Disciples

Chapter 11

Original
Love what you love, strength is a tool;
If you love what you hate, please do it.

Translation
Things that parents like, we should do our best to prepare for them; and things that parents don't like, we should carefully remove them for them.

allusion
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a state of Tan on the present-day Shandong Peninsula.Tanzi, the son of the monarch of the suburban country, has been widely praised for his filial piety since he was a child.Later, because his parents were old and both suffered from eye diseases, Tan Zi inherited the throne.The first thing Tan Zi did after he became a king was to try his best to cure his parents' eye diseases.The doctor said that the best cure for this disease is to drink deer milk and wash the eyes with deer milk.But deer milk is rare, so Tan Zi personally led a few attendants and traveled through the mountains, hoping to find a herd of deer.But the deer is alert by nature, and before they approached, it had already run away without a trace.Tan Zi and others could only look at the deer and sigh, but there was nothing they could do.Because of this, Tanzi couldn't sleep or eat, and he thought hard about how to get deer milk.Suddenly, he had a whim: why can't he disguise himself as a deer and approach the herd of deer?So Tan Zi found a piece of deerskin and dressed himself up like a deer.

On this day, Tanzi entered the forest early, waiting for the herd of deer to appear. He lay on the ground and suddenly found an arrow aimed at himself.He hurriedly stood up and shouted: "Don't shoot, I'm human!" Then he explained the whole story.Only then did the hunter realize that the person in front of him turned out to be the king.The hunter was very moved by Tanzi's behavior. He told Tanzi that there was a doe in his home.

After returning home, Tan Zi washed his parents' eyes with deer milk.A few days later, his parents' eye disease was cured.Tanzi came to the door several times to thank the hunter. The hunter was honest and honest, and just said: "You don't have to thank me. You just need to govern the country of Tan and the people will enjoy peace forever." After that, Tanzi kept the hunter's words in mind, He governed the country with all his heart, diligently cared for the people, and advocated filial piety, so that the small country of Tan flourished for a while.

(End of this chapter)