ZGC: More Su Dai

When satyreyes posted his excellent update to the story about yoking oxen and horses, I showed it to my professor, who said, "Not bad. How about the mussel and the snipe?" So here it is.

Important stuff:
-Zhao, a largish warring state to the north
-Yue, a minor warring state to the southeast. It was conquered early on by Chu.
-Su Dai, a persuader on behalf of Yue. Last seen yesterday, bribing Qun Yukun.
-the Yi River, a river
-Qin, a large warring state to the west. A country of tigers and wolves. Eventually conquered all the warring states and unified China.

Zhao was about to strike at Yue, so Su Dai addressed the king of Zhao on Yue's behalf, saying, "Now I have come, across the Yi River. A mussel was sunning itself, when a snipe pecked at its meat. The mussel closed, pinching the snipe's beak. The snipe said, 'Today it will not rain, tomorrow it will not rain, and just like this there will be a dead mussel.' The mussel for its part said, 'Today I will not let go, tomorrow I will not let go, and just like this there will be a dead snipe.' The two were not willing to release each other, and a fisherman came and took them both. Now Zhao is about to strike at Yue. Zhao and Yue have long been at a standoff, exhausting their people. I fear that the strong Qin will be our fisherman. Thus I wish that your majesty would think about this carefully." The king said, "good," and thus stopped.

edit: fixed the note about Yue. It's a minor state, not a small one.