A posse of cheats was scouring each house in the Vijayanagara realm. The city boss was disturbed as his gatekeepers couldn't get the hoodlums. He looked for Tenali Rama's assistance to put the pack of hoodlums in jail. Rama consented to help. 
The following day, Rama advised his significant other to spread talk that they have a sack of gold coins at home. The news spread quickly. The criminals also got the chance to know about it, and they chose to ransack Rama's home. 
One night, when Tenali Rama and his significant other were resigning to rest, he heard leaves stirring in their terrace. Since there was no breeze, he comprehended that the cheats had come to loot their home. 
Along these lines, he raised his voice and told his better half, "My dear, I heard that there is a posse of hoodlums totally free. How about we put all our riches in a major box and drop it in the well. It will be protected submerged." 
Rama and his significant other professed to do as such and rest. The criminals went to the well and started conversing with one another. 
One of the criminals asked, "The crate is by all accounts large and very hefty. How would we get it out?" Their pioneer stated, "How about we channel all the water from the well, at that point we can without much of a stretch get down and lift the case." 
Everybody consented to this and began to empty the water out of the well. It took them the entire night, and they were totally depleted. At the point when they at long last got hold of the crate, they were dazed to see just stones and shakes in it. 
Before they could emerge from the stun, they heard Rama's voice. Every one of them turned around and discovered him saying, "Thank you, mates, for watering my plants, I should pay you for your difficult work." 
As they dismissed to run, the city boss' watchmen came in and caught the pack. The narrative of how Tenali Rama got the cheats was all the rage for quite a long time.