Grandma Rabbit picked a cabbage from the field. On the way home, she suddenly heard the cabbage making chirping and murmuring sounds. Grandma Rabbit was startled. How could a cabbage make sounds? Was there something wrong with her ears? She listened carefully again and indeed, the cabbage was murmuring to itself! Grandma Rabbit exclaimed, “Oh my, the cabbage is talking to itself!”
She tilted her ears and listened for a long time but still couldn’t understand what the cabbage was saying. She ran outside and called Mr. Cat. Mr. Cat perked up his ears and listened for a long time, but he couldn’t understand either.
Grandma Rabbit then asked Grandpa Rabbit. Grandpa Rabbit perked up his long ears and listened for a while. He said, “This cabbage must be speaking a foreign language. I… I can’t understand it either.” At this moment, a mother frog happened to pass by and, curious, came over to listen. Suddenly, Mother Frog screamed, “Oh, my baby, my poor baby!”
Grandpa Rabbit asked, “How did Grandma Rabbit’s cabbage become your baby? Did you understand what it was saying in a foreign language?”
Mother Frog said, “What foreign language? It can’t speak at all.” Mr. Cat also asked in surprise, “What? You say the cabbage can’t talk, but hasn’t it been chirping all this time?” Mother Frog explained, “No, there’s my baby inside the cabbage. He went missing two months ago. At that time, he had just transformed from a tadpole into a little frog and could only chirp and croak. He hadn’t learned how to talk yet!”
Grandma Rabbit was very anxious upon hearing this. She quickly put down her knife and carefully peeled back the cabbage leaves by hand. The cabbage got smaller and smaller, and finally, Grandma Rabbit found a little frog in the heart of the cabbage. It was chirping and croaking. It turned out that two months ago, the little frog had fallen asleep in the heart of the cabbage, and unknowingly, the cabbage had wrapped around it, keeping it there for two months.
To celebrate Mother Frog finding her baby, Grandma Rabbit made a pot of cabbage soup and invited Mother Frog and her son to join her. After drinking the soup, the little frog started chirping and croaking. “Oh my, my baby is praising Grandma Rabbit’s cabbage soup,” said Mother Frog. “He’s saying thank you, Grandma Rabbit!”
Mother Frog happily took her son home. From then on, whenever Grandma Rabbit cut a cabbage, she would always pat it a few times and listen carefully with her ears, afraid of harming any little life inside the cabbage.
Thank you for reading! ” Sitestorys “
