[Level 7] 236: 愚公移山・賣油翁 – The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains and the Old Oil Merchant – 2/6

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Everyone in the family nodded in approval, only his wife disagreed.
         

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His wife asked, "With your strength, you can't even level two small hills, let alone these two mountains!"
         

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Besides, even if you were able to level these two mountains flat, where would you put the dirt and stone afterwards?
         

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The Foolish Old Man said: "We'll just get rid of the dirt and stones at the shore, then it'll be fine."
         

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The Foolish Old Man took his children and grandchildren to dig up the dirt, split the stones, and worked together to move the sand and gravel to the shore.
         

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They also had a neighbor whose child, although only seven years old, enthusiastically went to help the Foolish Old Man and the others, and only came home once in the winter.
         


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