Dong Yong was born in a poor family. When his father died he had no money to bury him, so he went to a big mansion owned by a rich veteran offi-cial Fu to sell himself as a slave in order to get money for his father's burial. When Qi Xian Nil, the youngest daughter of God in the Heaven heard of this, she, out of admiration for Dong Yong' s filial obedience, descended to the earth secretly. She invited the god of earth as their matchmaker and married herself to Dong Yong under the old pagoda tree. Then they together went to Fu's mansion to work.
    For Qi Xian Nil wove 10 bolts of silk in one night, Fu reduced their term from three years to one hundred days. When the term was over, the couple was on their way home happily. But Qi Xian Nil' s secret descent was heard by God and he sent the Heaven generals and soldiers to the earth to arrest her. For fear that her husband should be hurt Qi Xian Nil had to say farewell to her husband and return to the Heaven with the soldiers.