Unit 1 Cultural relics文化遗产晨读 · 记忆 A Brave Maid A wooden vase from the Ming Dynasty at the entrance of the reception hall amazed everyone
The artists designed it in a rare style and selected valuable jewels to decorate it
People thought highly of its fancy colour of honey and the beautiful paintings on it
The vase used to belong to a former castle
But when the country was at war, the enemy troops exploded the castle
Debates on how the vase survived went on and on
In order to remove people’s doubt, a team of no less than 20 people carried out an informal investigation
The evidences they found showed that a maid took the vase apart and asked a sailor to sink it in a local well
She never gave away the secret even under the cruel trial of the enemies who were in search of treasures
