Jieun the filial daughter孝女知恩
1Jieun the filial daughter
孝女知恩，韓歧部百姓連權女子也。性至孝，少喪父，獨養其母。年三十二，猶不從人，定省不離左右，而無以為養，或傭作或行乞，得食以飼之。日久不勝困憊，就富家請賣身為婢，得米十餘石。窮日行役於其家，暮則作食歸養之。如是三四日，其母謂女子曰：「向，食麤而甘，今則食雖好，味不如昔，而肝心若以刀刃刺之者，是何意耶？」女子以實告之。母曰：「以我故使爾為婢，不如死之速也。」乃放聲大哭，女子亦哭，哀感行路。時孝宗郞出遊，見之，歸請父母，輸家粟百石及衣物予之，又償買主以從良。郞徒幾千人，各出粟一石為贈。大王聞之，亦賜租五百石，家一區，復除征役。以粟多恐有剽竊者，命所司差兵番守。標榜其里曰孝養坊，仍奉表，歸美於唐室。孝宗，時第三宰相舒發翰仁慶子，少名化達，王謂雖當幼齒，便見老成，卽以其兄憲康王之女，妻之。
Jieun the filial daughter was the daughter of Yeon-gwon, a commoner of Hangi-bu. She was filial to the utmost by nature. She lost her father while young and cared for her mother alone. She was thirty-two years old and still had not gone to a husband, and she looked to her mother morning and evening and did not leave her side.
She had nothing to keep her with, so at times she hired out her labor and at times she went about begging, and she got food and fed her. As the days grew long she could not bear the weariness that wore her down, and she went to a rich house and asked to sell herself and become a slave, and she got ten seom of rice and more. She worked the whole day through at that house, and at evening she made food and came back and cared for her mother.
When she had done this three or four days, her mother said to the daughter, "Before this the food was coarse and it was sweet. Now the food is good, but the taste is not what it was, and my liver and my heart feel as though a knife were stabbing them. What does this mean?"
The daughter told her the truth. The mother said, "Because of me you have been made a slave. It would be better to die quickly." Then she lifted her voice and wept aloud, and the daughter wept too, and their sorrow moved those who passed on the road.
At that time Hyojongnang went out to wander and saw this, and he went home and asked his father and mother, and he had a hundred seom of grain from the house, and clothing and goods, carried to them. He also paid back the one who had bought her, and set her among the free again. Some thousands of the followers of the nang each gave one seom of grain to her.
The great king heard of it and gave her five hundred seom of grain besides, and one house, and he freed her from labor service. He feared that with so much grain there might be those who would steal it, and he commanded the office in charge to pick soldiers and stand watch in turns, and he marked her village and called it Hyoyang-bang. Then he sent up a memorial and gave the credit for it to the court of Tang.
Hyojong was the son of Ingyeong, the third minister of that time, who held the rank of seobalhan, and his name as a child was Hwadal. The king said that though he was of tender years the ripeness of an elder could already be seen in him, and so he gave him the daughter of his elder brother King Heongang to wife.