Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite1through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)2life, so he and his wife did all the work and3made them do anything.
After some time, his wife died and4he didn't want his children to5, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and6, and started to worry about his7when he died.
So he thought about this for a long time and he8his sons and said, "Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I've9all my gold in the fields, so it's up to you to plough (耕作) them and10the gold. "
And he called his neighbors and said, "I'm going to11and my children don't know how to12themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves. "
So the neighbors provided them with13for some time.
Certainly the brothers didn't want to be robbed of the14so they did the digging themselves. They15one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.
So the brothers sat down and one16the other, "Do you think our father17us?"
But the other brother said, "No, I think our father was saying that the18is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the19we can become rich. "
So like all the other20, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.