[Chinese Idioms And Fables] To beat the grass and unintentional frighten away the snake hidden there
A county magistrate in Tang Dynasty named Wang Lu takes bribes and ignores justice, plunders people's wealth, thereupon the subordinates imitate a lot. Someone wrote the petition with the private gaining and skulduggery of his secretary .He read and wrote eight characters on the petiton: although you cut her grass, my snake has been startled also.