While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief.

Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge.

Because Petty Fal Lou fuels the mischief.

Boom!

Mom says that Petty for Lou is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones. She knows best, most of the time.

Fueling mischief with petty flu.

Greetings one and all, Lhasla Montgomery here. If you're just sitting down to a nice cup of tea,

I suggest you put it in a to-go cup because this one won't take long.

Today's Chinese saying, it's a real good one. A great little story and still relevant in our trying times.

Mocha'u Kyu Cheng-chun. This one, I can almost offer you a money back guarantee that when I break these four characters down,

you'll already be able to figure out what this one means.

Mo Chu, Cheng-chun?

Moa means to rubu chung jun more means to rub grind or wear down or polish and a chu is a pestle you know like in a mortar and

pestle it's also a metal bar or a wooden club used to beat clothes during washing.

Chung means to accomplish or succeed, or in this case to become.

And the fourth character, Jun, is a needle.

Grind, metal bar, become needle.

You could already get the main idea, but without knowing the Gu-Shir or story, you can't quite fully appreciate it.

The Chu-Chu, or source of this Changu is a book from the late southern song called Fang Yu-Senglan, the on the

on the late southern song called Fang Yu Schenglan, The Splenders of the Land.

This came out in 1239 during the long reign of the Ho-Hum Emperor Li Tung. He was on duty when the Mongols ran roughshot over the

Jerchians in 1234, so we all know what followed a few decades later. But this emperor Li Tzong, he didn't do too much to address

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