南朝宋有本故事书,叫作《世说新语》,里面记载了许多有意思的名人轶事。其中有一则故事大家一定耳熟能详,说三国时期,曹操为了安抚行军已久、口渴难耐的将士们,有意撒了个谎,说前面有一大片梅林,结的梅子又酸又甜。士兵们一想到青红的梅子,不由得口水直流,也不觉得口渴了,一鼓作气走到了有水的地方。这便是“望梅止渴”的故事。在这个故事里,将士们走到最后也没有吃到梅子,但是在比三 The Southern Song Dynasty has a story book, called Shi Shuo Xin Yu, which contains many interesting celebrity anecdotes. One of the stories we must be familiar with is that during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao tried to appease the marchers who had been thirsty for a long time. He deliberately lied and told that there was a large piece of Merlin in front, and the plums of the knot were sour and sweet. When the soldiers thought of the red plums, they couldn’t help but drool. They didn’t feel thirsty anymore, and they came to the place where they had water. This is the story of “Wangmeizhine”. In this story, the soldiers went to the end and did not eat plums, but in comparison to three