What other two-part allegorical sayings do you know?

Wang Xizhi judged the extortion case

When Wang Xizhi was the prefect, he received a petition from a village saying that a squire used a small piece of wasteland to let him bury his father, stating that he only wanted a "pot" of wine, but afterwards he insisted on a "lake" of wine. Wang Xizhi went to visit the squire's house. The squire heard his name and wanted Mo Bao, so he treated him warmly. Wang Xizhi wrote a biography of Le Yi for him. The squire was overjoyed and asked what gift to give him in return. Wang Xizhi said, "Just a live goose". The squire immediately picked up a live goose and sent it to the mansion, but Wang Xizhi sank his face and said, "At that time, it was said that it was a river goose. Why did you only send one?" It turns out that the local dialect "live" and "river" are homonyms. The squire quickly argued, "My Lord, geese are counted by four, never by rivers!" " With a sneer, Wang Xizhi took out a villager's complaint and said, "Since geese are counted only, can wine be counted by lakes?" The squire was wrong and had to admit his mistake.

Ji Xiaolan called He Shen

When Ji Xiaolan was an assistant minister, He Shen was a minister. Once they had a drink with an censor. During the dinner, He Shen pointed to a dog and asked Ji Xiaolan, "Is it a wolf (assistant minister) or a dog?" Ji Xiaolan was very alert. He heard that He Shen was insulting himself by homophonic, and immediately replied calmly: "The tail is a wolf, and the tree is a dog." The imperial censor who wanted to please He Shen also heard the cleverness, but deliberately answered, "I understand whether it is a wolf or a dog." On hearing this, Ji Xiaolan knew the intention of the suggestion and said calmly, "There is still a difference. The wolf's habit is to eat meat, and the dog's habit is to eat whatever it meets, and to eat shit when it meets shit (suggestion)." Make He Shen and suggestion.

"Touming is not the first name"

At the end of Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, a scholar in a county took an exam, and suddenly a cicada sounded in the quiet examination room. The invigilator found that the cicada sounded from the examinee Zhang's hat, so he uncovered his hat and saw several cicadas still singing. Zhang Sheng confessed that when he left home this morning, his father put the cicada in his hat, saying that the cicada could win the first place in the head. Just now, the cicada crawled and made his head itch, so he scratched it a few times and the cicada called away. Hearing this, the invigilator was amused and angry, so he cancelled Zhang's examination qualification for violating discipline and wrote a poem: "Touming is not the first name, all because of my father's good fame." Qiu Chan doesn't know his name, and superstition is a sign of losing his fame. "

"My humble job is called a dog"

There was a joke in ancient times that a person who donated money to get a job went to see his boss. The boss asked, "How is your local culture?" The donation class replied: "There is no strong wind, and there is less dust." Q: "How are the people?" Answer: "There are only two white apricots, but there are quite a few red apricots." Donating a class answered irrelevant questions, and the boss became angry and shouted: "Bastard, I asked Li Shu." Trembling with fear, the class donor quickly replied, "There are many pear trees, but only few fruits." The boss laughed and cried, patting the table, "I didn't ask you about pears and apricots, I asked you about Wang!" " Donate the class and quickly stood up and said, "My humble nickname is dog." The boss was so ridiculous that he shook his head again and again: "Dog, dog, you are really a dog!" "