During the Qing Dynasty, there was a wealthy merchant named Li Feng, who was a well-known local tycoon with a wealthy family. And his neighbor is an honest old man named Wang Yan. Wang Yan is a poor farmer who barely makes ends meet by farming. The level of living of the rich merchants and the poor peasants is very different, but their fates have been turned upside down under an umbrella.
One summer afternoon, Li Feng was about to go out, but found that the sky was overcast and could rain at any time. He hurriedly called the servant who was moving outside the door and asked him to find an umbrella. The servant hurried into the house to look for it, but found that there was not an umbrella in the house. At this time, Li Feng remembered that his neighbor Wang Yan was a farmer and would inevitably have an umbrella. So, he decided to borrow an umbrella from Wang Yan.
Li Feng walked all the way and soon came to Wang Yan's door. He pushed the door and went in, and saw Wang Yan sitting under the eaves polishing a hoe. He walked over and greeted Wang Yan politely: "Brother Wang, do you have an umbrella that you can lend me to use?" I was about to go out today, the weather is bad, and it may rain. ”
Wang Yan put down the hoe in his hand, stretched out a big hand directly towards Li Feng, and said, "Brother, you can use it." I don't need it here anyway. ”
Li Feng took the umbrella and thanked Wang Yan: "Thank you, Brother Wang, you are really a good person." ”
Li Feng held Wang Yan's umbrella and walked on the way home, thinking about his good luck. He always felt that this umbrella brought him a sense of happiness.
Half a year has passed, and Li Feng's life has undergone earth-shaking changes. His fortunes were staggeringly reduced, his wife was separated, and even his servants were gone. Li Feng became destitute overnight, and he was the only one left at home.
Li Feng remembered that he had borrowed an umbrella from Wang Yan at the beginning, so he decided to go to Wang Yan to borrow an umbrella again, hoping to change his fate. So, he came to Wang Yan's door. This time, he knocked on the door.
Wang Yan heard the knock on the door, opened the door, saw Li Feng's sad face, and asked, "Brother Li, what's wrong with you?"
Li Feng smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Wang, my recent life has been really hard, do you have an umbrella to lend me? ”
Wang Yan was silent for a while, and said slowly: "Brother Li, I told you that I don't have an umbrella to borrow here. ”
Li Feng nodded with some disappointment and turned to leave. But this time, he didn't twist his head so high, and he didn't say so sarcastically: "There are imps in the umbrella." ”
Li Feng returned to his home and began to think about his situation. He understood that the reduction of his fortune was not because he had borrowed Wang Yan's umbrella, but because of his own greed and snobbery. He had an epiphany: true luck and wealth are not brought by borrowed umbrellas, but through hard work and honesty.
Since then, Li Feng has made up his mind to be a new man. He started anew, worked diligently and diligently, and amassed wealth again. However, he never forgot the umbrella again. He often thinks of Wang Yan's words, and remembers his arrogance and selfishness at the beginning.
Years later, when Li Feng became a wealthy businessman, he decided to pay a return visit to Wang Yan and thank him. Li Feng came to Wang Yan's door, but found that it was already a ruin, and it had long been deserted.
Li Feng couldn't help but sigh with some regret. He realized that he did not cherish the friendship and trust at the beginning, and selfishly pursued material comforts, which in the end was exchanged for nothingness and loneliness.
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