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Tang Bin, the Inspector of Jiangning in the Qing Dynasty, was revered as a "famous minister of science" and devoted his life to self-improvement with a clean and bitter life. One day, he checked the ledger at home and found that an egg had been opened on it, and he was furious: "I have never eaten an egg when I came to Suzhou, who bought it?" The next person replied that it was a son. He then summoned his son, knelt down in the court, and said, "Don't you know that suzhou has such a high price, can it be the same price as the eggs in our hometown?" If you want to eat eggs, go back to your hometown..."
Save food, you have your own tricks
During the Tang Dynasty, the governor of Jingzhou, Shi Xiahou, was known for his miserliness. Once when a visitor came to visit, Xiahou Chuxin instructed the servant to prepare food, and the servant whispered in his ear, "How many noodles do you want to talk to?" Xiahou replied, "Two people, two liters of noodles can be enough." After a while, the guest had something to say goodbye, and Xiahou Shuxin hurriedly called the servant to stop and face, but the face was already reconciled. Xiahou Was very angry, pointed at the servant and scolded, and then ordered: Bake all the reconciled noodles into a cake as a working meal.
Too stingy will be punished
During the Five Dynasties of the Later Han Dynasty, the official Zhang Yun was unusually miserly. Even if it is his own wife, Zhang Yun will not give her any more money. He was afraid that his wife would secretly take the money, so he pinned all kinds of keys to the house around his waist and walked with clanging noises. After encountering a mutiny, Zhang Yun hid in a broken temple and escaped with his life, but was found because of the clanging sound, and the key was also snatched by a brain, and when he returned home to see, the property had already been robbed.
My son died, and I was reluctant to wear clothes
Wei Zhuang, the great poet of the Five Dynasties period, was famous all over the world. And his miserliness is as famous as his words. Every time Wei Zhuang cooks, how many meters are under it has a fixed amount, and the firewood for cooking should be weighed in advance, if he eats barbecue, even if it is missing a piece, he will know. Wei Zhuang had a son, who died when he was eight years old, and when he was buried, his wife put on the clothes of his child, but he was stripped off by Wei Zhuang and buried in the old straw mat where the child originally slept. And after the burial, Wei Zhuang also brought back the straw mat.
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