Once upon a time, a king dressed up and went to a local village. He placed a large stone in the middle of the main road and hid gold coins under the stone. Then he hid behind a huge tree and watched.

The first person down the street was a milkman with his cart. He crashed into the stone and the milk spread all over the ground. “What fool put the stone here?” he shouted. He picked himself up and angrily went away.

After a while, a group of women came along, each balancing a pot of water on her head. One woman tripped over(绊倒) the stone and her water pot went crashing to the ground. She picked herself up and walked away in tears. Neither she nor her friends thought about moving the stone out of the road.

The king watched all day as many people complained about the stone, but he found nobody was willing to move it. The king wondered, “Is there no one in this village who feels any responsibility to keep their neighbors from harm?”

Just then, the king saw a young girl coming along. She was the daughter of a local farmer. She had been working all day and was very tired. But when she saw the stone, she said to herself, “This stone is a danger to anyone who comes down the road after dark. I’ll move it out of the way.”

After a great deal of effort(努力), the girl finally succeeded in moving the stone to the side of the road. And, she saw the gold coins.

Just then, the king stepped out from behind the tree. “Oh sir,”the girl said. “Is this gold yours? If not, we surely must find the owner, for he will certainly miss it.”

The king said, “My dear, the gold is mine, but now the gold is yours, because you are the only person who has learnt the lesson I want to teach my people. Nothing good can come to a nation whose people only complain and expect others to solve their problems.”

A story tells of a businessman in a small town who had twin sons. The boys worked for their father in the store he owned, and when he died, they took over the store.

Everything went well until the day a dollar bill disappeared. One of the brothers had left the bill on the cash register（收银机）and walked outside with a customer. When he returned, the money was gone. He asked his brother, “Did you see that dollar bill on the cash register?” His brother replied that he hadn’t. But the young man kept questioning. “Dollar bills just don’t get up and walk away! Surely you must have seen it!”

There was a little of anger in his voice. Resentment（怨恨）set in and it divided（使……分歧）the young men. They finally decided they could no longer work together and they built a wall in the center of the store. For twenty years anger grew, spreading to their family.

Then one day a man in a car stopped in front of the store. He walked in and asked the clerk, “How long have you been here?” The clerk replied that he’d been there all his life. The customer said, “I must share something with you. Twenty years ago, I came into this town. I hadn’t eaten for three days. I came into this store from the back door and saw a dollar bill on the cash register. I put it in my pocket and walked out. All these years I haven’t been able to forget that. I know it wasn’t much money, but I had to come back and ask your forgiveness.”

The stranger was amazed to see tears well up in the eyes of this middle-aged man. “Would you please go next door and tell that same story to the man in the store?” he said. Then the man was even more amazed to see two middle-aged men, who looked very much alike, hugging each other and weeping together in the front of the store.

After twenty years, the wall of resentment that divided them came down.