Anita

story

It rained early in the morning, and the pouring rain drove the sun away.  There was a monk in the small courtyard holding a black staff. He was Xuanzang but  lost some memory in his head. There were layers of wrinkles that started to appear on Xuanzang’ s face. But the pair of eyes was still gentle and moist.

He had been busy since the beginning of the morning, and by noon, he made a table of delicious food without meat. In addition to himself, there were also three sets of tableware.

He muttered, putting away the extra. Who are those three people? Maybe it’s a very important person?

He cleaned up the dishes and went out the door. He sat on the steps in front of  the house for a long time and almost fall asleep. The cold winds woke him up.  It was a very cold dusk, the rain had not yet finished, and the setting sun had fallen.

The day was about to end again, like a bucket of water pouring from the head to the feet. Still repeating again and again. There are only two states of life: life and death. But he repeatedly swings at the two ends.

The night was like a deep well, and there was a soft hiss in the yard. This spring, the white horse was thinner. Its coat was bright, like silver in the rain. The spine protrudes like a blade, cutting through the night. He did know where it came from, but Xuanzang knew it was lonely just like him. Two lonely creatures act as mirrors to see and increase each other’ s loneliness.

Sometimes, he also suspected that he was still dreaming, a long and long dream. There is no one in the dream, but the butterfly becomes a human, and the human returns to the butterfly.

A noise shattered his thought. The pig head monster slumped into the courtyard with scars.

“Master!” the monster called in a sad voice.

Xuanzang was startled “When did I have such a strange ugly apprentice?”

The pig head looked at the monk in disbelief, as if the monk had done something extremely sorry for him.

A quarter of an hour later, the pig head told Xuanzang a story. The pig head is named Bajie, Xuanzang’s apprentice.

“Master, the Buddhas deceived us!” , Ba Jie said, “They asked us to learn the sutras, saying that they would atone for the sins, but they never intended to spare us… You see, after we finished the journey to get sutras, what have we gained? Good result? You have lost all your memories and are stuck in this city of Chang’an. And you look so old. Senior was imprisoned in Five elements mountain again, and I was cleaning the stars in the Milky Way with this pig head, and Shaseng returned to river of sand and became a ferryman.”

“…It’s none of my business.” Xuanzang said. To him these things never happened before.

“Only you can rescue the Wukong and fight back the Buddhas…” Bajei said repeatedly, and finally shed tears. The tears like a string of pearls flow down between the fat of the face.  Then he held Xuanzang’ s hand.

To Xuanzang’ s surprise. Bajei took him directly to Five elements mountain before he noticed that. After Xuanzang swayed dizzily he saw a monkey’ s head in a heap of grass.

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