During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Xiucai named Wang Zaiyang in Jining, Shandong, whose biggest favorite in life was to read, and he could not release the scroll for many years.
In addition to reading, Wang Zaiyang communicated with a group of literary friends, and even if they were hundreds of miles apart, they did not fear difficulties to visit. After arriving, I don't pay attention to the hospitality of the other party, as long as I can sit down and discuss poetry and literature together, that is the greatest satisfaction.
Therefore, slowly, Wang Zaiyang had a good reputation throughout Jining Province, and was recognized as the best representative of young students in the whole province, and everyone believed that he would do a great job in time.
Although Wang Zaiyang is intoxicated with literature, it is a pity that his family is not very well-off, although he is not poor, but he can only barely afford his daily expenses, and he cannot support such a wide range of dating hobbies.
But even so, Wang Zaiyang never complained half a word to his parents and family, and also adhered to the filial piety of being a son of man. Sometimes when I go out to visit friends, I always remember my parents at home.
This winter, the agricultural work was over, and Wang Zaiyang had more time to visit friends in addition to studying.
Once, Wang Zaiyang went to Linxian to visit a friend, the two sat down to discuss the article, accidentally forgot the time, saw that it was dark, and it snowed heavily, and the wind and snow could not go out and could not return home, so they had to stay for one night.
But this friend's family was not very rich, not even a guest room, and in the end there was no way, so he had to arrange for Wang Zaiyang to live in the shack where his family guarded the vegetable garden.
Fortunately, Wang Zaiyang is also a loyal and responsible person, but it is enough to have a shelter from the wind and rain, and he does not dislike the shack in the vegetable garden at all, and lives happily.
Because it is winter, the wind and snow are mixed, although this shack blocks the wind and snow, but the cold wind whistles everywhere, Wang Zaiyang is tightly wrapped in the shack, still grateful for the hospitality of friends, fortunately there is a shack for me to live, otherwise I have to sleep in the wild, then it must not be frozen?
It was cold, and the shack was so simple, even if it was very sleepy, Wang Zaiyang couldn't sleep peacefully at all, just as he was tossing and turning on the grass bunk, he suddenly heard someone talking outside the shack, it seemed that two people were discussing something.
Wang Zaiyang was shocked in his heart, thinking that on such a cold day, who would chat in this vegetable garden? So I held my breath and leaned my ears to listen.
Only one person was listening to say, this wind and snow is too big, I don't know when to stop, I really can't stand it, it is better to go to the shack to avoid the cold and breathe.
Wang Zaiyang listened to what he said outside, and thought that this was also the truth, although he also lived in a friend's shack, and even this shack was not warm, but compared to the wind and snow outside, he didn't know much less.
Anyway, by yourself, if the people outside really want to come in to avoid the cold, you can also share a futon for him, and everyone can also be regarded as overcoming difficulties and hugging together for warmth.
Just thinking this in my heart, I heard another voice outside, and when I listened carefully, I was saying:
We can indeed hide in the shack to avoid the wind and snow, but have you ever thought about it, the courtyard wall behind has collapsed in half, if there is a thief coming in, we can not find it in time, then we will steal the owner's vegetables, are we not dereliction of duty?
The so-called food of the king's loyalty to the king, the master has always given us good care, then we must also repay with all our hearts, can not just eat and do not do ah.
Hearing this, Wang Zaiyang thought that the people outside were the slaves of the owner of the vegetable garden, and was ordered by the master to come and watch over the vegetable garden. In his heart, he still admired their professionalism, and secretly calculated that he would only wait until dawn and must go and give them a few kind words in front of his master.
After dawn, Wang Zaiyang got up and opened the low door of the shack, and the ground was covered with snow over his knees, and there was no trace of anyone's footprints.
Turning his head, he saw two dogs lying stiffly under the half-collapsed wall, and the snow had covered their stomachs all night, apparently frozen to death by the snow.
Seeing this scene, Wang Zaiyang couldn't help but mourn in his heart, it turned out that the human voices he heard last night were these two dogs.
I can't imagine that the beasts in people's eyes even know "the matter of the loyalty of the king", even in the face of such a cold, they are not willing to leave their posts without permission, just to repay the master's feeding.
Whether you want to be a slave to the people in the world or an official, the essence of it is to take a salary to support the family, just ask the world, how many people are not as loyal as these two dogs?