Mr. Gbade is a successful farmer who works very hard to put food on his family table and also works hard to satisfy his customers.
Everyone in his community knew him as a trusted farmer, a cheerful giver, and a jovial man.
He seems to have a supportive wife and is also an understanding, submissive, and obedient child. People love their families because they live in harmony.
Unexpected things happened to his wife; she was down with a kidney problem, which led Mr. Gbade to spend more money on her. The couple loves each other beyond measure. One day, the wife called her husband and said, "My husband, thank you so much for loving me beyond expectations, but I don't think I can let you keep spending your money on me. Why not let me go and meet my creator? But before I go, I have a precious gift that you have been longing to have all this time. When you get home, check the backyard of our compound; I have a gift for you, which I decided to give you on your forthcoming birthday.”
The husband looks at her, trying to comfort her not to talk in that way, but it's just like a flame when she gives up to the ghost.
Mr. Gbade feels like he has lost the most precious gift he has ever had in his life. It took him some months before he could get himself back. Through the calamity of his wife, he lost one of his farms, and things went so bad for him and his children.
But one faithful day, he decided to check on the gift his wife told him about. Getting there, it was an unexpected gift, which was a bicycle. He has been longing to have it, even when his wife was alive. When he saw the gift, he transferred the love he had for his wife to the bicycle.
This brought him joy and happiness, which helped him regain himself. He rides the bicycle anywhere he goes. He'll tell everyone around him, be it young or old, that he is rich. Likewise, he makes a daily boast that he is rich even though he didn't have money to build a mansion, but with this bicycle, his wife gave him. Not only that, but he was so happy to acquire the bicycle, even though it was his wish to have one.
Mr. Gbade started using the bicycle to help his customers carry their goods home; he also went hunting with the bicycle to feed his children. He lived for a few years before falling, I'll say. His illness was just a short one, as he was hungry to join his late wife in the underworld.
After the death of Mr. Gbade, the children seem to have nothing to inherit from what their father had. They decided to move to another town to start working, but the firstborn decided not to leave the house. He found farming interesting, so he went back to the farm, even though the farm seemed small.
He used the bicycle to continue the farming work and also hunt, just like his father did when he was alive.
Things were moving the way he thought they would. He decided to sell the bicycle for a motorcycle, just for him to at least be promoted from the realm of bicycles to having a motorcycle.
One day, when he was walking home with the bicycle, a man approached him and told him that he was to buy the bicycle for a target amount. However, he felt that the money seemed to be too much and disagreed with selling the bicycle. Greed wanted to emerge as he weighed the money with his farming. He only discovered that the money was far too much, even far more than the produce from his farm.
After a deep thought, he decided to let the bicycle be, as he was not sure if that was truly the worth of the bicycle.
When he got home, he went to check the bicycle very well. He observed that the bicycle was made with gold inside but covered with melted metal. So he decided to sell it part by part, but not the whole bicycle.
As he sold the part of the bicycle, he became richer. His siblings seem not to understand how he became rich. After he explained the complete story to them about how he observed gold around the bicycle, the sibling felt, “Oh, that was a great gain.
For their elder brother.”
He helped them all get to their peak and also made their family reign in the entire community.