6. A Brave Maid

A wooden vase from the Ming Dynasty at the entrance of the reception hall

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(amaze) everyone. The artists designed it in a rare style and selected

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(value) jewels to decorate it. People thought highly

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its fancy colour of honey and the beautiful paintings on it.

The vase used to belong to a former castle.

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when the country was at war, the enemy troops exploded the castle. Debates on how the vase survived went on and on. In order

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(remove) people’s doubt, a team of no less than 20 people carried out

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informal investigation. The evidences they found showed

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a maid took the vase apart and asked a sailor to sink it in a local well.

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never gave away the secret even under the cruel trial of the enemies

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were in search of treasures.

It is worth

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(give) this brave maid a fortune in return.

solution

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.

It is worth giving this brave maid a fortune in return.

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