What are you going to do with returned cash?

Now I understand. The farmer and his wife became greedy and decided to cut open the goose which laid golden eggs, to get the eggs out all at once. They found none. From the little we hear, the Col goose is being similarly treated by the Farmer-Adminstrator (gender and marital relationships being irrelevant). However, the golden-egg laying apparatus is believed to be segregated and not allowed to be subject to any knife-damage which might be inflicted on the Col goose by the Farmer-Administrator. The rest of the goose, the noisy fluffy part, can be divided among third parties, slowly and carefully, but we have to trust that the basic egg-laying mechanism, with golden eggs already in construction, will be delivered up to lenders - though not looking so good.

Moral of the tale - be patient and not greedy, or you could lose what you would otherwise have.