After the plastic paper was uncovered, it revealed a Chinese ink painting with mountains, water, and drifting clouds.
The two monkeys looked on with curiosity, craning their little heads, examining the inscription on the painting, trying their best to recognize it with their limited vocabulary.
The second monkey first uttered incomplete words: "Gift, wedding gift—"
"This is a dowry," Lingxin informed his younger brother.
"What's a dowry?" the second monkey asked naively.
Lingxin, the little scholar, explained in a very professional tone, "A dowry is something that a woman's family prepares to take to the man's home when she is getting married."
The problem was that this explanation was too technical for the second monkey, who asked, "If I marry a wife, can't I bring a dowry?"
Lingxin was speechless, defeated by his brother's divine logic.
