yǒu yì tiān, tā kàn jiàn yì zhī tù zi zhuàng dào shù shang, sǐ le.
One day, he saw a rabbit run into a tree and die.
yì tiān, tā jiā de mǎ pǎo le. lín jū men dōu lái ān wèi tā.
One day, his horse ran away. The neighbours all came to console him.
tā zuò zài lìng yì tóu, bǎ tóu kào zài chuāng shang, mí mí hú hú de shuì zháo le.
He sat at the other end, leaned his head against the window, and drifted into a hazy sleep.
guǒ rán, tā de ér zi qí nà pǐ xīn mǎ de shí hou, shuāi xià lái shuāi duàn le tuǐ.
Sure enough, when his son rode the new horse, he fell off and broke his leg.