As the cock crowed, a palace rose out of the ground, surrounded by a city with walls and towers.  People soon came to fill the city as his subjects. The king was a ruler once again.  He married the two ivory sisters, and they lived happily in the new palace.

Mister Pang’s spirit wife

Mr. Pang's singing and guitar playing attracts Lady Ti, a visitor from the misty land of spirits.

Mr. Pang was a rice farmer. From dawn to dusk he could be seen chasing off the flocks of birds that came to feed on his crops. When there were no birds, Pang would take his guitar and sing all the songs he knew well into the moonlit night.

One night, Mr. Pang saw someone approaching.  It seemed to be a girl.  She sat down on the steps near his front door and listened attentively to his singing.  After a little while, Pang spoke to her.

“Who are you?”

“My name is Ti, Lady Ti,” she answered.  “I am a stranger in this country.  I love to hear you sing, and your music is good to listen to.”

Pang continued playing and singing, and the girl sat and listened for a long time. Much later, he invited her in, assuming that she had no place to sleep. She came willingly into his house and sat on his bed.  Pang had no chair, so he sat next to her.  “If you are a spirit,” he asked, “you cannot make love, can you?”

“Indeed,” she said.  “I can most certainly make love.”

So they made love and then slept. When morning came, Pang took his guitar to the rice fields.  Meanwhile, Ti took up the broom and cleaned the house.  At lunchtime, she cooked some rice and brought it out to Pang in the fields, as did every wife for her husband at midday.  So they were married, though they would bear no children.