

Ma Liang continues to use his magic brush to help people. The guards awaken only to fail as Ma Liang painted a horse to escape quickly. That night, after the prison guards and their captain were asleep, Ma Liang uses his magic brush to paint a door which later opens, allowing him and the other innocent people to escape silently. Ma Liang finds out that the other men in the dungeon were innocent and were unjustly imprisoned because the mandarin wanted their lands. The mandarin ordered him imprisoned in a dungeon.

Ma Lien refuses due to his promise to the magician to use he brush wisely. He commands Ma Liang to paint a pile of silver and gold coins for him. He knew that he could make a lot of money by turning things to life and keeping them. The mandarin was a selfish and arrogant bad man who had an idea to steal the paint brush from the young man. When a mandarin discovers the magic brush, he pays a visit to Ma Liang and invites him to his home. Then many people knew about the magic paintbrush. So when he saw the peoples' troubles, he would use his magic paintbrush to help. People could use the cow to till lands very easily. When he saw it was difficult for people to till lands, he drew a cow and the cow came to life. People could bring water from the river to the field and save a lot of time and energy.

When he saw that people had no water to use in the fields, he drew a river and the river came to life. He promises to use the brush wisely and help other people.įrom that day on, he used the paintbrush whenever people needed help. Ma Liang realizes the power of the brush and remembers the words of the old wizard. When he paints the last feather, the rooster comes alive and flies off. To test the power, Ma Liang uses the brush to paint a rooster. Before Ma Liang can thank him, the magician vanished. He tells Ma Liang to use this brush wisely because it has great power. An old wizard and magician appears to him and says that he has earned a brush. He works very hard to achieve this dream even though he doesn't own a paintbrush.Īs Ma Liang gets ready for bed one night, he looks at all his drawings. He liked drawing and drew pictures everywhere and had the greatest dream to be an artist. Ma Liang is a young and very kind peasant boy who helped a rich man to tend cattle.
