[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

"How can a wooden sword work?"

"No way?"

"Why don't I ask someone to go to the warehouse to find an iron sword for you, is it better than this?"

Ma Yuanwai seemed to have some doubts about my ability to subdue demons and exorcise ghosts. Before he walked to Miss Ma's boudoir, he kept chanting in his mouth, determined to give me a diamond black iron sword.In the end, I had no choice but to briefly explain the origin of "Mercury retrograde" to him.

I told him that "Mercury retrograde" was a gift from a master of Taoism, and peach wood itself has the ability to ward off evil spirits. Generally, little demons and ghosts can avoid "swords, swords and halberds" made of peach wood if they can avoid them.The implication is that although the wooden sword is cheap, it is better than the black iron sword. Ma Yuanwai finally put his heart back and led me to Miss Ma's boudoir.

"Miss! Miss! You can't hang yourself, come down quickly!"

Before entering the door, the horseman heard the sound of Xiaohuan crying and rushing to the ground in the house, and moved forward swiftly, kicking the door open with a flying kick.

How elegant is the lady's boudoir.A few strands of colored silk thread are hung on the embroidery stand by the wall, and there is also an unfinished embroidery.The window is half open, and there are several pots of green potted plants in front of the bed.At first glance, this young lady is a lady, gentle and virtuous.

At that time, a black silk was hanging upside down from the ridge in the middle of the roof. Miss Ma was wearing a plain dress with disheveled hair. Most of her palm-sized face was covered by the hair, and only her empty eyes were exposed, staring blankly at the long black silk. .With her snow-white feet bare, she stepped on a square ebony stool, holding on to the long silk, and was hanging her slender neck on the ring.

The little maid at the side was so frightened that she wiped her tears and cried, but she had nothing to do with her young lady who was determined to die.

Seeing this, the horseman's face immediately changed, he trembled with anxiety, and shouted: "Is everyone dead?! Hurry up and stop the lady~ my precious girl~"

"Yes, master!" Little Three and Little Four rushed into the house immediately.

One took the scissors to cut the long black silk hanging from Miss Ma's neck; the other was busy hugging Miss Ma's thigh, intending to lift him off the stool.Unexpectedly, the long silk was so tough that no matter how Xiao San'er cut it, she couldn't stop cutting it. Miss Ma's strength also became unreasonable, and she kicked Xiao Si'er away with one kick.

Xiao Si'er flew towards the door and hit the horse man.With my left hand, I grabbed the horseman's shoulder and sent it forward, and with my right hand, I used the sword horizontally to catch Xiao Si'er, so that they didn't really bump into each other.

"It's really evil, the young lady's strength is suddenly so strong that she can catch up with the donkey that is pulling the mill in the backyard!" Xiao Sier said after standing still, holding his hat.

Ma Yuanwai kicked his ass and yelled, "How are you talking?!"

"Calm down your anger, now is not the time to talk about this." I hastened to fight, and asked: "Master Ma, can I enter Miss's boudoir?"

"Come in, come in." Master Ma made a gesture of invitation, and said, "I invite you to exorcise ghosts, of course you can come in, hurry up!"

"Yeah." I nodded and walked into the room.Xiao San'er was still working hard to cut the long black silk. When he saw me passing by, he didn't bother to look back, and said, "Our Ma family is rich! We use high-quality materials for food and clothing. Not to mention anything else, Just to say that the black silk my lady used to hang herself today is not generally strong, look at it, it can't be cut."

I:"……"

"Hehe, really rich." I said perfunctorily, took the scissors in his hand, and motioned him to step aside.

The horseman came out, looked up at Miss Ma who was hanging on the ring, couldn't help feeling sad, tears welled up in his eyes.He wiped the corners of his eyes, and began to question the teacher, saying: "Who bought this black silk? From now on, our family will never buy such a strong cloth again. Do you keep it for hanging?"

"Who...who bought it?" Xiaosan and Xiaoer were stunned at the same time, looking at each other, "Isn't this from the warehouse, hey, where did you get the black silk?"

I poked a few times on the black silk with scissors, and found that it was not that it could not be poked and cut continuously, but that every time a hole was poked, every inch was cut, it was repaired completely by itself in an instant, and the material was smooth. Smooth, with a hint of orchid essential oil aroma.

"This black silk, although it looks like silk, but...it's not." I put away the scissors.

The horseman was startled: "It's not silk, what is it?"

"I have a question that is not easy to ask, but must be asked." I said.

Xiao San'er rolled her eyes: "Just ask, why are there so many nonsense!"

I arched my hands to the horseman, and said, "May I ask Master Ma, Ling Ai usually washes and conditiones her hair, and the saponin essential oil and the like...does it smell like orchids?"

"Yes, my young lady likes orchids, and she usually uses orchid essential oil after washing her hair or taking a bath." Xiao Huan beside her twitched, pointing to a few flower pots on the windowsill, "Look, sir, there are still flowers growing there. There are a few orchids. Two days ago, the young lady was fine and watered the flowers herself, but she was suddenly entangled by evil things at night, swallowed her soul, and turned into an unconscious walking dead, only thinking about getting Hang yourself to death."

"Okay, I get it." I nodded, and said to everyone: "If my deduction is correct, the black silk that hangs Miss Ma is not silk, but... hair, and her own hair."

"Head...hair?!" Ma Yuanwai was horrified, "How could it be Cui'e's hair?"

I said: "The one who is entangled with Miss Cui'e should be a 'hair-eating ghost'."

"Fat-eating ghost?" The horseman was startled again, and he took my hand, "Is this ghost powerful? Little brother, no, mage! Mage, can you subdue it?"

I withdrew my hand, but felt that it was not very polite, so I patted the back of his hand and said, "Don't be impatient. There is an emperor in the world, and the king of the underworld also controls the ghost world. Ghosts do things, and ghosts also have rules. As far as I know, according to the 'ghost rule', hair eaters generally only feed on the hair of unmarried girls, and their food intake is very small, so they will not hurt people's lives."

"It doesn't hurt people's lives? If it doesn't hurt people's lives, why does it entangle my daughter? Everyone will be hanged by it!" The horseman was trembling with anger, and said: "Besides, when he was outside the door, didn't he still Did it hurt you? This is called 'no life'?"

"It just attacked me with the strands of hair. It should have been afraid that I would miss its business, so it acted first. Although it caused Miss Cui'e to hang herself, she hanged for two days, didn't she also hang herself?" I said, and paused, "As for the fact that there are so many girls in the city who have not left the court, why did it entangle Miss Ma? Perhaps only you know the reason."

"Me?" The flesh on the horseman's face trembled violently, and he stared and said, "What do I know?!"

I said: "The hair-eating ghost likes to eat the baby's fetal hair, and thus formed a 'ghost relationship' with the baby, and then used its hair as food until the baby girl grew up and married into a woman. The fate' will end. The hair-eating ghost will also leave, looking for the next karma.

Occasionally there are male babies, and the hair-eating ghosts will leave only when they get married and become husbands.Therefore, the first fetal hair of male and female babies should not be thrown away at will.

Think about it, after Miss Cui'e was born, where was her first tuft of lanugo lost?Or when you lost it, were there any suspicious people, things, or things nearby?Maybe you provoked this ghost somewhere, so it didn't hesitate to violate the ghost rule of "hair-eating ghosts are not allowed to hurt people's lives" and risked being punished by Hades to hurt Miss Cui'e. "

"Let me think about it, let the old man think about it." Ma Yuanwai stroked his forehead, very distressed: "No, it's been 17 years, I still remember the first time Cui'e shaved her lanugo, and the hair was thrown in the Where is it?"

"..." I rubbed the center of my eyebrows, "Yes, yes. What can I do? If you can't find a medium to form a ghost relationship, you can't save Miss Cui'e, because as long as the ghost relationship is still there, once the hair-eating ghost dies, Cui'e will die." Miss E is also dying soon."

"Master, didn't the lady often say that she only had her hair cut once since she was a child? The lady didn't want to cut her hair, so she had a fight with you for three days. Finally, you gave her an ivory comb to coax her It's done." Xiaohuan reminded from the side.

"The comb..." The horseman was slightly absent-minded, suddenly his face turned pale, and he said in horror: "The comb! It's the ivory comb!" He squatted on the ground, hugged his head and said, "It's me, I shouldn't! I shouldn't have I became greedy and brought the comb home, which caused Cui'e to be haunted by ghosts..."

It turned out that the Ma family was not the richest man in the city 13 years ago, and Ma Yuanwai was just a small watchman. They lived in a dilapidated hut that leaked frequently, and lived a hard life without eating the next meal.

One night when he went out to watch, he passed by the door of a certain "Zhang" family, and found that robbers had slaughtered all the old and young in Zhang's house.

Originally, he was afraid in his heart, so he dropped the lantern, gongs, drums and other things in his hand, turned around and ran away.But after running for a while, he thought, maybe there are still some treasures left in Zhang's mansion, and he might be able to pick up a leak, so he bravely stepped over piles of corpses and sneaked into the room to search for a while.

Although Zhang's mansion was almost ransacked, he still found an ivory comb under the bed in Miss Zhang's boudoir.That thing looks old, like an antique, worth a lot of silver.Seeing no one around, he put the comb in his pocket and took it home.

Besides, Ma Cuie, although she has black and beautiful hair now, but when she was young, her hair was thin and yellow, as if she was malnourished.An old man in the town said that if children shave their lanugo hair, the regrown hair will become thick and black.So when Mrs. Ma returned home, without further ado, she grabbed Ma Cuie's hair that had been growing for three years and was barely tied into a pigtail, and shaved it off.

Because of this, Ma Cui'e kept crying.Mrs. Ma thought of her poor life, her ignorant daughter, and her husband who was content with the status quo and didn't want to make progress... The more she thought about it, the more she realized that her hard life had come to an end, her heart was sour, and she burst into tears along with her daughter.

At this time, Ma Yuanwai hurried home from Zhang's mansion, and saw his wife and daughter hugging and crying.The wife cried for being poor, and the daughter cried for her pigtails, so she smiled and combed out the priceless ivory and showed them both, and used the comb to comb Ma Cuie's hair that had just been shaved off.Ma Cui'e loved the ivory comb so much that she stopped crying while holding it.Later, Ma Yuanwai listened to his wife's advice, secretly sold the comb, exchanged some money, and started some business, and it took several years before he had the current family business.

"If there was anything unusual when Cui'e was cutting the lanugo...the only thing is that comb." The horseman said, regretting the original: "It's all my fault...I shouldn't touch things that don't belong to me."

"Things are not so bad." I comforted her, "Now that I know that the medium of 'Ghost Fate' is the comb, I just need to find it."

"The comb is easy to find. I sold it to the owner of the bank, Li. He likes to collect antiques, and the things must still be with him." Ma Yuanwai said, and immediately repaired a book, and attached twenty times more money than when he sold it. For the price, ask Xiaosan to send it to the bank and borrow that comb.

An hour later, Xiaosan lived up to his trust and came back with the comb.I took a piece of yellow paper, drew a psychic talisman with the blood of the mother and child prepared in advance, and pasted it on the comb.Immediately, my consciousness left the body and entered a white light. I vaguely saw a woman in white in front of me, so I walked over.

"Master, how is the situation?" Ma Yuanwai asked anxiously.

I withdrew from the Yin-Yang handover and found that my clothes were drenched in cold sweat.Xiao San'er handed me a square towel, I took it, wiped my forehead, and said with a smile, "It's okay, it's Miss Zhang."

"Miss Zhang?!" Ma Yuanwai squatted on the ground and said in a trembling voice, "What... what does she want to do? I didn't kill her house, I just picked up a comb from her house!"

"Don't panic, Ms. Zhang has no malicious intentions." I hurriedly said, and got up with him, "Ms. Zhang said, this comb is used for combing her hair on weekdays. On the day she was wiped out, she saw the robbers entering the house with her own eyes. , and humiliated her to death. She was unwilling, and her soul attached to the comb and became a ghost. She delayed reporting to the underworld, just to find the murderer and avenge her parents. But ghosts need to consume energy to stay in the world, and she I couldn't bear to hurt people's lives, so I had to feed on hair, so I became a 'hair-eating ghost' and formed a ghost relationship with Miss Cui'e."

"Then why did she..."

I said: "Two days ago, a big man went to a bank to save money. Ms. Zhang saw it by accident and recognized him as the robber who slaughtered her family back then, so she came up with such a way to alarm you and ask you to help report to the police. As for you She doesn't care about stealing her comb."

The horseman said: "Definitely, as long as she is willing to let Cui'e go, I will definitely contribute money and efforts to seek justice for the Zhang family! Master, please save the little girl."

I nodded, turned around and inserted the ivory comb into the long black silk made of hair, only to see that the black silk that had been cut unceasingly was broken all at once.Ma Cui'e's stiff and straight body instantly softened, Xiao Huan helped the young lady up with great insight, and put her back on the bed.

In the next few days, Ma Yuanwai was busy with the Zhang family's old case, and Miss Ma's body was fine after a few days of recuperation.The horseman was very generous, after giving me a reward of ten taels as agreed, he treated me graciously, and let me stay in the mansion for a few days, and let me gossip with Miss Ma.

Master Ma said that his standard for choosing a son-in-law for his daughter is definitely not as high as that of the king of his daughter's country. He does not require a car, a house, a father, a mother, good looks, and hair, as long as he is sincere to Miss Cui'e.

I don't quite understand what he meant to express when he said this to me, but after he reminded me, we remembered that according to the schedule, Monkey and the others must have exchanged customs clearance certificates at this moment, left Daughter Country, and went to the next place.So he got up and said goodbye.

When leaving, Miss Cui'e cut off a strand of her hair and braided it into a beautiful peace knot.She said that "Mercury Retrograde" had nothing else on his body except the charm, and it looked very monotonous. She insisted on tying the peace knot on the hilt of the sword for decoration, but I couldn't refuse, so I had to leave it to her.Besides, her hair is smooth and smooth, with the fragrance of orchids, and her hands are skillful, the knots are really beautiful, and it is fresh to wear.

"Huanxi, are you going to the daughter's country next?" Ma Cui'e sent me outside the Ma residence.

"That's right." I said, thinking that she just couldn't see the wind, so I urged her: "Go back to the house quickly, there is no need to send it off."

Cui'e said: "Let me remind you, before entering the daughter's country, the water bag must be filled with water, so don't drink the water in their river."

I was taken aback and asked, "Why?"

Cui'e blushed, unable to support herself: "Because... yes, she will be pregnant..."

"Pregnant?" My face became hot, and I said, "Girl, don't talk about this! Alright, thank you for reminding me, I will pay attention, just leave it alone."

Cui'e nodded, and went back to the Jin Mansion with Xiaohuan's support.I untied the peace knot hanging on the hilt of the sword, slightly bent the corner of my mouth, put "Shui Retrograde" behind my back, and walked towards the daughter's country with firm eyes.

This road is more than half a month.

The prosperity of the daughter's country street is no less than that of the Tang Dynasty, and there are countless restaurants with banners and flags.The strange thing is that no matter whether it is the shopkeeper or the street vendor, or the passer-by who is wandering by the soldiers on patrol, no matter whether they are old or young, or disabled or not, all of them are women.

It seems that what the old woman said before is true, the subjects in Daughter Kingdom are all women.

As soon as I walked into the city gate, it immediately became a spectacle. With a "boom", the crowd surrounded me and looked at me as if they were looking at some rare object.

"Where did you come from, little brother, Jun is dead!"

"Ouch! I'm going to die! I'm so shy!"

I:"……"

Another person said: "What's the matter recently, why do men keep entering our daughter's country?"

Another person said: "No, four Buddhist scriptures came from Tang Dynasty a month ago. Except for the bearded man who looked a little worse, the other three are very handsome! Now those four haven't left yet. Here comes another little brother who looks so handsome that he's dying! Hahaha!"

I couldn't help frowning, it's been more than a month, haven't the monkeys left yet?

"Little brother, how old are you? Married or not?" A pretty woman took my hand.

"Hehehe..." I laughed awkwardly, but said truthfully, "Eighteen, no."

The rest of the people blushed, covered their mouths and snickered, and said, "Xiao Liang, what are you doing by grabbing someone's hand? Is it possible that you also want to imitate the queen and recruit a husband for yourself?"

The woman called Xiao Liang blushed immediately, she let go of me embarrassedly, and said: "The queen and the holy monk are a perfect couple, so we can make a joke of it?"

"Holy monk?" I asked, "Which holy monk?" Could it be a monkey?

"Which one else?" Xiao Liang said, "There is only one holy monk, and that is Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty."

Another person said: "Look at these lanterns and colorful flags on the street, they are all preparing for the wedding of the holy monk and the king."

It turned out to be Jin Chan... What about the promise of a car, a house, a father, a mother, and hair? !

"True love, the king and the holy monk are definitely true love." Everyone started to discuss, "The holy monk is willing to return to secular life for the queen, and the queen is willing to hand over the throne for the holy monk. I am so touched..."

"It's very touching..." I murmured, but I couldn't believe that Jin Chan would be so moved for a woman, and let go of his great wish to save all living beings and save the world and the people.It's even harder for me to imagine, if Jinchan really fell in love with the Queen, how would Monkey feel?

I can't tell whether I have the psychology of watching the excitement, or to prove something that doesn't exist at all, I decided to take the twelve taels of gold I got as a reward, go to the highest restaurant in the city, and book a restaurant with the best view. room, stay for a few nights, and wait three days for the queen and Jin Chan to get married.

The house, facing south, has a whole wall of windows facing the palace, and there is no obstruction.As a demon, my eyesight is better than that of ordinary people. In addition, this place is not far from the palace, so as long as I stay by the window, I can see the grand wedding in the palace.

On the eve of Jin Chan's big wedding, I thought that the monkey would show up at the wedding tomorrow, whether it was true or not, and I felt a little uneasy.Coupled with the hot weather and the noisy cicadas outside the window, it was even more difficult for me to sleep, so I had to ask the store to send some late-night snacks upstairs.I stood by the window, holding a plate of peach blossom crisps, eating with gusto, looking at the prosperous palace lanterns in the distance, imagining the grand occasion of tomorrow's wedding.

I never thought that in the dark night sky, a faint green light suddenly passed by my window, carrying a strong and unrestrained evil spirit.I was startled, and after seeing the ball of light plunging headlong into several palaces, it turned back and passed by my window again just a moment later.

This time I could see clearly that it was an exceptionally alluring banshee, who was carrying Jin Chan, who was already unconscious, and was planning to escape!I'm afraid that there was something wrong with the monkey, and he didn't pay attention to Jin Chan, so the banshee succeeded.

I hurriedly stuffed the remaining half of the peach blossom pastry into my mouth, puffed my cheeks and chewed on the snack, grabbed the "Shui Retrograde", jumped out of the window, and chased after the banshee.

Although I don't know what kind of monster it is, but she should have some skills, she is extremely fast.I was afraid of losing track, so I had to do my best to catch up, but I was also afraid that if I chased too close, it would take a lot of trouble.Fortunately, her cave is not too far away, on a small hill outside the imperial city.

I saw her jumping off the clouds and into a hole in the ground with the golden cicada, so I followed and stood at the hole and looked down.The entrance of the cave is narrow and wide at the bottom, and the bottom is bottomless. The coquettish white mist is shrouded in the extreme depths. Behind the thick fog, there are red, green and green lights shining.

I was hesitating whether to go down by myself or go to the palace to find a monkey to save people. At this moment, a very thin black shadow suddenly flashed out from the cave, and it stung my left hand like a needle.

After the stabbing pain, a strange numbness gradually spread from the wound, I swayed, my feet fell into the air, and I fell to the bottom of the cave.I was in a bad mood, the monster might have discovered that I was with her long ago, and hid invisibly at the entrance of the cave and did not go down.This is great, I was plotted against by someone!

The author has something to say: Tomorrow...obvious...tomorrow, Huanxi will finally fall in love with...hehe...monkey...in love!Hold hands, kiss each other!Small woods, small tents, pull the lights!Boo - cover your face