I may have been a farmer all his life, making up the Gong a little money, good life on the two children.

我可能一辈子都是个农民，打个小工挣个小钱，看好俩孩子就一辈子了。

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Zi Gong had a sudden sympathy for the farmer. He felt that he must tell the local people the simple way of irrigation that they had been employed for years in the State of Jin.

子贡一时起了恻隐之心，他觉得有义务告诉当地人，他们在晋国实施多年的简易灌溉方式。

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