一个生长在孤儿院的男孩常常悲观而伤感地问院长:“像我这样没人要的孩子,活着究竟有什么意思呢?”院长总是笑而不答。有一天,院长交给男孩一块石头,说:“明天早上,你拿这块石头到市场上去卖,但不是‘真卖’。记住,无论别人出多少钱,绝对不能卖!”第二天,男孩来到市场,抱着那块石头蹲在市场的角落里,意外地有许多人向他买那块石头,而且价钱越出越高。回到孤儿院,男孩兴奋地向院长报告,院长笑笑,要他明天继续把石头拿到黄金市场去叫卖。男孩没想到,在黄金市场,竟有人出比昨天高十倍的价钱要买那块石头。 A boy growing up in an orphanage often pensively and sadly asks the dean: “What does it mean for a child like me to be alive?” Dean always laughed and said no. One day, the dean gave the boy a stone and said, “Tomorrow morning, you take this stone to the market to sell it, but it is not a 'real sale'. Remember, no matter how much money someone else can never sell!” Second Day, the boy came to the market, holding the piece of stone squatting in the corner of the market, unexpectedly many people bought him a stone, and the price goes higher and higher. Back to the orphanage, the boy excitedly reported to the president, the director smiled, asking him to continue to get the stone to the gold market tomorrow to sell. The boy did not expect, in the gold market, as many as ten times higher than yesterday, the price to buy the stone.