A joke about leaves

Fable. From the Southern Song Dynasty scholar Zheng Yinglin's Guan Tian Zi Ze.

Original: Chu was born in a poor family. After reading Huai Nan Zi, he was overjoyed to learn that "mantis waits for cicada to hide leaves, so he can be invisible". I looked up under the tree, looking for the leaves of mantis guarding cicada. Occasionally picked by accident, the leaves accidentally fell under the tree. There are fallen leaves under the tree first, so I can't tell them apart. Instead, he swept a few leaves home, one by one, blocked himself with leaves and asked his wife, "Have you seen me?" At first, my wife always answered "yes", but she was tired of it. She said: "No" Chu people are happy, but tomorrow they will enter the market and take people across the street. Official and official binding. The county magistrate was resigned and told the whole story. The officer smiled and let it go.

There was a very poor man in Chu State. Only after reading Huainan Fang did I know that when mantis catches cicada, it covers itself with a leaf so that cicada can't see itself. So he stood on his back under the tree and picked leaves. When he saw the mantis climb on the leaves to detect cicadas, he took off the leaves. As a result, the leaves fell to the ground. There are many leaves under the tree, and he can no longer tell which one he wants to use to be invisible. So he swept back buckets of leaves and used them to cover himself bucket by bucket. He also asks his wife from time to time, "Can you see me?" My wife always says at the beginning, "I can see." I'm tired of being disturbed by him all day, and my husband is still pestering me. My wife simply coaxed him into saying, "I can't see." The man smiled and looked happy. He took this leaf and ran to the street, stealing things in front of others, and was caught by officials and sent to the county government. When the county magistrate asked him, he told the whole story truthfully. The magistrate laughed without punishment and let him go. . . . It shows that this fable satirizes nerds and people who do bad things-they always think there are clever ways to cover up disgraceful things, but in fact, paper can't cover up the fire. I don't know if it is. Take a look.