So shovel by shovel the foolish man and his family worked on the job. Each bushel of rock they dug out of the hills they took to bury at the seas in the Far East. Each round trip takes a year to complete.
There was a wise man living in the same village. Upon seeing the foolish man at work, the wise man said disdainfully: "I've never known you to be smart, but I never realize you're stupid to this degree. Do you know how old you are? You'll be dead before you can alter an ants' nest, talking about moving mountains, indeed!"
To this the foolish man replied: "I might be dead alright, but the job will be done. I have sons and grandsons to carry on the work when I am gone. And they have sons and grandsons to carry on the work when they are gone. Little by little we are going to get it done."
When the gods governing the two mountains heard about this, they grew worried that the foolish man would be digging at their territories for ever without cease. They reported the foolish man to the God of Heaven.
The God of Heaven, touched by the very ceaselessness of the foolish man, had the mountains relocated in settling the dispute. The foolish man never found the two mountains in his way again.
The mountains, by the way, are the Taihang and the Wangwu mountains we know of today.
The moral of this story: Miracles may happen if you know what you're doing and keep doing it.
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