《韩非子·内储说下六微》
次等侍从中该没有暗中嫉恨我的人吧？ 文公说： 说得对。 就召来次等侍从，果真这样，于是加以处罚。另一种说法：晋平公请客喝酒，年轻的侍从端来烤肉，却有头发缠在肉上，平公催促去杀掉厨师，不得赦免。厨师大声叫着者天说：啊呀！我有三条罪状，死了也不知是犯的哪一条啊！平公说： 这话怎么说？ 厨师回答说： 我的刀很锋利，锋利得能斩断骨头，头发却斩不断，这是我的第一条死罪；用桑树烧成的木炭烤肉，肉烤熟了，该红的红了，该白的白了，头发却没烧焦，这是我的第二条死罪；烤肉熟了，又眯着眼睛细看，头发缠在烤肉上，眼睛却看不见，这是我的第三条死罪。
臣有三罪，死而不自知乎！ 平公曰： 何谓也？ 对曰： 臣刀之利，风靡骨断，而发不断，是臣之一死也；桑炭炙之，肉红白而发不焦，是臣之二死也；炙熟，又重睫而视之，发绕炙而目不见，是臣之三死也。
Is there no one among the second-class attendants who secretly resents me? Duke Wen said: That's right. He summoned the second-class attendants, and it was true, so he punished them. Another theory: Duke Ping of Jin invited guests to drink. A young attendant served roasted meat, but there was hair wrapped around the meat. Ping urged to kill the chef and not to pardon him. The chef cried out to the sky: Oh! I have three sins, and I don't know which one I committed to die! Ping asked: What do you mean by that? The chef replied: My knife is so sharp that it can cut through bones, but it can't cut through hair. This is my first death penalty; I used charcoal from mulberry trees to roast the meat, and the meat was cooked, and what should be red was red, and what should be white was white, but the hair was not burnt. This is my second death penalty; the roast meat was cooked, and I squinted to look at it carefully, and the hair was wrapped around the roast meat, but my eyes could not see it. This is my third death penalty.