One morning our new neighbor saw my grandfather planting two rare tree saplings(树苗）in our garden. And he also planted the same kind of tree saplings in his garden. My grandfather gave1enough amount of water to his plants and didn't always give them full 2while our neighbor gave a lot of water to his plants and 3them too well. My grandfather's plants were simple but looked good, 4our neighbor's plants were much fuller and greener.
Normally, in summer, we have strong thunderstorms called "Kalboishakhi" which can bring great damage to life and 5. After a "Kalboishakhi", my grandparents and I came out to6the damage to our garden and saw the neighbor was in his garden, too, but look 7as his plants were uprooted. Our plants weren't damaged and were standing 8 on the ground, our neighbor was9 to see this, and he came up to my grandfather and said with10, I actually looked after my plants better than you did for yours. 11, my trees came off from the roots, but yours didn't. How is this12?"
My grandfather smiled and said, "You gave your plants more attention and water, so they didn't have the 13to work themselves for anything. I gave them just the ample amount of and manure (肥料），letting their14 search for more;thus they went deeper and made their position stronger, That is why my plants15 With an expression of deep16 our neighbour nodded17It made me realize then that though my grandfather was 18with me on many occasions even during our vacations with his do's and don'ts, I became aware that anything 19got or can go off that much more easily and we will not 20the hard work it takes earn those things."
