Bao Gong Appears in the World
Jin Shengbo
Straight Storytelling
Story Summary
This episode is about the background of Magistrate Bao, how he was born to elderly parents who already had two sons, one good one and one evil one, who will now have to share the inheritance 3 ways. It tells about how the good son and daughter-in-law save little Bao from all the attempts on his life by his evil brother and sister-in-law; how he begins his study of the classics and takes the civil service examination to become Magistrate in Kaifeng, the capital of China during the Song Dynasty.