Gold Watermelon

Once upon a time, there lived a merchant with two sons in Sambas, West Borneo. The first son’s name was Muzakir. He was very stingy. The other was Dermawan and he was very generous. Before the merchant passed away, he gave his wealth to both of them fairly. After that, Muzakir and Dermawan lived separately. Muzakir’s wealth has been boxed up and he locked it. If there was a pauper, he was not only refused to give money he also kicked them out. Otherwise, Dermawan was greeting the impecunious people conveniently and friendly. Almost every day impecunious people came to his house till he got bankrupt. Finally, he moved to smaller house, and looked for the work to defray his life. Nevertheless, he remained to be grateful with his life circumstance.

One day, Dermawan sat in front of his house. Suddenly, a bird fell down. He felt pity to the bird. So he took care of it carefully. After a couple days, the bird got well and it can fly again. Afterward, the bird came again and gave Dermawan a seed. Dermawan felt happy and thankful. Then, he planted and took care of it. Three days later, the seed grew up to watermelon tree. It had a very big watermelon on it. After months, he harvested it. He took it to his house and opened it immediately. How surprise he is! He found that the watermelon contains of yellow sands. Suddenly, he realized it was not yellow sands, it was gold! He became richer than before and he still generous to everyone.

Muzakir heard about Dermawan’s story. He wanted to be liked him. He tried to find a broken bird. But he failed. So, he shot down a bird and acted like a good man who take care that bird. Similar to Dermawan’s story, the bird gave a seed to Muzakir, too. But this time, the watermelon grew up bigger than Dermawans. How glad he is! After he harvested and opened the watermelon he shocked! Because it contained a lot of mud with dirt and spread out to his face. How pity he is!