Tales series

Mohammed Makram Balaawi

How much the squirrel loves acorns. Acorns are a squirrel's favorite food, but acorns are not available in winter. So what do squirrels do in the winter? In the summer, squirrels collect acorns and store them in secret places, and when winter comes with its cold and snow, the squirrels bring out the hidden acorns and eat them. But one squirrel had other plans. This squirrel wanted to become the leader of all the squirrels. Do you know what he did since the beginning of summer? He collected acorns day and night without stopping. The squirrel's action raised the eyebrows of the other squirrels, even a good squirrel named "Jude" once told him, "Lee Lee, work moderately so you don't die of fatigue, food is plentiful and sustenance comes from God, but Lee Lee didn't care and kept collecting and collecting more and more when he collected a large amount of fruits, he didn't know where to put them, Lee searched until he found a big hole as if he was looking for them. until he found a big hole like a cave under an old tree and put everything he collected in it. As the days passed, the whole cave was filled with huge amounts of fruits. When the other squirrels wanted to collect some fruits, they found only small amounts of fruits, the squirrel "Jude" told them to work as much as you can and God will provide for you. Lee Lee laughed at them and thought about the day when the squirrels would come asking for help.
Winter and snow came early that year, the squirrels ate what little acorns he had stored, and Lee Lee had hidden his fruit-filled cave well, digging his food out of small holes, and when the squirrels ran out of food, they once again turned to Li Li for help. But he said that his food was small and barely enough for him, so everyone was surprised by his words and asked him about the large amounts of food he was hiding, but he denied it. The squirrel "Jude" took out what little food he had left and asked everyone to bring what they had and put it together, then they divided the food equally between them.
The squirrels gathered and decided to ask Lee Lee for help again, but this time he agreed to help them on the condition that they would make him their leader, and that they would return what they would take from him in the summer tenfold. "You're too greedy to be a leader, you greedy bastard," they all shouted at him.
Jude the squirrel shouted:
"God will not abandon us, friends, let us search well under the snow, for I am sure God will provide for us."
The squirrels searched and searched until they almost died of hunger and cold, and Lee Lee waited for the day when the squirrels would accept his terms. One day, Jude couldn't continue searching because he was too tired, and he was eating snow because he was thirsty. Suddenly his hand hit something hard, an acorn, and another, and another, and another, and another, and his hand stretched into a sea of acorns, and every time he took one, another appeared. Jude took the acorns and distributed them to the other squirrels, replacing them with hard shells. Days passed and Lee Lee wondered where the squirrels got their food from until he suspected they had found his cave. Lee Lee went secretly went to his cave under the tree, opened the door and found that the acorns had not diminished without realizing that the acorns he had put in the cave had come out the other side of the tree, where Jude had found them.
The days passed and the winter was coming to an end, and the squirrels did not accept Lee Lee's conditions nor did they need his food, and when his food buried in the pits was over, he began to take from his cave, and he saw that there was a lot of peel among the fruits, and finally he decided to watch Jude to see where he was getting the fruits from, and saw him taking acorns from the other side of the tree under which his cave was under and putting peels instead. Lee Lee attacked Jude and a battle broke out between the two of them, and all the squirrels gathered.
Lee Lee said:
"You are a thief, Jude, you stole the acorns that I stored and put the shells instead."
The squirrels said:
"Weren't you telling us that you don't have any fruits, how can you say that these fruits are yours?
"Mine are mine."
"They are my fruits and you have eaten them, so you must make me your leader and pay me back ten times what you have taken."
The squirrels said:
"If we must have a leader, it is Jude, who sacrificed his comfort for us, but you, you miserly squirrel, have no place among us, so find another forest and become the leader of its squirrels."
The squirrels chased after Lee Lee and he ran away and disappeared forever.