A rich miserly farmer decided to appoint three men from Motapur, to work in his rice field. Motapur was a village, the inhabitants of which were mostly illiterate but straight forward. The farmer thought that he could easily cheat them somehow. The Motapur men joined his regular workers and worked hard thinking that they will get much money every month. The farmer, but found appropriate excuses each month to which all the fools had to agree with.
As many months passed by, the fools understood that the farmer is only repeating the old excuses and they are not likely to get any pay.
One day they saw the farmer shooting down a stork, for meals. The fools understood that this is a good technique to kill the farmer and loot all his money. They joined heads together and devised a plan, according to which the first fool has to force the farmer sit on that particular branch on which the stork was; the second one has to steal the rifle and point towards the farmer; the third one has to make a sound exactly as they heard while the farmer was shooting the stork and also make some smoke after that.
