賊 The Painting Named Thief

賊  The Painting Named Thief

有一位青年畫家，在還沒成名前，住在一間狹隘的小房子裡，靠畫人像維生。
Once upon a time, there was a young painter lived in a small narrow house, he was living by painting portraits before he became famous.

一天，一個富人經過，看他的畫工細緻，很喜歡，便請他幫忙畫一幅人像。
雙方約好酬勞是一萬元。
One day, a rich man asked the young painter to paint a portrait for him and agreed to pay 10,000 dollars to the young painter.

一個星期後，人像完成了，富人依約前來拿畫。這時富人心裡起了歹念，欺他年輕又未成名，不肯按照原約定付給酬勞金。 
After a week, the portrait was done. The rich man came to take the painting as agreed. At this moment, the rich man came up an evil idea of bullying the unknown young painter, so he refused to pay the remuneration.

富人心中想著：「畫中的人像是我，這幅畫如果我不買，那麼絕沒有人會買。我又何必花那麼多錢來買呢？」 
於是富人賴賬，他說只願花三千元買這幅畫。 
The rich man thought, "This is my portrait, who will buy it other than me. So, I dont need to pay so much for my portrait." He said to the young painter, "I will only pay 3,000 dollars to buy this painting."

青年畫家傻住了，他從來沒碰過這種事，心裡有點慌，花了許多唇舌，向富人據理力爭，希望富人能遵守約定，做個有信用的人。 
The young artist was stunned, he had never come across such things. He strongly argued on just grounds, he is expecting the rich man to abide by the agreement and to be a trustworthy man. But it was no use.

「我只能花三千元買這幅畫，你別再囉唆了。」富人認為他居上風。最後，我問你一句，「三千元，賣不賣？」 
"I would only pay 3,000 dollars" said the rich man. This is your last chance, "3,000 dollar, to sell it or not?"

青年畫家知道富人故意賴賬，心中憤憤不平，他以堅定的語氣說：「不賣。我寧可不賣這幅畫，也不願受你的屈辱。今天你失信毀約，將來一定要你付出二十倍的代價。」 
The young artist knew the rich man deliberately went back on his word, so he felt indignant. He said in a firmly, "No. I would prefer not to sell the painting rather than to be humiliated by you. Today you break your words and someday you must pay back in 20 times." 

「笑話，二十倍，是二十萬耶！我才不會笨得花二十萬買這幅畫。」
The rich man looked very disdain and said, "kidding me, 20 times? I would not pay 200,000 dollars to buy this portrait."

「那麼，我們等著瞧好了。」青年畫家對悻悻然離去的富人說。
"Well, we'd better wait and see!" the young artist said to the rich man who left angrily.

經過這一個事件的刺激後，畫家搬離了這個傷心地，重新拜得明師，日夜苦練。 
皇天不負苦心人，十幾年後，他終於闖出了一片天地，在藝術界上，成為一位知名的人物。
A dozen years later, the young painter finally blazed a new way and became famous in the circle of art. 

那個富人呢？ 自從離開畫室後，第二天就把畫家的畫和話淡忘了。
That rich man had forgot his words with the young painter on the next day.

直到那一天，富人的好幾位朋友不約而同的來告訴他： 
「好友！有一件事好奇怪喔！這些天我們去參觀一位成名藝術家的畫展，其中有一幅畫不二價，畫中的人物跟你長得一模一樣，標示價格二十萬。好笑的是，這幅畫的標題竟然是《賊》。」
One day, the rich man was been told by his friends that there was a painting named "Thief" in the exhibition of paintings. It is so ridiculous that the painting of "Thief" look alike him.’  

富人好像被人當頭打了一棍，富人想起了十多年前畫家的事。這件事對自己傷害太大了，他立刻連夜趕去找青年畫家，向他道歉，並且花了二十萬買回那幅人像畫。 
The rich man seem remembered something about ten years ago. It hurts him so much. The rich man had quickly apologized to the artist and pay 2000,000 dollars to buy back the portrait. 

青年憑著一股不服輸的志氣，讓富人低了頭。
這個年輕人名叫 - 畢卡索。
This is the end of the story. The name of this young artist was - Pablo Picasso.


這給了我們一個啟示：「人活著要爭氣，不要洩氣，把挫折當成階梯，努力不懈，假以時日，一定會完成心願的！」
你相信嗎？沒有人能屈辱你、打敗你，除了你自己。
This gives us a revelation: "do not be discouraged and frustrated, no one can humiliating you and beat you, except yourself."