Grandmaster Tse’s Qìgōng Dāo 氣功道 411

Everything went very well. The government had more money and the people lived better lives. This was just what Lǚ Yán wanted, he wanted to work for the country so the people could have better lives. He even got to married with very high position official’s daughter who was very beautiful and educated, many people wanted to marry her too, but high position official liked Lǚ Yán a lot. He had a very happy and rich family, even have one boy and one girl, that is nothing better than that, in the government people looked up on him. However, the more promotions he received and the higher up he got, more and more people became jealous of him. One day one of his officials made some mistakes which caused the government to lose a lot of money. Lǚ Yán was criticised by his colleagues and Emperor distanced himself from him and would not see him. After more criticism Lǚ Yán lost his position and was punished. He lost everything, his big house, his money and even his family and friends stayed away from him. His beautiful wife and children were also punished and made to be a servant for another high-ranking official’s family.

Now Lǚ Yán was on his own, he felt lonely and down. Everything was gone and now he was old. At the end his entire life was for nothing, and the tears began to pour from his eyes. Then he opened his eyes and found he was still lying on the bed!