Young Huang Man Yunxiu came to borrow books. I gave him the book and told him:
You can't read good books without borrowing books. Haven't you heard of those people who collect books? Qilve and Siku are the books of the son of heaven, but how many people study in the son of heaven? The book, which makes the cows sweat, is put in the house at home. It's a book from a rich family, but how many people in the rich family study? The rest, like grandparents and dad, are all accumulated books, not to mention what children and grandchildren throw. Not only books are like this, but everything in the world is like this. If that person borrows something that doesn't belong to him, he will worry about others grabbing it back, so he will keep fondling it for a long time, saying, "Leave it here today, take it away tomorrow, and I can't see it." If something has been owned by me, I will definitely tie it up and put it on a high place and say, "Let's talk about it later." That's all.
I liked books very much when I was a child, but my family was poor and it was hard to get them. A man named Zhang has a large collection of books. I borrowed books from the Zhang family, but he refused to lend them to me. When I came back, the dream was still the same. My desire for books has reached this level. So as long as you read the book, you will remember it firmly. When I became an official, my salary was spent, books were bought and piled up everywhere, and traces of bugs often covered books. Only in this way can I sigh that people who borrow books are single-minded and how precious their childhood is!
Now that young man surnamed Huang is as poor as I was, borrowing books and studying hard as I was; It's just that I made the book public and lent it generously, which seems to be different from those Zhang people who are stingy with books. In this case, did I unfortunately meet a person named Zhang, or was that young man named Huang lucky enough to meet me? Knowing the luck of borrowing books and the misfortune of not borrowing books, then he must be very absorbed in reading and he will return the books soon.
I wrote this article about borrowing books and said that I would give it to the young man named Huang together with borrowing books.