In the eighth year of Guangxu, Yu Jia Fruit Shop transported 50 baskets of pears from Laiyang, Shandong Province to Zhabei District, Shanghai. Because of the long distance, the pear skin was broken, and it began to rot after being transported to Shanghai after a shower. No matter how dried and peeled, it can't be sold. There is a small shop across the hall, where there are two people, husband and wife, who have no food. Seeing a lot of rotten pears thrown at home, I picked them up, peeled them and dug out my rotten eyes. When it is very sweet, cut the peeled pears into small pieces, and five pears sell for a copper coin. Business is booming. Later, the couple went to Yu Jia Fruit Shop and bought a basket of all the rotten pears. Anyway, pears are worthless when they are rotten, so I am happy at home and sold them at a low price.
After buying too much, the couple peeled the pears, put them in vats and pickled them with sugar, which made them taste better and sold better when they went on the market. Later, the husband and wife went everywhere to buy the rotten pear, peeled it, put it in their own pot, boiled it into pear juice and made it into cream candy. When there are no pears to eat in spring, people want to eat pear toffee, which has suddenly become a famous product in the south.
The following year, an imperial envoy of the imperial court visited Zhabei District of Shanghai and bought pear toffee. He ate: Wow, it's sour and sweet. It's delicious. He brought pear toffee to Beijing and presented it to Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi was coughing at that time and felt delicious after eating it. I haven't eaten for a few days, and my cough has cleared up, so I ordered a couple's tribute, pear milk candy. This time, the husband and wife's business has grown, and they officially opened a pear cream shop.
So, the owner of Yu Jia fruit shop secretly inquired, and finally knew that these pear paste sweets were made of rotten pears. He was jealous, but he was afraid of offending the emperor. In the evening, he secretly wrote a piece of paper to satirize him, with the words "God knows" on it, and posted it on the door of the couple's pear paste shop. The next day, when the couple opened the door, they looked at the words "God knows" and froze for a while, knowing that someone was jealous and making trouble. The male boss smiled and said, "I'm thinking of a font size. Today, someone wrote a font size and sent it to the door. That's great. Even the emperor has eaten pear toffee in my shop. He is the son of heaven today and should be called' God knows'. I will use these three words as a signboard. " He wrote a big sign, and when people came to ask, they realized that both the emperor and the queen mother loved pear paste sugar, so business was better. The owner of the fruit shop in Yu Jia won't swear, but it makes people's business more prosperous, and it makes people even more angry when their words are used by others. When nobody was there at night, he secretly drew a turtle on the wall of the pear paste shop and put his head into his stomach, which read "shameless" The next day, the couple in the pear paste shop looked amazed again, and then said in unison, "Let's use the tortoise as a trademark. Pear paste sugar can relieve cough and prolong life, and turtles also live long. " Since then, the trademark has become a well-known trademark in Shanghai.
What is cleverness? What is wisdom? You can swallow your pride and make continuous progress, and you can take every setback in the world and others' jealousy of you as an opportunity to avoid harm. Even if others trample on you, you should believe that the Bodhisattva will bless you. Only when there is responsibility can there be responsibility, only when there is responsibility can there be will, and only when there is will can there be action. This is what Buddhism says.