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Once, there was young man, son of a fisherman, who dove into the river and found an immense pearl.
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But when he brought it home to show his father, the old man immediately threw it back into the water.
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The sage man explained that the pearl was obviously property of the River Dragon, and his son only now lived because the king of the river had been asleep.
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| What if he was awake? He would have eaten you up, and then where would your mother and I be? | |
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| With a pearl like that, you could have bought five sons. | |
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