At Chang An there lived a scholar, named Fang Tung, he was a famous gifted scholar but he frivolous unruly, do not follow etiquette, and in the habit of following and speaking to any woman he might chance to meet.
The day before Tomb Sweeping Festival, he happened to walk to the countryside when he saw a small carriage with red curtains. Accompanies the maid are very many, all rides a horse follows the vehicle to go slowly, he saw one of the maids, very nice, he walked near a little closer to look, suddenly the curtain of the carriage was open, sitting inside a beautifully red-dressed young girl, about 27 or 28 years old, lovely beyond anything he had ever seen. Dazzled by the sight, he could not take his eyes off her; sometimes he was in front of the carriage and sometimes behind the carriage, he followed the carriage for a long distance.
Suddenly, the girl called the maid and said “Let down the curtain for me. There comes the rude fellow always peeps” The maid accordingly let down the screen, and looking angrily at Mr. Fang said to him, “This is the bride of the Seventh Prince in the City of Immortals going home to see her parents, it’s different the normal girl allow you keeping stare.” Then taking a handful of dust, she threw it at him and blinded him. He rubbed his eyes and looked around, but the carriage and horses were gone. This frightened him, and he went off home, feeling very uncomfortable about the eyes.
He asked a doctor to examine his eyes, and on the pupils was found a small film, which had increased by next morning, the tears flow continuously. The film went on growing, and in a few days was as thick as a coin. On the right pupil there came a kind of spiral, how the treatment is ineffective, the sufferer gave himself up to grief and Very remorseful. He then thought he might repent of his misdeeds, and hearing that the Bright sutra could relieve misery, he got a copy and hired a man to teach it to him. At first it was very tedious work, but by degrees he became more composed, and spent the whole day in a posture of devotion, twist beads.
One year has passed everything is tranquil, when one day he heard a small voice, about as loud as a fly’s, calling out from his left eye: “It’s horridly dark in here.” To this he heard a reply from the right eye, saying, “Let us go out for a stroll, and cheer ourselves up a bit.” Then he felt a wriggling in his nose which made it itch, just as if something was going out of each of the nostrils; and after a while he felt it again as if from the nostrils back to his eyes. Afterwards he heard a voice from one eye say, “I hadn’t seen the garden for a long time: the orchids are all withered and dead.” Mr. Fang was very fond of these orchids which he had planted a great number, and had been accustomed to water them himself; but since the loss of his sight he had never take care of them. Hearing these words, he asked his wife why she had let the orchids die. She inquired how he knew they were dead, and when he told her she went out to see, and found them actually withered away.
They were both very much astonished at this, and his wife proceeded to conceal herself in the room. She then observed two tiny people, no bigger than a bean, come down from her husband’s nose and run out of the door, where she lost sight of them. In a little while they came back and flew up to his face, like bees or beetles seeking their nests. This went on for some days, until Mr. Fang heard from the left eye, “Tunnel roundabout is not convenient at all. It would be as well for us to make a door.” To this the right eye answered, “My wall is too thick: it wouldn’t be an easy job.” “I’ll try and open mine,” said the left eye, “if it does, we share of it.” Whereupon Mr. Fang felt a pain in his left eye as if something was being split, and in a moment he found he could see the tables and chairs in the room. He was delighted at this and told his wife, who examined his eye and discovered an opening in the film, through which she could see the black pupil shining behind the film.
The next morning the film had disappeared, and when his eye was closely examined it was observed to contain two pupils. The spiral on the right eye remained as before; and then they knew that the two pupils had share in one eye. Further, although Mr. Fang was still blind of one eye, the sight of the other was better than that of the two together. From this time he was more careful of his behavior.
