A Short story!

 Once upon a time, in the village of Silbaripuram, there lived a very miserly rich man named Ravunni.

As his wealth grew, so did his miserliness. He was unmarried and had once told someone that if he got married, his expenses would increase.

Years went by, and Ravunni started suffering from various illnesses. Among them, a toothache also appeared.

He had four of his front teeth extracted and replaced with four dentures.

On his way back, a stranger smiled at Ravunni.

But Ravunni pretended not to have seen him. He was afraid the stranger would feign familiarity and ask him for money.

From that day on, the stranger would smile at Ravunni every day he saw him. After two weeks, Ravunni smiled for the first time. The stranger was very happy. He was never seen on that path again.

When Ravunni became bedridden, none of his relatives came to see him. But the day Ravunni died, the stranger performed all the funeral rites like a relative.

The villagers stared at him in surprise. No one asked what his relationship was with the deceased. After burying Ravunni, the stranger walked away with a smile.

But by then, Ravunni had lost his four teeth! And the stranger’s debt at home was also cleared!

He congratulated himself on his patience over two weeks, which had allowed him to secure the gold that was fixed in the mouth of the man who had just left the dental clinic.

In the joy of having sold the four gold teeth for money, the stranger’s thought spilled out of his mouth: "Which fool said that ‘quarrels are many in this world because of women and gold’?"