The Consolations of Scholarship

About the show

A traveller recounts how General K'an falsely accused the official Chao Tun, who fled with his wife and newborn son. Raised by a hermit, the son goes to the capital twenty years later to study and discovers the truth about his father's death. He deciphers a scroll revealing K'an's plot against the Emperor, warns the Emperor, and recovers his father's property.