Old Tales of Nanqiao: The Beggar

For thirty autumns, fog has shrouded the royal camp; a black snake, bearing its grudge, coils around the barren hill.

The youth returns home and uncovers buried bones; only then does he believe the injustices of this world have yet to end.

The Plague God was once a lonely orphan, weeping; a bronze hairpin and a silver hairpin bear witness to a deadly feud.

One day, he digs through all the yellow earth, clears his name, and sees the sky again.