BAO

 Guangxi Sun Zichu, is a famous talent, a hand born with parallel fingers. His character constrained, not good at talking, others coaxed him, he always believed. Sometimes happen to feast, the seat has courtesan, he saw from afar must go away. Some people know that his temperament, he deliberately tricked him, so that prostitutes and his proximity, he was embarrassed to blush to the root of the neck, sweat beads in bunches to drip down. Everyone laughed, and then they imitated his stupidity, spread the word to each other as a joke, and gave him a nickname, called "Sun Dork".

 There is an old man in this county who is a great merchant, whose wealth rivals that of princes and lords, and whose in-laws are all sons of noble families. He had a daughter named Bao, who was very beautiful. The old man chose a son-in-law for her every day, and the sons of big families competed with each other to send bride price, but all of them failed to meet the old man's expectations. Sun Zichu's wife died at that time, and some people teased him, urging him to ask a matchmaker for a marriage proposal. Sun Zichu did not weigh, really listen to people's encouragement to go to propose marriage. The old man had always heard of Sun Zichu's fame, but he thought he was poor. The matchmaker was coming out of the old man's house when she met Ah Bao, who asked her, and the matchmaker told her. Ah Bao joked, "I'll marry him if he removes his fused fingers." The matchmaker told this to Sun Zichu. Sun Zichu said, "That's not hard." After the matchmaker left, he took an axe and chopped off his finger, which hurt him so much that he almost fainted. He could not get up until several days later, and went to see the matchmaker, holding out his hand for her to see. The matchmaker was shocked and ran to tell Po. Ah Bao was also amazed. She jokes and says to ask Sun Zichu again to remove his dullness. When Sun Zichu hears this, he clamors to defend himself, saying he is not stupid; but he cannot meet Po and confess to her. On second thought, Ah Bao may not be as beautiful as heavenly fairies, so how can he raise his own value so high? Thinking this way, the thought of courting gradually cooled down.

 Catch up with the Qingming Festival, the countryside custom, this day women go out to play, some young people are also frivolous groups of young people behind them, wantonly on the women to criticize. A few people in the same literary society to ask Sun Zichu to go. Some mocked him, saying, "Don't you want to see the woman of your dreams?" Sun Zichu also knew that they were joking about themselves; but because he had been teased by Po and also wanted to see her as a person, he happily followed everyone to go on a quest. From a distance they saw a woman resting under a tree, and the rascally teenagers gathered around like a wall. The crowd said, "This must be Po." Running over to take a look, it was indeed her. Sun Zichu carefully scrutinized, only to see that she was beautiful and colorful, unrivaled in the world. Not long afterward, the people became even more crowded. The girl stood up and hurried away. People are mesmerized, commenting on the head, have a hustle and bustle, in the crazy like, only Sun Zichu did not say a word. To everyone to go elsewhere, turned around and saw Sun Zichu still standing in place, shouting him should not. Everyone pulled him and said: "soul with the treasure to go?" He did not answer. Because he had always been slow, people did not find it strange, and pushed and pulled him back home. As soon as he arrived home, he lay down on his bed and didn't get up for the whole day, as if he was drunk, and he couldn't wake up even if he shouted. The family suspected that he had lost his soul, so they went to the field to invoke his soul, but it had no effect. If they asked him vigorously, he promised vaguely, "I'm at A Bao's house." When asked in detail, he was silent again. The family was frightened and confused, not knowing what was going on.

 On that day, Sun Zichu saw Ah Bao leaving, his heart couldn't bear to part with her, and he felt that his body went with her, and gradually drew nearer to her side, and no one blamed him for it. So followed Ah Bao home, she sat, lying down, he snuggled up to her, night and make out with her, very affectionate; but feel especially hungry, want to go home, but confused and can not recognize the road. Ah Bao often dreamed of making love to a man, and when asked his name, he said, "I am Sun Zi Chu." Ah Bao's heart was strange, but he couldn't tell anyone.

 Sun Zi Chu lay for three days, breath dying, like dying. The family was very panicked, and asked someone to politely convey to Ah Bao's father that they wanted to go to his house to invoke his soul. The old man laughed and said, "There is no interaction in ordinary life, how could he lose his soul in my house?" The Sun family kept begging before the old man agreed. The sorcerer went there with Sun Zichu's used clothes and straw mat. Bao asked the reason and was very surprised, not telling the sorcerer to go elsewhere, but taking him straight into his bedroom and letting the sorcerer do the summoning, and then leaving. The sorcerer returned to the door of Sun's house, Sun Zichu has fallen asleep in bed. He woke up, the powder box mirror box, daily miscellaneous goods in the room, what style what name, can be said one by one, not bad at all. Ah Bao heard, even more amazed, secretly impressed Sun Zichu the depth of affection.

 After Sun Zichu left his hospital bed, he sat or stood in deep thought, in a trance, as if he were lost. He often inquired about Po's whereabouts, hoping to be lucky enough to meet her again. On the 8th of April, he heard that Ah Bao was going to burn incense at Shui Yue Temple, so he went early in the morning and waited by the roadside, looking at his eyes. It was only at noon that Ah Bao came. She was in the car to see Sun Zichu, with a small delicate hand to lift the curtain, gazing at him. Sun Zichu was even more moved and followed her car. Ah Bao suddenly called the maid to ask his name, he attentively introduced himself, more heart shaking. The car was gone before he went home. When he got home, he was sick again, faint, did not eat, and in his dreams, he kept calling out Po's name. He was always annoyed that his soul no longer performed miracles.

 Sun's family originally kept a parrot, which suddenly died, and the children played with the dead parrot on their beds. Sun Zichu thought, if only he could turn into a parrot and fly to Ah Bao's boudoir with a spread of his wings. The heart is concentrating on the thought, the body has turned into a parrot lightly, suddenly flew away, flew all the way to Ah Bao's residence. Ah Bao happily swooped it down, chained its wings, and took hemp seeds to feed it. The parrot cried out, "Sister don't chain me! I am Sun Tzu Chu!" Po, alarmed, unchained it, and the parrot would not fly away. Po blessed and said, "Your deep love is engraved in my heart. But now that I am a man and you are a bird, and are no longer of the same kind, how can I marry and be reunited?" The parrot said, "I am content to be near your fragrant face and temples." So the parrot stayed; it would not eat when others fed it, but only when Ah Bao fed it himself. When Ah Bao sat, it rested on her knee; when Ah Bao slept, it clung to her bedside. It was like this for three days. Ah Bao loved it very much. She secretly sent someone to see how her grandson Chu was doing, and it turned out that he was lying straight on the bed, having been broken for three days, only his heart was not yet cold. Po said to the parrot again, "If you can become human again, I swear to follow you to the death." The parrot said, "You lie to me." Po then swore. The parrot looked sideways, as if thinking of something, and a moment later, when Po wrapped her two little feet and took off her shoes under the bed, the parrot suddenly flew down, took the shoes in his mouth, and flew away. Po cried out, but the parrot had already flown away. Po sent an old servant to inquire at Sun's house, and saw that Sun Zi Chu had woken up. When the parrot flew away with the embroidered shoes, it fell to the ground and died. When Sun Zichu woke up, he immediately wanted to embroider the shoes. Everyone did not know what was going on. The old maid came to see Sun Zichu and asked where the shoes were. Sun Zichu said, "This is a token of love given to me by A Bao. You answer her for me: the youngest student will not forget her golden promise." The old servant went back to report, and A Bao was even more astonished, and deliberately told his maid to divulge this to his mother. When his mother ascertained that the situation was true, she said, "This man is not bad in talent or reputation, but only as poor as Sima Xiangru. After picking a son-in-law for a few years and finally picking one like this, I'm afraid it will be a joke to the rich and powerful." A Bao swore not to marry anyone else on the grounds that she had embroidered shoes as a token. The parents then promised her, and sent someone to run and tell Sun Zichu. Sun Zichu was delighted, and immediately recovered from his illness. A Bao's father discussed recruiting Sun Zichu into his family. A Bao said, "A son-in-law can't stay at his father-in-law's house for a long time; besides, he is poor, so people will look down on him if he stays there for a long time. Since I have promised to marry him, I can live in a hut and enjoy the sweet smell of wild vegetables, and I will never complain." Sun Zichu then welcomed Bao home and married him. The two met as if they had met in a previous life. Sun's family received a dowry from Ah Bao, and from then on, they became slightly richer, and purchased a lot of family assets. However, Sun Zichu was obsessed with books and did not know how to manage the household, while Bao was good at management and savings, and did not bother Sun Zichu with other things. After three years, the Sun family became richer and richer.

 Sun Zi Chu suddenly died of thirst-quenching disease. Ah Bao cried so much sorrow and tears that she did not eat or sleep. She could not listen to others' advice, and even hanged herself during the night. The maid found out, rushed to rescue, woke up, still refused to eat. After three days, the Sun family invited relatives and friends, ready to bury Sun Zichu. People heard someone gasping in the coffin and opened it to see that Sun Zichu had come back to life. He said, "I met the King of Yan, who appointed me as a minister because of my honesty and generosity. Suddenly, someone reported: 'Sun Zi Cao's wife is coming soon.' The King of Hell checked the Book of Life and Death. He said, 'This person should not die now.' Another person reported, 'She has not eaten for three days.' The King of Hell turned back to me and said, 'I admire your wife for being so sentimental and righteous, so I will grant you a resurrection.' So he sent a horseman with a horse to bring me back." From then on his body gradually recovered.

 In that year, the examination, before the examination, some young people to tease Sun Zichu, together with seven out-of-the-way topics, Sun Zichu to a secluded place, said to him: "This is a person entrusted with favors to get the examination questions, and now quietly give you." Sun Zichu believed, day and night, according to these questions made seven eight-legged essay. Everyone laughed at him behind his back. At that time, the examiner took into account the common topics will have the disadvantage of plagiarism, so it is against the norm, out of the way topics. When the test questions were sent down, all seven questions matched the ones Sun Zichu had prepared in advance. As a result, he won the first place. The next year, he was awarded a bachelor's degree, was awarded the post of Hanlin Academy. The emperor heard of his strange encounter, called him to inquire. Sun Zichu explained everything. The emperor praised him and was very happy. Later the emperor summoned Bao again and rewarded him with many things.