Once there was a king.He had two old ministers. One was kind and the other one was bad. The bad minister often said bad words about the 1 minister to the king. So the king 2 the kind one.
One day the king said to the bad minister, "Write two 3 on two pieces of paper separately. Write ‘live' on one piece and ‘die' on the other. Then put them in a jar and tell him to 4 . If he takes out the paper with ‘live', I'll let him go. If he takes out the paper with ‘die', I'll kill him at once." The bad minister was quite 5 . He got two pieces of paper 6 . He wrote "die" on each piece of paper.
Then the kind old man came.He knew the bad minister wanted to 7 him. He also knew the words on the two pieces were both "die". But he knew what to do. Later the king had to keep his 8 and let the kind minister go. Do you know what the kind man did at that time?
He chose a piece of paper and ate it 9 . When they saw the word "die" on the other piece, the king and other ministers thought the word on the piece that was 10 must be "live". The kind minister saved his own life with his cleverness.