Disciples

Chapter 51

Original
Don't make promises when things are wrong;
Gou Qingnuo, wrong advance and retreat.

Translation
Do things to a certain degree, and don't make promises to others easily; if you promise easily, you will easily put yourself in a dilemma.

allusion
At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there lived a man from the state of Chu named Ji Bu.

When Chu and Han were fighting, Ji Bu once advised Xiang Yu, which made Liu Bang suffer a lot.Later, when Liu Bang became the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he offered a reward for his capture.At this time, a man surnamed Zhou secretly took him to a house called Weijia in Ludi and hid him.The Zhu family went to Luoyang again and said to Ruyang Hou Xia Houying: "Ji Bu's faults are all from the past. At that time, the soldiers were in chaos and the heroes were everywhere. They only knew that there was Chu, but they didn't know that there was Han. It should be done." If you are Chu, how can you be Han?"

Xia Houying was convinced, and he went to persuade Liu Bang, revoked the arrest warrant, and made Jibu a doctor.Soon, he was promoted to the governor of Hedong.

Dou Changqun said that Ji Bu always hated people surnamed Cao.His fellow countryman Cao Qiusheng wanted to curry favor with Ji Bu, so he begged his friend Dou Changqun to write a letter of introduction.

One day, Ji Bu had an appointment with Cao Qiusheng, and he immediately hated him.Cao Qiusheng pretended he didn't see it, and still bent down to salute and said: "People in Chu say that they are worth a hundred catties of gold, not as good as Jibu Yinuo. Your reputation in Chuliang area is the result of my publicity everywhere. How can you refuse to make friends with me?" After hearing this, Ji Bu treated him as a distinguished guest.

(End of this chapter)