The woman laughingly said, "Master Chon and I have been special
friend's for a long time, and I have an appointment with him
to-day. Please say to him that I have come."
Chon's wife, seeing a pretty woman come thus, and ask in such a
familiar way for her husband, flew into a rage and said, "The rascal
has evidently a second wife that he has never told me of. What he
said just now is all false," so she went out in a fury, and with a
club smashed the crock. When the crock was broken there was the beetle
underneath it. Then the woman who had called suddenly changed into a
bee, and flew at and stung the beetle. Chon, metamorphosed into his
accustomed form, fell over and died, and the bee flew away.
Yun lived at his own house as usual, when suddenly he broke down
one day in a fit of tears. The members of his family in alarm asked
the reason.
He replied, "My sister living in Chulla Province has just at this
moment died." He then called his servants, and had them prepare
funeral supplies, saying, "They are poor where she lives, and so I
must help them."
He wrote a letter, and after sealing it, said to one of his attendants,
"If you go just outside the gate you will meet a man wearing a
horsehair cap and a soldier's uniform. Call him in. He is standing
there ready to be summoned."
He was called in, and sure enough he was a Kon-yun-no (servant of the
gods). He came in and at once prostrated himself before Yun. Yun said,
"My sister has just now died in such a place in Chulla Province. Take
this letter and go at once. I shall expect you back to-night with
the answer. The matter is of such great importance that if you do
not bring it as I order, and within the time appointed, I shall have
you punished."