29 浇菜的园丁

The gardener watering the vegetables

A man passed a gardener who was watering his vegetables and he stopped to ask him why the wild vegetables were flourishing and vigorous while the cultivated ones were sickly and puny.

The gardener replied: “it is because the Earth is a mother to the one and a stepmother to the others.”

Similarly, the children fed by a stepmother are not nourished like those who have their true mother.