There was a farmer who had three sons. All of his
sons were very lazy, and no one helped his father
to work in the field. No one cared to do any
work. They only ate and slept. The farmer was
very sad that his sons were lazy.

One day the farmer became very ill.
He called his three sons to tell them something.

“I have a treasure for you but it is buried in the
field. After I die you may dig it up,” the farmer
said then and died.

The three boys went to the field and dug the
ground. They dug all day trying to find the
treasure, but did not find anything.

Next day they went to the field again and
dug the ground more, but they did not find
any treasure.

The boys dug the field for many days. They
did not find any treasure.

Finally, the eldest son said, “Let us stop
digging. We should grow corn in our field.”

So they brought corn seeds and
sowed them in the land they had been
digging. After one month, the field was full
of green corn seedlings. Three months later,
the plants bore corn and when the corn was
ripe, the whole field became bright yellow.

“This is the treasure that father
gave us,” they said happily.