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很久很久以前，美丽的仙女三圣母爱上了人间的书生刘彦昌。她背着玉帝私自下凡，与刘彦昌结为夫妻，过着恩爱幸福的生活。
后来，刘彦昌想进京赶考。分别的时候，他送给妻子一块祖传沉香。“夫人，我这次去京城，恐怕要好几个月才能回来。你要照顾好自己的身体，等咱们的孩子出生，就为他起名沉香。”
“请相公放心，我会好好照顾咱们的孩子，等你回来。”
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack. He lived with his mother. They had a cow named White. They were very poor.
Long long ago, Sanshengmu, a beautiful goddess, fell in love with a mortal, Liu Yanchang. She secretly went down to the mortal world and married him. They lived a happy life.
Later, Liu Yanchang wanted to take the imperial exam in the capital city. Before he left, he gave Sanshengmu a piece of aloes wood (chenxiang) and said,"I will be away for several months. When our child is born, please name him Chenxiang."
"I will," Sanshengmu said.
刘彦昌在京城考中进士，被派到扬州去做官。而此时，三圣母却遭难了。原来，她私通凡人的事被天庭知道了。她的哥哥二郎神听后十分生气。“身为仙女，怎么能私自嫁给凡人？我一定要捉她上天受罚！”
三圣母觉得自己并没有错，一点儿也不害怕，况且她随身还有宝莲灯护体。只要有宝莲灯在，无论哪路妖魔神仙，都不会是她的对手。
Liu Yanchang did very well in the exam. He was sent to Yangzhou as an official. But meanwhile Sanshengmu was in trouble. Her elder brother, God Er-lang, was very angry with her marriage. "How can a goddess marry a mortal? I will take her back to Heaven!"
But Sanshengmu didn't want to go back to Heaven. And since she had a very powerful lotus lantern, she believed that nobody could take her back by force.
二郎神知道宝莲灯威力强大，就命哮天犬趁三圣母睡觉的时候，将灯偷了出来。失去宝莲灯的保护，可怜的三圣母被二郎神压到了华山下。在暗无天日的山洞里，三圣母生下孩子，并按照之前的约定为他起名沉香。
“沉香，娘不能保护你，让灵芝姑姑送你去扬州找你爹，你一定要跟着爹好好生活……”三圣母流着泪将沉香交给了丫环灵芝。
God Er-lang knew the power of the lotus lantern, so he ordered his dog to steal the lantern when Sanshengmu was sleeping, and then put Sanshengmu under Huashan Mountain. There, Sanshengmu gave birth to a son and named him Chenxiang.
Sanshengmu thought that she couldn't take good care of Chenxiang in the dark cave, so she asked her maid Lingzhi to take Chenxiang to his dad in Yangzhou.
七年后，沉香已经长成了一个聪明懂事的大孩子。他从邻居那里知道了母亲的遭遇。“原来这么多年来，娘亲一直在华山受苦，我要去救她！”
“沉香，我们都是凡人，凭什么去跟那些天神斗呢？”父亲无奈地叹着气说。
沉香的眼中泛出泪花，“不管怎么样，我一定要尽全力去救母亲。”
At the age of seven, Chenxiang learned his mother's story from neighbors. "Mom has been suffering so much! I must go there and rescue her!"
"Chenxiang, we are mortals. How can we fight against the gods?" his father sighed.
"Anyway, I will do my best to rescue my mom," Chenxiang said.