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7. After a short pause, the young man started on
the first task of
stuffing the large earthen jars into the small ones. How did he do it?
He took the large jars outside and threw them down, smashing them into
pieces, and then put them into the small jars. The landlady said, "Stop
smashing!" but he continued to drop them until there were no large jars
left. The landlord quickly said, "Don't do it anymore! Forget it,
forget it, you win this round!"
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8. Without saying a word, the young man moved on
to the next task.
He grabbed a wooden rake and climbed up to the roof of the house.
Scrape, scrape, scrape, and the tiles were raked off the roof, and many
fell down and were broken. He was sunning the floor of the house. The
landlord said, "Oh, oh! Enough, enough, stop doing that! You have won
this round as well."
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| 9. The landlord lost on the first two tasks, and
suffered quite a
loss in the process, but he still thought that the young man would not
be able to answer the third question, and hence he would not have to
pay him his wages anyway. So he smugly said, "You tell me how much my
head weighs. I'm confident you won't be able to get this one!"
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Based on the folk tale of the same title from "At
Grandfather's Knee" edited by Margaret Milliken, adapted by
Teng Ming Xin and
Chen Jin Feng, illustrated by Chen Wei Zhen (aged 10) and Chen Wei Yin
(aged 8).
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