Chapter 83: King Cheng Defeats the Bandits (1)

  Unable to withstand Ou Yang Xiao Xiao's persistent persuasion, I agreed to take her back to where I lived.

  While on the road, Ouyang Xiao Xiao sent a text message to Gu Xue Lin: Lin Lin, I just met Mu Xian on the road and we're going to your place together. After school, come back to our place and find us, we'll go eat together.

  Then I went back to where we lived with Ouyang Xiaoxiao.

  After entering the door, Ouyang Xiao put her backpack on the sofa and looked around the whole house, "It's not much different from when I came last time, is it?"

  "Huh, the place you live in, day and night, moving around, shifting back and forth? I said while pouring water for Ouyang Xiaoxiao. "Besides, we're not doing any decoration, what's the difference?"

  "This is also," Ouyang Xiao smiled and took the water cup from my hand, "Mu Xian, I'll tell you something, what's your opinion on this. It's something that we were discussing in our dorm last night until 1 am and still couldn't come to a conclusion."

  I nodded.

  "There is a man, with a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan. However, every month, he donates 1,500 yuan to children in mountainous areas, poor university students, elderly people in nursing homes, and those who need help. He has been doing this for over 20 years. His family, due to his donations, lives a very simple and difficult life. They live in a rented house, with poor living conditions. How do you evaluate this person?"

  "I think he's great, and it's worth everyone learning from him."

  "Yeah, some people in our dorm think so too, but I think he's very selfish."

  "You're referring to how he donated all his money and put his family in a difficult situation."

  Ouyang Xiaoxiao nodded, "I don't doubt his original intention, nor do I doubt his conviction. I just think that this person is very irresponsible and has no sense of responsibility towards his family."

  "But he has a sense of social responsibility."

  "A person who doesn't even have a sense of family responsibility, what's the point of having social responsibility? I think he should act within his means. If he earns 12,000 yuan per month and donates 10,000 yuan, leaving 2,000 yuan for living expenses, then I won't say anything because he has that ability. But now, because of his own ideals and beliefs, he's dragging his family down with him."

  "But this society lacks people like that; if there were more people like that, they would infect and motivate even more people to contribute their own love."

  "I don't think so, let's wait until he has a career and earns tens of millions or hundreds of millions per month before making donations."

  "But have you noticed that people who earn tens or hundreds of millions a month are unwilling to donate. Perhaps when this person had a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan, he was willing to donate 1,500 yuan, but when his monthly salary reached 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, he became unwilling to donate."

  "Mu Xian, why do you think it's like this?"