To Speak or Not

Wow, you know, China has a long rich history, of course, it has many traditional folktales. Today, I will introduce one folktale called " To speak or not" from China.

It was said that in the early days not only people, but tigers, lions, elephants, trees, stones, in short, everything could talk. One day, everybody was talking at the same time. This woke up the God of Heavens. God angrily said, "Too many things can talk. I think I will just allow one species to talk. This way it won't be so noisy." But , who should talk and who should not talk?
To be fair, the heavenly God called everyone to assemble in front of him. He wanted everyone to drink the magic water. There were two kinds of magic water, one was the "talking water." If one drank it, he might continue to talk. The other kind was the "dumb water." If one drank this, he would not be able to talk anymore. So he scheduled a date for the water drinking event. When the day came, every object hurried to the pre-arranged place to drink the water. Since everyone was afraid that the supply of "talking water" would be completely consumed by those arriving first, they hurried and ran. Only the samll frog was left behind, hopping along. Because it was so slow, it became very worried. When Man saw it, he held up the little frog and kept on walking. The little frog was so thankful. He thought, "Only man has the kindest heart in this world. Man is so thoughtful, if he does not get a chance to drink the "talking water", it would be such a pity! I should think of some way to allow him to drink the water. But only one species could drink the "talking water". If Man drinks it, then I would not have any to drink. And I would not be able to talk anymore. The little frog thought and thought. He did not know what
to do. He looked up at Man. Man smiled at him and said, "Do not worry, little frog, I will get you there quickly." When the little frog heard this, he felt so embarrassed by his selfishness that he lowered his head. He thought, " I am too greedy. Man did not even think of himself. He only thought of getting me there in time. I have to get the talking water for Man to drink."

What happened? Would the little frog let Man drink "talking water" ? If you want to know the ending of story, please pay attention to my next blog. Thank you!!!