A Gold Ring and 300 Rupees

“What is there in the box?” the husband asked the wife. He was pointing to a small box that was kept in the cupboard ever since they had got married two years ago. His wife had forbade him from going near the box or asking about it. They were a happy couple who had no secrets between them and had led a happy life. However the husband was very curious and wanted his wife to share this secret as well. 

The wife agreed to reveal the secret. She opened the box and showed him a ring and three hundred rupee notes. The husband was puzzled and asked her about it.

“ When we got married my mother advised me that I should never get angry with you or argue with you. She told me that every time I was annoyed with you, I had to drop a hundred rupee note inside the box”, the wife said. 

The husband felt very thrilled on hearing this because he had found only 3 hundred rupee notes which meant that he had annoyed his wife only thrice in all of two years. But he was not clear about the gold ring. So he asked his wife as to where it came from.

“That‘s the ring I bought when the box could no longer hold any more notes”, she said, much to the shock of her husband.