Wang Yong outsmarts the rich man Wang Yong is smart and brave. He loves to fight against rich and powerful people. In order to retaliate against him, a rich man deliberately hired him as a long-term worker. One day, the rich man and his wife were playing chess. He called Wang Yong and said, "Let's bet. Who do you think will win this game? If you guess it right, I will reward you with a gold ingot; if you guess it wrong, I will give you 20 whips." Wang Yong immediately wrote the words "You win, she loses". The rich man deliberately lost to his wife and proudly wanted to give Wang Yong 20 lashes. Wang Yong thought: "You beat her? Lose!" The rich man had nothing to say. In the second game, the rich man beat his wife. Wang Yong read these four words again: "You win, she loses." The rich man had no choice. He failed to beat Wang Yong and lost the gold ingot. Use punctuation to save lives. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who held great power in the government, asked a calligrapher to inscribe a fan. The calligrapher wrote a poem by Wang Zhihuan, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty: "Far above the Yellow River, among the white clouds, there is an isolated city called Wanren Mountain. Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not reach Yumen Pass." However, due to the calligrapher's negligence, he missed the poem when he wrote it. There is a word "between". Cixi was furious after seeing it, thinking that she was deliberately deceiving her because she was uneducated, and wanted to accuse the calligrapher. The calligrapher quickly explained: This is a poem filled with Wang Zhihuan's poetry. Then he re-segmented the sentence and recited: "Far above the Yellow River, there are white clouds, and the lonely city is Wanren Mountain; why should the Qiang flute complain? The spring breeze of the willows will not pass through Yumen Pass." After hearing this, Cixi was speechless and had to give the calligrapher money. At the critical moment, the calligrapher used punctuation to save his own life. The Story of the Landlord There once was a landowner who was stingy. He hoped that his children would be successful when they grew up, but he refused to give food and drink to the teachers who taught his children. Therefore, no one came to his house to be a teacher. The landlord was very anxious. At this time, a local scholar with great teaching experience took the initiative to find the landlord and expressed his willingness to work as a teacher in the landlord's home. The landlord said: "Sir, I don't have good food to entertain you." The scholar said: "Okay." The landlord said: "Sir, you are a famous teacher. I heard that you charge 30 taels of silver per semester for tuition. But I have no money to give you. "The scholar said, "Okay. I don't want you to entertain me with chicken, duck, and fish, and I don't need you to pay 30 taels of tuition. You should have tofu and cabbage." The landlord nodded and said, "Yes, yes, sir." According to what you said, please write me a note." The scholar nodded and wrote: Boss: No chicken, duck, fish, or tofu and cabbage are required. The tuition fee is 30 taels. ××Xiucai ×Year×Month×Day The landlord picked up the note and took a look at it. He was afraid that the scholar would regret it, so he quickly asked someone to take it to the house. When the semester was about to end, the scholar threw dishes and bowls, feeling that his body was exhausted from eating tofu and cabbage. When the landlord heard this, he took out the note from the cabinet, ran to the study, and said to the scholar: "Sir, you can't go back on your word. You have written the note." The scholar said, "What note did I write?" The landlord took out the note and said, The scholar took it, held the brush in hand, and read the punctuation points: Boss: No chicken, duck is OK; no fish, meat is OK; tofu and cabbage are not allowed. The minimum tuition fee is 30 taels. ××Xiucai ×Year×Month×Day After the scholar finished reading, the landlord was dumbfounded. I had no choice but to kill chickens and ducks, steam fish, stew meat, entertain my husband, and pay 30 taels of silver for tuition. Supplement: A person is always in litigation. During the Chinese New Year, he said to his family: "No one can file a lawsuit this year." He also posted a couplet that read, "This year will be good, with less bad luck, and no lawsuits will be filed." But there was no punctuation. As a result, the younger son read this couplet when he came to visit relatives, which surprised the whole family. What he read was: "This year is very unlucky, and there will be few lawsuits." It is said that in ancient times, a poor scholar went to a friend's house to make a living. As time went by, the owner became unhappy. One day, it was raining, and the poor scholar came again. The master had no choice but to write a note to express his feelings tactfully. The poor scholar read the note and knew that the host was issuing an order to exclude guests, so he had an idea and just used a pen to add punctuation on the note, and the order to exclude guests became a word of stay. Do you know how host and guest break up sentences respectively? On a rainy day, I invite guests to you, but I don’t want to stay with you.