The original text is:
Retirement is not an official, as long as you have money in your pocket, millet in your warehouse and poetry in your stomach, you are the prime minister in the mountains; ?
Pray for Chinese New Year without taking medicine. I hope you are healthy, carefree, and have no creditors. You are a fairy on the earth.
-Li Hongzhang
Extended data:
There is a couplet written in calligraphy by Li Hongzhang in his later years in the ancestral hall of Nanjing. Part one: Being an official is not to enjoy a happy life. As long as you have money in your pocket, rice in the warehouse and poetry in your stomach, you are the prime minister in the mountains. Bottom line: You don't need to take medicine to pray for a long life. I hope you are healthy, carefree and have no creditors. You can be a fairy on the ground. Horizontal batch: happy every day.
References:
Li Hongzhang Ancestral Temple _ Baidu Encyclopedia