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The Spaghetti Postcard | 意大利面条明信片
A doctor arranges for his pregnant mistress to have their baby in Italy, asking her to send a pos...
Throwing a Baby into the River | 抱婴投江
A passerby questions a man who is about to throw a child into a river, believing the child will b...
The Strange Visitor | 不速之客
The narrator's great-grandmother recounts a chilling childhood memory: after her father's funeral...
The Scholar's Missed Chances | 仕数不遇
A Zhou Dynasty scholar recounts his lifelong, futile attempts to secure an official post, as each...
The Final Test of Confidence | 自信的最终考验
A professor offers his students a 'B' grade if they opt out of the final exam. Most accept, but t...
The Naughty Boy | 顽皮的孩子
A kind old poet shelters a beautiful, shivering boy from a storm, only to discover the child is C...
Why Bother Getting Up? | 何必当初
A notoriously lazy man named Wang Laowu, who always denies his laziness, falls twice while walkin...
The Clever Little Tailor | 聪明的小裁缝
A proud princess challenges suitors with a riddle. A clever but seemingly unskilled young tailor ...
A Mother's Love | 母爱
A farmer cleverly leads a stubborn cow to slaughter by using her calf, demonstrating the powerful...
Where Is God? | 上帝在哪里？
A mischievous boy, sent to a stern clergyman for discipline, is terrified when repeatedly asked "...
Borrowing an Ox | 讳不识字
An illiterate rich man, too proud to admit it, pretends to read a letter requesting to borrow an ...
Tiresias | 盲眼先知泰瑞西斯
Tiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes, gained his condition and supernatural gifts after accident...
Lucy's Letter | 露西的信
The narrator's family befriends their elderly neighbor, Lucy, after her husband's death. Lucy bec...
Lazy Harry | 懒汉海利
A lazy man named Harry marries an equally idle woman, Fat Katie. Together, they devise increasing...
Navajo Message for the Moon | 纳瓦霍族给月球的讯息
During Apollo mission training on a Navajo reservation, an elder, upon learning of the astronauts...
Silent Devotion | 无声的奉献
A mute man and the girl he raised as a sister share a deep, unspoken bond. After she confesses he...
The Hidden Gold | 隐藏的金子
A dying farmer tells his lazy sons there is gold hidden in their olive orchard. Their fruitless d...
The Hunchback Specialist | 专治驼背
A self-proclaimed specialist promises to cure any hunchback but uses a brutal method that straigh...
The Happy Family | 幸福的家庭
A pair of elderly white snails, believing themselves to be the world's most distinguished creatur...
The Boss Parrot | 老板鹦鹉
A customer inquires about three parrots with vastly different prices. The most expensive one, who...