A father owned two plots of land.

He did not have an heir, so he buried his great wealth among them.

In the right field, he buried all his gold. In the left field, he buried all his silver.

One day, he found a wife, married her and she gave him a son.

At the end of the man's life he told his son,

"I have great treasures laid up in the two fields: In the right field is all my gold; it shall make you rich. In the left field is all my silver; it shall make your descendants rich.

When his father died, the son went out into the fields to unbury his father's riches.

At once he went to the right field and unearthed the gold. It was so glorious that he went away in ecstacy.

He bought many fine things, tithed a portion of it and fed the poor with it.

He found a wife and had many children. He was prosperous in all ways counted by men.

After a great deal of time, his stockpile of gold was thin so he thought to himself,

"I shall return to the field to unearth the silver and I shall be happy for the rest of my days."

However, when he returned to the fields, nothing was found because warmongers had come while he was away and they took the land, the silver within it and sold it to marketers to make themselves rich.

The son went away in distress for his great inheritence was lost. He then sold all the fine things he had to the marketers so that he and his family would not starve.