[Journey to the West] Friendship

It stands to reason that a city gate might not catch fire even once in three years, but now it has caught fire three times in just one month, which is obviously abnormal.

"Haven't you checked?" Lin Mu asked, "It's obvious that someone set the fire on purpose, right?"

"This..." The soldier leader wrinkled his face in distress for a while, and then said, "But this method of igniting the fire doesn't seem like someone intentionally set it on fire. Who is so powerful that it can set the entire city wall on fire in an instant? And the city wall is terrible. It's all made of stone, and there's nothing to set the fire on."

"That's true," Lin Mu rubbed his chin, then looked at Duan Xuan and Tianpeng, and asked, "What do you think?"

Duan Xuan raised his hand and touched the wall that had been burned for a long time, but did not zoom in at all, and said with a half-smile, "Sanmai is really fire."

Lin Mu immediately raised his eyebrows. In the entire Journey to the West, there are not many monsters who know the true fire of samadhi. After counting and counting, there are only two, so...

"Brother," Lin Mu looked at the soldier leader, "Do you have any famous brats?"

"???"

"It's the kind...the kind that parents can't control, causing trouble everywhere." Lin Mu explained a term to the soldier leader.

"Uh, this..." The leader of the soldiers frowned, thought about it carefully, and after a sudden reflection, said in surprise, "It seems that there really is one!"

"What does it look like?" Lin Mu asked excitedly, "Is it a bare-bottomed child wearing a red bellyband, a gold ring around his neck, and a little red on his forehead?"

"...That's not true," said the soldier leader, sweating profusely, "that child is well dressed, about ten years old, and has been gnawing on a peach in his hand. The bear... the bear boy looks a lot like that."

"Oh?" Lin Mu asked, "Why is he so arrogant?"

"Uh... he didn't come alone that day. He was followed by two servants. One of them was holding a basket of peaches. While eating the peaches, the fellow said that what he ate was Tang's monk meat. After eating it, he would live forever. The soldier leader couldn't help but raised his hand to touch the sweat on his forehead, "Believe it or not, as long as anyone he sees, he has to come to buy this peach, and if he doesn't buy it, he will beat him. Grab the money and throw a peach to that person..."

Lin Mu: "..."

"You said that the child is well dressed, and there is a servant behind him, so why does he insist on buying peaches?" The soldier leader seemed very puzzled, "Could it be that his parents gave him the experience?"

Lin Mu: "..."

"What happened in the end?" Duan Xuan asked calmly, "Have you intervened?"

"Of course!" The soldier leader said with his eyes wide open, "We arrived when he wounded the third man."

Duan Xuan glanced at the soldier leader clearly, and asked, "And then?"

The soldier leader's cheeks twitched involuntarily, subconsciously puffed out his chest, and was about to say something, but when he saw Duan Xuan's knowing eyes, the courage he had just summoned disappeared completely, so he could only speak truthfully: "...then he got into an argument with us, and after we both had some losses, he walked away with two of his men."

"Oh," Duan Xuan nodded and asked, "What did he lose?"

The leader of the soldiers: "...two baskets of peaches."

"Snatched by your people?"

"..." The leader of the soldiers did not answer this question, because there was no way to answer it!Those two baskets of peaches were knocked over by that brat himself!And they were all knocked to the ground by that brat!

"Anyway, this is the only brat we've encountered in Wuji Kingdom recently," the soldier leader said, trying to change the subject, "Speaking of which, the fire on the city wall also happened after this incident. Is there any relationship between the two?"

"Probably some," Duan Xuan nodded, "We know the parents of that child, so let us handle his affairs. If he really burned the city wall, then we will definitely let him compensate you loss."

"That's really great!" The soldier leader said happily, "If a few eminent monks can help our country find this arsonist, the king of our country will definitely thank you very much!"

"You're welcome," Duan Xuanke said politely, "but do you know where he is now?"

"This...he seems to have been staying in the city recently," said the soldier leader. "Our people who followed him said that he rented a yard with us. He went back after buying peaches on the street that day and never came out. .”

"Where is the yard?"

"I'll show you the way?"

"Thanks for your hard work!"

……

It wasn't until Lin Mu, Duan Xuan and the others followed the soldier leader that Lin Mu came back to his senses in a trance and asked, "...Did I hear correctly just now? That brat went to the street to buy peaches?"

Duan Xuan patted Lin Mu's head, and comforted him, "...it doesn't have to be a red boy, don't make up your own mind."

"But what if it is!" Lin Mu turned to look at Duan Xuan, and said, "What if the red boy really came out to buy peaches?!"

"...Then you write a few proposals for him," Duan Xuan said, "It just so happens that this is what you studied in college."

"...You're wrong, dear!" Lin Mu hung his whole body on Duan Xuan's shoulder, and said, "Shouldn't the point be this weird setting?! The person who made this setting must be a crazy!"

Duan Xuan: "..."

……

After dealing with Lin Mu's mental attack here, the canopy's questioning over there is also lined up.

"Why bother with this matter?" Canopy asked straight to the point, "You should know that our main task now is to go to the Western Paradise to learn Buddhist scriptures. What does this matter have to do with us?"

"Save the common people." Duan Xuan glanced at Tianpeng, he knew what Tianpeng was thinking, but he couldn't let Lin Mu fail to complete the broken task of that system. Comparing the two, it is natural and clear which is more important. "And this child is really the child of our old acquaintance."

"How do you know?" Tianpeng raised his eyebrows, "The appearance described by the soldier leader is different from what Lin Mu said."

"No way," Duan Xuan shrugged, "Everyone will grow up."

"Are you perfunctory?" Canopy's face darkened, "Give me a reason, otherwise we have no reason to waste time with you."

"..."

This time it was Duan Xuan who was silent.

To be honest, he welcomes such a loyal and reliable ally like Tianpeng, but there are some things that he cannot fully explain to Tianpeng.

"Because of some reasons that I don't feel comfortable talking about," Duan Xuan said after a moment of silence, "But please believe me, it's not meaningless."

What Duan Xuan said was the truth, Tianpeng wanted to press it further, but felt that it would only hurt the peace of both parties.

After a long silence, Canopy could only choke out a sentence: "Hurry up, don't waste any time."

Duan Xuan nodded, as a promise to Tianpeng.

……

The yard looked very remote. Lin Mu and others walked for twenty minutes before they saw a dilapidated small door with a knocker missing.From the outside, it looks like a place where the disciples of the Beggar Gang lived in groups hundreds of years later.

"Uh...is this here?" Lin Mu looked at the dilapidated small courtyard, hesitating a bit. That legendary red boy really stays here?Uh... well, if he's really selling peaches, then there's nothing unusual about living here, is there?

"Yes," said the soldier leader, "our people have been guarding here, and we have never seen them come out."

Tianpeng frowned and asked, "Then you didn't go in and take a look?"

The leader of the soldiers said without changing his face: "... I went in, and then I was sent out."

"... Was it thrown out?" Lin Mu's eyes were full of sympathy.

Soldier leader: "..." How did you know it was thrown!

Lin Mu miraculously interpreted the doubt in the eyes of the soldier leader, and explained: "...Because this door obviously doesn't seem to be open often."

Soldiers leader: "..."

"Okay, go in," said the leader of the soldiers, "we'll wait for you here."

"Oh, good." Lin Mu looked at the broken door ten meters away, stretched his muscles, and said, "Let's go."

After finishing speaking, Lin Mu and the others walked towards the courtyard.

The leader of the soldiers stood there and looked at the backs of the five men and one donkey, always feeling... very unreliable.

Tsk, this inexplicable weird feeling.

……

In fact, it wasn't just the leader of the soldiers who was standing ten meters away who felt the strangeness in his heart, Lin Mu, who was leading the way to the yard, also felt that the sense of disobedience exploded.

No matter how unreliable the red boy in the original book is, he still played the role of the roadblocking monster properly, but here...

_(:з」∠)_

Lin Mu felt that the whole person was not good, the good roadblocking monster was good, and the red boy turned into a mobile hawker, selling peaches called Tang Monk meat... Is this a joke? !

……

Lin Mu pushed open the dilapidated door in such a strange mood, and then...

boom--

A cloud of dust.

The door that Lin Mu touched fell straight down like that, ending its tragic sound with a loud noise and choking dust.

"Who is playing wild here?!" While Lin Mu and the others were still in a daze about the door that had passed away, a thin-skinned monkey-like person jumped out of the yard, glaring at Lin Mu and the others, and said, " Do you know that this is the Fire Cloud Cave of our Holy Infant King!"

Lin Mu: "..." This is such a broken courtyard, are you lying to me by telling me that this is Huoyun Cave? !

But having said that, Lin Mu finally found this troublesome monster, so the system also gave a prompt sound in a very timely manner——

【Ding--

Congratulations to the host for finding out the evildoer who was haunting Baoxiang 72 miles abroad, and for obtaining the skill of "[-] Transformation Level [-]". 】

【Ding--

The Holy Infant King Honghaier ran away from home angrily because of his father's cheating, and asked the host to persuade Honghaier to return home as soon as possible so that his parents would not worry.

Task reward: 72 changes to the highest level + 5 lucky points. 】

Lin Mu again: "..."

Should I run away from home or something like this? !Or because my father cheated!It's not like coming out of the closet, what can I do to run away from home?Wouldn't it be enough to just kill the vixen's house and beat him up? !

"Who the hell are you guys!" Seeing that no one paid any attention to his words, the thin-skinned monkey became angry immediately. He turned his hand over, conjured up a big knife, and said, "Hurry up and go to our yard! Our king is planting a Tang monk. What about the meat! Anyone who dares to disturb our king will die—"

"..." Lin Mu felt that his face was covered with blood. Has the Legend of Zhen Huan spread to the beginning of Tang Dynasty?The key is that it is a modern TV series, and it is talking about the Qing Dynasty!No matter how you calculate it, it will be hundreds of years away, do you know that!Is it really--good--to say Concubine Hua's cool lines so casually? !

"Hey! Are you all dumb?!" The thin-skinned monkey was angry again. Just as he was about to curse again, everyone felt a vibration coming from the ground. In the blink of an eye, another hulking man came out of the room , his stomach was protruding like he was pregnant with quintuplets, and every time he took a step, the ground trembled three times.

The hulking man first looked at the skinny monkey, then at Lin Mu and the others, and said, "Why hasn't it been resolved yet?"

"They are all dumb!" The skinny monkey said angrily, "I asked for a long time and they didn't answer, how can I solve it!"

"Tsk, why are you so stupid?" said the hunchbacked, "You hit them directly, and they yelled, no, it can be said that they have already answered you, but because of the language barrier, you can understand their expressions and behaviors. Fan, did you find out that they actually wanted to harm the little master, so you just threw them out? This way, it will not violate the rules set by the madam."

"Oh, you're right!" The skinny monkey looked stunned, and then really raised the knife to attack Lin Mu.Seeing that the thin-skinned monkey had opened its eyes, the hunky-backed monkey stopped watching and walked into the house.

But before he took three steps, he felt as if he had stepped on something under his feet.Looking down, he suddenly realized that what he was stepping on under his feet was that skinny monkey!

This shock was not small, after all, the hulking back also knew its own weight. If this foot was firmly stepped on, the skinny monkey would probably turn into a skinny monkey.Therefore, the hulking back quickly stopped the castration, fell backwards, and then...

boom--!

The louder sound resounded throughout the yard. Lin Mu and others looked helplessly at the hulking backs that fell directly on their backs, and deeply doubted the IQ of these two.

Huggy and hulking, he said angrily: "Hey! Didn't I tell you to throw them out! Why did you run under my feet!" Because his stomach was so majestic that he couldn't get up by himself after falling on his back, he could only think of the turtle Lying on the ground, he kept moving his limbs.

"I don't know either!" The thin-skinned monkey turned over and covered his chest—the place where he was stepped on just now—and rolled all over the ground in pain, "I attacked! But the white light in front of me flashed me Just fly out! When you come back to your senses, you will trample me to death!"

"You idiot!" he yelled.

"You are an idiot!" The skinny monkey retorted.

"Fool!"

"idiot!"

……

"Does any of you think that these two people know each other quite well?" Lin Mu looked at the two people lying on the ground and couldn't help but said, "You say that the Holy Infant King..."

"Why do you call me the king?"

"Eh?" Lin Mu hadn't finished speaking when he heard a very stinky voice beside him, but he subconsciously looked left and right - left, Duan Xuan; right, canopy - but No strangers were found at all, "Did any of you speak just now?"

Everyone shook their heads.

"It's so strange," Lin Mu scratched his head and said, "Just now I was talking about the Holy Infant King..."

"What the hell is this king doing?"

"Ah!" Lin Mu stepped back abruptly, looked down in horror at the bare-bottomed child who looked not as long as an adult's arm, and said in shock, "Who are you?"

The bare-bottomed child raised his chest, and Lin Mu clearly saw his little bird swaying, and then raised his chin and said, "This king is the legendary King of the Holy Infant! Come here and worship!"

Lin Mu and others: "..."

"...Didn't you say he was about ten years old?" Tianpeng looked at the child and asked with a frown, "What's going on?"

……

No one answered him.

Four pairs of eyes shining with curiosity looked at the legendary red boy, as if they were waiting for the other party's answer.

"Hmph," Honghaier did not disappoint, snorted arrogantly, and then said, "This king is trying to give birth to peach trees recently, and his body will naturally become smaller. I accidentally threw away the fruit last time. If you want to make more money, you have to replant it.”

"...Then why do you want to make money?" Lin Mu asked.

"Isn't this nonsense?" Red Boy sneered, and said, "My mother said, you can't live without money in the human world. Should we wait to die if we don't make money?!"

"...Then why are you selling peaches?" Lin Mu continued to ask.

"You don't even know this?" Hong Haier looked at Lin Mu with contempt, and when Lin Mu was frantically trying to say why I should know why you bought peaches, Hong Haier continued with disdain, " Don’t you know that the Queen Mother of the West in the sky is growing peaches? She is so popular, as a newcomer, I have to follow suit!”

"..." Lin Mu was so choked that he almost fainted, but he wiped his face firmly, and then asked, "Then explain to me about Tang Monk's meat, and the thing about immortality after eating it! "

"You bumpkin," Red Boy rolled his eyes, and said, "You don't even know that eating Tang's monk meat can make you live forever."

"I'm asking why you use Tang Monk meat as your name!" Lin Mu went crazy, "Also! Can your broken peach really make people live forever?!"

"You even believe the advertisement," Hong Boy looked at Lin Mu in disbelief, "Eating Tang Monk meat can make you live forever, right? My peach is called Tang Monk meat, right? Then I'll tell them to eat it." My peaches can live forever, right?"

"..."

Lin Mu couldn't help but turn around and look at Duan Xuan—what he said seemed to make sense, but I was speechless.

Duan Xuan: "..."

Lin Mu was speechless for a while, he glanced at Duan Xuan, then at the canopy, this time even Chen Yi, but he didn't get any inspiration to deal with this matter, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go forward Changed the question and asked, "That...why did you come here?"

The baby version of Honghaier gave three words very loudly: "I am willing!"

"...Then did you do the fire on the city wall these two days?" Lin Mu continued to ask.

"I don't know what you're talking about." The red boy turned his head to look at the skinny monkey and the burly back, as if he was watching how the two of them got up from the ground very seriously. "What city wall? What fire?"

"...==Hey, your tone has exposed you!" Lin Mu deliberately threatened, "If you don't tell the truth again, go tell your father!"

Originally, when dealing with children, you should use the sentence pattern "No matter what, tell your mother/father/teacher", but Honghaier is not an ordinary child, so as soon as Lin Mu said this sentence, Honghaier immediately The hatred value is full.

"Go, go!" Hong Boy shouted and conjured up his own fire-pointed gun, pointing at Lin Mu angrily, "If you can find my dad, you can go and sue!"

"...Put down your toys first," Lin Mu looked at the fire-pointed gun in the same proportion as the red boy, and couldn't help being speechless for a while, then asked, "Where is your father? Come back with me to find it." Go to your dad, I want to have a good talk with him about your education!"

"Get out!" Hong Haier directly raised the gun and poked it straight at Lin Mu's knee, "I don't have a father!"

Lin Mu was startled, and quickly turned sideways to avoid Red Boy's pointed gun.

In the end, Honghaier, who couldn't even stand still, fell straight down because he lost his balance, and fell a dog gnawing mud at Lin Mu's feet.

"..."

"What should I do?" Lin Mu looked up at Duan Xuan and said with a headache, "I need to let him go home voluntarily."

Duan Xuan frowned, leaned close to Lin Mu's ear and asked in a low voice, "What's the reason for his appearance here?"

"...Dad cheated, and ran away from home in disappointment."

Duan Xuan: "..." Isn't this logic a bit strange?

Lin Mu sighed, looking at Duan Xuan's appearance, he knew that he didn't know what to do with this kind of thing, so he had to rack his brains to figure out how to get close to Hong Haier, otherwise it would be too much for a stranger to somehow know about his family's affairs. Strange!

……

"Hey, who are you guys? Why do you ask so much about my family? What do you want to do?" After all, he was still a child, and Hong Haier realized something was wrong after so many words, and frowned at Lin Mu and the others. people.

"...We are your father's... uh, enemies!" Lin Mu originally wanted to say friends, but seeing the red boy's wrinkled face, Lin Mu decisively changed his identity to win the favor of the other party .

As expected, Hong Haier nodded in satisfaction and asked, "How about your spells? Is it enough to kill him?"

Lin Mu: "..." Isn't this a bit too cruel?That is your dear father after all!

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