一塊大金子

Once upon a time there was a rich village. Thewealthiestofthevillagersdecidedtohideahuge lump of gold to protect it from bandits and rob-bers. So he buried it in a nearby rice field.

Manyyearslater，thevillagewasnolongerrich， and the rice field was abandoned and unused. Apoor farmer decided to plow thefield. Aftersometimeplowing，it justsohappenedthathisplowstruck the long forgotten buried treasure.

At first he thought it must be a very hard treeroot. But when he uncovered it， he saw that it wasbeautiful shining gold. Since it was daytime he wasafraid to try and take it with him. So he covered itup again and waited for nightfall.

The poor farmer returned in the middle of thenight. Again he uncovered the golden treasure. Hetried to lift it， but it was far too heavy. He tied ropesaround it and tried to drag it. But it was so huge hecouldn ’t budge itaninch. Hebecamefrustrated，thinkinghewasluckytofindatreasure，andun-lucky not to beable to take it with him. Heeventriedkickingthehugelumpof gold. Butagainitwouldn ’t budge an inch.

Then he sat down and began to consider the sit-uation. He decided the only thing to do was to breakthe lump of gold into four smaller lumps. Then hecould carry home one piece at a time.

He thought，“One lump I will use for ordinaryday-to-day living. The second lump I will save for arainy day. The third lump I will invest in my farm-ing business. And I willgain merit with thefourthlump by giving it to the poor and needy and for oth-er good works.”

With a calm mind he divided the huge lump ofgold into these four smaller lumps. Then it was easyto carry them home on four separate trips.

Afterwards he lived happily.

從前有一個(gè)富裕的村莊。（剩余506字）