[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

Shangyuan Festival, Shili Tianjie;

At the beginning of the bright lights, it was full of splendor.

The hustle and bustle is not limited to the mortal world, and everyone in the sky and on the earth is happy.

Su Changxiu has been the king of ghosts for more than a thousand years. Ever since he married Ji Ye, the two worlds of ghosts and demons have joined forces, and their strength is unparalleled. Even the heavens have to be afraid of it.Fortunately, Su Changxiu has a gentle and modest personality, and has no fighting intentions. Although Ji Ye is as stubborn as a child and loves to fight, he regards Su Changxiu's words as the golden rule, so his stubborn and perverse temper has been restrained a lot.The couple have traveled the three worlds since they got married. Although they are not gods, they are better than a couple of gods.It is said that Yi Nian City in the ghost world is holding a lantern festival in the past few days. The dark city is covered with bloody red lanterns.

The fairy world stands in the nine heavens, high above the sky, and claims to be the leader of all living beings, so naturally it is not willing to be compared by the ghost world.So the Jade Emperor was in charge, and the emperors gave advice and suggestions, and a lantern festival was also held.The location is Shilitian Street on the 33rd day of Taishang Laojun.However, the fairy world has always had many rules and strict classes, which is not as good as the ghost world and the demon world, where the folk customs are unrestrained, and the officials and the people are a family.Therefore, although the Lantern Festival in the Immortal World was held with great fanfare and mobilized people, few people actually participated, and they were all old fairies with long beards and older than their beards. After meeting, everyone just greeted each other Some polite words are quite boring.

But there is one exception.It was a little priest who looked very young, but was actually even younger. His name was Liu Se.Because there has always been a tradition of "Lantern Festival" in his hometown, and it has only been half a month since he ascended, the customs of his hometown are deeply rooted in his bones and cannot be discarded for a while, so even if only a group of old men with white beards participate in the Lantern Festival in the fairy world, he still Very yearning.This willow-colored long-browed, delicate-skinned and tender-skinned man was wearing a lake-blue long gown, which stood out from the crowd of old-fashioned white robes.

Liu Se stopped in front of the stalls in novelty, sometimes picked up a mask that was not exquisitely made to try on, and sometimes picked up a string of stones as relic bracelets to play with. His slightly baby-fat face was full of childishness, smiling It was extraordinarily innocent.It stands to reason that a little priest like Liu Se who has no intentions should be liked by many people, but several gods who passed by shook their heads and sighed softly, which sounded quite regrettable.

It turned out that Liu Se was originally the son of a minister surnamed Liu in Daqi State in the lower realm.

Lord Liu is a veteran of the two dynasties, a loyal minister and a famous general.He got a son when he was old, named him Liu Se, and treasured his only son like something.Mr. Liu has been an official for decades, and he was originally scheduled to retire after New Year's Eve and return to his hometown to take care of himself.

Unexpectedly, Qi Zhe, the monarch of the Great Qi Dynasty, has always been moody. After the Ninth King Qi Lian "committed the following crimes with the intention of rebellion" and finally "suicide in fear of crime", his temperament changed drastically.If it is light, he will be dismissed from office, and if it is serious, he will be beheaded.

Master Liu just said something on behalf of Qi Lian - "The Nine Kings may have a grievance" - but he was punished with five hundred sticks.Liu Se begged for three days in front of the palace gate, willing to accept it on behalf of her father.So, on the night of heavy snow on New Year's Eve, he was punished with five hundred rods for Lord Liu, and died.

After Liu Se's death, her soul was still there, floating aimlessly.He floated away from the gate of ghosts and into the ghost world.But Yi Nian, the ghost general guarding the city, saw that the ghost gate was strictly guarded, and refused to take him in no matter what.The reason is very simple - one thought of the city, one thought of a ghost, one thought of a god; if it is not a heinous crime, one cannot step into the ghost world.

Liu Se didn't quite understand, so she said, "Brother, thank you for speaking in human terms." The Ghost General rolled his eyes and asked, "Stinky boy, have you ever gambled, fought in gang fights, or killed someone?" Liu Se shook his head, and the Ghost General asked again , "Then have you ever burned your head by smoking or drinking?" Liu Se still shook his head, he was a little ashamed, and felt as if he had lived for 17 years in vain.So, General Ghost drew his sword and said, "Gun Gun Gun, you don't know anything, what use are you for?"

But the most innocent people will end up the most miserable.Obviously, he has never been evil in his life, and the Three Realms are vast, but there is no place for a mere ghost to hide.Rushi wandered on the street all night, when the rooster crowed for the first time, he met a passing fairy and temporarily put his lonely soul in his sleeve.Otherwise, when the sun shines on it, you will have to lose your soul.Afterwards, Liu Se was brought to the heavenly realm, and was recommended by that god. He took an unnamed job in the shrine of Lord Siming Xing, and became a writer who specialized in writing scripts for men and women in the world. Wenshen.

There are too many idiots in the world who complain about women, so Si Ming always has endless writing books waiting for him.Today, Liu Se finally finished the task at hand, so she had time to climb up to the 33rd heaven to see how the Shangyuan Festival in the fairy world is different from the mortal one—it’s not the same, except that it is more deserted, more boring, There is nothing more to look at.However, he still bought two bunches of candied haws, one for himself and one for Si Ming—although Si Ming Xingjun spoke harshly, he treated him very well, like a father and brother, and he was very grateful.

Walking on the way back to Jiuchongtian, when approaching Nantianmen, Liu Se saw a long man standing in front of him from a distance, and he looked very familiar.The man was wearing a peach blossom light pink long gown, and the green silk was loosely tied with a headband of the same color, but the other party's demeanor was cold and extravagant, so this pink suit would not look too frivolous, but a little more elegant and handsome.Liu Se was stunned on the spot, thinking: This, isn't this the nine kings who died half a year ago?

Qi Lian seemed to have been standing in front of the Tianzhu in front of the Nantianmen for a while.At this moment, his cheeks were a little more bloody, and he was not sick at all, and his whole body was full of energy, as if he was a different person.Hearing the movement behind him, he turned slightly sideways, glanced sideways, and saw Liu Se, who was wearing a fairy robe, showing joy behind him, walked over very enthusiastically, and was about to put his hands on Liu Se's shoulders, and said: "But seeing a living I'm here, come, little brother, I'm asking you for a place."

"Meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land" is one of the four happy events in life.When Liu Se saw Qi Lian, tears welled up in her eyes, and she said, "My lord." Qi Lian was taken aback, "...you are?" After thinking about it, an old man with white beard and white hair really appeared in his mind, he suddenly said, "Oh" and said: "You are the son of Master Liu's family, hey, why did you ascend?"

It's good that Qi Lian didn't "hey", but this "hey" actually reminded Liu Se of the past and made her feel sad.With red eyes, he tugged on Qi Lian's sleeve and pulled him to sit on the white jade steps next to him, and told about all the changes in the court after Qi Che's temperament changed greatly in the past six months.Qi Lian listened, sighed deeply, and said with emotion: "It's my fault that this king didn't think carefully about this matter, and didn't make a plan earlier."

Liu Se asked: "My lord, what do you mean? By the way, why did you come to the fairy world and ask everywhere about the location of Yuqing Palace?" Qi Lian looked far and wide, smiled bitterly, and said: "Half a year ago, in order to hide from Qi Zhe, this king cheated Die." "What?!" Liu Se was surprised, "How come... Didn't His Majesty say that you and the Iron Hat King had colluded with evil intentions?" Qi Lian said: "Intentions are evil? How is it possible? It was still a child who shot when his wings were not fully fledged, why wait for his wings to harden? As for Ascension..."

Before Qi Lian could finish speaking, a pocket book hanging on Liu Se's waist suddenly shook slightly.He took it in his palm and opened it to take a look.I saw that the latest page contained the nine thousand-year-old life of the Daqi Dynasty.According to records, the date of Qi Lian's death was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the year 320 of the Qi Dynasty.Staring at the words "suicide in front of the army", Liu Se's pupils dilated slightly.He slowly raised his head and looked at Qi Lian's neck.I didn't pay much attention before, but looking at it now, I found a thin red mark on the other side's fair neck.Respect spontaneously arose, and Liu Se said: "You...you soared because you prevented the war?"

Because the wound on the neck belonged to him during his lifetime, even if he ascended, the scar would never be erased.Qi Lian didn't seem to care too much, he spread his hands: "Do you believe it, in fact, I just want to be an idle king with nothing to do, and I don't want to care about these thankless things." In fact, that red mark is like a peach blossom Yanlie is not ugly on him.

Liu Se shook his head, he still felt that the princes, ministers and common people of the Daqi Dynasty deeply misunderstood this sick and idle Nine Thousand Years old.He is not at all as mediocre as he appears on the surface.Liu Se bit her lower lip, stood up and said, "Didn't the lord ask how to get to Yuqing Palace just now? I ascended a few days earlier than you, and I'm almost familiar with the fairy world. I'll take you there."

"Thank you then." Qi Lian said with a smile, stretched out his clothes, and stood up.He set up an awning and looked at the vast Jiuchongtian surrounded by immortal clouds and mist, and said: "Really, it's only been 600 years since this king left here. I can't imagine that the structure of the fairy world has changed so much. Let alone Yuqing Palace, I can't even find it." home."

Liu Se walked and asked: "Listen to the prince, have you ever been to the fairy world?" Qi Lian said: "Now this king is not Daqi's nine thousand years old, in the future you and I will be immortals in the same sky, you can call me directly Your fairy name." Liu Se said: "Yes. But—I don't know what the prince's fairy name is—" "Chengxian Yuanjun." Qi Lian said.

While speaking, he had arrived at Yuqing Palace, and He Xiantong was guarding the door.Seeing Liu Se and the others coming, he greeted them, first said hello to Liu Se, and finally said to Qi Lian respectfully: "I have seen Yuan Jun, the Jade Emperor has been waiting inside for a long time." "The two words sound very familiar. If you haven't heard of books and operas when you were in the world, or you have seen them in Si Ming Xingjun's book.Or maybe both.

On the other side, Qi Lian straightened the hem of the clothes that were originally very flat, smiled like a spring breeze, and said: "Ben--jun just went astray and was delayed. I'll go now, and I'll go meet his old man right away." It was convenient for Heling to enter Yuqing Palace together.

As for Liu Se, an unknown little fairy with a shocking background, naturally, he couldn't step into the Yuqing Palace without being summoned by the Jade Emperor.So he had no choice but to eat the candied haws that he hadn't had time to finish, while thinking about who "Cheng Xian" was, while walking to Siming's hall.Not only was she annoyed, but why did she forget to ask Qi Lian if she wanted candied haws?

It was at this moment that an inspiration flashed in his mind, and he opened his mouth wide and said "ah!": Isn't Cheng Xian the same as Cheng Xian Yuanjun?Isn't Chengxian Yuanjun the Jintao fairy who is said to have had an affair with the Monkey King?Doesn't Jintao have to go down to the earth and go through ten lifetimes of love with the Great Sage before she can become a true fruit?That, that... which world is it now?

"Ahem, what are you doing in a daze!" Liu Se was counting with her fingers, when Si Ming's voice came from her ear.Although Si Ming usually has gray hair and long beard, he looks like a bad old man if he is unkempt, but he only needs to comb his hair a little bit, take care of his beard, and change the goatee into rose thorns, and he looks pretty good. A male god with a classic melancholic temperament.The moment Liu Se saw Si Ming, her eyes lit up immediately, and she ran over, holding candied haws and asking him to give them to him from a long distance away.At the same time, don't forget to gossip: "Your Majesty, please tell me about Cheng Xianyuan Jun and the Great Sage!"

Si Ming took a willow-colored hand and bit off a candied haws, squinting his eyes with sourness, but eating with relish.After vomiting out a hawthorn seed, he said: "Why do you inquire about this? You can also inquire about the gossip of the great sage?" Liu Se followed behind and asked: "Tell me, this is not a secret anymore. When I was in the human world, I had listened to people's storytelling and singing many times."

"It's worth it." Si Ming poked Liu Se's forehead with his finger, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes deepened with a smile, and said, "I'm afraid of you. Give me a candied haws again, and I'll talk after I finish eating the candied haws. "So Liu Se obediently sent the candied haws over, and Siming said: "This is the tenth life."

Liu Se said: "Where are the ten generations? The legends in the mortal world are just legends after all. You are Si Ming, and you are the one who has the most say in this matter?" Si Ming turned his face to the side and looked at Liu Se seriously: "You I’ve been wandering around for the past few days, okay you, now you’ve learned how to flatter horses.” Liu Se blushed, and hurriedly explained: “No, no, no, I’m just…”

"Okay, I'm just joking." Si Ming laughed for a while, and after laughing, he collected himself and thought for a long time before slowly saying: "That's right, there is no more, no less, between Jintao and the Great Sage. The relationship between the world. As for which tenth life--" Liu Se stared wide-eyed and waited for the next sentence, but Si Ming changed the subject and smiled very greasy: "Haha, it's a long story, you can go to the study to check the file later. .”

Liu Se's face collapsed, and she pursed her lips and said: "Your Majesty, you can't just say half of what you said—" The two people, one old and one young, quarreled and walked away.On the other side of the road, a man in red was walking.Liu Se inadvertently saw it from the corner of her eye, and felt familiar, and couldn't help thinking of the passing god who gave him up on New Year's Eve, so she immediately stopped and turned around and shouted: "Engong, is that you, Engong!" Shouting and running over, Ren Si Ming chased after him madly with his old broken legs.

Hearing the yelling, Wukong glanced and saw the boy waving towards him from a distance.He had the impression that the other party was a child he had saved in the lower realm half a month ago.At that time, the civil war in Daqi was at its most intense, and every corner of the country was full of souls who died in battle.With hatred and resentment, those ghosts can easily turn into ghosts and endanger the world.The boy's soul was the only little lonely soul he met that was clean enough to make people feel warm when they got close.It was only with a little effort that he saved the man and handed it over to Si Ming.

There is no other reason.

Si Ming has lived for tens of thousands of years, and he repeats one thing every day, which is to write jokes to change people's fate. This task is very eye-catching, and it is easy to accidentally write wrong words.For example, for no reason, Wu Zhiqi changed into his appearance; another example, for no reason, Wu Zhiqi's crossing robbery changed from Ao Wang to joy; Blocking arrows; another example... and so on, too numerous to enumerate.

Therefore, Wu Kong felt that Si Ming urgently needed someone with good eyesight to watch him, so as not to write wrong jokes again and cause disaster.However, looking at Si Ming panting and chasing after him at this moment, Wukong felt that his favor was in the right hands of Si Ming.The corner of her mouth could not help but bend, this smile made Liu Se stunned, she waited for a long time before she said dully: "En, benefactor."

Wukong smiled and said, "It was your filial piety that saved you, not me." In fact, he has a concern in his heart, and he doesn't want to delay too much with the young man.But Liu Se was not very good at observing words and expressions, so she couldn't see Wukong's impatience, and said, "No, no, it was Engong who saved me. But I still don't know who Engong is, and where he lives. That... wait for another day I'd love to come and visit."

"You are stupid if you say you are stupid." Si Ming finally followed. He patted Liu Se's head from behind, bowed very politely to Wukong, and said out of breath, "Great Sage. You are, I'm here to find Mr. Cheng Xianjun." Liu Se was stunned, she opened her mouth wide and couldn't say a word for a long time, she only looked at the person in front of her three or four times before accepting her benefactor. Monkey King facts.It turned out that my benefactor had an affair with my prince... this, this...

"Yeah." Wukong responded lightly.Realizing that Wukong looked at him with unfriendly eyes, Si Ming hurriedly put on a smile and said, "Don't worry, the great sage, after nine thousand years of death, only Qi Zhe and Qi Wang will be left to love each other and kill each other. This Qi Wang is Ao The incarnation of Wang. After the battle of the Daqi Dynasty, the brotherhood between Wuzhiqi and Aowang can go a step further. Cheng Xianjun has already retreated from the entanglement between the two of them."

Wukong finally looked better at Si Ming's cold face, and he said lightly, "Are you sure? Even if Wu Zhiqi ascends to the Tao and reunites with Huanxi in the future, he will not rekindle the old love and entangle him endlessly?" Si Ming I thought: Great Sage, although Wuzhiqi once wanted to overpower Cheng Xianyuanjun, in fact he should be the one below.Below and below—how could they be together?But he still wanted Wukong to worry a little longer, so he held back and didn't tell the secret, just nodded his head and assured: "That can't, definitely not."

At this time, He Ling and Qi Lian's voices came from Yuqing Palace, saying that the house in Xishan has always been there, and Zitong had already gone home to live with his father, but I heard that Qi Lian returned to the house in the past few days. After Tianting was ranked in the fairy class, he made a special trip back to the old house in Xishan to clean the inside and outside of the house carefully.In just two or three sentences, the two had already walked out the door.Wukong hurriedly left Liu Se and the two of them, and went to Yuqing Palace.

Liu Se's gaze followed Wukong for a long time, until the other party and Qi Lian quit Heling and walked towards the west mountain together, then he frowned and looked away, and whispered to himself, "It's so strange." Ah." Si Ming said: "Your little brain is so stupid, it will be really strange if it is not strange someday."

Liu Se didn't mean to be joking at all, and said seriously: "Your Majesty, it is said that the Great Sage has golden eyes, the sparkling ones. But I have been looking at his eyes just now, and they are dull, let alone golden eyes. Well, if you look carefully, it’s not even as good as ordinary people’s eyes. Otherwise——otherwise—otherwise, with blond hair and red clothes, even if he didn’t tell me, I would have already guessed that he is the Monkey King.”

Si Ming was startled by the question, subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction where the two were leaving, and saw that the two were talking while walking, so he noticed that Wukong's hand had already taken Qi Qi at some point. Poor.Looking away, Si Ming breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Well, about 1000 years ago, the Great Sage's eyes were burned by the Infernal Fire, and he has been blind since then."

"What?" Liu Se couldn't believe it, and said, "How is it possible? The Great Sage can still see things, how could he be blind?" Si Ming smiled and said, "It's true to say that you are stupid. For someone like me, what’s the point of losing a mere pair of eyes? He has a thousand ways to judge your position. What’s more—without eyes, doesn’t he still have a heart.”

Liu Se disagreed, and said, "I don't know about others. But the Monkey King must have piercing eyes, and the piercing eyes are very important to the word 'Monkey King'." Si Ming said, "That's because , the person who makes him not even want the eyes, is more important."

Liu Se said confusedly: "Your Majesty, I don't understand." Si Ming stared at him for a long time, nodded his head and smiled lightly, and said, "It's a good thing that you don't understand, I hope you don't understand for the rest of your life." Liu Se also thought Ask again, but Si Ming grabbed his forearm and dragged him to the temple, saying: "Let's go, go home. There is still a stack of notebooks on the chopping board waiting for us to write, so finish writing early and go to bed early."