Clever Tortoise

Scorpion swaggered around, brandishing its two large pincers. As it walked, it shouted, "Make way! Make way! Whoever dares to block my path, I will snap them with my pincers, snap! Snap!"

At that moment, a small blade of grass swayed, standing in its way. Scorpion angrily exclaimed, "Who do you think you are to block my path?" The grass continued to sway, refusing to move.

Fuming with anger, Scorpion raised its pincers and snapped, cutting off the blade of grass.

Cricket witnessed Scorpion's rudeness and frowned, saying, "You are an unreasonable and bad scorpion..."

"How dare you insult me?" Scorpion pounced, snapping off Cricket's antennae.

Scorpion continued its tyrannical rampage, and Old Turtle slowly approached, saying, "Scorpion, you are so impolite. You should not harm others like this."

Enraged, Scorpion retorted, "I see that you still don't understand how powerful I am. Let me show you how sharp my pincers are."

After finishing speaking, with a loud snap, Turtle quickly retracted its neck, but Scorpion managed to clip off Turtle's eyebrows with its pincers.

Scorpion laughed heartily and said, "You're just a cowardly turtle, without my mighty pincers, you're nothing!"

Turtle extended its head and said, "I dare to bet there's one thing you can't snap."

Scorpion carefully asked, "Are you talking about your turtle shell?"

Turtle replied, "No, it's something very soft and gentle. Let's make a wager! If you win, I will never stick my head out of my shell again. If I win, you have to live permanently in a dark and damp place, only able to come out at night to search for food. Do you dare?"

Proudly, Scorpion said, "I dare! I'm not afraid of anything."

So, Turtle took Scorpion to the edge of a small river and pointed at the flowing water, saying, "Please snap this flowing water for me!"

Without hesitation, Scorpion pounced and began to snap. "Snap! Snap! Snap..." It snapped hundreds of times, but the river continued to flow. "Snap! Snap! Snap..." It snapped thousands of times, but it couldn't break the river. Finally, Scorpion exerted all its strength and snapped ten thousand times! Yet, the river continued to flow, as if mocking Scorpion with its laughter.

Blushing, Scorpion swiftly retreated into a crevice in the rocks. From that day on, it was too embarrassed to come out during the day and flaunt its power.