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Folk Tales: The legendary story of Confucius burying gold to try Yan Hui back

author:The Chronicle of the Journey

This is an early year, how many years have been, I don't know, anyway, at that time, Old Master Kong was teaching.

Folk Tales: The legendary story of Confucius burying gold to try Yan Hui back

The students taught by Old Master Kong have everything. Poor, poor to be decent; Rich, not decently rich. Let's say that there are many rich and few poor.

Folk Tales: The legendary story of Confucius burying gold to try Yan Hui back

The children of rich families are all rich and proud, and the students who usually lose everything and the west are stolen by students who have no money, but these poor students are miserable, and they are slapped one by one in three days, and many children of good families are stooped. There was a student named Yan Hui, because his family was the poorest, and he was beaten the most. But no matter how he cleaned him up, he always didn't hum or admit it. One time and two times can be, for a long time, Old Master Kong was a little alert, thinking, Yan Hui this child's family is poor, but very ambitious, academic performance has always been the head of the old pimple daughter-in-law, there has been no deviant behavior, is it a prank that some students are jealous of people in the fight for power? Don't pull it, real gold has to be set on fire, why don't I think of trying him?

Folk Tales: The legendary story of Confucius burying gold to try Yan Hui back

Old Master Kong pondered hard and finally figured out a trick. What's the trick? In the most conspicuous place on the way back home from school, Yan Hui filled a jar with three hundred taels of silver, and pulled a small earthen pit and buried it. There was also a note deliberately written in the altar. Old Master Kong said in his heart, whether it is true or false, whether it is a person or a ghost, he does not worry about it.

Folk Tales: The legendary story of Confucius burying gold to try Yan Hui back

After school this day, Yan Hui walked home alone. The child is naughty with this thing, his hands and feet are not idle, and when he sees the new mound, he kicks hard twice, "Okay is not green" to reveal a jar, Yan Hui pulled it open and looked at it, and the white flowers in it were silver. He was quite puzzled, saw a note on it, opened it, and was even more puzzled: "Heaven gives Yan back a piece of gold." Yan recalled that the teacher taught that ill-gotten wealth is not desirable, and unrighteous food should not be greedy. Thinking of this, he squatted down, took out a pen and ink, and added a sentence to the note: "Foreign wealth is not rich, and poor people are not rich." After writing, he covered the altar again and walked away.

Folk Tales: The legendary story of Confucius burying gold to try Yan Hui back

In fact, this old master Kong had already stared at him from the side, to see if he could move or not. When Yan returned and disappeared, the old master came to the place where he was buried and looked at it, but not only did he not move, but that sentence made him sigh: "Wealth is not enough, people's will is invincible, and I mistakenly know people." "

Folk Tales: The legendary story of Confucius burying gold to try Yan Hui back

Since then, the old master has become more respectful of the poor students, especially Yan Hui, and finally he has become the proud protégé of the old master Kong. And those rich children, although they did not make trouble, but they could not resist the "return" of Old Master Kong's board, and they all deflated the eggplant.

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