--- title: Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7 — Winning Buddha's smile · full text with trees · page 2 description: Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, «Winning Buddha's smile»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Almost before daybreak, he dressed in great haste and left the house. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/9/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7 # Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/9/) **2** Cheng-Si, too, fell a victim to despair.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") “Let’s save ourselves while we can,” she cried.[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") “We will set fire to our house and try to reach the seacoast.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") Ja-Jo-Mi will believe that you are dead.”[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") “No,” vetoed the King.[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") “It will be futile.[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") I have had a dream which tells me of misfortune which I shall try in vain to escape.”[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") “But, I think,” rejoined Cheng-Si, who had regained her composure, “that you are wrong to be so alarmed at this dream.[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") It does not have the meaning which you attribute to it.[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") When one breaks the neck of a bottle one holds it carefully by the bottom.[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") This means that your people are determined to convey to you their good wishes, and the blood which trickles from the bottle signifies the royal purple with which you will be vested.”[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") This explanation assuaged Ki-Si’s griefs but imperfectly.[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") Nevertheless he said to Cheng-Si:[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, suppose we leave.[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") Let the fire burn up this place.[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") I have spent too many sad days here.”[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") Placing burning brands in various parts of the house they hurried into the garden.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") They made their way to the hollow tree where Ki-Si had discovered his treasure and through it descended into the cave.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") Shortly they were by the seaside.[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") How could they go any farther?[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") They had no boat.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") The young King, rather than fall alive into the hands of Ja-Jo-Mi, determined to kill himself.[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") He ran toward the water but Cheng-Si like a flash seized her husband by his gown and showered upon him gentle reproaches:[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") “Why would you desert me?[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") Is it not my duty to follow you wherever you may go, even to the bottom of the sea?[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") If you are bound to die, let us die together.”[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, my dear, you are young.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") I met you by chance.[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") It is not fitting that your fate should be thus linked to mine.[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") Life for you may yet be a happy one.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") Let me go.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") Let me die alone.”[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") But Cheng-Si clung desperately to her lover.[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") She wanted to follow him into the Valley of the Shadows; in fact, she would have preferred to have preceded him into the Darkness.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Here endeth the sixth stage of our legend.[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") VII[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") VII[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") San-Syeng had been waiting impatiently for several months for an opportunity to penetrate the defenses of the island of Cho-To where the young King was exiled.[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") He was beginning to feel discouraged when he had another dream.[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") San-Houni appeared before him saying, “You should take a boat and go to the southern cape of the island.[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") There you will find the King and his Queen.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") But make haste, if you are too late you will find that the Prince has gone to abide with his ancestors.”[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") On the strength of his dream, San-Syeng immediately began preparations for his journey to the spot that had been indicated to him.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") While yet some distance from the island, he could distinguish on the beach a man and woman, both apparently very young, talking and gesticulating with great earnestness.[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he imagined he could catch a few words which were carried to him on the light breeze, causing the impression that a disagreement had arisen between the two young people.[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") When he came within hailing distance he called politely: “Why are you quarreling in this way when Spring-time is smiling upon you so sweetly?”[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") Ki-Si replied: “We would like to cross the sea but having no boat and deprived of all resources, we are contemplating suicide.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") But I do not want my gentle companion to follow me to the grave, while she, on the other hand, is bent upon dying with me.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") That is the cause of our dispute.”[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") “Give up your melancholy ideas,” remonstrated San-Syeng.[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") “You are not going to die.[165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") I will place my boat at your disposal and take you wherever you want to go.”[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") “Many thanks, you have saved our lives,” cried Ki-Si, joyfully.[167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") The young King and Queen immediately clambered aboard the boat and San-Syeng made a rapid trip over the arm of the sea which separated the island of Cho-To from the city of Chang-Yang.[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") When they were safely ashore, Ki-Si inquired of San-Syeng if he would kindly direct him to a place where he and his wife could pass the night.[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") San-Syeng suggested that they put up at the same inn where he was staying--an invitation which they heartily accepted.[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") So far San-Syeng’s dream had been realized.[171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") Nothing was left for him to do but to make sure that the young people were really those of whom San-Houni had told him.[172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") But this was no easy thing.[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not dare question them too closely.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") There was too much at stake to reveal the truth.[175](../../175/ "tree and pragmatics") San-Syeng resolved to wait until time and opportunity would dispel his doubt.[176](../../176/ "tree and pragmatics") Meantime, the house on the island where the young Prince had lived since he had left the Capital had become food for the fire and flame.[177](../../177/ "tree and pragmatics") The guard in charge of Ki-Si rushed to inform the General whom Ja-Jo-Mi had appointed to watch the island of Cho-To.[178](../../178/ "tree and pragmatics") The General, greatly agitated and worried, gave orders to double the guards about the garden wall.[179](../../179/ "tree and pragmatics") Anyone who sought to leave was to be arrested on the spot.[180](../../180/ "tree and pragmatics") Other soldiers were instructed to do their utmost in fighting the spread of the flames.[181](../../181/ "tree and pragmatics") They were too late.[182](../../182/ "tree and pragmatics") The house was now like unto a gigantic furnace.[183](../../183/ "tree and pragmatics") “Search everywhere for the King,” ordered the General.[184](../../184/ "tree and pragmatics") “If he isn’t dead he must be hidden somewhere in the garden.[185](../../185/ "tree and pragmatics") Look in all the corners and dark places.”[186](../../186/ "tree and pragmatics") This hunt was, as we well know, unsuccessful, and the General, concluding that the royal prisoner had perished in the flames, sent word to that effect posthaste to Ja-Jo-Mi.[187](../../187/ "tree and pragmatics") Upon receipt of this news, the Prime Minister was elated.[188](../../188/ "tree and pragmatics") The death of the rightful King swept aside the last obstruction in the path of his plans.[189](../../189/ "tree and pragmatics") He immediately summoned the General whom he had placed in command of the guards at Cho-To, and when the latter came Ja-Jo-Mi met him with these words:[190](../../190/ "tree and pragmatics") “How lucky we are\![191](../../191/ "tree and pragmatics") Such an event deserves to be celebrated in proper style.[192](../../192/ "tree and pragmatics") Let’s have a grand banquet to which we can invite all our friends.”[193](../../193/ "tree and pragmatics") Ja-Jo-Mi’s partisans were living in idleness and ease, wallowing in an era of merry-making and debauchery.[194](../../194/ "tree and pragmatics") Everywhere they went they continually sang the praises of Ja-Jo-Mi, “the coming King of Korea.”[195](../../195/ "tree and pragmatics") The people, however, were grumbling and commenting, but the fear of the tyrant kept them from expressing too openly their complaints.[196](../../196/ "tree and pragmatics") Ki-Si, whom Ja-Jo-Mi believed to be dead, was keeping under cover at the little town of Chang-Yang.[197](../../197/ "tree and pragmatics") One day when he was chatting with San-Syeng, the proprietor of the inn burst in upon them excitedly, saying: “There is great excitement in the streets.[198](../../198/ "tree and pragmatics") Quite a number of troops, who are on their way to the Capital, have just arrived in town.”[199](../../199/ "tree and pragmatics") “What’s exciting about that?” questioned San-Syeng.[200](../../200/ "tree and pragmatics") “These soldiers were ordered to guard our young exiled King at the island of Cho-To.[201](../../201/ "tree and pragmatics") It seems that the poor Prince lost his life in a big fire and the General, who had charge of this mission, is bringing back his men.[202](../../202/ "tree and pragmatics") The people, you know, fairly hate Ja-Jo-Mi, who holds the support of the army and who has placed a heavy yoke about the neck of all Korea.[203](../../203/ "tree and pragmatics") Hence, at the sight of these soldiers, excitement has spread all over the town.”[204](../../204/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/9/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/9/) - next →: [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/10/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/)