However, they were terribly surprised to see the fisherman, and asked where he came from. The fisherman answered their questions one by one. And then he was invited to visit their own houses for dinner with wine and chicken cooked by themselves. As the news that the stranger was coming in the village was told, all the villagers wanted to inquire what had happened.
战乱逃避 天下大乱自云先世避秦时乱，率妻子邑人来此绝境，不复出焉;遂与外人间隔。问今是何世，乃不知有汉，无论魏晋。
The host told the stranger that his forefather evading the Qin-Dynasty’s social disorder with the turmoil of war, brought his wife, children and good neighbors to get to the desperate cave, and had never gone out and eventually separated from human beings outside. When he was asked to tell which dynasty it was, he did know nothing about the Han Dynasty and still the less he knew about the Wei Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty.
此人一一为具言所闻，皆叹惋。馀人各复延至其家，皆出酒食、停数日，辞去。此中人语云∶「不足为外人道也。」
However, the fisherman told him what had taken place outside, and all of them sighed in astonished manners. Besides the first household, the rest ones also invited him to visit their own houses respectively, entertaining him with foods and drinks. He had stayed cordially for several days and left off. The local people living in the Utopia-like cave said to him: “Don't tell anything about us to anyone outside.”
既出，得其船，便扶向路，处处志之。乃郡下，诣太守说如此 。太守即遣人随其往，寻向所志，遂迷不复得路。
On purpose he recorded everywhere with a sign he had passed by as soon as he went out, paddling his boat along the waterway. Arriving at Wuling County, the fisherman called on the magistrate to report what he had seen there. At once the prefecture official sent men to detect the exact cave according to the marks made by the fisherman. However, the men were too puzzled to find the exact way. 南阳刘子骥，高尚士也;闻之，欣然规往。未果，寻病终。后遂无问津者。
Another respectable scholar named Liu Ziji from Nanyang Town was told about the mysterious spot, and he was joyful to have a try but died while seeking for it in vain. Afterwards, nobody made inquires about it.