Nine Tails Cat
It is said that mouse and man can be immortal, include cat. Cat will grow a tail after twenty years of pratice, and when they have nine tails, they come to a successful issue, and even immortal treat them with deference.
However, it is very hard for cat to have the last tail. When cat have eight, it will receive a prompt, which is to help it's master rub the lamp. The cat will have the last tail after it satisfy the desire of the master, but one of it's tail it had before will disappear, it still be eight tails. This is a strange endless loop, no matter how to practice, the cat will never grow the last one.
There was a very devout cat, it had practice for hundreds of years, and we can't know that how many people that the cat helped. But it still have eight tails. The cat complain to the Buddha, how to practise to be immortal in this way. The Buddha just smilence, so it have to continue.
One day, when the cat back to the town that it hide itself, it met that the young was beset by wolves. By it's nature, it is easy as pie to drove the wolves. After the cat save the young, it found that he is the offspring of it's first master. According to the rule, it should help the young achieve a wish and then a tail off and another out. The cat still be in endless loop.
The young was mad with joy. The legend of nine tails cat were been around for many years and he is so lucky to be it's master, and he can achieve a wish and no matter what it is. The cat ask the young, "what's your dream?", he has no answer in that moment. So the cat became the common cat and followed the young to his home. In after few days, the young get along with the cat carefully, he found that besides of indifference for everything, there was a little sadness in the eyes of cat. When he knew the secrit of endless loop, he feel pity for the cat.
Finally, the cat was impatient of staying here, it asked the young about the dream again. The young thought for a while and asked:"Is any wish can be realized?", the cat just disdain glance at him. The young said slowly:"My wish is you have the nine tails."
The cat froze and it's eyes were full of confusion and then were gratitude. It leaned over and licked the boy's hand, it was very warm.
As a result, the cat grew the rare last tail and became the real nine tails cat. And the young lived a happy life.
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