fool on the top

"Foolish man." (愚公)

Once upon a time in China，the man who called like that was present.
　
He lived in inland China with his family.
And his house had been sandwiched between two big mountains.
their life had been forced to very inconvenience by it.
　
"If these mountains disappear，our lives is going to be easier."
　
One day，he decided to leveled these mountains.
And he and his children began packed the soil of mountains in the bag.　

"But we must not give trouble to others.
Place that does not give the trouble to others.
We must discard the soil there."

Eventually, they decided to throw it away into the sea.
But the sea was very far.
They took half a year to the round trip.
　

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"You are a fool.
You carry a small bag on shoulder.
And half a year at one round trip.
If you are to do that，these mountains will disappear when?"

He was ridiculed of course from people who saw it.

"Fool is you guys."
　
But he replied with a smile against it.
　
"Yes，it may be impossible in my lifetime for sure.　
But I have children.　
And future, they will have a child.
　
They will continue carry the soil.
But mountain does not increase any more.
Nevertheless these mountains does not disappear.
Although this would be too obvious，such a thing is impossible."
　
He said so in a cheerful mood.　
　

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"He is a fool.
Human eliminate these mountains.
Such a thing is impossible."

Persons who was laughing like that against him.
It was also present in the other.
However they were not human.
They were these mountains gods.
　
"This is dangerous.
This man may accomplish this."
　
But they heard his words and became anxious.

"If mountain disappears, we must also disappear.
For the time of what-if，we want to move to a different place."
　
And they appealed like that to the God of heaven.　(天帝 of course God of China)
God listened to this appeal and moved these mountains.
　
After this，big mountain no longer exists in its periphery.
　
And they lived happily ever after.