01, Xi Ang was anxious not to say anything, and offended three people in one day
Xi Ang and Wei Anshi are good friends. Once, when the two of them were talking about being the prime minister, Wei Anshi inadvertently asked, "Who is the most immoral in the DPRK today?" ”
Xi Ang blurted out: "Wei Anshi is the most immoral." After saying that, he realized that he had lost his words and hurried out of Wei Anshi's house.
He met Gywin on the street, and Gywin asked him, "What's so rushed?" Xi Ang replied, "Just now I was chatting with Wei Shangshu, when I talked about who is the most immoral in the DPRK today, I wanted to say Ji Wen, but I mistakenly said that it was Wei Anshi." ”
After saying that, he felt that he had lost his words, and hurriedly drove his horse to the Fang Zhen family. Fang Zhen shook his hand to comfort him, and Xi Ang said that he should have answered Fang Zhen's most immoral.
Xi Ang had a good reputation at that time, and inadvertently offended three people in one day, and everyone sighed. (This story is from the "Supplement to the History of the Tang Kingdom")
02, Zhang Li was forgetful, and the criminal department officials were beaten
Zhang Lishi of the Tang Dynasty had amnesia, and whenever others invited him to dinner, he had to write it down on the wat board, otherwise he would forget it.
Once, Geng Renhui invited him to a banquet, Zhang Lishi did not go, Geng Renhui felt strange, so he personally came to the door to invite. Zhang Lishi looked at the wat board and said, "You are mistaken, I did not remember it on the wat board." ”
Another time, he suddenly woke up from a dream in the middle of the night, knocked on the door of the assassin Shi Dengyun, and said breathlessly: "I heard that you are going to sentence me to death. ＂
Deng Yun said, "There is no such thing. ”
Zhang Lishi said, "Your subordinate Si Gong A said." ”
Deng Yun was furious and immediately called a certain jia over and whipped it with a board. Zhang Lishi seemed to suddenly remember something, explaining: "Please don't fight, it may be a dream I had, I forgot." (This story is from "Asano Youzai")
03. Zhang Changshi mistakenly insulted the county order, and Zhao Ziyu beat people and was punished
Li Hui of Tang Linji (in present-day Jiyang, Shandong) county, married his wife Zhang Shi (張氏), and his father-in-law was Changshi of Luzhou (庐州, in present-day Hefei, Anhui), who retired at home. Because Li Hui treated his daughter badly, Zhang Changshi deliberately rushed to Linji to insult him. But when he mistakenly ran to Quanjie County (present-day Licheng, Shandong), he asked the doorman, "Is the county order here?" ”
The doorman said, "Yes." Zhang Changshi ignored three seven twenty-one, and let go of his throat and scolded the county order in front of the county court. The whole county made Zhao Ziyu unconscious, peeking through the crack in the door, and saw an old father scolding incessantly. Because there were often foxes in the county, he thought that Zhang might be a fox and ordered the soldiers to beat Zhang Changshi.
Zhang Changshi scolded even harder. After a long fight, Zhao Ziyu asked him who he was, and Zhang Changshi said that it was Li Hui's father-in-law, who came to insult him because Li Hui treated his daughter badly.
Quanjie County Ling knew that he had made a mistake and quickly carried him into the county court for medical treatment. Zhang Changshi sent someone to Linji and told Li Hui the truth of the matter. Li Hui went to the county taishou, who was very angry at the county order to beat people for no reason, and ordered him to lose 200,000 yuan, and the two families were happy.
Zhang Changshi was very satisfied with his son-in-law's revenge for him, and never mentioned Li Hui's mistreatment of his daughter again. (This story is from the Taiping Guangji)
04, Huang Fu Xiang is strange and secluded, and the typo is bitten by the father
Huang Fuxiang has a strange personality and acts grotesquely. Once, after being stung by a bee, he hired a child to poke off the honeycomb and mash the honey.
Another day, he asked his son to copy a poem, and when he found that his son had copied a wrong word, he bit his son's arm while letting people take the staff to beat it, and before the staff was taken, he had already bitten his son's arm and bled it. (This story is from "Tang Yulin")