There is a famous saying in the Book of Changes, I believe everyone has heard it: "The house of good will have afterglow, and the house of bad will have aftermath".
About doing good. There is also a famous saying on the Taishang Induction Chapter: "The retribution of good and evil follows you like a shadow." China is a country of etiquette, and everyone has been taught to be kind to others and to accumulate virtue and do good deeds since childhood.
Jiangnan Yilin wants to explain: no matter what the motive is, it is always good to do good, but there are also high and low points of accumulating virtue and doing good, and the unintentional good will have the greatest reward.
When Jiangnan Yilin was in middle school, when he read the Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, he was very impressed by a story. Jin Wen Gongzhong [chóng] Er was exiled to the state of Chu, and King Cheng of Chu treated Chong'er well. King Chu Cheng asked Chong'er: If you return to China and take power in the future, how will you repay me? This heavy ear is not a mortal, and when he was in trouble, he actually said: If I can return to the Jin Kingdom thanks to your blessing, in case our two countries meet on the battlefield, our Jin Kingdom will retreat ninety miles as a reward!
Everyone can hear it, this is the origin of the idiom allusion of retreat. To tell the truth, King Chu Cheng's style is indeed not very high, if you help others a little, how can you take the initiative to ask for something in return.
After Jiangnan Yilin watched Jin Yong's ** "Chivalrous Journey" in his early years, he memorized Li Bai's poem "Chivalrous Journey" with enthusiasm, a total of twenty-four sentences, which may be the longest legal poem he has memorized. If you drink a little wine, take a wooden stick and pretend to be a sword, wave it a few times in the wind, and then recite this poem, I guess the effect is better. Two lines of poetry in Li Bai's "Chivalrous Journey" are often quoted: Brush off your clothes and go away, hiding your merit and fame.
After the matter is gone, the merit and fame are deeply hidden, these two poems are typical of grace without expecting retribution.
There is a little story in the chat, which is quite legendary, from which we can understand some truths about how to deal with people.
The story "Lei Cao".
The story is called "Lei Cao", what does Lei Cao do? It is the Gong Cao who is responsible for thunder in the sky, that is, the immortal who is responsible for thunder and rain.
But the actual protagonist of this story is Le Yunhe, everyone knows that this person can't be an official when you look at this name, Le Yunhe, happy to idle Yunye Crane. He and Xia Pingzi grew up together since childhood, and they were classmates and were like brothers. Xia Pingzi's literary style is better, and he is known as a supernatural power at the age of ten, Le Yunhe humbly learns from Xia Pingzi, and his progress is rapid, and both of them are regarded as a pair of supernatural powers.
It's a pity that God is jealous of talents, Xia Pingzi died of a serious illness soon after, and his family was destitute, leaving his wife and children to live a difficult life. And Le Yunhe was very interesting, dividing his little money into two to take care of Xia Pingzi's wife and children. But life was too difficult, so Le Yunhe decisively gave up school and started business, made a fortune, and his life became popular.
The above story is actually a typical example of a wife and children. A person can make a confidant like Le Yunhe, and it is enough for a lifetime.
The story of Le Yunhe and Xia Pingzi stopped, and new characters began to enter, and there will be high energy ahead.
One day, on the way to do business, Le Yunhe was resting in a hotel in Jinling, and saw a tall and thin man sitting in the hotel sullen. Le Yunhe took the initiative to ask him if he was hungry and wanted to eat, but the man didn't speak. Lesheng guessed that he might be embarrassed and took the initiative to buy food for him. This person actually grabbed the meal with his hands, and a gust of wind swept the clouds, and he quickly finished eating, but he still looked unsatisfied. Le Yunhe asked the store to bring pork knuckle again, so that this person was happy to eat.
Look, Le Yunhe helped this person with his kind heart, the so-called grace of a meal, not big, not small. But he probably didn't think about anything in return.
Le Yunhe asked about the origin of this person, and he only said that he had been punished by God for his guilt, and he was currently living in a fixed place and wandering everywhere.
Le Yunhe then asked this person to follow him, he was in charge of eating and drinking, this person was also very strange, he only ate a few meals a year, which was equivalent to eating a meal for dozens of days, which was a strange.
Le Yunhe took the goods on a boat, but unexpectedly encountered strong winds and waves, and the merchant ship capsized to the center of the river. Le Yunhe fell into the water with this strange man. After a while, after the wind and waves subsided, the strange man rushed out of the water with Le Yunhe on his back and boarded the merchant ship, and he stepped on the waves to catch all the goods that Le Yunhe washed into the water! Again, this is a strange thing. From then on, Le Yunhe felt that this person was a man of God.
After the great tribulation, Le Yunhe returned home with the man of God and treated him like a relative, and the man of God ate a meal every ten days, eating a lot at one time. By chance, Le Yunhe heard the thunder rolling in the sky, and said to himself: I don't know what it looks like in the clouds? What is Thunder? If only I could go to the heavens and take a look.
How do you know that the man of God is really a man of God, and he really flew to the sky with Le Yunhe, who stood above the clouds and looked down at the city below the size of a soybean. Looking up and seeing the starry sky, he found that those stars were like lotus seeds embedded in a lotus canopy. Taking advantage of people's inattention, he secretly pulled off a star and hid it in his sleeve.
When Le Yunhe was in doubt, he saw two dragons driving a float slowly coming, and there was a large vessel on the dragon cart, several zhang long, and the car was filled with water. As soon as the car stopped, dozens of people scooped water and sprinkled it into the clouds. This must be a veritable artificial rainfall.
The god man Le Yunhe knew was also among the people who were raining, and the god man gave Le Sheng a tool to scoop water and asked him to help with the rain. Lesheng then watered as much as he could in the direction of his hometown.
At this time, the god told his life experience, and he said: I am the god of thunder, and I was punished to the earth for three years because I made the wrong rain, but today the time limit has expired, and we have to be separated from each other.
There was no way, Le Yunhe had to endure the pain and separated from Thor, he slowly descended along the 10,000-zhang long rope, and returned to his hometown, he found that the drought in his hometown had long ended, and the ditch was full of water. When I got home, I found that everything was fine at home. When I touched my pocket, the star I picked was still there!
This star is also magical, black, very hard, at night, radiant, like a pearl of the night, Leyun Crane as a treasure.
One night, Le Yunhe's wife combed her hair on the little star, and suddenly saw the starlight gradually getting smaller, and after a kind of light flew around, the light actually flew into the mouth of Le Yunhe's wife, and she couldn't cough it out, and swallowed it in the last bite. That night, Le Yunhe dreamed that Xia Pingzi dreamed and said: I am Shao Weixing, in order to repay your great kindness, I am willing to be reincarnated as your son!
Not long after, Le Yunhe's wife was really pregnant, and gave birth to a son named "Xing'er", who was extremely smart, and was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of sixteen.
This plot of swallowing stars and giving birth to geniuses is too ingenious, and it strings together the two story lines of Le Yunhe and Xia Pingzi and Lei Cao at once, Le Yunhe's great kindness to Xia Pingzi's wife and children, and Lei Cao's unintentional good deeds, all have been rewarded!