Once day, after secretly killing the fat­test pig belong­ing to King of Nay­dong, Nichö Zangpo came before the king and asked, “Your Majesty, the fat­test of all your pigs was struck down with an ill­ness and has died. Now, where should I throw the corpse?” The king answered, “After shav­ing the hair cleanly, go and sell the meat at the mar­ket. You should present the pro­ceeds without tak­ing a cut.”  Then, in accord­ance with the instruc­tions of the king, Nichö Zangpo took the load of pork to the mar­ket. “Any buy­ers for pork from a pig struck down by ill­ness?” Although he spent all day shout­ing, he was unable to sell even one tiny piece of meat.

 Then, Nichö Zangpo brought the pork back and explained in detail to the king how there were no buy­ers and so the King said, “now it is ok If you cook the meat and eat it.” Nichö Zangpo asked, “Your Majesty, will you par­take of the meat or the broth?” The King replied, “I am the King, so of course I will eat the meat. Since you are all ser­vants, unworthy oth­er than to drink the meat broth, why do you even need to ask?” thus he rep­rim­anded him.

 Then, Nichö Zangpo chopped the meat and bones up into tiny pieces and, since he cooked it for a very long time, hav­ing fallen away from the bones, the meat became soft and mushy, and noth­ing but the bones and hide could be retrieved. Nichö Zangpo and the ser­vants drank the fla­vour­some and nutri­tious meat broth and offered the pig’s hide and bones to the king, “Your Majesty, “except for the pig’s hide and bones, all the meat has liquified and melted into meat broth. Please par­take of this cooked hide.”He said.

The King replied, “Well then, bring me the meat broth!” Nichö Zangpo replied, “We have already drunk the meat broth accord­ing to the King’s instruc­tions.” The King had no option but to eat that pig’s cooked hide.

 The next time they were eat­ing pork, the King first said to Nichö Zangpo, “This time, I’ll drink the meat broth! You all can eat the meat.” Then, Nichö Zangpo took the boiled meat out as soon as it was cooked, divided it up for every­body and it was eaten. The meat broth, which was devoid of any meaty fla­vour, was offered to the King.

Pro­verb: From time spent with the excel­lent come tea and alcohol;

                    From time spent with the evil comes cor­por­al punishment!