What's wrong with making him three feet?
The Great Wall of Wan Li still exists today.
I didn't see Qin Shihuang.
The Story of Liuchi Lane
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a famous family in Tongcheng, Anhui Province. Father and son are two generations, with great power. It turned out to be Zhang and Zhang.
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ying was a university student in Wenhua Hall and a minister of rites. The old house in Tongcheng, my hometown, is adjacent to the Wu family. There is an open space between the two houses for traffic between the two sides. Later, neighbor Wu Jia built a house and occupied this passage. The Zhang family disagreed, and the two sides defeated the county government. Considering that both sides of the dispute are prominent aristocratic families, the county magistrate did not dare to end it easily.
During this period, the Zhang family wrote a letter to the official in Beijing, asking to get involved in this matter. After receiving the letter, Zhang Ying thought that she should be modest to her neighbors and wrote four sentences in her reply to her family:
A thousand miles of books are only for walls.
What's the harm in making him three feet?
The Great Wall of Wan Li still exists today.
I didn't see Qin Shihuang.
After reading it, the family understood the meaning and offered to give up three feet of open space. The Wu family was deeply moved by the situation and moved out of the three-foot homestead, thus forming a six-foot alley. The courtesy of the two families and the Zhang family's practice of not bullying others were passed down as beautiful talks.