tricked by Ali wanted to caught Ali and gave him to the government. Ali cannot doing anything to save his life. But he was tricky after all so he could escape from the people’s pursue. But Hasan recognized Ali’s location and he brought his blowpipe to kill Ali. Ali was running in fear. But he planned something to resolve this. He was hit by Hasan’s blowpipe and he acts dead. Hasan was very afraid and he was running away. Ali’s mother found Ali was lying in the ground. Ali told that he only acted dead. But he used this situation to gain more money. He told her mother to burry him in other that anybody gave money to his mother. So his mother accepted this.

Everything goes as he planned. Every people came to his tomb to gave money to his mother. Her mother got a lot of money. She was very happy and satisfied. But Hasan came to Ali’s tomb. With his anger he stick Ali’s tomb with spear. It hits Ali’s heart and he died. His mother sad because Ali is really dead. He dead because of his greed.

This story has disappeared now because of it isn’t famous and this story has told in many series. But the morale point from this story told us to not to be greed and tricky. Because soon that greed could killed us from the inside.