作家江曾祺,小说、散文都写得绝妙,行云流水,古色古香,似有仙气,人皆称之。他还是“样板戏”之—《沙家滨》的原创者（《芦荡火种》）,乃鼎鼎有名的大作家。可是他却写不好请病假的报告。据他女儿回忆,那是“文革”后期,他女儿下乡在某生产建设兵团,因为有病要回城,求父亲汪曾祺替她写一份申请病假报告,汪老面露难色,又却不过女儿的坚请,只好硬着头皮字斟句酌地写,一份二三百字的报告竟写了三天,女儿将报告交给了连长,连长一读之下,作色道:“听说你父亲还是作家?怎么连个报告都不会写,这不行,拿回去重写。”原来报告第一句话竟是:“首长大人,请您高抬贵手,就饶了我女儿吧！”连很简单的官话、套话、谀话都不会说。他女儿没法,只好自己又重写了一份。……一位知名作家竟写不好一份申请报告,令 Writer Jiang Zengqi, novels, essays are written fantastic, flowing, antique, it seems fairy, everyone calls it. He is still a “model opera” - the original creator of “Sha Jia Bin” (“Rendang Fire”), is a famous big writer. But he did not write a report of sick leave. According to his daughter memories, it was the late “Cultural Revolution”, his daughter went to the countryside in a production and construction Corps, because of illness to return to the city, seeking his father Wang Zengqi for her to write a report for sick leave, Wang vexatious, but however Daughter’s hard work, had to bite into words carefully written, a twenty-three hundred words of the report actually wrote for three days, the daughter of the report to the company commander, commander under first reading, for the color: “I heard that Your father or a writer? How can not even a report will not write, this will not do, get back to rewrite. ”The original report was actually the first sentence:“ Head adults, excuse me, let me spare my daughter! ” Simple Mandarin, sets of words, words can not say. His daughter could not, but had to rewrite one. ... a well-known writer did not write a good application report