Chinese Æsop:

Once upon a time in the Dirty-land, lived a hen. One day she wandered along a brook looking for worms, and she saw a fish swimming happily in the water. Soon afterwards they became friends. The hen told the fish everything in the land, especially the oddest things happened to the boy who had a plum tree growing out his head. The fish told the hen all about everything under the water, but really he didn't have much to tell, because the brook was so small, and water was shallow. After a long chat, the hen went back to her home, and the fish under the pond. The next day, the hen came to visit the fish again, their friendship grew, and invited each other to visit their home. But there was a problem, because the hen couldn't swim, and the fish couldn't walk on the land. After a short silence, the hen had an idea, she said, “I can wee on the way, so you can move along.” The fish thought that was not a very good idea, but he would like to give it a try. The fish jumped out of...

Once upon a time, a little boy lived with his Grandmother in Dirty-land. Grandmother never made the boy to wash his face in the morning like other people do. When the little boy washes his face, his grandmother always reminds him, “Don't wash behind your ear, or mushrooms won't grow out.” The little boy never believes her, although he never washes his face properly, and even more reluctant to touch that behind his ears. One day, when he was in school, his felt a little itchy on his neck. He did his home work after school as usual, and got into bed. The next day, he felt very itchy, and he looked in the mirror, and saw behind his ears were tiny mushrooms. He went down the stairs, and shouted to his grandmother, “Mushrooms behind my ear!” His grandmother smiled, and said, “Good boy, now we have our own mushrooms. We will have Chicken and mushrooms soup for dinner today.”

Once upon there lived a lazy farmer, he never washed himself. His neighbour said, “You worked in the field on barefoot, at least you should wash your feet before go to bed.” He said, “I would rather wash my quilt than wash my feet!” But he never washed his bed sheet or quilt. When his neighbour noticed that his bed was so dirty, they said, “Your bed are so muddy, why don't you wash it?” He said, “I would rather let the mud drop on the floor than wash my quilt. I will sweep the floor and carry the mud away. ” When his bed became so muddy that the mud started to drop down on the floor, and accumulated inches thick. But he never swept his floor under his bed. His neighbour saw it, shook their head, saying, “You said that you would clean the mud and carry it away.” He said, “I would rather sow seeds than sweep the mud.” Of course he never sown seeds in his bed or on the floor, or he would have nowhere to sleep.

When the little woman and the tiny old man finished their tea, a little boy came running inside, he was the little woman's grandson. He said, “I am hungry, can I eat a plum?” The little woman gave the boy a plum, and warned him again, “Don't spit out the stone, we want a plum tree to grow out of your head.” Though the little boy never believed her, he ate it all, and swallowed the stone as his grandmother told him. The next morning, when he woke up from a nightmare, his head felt very heavy and strange. The boy asked his grandma, “What's happened with my head, something seems growing and it feels heavy.” His grandma carefully spread his messy hair, and saw a plant. “A Plum tree is growing out of your head!”She said, “Good boy, well done! Now you have plum tree on your own head, we don't need to buy plums from the shop any more.” So the little boy carried the plum tree on his head, when he had a shower, he watered the plum tree; when he went to school, he carri...