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A restaurant had one falled upon hard times. Only five 1 were left: the manager and four others, all
over 60 years old.
In the town near the restaurant there lived a successful
businessman who was good at managing business, so the manager2to ask the businessman if he could offer any advice that might save
the restaurant. The manager and the businessman talked for a long period of
time, but when he was asked for advice, the businessman 3for a while and then said, "I have no advice to give. The only
thing I can tell you is that the saver (救星) is one of you."
The manager, returning to the restaurant4,
told the other people what the businessman had said. In the months that5, the old restaurant workers thought carefully of the words of the
businessman, "The saver is one of us?" They asked themselves. As they
thought about this possibility, they all began to treat each other with6respect(尊重). And thinking that each
of themselves might be the saver, they also began to treat themselves with more
care.
As time went by, people coming to the restaurant7that some respect and warm kindness were around the five old members
of the small restaurant. Hardly knowing 8, more people began to come back to the restaurant. They began to
bring their friends, and theirs brought more friends. Two 9 later, the small restaurant
had once again become a big food company, thanks to the businessman's10. They understood that it was they themselves that were the savers.
