[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

The purple bamboo forest is on the shore of the South China Sea, guarded by a black bear spirit.The monkey and him seemed to be very familiar, they just nodded at each other, and then led the fairy into the forest as if no one else was there.

The purple bamboo is rustling, and the bamboo shadows are whirling. Compared with the ordinary green bamboo, it has a little more elegant charm.Lin Feng passed through the tall and straight bamboo trunks, wisps of fragrance, and a little affection was born for no reason.

The monkey stopped and asked, "How many trees do you want?"

Ben Xianjun calculated the three houses in his mind, except for the load-bearing walls, all of them will be refurbished, and he said uncertainly: "Probably... three, three thousand trees."

I thought to myself, [-] bamboos can be chopped down one by one with an axe, and I can't use magic. I will cut them down until the year of the monkey.

The monkey raised his hand and flicked on a bamboo that was as thick as the mouth of a cup. The bamboo immediately let out a dull "Dang--", indicating that it was growing very strong.

"I want it!" I was very happy when I picked the first bamboo, and I was reaching out to catch the ax to cut it, but I saw the monkey swung the ax with a "click" and chopped it off.

Ben Xianjun: "..."

"Which one do you want?" The monkey kicked the fallen bamboo to the open space next to it, knocked on another one, and asked, "How about this one?"

Ben Xianjun was very moved, and hurriedly nodded: "Okay!"

The monkey clicked again, chopped it off, kicked it aside and piled it up.Seeing that the fairy was in a daze, he smiled and said: "What are you doing in a daze, don't hurry up and pick bamboo."

"Yeah." Ben Xianjun returned to his senses, responded, and ran to knock on the bamboo, saying: "I want this one, this one, and this one. Hmm, this one is also good..."

The monkey and I, one in front of the other, one picking bamboo and the other chopping bamboo, cooperated quite tacitly.It didn't take long to cut down one piece. I don't know how many, but even if it is less than three thousand, it is not too much.

Although the Great Holy Father works hard for those who are capable, they don't use spells, all they have to do is physical strength.When the [-] bamboos were cut down, although he didn't feel tired, there was still sweat on his forehead, and his collar was torn a little at some point.

Ben Xianjun felt sorry, but he had nothing to repay. He was worrying, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration.I said: "The Great Sage has helped me a lot, eat a peach to quench your thirst." As I said that, I handed over the peach that I was going to give to Laojun.

Unexpectedly, the monkey did not accept this fairy's love, his face changed slightly, his voice became cold, and he said: "I won't eat it, and don't let me see you giving away peaches in the future."

"..." The only golden peach tree in the three realms can't get the fruit that many people can't ask for in several lifetimes, but the monkey doesn't want it.

"If you really want to thank..." Monkey's voice softened a bit, pointing to the fan on the belt of this fairy, and said: "Just give me that fan."

Ben Xianjun was startled, and subconsciously touched the fan on his waist.Not to mention that the painting of this fan is poor, and the material is not rare, why did the monkey take a fancy to it?I covered the fan, laughed twice, and said: "This fan is worthless, worthless."

"Just as long as I like it." The monkey bent his mouth, hooked his fingers, and took away the fan of the fairy without asking himself.He opened the fan "swish", held it in his hand and shook it twice, looked at the calligraphy and painting on the fan, and said with satisfaction: "Very good, very good."

"..." Ben Xianjun laughed dryly: "The aesthetics of the great sage is similar to that of Lu Xian."

The monkey looked at me with a smile, "What?"

"It's nothing." Ben Xianjun shook his head, and said with a shy smile: "I don't give expensive gifts, only the right ones. Since you are satisfied, Xiaoxian will look stingy if you keep talking."

"Heh—let's go." The monkey laughed and put away the fan.He took out a palm-sized bag, walked to the bamboo pile, and packed all three thousand bamboos into it.

Ben Xianjun followed a few steps, "Great Sage, bring me the bag, three thousand bamboos, it's very heavy."

The monkey said, "No problem."

"..." Ben Xianjun felt hot in his heart, thinking why the monkey is so considerate today?However, the Great Sage has always done things in a rough and fine manner, so he should have been a very considerate person in the first place.

I heard that it takes a hundred years for the bamboos in the Purple Bamboo Forest to grow one foot high, and one thousand years to grow one finger thick. However, the bamboos I cut down are as thin as two inches. I don’t know if they have grown for thousands of years. They are also not easy.So when I left, I wanted to go back to the lotus pond to thank her old man, but the monkey said no, there is a small ceremony in the western sky today, and the Guanyin master has already gone to the western heaven to attend the meeting, not in the South China Sea.

"Since that's the case, I'll thank Guanyin in person when I meet again." Ben Xianjun said, remembering that the monkey is also a member of the West Heaven Court, so he asked: "Since there is a meeting in the West Heaven, why doesn't the great sage go to the meeting with the Guanyin master?" ?”

"Me?" Monkey looked at me with a smile, "Just now I asked Guanyin to tell Tathagata that I have something important to do today, so I won't go to the meeting."

"Is it important?"

The monkey said again: "Besides... those Buddhist teachings and principles are quite boring to listen to, so you don't need to listen to them."

"..." Ben Xianjun bent his index finger against the tip of his nose, and said with a smile: "Is this still like what the Buddha said in the battle? You are also a Buddha, right?"

"Happy." The monkey tilted his head and let out a mouthful of hot air in the ear of the Immortal Lord, "You mean... I should be a monk and beat the clock for a day?"

"No, no." Ben Xianjun's ears must have been burned red, and he heard the monkey chuckle happily.

This immortal gentleman watched the nose and the heart with his eyes, stood on the somersault cloud and stopped talking.The monkey stood next to me and didn't intend to continue talking.

Ben Xianjun guessed that since the monkey said that he had something important to do, he should just kindly give me a ride, and he would put me down halfway.Unexpectedly, somersaulting cloud flew all the way to Xishan, and finally stopped in front of the three thatched huts of this fairy.

"Thank you so much for sending me back all the way!" Ben Xianjun said gratefully: "Didn't the Great Sage still have something to do? Let's go, I won't delay you!"

"Don't you want to build a house?" Monkey said solemnly, jumping off the somersault cloud first, with a pair of golden eyes shining, he glanced at the thatched cottage that was about to collapse, but couldn't help laughing several times: "Haha, this The house, the old Jade Emperor will send you away."

"Ahem, great sage." Although I agree with the monkey's statement in my heart, I still distinguish a few words for the old man of the Jade Emperor, saying: "It's just a house, except for this, the old man of the Jade Emperor is still very good to me. of."

"Do you mean the flower protector, or the land reclamation?" the monkey asked, and glanced at Zitong who was working hard.

Ben Xianjun laughed dryly again: "Hehe, this job is free."

At that time, Zitong was pulling weeds in the wasteland in front of the door, and his movements were not slow.This immortal gentleman has only been away for half a day, and the grass on the three-acre two-divided land has already been scooped up by him.Hearing me talking to the monkey, he turned his head and saw the monkey there, he was stunned for a moment before letting go of what he was doing, ran over and saluted, "Great Sage, Your Majesty."

Monkey nodded.Ben Xianjun saw the haystacks piled up on a small hill, and was afraid that the child would be exhausted, so he said: "Don't do it, go and have a rest."

Zitong wiped off his sweat, "I'm not tired yet."

"Go." The monkey raised his hand, took out the fan and shook it twice.

"..." Zitong opened his mouth in surprise when he saw that the fairy's fan was in the hands of the monkey.

Ben Xianjun explained: "That...Thanks to the great sage for not giving up, I will give this fan..."

"Oh, I understand, I understand." Zitong nodded hastily after looking at the monkey.The child's thoughts turned a little fast, and he didn't know whether he really understood or pretended to understand, so he ran away in a hurry, shouting: "I'm going to rest in the shade behind the house, I'm dying from the sun."

"Children, don't blame the Great Sage for being disrespectful." Ben Xianjun said, "Great Sage, go and do your work."

"No hurry." The monkey put away somersaulting cloud, looked at the thatched cottage, and said, "Except for the load-bearing wall, it seems to have to be replaced."

"Yes." Ben Xianjun sighed.

"Change it." Monkey said, untied his loose robe, took off a pair of gold wristbands and handed them to me.

"Huh?" Ben Xianjun was taken aback.

The monkey said softly, "Help me hold it."

Ben Xianjun reached out to pick it up, the monkey's wristband was cold and heavy, and the pattern on it was a bit clearer when he held it in his hand than when viewed from a distance.A few branches of peach blossoms were scorching, making this fairy in a trance for a while.

The monkey was only wearing a dark red gold thread bombardier jacket, with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, revealing half of its well-proportioned and powerful forearms.Xu Shi felt that the hem of the clothes was a little in the way, so he lifted a few pieces and stuffed them into his belt, and then raised his hand, only to hear a "boom", and the originally crumbling earth wall finally fell down.

"..." Ben Xianjun came back to his senses, and saw the monkey raised his hand to lift away the clods and mud on the ground, cleaned up the dust, picked up a few bamboos from the ground and inserted them side by side on the original earth wall.

I only know that Monkey King's housekeeping skill is to subdue demons, but I have never heard that monkeys do farm work and housework with such a good appearance. It didn't take long for the outer wall of the house to take shape. .

There was fine sweat on the monkey's temples, which gathered into drops and flowed slowly.Ben Xianjun thought of the Wang spring behind the house, so he went back to the house and put down the monkey's things, found a cloth towel, and ran to the spring to soak it.When I came back, I saw that the monkey was using the last few short bamboos to surround the fence. I handed over the cloth towel and said, "Wipe it."

"There are still a few last ones." The monkey got busy, a little bit ignoring me.Ben Xianjun watched a drop of sweat run from the monkey's forehead to the cheek and then to the chin, and finally fell into the slightly open neckline at some point. His clothes were soaked in sweat, and the dark red turned crimson purple.

Ben Xianjun sent the cloth towel a few points forward, and dabbed it on the monkey's forehead, wiping away a few beads of sweat that were about to pool together for him.

The monkey paused, but seemed afraid to move again.

"Soaked in cold water, isn't it comfortable?" Ben Xianjun asked, and gently wiped his ears and cheeks for him.

"..." The monkey raised his hand stiffly to cover the back of my fairy's hand, firmly grasped the cloth towel and my hand, and said: "It is indeed much cooler, thank you."

Ben Xianjun withdrew his hand and smiled lightly: "Didn't the Great Sage say that between you and me, you don't have to be polite?"

"Heh—" the monkey laughed lowly, grabbed the cloth towel and wiped it on his face a few times, then turned around and inserted the last few bamboos.

Ben Xianjun leaned on the newly built fence, looked at the brand-new bamboo house, and said: "I heard from Zitong that my three thatched cottages were originally the garden houses for the Jade Emperor to escape from the summer. They were built by a man named Su Changxiu 300 years ago. People like you have made trouble in heaven, demolished the house, and destroyed the garden. That's why the house has become the dilapidated state it is today."

The monkey responded "Oh?" and asked, "Why did you say this suddenly?"

Ben Xianjun turned his head and looked at him, "Although the five heavens in the north, south, east, west, and middle have always had their own affairs and have nothing to do with each other, but you are a member of the Tathagata Buddha of the West Heaven Court, and it has nothing to do with you being harmed by others in the Central Heaven Court. But the Great Sage has always hated evil. , you won’t sit idly by when something happens in Zhongtian Court, but why do you allow a demon to destroy the palace of 33 heavens?”

The monkey laughed and asked instead: "Do you know me well? How do you know that I will definitely help?"

"I..." Ben Xianjun was at a loss for words, and his face turned pale.

The monkey saw that the fairy had nothing to say, and explained with a smile: "I was not in the heaven at that time."

Ben Xianjun must be blind to see a bit of bitterness in the monkey's smile.I asked: "Not in the heaven... what did you do?"

As if he didn't expect that the fairy would be so reluctant to give up, the monkey was stunned for a moment.After a moment of silence, he slowly said: "I am on guard."