The Shadow of the Serpent

In the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Le Guang who liked making friends very much and often invited his friends to his home to drink and chat. One day, Le Guang made a table of good food, banquet guests, the hall in the toast, extremely lively, everyone guessing, drinking and merry.

A guest is toasting, inadvertently caught a glimpse of a small swimming snake in the cup, but because of the many guests, he is hard to drink the wine. The friend then left without giving a reason. This made Yue Guang wonder: why did he suddenly leave without drinking?

For several days, Le Guang did not see his friend. Yue Guang missed him very much, so he went to see him in person. Who knows the friend has been ill for several days, and very ill. Yue Guang asked curiously: "When you drank a few days ago, you were not fine, how can you suddenly become so ill?"

At first, the friend hesitated and said nothing, and later under Le Guang's repeated questioning, the friend told the truth: "You treated me warmly that day, and we were very happy to drink." After I drank a few glasses, I suddenly found a snake in my glass, and it was moving slowly. I was scared and I felt sick. But your kindness was hard to resist, so I reluctantly drank the glass of wine and left. When I got home, I felt sick all over, and I always felt that there was a small snake in my stomach. And just like that, I couldn't get sick anymore."

Yue Guang learned of his illness, after thinking about it, he finally remembered that there was a curved bow hanging on the wall of his house, he guessed that the snake mentioned by the friend must be the bow shadow reflected in the glass, so he invited the guest to his home again, and invited his friend to raise a glass, the man just raised the cup, the shadow of the curved bow on the wall was reflected in the cup, like a small swimming snake, he was stunned, at this time, Yue Guang pointed to the bow hanging on the wall and said, "It is all its mischief, and the snake in the cup is the shadow of this bow!" Then Le Guang took the bow down from the wall, and the small snake disappeared as expected. The friend suddenly saw the light and said happily, "Oh, so it is! The snake in the cup is the shadow of the bow on the wall!" His friend's doubts were dispelled, the stone was removed from his heart, and his illness healed.