小学生英语故事比赛参赛故事

The Cock Crows at Midnight Once upon a time, there was a young man called Kao Y ubao.He lived in a poor family. When he was a child, he worked for a landlord. This landlord was very sly and greedy, and he always treated his farmhands very harshly. He made the farmhands work very hard and gave them little to eat. Naturally, all the farmhands hated him very much. Now the landlord had a cock, and the cock had a strange habit. It did not crow at dawn, but at midnight, every time, it began to crow, the landlor d would shout, “Get up, you lazybones! Get up and go to work! Lazybones!” So the farmhands had a deep hatred for both the landlord and his cock. Once, at midnight, Kao Y ubao got up and went to the wash room. Suddenly he saw the landlord sneak into the countryard . Then the man began to crow, just like the cock. After that, the landlord shouted at the workers: “Get up! Get up! Go to work!” Seeing this, Kao Y ubao knew that it was a trick. When he told the other farmhands what he had seen, they were very angry and decided to teach the landlord a lesson. The next night, as soon as the landlord stole into the courtyard, 1 Kao Y ubao ran out and shouted, “Come out! Come out! Stop the thief ! Stop the thief!” Immediately all the farmhands ran out with long sticks. They knocked the “thief” down and gave him a good beating. “Oh, it’s me, It’s me, Don’t beat me ! ” Begged the landlord who was still lying in the henhouse, “Y es, it’s you, the thief, we beat you hateful thief! Y ou dare to steal our chickens.” The farmhand sa id and did not stop beating him. After a heavy beating. The farmhands pretended not to know it was a thief but the landlord. The landlord stood up from the henhouse with chicken dropping. He was in pain and smelled: “…Go back to sleep! Y ou lazybones!” He s aid angrily. All the farmhands tried not to laugh. After that, the cock no longer crowed at midnight. 2