[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

300 years later.

Yangjie, Yanbo Ten Mile Shop.

On the busiest street, the most bustling section, there is a most prosperous house, above the vermilion gate hangs a golden plaque, on which are written two thin golden characters - "Golden Mansion".

The owner of the Jin Mansion is a young man who looks 26 seven years old, with long eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a handsome face, but unfortunately there is a small scar on the right cheek, like the only flaw in a piece of superb jade. .

However, since the Qi Mansion is a well-known and wealthy family in Shilipu, and it is said that they have friendship with the five races of immortals, Buddhas, humans, ghosts, and demons at the same time, it is inevitable that someone will come to propose marriage.But this Young Master Jin refused all of them.

Some people say that he has been surrounded by thousands of flowers, and his eyes are dazzled; others say that he may not be close to women.In any case, after several years passed, only Mr. Jin and his little boy, master and servant, entered and exited the Jin Mansion.After a long time, gradually no one dared to come to propose marriage brazenly, and in such a big golden mansion, the door was gradually neglected day by day.

On this day, a fortune teller came to the gate of Jinfu, known as the "magic fortune teller".The divine operator has known 5000 years before and 5000 years later. It is very mysterious and has attracted countless people to ask for divination. It is hard to find a divination.Even so, the people who came here admiringly still had to surround the fortune-telling booth three floors in and out. The crowd occupied the street and broke through the gate of Jin's house with a "bang".

The door fell to the ground, billowing smoke and dust.Qi Lian wore a peach blossom pink gown, brushed the choking dust with his sleeves, separated the crowd of seekers, and came to the fortune-telling booth.He stretched out his hand, with the palm facing up, and said with a faint smile but not a smile: "Business is business, you smashed the door of my house, heh, how do you plan to pay for it?"

Shen Suanzi is blind. When he rolled his eyes, the muddy brown eyeballs were completely turned back, leaving only the yellowed whites of the eyes, and the old bark-like folds on his face were all piled up together.He put down the hexagram cylinder and the copper coins in his hand, and touched for a long time before he took Mr. Jin's hand and said, "It's impossible to lose money, and it's impossible in this life. But my hexagrams are hard to come by. Hexagrams to pay off debts, hmph, even if it’s cheaper for you!”

Qi Lian has long seen that the other party's blindness is pretending, let alone a half-immortal, but he got a fragment of the Sansheng Stone from somewhere, so that he can know the past and present of the other person.But he didn't expose it directly, and said following the fortune teller: "Well, since it's so miraculous, you can do the math for me."

The fortune teller held Qi Lian's hand and kneaded it for a long time. He thought that he was just an ordinary son of a family, but he didn't expect to see the other party's real body from the Sansheng Stone. The most popular celebrity, Chengxian Yuanjun—immediately he didn't open his eyes and became blind, and he didn't have a sense of immortality. He slid his legs and knelt on the ground, making a gesture of kowtow, and said: "I don't know the immortals. , if you are offended, please—”

"Hey!" Qi Lian raised his hand to support his wrist, pulled the fortune teller up from the ground, hooked the corners of his mouth, and said with a cynical look, "Ha, it was just for fun. If you talk about everything, it will be broken." It’s not fun anymore. Don’t panic, you can do it to me now, I want to hear what you have to say.” After a pause, he half threatened and half jokingly said, “Say it, say it No, the rock you are carrying in your pocket belongs to me."

"Yes, yes, yes." The fortune-teller agreed hastily, he wiped the cold sweat from his brow, and sat back on the stool, but it felt like he was sitting on pins and needles.He looked at Qi Lian's palmistry, stared at Qi Lian's face for a long time, and then said tremblingly: "Xian, Xianshanghong, Hongluan, the stars are moving, a good thing... Maybe it's near." After finishing speaking, he was worried about himself The answer could not satisfy the other party, so he looked at Qi Lian anxiously, but saw the other party was slightly startled.

"Red Luan Star..." Qi Lian frowned slightly, then repeated it again, laughed a few times before raising his head and pretending to be gloomy, "Hehe, nonsense! My son's Red Luan Star has been silent for hundreds of years, why not?" Will Hong Luan move for no reason?"

"I didn't—" the fortune teller let out a long howl, almost crying, watching Qi Lian flick his sleeve to confiscate his Sanshengshi fragments.Qi Lian measured the small three-life stone, and said to the audience: "Everyone, see clearly, this stone in my hand is the legendary three-life stone, which records the past and present lives of all beings in the three worlds. The 'magic operator' in front of you is not a god at all. His so-called 'fortune-telling' is nothing more than reading to you what was written on the Sansheng Stone, and it is impossible to truly ward off disasters and avoid disasters for you. Instead of being superstitious about these things, it is better to work harder yourself."

"What, it's a magic stick again." "We have a mixed bag of fish and dragons in Shilipu. The forest is big and there are all kinds of birds. Is there still a need for a magic stick?" The crowd dispersed quickly, leaving only Shen Suanzi and Qi Lian looking at each other.

Shen Suanzi cried with snot and tears, and said: "My lord, for the sake of my seniors and juniors, please return me the fragments of the Sansheng Stone."

"Give it back to you, and let you continue to cheat with it?" Qi Lian said, putting the Sansheng Stone in his pocket, "Tell me, where did it come from?"

"Pick it up."

"Pick it up?"

"It's really picked up!" said the fortune teller: "Not only the villain picked it up, but many people picked it up!"

"A lot of people picked it up"?" Qi Lian's mouth twitched, "How many pieces did the Sansheng Stone break into?"

"Who knows, a few days ago a monkey soared up, shaking the world and weeping ghosts and gods, and shattered the Sansheng Stone. It didn't break into tens of thousands of pieces, at least a few thousand pieces." The fortune teller said: "Everyone They are all robbing like crazy. If everyone else is robbing, wouldn’t it be a loss if I don’t?”

"Hehe, you are quite righteous." Qi Lian smiled, waved his hands and said, "Forget it, I borrowed this Sansheng Stone from you. After three days, you can go to Huaguo Mountain to get it."

Naturally, Qi Lian's begging for the three-life stone fragments from the fortune teller was not to tease him, let alone to deceive others too much.However, even though he has returned to the Heavenly Court after a catastrophe, he still has some doubts in his heart and wants to find out.

"Mu Lin, tell me—the Great Sage has this life and no future life, how can I see his past and future from the Sansheng Stone?" Qi Lian propped his elbows on the table, resting his chin on one hand and meditating hard for a whole day , I didn't think of a reason, so I had to ask the little boy around me.

Now that Zitong has been named a god general and has his own temple, he can no longer serve Qi Lian.The Jade Emperor was considerate, so he allocated a clever boy from his own palace to use for him, it was Mu Lin.

Mu Lin sat down on the stool opposite, imitating Qi Lian's appearance, resting his chin with one hand, thought for a while, and said: "The relationship between Your Majesty and the Great Sage has been entangled since the beginning of the creation of the Pangu Great Emperor, and now it is even more entangled." It’s inseparable. Isn’t the past and present life of the Great Sage also yours? If you can’t find his, you might as well try to find your own, maybe you can find the answer.”

Qi Lian suddenly became enlightened, pointed at Mu Lin's forehead and said with a smile: "Slap you, you little clever ghost, why does I like you so much!" As he spoke, he separated a touch of spiritual consciousness into the Sansheng Stone, or in other words— ——Illusion of Ten Directions.

At the foot of the Five Elements Mountain, Qi Lian followed Wukong into the ten-direction illusion once.At the time he thought those were just hallucinations, or reflections of something that happened in the past.After going through a lot since then, Qi Lian has been flashing a thought in his mind in recent days - isn't it the Three Lives Stone that can see past and present lives?Since Wukong is not in the Three Realms and Five Elements, and there is no such thing as "the past life and the next life", then when he followed Wukong into the Three Life Stone, whose past life and whose future life did he see?Perhaps, the illusion of ten directions is not Wukong's inner demon, but his own.

In the Sansheng Stone, time is reversed.Just like watching flowers on horseback, Qi Lian saw him reincarnated six times, and Wukong was always by his side; in the fire of karma, Wukong burned his eyes trying to save him; , the guilt and affection in his eyes were so thick that they couldn't be resolved; at the Conferred God Ceremony, when Wukong reunited with him in front of the Yuqing Palace, the astonishment and ecstasy he saw at a glance; At the Dao Dharma meeting, Wukong held the Mercury retrograde and Yaoguang left behind by him, knelt down on the ground in humility and despair, and asked the Buddha for guidance.

Also, the little things the two spent together during the days in Huaguo Mountain; when he called Wukong "Brother Changliu" again and again in the daughter country, the other party would turn around with a cold face, but after turning around, his eyebrows became pale Gentle, with a happy smile; when the country was full of warehouses, Wukong did not hesitate to injure himself and split into "Long Liu" to rescue him from the flames.Even, all the things he thought were illusions actually happened. Wukong did kiss him when he was seriously injured and unconscious, and asked him knowingly after he woke up, "Isn't it just a piece of rag, which is very important to you?" After getting an affirmative answer, it was rare to blush, and even pretended to be indifferent and sneered a few times.

"Your Majesty, Huaguoshan sent someone to give gifts." Before Qi Lian could find the answer he was looking for, Mu Lin sent a secret message, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being and quit the Three Lives Stone.He poured himself a cup of tea, glanced at the door, and said, "Has the Great Sage not been here for a few days?"

"No, it's going to be half a month." Mu Lin said, "But the Great Sage always remembers you, so he sends things to our house every day."

Qi Lian's tone was neither light nor serious, and he couldn't tell whether it was bitter or serious, and said: "Yesterday I gave you peaches, the day before yesterday I gave you bananas, and the day before yesterday... Well, I can't put it down. After all, our house is If there is no shortage of fruit, what did you send this time? If it is still these, let the monkeys carry it back. Go back and send a letter to his king, saying that this fairy is a little bit worried. If he really wants to, please come here in person.”

"Puff." Mu Lin covered his mouth and smiled, "Your Majesty, why are you becoming less and less shy. When you miss the Great Sage, you just think about it in your heart. Why did you still say it? It's embarrassing."

Qi Lian took a sip, and said: "The skin is not dumpling skin, so the thinner the better. I just like him, so I want to dominate him. He is mine. Whenever I want him to come, he has to do it." come over."

Mu Lin wrinkled his nose and said, "I think you've been a prince in the mortal world for a long time, and you can put on a show. I heard from Brother Zitong that you used to be picky about what you eat, drink, and wear. Now— ——If the tea is Longjing tea before the rain, it must be the tenderest piece of tea in Jianshan; the wine must be made from peach blossoms, and it must be the first peach blossom on the tree in March; Add honey and milk. As for clothes, you never complained about your coarse linen before, but now, which one of you is not woven of the finest cloud silk?"

"Go, go, go! The things you mentioned were not bought by me, they were all sent from Huaguo Mountain, so they are not for nothing!" Qi Lian kicked Mu Lin's buttocks with a smile, and said, "Besides , the master hasn't mentioned you yet, but you are the first to blame the master? Huh, tell me quickly, what did Huaguo Mountain give you this time?"

"I told you, don't get excited." Mu Lin ran out two steps, clutching his buttocks, turning his head and laughing as he ran, "Haha, it's a betrothal gift!!!"

"Employment—" Qi Lian almost spewed out a dragon well, tried hard, and still maintained the royal demeanor he cultivated in the mortal world, and said to himself: "Could it be that this old peach tree of mine is really good this year?" Has the red luan star moved?" In the 300 years since Li Jie came back, Wukong has not mentioned the marriage to him.And he thought it was just a ceremony, dispensable, and he didn't care.I don't know what the other party was doing today, but he actually sent a betrothal gift, which made him a little curious, wanting to know what was inside the red wooden boxes piled up in the yard.

Qi Lian strolled out the door.There was a row of little monkeys standing in the yard. Don't look at them chattering non-stop, but this time they were surprisingly quiet. Everyone looked at him stupidly with a smile showing eight teeth on their faces.When he came to the front, six or thirty-six monkey heads bowed to him together, and said in unison: "Brother Huanxi, there is a person from the Huaguoshan Water Curtain Cave today, and the Monkey King, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, came to propose marriage! Would you like to?"

"..." This caught Qi Lian by surprise, lost his mind slightly, and then remembered what to say, and said with a smile: "Whether you want to or not, it depends on the dowry gift from your king, whether I like it or not." , With a flick of his sleeve, he opened all the lids of the nine lacquered mahogany boxes, but was stunned.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!" The monkeys burst into joy as if they had accomplished something, and 36 of them formed a big circle, bouncing around the box.I saw that in every box, there was a Wukong, with red clothes and blond hair, holding on to a peach blossom in March.

"Then—are you happy with this gift?" The nine Wukongs sent out the peach blossoms in their hands at the same time, surrounding Qi Lian in the middle.Qi Lian was startled, and his eyes suddenly became hot.Sniffing, pretending to be cold, he said, "Who would give yourself as a betrothal gift? Who wants you!"

Wukong knew that Qi Lian was just feeling embarrassed, so he stopped teasing him, and became one in an instant, but he was holding nine peach blossoms alone.He walked up to Qi Lian, gently pressed his forehead, and asked again in a gentle voice, "Tell me, are you happy?"

"..." Qi Lian heard a "dong dong dong" heartbeat, just like drumming.At first I thought it belonged to me, but I touched my chest and realized that it belonged to the other party.He looked up in surprise, and immediately saw the tension in the other party's expression, which was too late to hide. His heart moved, and he nodded involuntarily: "Well, I am happy."

"Then—are you willing?" Wukong asked again, this time he no longer concealed the nervousness in his heart, but it may be that he wanted to conceal it but was powerless, so he broke the pot and even spoke with a little imperceptible tremor .It wasn't until Qi Lian took the bouquet from him and said "I do" very earnestly that his tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and as he had rehearsed tens of thousands of times in his heart, he domineeringly pulled Qi Lian into his heart. In her arms, she kissed his lips hard.

"Who wants to dominate who, please find out first." Wukong said with a smile, picked up Qi Lian's legs and hugged him horizontally.Qi Lian felt a little crisis, he grabbed Wukong's lapel, struggled and said, "Well—presumptuous, you are a wandering doctor, how dare you molested me."

"It was the prince who first said that he misses you, who is molesting whom, huh?" Wukong said with a smile.Qi Lian knew he was wrong, so he remained silent.After entering the room, Wukong put him gently on the bed, and the light pink peach blossoms were scattered on the pillow, reflecting Qi Lian's red lips after being kissed.Wukong leaned over and kissed the corner of his mouth a few more times, but he didn't move any further.Qi Lian blinked and said, "Today, I can't understand you."

"Today, I also don't understand myself." Wukong smiled, tidied up Qi Lian's scattered clothes little by little, squatted down beside the bed, and said slowly: "From Huaguoshan to Shili Yanbopu, it is far away. It’s not far, but it’s not that close. The monkeys carried the boxes and walked over step by step. I was bored in the box all the way, and I was also worried all the way. I am not afraid of gods and Buddhas, I am not afraid of the world, I never expected One day, I will actually have something that needs to be "courageous" to do. Apart from you, I don't think there is another person in this world. Let me taste what it is like to worry about gains and losses, and I always think about someone in my heart What's it like, what's it like to be greedy for life and afraid of death."

Qi Lian did not expect that Wukong would use the words "greedy for life and afraid of death" to describe himself. In his heart, whenever he thought of the words "Monkey King", he would always think of "the hero of the world".But at this moment, he understood.Because he himself is greedy for life and afraid of death, he is greedy for living together, and he doesn't want to be apart for a moment.However, if you can share the same acupoints in the same quilt, whether it is life or death, what is there to be afraid of?

"Brother Changliu." Qi Lian finally couldn't help calling the name that he hadn't recalled for a long time, and said softly: "If you stay longer, I will be happy. What I said will always count. "