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Editor|Yusha
preface
"Dad, come and see what's in this rat hole."
In 2003 Jiayuguan, Gansu, Ma Zhankai was arranging a clamp for clamping mice, heard his daughter-in-law's shout, Ma Zhankai hurriedly walked over and found that his daughter-in-law Liu Caixia was squatting next to a mouse hole, Ma Zhankai followed Liu Caixia's gaze and found that there seemed to be something stuck in this mouse hole.
Ma Zhankai squatted down to observe carefully, and found that it was a golden brand, Ma Zhankai tried to take out this gold medal, but because the hole was too small, this gold medal had been stuck in the hole and could not come out, so Ma Zhankai took a hammer to expand the hole and was able to take out this gold medal.
Ma Zhankai and Liu Caixia quickly took the gold medal to the sun for careful identification, and they found that the gold medal was engraved with the words "one or two salaries", and at the same time, the words "Republic of China" on the back. After seeing the true face of this gold medal, Ma Zhankai intuited that he was a modern cultural relic and very valuable.
Why did this gold medal appear in the rat hole, and what will Ma Zhankai's family do with this gold medal?
Because the gold medal leads to family conflicts
Because of this gold medal, Liu Caixia has always been immersed in joy, she feels that she is about to become rich, in order to verify the authenticity of this gold medal, Liu Caixia and Ma Zhankai came to the place of gold appraisal, let professional technicians identify this gold medal,
And the identification results are not expected by Liu Caixia, this gold medal is the gold medal of the Republic of China, not only very valuable, but also very collectible, technicians said that this gold medal is very pure gold, and the weight is more than three hundred grams, according to the average gold price of the year 90 yuan a gram estimate, this gold medal is worth at least 30,000 pieces.
The appraisal staff said that if Liu Caixia was willing to sell this gold medal, he was willing to pay 40,000 yuan to receive this gold medal. In 03, 40,000 yuan is a huge amount of money that a peasant family may not earn in a lifetime, Liu Caixia was very happy to hear the words of the staff, and she even began to fantasize about her life after becoming rich.
Because there was no money, when she got married, her husband did not even buy three gold for herself, Liu Caixia secretly decided in her heart that she would sell this gold medal and then buy a set of three gold for herself, she followed her husband for so many years, and gave birth to a son to her husband, and her request was not excessive.
But unexpectedly, Ma Zhankai picked up the gold medal very angrily after hearing that his daughter-in-law was going to sell the gold medal and went home, letting Ma Caixia shout in the back, Ma Zhankai seemed to be firm in his mind and returned home without looking back.
Liu Caixia was also confused when she saw her father-in-law's attitude, she didn't understand why her father-in-law was angry, so at dinner at night, Liu Caixia mentioned this matter again, but what he didn't expect was that Ma Zhankai directly rejected his suggestion and said that he must hand over this gold medal to the country.
For Ma Zhankai's decision, Liu Caixia did not understand very much, the two broke up again unhappy, in the evening, Liu Caixia told her husband about this matter, hoping that her husband could help him persuade Ma Zhankai, and after listening to Ma Caixia's story, her husband also felt that Ma Caixia's decision was very correct, and decided to persuade her father for her daughter-in-law.
But what the couple did not expect was that in the face of their son's persuasion, Ma Zhankai's attitude was still very resolute, even if his son persuaded his most beloved grandson's education to no avail, Ma Zhankai seemed to have an iron heart and decided to hand over this gold medal to the state, and it was useless for anyone to persuade.
Looking at her father-in-law's resolute attitude, Ma Caixia decided not to persuade, she stole this gold medal and sold it, by then the raw rice has been cooked and matured, her father-in-law can naturally only accept this reality, after this idea, Liu Caixia soon began her own actions, but the gold medal has always been kept by her father-in-law, and no one knows where this gold medal is hidden.
So Liu Caixia decided to take advantage of Ma Zhankai's work to go to Ma Zhankai's room to look for this gold medal, but what she didn't expect was that she did not find this gold medal in her father-in-law's room, but let her father-in-law discover her behavior because of her recklessness.
And this incident made the relationship between the two drop to freezing point again, Ma Zhankai was very angry, and even threatened that if there was another time, he would break off relations with his son and move out, looking at his father-in-law's resolute attitude, Liu Caixia was also angry, she felt that her father-in-law did not think about this family at all.
This matter is backlogged in Liu Caixia's heart, which makes her temper become very irritable, and naturally has little patience when facing her husband, so the two often quarrel, and even make trouble to the point of divorce. Seeing that his son's family was about to be broken, Ma Zhankai couldn't sit still, and he decided to talk to his daughter-in-law about his reasons to ease the relationship between the two.
The hidden feelings behind the gold medal turned in are moving
In the old man's story, Liu Caixia gradually understood the old man's suffering, and it turned out that the old house with this gold medal was not the ancestral home of Ma Zhankai's family, but the old house of Ma Zhankai's father's friend, who had previously joined the Kuomintang, and then went to Taiwan with the Kuomintang after the Kuomintang defeated Taiwan, and he has not been heard from since he arrived in Taiwan.
Before leaving, this friend entrusted his parents to Ma Zhankai's father, and promised that he would come back, but he did not expect that after arriving in Taiwan, he sent a letter to his family and became silent, and over the years, with the death of the old man, this house gradually became an old house that no one lived in.
And Ma Zhankai died because of his wife's difficult childbirth, and he worked hard to raise his son alone, until his son married his daughter-in-law and had a child, he gradually realized that he could not live with his son, which would be very inconvenient, but he had no money to buy another house for his son, so he turned his attention to this old house.
He decided to go to this old house to live temporarily, and when the descendants of the old man came back, he would return the house to him, but the old house was in disrepair and was dilapidated and uninhabitable, so he began to prepare to repair the house and live again, and this house has not been inhabited for many years, so there are many rats.
In order to control the rats, Ma Zhankai bought a lot of rat traps and rat poison. It was when these rat traps were arranged that they discovered the gold medal, and after discovering this gold medal, Ma Zhankai thought that it might be a gold medal left by his father's friend to his family, so he prepared to keep this gold medal properly and give it to those who came back to find their roots.
Because the value of this gold medal is too great, Ma Zhankai always feels unsteady, so he found the only letter between his father and the old man before, and sent a letter to Taiwan according to the address above, thinking that this letter would be the same as before, but what he didn't expect was that he received a reply from Taiwan a week later.
The letter replied that after Ma Zhankai's father's friend came to Taiwan, he missed his hometown very much, but because cross-strait relations were relatively tense at that time, he never had the opportunity to return to his hometown, and he, like most Taiwan veterans, did not live in Taiwan, and he never married in his life, and he also died of illness a month before the realization of cross-strait three links.
After seeing this letter, Ma Zhankai was very sad, but there was another problem, since his father's friends no longer had relatives in the world, how should this gold medal be handled, Ma Zhankai made a difficulty, but he remembered his father's instructions before his death, so he decided that he wanted to be an honest person, and he could not steal other people's property because people were gone.
And he has borrowed their family's house, this gold medal can not be owned by himself in any case, so he made the decision to hand over this gold medal to the state, after talking about these things, Ma Zhankai said to Liu Caixia with tears in his eyes: "A person, if he does not even have the most basic integrity, then he is completely finished."
After listening to her father-in-law's words, Liu Caixia suddenly woke up, she finally understood her father-in-law's good intentions, she understood that what is not her own is not her own after all, wealth is created by her own hands, she agreed with her father-in-law's decision to hand over this gold medal, and reconciled with her husband, and the family finally returned to its former tranquility.
Accompanied by his son and daughter-in-law, Ma Zhankai came to the local police station and handed over the gold medal, and after the local government heard about this matter, it was moved by Ma Zhankai's selfless dedication and came to Ma Zhankai's house to praise Ma Zhankai and give a bonus of 500 yuan.
And Ma Zhankai gave the 500 yuan bonus to his son and asked him to sell three gold to his daughter-in-law, Liu Caixia was also very moved when she heard about this matter, and secretly swore in her heart that she must honor the old man well in the future. The couple helped the old man repair the old house to facilitate the old man's life in the future.
And when repairing the house, they finally knew why the gold medal was in the rat den, it turned out that there was a dark compartment above the mouse hole, in order to prevent loss, Ma Zhankai's father's friend's family hid this gold medal inside, thinking of waiting for his son to come back to him, but what he didn't expect was that his son's departure was forever separated.
Later, the house gradually became an old house uninhabited, and the mouse pierced the dark compartment when it punched the hole, and the gold medal fell in the rat's nest, fortunately the rat did not eat the gold, otherwise the gold would not have been preserved to the present.
epilogue
Ma Zhankai and Liu Caixia's mutual understanding has brought the family back to harmony, in our daily life, it is necessary to communicate more, solve misunderstandings in time, and learn to think differently, which is the secret of family harmony, and Ma Zhankai's selfless dedication is also very touching and worth learning.