[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

I knew that there was a "fire and ice punishment" at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain, but I didn't expect that the fire punishment had just ended, and then I was frozen under the ice with the monkey.But the ice punishment seems to be different from the fire punishment. Even if it is frozen at this moment, there is not much coldness, and the body does not even feel the slightest pain. Instead, it is extremely relaxed, as if falling asleep after falling asleep.

My spiritual consciousness was sucked into a dark abyss by a powerful energy force, like entering a black tunnel, constantly being torn apart and rejoined, without pain, it was a wonderful feeling, with strong power and gentleness, Gradually ironing my limbs.

The tunnel is not completely dark, occasionally dots of light golden light spots can be seen, and vague images can be vaguely seen from the halo, like fragments of some kind of memory.

I wanted to reach out to grab a piece and put it in front of my eyes for a closer look, but suddenly a dazzling silver light appeared from the front and I couldn't open my eyes, the attraction decreased, and the downward trend slowed down, as if I had reached the end of the tunnel.

"Ah!" I fell out of the tunnel, squatted down on the ground, let out a soft cry of pain, and realized that I had arrived in a mountain forest before I knew it.

Different from the Five Elements Mountain, the flowers, plants and trees on this mountain are very pleasing. I don’t know what season it is, but the mountain is full of peach trees and bananas. At this moment, there are many fruits, and it is the harvest season.At the moment, I am in a forest halfway up the mountain. The ground is covered with fallen leaves and herbs, as well as bugs and bees. Mushrooms grow on the roots of old trees, and ants are transporting food.

"It hurts..." I snorted and rubbed my butt, only to feel something was wrong.I'm a piece of rotten wood, where did my ass come from?Putting my hands together in front of my eyes, I raised my head to face the sun, a dazzling light fell through my fingers, I squinted my eyes, and murmured: "Well, fingers...flesh fingers..." As I spoke, I poked again. He rubbed his bulging cheeks, which were also soft and plump, and couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly lowered his head to look at the shadow on the ground.

Just after noon, the sun slanted to the west, instead of elongating my shadow, it compressed it into a flat and thick shape, looking round and round like a small ball, and judging from my stature, I was no more than a young man of thirteen or fourteen years old. .

If the spiritual body is transformed into a human being, there will be no shadow.Now that I have my shadow in the sun, it means that I am here with my physical body.What happened, and where is this place? Why is my physical body suddenly transformed into a human form when I have lost all my cultivation for a hundred years?

For a while, countless doubts welled up in my heart.

Before he had time to clear his mind, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, landing on all fours, and his steps were extremely slow.I turned my head abruptly, and saw a fierce white-haired tiger slowly approaching from behind me, with its jaws wide open, and it was about to pounce at any moment.

"?!" I was stunned, and stood there staring at it with big eyes, without moving.It's not that I don't want to escape, but it's the first time I walk with two legs, I'm not used to it, and I can't lift my legs.

"Roar——" The huge monster grinned at me, bared its teeth, and roared, shaking half the forest. It bent down, rubbed its front paws on the ground, raised a few rotten leaves, and suddenly stepped back. With a kick of my legs, I jumped up and rushed towards me.

"Ah!" I subconsciously blocked it with my arm, and the white tiger's sharp claws swept over fiercely, almost grabbing my forearm.

At the critical juncture, suddenly there was a nimble figure, grabbing a vine wrapped around a tree and wandering over.He held the cane with his left hand, and with a light sweep of his right hand, he wrapped his arms around my waist and took me up into the air, saying: "What are you doing standing there, you don't want to run! Are you waiting to be eaten?"

"Howl—" Seeing that the prey in its mouth was like a boiled duck, the white tiger flew out of thin air. It immediately let out a roar, jumped into the air, and stretched out its sharp claws to chase us.

"Want to catch up with me, what a joke!" The man laughed contemptuously, hugged me and jumped onto the branch, hopping around the top of the peach tree with ease, avoiding the attack.

"Huh?" I just recovered from the crisis just now, and felt that the voice sounded familiar. I looked up from his arms and said in surprise: "Monkey?!"

"What happened to the monkey? But the monkey saved you!" The monkey snorted, "You didn't say thank you?"

At this moment, he has a grumpy face, his upper body is naked, and only a grass skirt made of three giant banana leaves is around his waist. He looks... very different from when he was in the sky, if I hadn't seen him before as a golden cicada When the original body was wielding the golden cudgel, he would never have recognized that the "simple" and "simple and rude" monkey in front of him was the majestic Monkey King.

"Thank...thank you." I said, pressing against the monkey's furry chest, my cheeks felt hot for no reason.I'm probably sick, suffering from "fever", I think so.

"Hook your arm around my neck a little bit," said the monkey. He hugged me with one hand, and with the other he grabbed the vines and flew over. Birds fly in Zhongshan.

"..." I hesitated

The monkey looked back and saw that the white tiger was gradually being left behind. He breathed a sigh of relief, looked down at me, frowned and said, "What do you eat to grow, it's too heavy."

"..." I really wanted to understand what he meant. He thought I was fat, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hold me with one arm later, so he asked me to take the initiative to hug his neck.Well, I followed the good example and immediately grabbed his neck and wrapped my legs tightly around his waist, and asked seriously, "Is this okay?"

"All right." Monkey said.

He had some trouble jumping because I was so tightly bound, but he didn't say anything to make me let go.He lifted me up again, jumped a few more times, and reached the edge of the peach grove, and the white tiger had been left far behind at some point, and disappeared.

The monkey let go of the rattan, hugged me sideways, jumped off the treetop, and landed firmly on a flat ground.Next to the open space is a huge water pool with a square of hundreds of feet. Opposite the water pool is a natural waterfall with a height of thousands of feet. The waterfall hangs in the air like a white line. It is several feet high, and the sound is like thunder and flashes, deafening.

"This is..." I vaguely guessed what this place was, and also vaguely understood why I came here.

"This is my old grandson's Huaguoshan Water Curtain Cave!" the monkey said, his voice not without complacency, calling out: "Children, come out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of lively monkeys of different sizes jumped out from behind a few boulders. They were all bare-chested and wore dresses woven with grass leaves around their waists, shouting excitedly around us: "Your Majesty!" Come back! The king patrolling the mountains is back!"

A handsome gibbon came forward and said, "Your Majesty, the tiger at the back mountain has already bitten several of our brothers, and we have suffered from it. Is it gone now?"

"Not yet." Monkey shook his head.

A hairy monkey was still smiling, but when it heard that the white tiger was still there, it immediately put on a mournful face and said, "Your Majesty, let's talk about whoever enters the Shuilian Cave first will be the most skilled. King, he is the only one to follow! Now that you are the king, you must protect us!"

"It's easy to say, wait for another opportunity, and I will take you to find a way to get rid of this pest!" The monkey replied: "I said I would protect you, and I will! I jumped out of the cracks in the rocks, and I was born If you don’t have relatives, you are my relatives, and if I eat a bite of fruit, I will never let you suffer.”

"Our king keeps his word, don't worry, everyone!" the arm-armed monkey said, glanced at me in the monkey's arms, and asked, "Your Majesty, why did you bring back a baby during your mountain tour this time?"

The monkey looked down at me and said, "This is a long story, so don't stay outside, go back to the cave and talk about it."

"Yes." The arm-branch monkey said, and began to greet everyone to line up, preparing to go back to the grotto through the Water Curtain Waterfall.

The monkey hugged me and walked to the edge of the pool. Just about to jump up, he remembered something, and he turned around and said, "Go find a bigger banana leaf."

A little monkey hurriedly looked for Ye Zi, and handed over a leaf after a while.

The monkey took it, covered me, and said, "Cover it more, so as not to get your clothes wet."

"..." My heart warmed up, and I grabbed the banana leaf and wrapped myself tightly, leaving only my head outside, and looked at the monkey seriously.

I know this is his dream.

The so-called "ice punishment" does not mean "freeze", but "calm".

Buddha imprisoned the monkeys here, perhaps with his intentions.I guessed some of these from the words of the Jade Emperor and Maitreya.Thinking about it, the Buddha wanted to wear away some of the monkey's disdainful temperament, or he wanted to teach the monkey something that he didn't have.

In Monkey's heart, maybe... the days in Huaguo Mountain shortly after he was born were the most carefree and unforgettable.Or maybe, being pressed under the Five Elements Mountain for a hundred years, he is thinking about it day by day, thinking about every plant and tree in Huaguo Mountain, monkeys and grandchildren.

But, I don't know why I have a shallow friendship with the monkey, and I can be involved in his dream for no reason.

The monkey didn't care about me staring at him, pressed me into his arms, and jumped into the water curtain.Behind the water curtain, there is a hole in the sky.Stone-carved tables, chairs and benches are all available.

The monkey put me down and turned around to sit on a swing covered with flower vines. After taking a bunch of bananas from the little monkey, he broke off the biggest one and threw it to me.

"Find a place to sit by yourself," the monkey said, and broke off a few more bananas, and rewarded the monkeys who looked like little bosses around him, including the gibbon monkey.

Maybe Taoshu is naturally afraid of monkeys. Facing the room full of little monkeys, I felt a little timid. I hugged the bananas that the monkeys handed me, and stood stupidly without daring to move.

"Hey, baby, you can sit if my king tells you to!" An old monkey with white hair on its forehead said to me.

"Oh." I replied, and glanced at the monkey again.

"Sit down." The monkey opened a banana twice, took a bite, and swung on the swing, smiling, "You don't want to sit, do you still want me to hug you?"

"Yo Yo Yo, give me a hug, give me a hug~" A group of monkeys coaxed blindly, "I also want to be hugged by the king, Yo Yo, please hug me."

I looked embarrassed and lowered my head.

"Go, go, let's play!" The monkey pretended to be angry, and threw the banana peel in his hand to the group of monkeys.

"Oh!" The little monkeys smiled and hid, making faces at me, and said "Hug me, hahaha!"

"..." I poked the banana peel with my finger.

"Pick it up if you want to eat it, you can't do it?" the monkey asked me. At some point, he got off the swing and jumped in front of me. He reached out and took the banana, peeled the skin in half, and handed it over again: " Here, eat."

"Thank you." I said, hesitantly brought the banana to my mouth, smelled it first, saw that it was sweet, and then carefully bit off a little bit of flesh with the tip of my teeth.Eating with your mouth for the first time, instead of roots or leaves and branches, feels... really wonderful.The banana tasted cold and sweet, and my eyes lit up, "It's delicious! Thank you, Dasheng! You are a good person!"

"Great Sage?" Monkey was taken aback, "What is that?"

"..." I looked up and saw him in a daze, and then I remembered that he is not the Monkey King, but just a monkey just born, so I stuck out my tongue, shook my head and said, "No, it's nothing, anyway, thank you! "

"Great Sage..." He seemed a little persistent, and whispered the two words again, savoring them, and said with a smile, "It sounds majestic."

"That's natural!" I puffed my cheeks and puffed out my small chest: "That's a peerless hero with his feet on the clouds and his golden armor!"

"Unrivaled hero? Heh—" the monkey chuckled, turned around and jumped onto the stone throne, raised his legs, leaned forward slightly, and asked, "You praise him so well, do you admire him?"

"I..." I opened my mouth, blushed, lowered my head to hold the banana in my mouth, and stopped talking.

"Haha." The monkey laughed even more happily, "I hit it off."

"What kind of unrivaled hero, is there my great Wang Jun?" The little monkey shouted, "My great king is the best, he is the hero!"

"Hey!" The monkey waved his hand, signaling to the group of little monkeys not to scare me with their nonsense. After I finished eating the bananas, he threw another orange over, but maybe it was to see that I couldn't peel bananas. The orange was peeled and thrown into my arms.

I hid aside and ate oranges. They were cool, sweet and sour, and delicious!

A group of little monkeys hid not far away and looked at me curiously, and another group of little monkeys pestered the monkey and asked how he met me and how he rescued me from the tiger's mouth.

The monkey talked exaggeratedly about his heroic deeds when he rescued me just now, and he almost boasted himself as superhuman. Hearing that, those innocent little monkeys stared straight and shouted: "Your Majesty is really a hero!" A monkey rushed to me with enthusiasm: "My king saved you, how do you plan to repay him? Hey, I promise you with your body, are you willing?"