VICTIM OF THEFT: is Ms. Tu Cung, who lives above Hoa Hao Pagoda. According to her account: At that time, around the middle of July in the year Ky Mao (1939), she was robbed of a spear and quite a few pieces of clothing. While she was lamenting, a boat with four people moored right at the pier.
Three people went straight up the road, one person came into her house to inquire about the recent theft and said he also knew how to read fortunes. Ms. Tu immediately asked him to tell her fortune. After reading it, he comforted Ms. Tu: “What is lost is gone, you shouldn’t be upset. The theft was foretold by your relatives. You should focus on your work, and later things will get better.” Indeed, afterwards, Ms. Tu Cung engaged in selling fabric at My Luong market, and her family became prosperous.
Two days later, Duc Thay wrote two poems and instructed his youngest disciple, Huynh Thanh Mau, to deliver them to Ms. Tu Cung, telling her to say: These two poems are from the Fortune-Teller Master who lent them to you the other day.
The two poems are as follows:
“My sorrow arises from a depression,
The phoenix boat turns back with a fairy skill.,
Advising a lay person to dispel sadness,
Household items are hard to recover.
Look at it, one feels very poignant,
Only what is destined will occur,
Seeing deceit, one hates dishonesty,
But due to fate, it does not reveal itself.”
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