Have your cake and eat it.

From Mencius:

Fish, what I want, bear's paw, what I want, you can't have both, and you can take bear's paw instead of fish. Life, what I want, justice, what I want. You can't have both, and you have to sacrifice your life for righteousness.

I want both fish and bear's paw, but I can't have both, so I want bear's paw. Life and justice are what I want, but if I can't have them at the same time, I would rather lose life and justice.

Mencius' words warned people to pay attention to righteousness and would rather sacrifice their lives for righteousness, but people often forgot the original intention, but they relished that you can't have your cake and eat it. Although, this is also a truth.

People should not be too greedy. The extremes meet, and one can't take advantage of everything. What you gain, you lose. We should learn to give up minor things and focus on important things.

It's not that you can't have it both ways, but how to give it up.

"I want fish and bear's paw, and I can't have it both ways. I want bear's paw instead of fish. "

This is a sentence of Mencius, who used it to compare the balance between "life" and "righteousness": "Life, what I want, righteousness and what I want can't have both, but I don't want to live."

Therefore, without conflict, you can have your cake and eat it.

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Longquan Lake is Wu's pride. The scenery on the shore of the 300-mile lake is unique, with winding rivers and endless reeds ... In addition to many rare aquatic products such as perch and carp, the most famous one is silver-gray osmanthus fish, and neighboring country Ruyue exchanges fragrant rice and silk for several loads of palace meals every year.

As the king of a country, Wu Wangliao is most comfortable to eat fish every day. What makes him feel more comfortable recently is that he can eat a big fish and meat every day in the "setting sun building" of Gongzi Jiguang.

Wu Wangliao likes eating fish since he was a child. Since he was about five years old, he has to eat fish for every meal. Once there is little fish, it is tasteless. Steamed, fried and braised, scallion oil, dry roast, vinegar and pepper ... as long as it is fish, no matter which way, it can always arouse his appetite. Every year, he looks for famous chefs all over the world to turn all kinds of fish into various patterns, and he feasts every day. One day, his cousin Ji Guang hosted a banquet in the "Sunset Tower". After watching the dance of the concubine and Ji Guang and tasting the unique fish feast, Liao Wang and his son Ji Guang went upstairs to overlook. At this time, the clear lake is connected with the blue sky, and the boundless reeds are intertwined with the drowning geese and seagulls. The voice of conquering the singer blows away with the evening breeze, and a kind of quiet mood arises spontaneously in Liao Wang's heart. ...

At noon the next day, Wu Wangliao sat down in the "setting sun building" again, and his son Ji Guang asked his servant to serve a bowl of fish soup with a golden rhinoceros horn cup. Wu Wangliao took a sip and asked in surprise, "Why is this soup so delicious?"

Ji Xiaoguang replied: "Your Majesty may not know that it really takes some effort to make this small bowl of osmanthus fish soup!" Wu Wangliao took two more sips slowly, then opened his narrowed eyes and said, "This soup is delicious and rare in the world ... Brother Guang might as well tell me ..."

Ji Guang said, "I recently got a chef named Zhuan Xu, and I realized that there is such delicious fish soup in the world! For this soup, we should choose the newly caught osmanthus fish in Longquan Lake at dawn. It shouldn't be too big or too small. Only choose the one that weighs exactly one catty and has complete scales, and then feed it with clean water mixed with dried flowers for three days and nights. Only when the fishy smell in the fish stomach is spit out can the fish be slaughtered and cleaned. Next, cut the net fish into minced meat, then pour the minced meat into the pot and stir it gently. Finally, add seasonings such as lard, fragrant powder, shredded ginger and pepper. After some incense, a bowl of smooth, tender and delicious hemp fish soup is ready ... "

"Brother Guang is also a gourmet!" Wu Wangliao clapped his hands and laughed. "You are a new cook. You can bring him up and let the king meet him ... "

"How is this done?" Ji Guang quickly said, "How can an inferior person offend Tianwei?"

"Might as well!" Wu Wangliao came over and smiled. "Although you let him come up to see the king ..."

"yes! I went downstairs and told him to cook another good dish, and then presented it ... "

Ji Guang soon went back upstairs to have a drink with the prince of Wu, and had a good time.

Full of wine and food, he said, "Zhuan Xu is here to see ..."

While speaking, a short, bearded, dusty middle-aged chef knelt in front of the prince with a silver plate in his hand. Wang Fu's guards searched him. As soon as they raised their hands, Zhuan Xu landed on all fours and knelt down a few steps: "Zhuan Xu, the villain, invited the king to taste the fresh chrysanthemum carp cooked by the villain ..."

A big carp more than a foot high opened its mouth in a silver plate, but its back was covered with chrysanthemums ... Wu Wangliao said happily, "Are you Zhu Zhu?" Well, bring up the fresh carp and let the king taste it! "

Zhuan Xu stood up from the ground, leaned over the tray and approached Wu Wangliao. Passing 18-wheeler, as soon as he approached, Zhuan Xu grabbed the skirt of the water with one hand, and took out a strange dagger with cold light from the carp's stomach with the other hand, stabbing forward until Wu Wangliao's abdomen disappeared!

Wu Wangliao guards to react, wield a knife to cut, Zhuan Xu was immediately cut into paste. But I only heard Ji Guangda shout, "Kill them all!" In the blink of an eye, a dozen Wang Mi guards rushed out from behind the screen and killed the current Qin Bing with a sword!

Ji Guang stepped forward with a sword and approached the king of Wu.

Liao gasped and moaned, "good! All right! Good brothers! ..... Why do you ... kill the king? "

Ji Guang smiled coldly, took out a white handkerchief and gently wiped the simple-looking sword on his hand: "Brother, I didn't kill you ..."

"At this time, you will make a wrong denial!" The king of Wu spit out a mouthful of blood from his mouth and said angrily, "Zhuan Xu, the cook ... didn't you arrange a special fishing ... our king's erbium fishing?"

Ji Guang began slowly: "It's good that you can understand this! I want to kill you for more than a day, but you are heavily guarded and I can't do it. Fortunately, you were greedy for fish, and I found Zhuan Xu, a killer who is good at cooking, to seduce you with delicious food, which led to the close attack of today's fish intestine sword! Brother, you didn't kill me, you just died of appetite! "

Wu Wangliao took a few steps with a mill, held the box, groaned a few times, sighed a few times, and then quickly said ... Wang Yisheng liked to eat fish, and finally ... died under the gut sword in the stomach of this fresh carp. Isn't it ... God's will? ! Ah, inevitably, the general will die before the battle, and the crock will never leave the well ... wine is dangerous for people, and eating is a disaster for people. The lonely king really died of ... appetite! "

The words sound just fell and Wu Wangliao pressed the hilt, leaned back and slowly fell to the ground. A petal of chrysanthemum stained with blood floated away from the yellow robe, spinning and finally falling to the ground, like a red period. ...