(Clearwisdom.net) On August 6, 2001, my friend and I went to the Eight Mile Fort vegetables and fruit wholesale market in Lingyuan, Liaoning Province, to check out the prices. It was barely dawn when we arrived, but already there were lots of vehicles and people, and the market was very crowded. As we walked, both of us were asked the prices of the vegetables in the bustling crowd. I turned around and found my friend had disappeared. I immediately called his phone, "Where are you?" He told me he had picked up a wallet outside the door of the wholesale cucumber booth. He also told me to hurry up to meet him. I was quite happy when I heard that, thinking how lucky he was to find a wallet in the early morning.
I ran to the cucumber wholesale booth and saw my friend standing there with a wallet in his hand. I ran up to him and said, "Show me what's inside." But he wouldn't. I said half jokingly, "I didn't say that we should split whatever is inside because I saw it. What are you afraid of?" He said, "You know I am cultivating Falun Dafa. Neither of us should keep this wallet. The owner will come back to look for it. We should give it back to him. The person who lost this wallet must be very worried." His expression showed he was worried more than the owner. I said, "You've convinced me already. But you do need to look inside and find out what is in it. When the guy tells you what is inside, you can give it back to him." He thought this was reasonable, so we both opened the wallet and found an ID card, a driver's license, and 12,000 yuan. 12,000 yuan is not a small amount of money. To tell the truth, my heart was touched. My friend read my mind. He told me about the relationship between loss and gain, about doing good deeds that will accumulate de and so on. He asked me how I would I feel if I had lost the money?
Just then, a middle-aged man ran over and shouted, "Who picked up the wallet?" My friend said, "Brother, don't be worried. I have picked up a wallet, but I don't know whether it is yours or not." I also said quickly, "You should tell us what's inside it." The man wiped the sweat off of his forehead and said, breathing heavily, "It's 12,000 yuan! Finally I've found it and I need to give thanks to heaven and earth. The wallet is mine, thanks to heaven and earth." He could not speak in full sentences. My friend calmed him down by saying, "Say, friend, take it easy. Speak slowly. What else is in the wallet? How much money exactly?" The man calmed down and said, "It has a driver's license, an ID card, and 12,000 yuan." My friend noted that the information was all correct. He checked the photo on the ID card and saw the man's picture, so my friend gave him back his wallet and suggested that he should check the items inside. This man was very touched when he looked in his wallet, "I have met a good person indeed. I thought I definitely would never get my wallet back." He pulled out 2,000 yuan to give to my friend as a reward. My friend said, "Brother, I don't need your money. I am cultivating Falun Dafa. We are all about being good people and not about seeking rewards. If I were not practicing Falun Dafa, I might have run away with the money a long time ago." That man looked at my friend, looked at the money in his hand, and, after quite a while, said, "The person who practices Falun Gong is indeed a good person and it is hard to find such a person anywhere these days. From the time that I had lost the money, I thought that it was a dream. But still, I need to thank you."
My friend comforted him by saying, "Brother, please take the money. Today you met me, so you must have a good predestined relationship with Dafa. Every Falun Gong practitioner would do the same because our Master teaches us to do so. If you need to thank somebody, then you can thank our Master. It's not easy to make a living as a driver. Please remember to recite 'Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.' Doing so will turn the troubles that you meet into good things."
He patted his head as if he had just awakened, "Oh, I will remember 'Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.'" He knelt down on the floor, kowtowing and bowing, and said, "Thanks to Master Li , thanks to Master Li." My friend and I helped him stand up. My friend explained to him the importance of quitting the Chinese Communist Party and its youth organizations. The middle-aged man said with appreciative tears in his eyes, “I choose to quit and I will quit." As I watched, I was also touched. If everyone of us could be this honest, that would be truly great!
Because both of us had to go to work, we said farewell to him. The man thanked us a thousand times. Even after we had walked a long distance away, he still stood there waving to us.
I followed behind my friend. What a wonderful person he is. I ran several steps to catch up with him.
