Chapter 11 <Bold and unreasonable, I have never lost you>

Once upon a time, a county magistrate wanted to buy gold ingots, and the shopkeeper obeyed and sent two gold ingots.The magistrate asked: How much do these two gold ingots cost?The shopkeeper replied: Grandpa wants to buy it, but the villain only sells it at half price.The county magistrate accepted one and returned one to the shopkeeper. After many days, he didn't pay back the bill, so the shopkeeper said: "Please give me the price of gold ingots for the villain."The county magistrate pretended to be puzzled and said, "Isn't it already given to you?"The store said: The villain never got it!The county magistrate slapped the case and said angrily: "Bold and unreasonable, I want two gold ingots from you. You said that you would only charge half the price. I have already returned one to you, and I will pay half the price. I have never lost you!"

After hearing this, the shopkeeper was miserable. In order to extort money, the county magistrate racked his brains to find ways to blackmail people.His words sounded reasonable at first glance.Let's assume that each gold ingot was originally 1,000 yuan, but the store said it would only be sold at half price, that is, each gold ingot was reduced to 500 yuan. Now the county magistrate does not keep both gold ingots, but only one, and returns the other one to the store at the rate of 1,000 yuan, of which 500 yuan is the price of the gold ingots after half the price, and the rest He paid the five hundred yuan to the shopkeeper as the price of the gold ingot he left behind.

The mystery here is that, firstly, the returned gold ingot should not still be calculated at one thousand yuan; There is no need to return it), so it still belongs to the store and not to the county magistrate, how can it be used to convert the price of the gold ingot left behind?Taking something that belonged to others as one's own to pay the debt is the sophistry played by the county magistrate. From a conceptual point of view, it is to deliberately confuse the concept, that is, returning a gold ingot to you is equivalent to returning the price of a gold ingot to you.