Hershey's jade annulus

NanchangNanzhang County, Hubei Province], and he knew that the stone contained the best jade, so he offered it to the king of Chu. The king of Chu asked a jade craftsman to identify it. The jade craftsman took it in his hand, just like an amateur buying a watermelon, only looking at the skin and not knowing whether the flesh was sweet or not, and after examining it for half a day, he could not see anything special about it, so he said it was a stone! The king of Chu was furious and reproached Bian He for not deceiving the king with a stone, so he cut off one of his feet. When King Wu of Chu [the grandfather of King Cheng of Chu] reigned, Bian He took this piece of treasure and offered it to him. King Wu of Chu also asked a jade craftsman to study it. This "expert" was so big that he simply said it was a stone without even looking at it. Bian He's other foot was also cut off. Later, when King Wu's son, King Wen, took the throne, the old man Bian He wanted to try again, but both his feet were cut off, so he couldn't walk, and he was already an old man. He had to hold the "stone" and cried for three days and three nights at the bottom of Jing Mountain. Someone persuaded him, saying: "Hey! You have already suffered twice, do you still want to be rewarded?" Bian He shed tears and said, "I am not crying because I can't get a reward, what I hate is that people who call themselves connoisseurs are blind and consider a beautiful piece of jade as a stone. When this story reached the ears of King Wen of Chu, he sent someone to fetch Bian He. He also asked the jade craftsman to break the stone open carefully. It was a piece of pure jade. He asked the best jade craftsman to carve it and made it into a jade jade jade, using Bian He's name, called "Heshibi", and rewarded Bian He with the title of "Great Minister". In this way, this "Heshibi" became a priceless treasure. By the time it came into the hands of King Wei of Chu, this jade jade jade was about four hundred years old. This time King Wei of Chu gave this priceless treasure to Zhaoyang, who felt very honored.

One day, Zhaoyang was drinking in a pavilion by the pond with his guests and courtiers. Some of the guests mentioned the "Heshibi", so they asked the magistrate to show it to them. Zhaoyang handed the jade to the guests and asked them to pass it around one by one. Everyone who saw the "Heshibi" was amazed and praised. When they were looking at it, suddenly a big fish popped up in the pool, and everyone looked at it through the window. The big fish jumped up again, followed by several other fish also jumped on the water skin. A while later, the northeast corner of a dark cloud, looked like it was going to rain. Zhaoyang was afraid that the guests would be caught by the rain, so he hurriedly asked to break up the banquet. Who knows that the jade is gone, and I do not know to whom it has passed? The group was in a mess for a while, but they couldn't find the jade. Zhaoyang was upset, but he was too embarrassed to offend the guests, so he had to let the group go back. But his disciples had to search. He then asked his men to search one by one. As the saying goes, "People love the rich, dogs bite the poor." When they saw that Zhang Yi was so poor, they said, "If it wasn't him who stole the jade, there was no one else." Zhaoyang also became suspicious and told his men to beat Zhang Yi with whips to force him to confess. Zhang Yi could not confess. He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and let them beat him hundreds of times so that his body was not in good condition, and it seemed that he would not survive. Zhaoyang saw him beaten like this, so he let it go. Some of them took pity on Zhang Yi and sent him home.

When Zhang Yi's daughter-in-law saw how badly her husband had been beaten, she cried and said, "You didn't listen to me, and now you are being bullied to this state. Zhang Yi grunted and asked her, "Look, do you still have my tongue?" His daughter-in-law spat on him and said, "Look at you, you've been beaten up like this and you're still amused? Of course, your tongue is still there." Zhang Yi said, "As long as my tongue is still there, I'm not afraid, and you can rest assured." He took some days to recuperate and returned to his country.