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One morning in 1982, in Mahu Village, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, Wan Yicai, the leader of a highway team who was on duty at night, heard the sound of rain outside the window.
He lifted the quilt and saw that the clouds were thick, just in time for the spring plowing season in the village.
In the early morning, Mahu Village was shrouded in mist, and Wan Yicai, the boss of the family, had already gotten up early in the morning. He put on an old plaid shirt and carried a steel shovel that had been used for more than ten years on his back, and prepared to go to the village canal to clean up the mud.
"Oops, it's raining again!" Walking outside, Wan Yicai couldn't help frowning. In the past two days, it has been raining lightly and coldly in the village, which will definitely bring a lot of silt to block the canal.
As the leader of the village road team, it is Wan Yicai's responsibility to take care of the smooth flow of the canal. Especially at this moment, when the village is already in the spring planting season, if the canal is silted up and affects irrigation, the consequences are unimaginable.
"Let's go to the aqueduct. Wan Yicai didn't care much, and hurriedly walked in the direction of the canal.
Sure enough, the sediment washed down by the rain for several days has blocked the entire irrigation canal. Wan Yicai immediately called the young and strong men in the village to form a team and began to clean up the silt in the canal.
In order to speed up the cleanup, Wan Yicai divided the entire canal into more than a dozen areas and assigned them to the villagers to start work separately.
Everyone is scrambling for a spot - the shallower the area, the lighter the work, the sooner you can finish and go home for the rainy day.
Eventually, only the deepest and farthest part of the canal remained. Wan Yicai saw it in his eyes and took the initiative to take over the hardest work. His two younger brothers joined him, fighting alongside him in the muddy waters.
This is the turning point in the lives of the three brothers of the Wan family. It was also from here that the indissoluble bond between the three brothers and a batch of Warring States ancient treasures kicked off......
"What's hard, big brother, come and take a look!" Just when the three brothers worked together to clean the deepest part of the canal, the third brother of the Wan family suddenly exclaimed.
Wan Yicai hurriedly rushed over to take a look, only to see a copper pot body coming out, pressing down the surrounding mud and sand. The three of them tried to pull it out, but the body of the pot was surprisingly heavy and solid.
"What is this? It's full of gold!" The three brothers were pleasantly surprised when the pot came out.
Experts quickly identified that this batch of gold and the copper kettle where it was located were all national treasure-level cultural relics in the Warring States Period, which were of great value and of great significance to historical research......
"Are these gold and copper kettles national treasures? Wan Yicai, the eldest of the three brothers of the Wan family, did not hesitate at all, and announced righteously.
The three brothers were born in a poor family and never valued money and material things. They understood the historical significance of these precious cultural relics and took the initiative to assume the social responsibility of handing over the national treasures.
"No, these are all treasures of our village, and they should be distributed to all the villagers fairly!" Everyone was unconvinced, eager to get a share of the gold.
"These cultural relics have mysterious inscriptions, not ordinary gold and silver, they belong to the entire Chinese nation!" Wan Yicai refuted it sternly and successfully persuaded the villagers.
With the help of the cultural relics department, the three brothers handed over the ancient treasures of the Warring States period weighing more than 40 kilograms completely without a single flaw. The noble quality of "picking up gold without ignorance" has won the praise of experts.
The government rewarded the three brothers with 10,000 yuan, but they did not spend a lot of time drinking, but used it to improve their lives, showing their unpretentious national character.
Other villagers were jealous of the government bonuses won by the three brothers of the Wan family, and they came to the door to demand a share of the gold. After being politely refused, they changed tactics and began to make trouble and insult the three brothers.
"It's all your luck that handed over all the treasures, so we didn't get a penny of bonuses!" The villagers accused the three brothers of not owning the gold.
"I think they might have swallowed half of it! Someone deliberately hit the reputation of the three brothers.
Under such groundless rumors and slander, the harmonious living conditions of the three brothers deteriorated rapidly. In order to escape the pressure, the second and third brothers had to leave their hometown, but Wan Yicai insisted on staying to protect the ancestral tomb.
After 40 years, the second and third brothers never had the courage to return to the village. And Wan Yicai has also endured the cold eyes and ridicule of the villagers for a long time, living in the shadow of rumors.
However, the three brothers never regretted choosing to hand in the national treasure in its entirety, because it was an honest and honest life choice. It is this noble spirit of enduring humiliation and burdens that makes the deeds of the three brothers shine brightly and resonate.
Time flies, years change. The ancient treasures of the Warring States period are still inlaid in the Nanjing Museum, becoming a magnificent national treasure of the mainland, attracting countless tourists to come to see it every year.
Wandering among the precious cultural relics, people will also casually catch a glimpse of a simple picture frame hanging on the display wall, which is a lifelike and illustrated introduction of the three brothers' "gold collection".
The touching deeds of the noble character of the three brothers have long been compiled into the history and moral textbooks of primary and secondary schools, and through vivid words and pictures, they have inspired batch after batch of primary and secondary school students.
Teachers also often use this story to teach students to be honest and trustworthy.
The three brothers used their simple lives to deduce the most basic moral bottom line of the Chinese nation; They have lit a lamp on the moral high ground in the bustling city, which is worthy of the pride and pride of every Chinese.
Every time I talk about this story, there will be a warm smile in the eyes of Chinese. Because that is where the moral essence of the Chinese nation lies, which has been passed down from generation to generation and has been passed down endlessly.
Since ancient times, China has admired virtues such as "picking up gold without ignorance" and "unswerving", which has achieved the solid and simple character of the Chinese nation. The story of the three brothers who did not blush when they saw the money and handed over the national treasure without hesitation is a concentrated embodiment of this character.
They are calm in the face of the temptation of money, unmoved in the face of pressure from other villagers, showing the moral bottom line in their bones.
Such a story is deeply moving, and since the deeds of the three brothers spread, it has been passed down from generation to generation among the people.
Parents use this story to teach their children the importance of honesty and trustworthiness, teachers to inspire patriotism in their students, and ordinary people to learn courage to move forward in difficult situations.
The story of the three brothers has become a vivid footnote to the spirit of the Chinese nation.
It is precisely this spirit that has enabled China to suffer repeated defeats and make a comeback in the long river of thousands of years of history. It is precisely this spirit that has enabled the Chinese nation to continue to thrive even when the tribulation strikes.
Today, on the road to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the "spirit of three brothers of ten thousand families" leads the Chinese people to continue to move forward and work hard.
It is the source of the Chinese Dream and the great spiritual driving force for the realization of the Chinese Dream of Chinese Rejuvenation.
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