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868 篇The Peasant's Wise Daughter | 聪明的农家女
A wise peasant girl's counsel saves her father, solves a king's riddle to become queen, and later...
35 阅读The King's Whim | 君王的喜怒
A second performer, imitating a successful acrobat, seeks reward from a king but is instead impri...
34 阅读Tian Jiu's Audience | 田鸠见秦王
A Mohist scholar, unable to meet the King of Qin after three years, gains an audience only after ...
31 阅读A Royal Thief-Catcher | 皇家捕贼人
A miserly Brahman hides his wealth in the forest, only to have it stolen. Grief-stricken, he vows...
30 阅读Like Fire and Flowering Rush | 如火如荼
This story describes how the Wu army, in a desperate situation, launched a spectacular dawn assau...
31 阅读Buying Bones with a Thousand Gold | 千金买骨
A king, desperate for a legendary steed, is convinced by a guard to buy the bones of a dead one a...
32 阅读The Ghost Wife Lü Wubing | 鬼妻吕无病
A grieving scholar is comforted by a kind, ghostly woman named Lü Wubing. After facing persecutio...
34 阅读The Elixir of Immortality | 不死之药
A Chu palace guard is tasked with delivering an elixir of immortality to the king. An archer, upo...
32 阅读The Mayor's Revenge | 市长的报复
Two mayors bet on a football game with tomatoes and potatoes as stakes. After overhearing his tom...
32 阅读The Drummer's Defiance | 击鼓骂曹
Mi Heng, feeling disrespected by Cao Cao, staged a dramatic protest by stripping naked at a banqu...
34 阅读The Stolen Armor | 时迁盗甲
To counter an invincible armored cavalry, the Liangshan heroes must recruit the lancer Xu Ning by...
35 阅读Two Tigers Fight | 两虎相争
Bian Zhuangzi is advised to wait as two tigers fight over a man, allowing them to weaken each oth...
32 阅读The Kiwi's Sacrifice | 几维鸟的牺牲
A Maori legend tells how the Kiwi bird selflessly agreed to live on the dark forest floor to save...
26 阅读Open the Net on Three Sides | 网开一面
The story recounts how Tang, founder of the Shang Dynasty, demonstrated mercy by cutting a bird n...
35 阅读The Ghost and the Ancestral Home | 鬼魂与祖宅
A skeptical young man confronts the ghost haunting his ancestral home. By cleverly using the ghos...
32 阅读Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Part Two) | 阿里巴巴与四十大盗（下）
The robbers discover Ali Baba knows their secret and attempt to find and kill him. Twice, Morgian...
33 阅读Calling a Stag a Horse | 指鹿为马
The story of Prime Minister Zhao Gao testing court loyalty by calling a stag a horse, leading to ...
31 阅读A Dying Man's Favorite Cookies | 临终曲奇
A dying man, smelling his favorite cookies, musters his last strength to reach the kitchen, only ...
34 阅读The Rare Qin | 稀世珍琴
A craftsman creates a superb qin, but it is rejected for not being ancient. After artificially ag...
30 阅读His Bride Died Young | 他的新娘早逝
A young man tries to keep his ghostly bride from vanishing at dawn by blocking sunlight, but a ca...
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