{"id":82220,"date":"2006-03-05T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/?p=82220"},"modified":"2006-03-05T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T23:03:00","slug":"a-wise-chinese-saying-1654054","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/a-wise-chinese-saying-1654054\/","title":{"rendered":"a wise Chinese saying ...."},"content":{"rendered":"

A long time ago in Chi\u00adna, a girl named Li-Li got mar\u00adried &<\/span> went to live with her hus\u00adband and mother-in-law. In a very short time, Li-Li found that she couldn't get along with her mother-in-law at all. Their per\u00adso\u00adna\u00adli\u00adties were very dif\u00adfe\u00adrent, and Li-Li was ange\u00adred by many of her mother-in-law's habits. In addi\u00adti\u00adon, she cri\u00adti\u00adci\u00adzed Li-Li constantly.<\/p>\n

Days pas\u00adsed and weeks pas\u00adsed. Li-Li and her mother-in-law never stop\u00adped arguing and fight\u00ading. But what made the situa\u00adti\u00adon even worse was that, accor\u00adding to anci\u00adent Chi\u00adne\u00adse tra\u00addi\u00adti\u00adon, Li-Li had to bow to her mother-in-law and obey her every wish. All the anger and unhap\u00adpi\u00adness in the hou\u00adse was caus\u00ading Li-Li's poor hus\u00adband gre\u00adat distress.<\/p>\n

Final\u00adly, Li-Li could not stand her mother-in-law's bad tem\u00adper and dic\u00adta\u00adtor\u00adship any lon\u00adger, and she deci\u00added to do some\u00adthing about it. Li-Li went to see her father's good fri\u00adend, Mr. Huang, who sold herbs. She told him the situa\u00adti\u00adon and asked if he would give her some poi\u00adson so that she could sol\u00adve the pro\u00adblem once and for all. Mr. Huang thought for a while, and final\u00adly said, \"Li-Li, I will help you sol\u00adve your pro\u00adblem, but you must listen to me and obey what I tell you.\"
\nLi-Li said, \"Yes, Mr. Huang, I will do wha\u00adte\u00adver you tell me to do.\"<\/p>\n

Mr. Huang went into the back room, and retur\u00adned in a few minu\u00adtes with a packa\u00adge of herbs. He told Li-Li, \"You can't use a quick-acting poi\u00adson to get rid of your mother-in-law, becau\u00adse that would cau\u00adse peo\u00adp\u00adle to beco\u00adme sus\u00adpi\u00adcious. The\u00adr\u00ade\u00adfo\u00adre, I have given you a num\u00adber of herbs that will slow\u00adly build up poi\u00adson in her body. Every other day prepa\u00adre some deli\u00adcious meal and put a litt\u00adle of the\u00adse herbs in her ser\u00adving. Now, in order to make sure that nobo\u00addy suspect you. When she dies, you must be very careful to act very fri\u00adend\u00adly towards her. Don't argue with her, obey her every wish, and tre\u00adat her like a queen.\"<\/p>\n

Li-Li was so hap\u00adpy. She than\u00adked Mr. Huang and hur\u00adried home to start her plot of mur\u00adde\u00adring her mother-in-law. Weeks went by and months went by, and every other day, Li-Li ser\u00adved the spe\u00adci\u00adal\u00adly trea\u00adted food to her mother-in-law. She remem\u00adbe\u00adred what Mr. Huang had said about avo\u00adi\u00adding sus\u00adpi\u00adci\u00adon, so she con\u00adtrol\u00adled her tem\u00adper, obey\u00aded her mother-in-law, and trea\u00adted her like her own mother. After six months had pas\u00adsed, the who\u00adle hou\u00adse\u00adhold had chan\u00adged. Li-Li had prac\u00adti\u00adced con\u00adtrol\u00adling her tem\u00adper so much that she found that she almost never got mad or upset.<\/p>\n

She hadn't had an argu\u00adment with her mother-in-law in six months becau\u00adse she now see\u00admed much kin\u00adder and easier to get along with. The mother-in-law's atti\u00adtu\u00adde toward Li-Li chan\u00adged, and she began to love Li-Li like her own daugh\u00adter. She kept tel\u00adling fri\u00adends and rela\u00adti\u00adves that Li-Li was the best daugh\u00adter-in-law one could ever find. Li-Li and her mother-in-law were now trea\u00adting each other like a real mother and daugh\u00adter. Li-Li's hus\u00adband was very hap\u00adpy to see what was happening.<\/p>\n

One day, Li-Li came to see Mr. Huang and asked for his help again. She said, \"Dear Mr. Huang, plea\u00adse help me to keep the poi\u00adson from kil\u00adling my mother-in-law! She's chan\u00adged into such a nice woman, and I love her like my own mother. I do not want her to die becau\u00adse of the poi\u00adson I gave her.\"<\/p>\n

Mr. Huang smi\u00adled and nod\u00added his head. \"Li-Li, there's not\u00adhing to worry about. I never gave you any poi\u00adson. The herbs I gave you were herbs to impro\u00adve her health. The only poi\u00adson was in your mind and your atti\u00adtu\u00adde toward her, but that has been all washed away by the love which you gave to her.\"<\/p>\n

The\u00adre is a wise Chi\u00adne\u00adse saying:
\n\"The per\u00adson who loves others will also be loved in return.\"<\/p>\n

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