[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

The old man of the Jade Emperor said that in recent days, several Jade Emperor temples have been newly built in the area of ​​Mount Zhi, and the number of believers has increased sharply, and the incense is flourishing.

Ben Xianjun said: "This is a good thing. Someone enshrines you, which shows that you have a high status in the hearts of ordinary people, and others can't ask for it."

The Jade Emperor shook his head and said, "Huanxi, you don't know something."

Ben Xianjun: "Oh, what do you say?"

The Jade Emperor explained: "This emperor is in charge of the gods in the heavens. He has a high position and authority. Those mortals in the lower realms generally cannot afford to worship them. Every year just for festivals, the pigs, ducks, beef, goats, melons, and fruit syrup used for sacrifices are equivalent to those of ordinary farmers. Half a year's harvest. So, they would rather build ten earth temples than afford one Jade Emperor temple."

"Well..." Ben Xianjun thought for a while, and said: "In this case, you should reduce the ostentation and lower the requirements for sacrifices. Anyway, you can't eat so much beef and mutton all year round. Don't waste it?"

The Jade Emperor glanced at Ben Xianjun lightly, and said: "The point is not these."

"Huh?" Ben Xianjun asked: "What is that?"

The Jade Emperor said: "The important point is that almost overnight, several temples were suddenly built on Mount Di to worship the Emperor."

"So, there are a lot of people getting rich overnight?"

"..." The Jade Emperor looked helplessly at this immortal gentleman, I guess he probably regretted entrusting this errand to me.He thought about his words before saying: "I don't rule out the possibility of getting rich overnight. But those people don't worship this emperor for no reason, but they want me."

"..." Ben Xianjun did not speak, waiting for the Jade Emperor to continue.

"According to the talisman that the mountain people burned to the sky during the sacrifice, in the past six months, passing women have often been stripped of their face and thrown into the wilderness. Some people reported the case to the government, but after several months of investigation, nothing was found. As a result, the rumors that 'the perpetrator is not an ordinary person, but a demon' gradually spread." The Jade Emperor said.

"Heh——" Ben Xianjun laughed, "What kind of monster, maybe it's just that the investigators couldn't find out the case and wanted to shirk responsibility."

The Jade Emperor stroked his beard, took a few steps towards the bookshelf, and said: "At first, I thought so too, so I sent a few immortal officials down. On the one hand, to help investigate the case, and on the other hand, let those mortals know that we Those who are immortals will really bless them in the sky and comfort people's hearts. As a result...all the immortal officials who were sent down never returned, and they were cut off from the heavens."

Ben Xianjun frowned.

The Jade Emperor's expression became serious, and he raised his hand to take a booklet with a black cover from the bookshelf and threw it to me, saying, "This is the handbook left by Bo Tuo, the god of Mount Dishan, in the study room of the mountain temple. You can see for yourself what you saw and heard while patrolling the mountain.”

"Yes." Ben Xianjun responded, and hurriedly lowered his head and flipped through the booklet, but saw that the booklet was densely packed with small seal characters, and there were not even half of the illustrations.The words may recognize me, but I don't recognize them.With an embarrassed laugh, I returned the booklet and said, "Hehe, Jade Emperor, Xiaoxian reads very slowly, so if you have something to say, just say it."

The Jade Emperor didn't think much about it, nodded and said, "That's fine." He turned the booklet to the last page, glanced at it, and said, "Bo Tuo recorded in the handbook that when he was patrolling the mountain, he found the aura of demons in the mountain. , I suspect it was done by people from the Demon Realm."

"Demon Realm?" Ben Xianjun thought of Su Changxiu mentioned by Zitong, and asked, "Hasn't the demon Su Changxiu already been thrown into the hell? Shouldn't the demon clan at this time have no leader and a mess, how can they still stir up trouble?"

"You know Su Changxiu?" Jade Emperor was a little surprised.

Ben Xianjun smiled: "Occasionally I heard Zitong say that he followed the example of the Monkey King and led the magic soldiers to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace 300 years ago. But he ended up in a very miserable way. Not to be overborn."

The Jade Emperor nodded, then shook his head again, and said, "You only know one thing, not the other. After Su Changxiu, the Demon Race has had two monarchs. The old Demon Lord was hanged by the current Demon Lord after he was in office for less than a year. Death. The current demon king is called Ji Ye, and after he came to the throne, he has repeatedly troubled me in the fairy world. It is not unbelievable for Ruobuo to say that this matter is caused by the demon race."

"Is that so..." Ben Xianjun understood, and asked again: "Then, what else was written in Bo Tuo's handbook?"

The Jade Emperor sighed, "Then there is no more, his handwriting is recorded here, and the last sentence has not been written, and people don't know where to end." He looked at me, "Huanxi, now all immortal officials have There is no return, the emperor is extremely worried. This morning, when I was drinking the fruit wine of the Queen Mother, I thought of you, so I made a bold guess."

Ben Xianjun paused, suddenly felt chills down his spine, took a step back, turned around and wanted to escape, and thought: If the Jade Emperor guessed wrong, wouldn't I also die like the previous fellow Taoists?It's okay to go on a short errand and do a little miscellaneous work, but the big thing of death is something I have to weigh in my mind.

This Immortal Lord cherishes his life so tightly!

The Jade Emperor seemed to have a plan in his chest, and kindly held my fairy's hand that was shaking back and forth, pulled me back, and said with a smile: "Although you are already a golden body, you are not a real fairy in name. No matter the other party is A demon is a demon, so I don’t know you exist. Why don’t you pretend to be a mortal and go to Dishan to find out.”

This fairy struggled desperately, refused to die, and shouted: "Jade Emperor! Jade Emperor! Listen to me! Even if there are demons haunting Dishan, the ones who should come forward are the fox fairy aunts of the Qingqiu fox clan. Can't beat Xiaoxian to come here!"

The Jade Emperor said: "I forgot to tell you. The fairy girls in Qingqiu either went out to wander and did not come back, or reported their health and went to retreat, otherwise it really won't be your turn."

"..." Ben Xianjun mourned in silence, and asked with a mournful face: "Can I... can I not go?"

The Jade Emperor smiled like a fox, and his wrists seemed to be hurting from the wrists of the Immortal Lord, who seemed to have no strength in his hands. He squinted his eyes and smiled lightly, "I can't."

"Then... let me go back to Xishan and tell Zitong." Seeing that there is no room for turning around, the fairy is half-hearted, "That child and I have been farming and weeding for two months. We have done a lot of hard work. Let's say goodbye today. Possibly once in a lifetime…”

"Where did you come up with so much nonsense?" The Jade Emperor finally became impatient, and threw this fairy out of the window with a flick of his arm.

In just a few breaths, Ben Xianjun had already landed on his buttocks and fell on a two-foot-wide street.

"Hiss—" Ben Xianjun took a breath while supporting his aching waist.It was a good fall, and the back injury that took 1000 years to heal is likely to recur.Flipping his hands, he was about to hold out a piece of ice and use it for a cold compress, but he recited the formula several times in his heart, but there was not even a trace of cold air coming out of his palm.

The Jade Emperor is very scheming, he is afraid that this fairy can't pretend to be a mortal, so he sealed my mana.

"Look, everyone, who is this man?" said an aunt who bought flowers, and came over to look at me.

A salesman shook his head: "I don't know, it seems to have appeared here suddenly."

As soon as they shouted, more people soon gathered around and talked about it.

"I saw that he fell from the sky." A woman wearing a square scarf said.

The person next to her might be her husband-in-law, and that person said: "Don't talk nonsense, what fell from the sky is either a fairy or a demon!"

"Monster?!" The crowd panicked, "Run! The murderous monster is coming!"

"Everyone, don't panic, don't panic!" Ben Xianjun got up from the ground with his waist supported, trying his best to be kind, so as not to frighten these mortals, and said: "I am not a demon, nor a god."

"Then how did you fall from the sky?" one person asked.

"I didn't fall from the sky, but from the wall." Ben Xianjun said.

"wall?"

Ben Xianjun nodded: "My family education is very strict, my parents won't let me go out easily, so I had to climb over the wall to come out, who knows I accidentally fell down."

Maihua aunt was skeptical, she glanced behind this fairy, and asked: "Could it be...you are the son of the Jin family who just moved here?"

"The Jin family?" Ben Xianjun was taken aback, and looked back.

I saw a huge house behind me, facing south, with a huge red lacquered gate, glazed golden tiles, a corridor with unfinished waists, and high-cut eaves and teeth.There is a gold flat hanging on the door, and there are two big characters "Golden Mansion" written on it, which is very impressive.

Ben Xianjun just found an excuse in a hurry, but he didn't expect such a coincidence that there was really a courtyard with high walls behind him.I was hesitating whether to answer "yes" or "no", at this moment, the door of the Jin Mansion opened from the inside with a creak, and a sixty-year-old man dressed as a charitable butler walked out and said to me: " Master, Madam calls you home for dinner."

"..."

The plaque in front of the mansion has the word "gold", which is obviously aimed at this fairy.It's just that this fairy king came here for the first time, and he hasn't figured out the situation yet. At this time, someone came to recognize his relatives, and he couldn't tell whether the other party was an enemy or a friend for a while.Now that my mana is sealed again, wouldn't it be bad if I don't know people well?

The old man had been waiting in front of the door, as if the Immortal Monarch would not let him in unless he went in.

Ben Xianjun frowned slightly, so he had to shake his right hand slightly, and heard that "Prajna" only made a crisp sound of "Dingling", which was not unusual.

"Alas - I was caught by my mother again." The fairy sighed pretendingly, and then followed the old man into the golden mansion with a face of reluctance, "Everyone should leave, don't watch the excitement."

After entering the door, Ben Xianjun discovered that the Jinfu mansion only looks magnificent from the outside, but the space inside is pitifully small. There is no yard, and it is just a space remodeled from a half-old cave. stalactites with cold water dripping from them.The light was dim, and those sharp stones almost pierced the fairy's scalp several times.

There are many gaps in the cave, and the one I am walking on now is a slightly wider gap.The roads inside are intertwined and the structure is complicated. If you are not careful, you will lose your way.

Walking to a fork, Ben Xianjun stood in a relatively spacious place in the middle and stopped moving forward.

The old man pointed to the gap on the right and made a "please" gesture, saying: "Shangxian, this way please."

Ben Xianjun brushed his hand away, stood with folded arms, and said with a smile: "When you come here, should you tell me, who are the three of you?"