One day, Tenali Raman quarrelled with his wife. He shouted at her till she could not bear it. She said to her husband, “I serve you so much from morning to evening. Still, you scold me so terribly.” Saying these words she fled to her neighbour’s house. Raman followed her there.
The neighbours managed to placate the angry husband and served the couple tea and sweetmeats. When they returned to their house some time later, they began quarrelling again.
When Tenali began shouting at her, his wife again opened the door to run out. “This time, go to the baker’s house,” he advised, “He makes delicious cakes. I am very hungry. As our neighbours served us whole-heartedly, in the same manner the baker would serve us.”
