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Chapter 51

The Sworn Brother

孫行者二調芭蕉扇 牛魔王罷戰赴華筵Pilgrim Sun makes his second bid for the fan; the Bull King quits the fight to attend a flowered feast.
世德堂本 1592, juan 12
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found the at the Mount of Accumulated Thunder, and the meeting of the two old sworn brothers was cold from the first word, because the Bull had heard about Red Boy.

Brother. The Bull said the word like a thing spat out. You come to me and call me brother. You, who let that woman in the south put five rings on my son and carry him off to hold her vase for eternity. My boy. My only boy. And you stand at my mountain and remind me we drank together three hundred years ago.

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