Many years ago three soldiers, hungry and tired, came to a small village. The villagers, suffering a(n) __1__ harvest and many years of war, quickly hid their food and met them at the village square. They wringed(搓) their hands and __2__ how little their food was.
The soldiers spoke quietly among themselves and the first soldier then turned to the village elders. “Your tired fields have left you nothing to __3__， so we’ll share what little we have: the secret of how to make soup from stones.”
