Your son will live a long life

The birth and fate of Ha Mandin

Once upon a time, there was a great Greek philosopher named Dornier. He had great knowledge and profound theories. His unique insight in philosophical theory and his immortal contribution are well received by the academic circle. Everyone followed his school, and his students were all over the world. But it was a great pity that until his old age, Dornier had no descendants.

One night he was troubled by the thought that he had no son to carry on his rich academic legacy. Then he thought: Isn't it true that God grants the requests of all who reverently ask him? Why don't I try. So he immediately began to pray with godliness, and beseeched the merciful God to grant him a wise and lovely son, who would inherit his legacy and lead a good life.

Dornier put all his hopes and ideals entrusted to God, just safely accompanied his wife to sleep.

Perhaps his piety moved God, and he was rewarded. After the night, his wife was pregnant. It brought them great joy as an old couple. For this reason, he continued to travel and teach with confidence.

Once he took all his works to other places to lecture, did not expect on the way back, he took a ship in distress at sea, thanks to his own clinging to a piece of wood, to save his life. All his writings, except the five pages which he carried in his pocket, went down with the ship. Back home, he kept the last five pages in a cardboard box and locked it away as a family treasure. One day, he called his wife to his side and gave him orders:

"I'm going to the next world. There's one more thing I need to tell you before we leave. When I die, you may give birth to a boy. Let's name him Ha Mandin. I hope you raise him well. When he grows up, you will give him the five pages of this casket that I have left him. When he reads these letters, he will understand what they mean, and he will become a learned man." Then he passed away after praying for his wife.

The news of his death soon spread, and his friends and many of his disciples mourned. They took care of him and gave him a grand funeral.

Soon after Dornier died, his wife did give birth to a lovely boy. In accordance with her husband's will, she named her son Ha Mandin, and hired a group of famous astrologers to foretell his fate.

After careful calculation, they said to her: "Your son will live a long life, and in his youth he will have many risks and hardships. If he can survive these dangers, he will become the most famous philosopher of his time."

Ha Mandin's mother nursed her son with a mixture of sadness and joy. When my son was two years old, he began to study well. He studied for several years without success. His mother had to give up and let him learn a trade. But he was not at ease. He had done nothing for several years. The mother was so eager to see that her son could not read or acquire skills, so he idled and did nothing all day, so he could only cry. Her relatives and neighbors were very sympathetic to her situation and gave her some advice:

"Give him a wife! Maybe he'll change his behavior after he gets married."

She felt that her relatives and neighbors were right, then Zhang fell on behalf of her son and married him. However, after marriage, he was still the same, or not doing his job. There's nothing a mother can do about him. At this time, the young men who cut wood for a living among her relatives and neighbors felt sorry for her and came to see her and gave her advice:

"Let your son come with us to the mountain to chop wood, so that he may have a share of the money from the sale every day, and on the one hand he may help the family, and on the other hand he may not have nothing to do. All you need for him is a donkey, an axe, and some rope."

She was overjoyed at the advice of the woodcutters, and at once bought her son a donkey, an axe, and some rope. Then she took him to the woodcutters and entrusted him to them face to face.

They comforted her, "Don't worry about the baby! He is of noble birth, and will do well in the near future."