Nature is like mountains and rivers, and kindness is like plants and trees.
Plants and trees grow and die, but mountains and rivers are strong and firm.
In the old days, there was a little wolf who learned to hunt from a big wolf. He was smart and diligent, but he could never catch food. One day, the big wolf ordered the little wolf to find food alone, otherwise he would starve. The little wolf returned to the mountain field, hid in the dark, and soon caught a rabbit. Unexpectedly, the little wolf did not pounce on the food immediately, but carefully restrained his strength to help the rabbit lick its wounds to stop bleeding.
Seeing this, the rabbit struggled to escape, and the little wolf ran to chase him. The rabbit panicked and fell into the pond. He fluttered and tried to swim back to the shore, but was pressed back into the water by the little wolf who was chasing him. In a moment, seeing that the rabbit was about to drown, the little wolf hurriedly picked him up and kept rubbing his head to help him breathe. The rabbit woke up and was confused. Suddenly, the howl of the big wolf came from the dark. The little wolf was panicked and stretched out his claws to hold the rabbit, but he used too much force. There was a click. He lifted his claws and looked again. The rabbit was already red from all seven orifices and dead.
The little wolf sobbed sadly. The big wolf asked him and then understood: it was because the little wolf couldn’t bear to kill the rabbit, so he spared its life many times, but he was worried that he would starve, so he was unwilling to let it go. After hearing this, the big wolf said: “You think you are kind and soft-hearted, but in fact you have added a lot of pain to yourself and the rabbit. After thinking about it over and over again, it’s better to give each other a quick death from the beginning.”
The little wolf seemed to have realized another truth from this. Later, he created a trick of throwing darts to assassinate, which was fast and fierce. He believed that this was the greatest mercy to the opponent.
本性如山水，善意似草木。
草木生又灭，山水岿而坚。
旧时，有只小狼随大苍狼学习捕猎，他聪明勤勉，却总也捉不到食物。这日，大苍狼下令让小狼独自觅食，否则就得挨饿。小狼返回山场，潜在暗处，不久就逮到了只兔子。不想，那小狼并未立刻扑食，反倒小心翼翼地收敛着气力，帮兔子舔伤止血。
兔子见状，挣扎着逃脱了，小狼又疾奔去追。兔子慌不择路，跌入塘中，他扑腾着想游回岸上，却被追来的小狼—爪摁回水中。须臾，眼瞧兔子就要溺死，小狼又急急将其捞起，不断轻蹭他的脑袋，帮他缓过气来。兔子醒转，正不明所以，暗处忽传来大苍狼的呼嚎，小狼张皇失措，伸爪按住兔子，可用力太甚，只听咔嚓一响，抬爪再看，兔子已七窍喷红，死透了。
小狼伤心地啜泣不已，大苍狼上前一问，这才明白：原是小狼不忍杀兔子，所以屡次饶它性命，可又担心自己挨饿，始终也不愿放过它。听罢，大苍狼道：“你以为自己心慈手软，其实给自己和兔子都平添许多苦痛，思前想后，翻来覆去，倒不如从开始，就给彼此一个痛快。”
小狼似是从这话中悟出别番道理，后来他自创了一手扔镖暗杀的把式，又快又狠，自认这是给对手最大的仁慈。