Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4 - 7 2018 | Page 9

New Journey to the West
Buddhist Sin Tak College, Kwok, Yuki - 15
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t had been a year since Xuanzang ,the Monkey King ,the Friar and the Talking Pig had finished their
journeys to the India. After the hard years which they had undergone 81 difficulties , they finally can
become gods and live in the heaven .
Xuanzang ,the assiduous monk and the Friar were still dedicated to studying the buddhist scriptures and
preaching the theories of the Buddha to people. However,on the other hand ,Xuanzang’s other two
apprentices,the Monkey King and the Talking Pig had never been working for the Buddhism anymore since
they became the gods. Moreover ,they started to indulge themselves. For all that they had promised to keep
the rules of being a Buddhist , they started to wine and eat meat . They even did not respect their
mentor,Xuanzang anymore.
‘I am also a god now .we are same .There is no reason for me to respect and please you anymore.’the
Monkey King shouted to Xuanzang loudly
The situation is getting worse thus the Jade Emperor was beside himself with fury and decided to remove
their titles of god and send them to the hell . Guanyin ,the beautiful god who always helped the Monkey
King when he got large problems before could not bare to punish them by sending them to the hell ,so she
wanted to undeceive the three apprentices with their problems as quickly as possible.
Therefore , Guanyin sent them to the man’s world and let them to overcome more difficulties to be
undeceived .
‘ Is she crazy or something ?why would her send us to the world again ?’ the Talking Pig yelled.
‘ Oh please , we are the gods ,there is no reason for us to stay in this terrible and disgusting world.’
‘Hey ,don’t be so angry first .Maybe she was just too careless and sent wrong people .’ the Monkey King
responded , showing his disdain.
‘No ,not really,’ a pleasant sound from the sky answered peacefully ’ You guys should know why are you here
and what had you done wrongly.Listen, you will lose your god’s power in a minute and you will become
normal people completely if you cannot realize what had you done so wrong in 3 days.’
‘ What? wait,wait!’ theMonkey King and the Talking Pig shouted at the same time but no one answered them
this time.
‘Does it mean that we were wrong before ? Nonsense!’ the Talking Pig murmured , rolling hid eyes.
‘ Well, there is no time for us to compline, let’s find a place to rest first and talk about what should we do
next.’ the Monkey King said helplessly.
After walking in the forest for half day ,they finally found a school that with some people inside.
‘Please ,can you give us some help ,we… em… get lost in the forest.’ the Monkey King pleaded.
‘Yes ,we are so tired and hungry ,can you give us some food?’ the Talking Pig went along with the Monkey
King.
“Em…okay ,we can offer you some food and if you can help me with the school’s problem ,we will offer
you a room to stay also.’ one of the teachers replied.
It turned out that the school is closing and the children in the nearest village had no where to learn after the
school closed .The reason why the school is closing is because of some local bad guy wanted to occupy the
school area and the school cannot stop it because they did not have money and also strong people to fight
with them.
‘Sure , we can help you.’ the silly Taling Pig promised.
‘Are you crazy?we do not have any power now! How can we help them?’the Monkey King whispered.
‘Oh ,I’ve totally forgot’ said the Talking Pig ,with a repentant tone.
Reluctantly, they started to think about the solutions of the problem. It appeared that they cannot solve the
problem with either money or violence.So what could they do ?