Chinese Idiom Stories 1:Suspected adjacent stolen ax(疑邻盗斧 )
As you know, Chinese has many idioms, many of them have allusions. Today, i'll recommend you a story about "Suspected adjacent stolen ax".
Once upon a time, there was a peasant. He lost an ax. He thought the neighbor's son stole it, so the peasant began to pay attention to what the man did, where he went and what he said . The more the peasant listened and watched, the more he suspected. Later, the peasant found his ax in a valley. It turned out that he went up the hill to cut wood and lost it in the valley carelessly. After he found his ax, he thought the neighbor's son not like a thief on his words and deeds.
so suspected adjacent stolen ax(疑邻盗斧 ) express those who careless suspicion on someone without any evidence.