隐藏的金子
从前有一个农民，他有一座漂亮的橄榄园，他非常勤劳，农场在他的照管下蒸蒸日上。可他知道自己的三个儿子瞧不起农活，都迫不及待的想通过冒险发家致富。
这个农民快要死的时候，把三个儿子叫到身边说：“橄榄园里藏有一罐金子。你们想要就去挖吧。”
儿子们想让父亲告诉他们金子藏在果园的哪一块地方，可他什么也没有再对他们说。
那个农民死后，三个儿子就开始挖地，想找到那罐金子。因为他们不知道金子藏在什么地方，所以他们一致同意，排成一行，从果园的一头开始挖起，直到其中一人挖到金子为止。好像是有人把它偷走了，又或者他们的爸爸老糊涂了，三个儿子都因为一无所获而大感失望。
到了第2年橄榄收获的季节，果园里的橄榄树结出的果子比以往都多。卖完果子后，三个儿子赚了整整一罐金子。
他们突然明白了聪明的父亲所说的话的含义了。
The Hidden Gold
There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard. He was very hard working and the farm always prospered under his care, but he knew that his three sons looked down upon the farm work, and were eager to make wealth through adventure.
When the farmer was dying, he said to his sons,“ there's a pot of gold hidden in the olive orchard. Dig for it if you wish it.”
The sons tried to get him to tell them in what part of the orchard the gold was hidden, but he would tell them nothing more.
After the farmer's death, the sons went to work to find the pot of gold ,since they did not know where the hiding place was, they agreed to begin in a line ,at one end of the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money. But no pot of gold was to be found although they had turned up the soil in the whole orchard. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits,.The three sons were bitterly disappointed to have all their work for nothing.
The next oliver season ,the oliver trees in the orchard bore more fruit than they had ever given. The sons sold the fruit and got a whole pot of gold.
Then suddenly they understood what their wise father had meant.
这篇故事告诉我们一个道理，财富还是要靠自己的劳动才能获得。
任何空想或者是冒险都是不合实际的。
脚踏实地的做事吧，虽然靠勤劳不一定能致富，但懒惰造成的后果更严重。
小学一年级语文有一篇文章，内容如下：
人有两个宝，
双手和大脑。
双手会做工，
大脑会思考。
用手又用脑，
才能有创造。
大脑能思考的时候，可以创造更多的财富，但是仅仅靠双手，至少饿不死。
虽然有句名言说，劳力者至于人，劳心者治人。
但是当我们达不到劳心者的水平的时候，还是老老实实做一个劳力者吧。
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