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Chapter 27

What the Monkey Was For

屍魔戲罷心猿去 黃袍怪路阻取經僧The corpse-fiend's game done, the Mind Monkey departs; the Yellow Robe fiend blocks the scripture monk's road.
世德堂本 1592, juan 6
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The company managed four days.

Then, at a place called the Black Pine Forest, sent off to beg for food, and Bajie, who resented errands, found a comfortable patch of grass and went to sleep on the job. And Tripitaka, waiting, hungry, did the single most dangerous thing a beautiful monk can do in this book, which is to get bored and wander.

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