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Fable: The Favored Horse

King Chu Zhuang was a man of novelty, and he loved a horse so much that he dressed the horse in a brocade coat made of five kinds of decorations, and raised it in a palatial house, and gave it a bed without a curtain, and he ate chopped dates.

King Zhuang of Chu sent fifty servants to serve the horse and take good care of it. But this well-bred horse actually died because he was too fat. Of course, King Chu Zhuang was very sad, he decided to ask the ministers to do a funeral for this horse, and wanted to bury the horse with the etiquette of a doctor, Youmeng heard this, he flew into the palace and cried loudly, King Chu Zhuang felt very strange, so he asked him: "What is the matter that you are crying so sad?" ”

You Meng replied, "I heard that the great king's beloved horse has passed away, but with a big country like the Chu state, he only uses the doctor's etiquette to bury the king's horse, which is too hasty!" Ask the king to bury it with the rites of the king, so that all the princes of the world will know that the king is originally a man of untouchables and noble horses! ”

When King Chu Zhuang listened, he suddenly realized, "Is my fault already so great?" ”

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