Master Zengzi's wife was going shopping and her son started crying because he was not allowed to go with her. "Don't cry. When I come
back I will kill the pig and let you eat the meat,”She said.
When the wife came back, she saw Zengzi killing a pig; she was shocked, saying:”I was not serious about what I said. How can you
really kill the pig?"
"We can't deceive a child,”Zengzi kept the parents' word and killed the pig.
曾子的妻子上街，儿子哭着要跟着去。曾子的妻子说;“如果你不跟着去、回来就杀猪,给你吃猪肉”儿子同意了曾子的妻子从街上回来，看见曾子正在准备杀猪，于是生气地说:“我不是说真的。”曾子坚持说:“不能欺骗孩子”为了给孩子做榜样，曾子把猪杀了。
