第 7 篇：A Brave Maid

A wooden 花瓶 from the Ming 王朝 at the entrance of the reception hall amazed everyone. The artists designed it in a 稀有的 style and selected valuable 宝石s to 装饰 it. People thought highly of its fancy colour of honey and the beautiful paintings on it. The vase used to belong to a former 城堡. But when the country was at war, the enemy troops exploded the castle. Debates on how the vase survived went on and on. In order to remove people’s doubt, a team of no less than 20 people carried out an informal investigation. The evidences they found showed that a maid took the vase apart and asked a sailor to sink it in a local well. She never gave away the secret even under the cruel trial of the enemies who were in search of treasures. It is worth giving this brave maid a fortune in return.