Chapter 1 The Dragon had a toothache
A poor farmer named Li Tan and his wife lived in Fukien China, he had five children, three lazy daughters, one naughty son Kai Wong and an orphan niece Meng Chiang-nu. The family had only one water buffalo and one small paddy field. Li Tan’s wife Su was an invalid. The four lazy daughters spent their whole day singing and drinking tea.
They made their cousin Meng Chiang-nu do all the housework
and also take care of the water buffalo The naughty son Kai Wong who played pranks on the people bysnatching their straw hats and hanging them on the trees. The only work he did was taking the water buffalo to the forest to graze .One day Kai Wong did not come back from the forest with water buffalo. The lazy daughters ordered Meng Chiang-nu to go and look for their brother. And not come back until she had found him.
The orphan girl Meng Chiang-nu went crying into the forest, it was growing dark and she was frightened. Kai Wong and the water buffalo were nowhere to be seen.
