译文：我家乡的一位妇女和一位老妈妈关系很好，妇女在家中被怀疑偷了肉，她的婆婆赶走了她。

妇女心中怨恨，告诉了和他关系好的老妈妈。

老妈妈说：“你先慢慢地走，我让你婆婆去追你。

”于是(老妈妈)拿着一束柴禾到了妇女家里，说：“我家的狗因争肉互相咬死了，借你家的火烹煮了它们。

”妇女的婆婆于是赶紧让人把妇女追了回来。

古代寓言聪明的老妈妈　臣里母相善妇，见疑盗肉，其姑去之。

恨而告于里母。

里母曰：“安行？

今令姑呼汝！

”即束蕴请火去妇之家曰：“吾犬争肉相杀，请火治之。

”姑乃直使人逐去妇还之。

——故里母非谈说之士；束蕴请火，非还妇之道也；然物有所感，事有可适。

—— 韩诗外传　The Clever Old WomanAn old woman was friendly with a young wife, whose mother-in-law suspected her of stealing some meat and wanted to drive her away.

In despair she went to complain to the old woman.

"Where can you go?

" demanded her old neighbor.

"I shall get your mother-in-law to call you back.

"Then she took a bundle of straw to the house where the young woman lived.

"My dogs are fighting over some stolen meat," she said.

"So I want to light a fire to give them a beating.

"As soon as the mother-in-law heard that, she sent to recall her daughter-in-law.

This old woman was not gifted with eloquence, and taking a bundle of straw to ask for a light is not the usual means of effecting a reconciliation; but when you do the right thing you achieve results.

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