The original intention of returning pearls is to buy jewelry, leaving only beautiful boxes, which have no real high-value jewelry. Metaphor is short-sighted. From "Everything is done by Han Feizi, Foreign Stores Say Left"

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Some Chu people sold their pearls to Zheng, Mulan's cabinet, decorated with cinnamon, pearls and jadeite, and decorated with roses and jadeite. Zheng Guoren bought the jewelry box and returned the pearls. This can be said to be a best seller, but it is not a good pearl.

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Zheng people only pay attention to appearance but not inner absurdity, and Chu people's indifference to priorities also makes them afraid to sell pearls. Tell us to proceed from reality.