Historical Story: Guan Ning Cuts the Mat and "Draws boundaries"

When Guan Ning and Hua Were young, they were a pair of very good friends. They were inseparable all day long, eating at the same table, reading at the same table, sleeping in the same bed, and getting along very harmoniously.

Once, they went to work together, hoeing grass in the vegetable field. The two men worked hard, but they couldn't stop and rest, and in a moment they hoeed a large piece.

Only to see Guan Ning lift the hoe, hoe down, "dang", hit a hard thing. Guan Ning was strange and turned over a large piece of dirt that he had hoeed. In the dark dirt, there was something shining inside the clear goods. Guan Ning fixed his eyes on it, and when he saw that it was a piece of gold, he said to himself, "What a hard thing I should have, it turned out to be ingots of gold." Then he ignored it and continued to hoe his grass.

"What? Gold!" When Hua Xin, who was not far away, heard this, he couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, and quickly dropped his hoe and ran over, picking up the gold nugget and holding it in his hand for careful consideration.

Seeing this, Guan Ning, while wielding the hoe in his hand to work, rebuked Hua Xin and said: "Money should be obtained by one's own hard work, and a moral person cannot covet property that is obtained without hard work."

Hua Xin listened and said, "I understand this truth too." But he was still holding the gold in his hand to look left and right, and he couldn't bear to put it down. Later, he was really stared at by Guan Ning's eyes and couldn't stand it, so he reluctantly threw down the gold and went back to work. But he was still thinking about gold in his heart, and he didn't work as hard as before, and he couldn't stop sighing. Guan Ning saw him like this, no longer said anything, just secretly shook his head.

Another time, the two of them sat on a mat and read a book. Suddenly there was a boiling sound outside, and there was a sound of drum music, mixed with the sound of eating and drinking with gongs and opening the road, and the sound of people watching the lively and noisy people watching. So, Guan Ning and Hua Fang got up and went to the window to see what happened to Jingjing. It turned out that this official manifest fee passed through here by car. A large group of retinues, armed with weapons and uniform costumes, huddled forward and backward to guard the car, and the wind was majestic. Look at the car decoration is even more luxurious: the body is carved with exquisite and beautiful patterns, the curtains on the car are made of multicolored silk, surrounded by gold thread, and the roof is also inlaid with a large piece of jadeite, which looks rich and noble.

Guan Ning was very dismissive of these things, and went back to the same place to pick up the book and read it intently, completely turning a deaf ear to the noise outside, as if nothing had happened; Hua Xin was not like this, he was completely attracted by this kind of publicity and luxurious pomp. He didn't think he could read clearly in the house, so he didn't even read the book, and hurriedly ran to the street to follow the crowd and follow the convoy to take a closer look. Guan Ning witnessed what Hua Xin had done and could no longer suppress the sigh and disappointment in his heart. After Hua Xin returned, Guan Ning took out a knife and cut the mat in half in front of Hua Xin, and announced bitterly and decisively: "The ambitions and interests of the two of us are too different. From now on, we will be like this cut grass mat, no longer friends. ”

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Take history as a mirror

The ancients said, "Different ways do not conspire." True friends should have a common ideological foundation and goals of struggle. True friendships cannot be developed without a basis for affection. Therefore, it is wise to "draw a line" as soon as possible.