Four brothers eating fruit
A long time ago, there was a brocade chicken, a rabbit, a monkey, and an elephant,
A long time ago, there was a brocade chicken, a rabbit, a monkey, and an elephant, and they were sworn, brothers.
Because of their ability to fly, the rooster once flew up to the 33rd heaven and brought in a seed of a fruit tree. This seed is an immortal seed, which grows into a tree and bears fruit all year round.
Among them, the rabbits are the most resourceful, know the value of this seed, they are the first to plant the seeds in the soil. Monkeys know that the tree will bear fruit, so they fertilize it every day. The elephant also wanted to eat the fruit, so he used his trunk to suck water from the river to water it every day.
Under everyone's careful care, the tree grew up day by day and soon bore fruit.
The brooding chicken flew over the tip of the tree, saw the fruit ripening, and thought, "The seeds I brought are bearing fruit, and I get a lot of credit for that! Now it's my turn to enjoy it!" So, it flew up the tree every day and slowly pecked at the fruit on the tree.
The monkey can climb up the tree if it wants to eat, and climb down if it doesn't want to eat.
The elephant is very big, it uses its long trunk to roll the branch to eat the fruit.
The most disadvantaged in the middle is the rabbit. It can not climb the tree, only to jump under the tree, looking at the aroma of the fruit, tail, and licking lips.
The fruit tree grew taller every day, and even the elephant with a long trunk could not eat the fruit, so they began to quarrel.
The elephant and the rabbit yelled together to the chicken and the monkey: "This is unfair, the tree grows taller, only you two can eat the fruit, you know we have also worked ah!"
The rabbit was even more dissatisfied and said, "It is unfair, I have not been able to eat a single fruit, but only a few fallen leaves."
But the brocade chicken and the monkey just ate by themselves and ignored them. They had no choice, so they looked for a wise man to help them, a judge. The wise man said, "You four do not argue, there is no such fruit tree under the sky, you first say where this fruit tree came from? How does it grow? If you tell me, I can help you figure out a way to reconcile."
The rooster said, "O wise man, as you said, this tree did not exist under the sky, but I grew it from the seeds I brought from the 33 heavens, and I deserve the most credit, don't I?"
The rabbit said, "Although the brocade chicken brought in the seed, it did not know what to do, and it was I who thought of planting it into the soil, and thus the tree came into being. But I never got to eat the fruit, only a few leaves that fell occasionally. Do you think it's fair?"
The monkey said, "Although there is a seed, someone planted the ground, but I fertilize the credit is not small! This tree was only as big as a fine grass, but if I had not fertilized it every day, how could it have survived?"
The elephant said, "Although there were seeds, someone planted the ground, and someone fertilized it, it grew after a long drought, and I carried water from the river every day with my nose to water it. I also have the credit!"
The wise man said, "According to this, each of you has contributed to the tree, and each of you deserves to eat the fruit. Instead of arguing like this, you should all work together to find a way to eat the fruit. For only in this way will it not hurt your feelings for each other, and it will make the tree bear more fruit."
They think this is very reasonable, so they discuss it together. Finally, they came up with a solution, stipulating that everyone should pick the fruit together, so that the elephant stands on the bottom, the monkey on the back of the elephant, the rabbit on the back of the monkey, and the rabbit on the back of the brocade chicken, and then the brocade chicken picks the fruit and gives it to the rabbit, the rabbit to the monkey, and the monkey to the elephant. When the fruit is ready, we all eat together.
Since they came up with this idea, they stopped arguing and made the tree grow better and produce more fruit.
Where did the seeds come from? Who got the seeds? Who planted the seeds in the soil? Who fertilized the seeds? Who watered the seeds? What did the wise men come up with for the four brothers to eat the fruit?
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Christopher A Mendenhall
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