Expose a Goose Publicly
In the Ming Dynasty, after Zhou Xin took the post of the Judicial Surveillance Commissioner, a man came to him with a roasted goose. Zhou turned it down flatly. But before he asked the man to take it back, the man had already disappeared. Zhou Xin asked a member of his family to hang the roasted goose in the rear of one of his rooms. From then on, whenever anyone came to give gifts to Zhou Xin, Zhou Xin would ask his family members to show the gift-giver the air-dried roasted duck. Since then, no one showed up to make themselves unwelcome. |
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