The Empty Pot

Hello, today's blog will be about The Empty Pot. This story is a folk tale. A folk tale is a story that has been told for generations and has a moral or a lesson in it. This folk tale is about a boy named Ping. Ping loved to plant lots of flowers he had his own garden filled with flowers. Everyone in his town loved flowers. There was a Emperor and he set up a competition. The competition was, who ever could grow best flower they will be the new Emperor. Ping and all the other kids were so exited. They all went and got a seed from the Emperor. Ping and all the other kids were so exited. they all went back to the valley and then planted them. But the seed didn't work. So all the kids except Ping replaced the seed with another seed. Ping tried his seed that the Emperor gave him. It wasn't working, he was trying for so long and a whole year passed by. Then it was the day of the Emperor picking the best flower. Everyone had lots of different flowers, but Ping had a empty pot. He was so sad. The Emperor called everyone up one after the other. and then it was time for Ping, he was the last one. When he went up he started crying and he said, "I'm so sorry, I couldn't grow my seed. I've been trying. Everyday I water it, and I even changed the soil and pot. But it still didn't work". The Emperor said "The reason your seed didn't grow is because I cooked the seeds before giving it to you guys". Then the other kids were embarrassed. The Emperor was mad at all the other kids but not Ping. The other kids replaced the seeds but Ping didn't. Ping was honest and the Emperor made Ping the new Emperor. 

The morel of this story is, be honest and don't cheat.