The Stolen Smell

During the spring season, the environment is full of the smell of flowers. Everyone likes the smell of fresh flowers. But would you like the smell of the flower if you have to pay for just smelling the flower? No one likes the idea of paying for the smell.

This story is about a greedy and jealous vendor whose greediness and jealousy shocked people.

Boy Enjoying Smell of the Flower

Greedy Shopkeeper's Shop

In a town, a very famous cinnamon bun shop is located on the roadside. The buns from that shop are delicious. No town vendor can match up to the cinnamon bun shop. People wait in a long queue for the cinnamon buns for a whole day. The cinnamon bun shop owner knows how much people love his buns. He knows that everyone wants his bun, whatever the cost of the bun, so every month, he increases the cost of the bun.

Cinnamon bun is famous for its taste, but the bun's owner is famous for his greedy and cruel nature. Cinnamon bun owners do not allow anyone to touch or taste a small piece of the bun. He is so cruel that he does not give cinnamon buns to poor children without money.

Greedy Shopkeeper

Poor Neighbour

Near the cinnamon bun shop, there was a small hut made up of wood, straw, and leaves. In a hut, a small farmer lived with his wife and son. He was so poor that he could not afford the tasty cinnamon buns daily. His son insisted on eating a cinnamon bun daily, but the farmer told him that they could not buy the bun, but they could smell the fruity smell of the bun. 

One day the shopkeeper going to his shop peek into the hut and see the farmer and his family eating dry bread happily. Seeing this, the shopkeeper said, “I wonder how they can eat the dry bread happily and why the farmer's son is not demanding my cinnamon bun?” The whole day the shopkeeper thought about the farmer and his son. Ultimately, he decided that the next day he would talk with the farmer about this matter.

Farmer's Hut

Mystery of the Happiness

The next day, while going to the shop, the shopkeeper saw the farmer going to his field for work. The shopkeeper greeted the farmer and he also greeted back warmly. Shopkeeper asked the farmer, “Don't your son like my cinnamon bun?”

The farmer replied that his son loved the cinnamon buns, but he could not afford the buns daily. Shopkeeper asked, “How is your child happy while eating dry bread?".

The farmer smiled and replied that he shared a trick with his son. He told his son that while eating a dry bun, take a long breath and the dry bread smells like a cinnamon bun.

After hearing the farmer's trick, the shopkeeper felt angry as the farmer's family's happiness depended on his bun’s smell and they could afford that without any cost.

Farmer and His Son

Shopkeeper's Cunning Trick 

After talking to the farmer, the shopkeeper decided to send the bill of the buns' smell. The next morning he went to the farmer's house and gave the bill to the farmer. Farmer got shocked and asked that he didn't buy his shop's buns, so what was the meaning of the bill?

The Shopkeeper told him that it was the bill of the bun's smell that they were enjoying. After hearing this, there was a huge argument between farmer and shopkeeper, and people gathered around. In a few minutes, the crowd covered the farmer's small hut and heard all the arguments between the farmer and shopkeeper. The farmer knew that no one would support him, and he would lose his money. So he agreed with the shopkeepers and told him that he would pay the bill the next day.

Bill Given to Farmer

Coins' Jingling Sound

The next day the shopkeeper came to the farmer's hut and asked for the money.

The farmer took his five coins and dropped them on the other hand, and put all the coins in his pocket.

Shopkeeper asked him why he had put all the coins in his pocket.

He said, “Have you heard the jingling sound of the coins?”. “The shopkeeper said “Yes, I heard.”.

Do you like the sound? The farmer replied, “who does not like the sound of money?” The farmer said, “I paid you the bill.”.

The shopkeeper shouted when did you give me the money? The farmer said I paid for your bun’s smell by my coins' jingling sound.

After hearing this, the shopkeeper could not say anything more and silently went to his shop.

Jingling Coins

Summary 

A greedy cinnamon bun shopkeeper wanted money from a poor farmer for smelling his bun. The farmer agreed with the shopkeeper but did not lose his heart.

So farmers used a trick to pay the bill for the smell by the jingling sound of the coins.

After seeing the farmer's trick, the greedy shopkeeper silently went to his shop.