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How can you move such big mountains? Where can you put all the stones and earth?"

It is very inconvenient for us to come and go.

Everybody said: "So long as we work hard together, we can certainly move away these twomountains.

One was the Taihang Mountain, the other the Wangwu Mountain.

Let our whole family exert efforts to move away these two mountains. How about it?"

Upon hearing this, all his sons and grandsons said: "You are right. Let us start tomorrow!"

He was nearly 90 years old.

One day, Yu Gong said to the whole family: "These two mountains block the doorway of ourhouse.

His neighbour was a widow with a son, only 7 or 8 years old.

The following day, Yu Gong led the whole family and started to move the mountains.

She said: "Do you know how high these two mountains are?

But his wife felt it too difficult to move the mountains.

There were two mountains in front of his house.

It was very inconvenient for people to come and go.

In ancient times, there was an old man named Yu Gong.

We can carry the stones and earth of the mountains to the sea."

When he heard of this, he also came to help happily.

"You are so old that you can hardly walk. Can you move the mountains?"

Yu Gong led his family digging the mountains continually from early morning till late night.

Zhi Sou, who thought himself clever, had nothing more to say.

Though I am about to die, I have sons.

If we work without stop every day, why can't we move away the mountains?"

They finally moved God, who sent two celestials to the world to move away these twomountains.

Not a grain of earth or a piece of stone will grow on the mountains.

They worked nonstop every day, fearing neither heat in summer nor cold in winter, neither windnor rain.

Yu Gong replied: "You are not even as clever as a child.

But with more and more stones being removed, smaller and smaller will the mountains become.

When my sons die, there are still grandsons.

Generation after generation, my offspring are endless.

When a shrewd old man named Zhi Sou saw Yu Gong's family moving the mountains, hethought it ridiculous and said to Yu Gong: