It was only the following morning, when the poor farmer was getting ready to sell some of his delicious eggs on the market, that he discovered what disaster had taken place.

He was furious.

And most rightly so, too.

"I'm going to catch that thief, if it's the last thing I do", he decided.

There was of course a problem. How to find a thief in that enormous China.

He didn't even know what the thief looked like!

"But my rooster I recognize everywhere!", the poor farmer knew.