In “The Examination for the Post of City God” from Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio, why would Song Tao go to Changshan to inquire about Scholar Zhang?
In “The Examination for the Post of City God” from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Liaozhai by Pu Songlin, the story begins with Song Tao bedridden by illness.
My brother-in-law’s grandfather Master Song Tao, a local recipient of a government stipend for bachelors of letters, was lying sick in bed one day when an officer bearing a summons and leading a white-blazed horse came to him and said, ”You are requested to be present at the examination.”