Doing good deeds is like the grass of a spring garden, which does not see its growth, but increases day by day; Evil deeds are like sharpening stones, which do not disappear, but are degraded day by day.
Doing good does not need to be seen, and it has a thousand years of blessings.
After saying these two words of the ancients, I have a lot of feelings about doing good during this time, and I have read many stories, so I want to write these down, so that we can see how the people who insisted on doing good in history did good deeds and what the end of their good deeds was.
1.Huang Ruji has 2,000 living people and five sons
During the Xuanhe period of the Song Dynasty, there was a person named Huang Ruji in Zhejiang, who was very rich, but when the Shangla uprising and the rebellious army attacked their hometown, he hid all the money and then ran out to hide.
Although he was safe, he heard that Fang La's army had taken more than 2,000 people captive and imprisoned them all in one place, and then he let out a message telling the families of these people to take money to ransom them, otherwise they would all be killed.
When he saw that these people had no family to ransom, he was very anxious, gritted his teeth, dug up all the money he had hidden, and brought valuable things with him, worth a total of 20,000 yuan, and sent them all to the barracks to ransom these lives.
More than 2,000 people were all saved, and they wept and thanked him, and shouted his name to thank him.
He didn't think about getting anything good for doing good deeds. That night, he dreamed that a golden armor god came down from heaven and said to him, "God has a will, because you have saved many people, and you have given you five sons to ascend to the department." ”
Later, his five sons Huang Kai, Huang Ge, Huang Yue, Huang Wen, and Huang Zhi were all admitted to the Jinshi.
The robbery is a catastrophe in the world, it is difficult to avoid, although the rescue is against the sky, but it is the heart of the sky, because God has the virtue of good life, since this virtue saves people, your heart is consistent with the heart of heaven, how can you not be blessed by God?
2.Fu Zhan endured hunger in the whole county, and his descendants were feuded as marquises
The minister of the Han Dynasty, Fu Zhan, a native of Langya County, he was too punctual in the plains, and the soldiers rose up in the first years, and the world was disturbed, but there was a grain harvest failure, and countless people could not eat.
Then he said to his wife, "The whole world is starving, how can we bear to be satisfied?" Let's share it with everyone. "Like the common people, their family ate all the coarse grains, and bought the grain they bought and distributed to the villages. More than 100 people came to his house for dinner.
He had a butler who was very brave, so he wanted to raise troops for Fu Zhan, but Fu Zhan knew that this was the root cause of the murder, and all the people of the county would suffer, so he arrested the butler and killed him. In the war at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the safety of the people in Taiyuan was preserved.
Later, he became an official to Situ, a marquis, and a hereditary title for his descendants.
3.The whole Lu family has been an official for generations
Quan Cong, the word Zijin, a native of Qiantang in Wu County, was a famous general of Sun Wu during the Three Kingdoms. His father, Quan Rou, was silent and modest, good at gathering wealth, and asked Quan Cong to transport more than 1,000 stones of rice to the market to sell. It was a drought and the people had nothing to eat, so he gave all the food to the poor and drove home on an empty boat.
Naturally, my father was very angry and scolded him, but he said: "I admit that selling rice is not urgent, and the people of Hangzhou have reached the time when they are about to die, so I gave them all of them, and I didn't have time to ask you for instructions." ”
This also surprised Quan Rou, who felt that this child had some extraordinary insight. Later, Quan Cong became an official in Wu and was named the Marquis of Qiantang.
When Shi Jiehuo of the Qing Dynasty was a teacher in the Lu family in Danghu, he saw a text hanging on the hall of the Lu family, writing that two generations of his ancestors spent money to buy food to help the hungry people. As a result, three generations of his family have become Jiuqing's **. The words in the text are like silver tickets, and they are all cashed out.
4.Li Qian gave relief three times and lived to be 100 years old
Li Qian, once encountered a grain harvest year, he took out a thousand stones of grain to lend to the villagers, and agreed to pay it back the next year. But in the second year, the harvest was still poor, so Li Qian gathered everyone together and burned all the borrowed coupons in front of the grain borrowers.
In the third year, there was a bumper harvest of grain, and people rushed to return him, but he did not want to accept any of them. In the fourth year, there was another great harvest, and he could no longer take out the surplus grain, so he disposed of all his property, replaced it with rice porridge to help the poor, and helped to bury the starving dead.
Someone said to Li Qian: "Your yin virtue is too great. Li Qian replied: "Yin virtue is like tinnitus, you know it, but others don't know it." Now that you know, what is it called? ”
Li Qian later lived to be 100 years old, and many of his descendants held prominent official positions.
5.Huang Jianji is the first, and his descendants are very noble
Huang and Ji of the Song Dynasty were born in Chengdu. At that time, Zhang Yong was the prefect of Chengdu, and at night he dreamed that Zifu Zhenjun was talking to him, and he didn't say a few words, some people said that Ximen Huang Jianji arrived, and Zhang Yong saw Huang Jianji wearing a scarf and wearing a Taoist uniform, and Zifu Zhenjun hurriedly walked down the steps to meet him, and let him sit on the top of Zhang Yong, he was Zhang Yong's subordinate.
The next day, Zhang Yong asked someone to find Huang Jianji, and sure enough, he found it, just like the dress in his dream. He knew that people who were valued by the gods must have special words and deeds, so he asked him what good deeds he had done in his life.
Huang Jianji said: "There is no good deed, but every year when the grain is ripe, I use 300 taels of money to collect grain, and when the grain is not ripe in the second year, people have nothing to eat, so I sell all this grain at the purchase price at that time, and I use the same container of liters and buckets as before." There is no loss for me here, but it is very helpful to the people. ”
Zhang sighed: "You deserve to sit on top of me." So he told the officials to sit down with him, and he bowed to him solemnly.
Huang Jianji later died of illness, and his descendants became rich and noble.
6.There is a reward for selling cheaply or not, and life and death are different
Wei Shiju, a giant deer in the Northern Wei Dynasty, encountered a bad harvest year, and the price of grain was expensive, so he took out the grain in his warehouse and sold it, but only half of the people's **. He said to people, "Half the price of a bad year is actually the full price of a good year." Although I got half of the money, I didn't lose anything at all. What if you don't have a bad harvest year, and go to make money? ”
He gave birth to his son Wei Shujie, and was promoted to servant.
In the year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a great famine, and the homeless people who could not eat were everywhere. Duan Twenty-eight, a wealthy man in Raozhou, saved several warehouses of rice, but he was reluctant to take it out for disaster relief, nor did he take it out to sell.
One day, he and his family were discussing the price of food, when is the most profitable, just when he was happy and happy, suddenly it rained heavily, the sky became dark, and suddenly a fire flew into the house, he was killed on the spot by thunder, and his house and several warehouses of rice were all burned by the fire.
7.Soup porridge and clothes to comfort the hungry and cold, the world
Zhu Ran is a native of Yanping Sha County. He was very kind, and whenever there was a famine, he would cook porridge and give it to the poor and needy. Later, he gave birth to a son, who was very smart and talented, and then took the Jinshi after being admitted to the Juren.
When the list was opened in the spring, someone in the same township dreamed that a yellow-clothed messenger rode a horse to report: someone won the champion. The messenger held a banner with four large characters written on it: "The report of soup kitchen".
After the list was opened, it was Zhu Ran's son who won the champion.
There is another person named Ni Shan, a character performer, smart, studious, thrifty and charitable, but he has repeatedly failed. Some people discussed: "You take poverty alleviation as your ability, and it is said that you should have good rewards, why have you been trapped in the scientific field?" Isn't God knowing? ”
Ni Shan didn't take it to heart when he heard it, but he still did good deeds and read as before.
In the year of Shaoding in Nanning, when the famine was stopped, the dead bodies on the road were pillowed, and he cooked porridge to give to the people, saving many people. In the second year of the exam, many people dreamed of a banner standing in front of his house, with the words "Glutinous (boiling) porridge Yin Gong" written on it.
There is also a Zhu Chong, who often buys old clothes, and asks women who are good at sewing in the market to make hundreds of clothes, and give them to those who lack clothes whenever the snow falls in the cold winter. Later, he died in his nineties, and his children and grandchildren were honored.
Xue Xiyuan was kind and charitable, and once took off his cotton clothes to keep others warm. He was asked, "Can you help everyone who is hungry or cold?" He said, "No, I just don't want to live up to my heart." He also said: "If there is no compassion for the blessings and positions of heaven and earth, blessings will not gather; If you don't do something good for people, Fu Lu won't spread. ”
8.Don't fish for property, only catch people, cross others and cross yourself
Young Master Yang Rong was a native of Jianning, and his ancestors made a living by ferryboat. One year it rained heavily for a long time, and the river swelled, and the flood washed away people's houses, and many people drowned and drifted down the river. Others supported the boat to grab the goods in the river, but his ancestor kept going to collect the dead bodies, but he did not take any of the goods. Everyone in the village laughed at his family's stupidity.
Later, Yang Rong's father's generation came, and the family was already very wealthy. An immortal incarnated as a Taoist priest and said to his father, "Your grandfather has accumulated Yin Gong, and his descendants should be noble, and he should be buried somewhere." "That place is now the White Rabbit Tomb.
Later, he gave birth to Yang Rong, and the imperial court posthumously awarded his family three generations of ancestors as a first-class official, and he was noble and prominent for generations.
There is a person named Sun San in Laishui Xiya, every year in November, Laishui recedes, the boat runs aground, the river is full of silt and stones, and the people who come and go are very inconvenient. At this time, he spread seven planks on the river to make it easier for people to walk through, and he persisted for more than twenty years, until he was old.
When he was seriously ill, he went to the underworld, and Yan Jun said, "This person used to make the Seven Star Bridge, and he should increase his life by twelve years. He died at the age of eighty.
In my opinion, doing good deeds is not for good reward, not for the prosperity of yourself and your descendants, of course, these will naturally happen, but more importantly, doing good deeds can make people get inner peace and satisfaction, so that you can end a day's work and fall asleep warm and hearty, and end a lifetime of labor without fear of unknown darkness.
Moral Education Gujian".