medicine of immortality
Apr. 15th, 2009 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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-Chu, a large and powerful warring state to the south. This story calls it by its old name of Jing.
-Mid-level archery official, one of those guys who hangs around court.
Someone offered up medicine of immortality to the king of Chu. The usher held it and brought it inside. The mid-level archery official asked him, "Can it be eaten?" and the usher said, "It can." Thus the mid-level archery official grabbed the medicine and ate it. The king was angry and dispatched someone to kill the official. The archery official dispatched someone to persuade the king and say, "Your vassal asked the usher, and the usher said, 'it can be eaten.' Your vassal therefore ate it. In this, I am guiltless, while the guilt lies with the usher. Furthermore, the guest offered up medicine of immortality. Since I ate it, and now the king wants to kill me, this is medicine of death. Your majesty will kill a guiltless vassal and thus make it clear that someone has tricked you." The king thus did not kill him.
-Chu, a large and powerful warring state to the south. This story calls it by its old name of Jing.
-Mid-level archery official, one of those guys who hangs around court.
Someone offered up medicine of immortality to the king of Chu. The usher held it and brought it inside. The mid-level archery official asked him, "Can it be eaten?" and the usher said, "It can." Thus the mid-level archery official grabbed the medicine and ate it. The king was angry and dispatched someone to kill the official. The archery official dispatched someone to persuade the king and say, "Your vassal asked the usher, and the usher said, 'it can be eaten.' Your vassal therefore ate it. In this, I am guiltless, while the guilt lies with the usher. Furthermore, the guest offered up medicine of immortality. Since I ate it, and now the king wants to kill me, this is medicine of death. Your majesty will kill a guiltless vassal and thus make it clear that someone has tricked you." The king thus did not kill him.