Contents

Scene

1. The Prologue

2. Ambitious Thoughts

3. Disciplining the Daughter

4. The pedant's Complaint

5. Engaging a Tutor

6. A Dismal View

7. The Family School

8. Supervising Agriculture

9. Clearing the Garden

10. An Interrupted Dream

11. Kind warning

12. Retracing the Dream

13. Setting out

14. Drawing a Self-portrait

15. Invaders

16. An Inquiry

17. The Taoist Nun

18. The Diagnoses

19. A Female Bandit

20. Untimely Death

21. Meeting the Envoy

22. En Route

23. The Nether Judge

24. The Portrait Discovered

25. Recalling the Daughter

26. Admiring the portrait

27. The Wandering Soul

28. Secret Rendezvous

29. Suspicion Aroused

30. Interrupting the Amour

31. War Preparations

32.  A Vow

33. Confiding the scheme

34. The Prescription

35. Resurrection

36. Abscondence of the Newlyweds

37. The shocked pedant

38. Planning an Attack

39. Reaching Lin'an

40. The Humpback Espier

41. Late for the Examination

42. Transferring to Huai'an

43. Defending Huai'an

44. Filial Concern

45. The Two Defrauders

46. Outwitting the Bandits

47. The End of the Siege

48. Reunited with Mother

49. Lodging by River Huai

50. An Uninvited Guest

51. Winner Proclaimed

52. Searching for the Zhuangyuan

53. Under Torture

54. Happy Tidings

55. A Decreed Reunion