The story of punctuation marks

Wang Yong outsmarted the rich.

Wang Yong is clever and brave. He likes to fight against rich and powerful people. A rich man deliberately hired him as a long-term worker to get back at him.

One day, the rich man and his wife played chess, called Wang Yong to him and said, "Let's make a bet. Guess who won the chess game? Guess right, give you an ingot; If you guess wrong, I'll give you twenty lashes. "

Wang Yong immediately wrote "You win and she loses".

The rich man deliberately lost to his wife and proudly wanted to beat Wang Yong 20 lashes. Wang Yong read: "Did you hit her? Lost! " The rich have nothing to say.

In the second set, the rich man won his wife. Wang Yong read these four words again: "You win, she loses." There is nothing the rich man can do. He didn't win Wang Yong, but he lost the gold ingot.

Clever use of punctuation marks to save your life

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was in charge of state affairs, asked a calligrapher to write a fan. That calligrapher wrote a poem by Wang Zhihuan, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty: "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and there is an isolated city-Wan Ren. Why bother to complain about the willow, the spring breeze is only Yumenguan. "

However, due to the negligence of calligraphers, the word "Jian" was omitted when writing poems. Cixi was furious after seeing it. She thought it was a deliberate deception of her lack of knowledge. She wants to ask the calligrapher to die. The calligrapher used his quick wits and quickly explained that this poem was written by Wang Zhihuan. Then he repeated the sentence on the spot and recited: "Far away from the Yellow River, there are white clouds, and Wan Ren Mountain is an isolated city; Why are you complaining about Johnny? Willow spring breeze, not Yumenguan. "

Cixi was speechless after hearing this and had to give money to the calligrapher. In times of crisis, calligraphers skillfully use punctuation to save their lives.

The story of the landlord

Once upon a time, there was a very stingy landlord. He wants his children to be successful when they grow up, but he refuses to give food and drinks to the teachers who teach his children. Therefore, no one went to his house to be a teacher. The landlord is very anxious. At this time, a local scholar with great teaching experience took the initiative to find the landlord and expressed his willingness to be a teacher at the landlord's house. The landlord said, "sir, I don't have a good meal for you." The scholar said, "Good." The landlord added, "Sir, you are a famous teacher. It is said that the tuition fee is 30 taels per semester. I have no money for you. " The scholar said, "Good. I don't want you to treat me to chicken, duck and fish, and I don't want you to pay 30 taels of tuition. There must be tofu and cabbage. " The landlord nodded again and again and said, "Yes, yes. Sir, as you said, please write me a written evidence. " Scholar nodded and wrote:

Owner:

No chicken, no duck, no fish, no tofu, no cabbage, no tuition fee of 30 Liang.

Xx scholar

X year x month x day

The landlord picked up the note, glanced at it, and was afraid that the scholar would go back on his word and sent it home at once. At the end of the semester, the scholar smashed a bowl and was so tired that he ate tofu and cabbage. Hearing this, the landlord took out the note from the cupboard and ran to the study to say to the scholar, "Sir, you can't go back on your word. You wrote written evidence. " The scholar said, "What written evidence did I write?" The landlord took out the written evidence, and the scholar took it and read it with a brush and punctuation:

Owner:

Without chickens, ducks can do it; Without fish, meat is ok; Tofu and cabbage are not allowed. The tuition fee should be 30 Liang.

Xx scholar

X year x month x day

After the scholar finished reading, the landlord was blindsided. I have to kill chickens and ducks, steam fish, stew meat, entertain my husband, and pay 32 tuition fees.