Mother Hen’s family is very poor. They don’t have lots of money to buy food. Mother Hen often takes her children out to look for food. On a sunny day, Mother Hen plays with her children on the grass. She finds a grain(谷粒) of wheat (麦子). So she asks her children to plant (种植) it in the garden. But her children don’t do it. Mother Hen has to do it herself.
A few months later, they get a lot of wheat. She asks her children, “Who would like to take the wheat to the store and get some flour?” But her children don’t want to do it. So she takes the wheat to the store and brings the flour home.
After getting home, she asks, “Who will make some bread with the flour?” They all say,
“I’m not free.”
When she makes the bread, she says to her children, “Who wants to eat the bread?”
“I do,” they all say.
“No, you can’t. You don’t do anything before I make the bread. You must know ‘No pains,
no gains(不劳无获).’ She doesn’t give any bread to her children and she eats the bread herself.
