The Magic Stone

Once upon a time, in the ancient China Three Kingdom, there is small village where argriculture is the main source income. There is farmer family working very hard on their padi farm for a living. Every year they have to earn enough money to paid the King for the lease of farm land. Their life will become harder while there is drought season. They have little daughter named Little Rain. Traditionally, girl is considered unable to help much in the farm as a boy, the parent are longing for a son and do not like her. If she make small mistake also being scolded badly. Due to this up-bringing she felt scared, small and lack of confident.

Althoght she always try working very hard, try to her best to finish her work and satisfy her parants and to prove herself. Of course, sometimes she also feel sad and run away to the river side to calm herself down. She like to listen to the peaceful water flow sound like the music that can confort her sadness. She always see herself in the water reflection and wish to become a someone bold and confident.

One day, when she ran to the river side again she saw a wounded cheetah lying in the water. Little Rain went to help the cheetah and its was too late. Before the cheetar took his last breath, he said with a voice in pain "Little girl, you are very brave and helpful. I was shot when I want to protect my family from taken away by the King for our fur. I love my daughter very much, she is about the age of you. So if you need help, i hope my spirit will be with you". When the cheetah died, Little Rain use her hand to closed his eye. Suddenly, the cheetah vanishing and turned into a stone with cheetah strip. She pick up and the stone to keep. When she try to dry the stone by wrapping it and look into the water she find herself become a bold cheetah with a lot of wisdom. She rubbed again the stone, she will became back a girl.

One summer season, the draught was very bad until everyone in the village could not get the harvest to pay the lease for the farm land. The King sent his soilder to force the people to paid. This was happen first to her neighbour where the soilders will catch the famer daughter and force her to work as servant in the palace. She quickly took out the stone and rubbed it. She become a bold cheetah and fight with the soilder. The bold cheetah caught the General and forced him down to the ground, it raor and said : " Bring me to the King. I want to talk to him." The General agreed and brought the cheetah to the castle to see the king.

In the castle, the cheetah saw the King's family, the Queen and the princess are playing in the garden. The cheetah attacked the princess who was the only daughter of the King. The King run out quickly to the garden and try to save his daughter. The cheetah raor and said : "Do you still remember me? My family being killed by you for our fur. Do you know how painful when your happy family being destroyed by other people and you can't protect them?" The King felt very worried and the begged the Cheetah : " Please, please don't hurt my daughter, my crual action is nothing to do with her .. . please" He added regrettedly and nobed his head : "I am wrong. Please forgive me." The cheetah continue to said : "Just now you ordered your soilder to the village to force the farmer to pay lease of farm land. If they can't pay, you caught their daughter. Do you aware that you are distroying the famers family for your own benefit?" The King felt very guilty. The cheetah rubbed the stone and suddenly Little Rain appeared infront of the King holding the princess hand. The King felt released when he saw the cheetah disappeared. The King asked mysterislly : " What happen? Where is the cheetah?" Little Rain released the hand of the princess to the arm of the King and said : " The cheetah is always with me, his wisdom is always with me." The King asked:" Who are you and where you come from?" Litter Rain said :"Your masjesty, I'm Litter Rain who stay in the village. I try to save the cheetah previously and now I want to save my village. As you know, our village had very bad draugh and everyone in the village have no harvest. If you distroyed all the farmers' family, who is going to take care of the farm land and no one will even pay the lease anymore?" The King realised that and asked, "What is your advise?". Little Rain said, " Very simple, we just need to help each other to get through this bad summer. You should deploy your soilders to help dig well and build channel to bring water from nearby river." The King agreed and carried out the plan accordingly.

A few weeks later, the first channel was built to bring water the wells for watering the farm. The villagers very thankful for Little Rain bravery , kindness and willing to sacrify for the village. From this incident, Little Rain's father and the rest of the farmers family also change their conventional perception that girls are not helpful to the family and they live happily ever after.

THE END


The Moral of the Story:
1) "Don't live in people perception, if you think you are small, you will be small. You can be what you want to be if you believe to do it in it."
2) "Single party benefit will not prolong and last forever. Helping each other to achieve the goal in a win-win situation is always the right way that will last forever!"