Once upon a time in China ,there was a wise old man by the name

of Seven who lived along the border side of his country.

Seven raised some horses and one day one of them wandered off and was lost.

Seven's

neighbours and friends felt sorry for him and came to offer their condolence.

But Seven smiled and told them,

It is not a big thing to lose a horse, maybe this will bring me good luck.

Just after some days, the horse came back by itself with another horse. The neighbours

and friends came to congratulate Seven. But Seven did not seem so happy:

“who knows, maybe this will bring trouble for me.”
Seven had one son and he found the new horse was very mighty strong with sharp

& marvellous looks and grew very fond of it. Unfortunately,

one day, while riding the horse he fell and broke his leg.

The neighbours came to comfort Seven but this time Seven was not in

sorrow. “Who knows? maybe this is a sign of goodness.”

A month later, war broke along the border with the enemy. All the young

men except Seven's son were called into the army for defending their country.

All of them died in the war and only his son survived because of his disability.