because of the protection of the well, we should build a brick wall, in the shape of a well, to protect our village,
shouldn’t we?” Everybody nodded their heads. However, another villager said, “But how about the other
villages? We should take their safety in account as well!” Finally, we decided to inform the other villages to
build a big ‘well’ together to protect our land. When the news was spread to other villages, more and more
villages joined the construction of the ‘well’. Owing to the large number of villages, the construction was
extended to the East and the West. It stretched over thousands of mountains in the north!
Somehow, the monster didn’t appear during the construction of the ‘well’. That may attribute to God’s
blessing, or the noise of construction scared the monster away. As all the villagers worked as one while building
the ‘well’, the well stretched for more than ten thousand miles. Nonetheless, as the monster didn’t appear again
in many years, all the villagers stopped constructing the well. It was thus incomplete and became a wall instead
of a ‘well’. Where is it now? It is the Great Wall of China!
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