Watering Sugar cane with its juice

      1. There were two men who planted sugar-cane together.
      2. Let’s have a match to see whose sugar cane tastes better.
      3. How should we draw out the rules?
      4. Whoever is able to produce better sugar-cane will be rewarded and the loser will be penalized.
      5. They set their border line for their crop.
      6. The sugar-cane itself is very sweet. It will be even sweeter if I water it with its compressed juice. Then I will get the upper hand over him. Hee! Hee!
      7. So he irrigated his field with the juice squeezed from sugar-cane.
      8. While his friend only watered his crop.
      9. But in so doing, he destroyed the seedling and lost his entire plantation.

      Explanation:

      Those who wish for the comforts of life use their high positions and great influence to oppress the mass. They steal others’ possessions as their own wealth to do good works with a view to enjoy better life afterwards. However, they are unaware of the calamities, which are to come upon them. Those people are just like the man who, pressing the sugar-cane, lost everything.

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