Chapter 62 The 61st benefactor Wu who loves to buckle the scale

There is a fairly large vegetable market in Miao Town, which is a must-go place for the townspeople every day. There are long-term stalls in the market, as well as temporary benefactors.On the left side of the vegetable market, there is a row of fixed shops that mainly sell vegetarian food. In the past few years, Jie Ao and I have been responsible for purchasing food for the temple. For this reason, we have met many benefactors who sell vegetarian food. In that row of shops, there are three shops specializing in soy products, which we often visit. The owners of the three shops are named Chen, Wu and Wang.

Every time we go to the market, we always randomly buy something from one of the three houses, but after buying a few times, we suddenly find that the things we buy at Donor Wu’s house are always under-scaled, and sometimes under-scaled. Quite a few taels, but the other two benefactors sold things that didn't happen. We asked the brothers in the monastery, and it turned out that they had the same experience.As a monk, it is inconvenient to argue with the benefactors. Therefore, when I went to the market to buy bean products in the future, I started to avoid going to the benefactor's house to buy things intentionally or unintentionally.

Donor Wu will still be very polite when he sees us, and greet us the same way. When business is bad, Donor Wu will look at us expectantly, but we still don't dare to go shopping at his house. This kind of day lasted for almost half a year.When Chinese New Year was approaching, one day, we suddenly found that many shops in the market were closed. We found out that many benefactors had returned to their hometowns to visit their relatives, including benefactors Chen and Wang. We had no choice but to go into Benefactor Wu's shop, and because we knew of Benefactor Wu's habits, we deliberately asked for more.

Benefactor Wu weighed the things we wanted carefully and wrapped them in a bag, which we found heavy in our hands.Jieao whispered, I feel that benefactor Wu did not deduct the scale this time. I carried the things back to the temple and put them on Master Zhiheng's scale, and sure enough there was no shortage of catties or taels. We felt a little regretful, wondering if we had misunderstood Donor Wu all the time before?Or has Donor Wu changed his mind, but we are still biased? So we had doubts in our hearts, and later we patronized Wu's house several times, and each time we were no longer short of catties.

A few days later, I met a benefactor from the town’s industrial and commercial office who was responsible for managing the vegetable market. He accidentally said that in the past, people often reported to us that merchants like to buckle the scale. Later, we placed a public electronic in the market. Since then, people who sell things in the market seldom deduct scales, because people who buy things will quickly find that their things are less heavy. We suddenly understood that the reason for Wu's correction may not be because of guilt, but because of the electronic scale. The causes of many bad behaviors have nothing to do with a person's morality. In the absence of supervision, people with high morals may behave inappropriately; and some bad habits, under supervision, will gradually Correct it.