Stick #46: Let Diligence Be Your Foundation (Neutral)
勤能补拙是良言，一日不勤一日偏。手勤脚勤心亦勤，天道酬勤自古然。
Plain reading
This lot says diligence mends slow wit. Skip one day's work and path bends. Hand, foot, and heart all busy — heaven has long rewarded the steady worker.
Interpretation
"Let Diligence Be Your Foundation" is a neutral stick. Diligence repairs dullness. One lazy day skews the month. Whole self in labor — old truth, heaven pays the steady.
Advice
Three small daily tasks before rest. Diligence is not huge burst — it is unbroken chain.
Drawn from Family Instructions of Yan — "skill beats hoarded coin" — and Zu Ti dancing to rooster — diligence rises, sloth falls.