Many years ago, there lived a very rich man who wanted to do something good for the people of his town. But first he wanted to find out if they deserved (值得) his help. So he put a very large stone in the middle of the main road in the town. Then he stood behind a tree, waiting and watching.
Soon an old man came along with his cow. "Who put this stone in the centre of the road?" said the old man, but he didn't try to move the stone away. He passed around the stone with some difficulty and continued on his way. Another man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone in the centre of the road, but nobody tried to move it.
Late in the afternoon, a young man came along. He saw the stone and said, "It will be dark at night. Some people will come along later in the dark and will fall over the stone and get hurt." The young man then began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled and tried everything he could to move it out of the road. But to his surprise, under the stone he found a bag full of money and this message, "The money is for the person who moves this stone from the road. The person deserves help."
