The Story of Hua Yan

In the middle of the night, a young woman named Shu-Li asks the girl's elder brother if he would like to stay for the night at a nearby nunnery. The girl says that she is not feeling well, and that her brother and sister are both in the valley of river-chuan, which is about a hundred miles away from the town of Lin'an. She tells the girl that she can stay in a room that has been vacant for some time, but that she has to clean the room every day. The young woman says that the room is not fancy, but she has never seen a woman so kind as the girl. She says that in the end, the valley became a "refuge camp" for people who had fled the country because of famine and earthquakes. She asks the young woman to bring her some ginger soup, which she says is a "gesture of gratitude."