What's the trouble with bragging?

Once upon a time, there was an old couple whose family was very poor. 360 days a year, the kitchen knife hangs on the wall, and the rice jar is facing the sky. One year, the couple suddenly gave birth to a son. Don't mention how happy the old couple were. They brought him up one by one and named him Liu Xiao. Because his family is poor, he has no money for Liu Xiao to study. But Liu Xiao is very clever. What he sees and learns, he can learn. At the age of twenty, I was full of poems and eloquent.

This spring, the imperial court took the exam. Liu Xiao begged his parents to let him go to Beijing to take the exam. His father shook his head and said, "It's hundreds of miles from Beijing. Where did we get the fare? " Liu Xiaoyun is very lucky. There happened to be a businessman passing by and wanted to hire someone to pick things for Beijing. He accepted the job and successfully arrived in the capital. After three exams, he was nominated for the gold medal and won the highest award.

After Xiaozhong Liu won the first prize, the emperor summoned him and asked about his family. At that time, only the children of a large family who won the top prize could be big officials, otherwise they could not be reused even if they had the skill. In order to get a high official and generous salary, Liu Xiao lied and boasted to the emperor:

"My family has a thousand pillars, and thousands of horses return to the trough; Eighty people carry water and seventy people cook; Three salt boats go down the river, and if one of them doesn't come, the whole family will have to go into battle lightly. "

When the emperor heard this, he thought: This scholar has an extraordinary family background. If it is reversed, Jiangshan will change his surname. Might as well get rid of him early. So he ordered the champion to be pushed out and beheaded.

Excuse me, what does Liu Xiao mean?

[Answer: After becoming the number one scholar, the emperor was still very worried. He was afraid that Liu Xiao's family would rebel and sent an imperial envoy to visit Liu Xiao's hometown.

An imperial envoy went for two months and came back to report that the champion had no house except his parents and lived in a cave. The cave was made of wheat straw, which could shelter him from the wind and rain. Usually, his father carries water, and his mother cooks and eats salt all by three ducks that lay eggs. What the champion said: "a thousand pillars fall to the ground" refers to the wheat straw placed at the mouth of the cave to shelter from the wind and rain; "ten thousand horses return to the trough" refers to an ant nest on the top of the cave; "Eighty people carry water" means that the father is eighty years old; "Seventy people cook" means that his mother is seventy years old; "Three Salt Boat" refers to those three ducks. If any duck doesn't lay eggs, it will be a problem to eat salt for three meals.

After listening to the poor drinker, the emperor realized that he had killed someone by mistake. But the champion's head has been cut off. What else can we do? So he gave him a golden head royal burial. ]