A Story

A long time ago, there was this newly married couple. Their financial status is so bad that they have to rely on their friends and relatives for help for their daily needs.
One day, the husband told the wife. "Darling, I'm going to leave this house. I'm going to a place faraway to look for a job. I won't be back until I can provide you a comfortable life. I won't know how long is this going to take. But I only have one request from you. Please wait for me and that stay faithful to me and I, of course will stay faithful to you."

After a few days, the husband found a job as a gardener for a rich man's mansion. He requested his boss to promise him this. "Please allow me to work here as long as I want. When the day for me to leave comes, you have to allow me to go. I won't have the need to receive my dough every month, but please deposit them in to an account. When the day I leave is here, please give them to me."
The rich man agreed. This young husband works hard and seldom had rest and never had a holiday. In a blink of an eye, he had worked for twenty years for this rich man. One day, he told his boss, "The day for me to leave is here. I wish to have my dough because I'm going home." The rich man nod his head and said, "We have an agreement in the first place and I'm going to honour this agreement. But, I have a suggestion for you. You can take your dough and leave, or I can give you three advices instead of your dough and leave. Go back to your room and think about. You can give me your answers later."
The husband went back to his room and think about it. After two days of consideration and debation, he went to the rich man.

"I want the three advices."
"But if you took the three advices, you won't have your dough." the rich man reminded him.
"I still want the three advices."

The rich man smile and begins.

"First, never ever go for shortcuts. Unfamiliar and unknown shortcuts might take your life away. Although it's tiring to go the correct way, at least you know you will reach your destination."
"Second, never be curious in anything that seems to be bad. Even if it happens right beside you. Just walk pass it and don't ever take a look at it. Else you might have your life taken away."
"Third, do not ever make decisions when you are in despair or hatred. Or else you will regret forever."
"These are the three advices that I have given you. Here are three buns for you. Two is for you to satisfy your hunger when you are on the journey home. The last one is for you to share with your wife when you reached home."

After leaving his wife for twenty long years, he is on his way back home again. One day, he met a man on the road. The man asked him,

"Where are you going?"
"I'm on the way home."
"How long is this going to take you?"
"I'm going to follow this road for about twenty days before I will reach."
"That's going to take too long! I know a shortcut, it will just take you a few day instead."

The husband was very happy when he heard that. As he started on the shortcut, he remembered the rich man's warning. He turned back and follow the original route instead.

After a few days, he heard from other travellers that the shortcut is a trap set up by bandits. He thanks the rich man in his heart for the first advice that he had given him. At this time, this husband is tired from all the walking, so he decided to stay at an inn. He paid for the room and went to sleep. In the middle of the night, he was awoken by a terrible scream. He jumped up and run to the door, planning to take a look what has exactly happened. Suddenly, the rich man's second advice came in to his mind. He decided not to open his door, instead bolted it and went back to sleep. The next morning, he woke up and went to the cafe for coffee. The owner of the inn saw him and asked,

"Didn't you hear the screams last night?"
"Yea, I did."
"Aren't you curious about what happened last night?"
"No, I'm not."
"Do you know that you are the first customer that has walked out alive due to last night's incident? My only son has mental sickness. He screamed last night to attract attention. Those who responded were killed."

The husband thanks the rich man for his advice in his heart again and continue his journey home. Finally, almost at dusk, he could saw his humble little home. The was smoke coming out from the chimney. He could almost see the faint image of his wife walking around. Although it was almost dark, he could see a man laying his head on the knees of his wife. She was touching his head and playing with his hair. The husband was outraged and wanted to kill the both of them. He took a deep breath and quickened his pace. At this moment, the rich man's third advice suddenly struck him. He stop and think for awhile. He decided to spent a night outside to calm down before he went home.
The next day morning, his emotion has calm down. He think for awhile and told himself, "I couldn't kill my wife. I will go back to the rich man and ask him to take me in again. But before that, I have to let my wife know that I have never been unfaithful to her."
He walked to his humble little house and knock gently on it's door. His wife opened the door, took a few moments to get over it and jump in to his hug, hugging him tightly. He wish to push his wife away but he couldn't do so. With tears in his eyes, he told his wife...

"I have been faithful to you and yet you betrayed me."
"What are you talking about? I have been faithful to you for the last twenty years!"
"What about the guy who you have been with yesterday afternoon?"
"That is our son! I was pregnant when you leave me. He is already twenty this year."

The husband hug his wife tightly and cried. He felt thankful to the rich man for the three advices. The husband walk in and hug his son. Evening came and the wife started preparing dinner. The husband started telling his son about his life for the last twenty years. During dinner time, the husband took out the bun and told his wife.

"This is the results after twenty years of hard work. I'm very sorry that I can't give you a good life."
"It doesn't matter. I can live with you by eating buns till the day of our lives ended."

When the husband broke the bun, something drop out from it. It was his wages for the last twenty years...