In A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu told a joke to Lin Daiyu, which seemed to be about mice.

"There used to be a group of mice in the forest cave. On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the old mouse got up and went to the table to discuss, because he said,' Tomorrow is Laba, and everyone in the world cooks Laba porridge. There is not enough fruit in the cave now, so we must take this opportunity to grab some. "But he pulled out an arrow and sent a capable little consumer to inquire. In an instant, I paid a small return:' I have visited everywhere, but the temple below the mountain has the most fruit and rice.' The old consumer asked, "How many kinds of rice are there?" ? How many products are there? Small consumption way: "Mi Dou warehouse, unforgettable. There are five kinds of fruits: one red date, two chestnuts, three peanuts, four water chestnuts and five taro. Old consumers listen to big, instant consumption. Nai drew an arrow and asked,' Who throws rice?' A consumption patient was ordered to steal rice. Pull out the arrow again and ask,' Who's going to steal the beans? Spending and stealing beans again. Then I went to get the bills one by one. There was only one kind of taro left. He pulled out an arrow and asked,' Who will steal taro?' ? I saw a weak consumer reply, "I want to steal taro." . Old people with consumption and seeing consumption like this, afraid of inexperience and cowardice, are not allowed to go. Small consumption way:' I am young and weak, but I have infinite magic power, clever tongue like a spring, and far-reaching scheming. Taking care of it is smarter than stealing it. The crowd asked,' How can we be smarter than them? Small consumption:' I don't steal like them. I just turned into a taro, rolling in the taro pile, making people invisible and inaudible, but secretly carrying it in two places and gradually carrying it out. Wouldn't that be smarter than stealing hard? Hearing this, many consumers said,' Great, but I don't know how to change it. Let's take a look first. After listening to this, Xiao Wei smiled and said,' This is not difficult, wait for me to change it. After that, I turned around and said' change' and became the most beautiful lady. The crowd laughed and said,' Wrong, wrong. Originally said to change fruit, how to change to a lady? Xiao Shao smiled:' I said that you have never seen the world, only knowing that this fruit is taro, but I don't know that Master Yan's young lady is the real Xiangyu. "