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Updated: May 7, 2025
Giauna told A-Sung to hold his head while her brother opened his mouth. She herself took hold of his chin, and brought out her little red pellet. She pressed it against his lips with her own, and breathed into his lungs. Then the breath came back to his throat with a rattling noise, and in a short time he was himself once more.
He took his wife along with him, but his mother remained at home, since Shensi was too far for her to travel. And heaven gave A-Sung and Kung a little son. But Kung became involved in a dispute with a traveling censor. The latter complained about Kung and he was dismissed from his post.
Kung wished to accompany them, but his friend advised him to return to his own home. Kung mentioned the difficulties in the way, but the youth replied: "That need not worry you, because I will accompany you." After a time the father came, together with A-Sung, and made Kung a present of a hundred ounces of gold. Then the youth took Kung and his wife by the hand, and told them to close their eyes.
Please send to grandmother, and have her brought here!" The old gentleman was willing, and he sent off his boy. The next day the boy came back with the news that Giauna would come, together with her aunt and her cousin A-Sung. Not long after the youth led his sister into the room. She was not more than thirteen or fourteen years of age, enchantingly beautiful, and slender as a willow-tree.
His friend had noticed it and said to him: "I have at last succeeded, this very day, in finding an attractive life companion for you." Kung asked who she might be. "The daughter of my aunt, A-Sung. She is seventeen years of age, and anything but homely." "I am sure she is not as beautiful as Giauna," thought Kung.
But my cousin A-Sung is not homely either. If you do not believe me, wait until they go walking in the garden, and then you may take a look at them without their knowing it." Kung posted himself at the open window on the look-out, and sure enough, he saw Giauna come along leading another girl by the hand, a girl so beautiful that there was none other like her.
His mother opened it and when she saw that he had brought along so charming a wife she was greatly pleased. Then Kung turned around to his friend, but the latter had already disappeared. A-Sung served her mother-in-law with great devotion, and her beauty and virtue was celebrated far and near. Soon after young Kung gained the doctorate, and was appointed inspector of prisons in Shensi.
A tremendous crash of thunder shook the earth, and Kung fell down dead. Then the tempest cleared away, and the blue sky appeared once more. Giauna had regained consciousness, and when she saw Kung lying dead beside her she said amid sobs: "He died for my sake! Why should I continue to live?" A-Sung also came out, and together they carried him into the cave.
Finally Kung said: "It is not well to dwell too long amid the graves of the dead. Will you not come home with me?" Thereupon they packed up their belongings and went with him. He assigned a deserted garden, which he carefully walled off, to his friend and his family as a dwelling-place. Only when Kung and A-Sung came to visit them was the bolt drawn.
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