Source: "Everything is done by Han Feizi, and the foreign reserve says left."
Original text:
A Chu man sold a pearl to Zheng. It's Mulan's cabinet, smoked with cinnamon, decorated with pearls and emeralds, decorated with roses, and sealed with Hosta. Zheng Guoren bought the jewelry box and returned the pearls.
Explanation: rafter: wooden box; Pearl: Pearl. Bought a business box and returned the pearls. Metaphor has no vision and improper choice.
Translation:
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a businessman in the State of Chu who specialized in selling jewelry. Once he went to Qi State to sell jewelry. For the sake of good business and best-selling jewelry, he specially made many small boxes with precious wood, which were beautifully carved and decorated, so that the boxes would give off a fragrance, and then put the jewelry in the boxes.
A man from Zheng saw the box containing the orb exquisite and beautiful. After asking the price, he bought one, opened the box, took out the treasure inside and gave it back to the jeweler.