A businessman in Jiyang sank while crossing the river. He grabbed a hemp pole and shouted for help. A fisherman heard the sound. The businessman quickly shouted: "I am the richest man in Jiyang. If you can save me, I will give you 100 two gold. " . After being rescued ashore, the businessman turned his face and refused to admit it. He only gave the fisherman 10 two gold. The fisherman accused him of breaking his word and going back on his word. The rich man said, "You are a fisherman. I can't make much money in my life. Is it not enough to suddenly get twelve taels of gold? " My husband must be very unhappy. Unexpectedly, the rich man capsized in the same place again. Someone tried to save him, and the person he cheated said, "He is a man of his word!" " "So the merchant drowned. It is accidental that the businessman capsized twice and met the same husband, but it is expected that the businessman will not be rewarded. Because if a person does not keep his word, he will lose the trust of others. So, once he is in trouble, no one wants to rescue him. Those who break their promises to others, once in trouble, have to sit still.
Lu Bu's promise saved him from disaster.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a man named Ji Bu. He kept his word and had a very high reputation. Many people have established a strong friendship with him. At that time, there was even a proverb: "It is better to get a hundred pounds of gold than to keep a promise." (This is the origin of the idiom "a promise is as good as a gold") Later, he offended Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, and was offered a reward for his capture. As a result, his old friends not only were not confused by the heavy money, but also risked the extinction of Jiuzu to protect him from disaster. A person who is honest and trustworthy will naturally get a lot of help and gain everyone's respect and friendship. On the other hand, if you covet temporary comfort or petty advantages and lose trust in your friends, you will get "benefits" on the surface. But for this benefit, he ruined his reputation, which is much more important than material things. Therefore, breaking a promise to a friend is tantamount to losing a watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, which is not worth the loss.
The establishment of Yan Shu's reputation
Yan Shu, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, is famous for his honesty. At the age of fourteen, he was recommended to the emperor and became a child prodigy. The emperor summoned him and asked him to take the exam at the same time with more than 1000 Jinshi. As a result, Yan Shu found that she had just practiced the exam ten days ago, so she truthfully reported to Zhenzong and asked to change other topics. Song Zhenzong appreciated Yan Shu's honesty very much and named him "fellow scholar". When Yan Shu takes office, the world is at peace. Therefore, Beijing officials, large and small, often go to the suburbs or hold various banquets in restaurants and teahouses in the city. Yan Shu was poor and had no money to go out to eat, drink and have fun, so she had to read and write articles with her brothers at home. One day, Zhenzong promoted Yan Shu as the official of the East Palace who assisted the prince in his studies. Ministers were surprised and didn't understand why Zhenzong made such a decision. Zhenzong said, "Recently, the ministers often play and have banquets. Only Yan Shu studies behind closed doors, so she is cautious in self-esteem and is the best candidate for the East Palace official. " Yan Shu thanked him and said, "I am actually a person who likes to play and eat, but my family is poor." If I had money, I would have taken part in the banquet tour. " These two things made Yan Shu establish prestige in front of ministers, and Song Zhenzong trusted him more.
A Comparison of Different Stages between Taking Trees as the Letter and Bonfire Party
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qin Shangyang presided over the political reform with the support of Qin Xiaogong. At that time, at a time of frequent wars and panic, in order to establish prestige and promote reform, Shang Yang ordered a 30-foot-long wood to be erected outside the south gate of the capital, and made a promise in public: whoever can move this wood to the north gate will be rewarded with twelve taels of silver. None of the onlookers believe that such an easy thing can get such a high reward, so no one is willing to try. So Shang Yang raised the reward to 50 gold. Under the four rewards, there must be brave people. Finally someone stepped forward and carried the wood to the north gate. Shang Yang immediately rewarded him with fifty gold. Shang Yang's move established prestige in the hearts of the people, and Shang Yang's next reform was quickly popularized in Qin State. The new law made the State of Qin stronger and eventually unified China.
The famous saying about "goodness" True goodness is the pursuit of everyone's mind and the purpose of everyone's actions. _-Plato The past, the present and the future are always beautiful, and this is the truth. (Tolstoy's Sevastopol in May) Truth likes to trade openly. -Shakespeare's Henry VIII Truth and justice take many forms. They are as diverse as human races and as changeable as times and climate, but their essence is the same everywhere; It is this indestructible consistency that I need to grasp in the earth-shaking situation. The law of happiness has its similarities among all people, and it is the highest law of their moral development for everyone. This kind of development is often changing, but the law is unchanged. -Memoirs of romain rolland If you want to monopolize the truth, the truth will laugh at you. -romain rolland's Gora Breugnon The greatest truth is the most ordinary truth. -Tolstoy's Collection of World Famous Stories can't beat the truth with fists. -Gorky's "Mother" Truth, like the sweat of labor, always has a strong smell. -Gorky's Italian Fairy Tales One side of truth is freedom, and the other side is restriction. It's easy to tell the truth if you don't wait to tell the complete truth. -Tagore "Birds" If you shut the door on all mistakes, the truth will be shut out. -Tagore's "Birds" Truth will be vulgar if you wear too many clothes. -Tagore's "Spring Cycle" is silent and pure, and it is often more touching than words. -Shakespeare's Winter Story No matter how respectable a person is, I won't reverse black and white for him, saying good is bad. -Tagore's "A Woman's Letter" ■ Evil is often a flash in the pan and will perish with the perpetrators; Kindness will last forever. (Dickens "Our Friends") A lot of good and a lot of evil are always mixed and intertwined. -Dickens "Beautiful Travel Notes" Doing good deeds with good people will make them better, and doing good deeds with bad people will make them worse. -romain rolland "The Biography of Michelangelo" All people always seem to have duality. They seem to have a balance in their chests, and their hearts are like the hands of scales. When weighing good and evil, the hand leans to one side and the other side for a while. -Gorky's "Three People" Everything that is harmful to others is wrong. -Tolstoy's War and Peace ■ O beauty, find yourself in love, not in the flattery of your mirror. (Tagore's Birds) Roses are beautiful ... what's more beautiful is the fragrance it contains. Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty. -Tolstoy's famous sayings think that beauty is good, which is completely an illusion. -Tolstoy's "Cresell Sonata" People live in truth and freedom for beauty. Who can embrace the world more openly, who loves the world more, who is the best; Who is the freest and who is the best will have the greatest beauty in them. -Gorky's "Mother" should learn to find beautiful things in worthless things. -Gorky's "Cemetery" Only those who can't completely immerse themselves in beauty will despise beauty and regard beauty as a sensory object. -Tagore's "Glimpse of Bangladesh" ■ Life is short, and only virtue can be left to distant generations. Solemn and noble temperament can only be expressed by the soul of an open-minded and lofty person. -Dickens's Christmas Tales Life is undoubtedly the ultimate test of virtue, just like the ultimate test of talent, a better world needs them. -Balzac's "Country Doctor" rhetoric can lead to moral integrity, and people with bad conduct can only deceive people with rhetoric. -romain rolland's "Mother and Son" It is every man's unshirkable responsibility to protect an insulted woman. -Tolstoy's War and Peace is simple and ordinary, and he is good at seeing things different from danger in danger. All these constitute the beauty and advantages of soldiers. -"Tolstoy Biography" All the beautiful qualities are grown from the light of the sun and the mother's milk. -Gorky's Italian Fairy Tales is sublime in the human spirit, not in the storms of nature. -Tagore's story
The most beautiful act of kindness
I hated the man in bed 3 from the first time I set foot in this ward.
The man surnamed Su is in his early forties, wearing a wrinkled coat, thick eyebrows and a beard. He looks scary. Beard is careless. When you speak, the vocal cords are like megaphones, and you never hide your emotions. He loves meat very much, and lamb chops, pig offal and braised beef are the protagonists in his recipes. Especially at noon, he always likes to buy back five or six pig's feet with purple sauce and chew them to make his greasy face look as if he had just soaked it in an oil pan.
Every noon, after dinner, "Beard" rudely took the empty bed by the window sill for himself. People lie on it and snore loudly in less than two minutes, giving people the feeling that this is not a ward, but his home.
In sharp contrast to the beard, the mother and son in bed 1 are always quiet.
1 The woman in bed has breast cancer and just had an operation. She has two children, her daughter is in senior three and her son is in primary school. Her man only lives by farming and raising some chickens and ducks. In the summer sowing season, men seldom visit, and more often, only boys aged 12 are waiting for their mothers. Boys are very sensible and take the initiative to be responsible for the hot water supply in the whole ward. Every time someone helps him check up his mother, the boy will never forget to say "thank you".
1 There is hardly any fruit on the table of the bed. Occasionally there is an apple or watermelon, and both mother and son push it around. Sometimes the man will buy some braised pork from the street, and the woman will complain that he spends money indiscriminately, and then put most of the meat in the children's bowl.
One day, a man came to visit and brought a small bag of fried cicada pupa, Huang Cancan's, crispy. The man grabbed one for me and one for my beard, and everyone in the room chewed a mouthful of incense. Especially "beard", like discovering a new continent, repeatedly begged the man in bed 1 to help him get some. Said I had this in a restaurant, 25 yuan a plate, but not as fresh as this. As long as I can help get some, I'm willing to pay one yuan for his.
1 The man on the bed smiled and said nothing.
A few days later, 1 there were indeed more men in bed. If "beard" is a treasure, if you count it, you must give it to 27 yuan. 1 The man in the bed refused to accept it, so "Beard" simply gave the boy the money and said that he liked it, as long as it was alive.
1 The man in bed didn't care, but the boy took it to heart. At night, I ran to the Woods behind the hospital to look for it. You can find twenty or thirty at most in one night, and "whiskers" are always collected by number.
With this income, the dining table of 1 bed gradually became rich. At noon, the boy will buy a meat dish for his mother; Add another bag of fresh milk at night.
This life lasted for half a month. One day, the boy told me quietly that Beard was addicted to cicada pupa, and now two children are helping to find it. He collected them from the children for 20 cents each and sold them to Beard.
I am surprised that this boy is smart, and I am glad that he can find such a way to make money.
When my mother-in-law was discharged from the hospital, I left all the fruits, milk powder and canned food sent by my relatives and friends in bed 1. At first, 1 the woman in bed refused to accept it. I lied that the car was too small to come again, and the woman passively accepted it.
A day later, I went to the hospital for a medical insurance refund. Just out of the parking lot, I saw "Beard" with a plastic bag in his hand and walked straight into the bushes by the side of the road.
When I got closer, I found that what he poured out of the plastic bag was actually a pile of cicada pupa!
"Su Dage, this ..."
He looked up and saw it was me. He smiled awkwardly: "I bought too much ..."
"Then why did you buy it?" I looked at him doubtfully.
"Hey, hey," he scratched his head, revealing a shy face that was out of proportion to his personality. "It's not easy to see that strange family, and we can't help much. There is still money for adding vegetables. "
It suddenly dawned on me that Brother Su had been helping patients in bed 1 in this way.
At that moment, my heart suddenly felt a different warmth. ...