Extended fable
1, better late than never:
Once upon a time, someone raised a circle of sheep. One morning, he found a sheep missing. After careful investigation, the original sheepfold broke a hole. At night, the wolf came in and took a sheep. Neighbors advised him: "Hurry up and fix the sheepfold and plug the hole."
The man refused to accept the suggestion and replied, "Why build a sheepfold when the sheep have been lost?" The next morning, he found another sheep missing. It turned out that the wolf got into the hole again and took away a sheep. He regretted not listening to his neighbor's advice, so he quickly blocked the hole and repaired the sheepfold. From then on, wolves can no longer go into the sheepfold to grab sheep.
2. Carve a boat for a sword:
During the Warring States Period, a Chu man crossed the river by boat. When the ship reached the center of the river, the Chu people accidentally slipped a sword they were carrying into the river. He quickly reached for it, but it was too late, and the sword had fallen into the river. The people on board are very sorry for this.
However, the Chu people seemed to have planned for a long time, and immediately took out their knives and carved a mark on the ship's side, and said to everyone, "This is where the sword fell into the water. I want to carve a mark."
Nobody understood why he did it, so they stopped asking him. After the ship landed, the Chu people immediately launched in the marked place on the ship to catch the fallen sword. The Chu people fished for a long time, but never saw the shadow of the sword. He felt very strange and said to himself, "Didn't my sword fall from here?" I also carved a mark here. Why can't I find it now? "
After hearing what he said, those people all laughed and said, "The boat has been moving, but your sword sank into the water and stopped moving with it." How can you find your sword? "
3. "seedlings":
There was a man in the state of Song who thought that his seedlings were always not high, so he went to the field and pulled them out one by one by hand. He came home panting with fatigue and said to his family, "I'm really exhausted today!" However, I finally let the seedlings grow taller at once! "
His son ran to the field and saw that all the seedlings were dead. Few people in the world don't make such mistakes. People who think it is useless to maintain crops and leave them alone are lazy people who only grow crops and don't weed; This is the kind of person who is willing to help the crops grow. Not only is it useless, it will also kill crops.