How a Mischievious and Magical Monkey Named Ho Saves Three Men from the Frigid Grip of Winter

Daniel Wang
On a lazy and sultry summer day, three men were busy laboring in the lush, green rice paddies of the Jiangsu province. They had been busy working in the fields since the sun first touched the land with its warm rays. The men were good friends and owned and worked the land jointly so that they could be more efficient. The men were usually amiable around each other, but today they were unusually cantankerous because they had to harvest the rice in time before the chilling winter arrived. Otherwise, the men would be late and hungry for the remainder of the long, frigid winter. Th…