World Children's Story Classics: Family Stories

Chapter 70

During the time of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao mobilized an army of 50, and when Liu Bei and Sun Quan were marching south, Kong Rong once advised Cao Cao to stop sending troops.Someone reported to Cao Cao that Kong Rong had always looked down on Cao Cao and so on.Cao Cao was furious when he heard this, and immediately ordered Kong Rong's family to be arrested and executed.

When Kong Rong was arrested, the whole family was terrified and at a loss.Only Kong Rong's two children were still sitting there playing chess, indifferent.The family thought that the children were young and ignorant, and that a disaster was imminent, and they didn't know it, so they let them run away.Unexpectedly, the two children said calmly: "There is no such thing as a bird's nest being destroyed without breaking the eggs!" Finally, they calmly followed their father and were arrested and sent to disaster.

(End of this chapter)