Four-letter idiom story - Drawing Cakes to Feed the Hungry

Idioms have a lot of from the story, so do you know the idiom story? Here are three stories about idioms that I brought, I hope they are helpful to you.

Drawing Cakes to Feed the Hungry

A long, long time ago, there was a clever little boy who was only ten years old. One day he went out to play alone, and he ended up going into a forest and getting lost, and he couldn't find his way home for a long, long time.

In the evening, the boy was very hungry, he wanted to eat his mother's cakes, but he could not find the way home, how could he eat his mother's cakes? So the clever little boy used a branch to draw a big cake on the ground, and also dotted sesame seeds on the cake. The little boy looked at it, as if he smelled the cake's fragrance, he thought of his own usually eat the fragrant cake, thinking about the little boy felt that he was not particularly hungry, he went along a small path again. Soon the little boy's parents found him, and so the clever little boy went back home, and ate a really fragrant pie.

The idiom of "filling one's hunger with cakes" came out of this story. It is now often used as a metaphor for self-congratulation with empty dreams, or to illustrate that vanity is of no real use.

Coaxed laughter

Feng Xiang and He Xiang were both important ministers in the court.

One day, He Xiang said to Feng Xiang: ? How much are your new shoes worth?

Feng Xiang held up his left foot to show him and said: ? Nine hundred copper coins.

Wo Sang, who was rather impatient, turned back to a minor official and said: ? Why does my boot cost eighteen hundred copper coins? So he scolded the small official and suspected him of embezzlement.

A little while later, Feng Xiang slowly raised his right foot and said: "This one is also nine hundred coins.

All the people around laughed.

A Strange Goods

Lu Buwei was a great merchant of Yang Zhai, who traveled from place to place, buying at a low price and selling at a high price, and thus accumulated a fortune of a thousand coins.

In the 40th year of King Zhao of Qin (267 BC), the crown prince died. By the forty-second year of King Zhao, he made his second son, An Guojun, the crown prince. And An Guojun had more than twenty sons. An Guojun had a very favored concubine, and established her as the main wife, called Lady Huayang. Lady Huayang had no son. The king of An had a middle son named Zi Chu. Zi Chu's mother was called Xia Ji, and she was not favored. Zi Chu was sent to Zhao as a hostage of Qin. Qin attacked Zhao many times, and Zhao did not treat Zi Chu with courtesy.

Zi Chu, the grandson of the King of Qin's concubine, was in Zhao as a hostage, and the carriage he rode on and his daily belongings were not rich, and he lived in dire straits and was very unhappy. Lu Buwei went to Handan to do business, and when he saw Zichu, he liked him very much and said: ? Zi Chu was like a strange commodity, which could be stocked up and sold at a high price. He said: "Zi Chu is like a strange commodity, which can be stocked up and sold at a high price. So he went to visit Zi Chu and said to him: ? I can make your family great. Zi Chu smiled and said: ? Zi Chu laughed and said: ?You should first enlarge your own house, and then enlarge mine. Lu Buwei said: ? You don't understand, my court can only be enlarged when your court is enlarged. Zi Chu knew what Lu Bu Wei had said, so he sat down with him for a deep talk. Lu Buwei said: ? The king of Qin has grown old, and Lord An Guojun has been made crown prince. I have privately heard that Lord An is very fond of Lady Hua Yang, who has no son and is the only one who can be chosen to be the Crown Prince. Now you have more than twenty brothers, and you are in the middle rank, and you are not favored by the king of Qin, and you have been left as a hostage for a long time. Even if the king of Qin dies, and the king of An succeeds to the throne, you can't expect to compete with your eldest brother and the other brothers who are with the king of Qin in the morning and in the evening, for the crown prince's position. Zi Chu said: ? Yes, but what should be done? Lu Buwei said: ? You are very poor and poor, and you are living here, and you can't bring anything to offer to your relatives and elders, and to make friends with your guests. I, Lu Bu Wei, though not rich, am willing to give a thousand pieces of gold for you to go westward to Qin to persuade them to serve the king of An and the lady of Huayang, so that they may make you the crown prince. Zi Chu then bowed and thanked him, saying: ? If your plan is realized, I am willing to share the land of Qin with you **** enjoy.?

Lu Buwei then took out 500 gold to give Zi Chu, as the daily life and make friends with the guests of the use; and took out 500 gold to buy rare playthings, their own with the west to Qin lobbying, first meet Mrs. Huayang's sister, to bring the things brought to Mrs. Huayang offer. By the way, talked about Zi Chu smart and virtuous, the vassal guests, all over the world, often say? I, Zi Chu, regarded the lady as a heavenly general, weeping day and night thinking of the Prince and the lady? The lady was very happy. Lu Buwei took the opportunity to let Mrs. Huayang sister to persuade Mrs. Huayang: ? I have heard that those who serve others with their beauty, once their beauty fades, their favor will diminish. Now, Madam, you are serving the Crown Prince, and you are highly favored, but you have no son. If you don't take advantage of this time to make friends with a talented and filial person among the Crown Prince's sons, and establish him as the heir and treat him like your own son, then you will be respected while your husband is still alive, and when your husband dies, your own son will not lose his power in the end, and this is what people say that one word can gain the benefit for the whole of the world, ah? If you do not establish your foundation when your looks are beautiful, and if you wait until your looks fail and your favor is lost, is it still possible to have a word with the crown prince, even though you want to do so? Now that Zi Chu is a wise and capable man, and he knows that he is in the middle of the line and cannot be made the heir according to the order of precedence, and that his mother is not favored, he will take the initiative to attach himself to your wife, and if your wife can really promote him to be the heir at this time, then you, madam, will be favored all your life in the state of Qin. Hearing this, Mrs. Huayang, taking advantage of the convenience of the Crown Prince, spoke politely of Zi Chu, who was a hostage in Zhao, as being very talented, and was praised by all who came and went to him. Then she cried and said: ? I am fortunate enough to fill the harem, but very sorry that I have no son; I wish to make Zi Chu my heir, so that I may have something to fall back on in the future.? The king of An agreed, so he and his wife engraved a jade talisman, and decided to make Zi Chu the heir. Both the king of An and the wife of Huayang sent so many gifts to Zi Chu, and Lu Buwei was asked to be his teacher, so Zi Chu's reputation grew bigger and bigger among the lords.

Lu Buwei chose a very beautiful and good dancer from Handan to live with him, knowing that she was pregnant. Zi Chu once drank wine with Lu Bu Wei, and when he saw this woman, he liked her so much that he stood up and toasted to Lu Bu Wei, asking for her to be given to him. Lu Bu Wei was very angry, but on second thought, he had already spent a lot of money for Zi Chu, in order to catch the strange goods, so he offered this woman. She hid her pregnancy, and twelve months later gave birth to a son named Zheng. Zi Chu made this Ji his wife.

In the 50th year of King Zhao of Qin's reign (257 BC), Wang Yi was sent to besiege Handan, and the situation was so urgent that Zhao tried to kill Zi Chu. Zi Chu then conspired with Lu Buwei, took out 600 pounds of gold and gave it to the guarding officials, and was able to get away and escaped to the Qin army camp, which enabled him to return to his country without any problems. The state of Zhao tried to kill Zi Chu's wife and son, but Zi Chu's wife was the daughter of a wealthy Zhao family, so she was able to hide herself, and thus the mother and son survived. In the 56th year of King Zhao of Qin (251 BC), he died, and Prince An Guojun succeeded to the throne, with Mrs. Huayang as the queen and Zichu as the crown prince. Zhao also escorted Zi Chu's wife and son Zhao Zheng back to Qin.

The king of Qin died a year after his succession and was posthumously named King Xiaowen. He was succeeded by Prince Zichu, who became King Zhuang Xiang. King Zhuang Xiang honored his mother, Queen Huayang, as Empress Dowager Huayang, and his birth mother, Xia Ji, was honored as Empress Xia. In the first year of King Zhuang Xiang's reign (249 BC), he appointed Lu Buwei as the prime minister and named him Marquis of Wenxin, with 100,000 households in Luoyang, Henan Province, as his cognizance.

King Zhuangxiang died three years after his reign, and Zhao Zheng, the crown prince, succeeded him as king, and honored Lu Buwei as his prime minister, calling him "Zhongfu? The king was still young. When the king was still young, the empress dowager often had illicit affairs with Lu Buwei. The king of Qin was a young man, and the queen of Qin was often in bed with him.

In those days, there was Lord Xinling of Wei, Lord Chunshen of Chu, Lord Pingyuan of Zhao, and Lord Meng Chang of Qi, all of whom were courteous and made friends with guests. And they had to compete with each other in this respect. Lu Buwei thought that Qin was so powerful that it was a shame to be inferior to them, so he also recruited scholars and scholars and gave them favorable treatment, and there were as many as 3,000 diners under his door. At that time, the vassal states had many talented scholars, like Xun Qing, who wrote books and made their speeches popular in the world. Lu Buwei ordered his patrons to write down what they had seen and heard, and synthesized them into eight books, six treatises, and twelve chronicles, **** more than 200,000 words. He thought that it included all things in the world, so he called it "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals". And will be published in the city gate of Xianyang, hanging above a thousand gold bounty, all over the vassals and countries of the travelers guests, if someone can add or delete a word, will give a thousand gold reward.

Qin Shi Huang was getting bigger and bigger, but the Empress Dowager had been more than lustful. Lu Buwei, fearing that things will be exposed and disaster will come to his head, secretly sought a man with a particularly large penis, Lao Ai (l?oǎi, branded short), as a protégé, and from time to time, let the actors and actresses sing and dance for fun, and ordered Lao Ai to use his penis to wear on the tung-wood wheel, so as to make it rotate and travel, and the idea of the Empress Dowager know about this matter, and to seduce her with this matter. When the Empress Dowager heard of this, she really wanted to possess him in secret. Lu Bu Wei then entered into the service of Lao Ai, and pretended to have him denounced for a crime that deserved the punishment of the palace. Lu Bu Wei then secretly said to the Empress Dowager: ? You can let Lao Ai pretend to be tortured in the palace, and then you can get him among the people who serve the palace. The Empress Dowager secretly gave many things to the official who presided over the palace punishment, pretended to punish Lao Ai, pulled off his beard and pretended to be a eunuch, which enabled him to serve the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager secretly committed adultery with him and was especially fond of him. Later, when the Empress Dowager was pregnant, she was afraid that others would know about her pregnancy, and pretended that her fortune-telling was unlucky and that she needed a change of environment to avoid it, so she moved to the palace in Yongdi to live there. Lao Ai is always accompanied by the left and right, the reward is very generous, everything is decided by Lao Ai. There were thousands of servants in his household. There were thousands of slaves in his house, and as many as a thousand of them came to be his clients in order to obtain official positions.

In the seventh year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's reign (240 BC), King Zhuang Xiang's birth mother, Empress Xia, died. Queen Xia was called Empress Huayang, and was buried with King Xiaowen in the Shouling Mausoleum. Empress Xia's son, King Zhuang Xiang, was buried in Zhiyang, so Empress Xia was buried separately to the east of Du Yuan, called ? I can see my son to the east and my husband to the west. In a hundred years, there will surely be a city of ten thousand households next to it ?

In the ninth year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (238 BC), it was reported that Lao Ai (嫪毐) was not actually a eunuch, but was often involved in sexual intercourse with the Empress Dowager and gave birth to two sons, both of whom he hid, and plotted with the Empress Dowager to say ? If the king of Qin dies, he will set up this son to succeed the throne. So the first emperor of Qin ordered the judge to investigate this matter, the truth of the matter all clear, the matter implicated in the phase state Lu Buwei. In September of that year, he killed all the three clansmen of Lao Ai's family, and killed the two sons born to the Empress Dowager, and moved the Empress Dowager to live in the land of Yong. The diners of Lao Ai's family were confiscated and moved to Shu. The king of Qin wanted to kill Lu Buwei, the minister of Qin, but because of his great service to the late king, and many guests and apologists pleaded for his favor, the king of Qin could not bear to bring him to justice.

In October of the 10th year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Lu Bu Wei was removed from his post as Minister of State. When Mao Jiao, a Qi man, persuaded the king of Qin, he then went to Yongdi to welcome the empress dowager and made her return to Xianyang again, but sent Lu Buwei out of the capital to his fiefdom in Henan.