[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

"Ideal, you talk about ideals with me, haha!" The boy and his companion smiled, "Did you hear what he said just now? He was talking about ideals with us, haha! Brother, do you know what ideals are? Can it be eaten?"

"It's definitely not possible, haha!" The other person laughed: "Look at how hungry he is, if ideals can eat, he must have eaten all the scum left!"

The onlookers also laughed along with "Chichi".But I ignored it and turned around suddenly, "Brother Changliu, brother..." At the end of the sentence, my voice trailed off.There was no monkey figure behind me, only a group of people gathered to watch the fun, cast suspicious or sympathetic or contemptuous glances at me.

Looking through the crowd, I saw at the end of the long street leading to the city gate, Jin Chan was sitting on a horse in a plain cassock, followed by a bearded monk in dark brown robes carrying luggage. A young man in a moon-white robe is leading the horse, while the monkey is dressed in red, casually carrying a golden cudgel on his shoulder, and following the horse leisurely.

The four of them, master and apprentice, were talking and laughing, and they were on their way leisurely.

I slowly tightened the hand holding the notice paper, and saw that they were about to leave the city, their lips were trembling, and there were many words in their mouths that were about to come out.Finally, I rushed out of the crowd, took a step forward, and shouted: "Brother Changliu!"

After the monkey paused, Ben's unsteady body seemed to stand up straighter.

"Wukong, what happened? Why didn't you leave?" Jin Chan turned his head, he glanced at the monkey, and then at me.

"It's okay." Monkey said lightly, but he didn't look back after all.He took the rein from the man in white, and the group continued westward.

I stood in the middle of the long street and watched them go away. I seemed to feel relieved, but at the same time, I was disturbed by something.I turned around and asked the kind-hearted grandmother before me, "Grandma, go out of the city and go west, where is it?"

"Out of the city to the west... yes, it is the country of daughters." Grandma said, she was a little uncertain, and helped me ask a few brothers next to me, and finally said: "Yes, it is the country of daughters, speaking of this country of daughters Ah, all the citizens are pretty big girls, and there is not a single man. I heard that the female monarch recently revised the national law and plans to recruit a son-in-law for the first time in history!"

"Yes, there is such a thing." Everyone said yes.It seems that it is really a rare thing for the king of the daughter country to recruit a son-in-law. After only a moment, those people stopped talking about whether I can catch the demon, and started discussing the criteria for the king of the daughter country to recruit a son-in-law.

"There is a car! It must also be an ultra-luxury carriage pulled by three white BMWs without a trace of variegation and covered with gold silk soft mattresses!"

"There is a house! It must be at least five three-story garden villas in summer resorts!"

"There must be a father and a mother! It must also be that the father is powerful and powerful, and the mother will take care of the children!"

"You need to have an appearance, a figure, ability, and hair!"

Has hair...I don't want to think of Jin Chanzi, um...he is a monk with a bald head, so he definitely doesn't meet the criteria for recruiting a son-in-law.Hou Zi and the young man in white look pretty good, and Hou Zi has more than one real estate in Huaguoshan, such as cars, parents, etc. If he wants to change a few, he can also change them.

"Everyone is quiet! My master is here!"

I was thinking wildly when the voices of the two servants suddenly rose.They pushed away the crowd, and ran to meet an old man who was sitting in a sedan chair four times, nodding and bowing.

"Little Three and Little Four, has anyone uncovered the notice that our family offers a huge reward for people to catch ghosts?" Ma Yuanwai really deserved to be a rich man, he ate greasy, his face was full of fat, his half-white beard and hair were shiny, and he looked radiant.

Xiao San'er said: "Go back to the master, there is no one yet."

"No one can do anything. My girl Cui'e can't wait any longer. She is being controlled by that ghost and wants to hang herself. Who will stop her..." the horseman said, before he finished speaking, he found that the notice paper on the wall was gone, and asked : "Didn't you say that no one has revealed it? No one has revealed it. Where did the notice go?"

"Here I am!" I said, stepping forward and cupping my hands, "Master Ma, I posted the notice. It's not too late. Let's save people."

"You?" Master Ma looked at me.

"Master, this kid is here to make trouble. He is so poor, how can he catch ghosts." Xiao Sier said, pushing me away, "Let's go, human life is at stake, you didn't scare me, don't let me go You're welcome."

"Huh?" Master Ma raised his hand to signal him to shut up.He half-believingly said: "Little brother, are you sure you're not joking?"

I said: "Human life is at stake, so of course I won't joke. Besides, I'm so hungry that I need money urgently. This bounty is very important to me."

"The bounty is not something you can get just by uncovering the notice, you have to save my daughter." The horseman said.

I nodded, "Sure!"

"Take him back to the mansion." The horseman ordered, and got on the sedan chair.Although Xiaosan and Xiaosi were still reluctant to believe me, they obeyed the master's orders and said nothing more.

I followed the sedan chair to Yuanwai's house. After walking a few steps, I couldn't help but turn my head back. The crowd of onlookers dispersed on the street, and the four Buddhist scriptures had long since disappeared.

After about a stick of incense, the sedan chair was carried into a magnificent and splendid mansion.Along the way, passing through several streets, this is the first time I have seen such a luxurious and luxurious house. It is no exaggeration, I am afraid that there is no other such magnificent house in the whole city.However, on the glazed tiles of the house, there is a strong ghostly aura, gloomy and quite depressing.

Before I stepped into the gate, because I felt that breath, I had a creepy feeling that it was difficult to breathe, as if I was strangled by an extremely thin and tough silk thread.

not as if...

I lowered my eyes and saw that there was really a strand of hair wrapped around my neck, and the other end stretched far into the air, hidden in the deepest part of the black ghostly aura.It seems that the black air trapped above should be a layer of enchantment laid by evil spirits. Because I felt the appearance of spiritual power different from my own, I activated my own defense to attack me.I stretched out my hand to touch my neck, it hurt sharply, and a little blood was stained on my fingertips.

That hair actually strangled my neck!

Master said——

People don't offend me, I don't offend anyone!

If someone offends me, they will seek death!

My eyes froze, and I shouted coldly: "Mercury retrograde!" I flipped my right hand and held a mahogany sword tightly in my hand.

The wooden sword has no sheath, and the blade has no decoration except for a few Sanskrit incantations to exorcise evil spirits.I raised my sword and swung it hard at that strand of hair.The hair shot out a black light for an instant, and then turned into ashes.The black mist above became anxious, spinning and vibrating endlessly.

"Little brother, don't you want to come in?" The horseman got off the sedan chair, turned around and saw that I was still outside the door, and came back to welcome me.

I put "Mercury Retrograde" behind me, glanced at the enchantment that had cracked above, raised my leg and stepped into the yard through the gap, and said with a smile: "This is it."

Seeing that I was carrying a wooden sword, the horseman asked, "Will this sword work? How about I find an iron one or a gold or silver one? The wooden sword... looks a bit vulnerable..."

I smiled lightly.

Ma Yuanwai is not the first person to question whether "Mercury retrograde" is a wooden sword. Every time I take it out, someone will ask me why I have to use a wooden sword instead of the gold and silver swords.

At first I was willing to spend some time explaining, but after speaking too many times, I started to be too lazy to explain.Because it is a very long story.

It is said that although I am a tree demon and have some magical powers, I am not born with the ability to catch demons and exorcise ghosts. Just like a person who has great strength, he may not necessarily be able to exert his full strength.

This matter started three years ago.

At that time, I left Liangjie Mountain and traveled all the way west. I did not leave a name for my good deeds, but those who helped were ordinary people, and what I did were all "loyalty" in the world, and I never encountered monsters and ghosts.

Until passing through a place called "Mancang Country".

The people of the Mancang Kingdom live by sowing grains, which is worthy of the name. The harvests are bumper year after year, and the granaries are full.However, that year, somehow, a rare drought occurred in hundreds of years. There was no grain harvest, and the people suffered unspeakably.The king invites a wizard to pray for rain, but the black-hearted wizard asks a living person to be a sacrifice, and it must be a young man on the left or right.

Unfortunately, at that time, I was helping the old lady to cross the road by the side of the road, and I was caught by officers and soldiers collecting sacrifices. Together with the other [-] teenagers, I was tied up and put in an iron cage, intending to sink into the sea and sacrifice to the Dragon God.While comforting my frightened companion, I tried to get out of the cage, and fought with that black-hearted wizard for several rounds.

It turned out that the other party was also a man with some mana. He swung the whisk around and entangled me and tied me up again.The black wizard spoke to the king, saying that I was a demon.He took a piece of yellow paper, wrote and drew on it, and pasted the paper on my forehead, making me appear in front of the whole country.

"Tree demon! Everyone can see clearly, it is a crooked neck tree!" the black wizard said, "It is because it angers the dragon god, so the dragon god does not rain!"

Immediately, several wrestlers lifted me up to the high platform and tied me to an iron pillar.The people under the stage went home one after another and took torches, hot oil, firewood... and threw them on the high stage, trying to burn me to death.Even, among those holding the torches high were the nineteen teenagers who almost sank into the sea with me just now, and their parents.

"Burn this monster!"

"Burn him to death, and the dragon god will rain on us!"

I looked at the torches under the stage, the mountains of firewood piled up at my feet, the pungent kerosene, and the faces full of hatred... A moment ago, I made an agreement with them to pretend that I was captured and sneak into those prisoners. Among the captured teenagers, wait for the opportunity to rescue them.Today's scene is nothing short of chilling.

The raging fire started at my feet, and the tiny exposed tree roots were quickly ignited, making a "crackling" deflagration sound.That yellow talisman sealed my mana, and I wanted to resist, but I could only watch my roots being burned to ashes little by little.

It hurts!very painful!

My spiritual consciousness is still young, and I hugged my knees and huddled up on the branch farthest from the flames. Looking at the flames that had spread to the trunk, I screamed helplessly, "Great Saint, help me! Holy, help! Great Holy! Help! It hurts so much, I’m going to be burned to death!"

However, no one can hear what I shout, let alone see the fear in my eyes.Perhaps the sorcerer could see and hear, but he just flicked his whisk more and more frantically, fueling the fire.

"It's up to you to want to spoil my good deeds? Huh, this is the end!" The black wizard sent me a secret voice, and he laughed wildly.

The blue smoke rose up, and the whole tree was lit up, and even the trunk where my spiritual consciousness was hiding began to have small flames rushing up.

"It hurts! It hurts! Brother Changliu, please put aside the golden cicada for now, and come and save me!" I hugged a branch, trying to climb a little higher to avoid the flames.

At this time, there was a crisp "click", and the trunk was finally burned off.I have an injury in my waist, which is easy to break.The canopy fell heavily and threw me into the flames.

I saw a piece of red clothes brushing in front of me, gently covering my eyes.Before the monkey left, he tied a strip of cloth around my waist, but now that my waist is broken, the strip of cloth naturally fell off.

"No, don't..." That piece of cloth was the only thing the monkey left me, how could I let it be burned?I knelt down in the sea of ​​flames, looking around, the heat wave was churning, and my vision was blurred by the steam.Finally, I saw a piece of red behind the fire curtain. I thought it was the piece of cloth, and immediately struggled to crawl over it. When I stretched out my hand, I grabbed someone's trouser leg.

"!" I froze for a moment and raised my head stiffly.

The man hugged me, his golden eyes were frighteningly bright.He walked down the high platform steadily, and where a pair of black boots stepped, the flames were instantly extinguished.The people in the audience retreated one after another, looking at him with horror on their faces, shaking like chaff.Eventually, he stopped in front of the dark wizard.

"You? Are you...?" The sorcerer showed fear, but he still held on, blocked the whisk in front of him, and shouted: "I don't care who you are, if you stop me from catching monsters, you must be with this tree demon." You guys!" He began to encourage people, "Everyone, don't be afraid, burn this boy and this tree demon to death!"

"Demon?" He sneered, his golden eyes slightly narrowed, shining brilliantly.Seeing no movement, the wizard let out a scream, blood poured out from his seven orifices, and he fell to the ground, turning into a stinky catfish that couldn't die anymore.

I heard him sneer, "Aren't you a monster by saying that others, like yourself?"

He uncovered the yellow talisman on my forehead and set me free.I was seriously injured, and I was unconscious. I faintly felt a coolness on my lips, and someone had channeled some spiritual energy in.

When I recovered from my injuries, I opened my eyes and found myself lying on the bank of a mountain stream with a big red robe under my body.I felt that besides the Prajna Bell, there was something else tied to my wrist. When I raised my hand, I saw the cloth strip left by the monkey.

The strip of cloth was wrapped around my wrist several times, and it was tied with a beautiful bow.And the man in red was only wearing a dark red inner robe, sitting next to me, with one leg propped up, hugging his knee, staring at the calm water in a daze.

I sat up, rubbed my eyes that were still aching from the fire, tilted my head and called out, "Are you... Brother Changliu?"

"Shhh—" He stretched out a finger to cover his lips, and made a silent movement.

I bit my lower lip and said nothing.Watched him for a while, then tilted his head to look at the water.

"That strip of cloth is very important to you?" He asked suddenly.

"..." I raised my hand, looked at the bow on my wrist, shook my head, and said, "I can't tell, it should be...very important."

"..." His eyes lit up, but it wasn't as frightening as it was when he was facing the catfish spirit, and he seemed a little happy inside.

"You're always being bullied like this, you can't do that." He curled up a faint smile and said without looking at me, "Well, call me good brother, and I'll teach you how to use spells. Do you think this deal is a good deal?"

"Okay...brother?" I was taken aback.

"Hey, it's really nice to shout!" He rubbed my head with a smile, and said, "Shout again."

I blushed, but refused to open my mouth.

The man chuckled, but didn't insist.He put his fingers on the tip of his eyebrows, thought for a while, and said, "Fu, you have to know how to draw talismans. Only when you know how to draw talismans can you no longer be afraid of talismans, and you won't be caught by the tail casually and show your original shape." .And weapons, a fight requires weapons..." He suddenly turned his head and asked, "What kind of weapon do you like to use?"

"Bing..." I tilted my head, "stick...just a stick, like a golden cudgel, it can sweep away a lot of demons and ghosts."

"Ha——Golden Cudgel? Haha, I'm dying of laughter!" He held his stomach and laughed out of breath, "Haha, cough, Golden Cudgel, Sun Monkey's Golden Cudgel, hahaha!"

"..." I blushed, lowered my head and said in a sullen voice, "So what? I know it's impossible, but it's okay to think about it secretly?"

He kept laughing no matter what I said.I lower my head deeper.

"How about the sword?" He suddenly stopped laughing, turned to look at me, and said softly, "Just now, you burned a branch, and I picked it up for you. I think that wood is hard to find in the sky and on the earth. And it came from your own body. Let me use it to make a sword for you. When you use it in the future, it will definitely be easier than gold, silver, copper, iron and other weapons."

"..." I stared blankly at a broken branch held out by his palm, thinking in astonishment: Damn, isn't this my arm?How did my arm break?Fortunately, I have a lot of branches, and it only hurts for a while when it breaks, so it doesn't matter.

"Then the sword." I nodded with a smile, "Thank you, Master."

"Hey, what's your name, master? I want to call him brother." He said dissatisfied.

I puffed up my cheeks and said: "It's the master, you teach me spells, aren't you the master?"

I thought to myself: Let me call you good brother, it's a beautiful idea!The company commander left brother, I only called "good brother" once.

"Yes, the master is the master." He was not annoyed, he got up with a smile and went to the river to pick up a few stones and set up a small stone platform.He put the branches on the stone platform, took out the plane, and began to whittle the wood.

I ran over and squatted aside to watch.Before long, the broken branch took the shape of a sword in his hand.He took out the carving knife again, and carefully carved a spell on it that could drive away evil spirits.

"Okay." After carving the last talisman, he blew away the sawdust on it, handed it to me, and said, "Here! Remember, I won't offend people if they don't attack me; if someone offends me, it will be courting death! Next time If you encounter this kind of old monster again, don't be cowardly, you must stab him to death with this sword!"

He stayed with me for three months by the river, taught me swordsmanship for three months, and taught me to draw ghost talismans for three months.During those three months, we rarely went out of the woods. The only time we helped the people of Mancang Kingdom build ditches and divert water from the stream to the fields to irrigate the seedlings.

Because the sword is made by the water, I named it "Mercury Reverse".Later, relying on this sword, I really stabbed hundreds of monsters, big and small.

This is the origin of my sword, I thought about it, and remembered that man in red, who picked me up from the sea of ​​fire.Much like a monkey, but I know it can't be.

The monkey has been by Jin Chan's side all the time, going to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures, so how could he spare three months to go to Mancang Kingdom to teach me these things?