I read a short story from "Liaozhai Zhiyi" many years ago, and I am still deeply impressed.
The story is about a rich man's new acquaintance of a friend who came to the door to borrow money, the rich man full of promises, and poured tea to treat each other, during the tea borrower saw a stack of copper coins on the tea table, so he picked it up and chatted with the rich man skillfully like a shuffle. When the rich man saw this action, he was shocked. So on the pretext of going to the accounting room to get money and leaving, soon the rich man returned to regret and said to the borrower, sorry, there is no money in the accounting room, you will come again in a few days.
In fact, there is money in the accounting room, but the rich man concludes from the borrower's skillful action of playing copper money that this person is a gambler, so he changed his original intention and did not borrow.
A friend of mine told me about something that was also interesting.
My friend was introduced to a project with others, so he went to the other company to negotiate. In the luxurious office of the boss of the other company while drinking tea and greeting, my friend found that the other party's boss smoked a flat box of Huazi himself, and the hospitality cigarette given to the guest was a mid-range cigarette of about twenty yuan. Although my friend does not smoke, my friend decided not to cooperate with this person when he saw this scene. My friend believes that smoking a good cigarette and smoking a guest a second time is not only contrary to hospitality, but also shows that the other party is reluctant to spend money, and there will be conflicts in future cooperation.
Knowing people may not necessarily be in the big things, and the pattern of people is clearly seen from the size of the taste and the subtleties. #唐山头条 #
