Hua Xin and Wang Langju took refuge by boat, and one of them wanted to attach himself to it. Lang Yue: "Fortunately, why not?" After the thief chased after him, the king wanted to give up the people he was carrying. Xin Yue: "Ben is suspicious, and it is for this ear." Having accepted his self-trust, would you rather abandon evil in a hurry?" So the salvation was as good as ever. The world determines the merits and demerits of Hua and The King.
--"The World Speaks New Languages and Virtues"
At the time of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the character Yue Dan was particularly popular, and the scholars at that time often dressed up and talked about it through Xiao Lianqu to invite the time. Both Hua Xin and Wang Lang were famous scholars of the late Han Dynasty and early Wei Dynasty, both of them were "Junjie" who "knew the times" when the dynasty changed generations, and they were both masters of turning the rudder with the wind in the storm, and both changed from "loyal subjects" of the Han Dynasty to become the "elders" of the State of Wei, Hua Xin entered the Wei official to the taiwei, and Wang Langshi Wei guan to situ. They shamelessly sold themselves to the same place, but Hua Xin was superior to Wang Lang in terms of pretense. According to the "New Language of the World and virtue", "Hua Xin met his children very neatly, although he was in the idle room, he was strict as a dynasty." He was also very strict and dignified in treating his children and nephews, even in his own home, as serious as the shang dynasty. Hua Xin's "performance art" not only won the applause of the society, but even Wang Lang also learned from him: "Wang Lang pushes Hua Xin with his knowledge. Xin Wax Day tasted Jizi nephew Yan drink, Wang Yi learned. Someone told Zhang Hua about this, and Zhang Yue said, "Wang Zhixuehua is all in addition to the skeleton, and the reason why he has gone farther is that he has gone farther." However, Ruan Zhi had a keen eye and was not accustomed to the ugliness of the Mannerisms of Hua Xin and the like, and he exposed their hypocrisy in the sixty-seven poems of "Yong Huai": "The Hongsheng capital system is obeyed and constant. The order of honor and inferiority is set, and things are in order. The decoration is complete in color, and the chime is folded to hold Guizhang. There is a lot of wine in the hall, and rice sorghum is served in the room. Outside Li Zhensu talks, and the inside extinguishes the fragrance. Let go of the heart, repeat the righteous side. Twist and turn, posture worried about my intestines. Hua Xin and Wang Lang both covered up their dirty souls with a polite appearance, and each of them had different ways of being an official, but in essence, there was no difference, they all fought when they saw "high names", they robbed when they saw "heavy profits", their close relatives and friends were also pregnant with ghost fetuses, and their relatives and flesh also turned against each other.
This article records that on the way to take refuge in a boat, Hua and Wang were asked to rescue them, but several requests were rejected by Hua Xin, and Wang Lang agreed at the beginning that he would get on the ship and escape: "There is still an empty space in the cabin, so why not ask him to get on the ship?" Hua Xin refused to help others when they were in trouble, and the victims were blocked by him several times of pleading, and it seemed that Wang Lang was much more lenient and righteous than he seemed. The impression of the words "difficult to be difficult" is simply terrible.
Seeing this scene, Wang Lang wanted to get rid of the passenger he had just agreed to board as soon as possible, but at this time Hua Xin did not agree to dump him: "At first, I did not agree to let him take the boat, precisely because I considered that there might be pursuing soldiers behind him, and now that we have let him get on the ship, we cannot abandon him in a hurry." So, as he began, he took him and rescued him. Doing good deeds is a head done. In this way, society judged the merits of Hua and Wang.
Why can this small thing alone determine the merits and demerits of the two?
The average person will appear generous and benevolent when they do not have to pay their own price, but when it is detrimental to their own interests, many people may behave coldly or even coldly. Giving away the leftovers of one's own meal to a beggar is not an act of benevolence, and it is truly compassionate to give up the bread one has to the hungry widow and the disabled. At this point, people have overturned the earlier formed impression: in fact, Hua Xin is not only more prescient than Wang Lang, but also more selfless.
Through a small matter to determine the merits of character, people are reminded of the famous saying "see the micro and know the book", the story is very dramatic, and the writing is even more ups and downs.