Golden Eggs
Long time ago a remote village, in central China was inhabited
mainly with farmers and hunters.
One
day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock to flood. He prayed hard to God
for help or his family would die of starvation.
Few
days later, an old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity on
him. He gave him a goose and said “ I don’t have any expensive thing to give
you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.”
A week
later to almost surprise the farmer found and egg in his yard. This was no
ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly overcome with joy.
Thereafter,
his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier
hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift.
Strangely,
the goose only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost his
patient and slaughtered his goose thinking there were plenty of golden eggs
inside its stomach.
Though
he very much regretted for his foolishness, it’s already too late.
The Bear and Rabbit
Once upon a time, there lived a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy and could not use the arrow.
One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows.
The rabbit was feared to arouse the bear's anger so he
could not refuse it. He went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy
the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there were lots of
meats left after.
However the bear did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. The rabbit could not even taste the meat. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.
The bear was the father of five children. Fortunately, the youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra-large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house. When he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal.
The Ant And The Grasshopper
One summer day,
there was a grasshopper who chirped and sang about its heart content. Then, an
ant passed by, bearing a sweet candy that he was taking to his nest.
"Why don't
you come and sing with me instead of moiling and toiling away?" The
grasshopper said.
"I am preparing the foods for the winter. You
have to do the same." the ant replied.
"Why? I don't have any worries about winter. I
have got plenty of foods." said the grasshopper.
But the ant
left the grasshopper and continued its toil. Then, the winter came the
grasshopper found there was no food left to eat. It was so hungry. The
grasshopper remembered when it saw the ants collecting the foods in summer for
the stock in winter.
Then the
grasshopper knew he was so wrong didn't follow the ant in collecting the foods
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