This is my intelligence

One day, a Tiger came out of the forest and saw a farmer plowing the field with an Ox. The Ox plodded ahead, occasionally receiving a whip on its back, which greatly surprised the Tiger. By noon, when the Ox was resting alone, the Tiger approached and asked:
Tiger
Ox, you look bigger and stronger than humans, so why do you let them beat you like that?"
The Ox replied, "Humans may be small, but they have intelligence."
Hearing this, the Tiger didn’t understand what "intelligence" was, so he went to the farmer and asked, "Farmer, I’ve heard that humans have intelligence. Could you show me what it looks like?"
The farmer thought for a moment, then calmly replied, "I left my intelligence at home. If you’d like, I can go get it for you."
The Tiger, delighted, agreed. As the farmer was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something and turned back to say to the Tiger:
Hey, what if you eat my Ox while I’m gone? How about I tie you to this tree?"
Without thinking much, the Tiger agreed to let the farmer tie him to the tree. Once tied, the farmer took his whip and began lashing the Tiger furiously, shouting, "Here! This is my intelligence! Ha ha!"
After whipping the Tiger for a while, the farmer piled straw around him and set it on fire, yelling, "Now do you see my intelligence? Do you understand what intelligence is?"
The fire burned hot, and the Tiger roared and struggled against the ropes but couldn’t break free. The Ox, seeing this, laughed so hard it rolled on the ground. Only when the flames burned through the ropes did the Tiger manage to break loose and flee into the forest, not daring to look back.

From that day on, the Tiger's skin has been covered in long stripes, marking the burns. As for the Ox, after laughing so hard, it knocked its jaw against a rock and lost all its upper teeth, which is why no Ox today has upper molars.

No comments:

Post a Comment