Chapter 1
CHAPTER ONE Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 "When the sky falls the cypress tree will become Buddah" Zhau Zhau Tiny Tree of Life - 200 BC "Chin Lu, Chin Lu" her mother shouted as she chased her little girl through the rice field. Water splashed on Chin's legs, bare beneath her sky blue silk dress hiked up so she could run real fast. She ran into the forest beneath cool shade that tall green trees provided. Chin was only five years in the world but could run very fast, her mother could barely keep up with the giggling girl. Down the path cut through the forest centuries before by Buddhist Monks, she ran. Her long silky black hair floated behind, her feet barely touching the ground. Sunbeams fell through the canopy of leaves and gently touched Chin's face as she flew between the cypress trees; innocent energy. Chin made it to the clearing well before her mother and stood silently staring, mouth agape, at the...