God was very much afraid of the earth's rebel so he immediately made rain and carefully told the toad just to grind his teeth if the earth needed water. From that day on it may rain if t[r]
(1)SUE GOD FOR RAIN
Once upon a time, there was no rain for long, long time The ground cracked all over, all plants withered, animals had to suffer from
thirsty
There was so great a toad that he tried to find way to the heaven to let God know what life on the earth stood He departed his trip and on the way to the heaven he was supported and followed by a crab,
a bee, a fox, a bear and a tiger
At last they all were at the place they wanted to come The toad saw a drum at the heaven's gate so he asked the crab to hide himself in
the jar of water then told the bee to take shelter behind the door After all he suggested the rest to wait outside and came back when
needed Then the great toad marched forward and took the drumstick and beat the drum far-resoundingly Thunder genie was
asked to come out to see what happened He immediately turned back and said that there was no one but a little toad himself beating
the drum The news was annoying God so he asked a cock to peck the obstinate toad However, this cock was unlucky one, he was killed by the fox after he fulfilled the duty Suddenly a dog appeared
and tried to attack the fox but it was the right time for our bear showed his power The poor dog was hurled down right away and
died an instant death
The failure was instantly broken to God He was extremely angry and sent Thunder genie out to punish troublemakers at gate The genie violently came out with his thunder maker, unfortunately he was attacked by the bee as premonition The genie was so frighten
(2)from the crab's sharp pincers At last the tiger showed himself so bravely that made the violent genie stood as a stone status God was in an awkward situation so he had to invite the great toad and all of his friends into the court The toad after that told God that
there was no rain in the earth for four years Everything had faced death If things went on like that, there would be nothing survive God was very much afraid of the earth's rebel so he immediately made rain and carefully told the toad just to grind his teeth if the earth needed water From that day on it may rain if toad grinds his
teeth so there is a Vietnamese saying: "Toad is god's uncle