Don't test people, don't overestimate human nature

"Elegance is fond of searching for gods, pleasing others and talking of ghosts, which hides demons and monsters' faces."

In "Strange Stories from a Studio", Pu Songling used this sentence to open the world to the ghost fox.

Seemingly absurd behind the story, not only Pu Songling's life efforts, but also the human feelings of the world.

Lao She once commented on Strange Stories from A Studio: "The ghost fox has character, laughing and scolding into an article."

Guo Moruo praised it: "Write ghost write demon is superior to others, thorn greedy thorn masochism."

Read it carefully, you will find that the terrible is never ghosts, but human nature.

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There is a saying in the Vegetable Roots: "If you beg for the advantage of human rights, you will suffer the loss of the way of heaven; Greed for the benefits of the taste of the world will invite the loss of sex."

People can be selfish, but not insatiable, the organ to calculate to the head, after all, is a bamboo basket to beat water.

There was a poor scholar named Gao Shikui in Binzhou, Shandong Province. He spent his days reading poems and books, dreaming of achieving glory and wealth through the imperial examinations.

Outsiders see him so hard to study, think he indifferent to fame and wealth, ambition, Gao Shikui studious aspirant reputation spread throughout the county.

Deep in the mountains, there was an old fox fairy, who had seen all the greed and ugliness of the human world. Upon hearing the reputation of the noble scholar, he thought that he was a rare talent that could be made.

Therefore, the fox fairy disguised himself as an old man surnamed Hu and decided to secretly help him develop his ambition.

After several days of communication, the fox fairy felt that Gao Xiu was a studious and aspirant person, so she revealed her status and offered to help her pass the imperial examinations.

Gao Xiucai was overjoyed and asked excitedly, "With your ability, it must be easy for you to conjure gold and silver out of thin air. If you see how poor I am, get some money!"

Hearing this, the fox fairy stiffened and said: "Yes, but you need to take out ten copper coins as the capital." Gao Xiucai hurriedly rummaged through the cupboard, finally enough capital.

The fox fairy put the money on the beam and began to recite the incantation. After a while, countless copper coins fell from the roof like rain!

Before long, the copper coins in the whole room accumulated four to five feet thick, almost buried Gao Xiucai.

The fox fairy stopped chanting, looked at the noble scholar dancing in the pile of money and asked, "Is that enough?"

Gao Xiucai excitedly shouted: "Enough! That's enough! I could spend more than a few lifetimes! I can finally enjoy wealth!"

The fox fairy went out of the hut with a sullen face, and Gao Xiucai had a new prayer: "Big fairy, now I have a great fortune, if only I had a few beautiful wives and concubines."

Hearing this, the fox fairy's face became even worse.

Gao Xiucai saw this situation, thought: I now have money, do not need you change, also can buy beauty!

Think of here, Gao Xiucai happily returned to the hut to count the money.

But to his surprise, the little room was empty. All the countless coppers had disappeared, except the ten coppers which had been used as the capital.

Gao Xiucai was furious and accused the fox fairy of playing with him.

The fox fairy snapped: "I come to you because I admire your reputation for virtue and virtue! I didn't expect you to cheat the world, the surface is a poor scholar, but the heart is so greedy. My old husband will not accompany me!"

Then he walked away without looking back, leaving Gao stunned in the courtyard.

As the Tao Te Ching says, "It is not as good as what you already have."

What people want, by nature, is a blessing or a curse, all in a "degree".

Not not a blessing, not greedy for no reason.

The quality of life, not in the amount of material, but in the heart is satisfied.

Put down meaningless desire, reduce the burden of life, the heart will be a lot of joy.

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Zeng Guofan said: "The way of life is to avoid being angry."

In Juxian county there was a family named Shang. The elder brother was rich while the younger brother was poor. The two brothers lived apart by a wall.

During the reign of Kangxi, there was a famine. The two merchants had no food, so his wife asked him to beg his brother.

Two business heart know that there is a sister-in-law in sure useless, but a mouthful but his wife, then let his son go.

Sure enough, when the son of the second merchant comes to the eldest brother's house, the sister-in-law is angry. She is angry at the nephew who asks for help. "The brothers are separated and eat their own meals.

The two merchants had no choice but to sell their shabby furniture for chaff to make a living.

Who knows the day has the eventuality, the village has a few ruffians to see the big business rich, in the middle of the night over the wall and ready to rob.

Business sister-in-law desperately called for help, but no one came to help, because she is usually mean, bully, so no one is willing to rescue neighbors.

Only two Shang Yu Xinburen, with his son to help, these robbers scattered to escape.

Afterwards, the Shang felt grateful and thought he should give some of his property to his younger brother, but his wife said, "If you had a good brother, we wouldn't have to suffer this."

In this way, the sister-in-law did not show any gratitude to the two Shang, and even pushed them to the countryside.

The ruffians heard the news that the two merchants had moved away and robbed again. Without the help of the two merchants this time, the neighbors stood by and watched, and the large merchants were ransacked.

The elder Shang died, leaving his sister-in-law and son orphaned and widowed.

As the saying goes, "When one's anger rises, one million barrier doors open."

Those who are always angry are doomed to a bad life, because every angry word they say is like a sword, hurting themselves as well as hurting themselves.

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As an ancient saying goes, "A good boat drowns, a good rider falls, and a gentleman takes his own good for disaster."

Hobby is a double-edged sword, can enrich life, edify sentiment, but love and improper, good and excessive, will cause disaster.

There was a scholar in Huxiang who was addicted to playing chess and lost a lot of his fortune.

His father shut him up in his study, but he always went over the wall to secretly play chess, so that his father died of anger.

Later, the King of Hell shortened the scholar's life and sent him to the prison of hungry ghosts because of his lack of virtue.

At this time coincides with the completion of Dongyue Fenglou, issued a notice to each government, recruit literati writing inscription. King Yan sent the scholar to answer the summons to write the inscription and told him that if he could write it well, he would be reincarnated as a human being.

Do not expect, the scholar on the way to see someone playing chess, so "relapse" in the chess next to the wandering, addicted to the taste refused to leave. Seeing him so good at chess, others advised him to sit down and play a few games.

The scholar, thinking that he still had work to do, politely declined. But he could not stop the crowd, and thought it would not hurt to play a few games.

After sitting down, it was difficult to get up again. Round after round, I missed the date of writing the inscription and ruined my chance to be a man again.

As it says in the book: "Such is the case with the wrong man!"

There is a degree to everything, addiction is harmful to the body, if you do not control the preferences, will be a form of service, the heart is tired of things.

People often say, "No man is perfect until he is pure."

The real growth of a person is not only the growth of physiological age, but also the maturity of the mind.

The so-called successful, is not to overcome some of their own human weakness.

Accept human nature, temper the heart, the party is complete.