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“What are you doing here, when you should be in the sea?” said the Jade Emperor.

“Your majesty,” said the Long Dragon, “please send rain to the ______ right away. The

crops have shriveled and the people will starve!”

“Okay. Return to your places, and I will send the rain tomorrow,” the Jade Emperor
said.

As soon as the dragons returned to the sea, the Emperor forgot his promise.

Ten days ______, and still not a drop of rain fell on the land. The four dragons were

very upset by what they saw.

“If only there was a way that we could help them,” said the Black Dragon. Then the
Long Dragon looked back at the vast ______, and he said, “I have an idea.”

“There’s plenty of water in the sea, where we live,” said the Long Dragon. “If we

spray it into the sky, surely it will fall down like rain. The people and the crops will

be saved.”

“Very ______!” said the others.

“But if the Jade Emperor finds out, he might be angry,” the Long Dragon warned. “He
will think we took too much upon ourselves.”

“The people need us,” said the Yellow Dragon resolutely. “I will do anything to help

them.”

“We will ______ regret it,” said the Black Dragon.

So the four dragons scooped up water from the sea in their mouths, and they

flew over the land, spraying it everywhere. Back and forth they went, until the
clouds were dark and the sea water ______ onto the earth as rain. The withered

crops began to straighten up and grow green again.

People down below cheered and leapt with joy. “It’s raining, it’s raining! We

are saved!”

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