Lessons A–F
Aspects of work discussed earlier are further investigated via some brief stories of varying origin.
Lesson A: Merit and the King of Death
A young but unprepossessing student travels to the capital city to sit for the Imperial civil service examinations. Though his test scores are superb, he is unfairly failed – but his merit is recognized later in an unexpected manner.
Early in the Tang dynasty, in the town of Zhongnan, there lived an impoverished but bright student named Zhong Kui. One day he and his best friend and fellow student, Du Ping, were sitting in the town square. Now Du Ping, carefully observing his friend’s countenance, never attractive at the best of times, came to the conclusion in ...
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