PRICE OF THE GOOD AND BAD!Updated at Jan 12, 2022, 10:44
once upon a time in a little town of Ikengo, Their was a boy by name Emeka,Emeka lost his mother at the age of 5,his father okonkwo was a trader who travel from one community to another for business ,during that time rich people trav by horse or donkey, mr okonkwo was able to afford a donkey for his movements and he spend weeks on the road,mr okonkwo had to marry a new wife by name Adanna ,so as she could look after the young emeka ,so after few months she became pregnant ,and in months time she gave birth to a boy and named him ikenga,after a while her character started to change,she make Emeka work hard daily ,she send him to fetch water far away,but Emeka didnt feel sad,he was always happy and respectful to his stepmother adanna,as times goes she stopped Emeka from attending the community school where he goes to learn,so she theb put her son in the same school,Emeka started to feel worried over her recent attitude towards him,so Emeka went straight to her and ask her if he had done anything that made her angry with him,but the woman started shouting at him and beating him up that who gave him the mind to question her in the first place,then she starved Emeka that night,with no food or water to drink,when mr okonwo returned from his business tribe,Emeka went straight to him and told him how he was pulled out of school and how bad adanna have been treating him lately,so mr okonkwo called his wife adanna and told her to sit down! he told her that the reason he married her was for her to take care of his first son Emeka that he will not be happy if she mistreat him,so after some discussion ,she nod her head and said okey my husband, i will treat him well i promise,so the next day she put him back in school ,whenever Emeka wakes up early she will make sure she delays him till he goes late to school ,so Emeka started walking up before she and make sure everything is put in place,on the next day Emaka went to the farm to gather vegetables for her to cook,so while on his way home he met an old lady with a bucket of water on her head ,she was shaking like she would fall the next minute ,so Emeka was not very comfortable seeing her like that so Emeka ran straight and offer to help ,so the old lady agreed ,Emeka carried the water to a destination the woman ask him to stop and he stopped, so she said you are a good son of your father and from this day fortune will,never depart from you i bless you with long life and success,you shall give and be given so she pointed at a palm tree and told him to look at sunset that the day you see this special sunset you will hear a drum sound you should quickly run into the bush and then you will hear a bell sound you should come out of the bush and pick the pot up,so while Emeka was looking towards sun he turned back and could not find the woman or the water she was carring so he quickly ran to his home ,he told his step mother but she refuse to take him serious,2years later Emeka his final year in school and was planning to join his fathers business, but the stepmother had convinced the father to allow her son ikenga to join him instead of Emeka,so she told Emeka to go to the village stream and fetch water for her,Emeka was sad and angry but have no choice,Emeka left for the stream ,While he was coming back home he saw the sunlight has changed then he heard the voice of the old woman laughing in the Air,Emeka was very scared and wanted to run away but their was heavy sound like a bass drum in the Air,so he quickly drop his pot and ran into the bush as he was told to do,after a while another jingle be sound in the Air he came out of the bush and grab the pot,he then heard a voice the old womans voice told him to go to his own room close all the door and break the pot,so Emeka did exactly as he was told to and he saw every good things in life he saw Gold jewellery alot of money,Emeka life changed he became very rich and how left and build his own house got married and lived happily with his family,now his stepmother got jealous and called her son to trace Emeka step and do what he did to become rich,ikenga was a very stubborn boy who doesnt want to listen to anyones rules ,he believe people deserve to follow his own rules ,so ikenga tries his best went into the bush and he saw the woman he begged her for his own blessing, so the woman said your blessings is in your hand,but when you hear the heavy drum sound ,you should hide in the bush,but when you hear a tiny bell sound come out and grab it,so ikenga was coming home one evening he then heard a tiny bell sound he hide in the bush and said no this is a small blessings so when he heard the heavy drum sound he said yes bigger blessing, he ran out and grab it ,he went home call his mother they locked everywhere and break the pot ,snake gaint ant and many bad insect bite them to dead this waa the End of ikenga and adanna.