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Make a fool of yourself

The two of them are calligraphy enthusiasts, but to be honest, they don't like each other as much as the two chess baskets

By Aynaz SabooriPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
Make a fool of yourself
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The two of them are calligraphy enthusiasts, but to be honest, they don't like each other as much as the two chess baskets.

On this day, Dainiu came to Erhu with a newspaper, and it turned out that the county had organized a calligraphy competition. Dainius said, "I've already signed up for the competition, are you interested?"

Erhu put the newspaper aside and said, "This kind of competition is a valuable opportunity for calligraphy enthusiasts to exchange ideas, but the specifications are small and the level is low, so it's better for me not to participate."

This statement made Dainiu furious, and he spitefully talked about it for half a day, but Erhu just wouldn't participate. Dainius had no choice but to return home, but the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. If they do not win the prize, will be two tigers' sarcasm; winning the prize, is also a level of enthusiasts, is difficult to suffer at both ends. No, I have to let Erhu also participate.

Thinking of this, Dainiu carried a bottle of wine, and found the ghost ideas of the old Ga, begging the old Ga, no matter what to let Erhu participate. Old Ga thought about it and agreed.

The next day, Lao Ga went to Erhu's house and said, "Erhu, how is your calligraphy?"

Erhu was not happy and said, "What do you mean by that?"

He said, "I have a friend who wants to open a restaurant and wants to find someone to inscribe his calligraphy, so I recommended you. But yesterday I met a big cow, he insisted to inscribe, and said 'you write like a dog crawling', of course, I do not believe. But I don't know calligraphy either. So I want to beg you to write a few words for my friend to see."

Erhu hastily wrote down the four best words, "Avenue of Nature", and let Lao Ga take it away. That afternoon, the old Ga came again, a difficult face said: "My friend saw the words you wrote, quite satisfied. But which expected I just returned home, big cattle with a pair of words to find me, he knew I asked you for words, forcing me to take him to my friend's house, I had to do. Friends after reading his words, think it's not bad, can not decide, so this deadlocked there."

Two tigers heard, immediately quit, and had to find Dainiu's theory to go. Old Ga hastened to discourage, and finally said, "If you can have a senior person to prove that you write better than Dainiu, then it would be good."

Erhu froze for a moment, then shouted: "Yes, there is a calligraphy competition in the county, Dainiu participated. I also immediately entered, whoever wins the prize who inscribed. But the competition is in three months, I'm afraid it's too late."

Old Ga said, "Don't worry about it, I'm afraid that if you both don't win the prize, or win the same prize, then what?"

Two tigers' eyes glared up and said, "On the two brushes of the big cattle want to win the award, unless the sun comes out of the west. In this way, as long as we both award the same, I quit, let him go to the inscription, this should always be okay."

Three months passed, and the results of the calligraphy contest came out. The big cow won the excellence award, and the two tigers were not on the list. The old man came running to Dainiu's house and called out at the door: "Congratulations, Dainiu, you won the prize, and Erhu didn't even have a shadow. Now you are happy, right."

Which expected the bull but a jump three feet high called: "more fire."

Laogai quickly asked: "Two tigers did not participate?"

Da Niu said: "I did not participate."

Old Ga a little dizzy: "You did not participate, why is your name on the list of winners?"

Da Niu said: "I wanted to make a fool of Erhu twice, so I took the 'Avenue of Nature' he wrote, signed my name and took it to the competition ......"

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Aynaz Saboori

How to explain? How to understand? What do we do with all the injustice?

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