During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a thief in Suzhou learned that a man was not at home, only the man's mother and wife were at home weaving cloth. The cloth was about to be woven, and the thief planned to wait until evening to sneak into the house and steal the cloth for sale.

That night, the thief quietly climbed over the wall and entered the house, lurking in the dark corner waiting for the opportunity. When the thief saw the room, the old lady and her daughter-in-law had a conflict for some reason. The mother-in-law cursed the daughter-in-law, and then angrily went to sleep in the back room.

After the daughter-in-law was scolded by her mother-in-law, she sat alone in front of the loom and sobbed. After a while, she stood up and hung herself on the loom with a long rope.

The thief didn't expect this to happen. Seeing that the woman was about to die, he forgot that he was a thief and shouted to the woman's mother-in-law and the surrounding neighbors: "Come and help, someone has hanged himself!" After the woman's mother-in-law and neighbors heard it, they saved the woman together, and the woman survived.

With a single thought, the thief made the right choice to upgrade from a thief to a hero who saves lives.

During the Jiajing period, there was a poor woman from a brothel in Suzhou. She was older, so she was left out in front of the door. On this day, a scholar from Yunnan, Wang, came to the woman to spend money, and the woman received her warmly. That night, Wang was so drunk that he put twenty taels of silver in his sleeve under his pillow as he slept.

The next day, Wang got a letter from his home saying that there was an emergency at home, so he hurriedly set off to his home. When Wang left the brothel for more than ten miles, he remembered that there were still twenty taels of silver left in the woman's house.

He thought to himself that the woman would definitely not admit that he had dropped the silver, but he still went back to ask the woman with luck. Unexpectedly, the woman said to him, "Your silver is indeed here." Said my woman took out the silver and gave it to Wang, and there was not a piece of silver in it.

Wang was very touched and ashamed, thinking that although he was a scholar, his character was far worse than the woman in front of him.

The thief and the brothel woman in the story, although they went astray and had a humble identity, in the depths of their hearts, the light of human nature could not be concealed and shone brightly.

Finally, I quote a comment from the ancients on this matter at the end of this article: The wife is a thief and a prostitute, and her original heart has died, but she stops stealing because of pity; for false righteousness is not taken, but the root of benevolence and righteousness is rooted in the nature of nature.