子反曰：「退！
“Withdraw!
酒也。
It is wine!” Zifan repeated.
」穀陽曰：「非酒也。
“It is not wine,” insisted Guyang.
」子反又曰：「退！
Zifan then accepted what Guyang had brought and drank it, after which he was drunk and took to his bed.
酒也。
King Gong wanted to fight again and sent a person to summon Zifan, but Zifan excused himself, saying that he was suffering from a heart ailment.
」穀陽又曰：「非酒也。
」子反受而飲之，醉而寢。
King Gong thereupon went with his entourage to see him.
恭王欲復戰，使人召子反，子反辭以心疾。
On entering Zifan’s tent, he smelled the aroma of wine and said, “In today’s battle, I myself suffered an injury.
於是恭王駕往。
I placed my reliance on you, marshal, but now you have reduced yourself to this sorry state.
入幄，聞酒臭，曰：「今日之戰，不穀親傷，所恃者司馬，司馬至醉如此，是亡吾國而不恤吾眾也。
You are causing my state to perish and showing no pity to my multitudes.
吾無以復戰矣！
I now have nothing with which to do battle!” He then had Zifan executed and had the corpse publicly exhibited.
」於是乃誅子反以為戮，還師。
Then he recalled his troops.
夫穀陽之進酒也，非以妒子反，忠愛之而適足以殺之。
故曰，小忠，大忠之賊也；小利，大利之殘也。
When Guyang presented wine to Zifan, one may say that he was not acting out of spite but out of true loyalty; nevertheless, what he did was sufficient to kill Zifan. Thus, it is said that “loyalty in small matters is the assassin of loyalty in great matters” and that “profit in small matters destroys the possibility of profit in great matters.