Chinese Traditional Story: You Will Not Lose It If It Belongs To You

During the Ming Dynasty, Scholar Zhou lived in Suzhou. Scholar Zhou was extremely poor and was willing to work hard. He was also an upright and virtuous person. Scholar Zhou rented an old house where the Han family lived long ago. One day when he demolished an old stove, he found that there were two big ingots hidden under the bricks. His wife was very excited to get this unexpected money. But Scholar Zhou told her, “This is not ours. We cannot keep it.” So, he wrote the following words on the ingots: “I will take it only if it belongs to me.”