[Journey to the West] The 500 Years of Feeding Master

◎Look!There really is a monkey there! ! ! ◎

In the ghost market, apart from bartering, ordinary ghosts shop with ghost coins, ghost cultivators, and even monks and immortals who appear occasionally, buy and sell with spirit stones.Ji Tao was shy and busy practicing, so she never went there once.

The land in Wuxing Mountain is also poor, so he seldom buys things in the ghost market, just to join in the fun.

On this day, he came back from the ghost market empty-handed again, and after saluting Sun Wukong respectfully, he said to Ji Tao: "Xiao Tao, several families named Li have moved into Jijia Village, and now they have changed their name to Lijiagou. "

Hearing that the deserted village finally gained popularity, Ji Tao was also very happy in his heart, and he babbled a lot about the land, which aroused Monkey King's impatience, and he drove him away before he left.

As soon as the land left, Ji Tao was a little worried, and said to Sun Wukong: "Master, the newcomers must not know the origin of our Five Elements Mountain. If they come up the mountain, they might bump into you."

She and Sun Wukong, master and apprentice, have lived a peaceful life for decades, and she respects him very much in her heart, for fear that mortals who don't know the truth will point at him and call him a monster.Monkey King didn't care, and said: "Those mortals don't dare to come again after seeing me. Don't worry about them."

"But, Master." Ji Tao said softly, "I don't want them to misunderstand you as a bad monster."

"Where are monsters divided into good and bad?" Monkey King sneered, not caring.

Ji Tao insisted: "Master, I want to erect a stone tablet in front of the mountain and tell everyone your origin, okay?"

Sun Wukong didn't care about these things at first, but when he saw Ji Tao acting like a baby, he said: "Everything is up to you, everything is up to you. But, you must write better as a teacher!"

"I knew Master Dasheng that you are the best!" Satisfied, Ji Tao hurriedly picked out a big stone, and engraved the name of Wuxing Mountain on it, and wrote down Monkey King's identity and deeds.Finally, the stone was erected in front of the Five Elements Mountain.Over the years, Sun Wukong not only taught her to practice, but also taught her to read and write. She has read all the books sent by the Holy Mother.The writing in Xiaozhuan is extremely beautiful.

After setting up the stone, Ji Tao fed Sun Wukong the fruit, and immediately went to practice again.

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Before dawn, Li Yu took a few young men from the village up the mountain.

They were originally from Youzhou, and they had been displaced all these years. The city was unwilling to accept refugees any more, so they arranged people from one of their villages here.The village originally called Jijia Village was renamed Lijiagou, and Li Yu was ordered to be Lizheng of Lijiagou, and he distributed the houses and fields to everyone.The yamen servants conveyed the order and left some relief food.

Everyone thought that it would be very convenient to have a place to stay, but when they took a look at the place with food and luggage, they were all dumbfounded.

The so-called house has been abandoned for more than 20 years, and it has long been uninhabitable.

They had no other place to go, so under Li Yu's command, a few young men repaired the two largest houses in the village, barely allowing everyone to stay for one night.

Li Yusheng was afraid that there were not many arable fields in the area surrounded by mountains, so he didn't have a good sleep all night, and he brought the same worried men up the mountain early to investigate.Fortunately, after walking around, Li Yu found that the fields here were good.In addition, they are only a dozen or so families now, and each family is given a share of the land, which is still very rich.

With the good news, the men were full of energy and picked some wild fruits to satisfy their hunger. Li Yu asked one of them to go back to report the news, while he stayed with the others to chop some firewood before returning.The firewood in the village has long been damp and cannot be burned. Now every household has old and young, and they cannot stand the cold at night.Coupled with the fact that the village has not been populated for a long time, it is inevitable that it will be a little gloomy, and more fireworks will always make it better.

As they were walking deeper into the mountain, they saw a well, and someone guessed, "Strange, do people still live in this deep mountain?"

Li Yu frowned and asked everyone to be more cautious. He took the lead and took a few steps forward, but saw a big stone with three big characters "Five Elements Mountain" engraved on it, and some small characters engraved on the side.This Li Yu had read some books and could recognize a few words. After reading the words on the big stone, he stood there in horror.

Seeing his expression, everyone was in doubt and asked him what was written on the stone.

Li Yu then said: "This bare mountain is called Wuxing Mountain. There is a monkey under Wuxing Mountain. It is the Monkey King who made trouble in the Heavenly Palace 30 years ago."

"Monkey King? Never heard of it."

"Is it really a god monkey? Could it be the patron saint here?"

Li Yu said: "The above said that this god monkey was conceived by heaven and earth, and it came from a blessed place called Huaguoshan Water Curtain Cave overseas in Dongsheng Shenzhou Aolai Country."

"Where is Dongsheng Shenzhou?"

"Brother Li Yu, what do you mean by Fudidongtian?"

……

Li Yu pursed his lips. He didn't know these questions.But if you tell them that you don't know, it seems a bit embarrassing.

Li Yu was silent and did not speak, and several young adults were talking about it. Someone looked behind the big rock, wanting to see the god monkey, but saw a wooden house.The man was a little surprised, couldn't help but walked a few steps in, and shouted to his companions: "Look, there is a wooden house here!"

The bolder people also looked over, and said with good eyesight: "This wooden house should be inhabited!"

"Is it the house of the god monkey?"

"Will the god monkey bless us with good weather and good health?"

……

"Look! There is really a monkey there!!!"

Sun Wukong suppressed the anger in his heart—these mortals are really noisy!

He bared his teeth hard at them.

Sure enough, some people were frightened and took a step back.

"His teeth are so sharp, can he eat people?"

"Hey, how could the god monkey eat people?"

"Besides, have you ever seen monkeys eating people? Monkeys eat peaches."

……

Li Yu, who was standing at the front, coughed, interrupted everyone's discussion, stepped forward to salute Monkey King, and said, "Grandpa Dasheng, we are villagers from Lijiagou at the foot of the mountain. We are new to Guibao Land. I also hope Grandpa Dasheng will bless us a lot in the future."

The young and strong quickly imitated Li Yu and saluted Sun Wukong.

The corner of Sun Wukong's mouth froze - this was the first time that a mortal saw him, not as a monster, but as a patron saint.

What on earth was written on that big stone of that stupid apprentice!

As the saying goes, if you reach out and don't hit the smiling face, this group of people treats you very politely, and even calls him Grandpa Dasheng... Sun Wukong's anger dissipated, and he just said impatiently: "Excuse me, excuse me, I am not a troublemaker!" Patronus."

But seeing the group of mortals stunned for a while, suddenly a stunned young man said: "He has spoken! He is really a monkey!"

Li Yu bumped him with his elbow, and said to Sun Wukong respectfully: "The peasants in the country are ignorant, so don't be offended by Grandpa Dasheng. Grandpa Dasheng, we came here from famine, and we will have a harvest after a while. Serving you the best peaches."

"I have my disciples who are filial, so don't bother me."

Li Yu and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, and someone said: "Everyone out there likes to be clean, and Grandpa Dasheng must be the same."

Li Yu hurriedly said: "Grandpa Dasheng, then we won't bother you to clean up, and we will honor you later."

Sun Wu was very arrogant, but this group of people were respectful, he couldn't really throw a few stones down to kill them, so he had to watch them leave.He said to Ji Tao who was lying on his bellyband and looking out, "What did you write on the stone?"

"I didn't write anything, didn't you say that you should write better?" Ji Tao was lying on his bellyband looking out at those mortals, not aware of Monkey King's anger, and said, "Master, they look so pitiful. Their shoes are all worn out, and one of them has two toes exposed. They are more worn out than the shoes I have worn before."

Hearing Ji Tao's lost tone, the anger that Sun Wukong had finally built up was annihilated again.

Sun Wukong snorted softly and said, "They better not bother me."

Only then did Ji Tao realize Monkey King's displeasure, and quickly retracted into her belly pocket, pretending to sleep.

At night, Ji Tao went to pick the fruit, and then quietly went to Lijiagou.

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The deserted village has gained popularity, and the weeds on the path have been cleaned up, leaving only deep and shallow footprints.

Li Yue'e is ten years old this year, her father and brother were both arrested and made into young men, and their whereabouts are still unknown.Later, there was a famine in her hometown, and her mother took her elderly grandmother and her siblings, and followed Li Yushu and the others to leave the hometown.When my mother was on the road, she got seriously ill, and grandma fed the last piece of cake to her.But in the end, my mother died of illness, and my grandma was also starved to death.

The two of them, siblings, depended on each other and came here all the way.

Although there is a place to stay, the relief food distributed by the government is only enough for everyone to chew for three days.Aunt Li, who was in charge of cooking, had to divide the food into six-day portions.Nowadays, whether it is repairing houses or reclaiming wasteland, men are required to contribute. Therefore, men who do heavy work eat more every day, and women who can also do a lot of work. Second, the elderly and children eat the least.

Even so, Li Yuee's siblings still worked very hard.There are quite a few orphans like their siblings. Some of them are not from Lijia Village, but they joined later on the way to escape from famine.I'm afraid that adults don't want them, so they are very sensible.

At this moment, the children were also exhausted, lying on their straw shop, listening to Aunt Li's story about the Monkey King.

It turned out that they only repaired two relatively large houses, and now the men live in one, and the women and children live in one.Because there were not enough beds, everyone spread straw on the ground to make their own beds.A few people from Li Yu came back today and told them about the god monkey they met on the mountain. The children listened with great interest, but they didn't think it was enough, so they pestered Second Aunt Li to repeat it before going to bed.