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yǎn ěr dào líng
chūn qiū shí hóu jìn guó guì zhì
miè diào le fàn shì yǒu rén chèn
pǎo dào fàn shì jiā xiǎng tōu diǎn
dōng kàn jiàn yuàn diào zháo
西
kǒu zhōng zhōng shì yòng shàng děng
qīng tóng zhù chéng de zào xíng
àn hěn jīng měi xiǎo tōu xīn
gāo xīng le xiǎng zhè kǒu jīng
měi de zhōng bèi huí jiā
shì zhōng yòu yòu zhòng zěn me
nuó dòng
xiǎo tōu zháo huāng xīn xiǎng zhè xià zāo
le zhè zhǒng shēng jiù děng shì
gào rén men zhèng zài zhè tōu
zhōng ma yuè tīng yuè hài
tóng yóu chōu huí shuāng shǒu
shǐ jìng zhù de ěr duǒ
使
zhōng shēng biàn xiǎo le tīng
jiàn le xiǎo tōu gāo xīng
lái miào le ěr duǒ
zhù zhù jiù tīng jìn zhōng shēng
le ma zhǎo lái liǎng
tuán ěr duǒ sāi zhù
xīn xiǎng zhè xià shuí tīng jiàn
zhōng shēng le shì jiù fàng shǒu
zhōng lái xià xià zhōng
shēng xiǎng liàng chuán dào hěn yuǎn de
fāng rén men tīng dào zhōng shēng fēng yǒng
ér zhì xiǎo tōu zhuō zhù le
Covering One's Ears While Stealing a Bell
At the time when Fan, a nobleman of the state of Jin, became a fugitive, a commoner found a bell and wanted to carry it off on his back.
But the bell was too big for him.
He was afraid that someone will hear the noise and take the bell from him, so he immediately stopped his own ears.
To worry about other people hearing the noise is understandable, but to worry about himself hearing the noise (as if stopping his own ears would prevent other people from hearing) is absurd.
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