Beaten for Nothing but Still Grateful
Originally in Chinese
A man committed a crime and was arrested by thecounty
magistrate. He was sentenced to be floggeda hundred
times and was terrified. Fortunately, he was rich so
that he was able to bribe the magistrate and pay
someone to take the punishmentin his stead, offering
a hundred taels of silver to a poor man to stand in
for him. Tempted by themoney, the poor man agreed so
the magistrate released the rich man.After thirty
lashes, the poor man couldn't withstandthe pain
any longer and used the money he had received to
bribe the magistrate to let him go. Upon his release,
the poor man went to offer his thanks to the rich
man who was supposed to have been punished. "I'm
very grateful to you. Had it not been for the money
that you gave me, I would have been beaten to death!"
挨打還感恩
有一個人犯罪，被縣官抓來打板。本來要打一百杖，那個人怕了，
不過他有錢，以前有錢的人可以賄賂縣官，花錢找別人替你受這個
刑罰。所以他叫一個窮的人來代替，給他一百銀兩，那個窮人貪錢
答應(yīng)了，縣官也讓有錢人回去了。結(jié)果窮人被打到三十板時，痛得
實在受不了，就把所有的錢拿出來賄賂那個縣官，縣官就放他回去。
窮人回去后，便跑到那個富有的、本來該受罰的人家里，道謝說「
謝謝你！如果沒有你的錢的話，我已經(jīng)被打死了！」
Originally in Chinese
A man committed a crime and was arrested by thecounty
magistrate. He was sentenced to be floggeda hundred
times and was terrified. Fortunately, he was rich so
that he was able to bribe the magistrate and pay
someone to take the punishmentin his stead, offering
a hundred taels of silver to a poor man to stand in
for him. Tempted by themoney, the poor man agreed so
the magistrate released the rich man.After thirty
lashes, the poor man couldn't withstandthe pain
any longer and used the money he had received to
bribe the magistrate to let him go. Upon his release,
the poor man went to offer his thanks to the rich
man who was supposed to have been punished. "I'm
very grateful to you. Had it not been for the money
that you gave me, I would have been beaten to death!"
挨打還感恩
有一個人犯罪，被縣官抓來打板。本來要打一百杖，那個人怕了，
不過他有錢，以前有錢的人可以賄賂縣官，花錢找別人替你受這個
刑罰。所以他叫一個窮的人來代替，給他一百銀兩，那個窮人貪錢
答應(yīng)了，縣官也讓有錢人回去了。結(jié)果窮人被打到三十板時，痛得
實在受不了，就把所有的錢拿出來賄賂那個縣官，縣官就放他回去。
窮人回去后，便跑到那個富有的、本來該受罰的人家里，道謝說「
謝謝你！如果沒有你的錢的話，我已經(jīng)被打死了！」