No father and son can be together without grudges

 

No father and son can be together without grudges

 

Chu Sanxing told Agudengba about the debt collectors. Agudengba said: There was a saying among the Chinese people that "An injustice becomes a father and son, and a debt becomes a husband and wife." It roughly means that "two enemies who had a deep hatred in the previous life will become a father and son in the next life." "Two people who had a grudge due to debt in the previous life will become a couple in the next life." Many parents often call their children "debt collectors" because they are worried about them. .

Agudengba said: There are many stories about this kind of reincarnation in ancient and modern times. Such a short story is recorded in the short story "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" written by Mr. Pu Songling, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty: Two people were doing business together, one of them was greedy for money and lost his loyalty, and the other one resented him. In the next life, he became his son, ruined his family fortune, and almost took his life.

This is the outcome of the reincarnation of cause and effect, and it is in line with the old saying that "no father and son can be together without resentment".

Agudengba told Chu Sanxing about the novels written by Mr. Pu Songling:

It is said that in Shandong in the past, there was a businessman named Liu Xichuan. This Liu Xichuan was greedy for money, and in the end he betrayed his trust, ate everything on his own, and even cheated his partners to death. The wealthy Liu Xichuan was over fifty and married a second concubine. Within two years, he gave birth to his youngest son.

Liu Xichuan has changed over half a hundred years and is extremely happy to have a son. So he was obedient and doting on his youngest son. When his younger son grew up, Liu Xichuan discovered that his younger son turned out to be a prodigal. He was usually frivolous and indiscreet, and spent money like water.

Soon, Liu Xichuan's family fortune, which he had accumulated for most of his life, was almost completely lost to his younger son. Liu Xichuan is often troubled by this, but he has nothing to do. After all, his youngest son is his heart and soul.

Not long after, the youngest son got a strange disease and insisted on eating Liu Xichuan's most beloved donkey. Liu Xichuan feels distressed! He spent a lot of money to buy it from somewhere else. He kept it with good fertilizer every day. It was so fat, and its hair was shiny.

Liu Xichuan wanted someone to kill a worse donkey to trick his younger son, but he didn't want his younger son to find out. So the youngest son yelled at Liu Xichuan. Liu Xichuan had no choice but to kill his beloved fat donkey the next day and gave the meat to his youngest son.

But the younger son only ate one piece and threw away all the meat.

Soon, the youngest son died and passed away. Liu Xichuan was so sad that he didn't go out for more than ten days.

I don’t know how long it took, but the villagers went to Mount Tai to burn incense. A few people walked halfway up the mountain when they saw a boy riding a fat donkey slowly walking over from the front.

Several people took a closer look and found that the person who came was none other than Liu Xichuan's dead young son!

While everyone was stunned, the boy jumped down, bowed to everyone one by one, and said: Dare I ask some elders if they are going to burn incense?

"Yeah! Why did you come here?" one of them said.

"It's nothing, just walking around. Which hotel are you staying at? I can come and visit you," the boy said.

So everyone told him the temporary residence, and the boy rode away on the donkey.

After burning incense, they returned to the hotel and sat around talking about many things before Liu Xichuan's youngest son.

The next day, the boy rode a donkey to the hotel to visit them. Everyone asked him: "Your father misses you all day long, why don't you visit him?"

The boy's expression changed and he asked, "Who are you talking about? My father?"

"Yes! That rich man Liu Xichuan is your father, how could you forget this?" one of them asked in confusion.

The boy thought for a while and said, "Well, since he is concerned about me, please ask the elders to take me to pass a message to him. I will wait for him here on April 7th!" After that, he got on the donkey and left.

When everyone returned to the village, they told Liu Xichuan about the sudden encounter with their young son. Liu Xichuan burst into tears after hearing this, and everyone told him about the meeting on April 7.

Liu Xichuan promised to go to the appointment.

Early in the morning on April 7th, Liu Xichuan arrived at the hotel. He told the hotel owner about their appointment, but the owner said: "That day I saw your son's expression was cold and there was murderous intent in his eyes. It would be better if you didn't see him!"

Liu Xichuan was shocked after hearing this, "That's my child! How could he harm me?"

  "Your child has passed away a long time ago. I'm afraid it's a ghost. I have a plan. You can hide it in the cabinet first and then act as the opportunity arises."

"Okay!" So Liu Xichuan hid in the cabinet.

After a while, the younger son arrived and asked the boss: "Has the man named Liu arrived?"

"It's not here yet, sir, you might as well wait a little longer," the boss replied.

"This beast hasn't arrived yet, huh! You'll have something to eat later!" the younger son said angrily.

"He is your father, how can you say such ugly things as a beast!" The boss said when he couldn't stand hearing it anymore.

"What did you say? He is my father? You don't know that I was a business partner with him in my previous life, but he was greedy for profit, betrayed his trust, and later harmed me, so I was reincarnated as his son. I am going to lose. I will be willing to use up all his family property and take his life! Huh! How could I have such an evil father!"

The boss was shocked when he heard this, and then he realized what was going on. But he didn't say anything. The boy just said, "He doesn't want to come, it's really an advantage for him!" and left.

Liu Xichuan felt guilty, and at this moment he was sweating coldly.

It was raining, so I quickly climbed out of the cabinet and ran towards home...

At this point, Agudenba has finished telling the story.

Because Liu Xichuan was greedy for profit and betrayed his trust, he added insult to injury and killed his partner. The partner was so resentful that he became his son in the next life and came to collect debts from him, with the purpose of destroying his family property and killing him. As the saying goes: "When will the injustice be repaid?" People are dead, but they still can't let go of this deep hatred. How great is this resentment!

Agudengba sang a little song "Good deeds and evil deeds will eventually be rewarded":

 

You still have to have a conscience as a human being.

After all, money is something external to oneself.

Loyalty and credit are the most important.

There is no end to retribution.

 

Cheating for profit and betraying one's trust,

Adding insult to injury is hard to eliminate.

Don't make money without conscience,

Know that good and evil will eventually be rewarded.