In the world, people should get along with friends as a liver and gallbladder, and share hardships and hardships. We must always be grateful to our friends who help ourselves, and we must not be moved by the immediate interests, so we will betray our friends who have been kind to you, do sorry things for others, cause people and gods to be indignant, and end up in a disgrace and no place to stand. Ji Xiaolan's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" records the story of such a fox and an ungrateful person.
There is a person with the surname Liu, let's call him Liu Sheng for the time being, Liu Sheng has a fox friend, and the relationship is very close.
Liu Sheng's family was very poor, and the fox often took food and clothing to help him. Liu Sheng owes money to the big family, who want to take advantage of his daughter. The fox stole Liu Sheng's loan documents from the big family, and the matter was settled. Foxes often come to Liu's house and talk and laugh with Liu Sheng and his wife, but only Liu Sheng can see foxes.
Later, the fox fell in love with a rich girl, and all kinds of spells could not make the fox leave the girl, and the rich family advertised that if anyone could drive the fox away, he would reward him with one hundred and two gold. When his wife, surnamed Liu, learned of this, she was moved by the hundred taels of gold, so she encouraged her husband to wait for an opportunity to kill the fox. Liu Sheng read the grace of the fox to help, and he was unwilling to listen to his wife's words when he knew that he was wrong. Liu Sheng's wife scolded him: "It can harm the rich woman, but it can't harm your daughter?" Yesterday it took five or two pieces of silver to buy winter clothes for your girlfriend, and I am afraid that it also has this thought. It is a scourge that must be eradicated! ”
Liu Sheng bought arsenic cream behind his back and wine waiting for the fox to come to the house. The fox already knew all this.
One day Liu Sheng and a few people from his neighbors gathered in the courtyard, and the fox called Liu Sheng's name under the eaves, first saying the deep friendship between the two people, and then saying that he repeatedly helped Liu Sheng, and finally exposed Liu Sheng's conspiracy one by one. Say, "It's not that I can't harm you, we've been together for a long time, how can I bear to go against you?" ”
He said as he threw out a piece of cloth and a bundle of cotton wool from under the eaves, and said, "I saw your child crying a few days ago because of the freezing of the day, and promised to give you a quilt, I can't lose my faith in front of the child." When the neighbors heard this, they were all indignant and questioned Liu Sheng together.
The fox said: "Making friends and not choosing the right person is also my fault, so what is there to complain about?" I'm just talking about letting you know. The fox sighed and turned away.
Liu Sheng was despised by the townspeople from then on, and no one was willing to receive him a liter and a half of grain. Later, he dragged his family and moved away overnight, and his whereabouts have been unknown ever since.
Those who are as shrewd as foxes also have times when they recognize the wrong people. What about you and me? Be cautious when making friends. Liu Sheng was ungrateful and fell into a disgraceful and untraceable fate, which was also deserved!