Fan Li had two sons before settling in Taoqiu, and later lived in Taoqiu and gave birth to a younger son. Later, the children grew up, but his second son committed homicide in Chu and was imprisoned by the Chu State.
Fan Li said after hearing the news"Although it is natural to pay for murder, I have heard that a daughter can be exempted from punishment. ”So he prepared enough money to let his younger son save his second son.
But the eldest son insisted on going, and said:"The father didn't let the eldest son go, but let the younger brother go, it must be because the father thought I was unfilial. ”As he spoke, he was about to kill himself.
When Mrs. saw it, she repeatedly persuaded Fan Li, but Fan Li had no choice but to let her eldest son go, and attached a letter to her former friend Zhuang Sheng. And he commanded his eldest son:"When you arrive, give your gift money, and do whatever your lord wants, and do not argue with him. ”
As soon as the eldest son arrived, he did so, and Zhuang Sheng said to him:"Let's go, this is not the place you can stay. ”After the eldest son left, he did not listen to Zhuang Sheng's words, but stayed with Chu Guiren.
Although Zhuang Sheng was poor, he was notoriously honest and upright, and from the king of Chu to the minister, no one respected him as a teacher. Zhuang Sheng didn't want to accept the gift from Fan Li's son, he thought that after the matter was completed, he would return it to Fan Li to show his faith, but Fan Li's eldest son did not understand his intentions.
On this day, Zhuang Sheng went to see the king of Chu under the pretext of the reason, saying that there are stars in the sky that are not conducive to the state of Chu, and only by doing good deeds and accumulating virtue can the disaster be eliminated. The king of Chu has always trusted Zhuang Sheng, so he ordered the seal of the house of three coins to give amnesty to the world.
Chu Guiren happily reported the good news to Fan Li's eldest son. Unexpectedly, the eldest son thought to himselfIf yesAmnesty for the world, the younger brother will be released,That thousandMoneyWhy?Not in vainI sent itJohnson.
So the eldest son went to Zhuang Sheng again, and Zhuang Sheng was surprised when he saw him, and asked:"Why haven't you left yet?”
The eldest son said:"Now the second brother has been granted amnesty, so he has resigned. ”Zhuang Sheng immediately understood and returned the money.
Then the more Zhuang Sheng thought about it, the more he felt that he had been insulted, so he went to see the king of Chu and said:"The king's amnesty is for good deeds and disasters, and now the people of Chu say that the son of Fan Li, a wealthy merchant in Taoyi, killed someone and was imprisoned in Chu, and his family used silver to buy the cronies of the king of Chu, so the amnesty of the king of Chu is not for the people of Chu, but for the son of Fan Li. ”When the king of Chu heard this, he was furious, and immediately ordered the execution of Fan Li's son, and then granted amnesty to the world.
When Fan Li's eldest son came home with the news of his brother's death, his mother and fellow villagers were extremely sad. Fan Li said: "Listen to what you have done, and you will know that you will definitely harm your brother." It's not that you don't love him, it's that you have been doing business with me since you were a child, and you have suffered a lot and value money very much. But your brother is different, he has lived in an environment of fine clothes and food since he was a child, and he doesn't know that money is not easy to come by. I let him go because he was willing to spend money, but you can't. In the end, it was because you hurt your brother because of your wealth, which is not surprising, I expected you to come to report the funeral!”
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