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SIXTH GROUP

1. HENGKY RUDOLF S. MEND

CLASS : IX – F

SUBJECTS : ENGLISH

SMPN 3 GUNUNGSITOLI TAHUN 2019/2020

This poor family had a cocky rich neighbor who always mocked them. But the farmer
and his wife were never angry with that. They were still kind to everyone else including
their cocky neighbor.

One day, the wife of that poor farmer was sick.

He had no money to buy some medicines. He tried to borrow some money from his
cocky neighbor but what he got were some offensive words.

He was so sad but he always tried to do the best for his wife. He went to the river to find
some medicinal herbs to heal his wife.

At the river, the farmer found a golden fish trapped on a broken net which belonged to
nobody.

The farmer took that fish which was almost dead. Quickly he went home and placed that
fish on a pound.

The fish survived from dying and surprisingly after the farmer safe that fish, his wife
was good and recovered from her sickness without any medical help.

The farmer and his wife thought that probably that golden fish brought them luckiness.

The days after that, the farmer was so lucky. He could easily get money. With the money
he had, he was no more a farmer but he tried to start business.

Not too long after running his business, that farmer became rich but he never been a
cocky person. He was still a kind man who loved to help the other people.

One day the cocky neighbor was so jealous of the success of that farmer. He came to that
farmer’s house and asked him how he could be success.

The farmer told him that after he found the golden fish he became so lucky.

Then at the next day the cocky neighbor asked him to see the fish. He had bad intention
to poison that fish.

After the cocky neighbor saw that fish, the he poisoned that fish and the farmer did not
know about that. The golden fish was finally dead.

The farmer and his wife were so sad about the death of their fish. They buried it at his
backyard.

After the fish was dead, the farmer business was collapsed and he had to pay a lot of
debt.
The farmer became poor again. The cocky neighbor was so happy because he could
mock the farmer again.

But a month after the farmer buried that golden fish, there was a strange plant grew at
the spot where the fish was buried. That strange plant was a golden tree which had
golden leaves, flowers and fruits.

That was another luckiness the golden fish gave to the farmer because with that golden
tree, the farmer became rich again.

Ikan Emas
Pada jaman dahulu kala, terdapat seorang petani miskin yang tinggal di sebuah rumah
jelek bersama dengan istrinya.

Keluarga miskin tersebut memiliki seorang tetangga yang congkak yang senang mengina
mereka. Namun petani itu dan istrinya tak pernah marah. Mereka berdua tetap baik
dengan semua orang bahkan termasuk tetangganya yang congkak itu.

Suatu hari, istri petani itu jatuh sakit.

Petani itu tak memiliki uang untuk membeli obat. Ia mencoba untuk meminjam uang
kepada tetangganya yang congkak namun yang ia dapatkan hanyalah kata-kata yang
menyakitkan hati.

Ia sangat sedih namun juga ia selalu berusaha untuk memberikan yang terbaik kepada
istrinya. Ia pergi ke sungai dan mencari tanaman obat untuk mengobati istrinya.

Di sungai itu, sang petani menemukan seekor ikan emas yang terperangkap di jaring
rusak yang tak berpemilik.

Petani itu mengambil ikan yang hampir mati itu. Ia dengan terburu-buru pulang ke
rumah dan menaruh ikan emas itu di kolam.

Ikan itu bisa hidup dan yang mengejutkan setelah petani itu memelihara ikan
temuannya, istrinya langsung sembuh dari sakit tanpa bantuan obat apapun.

Sang petani dan istrinya berfikir bahwa barangkali ikan itulah yang membawa
keberuntungan bagi mereka.

Beberapa hari setelahnya, petani itu menjadi sangat beruntung. Ia bisa mendapatkan
uang dengan mudah. Dengan uang itu, ia tak lagi menjadi petannin namun ia memulai
sebuah usaha bisnis.

Tak lama setelah ia menjalankan bisnisnya, ia menjadi sangat kaya namun ia tak pernah
menjadi sombong. Ia masih menjadi orang baik yang suka menolong orang lain.
Suatu hari, tetangganya yang sombong itu iri dengan kesuksesan sang petani. Lalu ia
datang kerumah petani itu dan bertanya tentang bagaimana caranya petani itu bisa
sukses.

Sang petani menceritakan kepadanya bahwa setelah ia menemukan ikan emas, ia enjasi
sangat beruntung.

Keesokan harinya, tetangga yang congkak itu datang sekali lagi ke rumah petani untuk
melihat ikan emas. Ia memiliki niatan buruk untuk meracuni ikan itu.

Setelah tetangga sombong itu melihat ikan petani, ia meracuni sang ikan dan petani itu
tak melihatnya. Akhirnya ikan emas itu mati.

Petani dan istrinya sangat sedih dengan kematian ikan mereka. Mereka menguburkan
ikan itu di halaman belakang rumah.

Setelah ikan itu mati, bisnis sang petani bangkrut dan petani itu harus membyar banyak
hutang sehingga petani itu menjadi miskin lagi.

Tetangga yang sombong itu sangat senang karena ia bisa menghina petani itu lagi.

Namun sebulan setelah petani itu menguburkan sang ikan emas, muncul tumbuhan aneh
yang memiliki batang, daun, bunga, dan buah yang berupa emas.

Hal itu adalah keberuntungan lain yang diberikan oleh ikan emas kepada petani itu dan
dengan pohon emas itu, sang petani kembali menjadi kaya.