A Dream Buyer|夢を買う|Yume wo Kau

Once upon a time, one merchant  met a painter under a big tree in the middle of his journey.

While the merchant was talking about his town, the painter had a strange dream. Beyond the mountains there was a camellia tree with one white flower in the garden and one bug was flying around the white flower. A lot of gold came out when digging the root of the tree .

The merchant said that he would buy the dream for drawing a picture and handed the money to the painter. The merchant arrives at the tree by following the picture, but there are many camellia trees, but no white flowers are blooming, and only red followers are blooming. So the merchant decided to live and work next to the camellia tree. The next spring, all followers are blooming but it was all red.

Waiting until the next year there was a camellia tree with only one white flower in the red flowers. One bug is flying around the white flower. When digging the root of the camellia tree, a vase containing gold came out. The merchant divided the money half with the owner of the camellia tree, and succeeded greatly by doing his business based on it.

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