Mr. Near-sighted
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There was once a near-sighted man. Everyone called him Big Near-sighted. Since he could not see clearly, he would bump his nose when trying to look at a painting, or hurt his eyebrow when trying to close the window. Once, he even burnt his beard while blowing out a candle.
One day, he got lost on his way to a bridal party. So, he decided to ask someone who was wearing a black hat for directions. However, that person did not reply. Big Near-sighted said angrily,“If you won’t reply, I shan’t tell you that your hat was blown away by the wind!”Actually, the person was a buddha statue, and the hat was actually a crow that flew away while he was talking. Then, Big Near-sighted saw a black rope and a bar of gold on the ground. He tried to pick up the black rope, but the rope broke. The rope turned out to be a trail of ants. He then tried to pick up the bar of gold, and wondered why it was so soft. Upon smelling it, he realized it was in fact, a sweet potato.
When he finally arrived at the bridal party, he sat opposite two people who were each blind in one eye. It so happened that both of them had covered their blind eye with a black patch. Big Near-sighted leaned towards the person sitting next to him and asked,“Why does that person have such a broad face?”When he finally realized his mistake, he blushed embarrassedly and began eating. However, he kept mistaking other people’s chopsticks or fingers for food. And so, he decided to pack his food and eat at home.
When he finally got home, he saw a nail on the wall and tried to hang his food on the nail. The food dropped onto the floor with a loud “Thud!”The nail turned out to be a dragonfly resting on the wall. Big Near-sighted felt so annoyed. He reached out to swat the dragonfly with his hand.“Ouch! That hurt!” he said. It turned out that he mistook a nail for the dragonfly, and hurt his hand instead.
