Mandarin language learning HK – Intelligence small story -I Didn’t Know I Have Been So Rich!

Mandarin Lesson

  There was a young man who was unhappy everyday. He always complained about his poverty and unluckiness. An old neighbour with white hair and white beard saw this and asked him, “Young man, why are you so upset everyday?”

The young man answered, “I can’t understand why I am always so poor.”

“Are you poor? You are rich, indeed.”

The young man was rather confused,“What do you mean? ”

The old man asked,“If one of your fingers is cut down, and you will get one thousand yuan from it, are you willing?”

“No!”

“If one of your hands is cut down, and you will get ten thousand yuan from it, are you willing?”

“No!”

“If both of your eyes become blind, and you will get one hundred thousand from it, are you willing?”

“No!”

“If you become an eighty-year-old man who is seriously ill, and you will get one million from it, are you willing?”

“No!”

“If you die now, and you will get ten million from it, are you willing?”

“No!”

“That’s it. Since you have already owned as much as ten million, why are you always complaining about being so poor and unlucky?”

Hearing this, the young man was shocked and speechless. He finally understood what the old man meant.

 

 

 

有一位青年,老是埋怨自己時運不濟,發不了財,終日愁眉不展。他的一位鬚髮皆白的老鄰居見狀,便問:“年青人,為什麼不快樂?”
年青人:“我不明白,為什麼我總是這麼窮?”
老人由衷地:“你窮嗎?你很富有嘛。”
年青人不解地問:“這從何說起?”
老人反問道:“假如現在砍掉你一個手指,給你一千元,你幹不干?”
年青人:“不干。”
“假如砍掉你一隻手,給你一萬元,你幹不干?”
“不干。”
“假如使你雙眼都瞎掉,給你十萬元,你幹不干?”
“不干”
“假如讓你馬上變成八十歲的老人,給你一百萬元,你幹不干?”
“不干”
   “假如讓你馬上死掉,給你一千萬元,你幹不干?”
   “不干”
   “這就對了,你已經擁有超過一千萬的財害,為什麼還哀嘆自己貧窮呢?”老人笑吟吟地問道。
    青年愕然無言,突然什麼都明白了。