Original Text
In the sixth month of the twenty-sixth year of the Kangxi reign, within the vegetable garden of a villager west of Zichuan county town, a cucumber vine once again put forth tendrils and bore a watermelon as large as a bowl.
Commentary
This is a factual record of a strange phenomenon concerning crops, likely the shortest chapter in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, consisting of twenty-eight characters, with a narrative that is concise, pure, and elegantly clear.