This sentence comes from Shao Bowen's Shao Shi Lu Wenjian in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Original text:
When Mr. Luwen was young, he played ball with a group of children. He entered the column hole and could not bear it. He poured water on the ball and it floated out. ?
Translation:
When Wen Yanbo was a child, he played football on the grass with several companions. Inadvertently, the ball fell into a tree hole. The companions lay prone at the mouth of the cave and reached for the ball, but they couldn't reach it, nor could they reach it with sticks. When everyone was anxious, Wen Yanbo came up with a good idea, pouring water into the tree hole, and the water floated out when it was full of balls.
Extended data:
Wen Yanbo was a famous politician and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. After four dynasties of Stone Man, Britain, Shen and Zhe, I recommended two houses and changed the festival seven times, which will last for fifty years. During his tenure as a temple consultant, he enforced the law impartially. During this period, he stabilized the situation in North Korea, boldly put forward the idea of disarmament of 80,000, streamlined the army, simplified the administration and reduced the burden on the people, and was called a wise minister by the world.
Wen Yanbo assisted in politics and rehabilitated unjust imprisonment, which played a positive role in social stability and development in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty.
In Song Zhezong's early years, Wen Yanbo was regarded as an important member of the old Party. He supported the abolition of the new law and Sima Guang's concession policy towards Xixia, and agreed to give Mizhi, Futu, Lu Jian and Anjiang back to Xixia, but failed to achieve peace.