Jawaban:

Saudara yang Serakah Seribu tahun yang lalu, hiduplah dua saudara Tionghoa. Yang satu sangat kaya, tapi kikir.

Yang lainnya miskin, tapi murah hati. Saudara laki-laki kaya, yang bernama Kim, menghabiskan seluruh waktunya mencari cara untuk meningkatkan kekayaannya.

Saudara yang malang, yang bernama Cho, berbagi dengan tetangganya apa yang dia miliki.

Lambat laun datanglah saat hujan turun selama berhari-hari.

Nasi pada ulat sutera yang dibudidayakan, tidak terpengaruh. Cho mendaki bukit untuk meminta bantuan saudaranya.

Kim memiliki banyak ulat sutera, yang benangnya dia jual dengan untung besar.

Kim tidak ingin memberikan sesuatu yang berharga kepada kakaknya, tetapi hanya untuk terlihat membantunya.

Kim memberi Cho sekotak cacing yang menurutnya hampir mati.

Cho berterima kasih padanya dan membawa mereka pulang.

Cho memberi makan cacing dengan murah hati dengan daun murbei dan mereka tumbuh gemuk dan sehat.

Segera Cho memiliki sutra untuk dijual.

Ketika Kim mendengar hal ini, dia menjadi marah atas keberuntungan saudaranya.

Suatu malam, dia menyelinap menuruni bukit dan memotong semua cacing Cho menjadi dua.

Alih-alih mati, masing-masing cacing Cho beregenerasi, jadi dia memiliki dua kali lebih banyak dari sebelumnya.

Setelah mendengar ini, Kim menjadi lebih marah.

Dia pergi ke koleksinya sendiri dan memotong semua cacingnya menjadi dua.

Tapi, cacing Kim mati dan dia kehilangan kekayaannya.

Cho tidak pernah tahu apa yang telah dilakukan saudaranya atau mengapa.

Dia hanya membawanya ke rumahnya yang sederhana dan merawat Kim selama sisa hidupnya.

Penjelasan:

A thousand years ago there lived two Chinese brothers. One was very wealthy but miserly.

The other was poor but generous. The wealthy brother, whose name was Kim, spent all of his

time figuring out how to increase his wealth. The poor brother, whose name was Cho, shared

with his neighbors what little he had.

By and by came a time when it rained for many days. The rice in Cho’s little paddy would

not grow, for it was at the bottom of the hill. Kim, who raised silkworms, was not affected.

Cho climbed the hill to ask his brother for help.

Kim had many silkworms, whose thread he sold at a large profit. Kim did not want to give his

brother anything valuable, but only to appear to be helping him. Kim gave Cho a box of

worms that he thought were near dead. Cho thanked him and took them home.

Cho fed the worms generously with mulberry leaves and they grew fat and healthy. Soon Cho

had silk to sell. When Kim heard of this, he became enraged at his brother’s good fortune.

One night he sneaked down the hill and cut all Cho’s worms in half.

Instead of dying, each of Cho’s worms regenerated, so he had twice as

many as before. Upon hearing this, Kim became more enraged. He

went out into his own collection and cut all his own worms in

half. But, Kim’s worms died and he lost his fortune.

Cho never knew what his brother had done or why. He just took him

into his modest home and cared for Kim for the rest of his life.

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