1, gild the lily: A group of people draw a snake in a game, and whoever draws quickly will get a drink. A person draws quickly, and finishes it in the blink of an eye, so he picks up the hip flask and asks for a drink. But he looked back at the others, and they were not finished. I thought to myself, they draw so slowly. He said proudly, "You draw so slowly! It's not too late for me to draw more feet for the snake! " So he held a hip flask in his left hand and drew a snake's foot in his right hand.

2. Buy gifts and return pearls: Zheng has a Chu who sells jewelry. He carved a pearl box with precious Mulan, smoked it with cinnamon pepper, decorated it with jewels and jewels, connected it with beautiful jade, decorated it with jade and connected it with kingfisher feathers. A man of Zheng bought a box, but returned the beads in the box to him. It can be said that this jeweler is good at selling boxes, but not at selling jewelry.

3. Carve a boat for a sword: A man from Chu crossed the river. His sword fell from the boat into the water. He immediately carved a mark on the side of the boat and said, "This is where my sword fell." The ship stopped and (the Chu people) went into the water from the marked place to look for the sword. The ship goes forward, but the sword won't go with it. Isn't it silly to find a sword like this?

4. Better late than never: Once upon a time, someone raised a circle of sheep. One morning, he found a sheep missing. A closer look revealed that there was a hole in the sheepfold. At night, the wolf came in and took a sheep. Neighbors advised him: "Fix the sheepfold quickly and plug the hole!" " The man refused to accept the suggestion and replied, "Why build a sheepfold when the sheep have been lost?" "The next morning, he found another sheep missing.

It turned out that the wolf got in from the hole again and took away a sheep. He regretted not listening to his neighbor's advice, so he quickly blocked the hole and repaired the sheepfold. From then on, wolves can no longer go into the sheepfold to grab sheep.

5. Cup bow and snake shadow: Le Guang once had a close friend who didn't come back for a long time. Le Guang asked the reason why his friend didn't come. My friend replied, "I came to your house the other day, thanks to the wine you gave me." When I picked up my cup to drink, I saw a snake in it. I was very sick. After drinking that glass of wine, I got seriously ill. "

At that time, a friend was sitting drinking, and there was a bow hanging on the wall next to it, with a painted snake on it. Yue Guang guessed that the shadow in the cup was a bow. So, he invited the friend to drink in the original place and said to his friend, "Did you see anything in the glass again?" The friend replied, "I saw the same thing as last time." So Le Guang told him the reason, and his friend's mood was suddenly enlightened, the mystery was solved at once, and the serious illness that had not been cured for a long time was cured at once.

6. Make the finishing point: Zhang Sengyou painted four dragons on the wall of anrakuji, Jinling, but didn't draw eyes. He often said, "Click on your eyes and the dragon will fly away." People thought it was ridiculous, so they clicked one of the dragons' eyes. After a while, lightning and thunder broke the wall and the dragonfly flew into the sky. All the dragons without eyes are there.

7. The blind touch the elephant: Once upon a time, four blind people wanted to know what the elephant looked like, but they couldn't see it, so they had to touch it with their hands. The fat blind man touched the elephant's teeth first. He said, "I see, an elephant is like a big, thick and smooth radish." The tall blind man touched the elephant's ear. "No, the elephant is obviously a big cattail leaf fan!" He shouted. "You talk nonsense, the elephant is just a big pillar."

It turned out that the short blind man touched the elephant's leg. On the other hand, the old blind man muttered, "Alas, elephants are not that big. It's just a straw rope. " It turned out that he touched the elephant's tail. Four blind men argued endlessly that they were touching a real elephant. But in fact? None of them are right.

8. Frightened Birds: Once upon a time, Lei Geng and Wang Wei were under a high stage. They looked up and saw a bird. Lei Geng said to Wang Wei, "I can make this bird fall without hitting it." Wang Wei said, "Can archery reach such a high level?" Lei Geng said, "Yes." After a while, a wild goose flew from the east.

Lei Geng shot an arrow at random, and the goose fell from mid-air. Wang Wei exclaimed: "(archery) can really reach this level!" Lei Geng explained: "This is an injured bird!"

Wang Wei is even more puzzled: "How can Mr. Wang know?" Lei Geng replied, "It flies very slowly, and its singing is harsh. Flying slowly is due to the pain of old injuries and harsh voices. Because of the long-term loss of group, the original wound has not healed and the panic has not been eliminated. As soon as I heard the sound of bowstring, I struggled to fly upwards, causing the old injury to burst before falling.

9. Smell the chicken dancing: Once, in the middle of the night, Zu Ti heard a chicken crow in his sleep. He kicked Liu Kun awake and said to him, "Did you hear the cock crow?" Liu Kun said, "It's unlucky to hear chickens crow in the middle of the night." Zu Ti said, "I don't think so. How about we get up and practice swords when we hear chickens crow in the future? " Liu Kun readily agreed.

So every day after the rooster crows, he gets up to practice his sword, and the light of the sword flies and the sound of the sword is sonorous. Spring goes to winter, cold goes to summer, and it never stops. Everything comes to him who waits. After long-term hard study and training, they finally become versatile.

10, Capsule Firefly Xue Ying: Sun Kang's family is very poor and can't afford lamp oil. One night in the middle of the night, Sun Kang woke up from his sleep. When he turned his head to the window, he found a ray of light in the window. It turned out to be light reflected by heavy snow. He found that he could use it to read. So he was so tired that he immediately got dressed, took out his book and went outside. The snow reflected on the wide earth is much brighter than the snow in the room.

Sun Kang ignored the cold and immediately read a book. His hands and feet were frozen stiff, so he got up and ran, rubbing his fingers at the same time. From then on, every snowy night, he never missed this good opportunity and studied tirelessly. This spirit of hard work has promoted his knowledge to advance by leaps and bounds and become a knowledgeable person. Later, he became an ancient scholar.