Ye Heng was old and fell ill badly one day. Visitors came to see him. Ye said,
“I am going to die. But I do not know how the things are in the netherworld?”
One visitor said,
“Things are just fine there.”
Ye inquiried,
“How do you know?”
That visitor replied,
“Apparently those who died never come back. “
A rich talked to a poor,
“I have one hundred ounces of gold. If I give you twenty, will you flatter me for that?”
The poor man said,
“It is not shared fairly, how can I flatter you?”
“How about fifty to fifty?”, asked the rich man.
“We are equal by then, I will not flatter you.”, said the poor.
“Ok, I will give you all, what then?”
“If I have all, there would be no need to flatter you.”
Guo Jue was very poor, he did not have enough food to feed his family. His old mother would always leave her food to her three years old grandson.
Guo Jue talked to his wife,
“We are so poor, mother could die of hunger if she continued to leave her food to our son. We can get another son, but not another mother…”
His wife agreed. Guo Jue began to dig the hole to bury their son. A while later, he found a pot of gold in the earth suprisingly.
It was late, the shopkeeper of the wineshop wanted to close the shop, but there were two customers still sitting and chatting even after they finished drinking. The guests showed no intention of leaving. The shopkeeper pretended to look outside and said,
“Looks like it is going to rain.”
Surprisingly the guest replied,
“Really, since the rain is coming, we’d better stay until it clears up after the rain.”
It began to rain, and it did not last for long. When the rain stopped, the shop owner said again,
“The rain stopped now.”
The guests were very happy and said,
“As it is not raining any more, we do not need to hurry to leave.”
