The story of the ant king's reciprocation
In ancient times, there was a Fuyang man named Dong Zhaozhi, who once crossed the Qiantang River by boat. When the boat reached the center of the river, it suddenly found a three-foot-long reed floating in the river. There was an ant on the reeds that was hurrying from one end to the other, and was about to fall into the river and drown.
Dong Zhaozhi is a kind-hearted person, he let the boat approach the reeds, and wanted to pick up the reeds and ants on the boat, but the people in the same boat objected: "This is a poisonous insect that stings, if you dare to take it on the boat, we will trample it to death!" Dong Zhaozhi had no choice, so he tied the reeds with a rope at one end, tied the other end to the side of the boat, and dragged the ants to the shore. The ants escaped from death, crawled onto land and ran away as fast as they could.
That night, Dong Zhaozhi had a dream in which hundreds of people dressed in black came to him. A man in black at the head saluted him and thanked him, and said to him, "I am the king of ants, and I accidentally fell into the river today, but fortunately you saved my life." If you need anything in the future, please let me know and I will do my best to help you. ”
After Dong Zhaozhi woke up, he felt that this dream was absurd, so he ignored it.
A few years later, Dong Zhaozhi offended the government because of his rights protection everywhere, and was arrested and put in prison, with no way to appeal and unable to get out. In desperation, he remembered that absurd dream, and thought that it might as well try it, maybe it was a solution. He found a few ants from the prison and said to them, "I am Fuyang Dong Zhaozhi, I am locked up in prison, go and tell your king, let him find a way to save me!" ”
The ants were stunned for a moment and hurriedly crawled away.
However, there was no movement for the next three days, Dong Zhaozhi was a little desperate, and even felt that he was too bored to talk to the ants stupidly.
Three days later, in the middle of the night, it was raining heavily, and lightning and thunder were roaring. Dong Zhaozhi, who was asleep, dreamed of the black-clothed ant king again, and the ant king shouted loudly: "Get up quickly!" Get up! Dong Zhaozhi woke up abruptly and looked around. Suddenly, a hole collapsed into the wall of a corner of the cell, and thousands of ants crawled out of the hole. Dong Zhaozhi knew that this was the escape passage that the ant king led the ants to eat. He bowed to the ants gratefully, and escaped from prison on the night of a thunderstorm.
Later, Dong Zhaozhi has always warned his descendants that accumulating virtue and doing good deeds should start from little by little, and do not do small things.