Wu said, who helped translate Su Shi

Crows are the most cunning of humans, and once they detect something unusual in their voices and expressions, they will fly away and never stay, even if they are quick arrows and dexterous slingshots. The people of central Fujian are familiar with the habits of crows, and believe that there is nothing that cannot be obtained by virtue of their habits. They came to the countryside, took clay pots and paper money with rice, and pretended to weep at the grave as if they were people who had come to worship.

After crying, he threw paper money, left his meal on the ground and left. The crows flew down and pecked at them. When they had finished pecking, the weeping man stood in front of the other graves, threw the paper money as before, and left the food on the ground.

The crows did not suspect that they were being deceived by them, and even screamed for food. And so on three or four times, and after three or four times, the crows flew up and followed the people. The crows grew closer to people and caught them in one fell swoop.

Nowadays, people in the world think that their wisdom is enough to save their bodies, but they do not know that calamity lurks on the side, how many people can not be fooled by false weepers? There are people who don't know how to preserve their bodies, who commit capital crimes because of stupidity, and who are not as smart as crows who can make a slingshot false at the beginning.

Han Fei wrote "Difficult to Say" and died in the Qin State, and the people of the world lamented that he died because of his wisdom. Xiang Yu didn't know "It's Hard to Say", some people said that he was crowned by Mu Monkey (and therefore killed), and people all over the world lamented that he died because of stupidity. These two people, although one is smart and the other is stupid, are not the same, but in the end they kill themselves are the same.

Ning Wuzi was smart when the country was right, and when the country was unreasonable, he pretended to be stupid, observing the opportunity and acting, how could he cause disaster?

The original text and translation of Su Shi's two articles are as follows:

When Su Shi served as the Taishou of Qiantang, a common man came to complain, saying that the fan seller owed him 20,000 silver, so he arrested the fan seller, and the fan seller said sadly: "It has been raining for a long time, and the weather has been very cold, and there are fans that cannot be sold. ”

Su Shi asked him to bring twenty fans, then picked up the brush on the table and wrote the words in cursive at random, and drew dead wood and bamboo and handed them to him. (The fan seller) had just gone out, and people actually bought a fan for 1,000 yuan, and all the fans that could not be sold were sold out.

Later, the fan seller also paid off all the money he owed.

Original text]: Dongpo is punctual for Qiantang, and the people have sued the fan for a debt of 20,000 yuan, and when he is caught, he said: "The rain is sweltering and cold for a long time, and there is no fan to sell, so I am not willing to pay it."

The public decree is to fan twenty times, and the pen is judged to be arbitrary, grass, dead wood, bamboo and stone. When he went out, he took a fan for a thousand dollars, and he held it all. So I paid for it.

Writing background: Su Shi, Jinshi in the second year of Jiayou (1057). Exhaust the Zhongshu Sheren Hall, Hanlin Bachelor, Duanming Hall Bachelor, and Rite Department Shangshu.

He was sentenced to Hangzhou, Zhimi Prefecture, Xuzhou, Huzhou, Yingzhou, etc. In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), he slandered Huangzhou with a new law. Later, he degraded Huizhou and Danzhou.

Song Hui Zongli, pardon and return. Died in Changzhou. Chase Wenzhong.

Erudite and talented, good at writing, poetry, calligraphy and painting.