The king of kingdom
Wu 吴 was ready to invade kingdom Chu 楚. Although he
had clear chance but if a third states took advantage of the weak point, the result
could be unthinkable. Many of his ministers advised him not to do it. But
he insisted his opinion. Finally, he said, “I will kill this who persuade me
again.”
A young aide
of the king expected to stop his plan. As he was afraid of being behead, he
just walking around the king’s garden every morning with a bow in his hand. After
three days, the king came into notice the aide, he asked him, “Young man, why
you come so early in the garden? Look the dew had wetted your cloth. What you
are doing?”
The aide said, “Your
highest, today, I found a strange story. On one tree, a cicada was
singing happily. It didn’t know that a mantis was ready to eat it; while as the
mantis was going to catch the cicada; it didn’t aware behind it that an oriole was
preparing to catch it also. The oriole concentrated on the mantis, yet it didn’t
perceive that I was pulling the full bow and an arrow was point to it. ”
Hearing this,
the king of kingdom Wu 吴 said, “Good,
you tell me an every good story.”
So he gave up
the plan of invading kingdom Chu 楚
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