Tell me why trees are on the roadside and many children will suffer.

Because people come and go on both sides of the road, but there are so many plums growing on the tree, which proves that no one picks them. Even if I taste it and find it bitter, I don't want to pick it again, so there will be so many plums left, so this plum must be terrible, otherwise I would have picked it all long ago.

This sentence comes from Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu Ya Liu in the Southern Dynasties. The original text is as follows:

Seven-year-old Wang Rong tried to swim with all the children. On the roadside, Li Shu had many branches, and all the children ran to get them, but Wang Rong didn't move. When people ask, they will answer: there are many trees and children on the roadside, which will make Li suffer. Accept it and believe it.

Translation:

When Wang Rong was seven years old, she often played with children. I saw a plum tree bearing many plums by the roadside, and all its branches were crushed. All the children went to pick plums except Wang Rong.

Someone asked him why he didn't pick plums. Wang Rong replied, "This tree grows by the roadside and has many plums. It must be bitter plums. " Pick it up and taste it. It's true.

Wang Rong smiled and replied, "The plums on that tree must be bitter. You can't eat them when you pick them. Look, this plum tree grows on the roadside. There are so many plums on it, but no one picks them. If it weren't for bitterness, would it be like this? "

The moral of this story:

This story tells people to look at things not only superficially, but also carefully analyze and think, and don't be fooled by superficial phenomena of things.

It is precisely because Wang Rong is good at thinking that he can tell that the plums that are not picked by the roadside must be bitter, so he is not cheated like other children.