An Ancient Chinese Story

Once upon a time, there’s a country named “Chu”. Some people train monkeys to live. The trained elders lead the youngers to the mountains everyday, in order to pick fruits. Whereas either give one tenth of the acquisition to the man (i.e. the host), or they get whipped afterwards. Because of the terrifying, no monkey dare not to do so.

One day, a little monkey asks the rest: “Are those fruit-trees our host’s?” “No, they’re not, they just grow on the mountain naturally.” “Then, do we need his permission to get the fruits?” “Not necessarily, everyone can get it.” “So, why we share our fruits and work for him?” The rest realize the point even before he finish the sentence.

At evening, while the host’s sleeping, they break the fences and take the fruit-storages into the mountain, and never come back. The man dies days after in starvation.