The Five Brothers - Part Four
The fourth brother asked the villagers to increase the fire to increase the warmth of the oil.
The villagers realized the obvious that the man could not be killed by fire either. Water, sword and fire could not harm the man. So the villagers decided to smother the man inside a cream cake. The villagers all contributed money to make the flour and all the other ingredients from a giant cream-cake.
The cake was to be made on the plains outside the city walls.
Meanwhile the man was allowed to visit his mother and bid her farewell. This time the fifth brother came out.
The cake was done and the fifth brother was thrown inside it.
The fifth brother could survive without air and this was not a problem for him at all.
The fifth brother was in the cake till midnight and after that, he came out and returned home where he lived happily with his brothers.
Adapted from Chinese Folktales
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