The Winter Melon Tale

FAN TUNG is a deity. He pleases WUN SA with a necklace for being late, so she asks TUNG to go and eat in the Celestial Kitchen. TUNG has taken some winter melon soup which is supposed to be the birthday present for QUEEN MOTHER. As to make him reflect on his mistake, TUNG is locked inside a winter melon for five hundred years. Five hundred years later in Moody Town, the villagers try to take advantage of TIN TAI-KWAI while his wife CHUNG PIK-YUK is not around. His elder brother TIN TAI-FU is a gambler, he uses up his son’s red packet money and the trousseau of his wife is in pawn to pay his debt. LING FUNG fights with him and elopes with her lover. It makes HONG very upset with his father and KWAI tries to comfort him. FU has offended FOK SZ-SZ who was once a fox and turned into a prostitute. With her magic she makes FU lose his grocery shop. YUK and KWAI are left stranded inside a cave and find a big winter melon.