A good dad is better than a rich dad

Chapter 83 6 translation questions: Make a grass ring, father can do everything for you

"Mom, I want to ask Dad to perform a song "Ode to Our Lady" for the students in our class. Do you think he will be willing?" When the daughter and mother were talking about the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, they suddenly wanted to invite foreign aid. It happened that Dad was also a child. He is a famous violinist, but his father is usually busy with work and has little time to practice the piano in his spare time. Therefore, my daughter wonders if I can invite my father, who is a busy man.

"Then you have to invite him, I think he should be very happy to praise his daughter!" The mother encouraged her daughter to say to her father at night.

In the evening, the daughter faltered in front of her father, hesitant to speak, and her mother was laughing, which made my father confused. "Do you have anything to say?" So, the daughter expressed her thoughts, and it was obvious that she doubted the feasibility of the invitation, "I know you are very busy, Dad. If your company has activities for the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can It’s okay not to go to school activities.”

Hearing that his daughter thought of him so intimately, Dad suddenly felt very sad: "I usually do too little for my daughter." Dad thought in his heart.Indeed, I am usually too busy at work, and my mother always handles the big and small things of her daughter. She also picks up and drops off her daughter from school, and even buys clothes and so on.Dad couldn't remember the last time he had a heart-to-heart talk with his daughter, or he had never had a heart-to-heart talk with his daughter, which made his daughter so cautious, making a small request, and being so cautious... Guilt and love surged into Dad's heart .

"Come on, I don't have anything to do today, let me tell you a story." Dad held his daughter's hand, and the two sat on the sofa. Mom hurriedly brought two glasses of water for them to have a good chat.

"There is an idiom that is very important in my heart. Do you know what it is? It is 'knotting grass and holding a ring'." Then, Dad began to talk about this idiom about gratitude and more about father's love.

"Grass knot" and "ring" were originally two stories.The allusion of knotting grass comes from "Zuo Zhuan".In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei Wuzi of Jin State had a concubine.Wei Wuzi fell ill, but his mind was still clear. He said to his son Wei Ke: "After I die, you must marry off my beloved concubine." Soon Wei Wuzi became seriously ill and gradually lost his mind. Said: "After I die, I must let my concubine be buried for me."

After Wei Wuzi died, Wei Ke did not kill his father's concubine and buried her with him, but married her to someone else.Wei Ke said: "When a person is seriously ill, his mind is confused. I married this girl according to my father's order when he was sane."

Later, Duke Huan of Qin sent troops to attack Jin, and the Jin army and Qin soldiers fought. Jin general Wei Ke met Qin general Du Hui, and the two fought together.When it was hard to separate, Wei Ke suddenly saw an old man tying Du Hui with a straw rope, causing the dignified Qin State Hercules to fall to the ground, and was captured by Wei Ke on the spot. Wei Ke defeated Du Hui in this battle. Master Qin.

After the Jin army was victorious and retreated, that night, Wei Ke saw in a dream the old man who tripped Du Hui for him during the day. The old man said: "I am the father of your father's concubine. You marry her Instead of letting her be buried with your father. I did this today to repay your great kindness!"

The allusion of "title ring" appears in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty". It is about Yang Zhen's father, Yang Bao, who rescued an injured oriole when he was nine years old. Later, a boy in yellow thanked Yang Bao and said, "I am The envoy of the Queen Mother of the West, your benevolence and love to save and save, and I really feel that it will help." And he gave Yang Bao four white rings, saying: "It can protect your descendants to be among the three princes, to be clean in government, and to behave in the world as pure and flawless as this jade ring. "Later, the four generations of Yang Bao's descendants were all officials up to Taiwei, and they were all upright and clean in government.

Later generations combined "grass knotting" and "ringing ring" together, which is a metaphor for being grateful and rewarding virtue, and never forgetting it until death.

"To be a man, you must know how to be grateful, but what moved me the most was the allusion of 'knotting grass'. Do you know that a father can do anything for his daughter, even if the father who loves his concubine has passed away, his soul is still there. I want to come back to repay the person who helped my daughter. You received the care and education from the teachers at school, or the help from your classmates. They are all people who helped my daughter. Therefore, it is really a wish for me to play a piano for them. ah."

After the father finished speaking, the daughter's face was full of smiles. "Great!" My daughter was really happy this time, because she knew that Dad was willing to do anything for me.

On a rainy day, does the child dare to call you to ask you to pick him up; when he is sick, does he dare to ask you to call the teacher to ask for leave; when he is happiest, does he share his happiness with you; when he is saddest, Does he tell you why he is sad... From these bits and pieces, you can see whether the child understands whether the father is willing to do something for them, and only then can the father understand whether their love has reached each other's heart.

(End of this chapter)