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Piglet learning farming

My Fairy Tale

By megangochoaPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Piglet was sent to Uncle Bear's farm by his father to learn how to grow corn. Uncle Xiong is known as the king of corn, and the corn produced by his family has always been praised by everyone as the best. Piggy's father hoped that his son could learn a trade, at least to support himself in the future.

After getting to know each other, the three of them resolved to grow the best corn.

In the beginning, Uncle Bear arranged for the three children to pick water, and it had to be a spring located in the mountains. As the three children were still young, and because of the distance they had to travel, it took them almost a day to get there and back. In addition, they were responsible for the chores on the farm, such as cleaning, organizing tools, and cooking.

In the beginning, they were able to grit their teeth and persevere, but after a month, they did the same work every day, and Uncle Bear didn't seem to have any intention to teach them the knowledge of corn planting. Monkey finally could not stand it anymore, he said: "did not come to the farm before, I want to play where I can go, want to eat what you can eat, free as can be, the result to come here not only to be a servant but also can not learn anything, I quit!"

So, Monkey left the farm, leaving Piglet and Chicken to hold on.

In the second month, Uncle Bear arranged more tasks, they are also responsible for carrying goods, especially fertilizer is the last thing they want to see, and heavy, dirty, and smelly, a day down, in addition, to falling asleep and nothing else to do. So another month passed, and the chicken finally also can not stand, he said: "I figured out, as long as I grow up smoothly, become a big rooster, every day to do is to beat, you can live a peaceful life, why I want to work so hard?"

The chickens also left, and so only the piglet was left alone still insisting on working on the farm.

After that, Uncle Bear began to teach Piglet about growing corn, from selecting seeds to cultivating, from watering to removing insects, meticulously, and compared with the Uncle Bear Piglet knew at the beginning, he seemed to be a different person. Not only that, but Uncle Bear also gave Piglet a small piece of land to learn and try to grow corn by himself. Piggy thought to himself, even before the hard work he had persevered, after the hard work and what is it worth?

Although the piggy now only needs to do planting corn-related work, as long as he has time, he will go to do some more work, because he thinks anyway idle also have nothing to do, it is better to keep themselves busy and more fulfilling.

In this way the time came for the autumn harvest, and Uncle Xiong's farm was as usual full of people who came to buy corn, and the harvest was soon sold out, leaving only a small portion unbought, and that was the corn grown in Piggy's field.

Uncle Bear called Piggy and said, "Son, I have taught many students, although I did not expect the corn planted by a novice like you to be much better, like this year, it is the first time that nothing is sold. It seems that your talent is not here."

Piglet was sad that all the time he had spent learning on the farm had been wasted.

Uncle Bear said comfortingly, "No, it was not wasted. Remember the other two children who came to study with you? Compared with them, your persistence has brought a lot of wealth, for example, you have become stronger than before."

After Uncle Bear said so, Piggy noticed that he used to be fat and chubby, just like his father who was one size smaller, but now he was tall and strong, which was a testimony to the efforts he had been making.

Uncle Bear continued, "In addition, although your talent is not in planting corn, in fact, during this time you have discovered another talent, that is cooking ah!"

It turns out that since Monkey and Chicken left the farm, Piggy was in charge of the food alone. The most important thing on the farm is corn, so to make every meal have more delicious corn, piggy every day to find ways to make a fancy, today is boiled corn, tomorrow is baked corn, the day after is fried corn ...... over time, not only corn, piggy can cook a lot of dishes.

Uncle Bear smiled and said, "With your perseverance and effort, to seriously learn the culinary arts, then you will be able to become the best chef!"

So Uncle Bear introduced Piggy to his familiar cooking teacher to learn, Piggy still worked hard as before, and eventually, as Uncle Bear said, he became a famous chef.

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