The king of Chu tries three times to humiliate
晏子. Shown a small side gate because he is short, Yanzi says only an envoy to a land of dogs goes in by a dog's door. Asked whether Qi has no better men, he says Qi sends its worthy men to worthy kings and its worthless ones to worthless kings. Shown a thief from Qi, he answers that an orange tree grown south of the Huai bears oranges but north of it bears bitter fruit,
橘生淮南则为橘, so it must be the land of Chu that makes men thieves.
