T10

Tian shi 10

By Monkey king

Monkey king was walking in the deserted roads of countryside. He is not afraid of night or darkness, but of course night walking has its own pros and cons. You don't have a scorching sun to drain your energy out in the night.

A walk after sunset could be pleasant under the moon and the stars. Every night is different with moon waxing and waning into different sizes and shapes. The new moon day, its totally absent and often dreaded by human beings. The full moon day is on the contrary the bliss of a month.

Both in full moon days and new moon days, the seas are supposed to be violent, they raise their wave hands in vain either to embrace the full moon or to search the new moon in darkness. The moon is the candle of night, that sets the mood of the men and women resting after a day of hardest toil and labour.

Monkey king finds his night walk not peaceful at all thanks to some stray dogs in the street. His daily walk is across the riverside, there is every dog that has demarcated its territory as few miles. 

When Monkey king enters a dog's zone, it starts barking at him comes so close as if its going to bite away a chunk of muscle from his thighs. He walks faster, the dog chases faster. He runs and the dog runs behind him too. When he stops suddenly and stare back at the dog in his eyes, the dog gets defensive and stands at his arms length and continues barking.

Monkey king kneels down to pick a stone and when he has a big stone in his hand, the dog is no longer in the scene. Life has many night walks for monkey king, the darkness these days is not the presence or absence of moon, its his blind game with money.

At times he feels very rich with money deposited in his bank account, as his monthly salary. The very next day, he finds many many dogs waiting to eat his harvest. He needs to pay for the car loan, housing loan, personal loan and family living expenses. The money in his hand is like a bunch of stones, which he keeps on throwing at all the barking dogs during his long night walk.

When he arrives at home, his shoulders ache with never ending stone throwing and he sleeps tired to wakeup another day, working hard searching treasure and gem stones. The stones collected in the day will be depleted throwing at the dogs in the night.

The funny part in this story is, when Monkey king sleeps with a tired body and more tired mind, he gets the dreams. Tian shi comes in the dream, dressed like a bride with her beautiful smile, lots of love and affection oozing through her enchanting eyes. She asks him gently, 'Honey give me a dollar now, I can double it for you in a jiffy'

Monkey king frantically puts his hands to search for a magical penny that he can share with Tianshi for her golden touch. By the time its another day, he wakes up from his dream to run for his daily bread. But he is ever hopeful and optimistic to strike a jackpot to celebrate and drink with Tianshi on her birthday soon.