Talented Man's Handwriting

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A businessman admired the genius of Tang Bohu and asked him to write a couplet. Tang Bohu wrote, "Business is like spring, wealth is like water," with his brush.

The merchant shook his head, thinking that the couplet was too literary. Tang Bohu thought for a moment and rewrote the couplet: "Business at the doorstep is like mosquitoes on a summer night, swarming in and out; money at night is like lice in winter, the more you scratch, the more it itches."

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