Original text:
Ah Zai came home late, and all the meat in his burden was eaten, leaving only bones. On the way, the two wolves traveled a long way. Eliminate fear and throw it at the bone. The wolf has a bone to stop, and the wolf still comes from. After the re-voting, the post-wolf stopped and the former wolf came again. The bones are exhausted. And the combination of two wolves is the same. Tu was embarrassed. He was afraid of being attacked by the enemy. There is a wheat field in Gu Ye, where the landowner earns a lot of money. Tu Naiben leaned against it with a knife on his shoulder. Wolves are afraid to go forward, eyeing each other.
When I was a child, a wolf left and a dog sat in front of him. After a long time, my eyes seem to be useless and very idle. Tu suddenly and violently, one knife to cut the wolf's head, several knives to kill it. Fang wanted to go, but after turning to pay, a wolf hole was among them, which meant to tunnel in and attack the back. The body is half in, and only the tail is exposed. After the slaughter, he died of a broken stock. It was the wolf who fell asleep before enlightenment, and covered it to lure the enemy. The wolf was shocked, but was killed twice in an instant. What is the geometry of the beast? Stop laughing.
Translation:
A butcher sold meat and went home. It is getting late. At this moment, a wolf suddenly appeared. The wolf has been peeping at the butcher's meat, and the saliva in his mouth seems to be coming out, so he followed the butcher for several miles.
The butcher was very afraid, so he picked up the butcher knife and showed it to the wolf. The wolf stepped back a few steps, but when the butcher turned and walked on, the wolf followed. The butcher had no choice but to think that the wolf wanted meat, so he might as well hang it on the tree (so that the wolf could not reach it) and come back tomorrow morning (when the wolf left).
So the butcher hung the meat on the hook, stood on tiptoe (with the meat hook) on the tree, and then showed the wolf the empty burden. So the wolf stopped following the butcher. The butcher went home (safely).
At dawn the next day, the butcher went to get the meat (where the meat was hung yesterday) and saw a huge thing hanging on the tree from a distance, just like a person hanging on the tree, very scared. The butcher (for fear) wandered carefully (around the tree) to get close to it. When he got closer, it turned out to be a dead wolf.
The butcher looked up carefully and found that the wolf had meat in his mouth, and the hook for hanging meat had pierced the wolf's upper jaw. Like a fish biting the bait. At that time, the wolf skin was very expensive in the market, which could be worth more than a dozen taels of silver, so the butcher's life was slightly better.
Like climbing a tree to catch fish, wolves want to eat meat, but the result is a disaster. That's ridiculous!
Brief introduction of Pu Songling:
Pu Songling (1640- 17 15), a writer of the Qing Dynasty, was nicknamed Liu Xian, Jianchen, nicknamed Liu Quan Jushi, and was known as Mr. Liaozhai, a native of Zichuan, Shandong Province (now Zibo, Shandong Province). Pu Songling was keen on fame and fame all his life, and was addicted to the imperial examination. However, except for 19 years old, he was admitted to Zhongxian, Fufu and Daodao for three consecutive times, and he was repeatedly frustrated and frustrated.
He took the exam for forty years while teaching. It was not until he was seventy-one that he made up a tribute and died four years later. The rough experience of life made Pu Songling have a certain understanding of the political darkness at that time and the disadvantages of the imperial examination. The poverty of life made him have a certain understanding and experience of the lives and thoughts of working people.
So he wrote many works with his personal feelings. Today, in addition to Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, there are also Collected Works from a Lonely Studio and poetry collections.