[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

"Ah, the Great Sage is injured!"

"What's going on, I didn't see that monster hurt the Great Sage just now, why did he..."

Everyone was puzzled and discussed.

"Big Brother!"

"Brother Monkey!"

Bajie and Wujing ran forward almost at the same time.

"Don't, don't come here..." the monkey knelt on the ground on one knee, holding the golden cudgel with his left hand, and gasped with his head down.While speaking, his chest heaved violently, and a large stream of blood overflowed from his mouth, splashing on the ground.

Bajie and Wujing stayed where they were.

Jinchan worriedly and anxiously called: "Wukong!" and was about to run to the monkey.At this moment, the monkey propped itself up with a golden cudgel, and stood up staggeringly.

I stared at my empty palm, and my mind went blank for a moment.The empty and lifeless eyes fell on the ring of the fourth finger, and the fingers trembled slightly, revealing a hair-thin red thread tied on it.

My eyes followed the red line until I saw the other end of the line, and the monkey was walking towards me with difficulty.Every step he took would leave a bloodstain as fresh as a fire lotus on the ground behind him.

His face was as pale as paper, and his usually bright red lips were almost transparent at this time.The sword pierced through his heart, making it difficult for him to walk. Almost every step he took, he had to stop and rest for a long time, causing the blood behind him to form a small pool on the ground.

Jin Chan was already stunned. He stood not far away, not daring to go forward.Deep sadness welled up in his usually deserted eyes, and his eyes were blurred with tears, watching the monkey walking towards me with difficulty but resolutely.

I stared at him blankly, I hated him almost to the bone, obviously just now he killed brother Changliu with his own hands, but seeing him like this, my heart is still clenched into a ball.For half an incense stick, everyone unconsciously held their breath or gasped.I slowly got up and stood up from the ground.

I don't know why I stand up.

Until he took a step away from me, he finally staggered again because of exhaustion, I took a step without thinking, and grabbed his arm.

Only then did I realize that I don't care why I stood up just now, it's just instinct.

But he was a bit heavy, and he still knelt down slowly in front of me, and I followed suit and knelt down on the ground.

"Why... why..." I was at a loss, not understanding why he was injured, why he insisted on coming to me stubbornly even though he was so seriously injured, and even more puzzled why he had the ring of my elder brother who kept it forever.

"We are one body, killing him...cough, is killing me..." The monkey raised his eyes, and there was a trace of sadness in his eyes, the glass was shattered and turned into tears.

I was startled, and said: "You, you know that if you hurt him, you will suffer the same harm, but you still insist on killing him, is it just because... because he loves me, because he is your demon?"

"Cough!" The monkey choked and coughed several times, panting lowly with its head down.

"Haha, hahaha!" A great sadness welled up in my heart, and the corners of my mouth curled up, and I said with a smile, "Can you do it? I would rather risk death than cut off my ties. Make things difficult for you. The ring on your hand belongs to Brother Changliu, since you despise him, return it."

Saying that, I stretched out my hand to the monkey.The monkey lowered its head, slowly raised its left hand, and stared at the red silk ring on his hand.After a long time, he put his hand down, laughed lowly, and said, "The ring...cough, thanks to him coming up with such a fancy thing..."

"Aren't you going to give it?" I asked, looking at the red thread between us, and said in a hoarse voice, "Well, you can take the ring with you, and this red thread will be cut off right now."

After finishing speaking, I swung the Mercury retrograde and waved it down towards the hair-thin marriage line.Unexpectedly, when there was only a piece of paper between the blade and the blade, the monkey held the water backwards, and the blood immediately overflowed from between his fingers, rolled along the blade and fell into the sand on the ground.

"!" I was stunned, the hand holding the sword lost strength instantly, trembling slightly, I said: "Let go!"

"..." The monkey lowered his head, the dark red blood beads formed a stark and dazzling contrast with his pale and slender fingers.He held the blade tightly, his knuckles bluish white.

The sword has already been held in his hand, I just hold it empty.I was a little at a loss, and shouted with little confidence: "Let go! If you try harder, your finger will break!"

"Heh—" He laughed, easily snatched the Mercury retrograde from my hand, and threw it on the ground.Before I could speak, his voice was weak but clear: "He's right, I regret it..."

"?"

"Huanxi, I... regret it..." he said, slowly raising his head.

When I met his gaze, I narrowed my eyes and said, "What, what do you regret?"

"Regret... um!" Before he finished speaking, his face suddenly changed slightly, he pressed his heart tightly, and spit out blood.His body shook, and he fell towards me.

"!"

"Great Sage!" Jin Chan yelled and ran over.

It wasn't until the monkey fell into my arms that I realized that I bowed my head.Seeing his golden eyes slightly closed, he lost his life a little bit, just like when brother Cai Changliu fell into my arms.The nerves that had been paralyzed for a long time suddenly tingled, I hugged him, pressed the wound for him, wiped the blood that seemed to be inexhaustible, and said: "Great Sage, no, don't... don't let me just look at Chang Liu Brother left and looked at you again...how can you be so cruel, how can you be so cruel..."

"Huan, Huanxi..." Monkey tugged the corner of his mouth weakly, his eyes smiling.He stretched out his left hand, looked at the ring with blurred eyes, as if yearning for something, and said: "In the past three years... I haven't had a day, not because I envy him...Although he can only live in my heart, but...but My truest and most yearning self. Ah...no, he is me..."

"Yes, you are the same person..." I nodded, choked up and said: "Great Sage, you will be fine, you are a peerless hero that everyone is looking forward to, so you will be fine, right?"

Jin Chan ran behind me and stopped.Although after reincarnation, he has lost the memory of Jin Chanzi, but the transparency in his heart has always been there.He always knows when to restrain himself and when to act recklessly.Just like the monkey at this moment, the pain in his heart will not be less than mine, but he can still maintain a trace of emotional sobriety.

But I can't compare to him, I just hug the monkey tightly, cry and chatter helplessly and at a loss, which makes the monkey a little impatient.He interrupted me with a laugh, barely held on to the last bit of strength, hooked his fingers at me, and said: "Huanxi, you, cough, put your ears closer, I...I will tell you a secret."

"What, what secret?" I was puzzled, I bent down a little, lowered my head and put my ear to his lips, listening to him say in a voice just enough for me to hear: "I, I am not some unrivaled hero, a hero wants to save the world People... and I, cough, I just want to protect you... that's enough."

"..." The tears that had been rolling in my eyes finally rolled down at this moment, I buried my head on his neck, weeping uncontrollably: "Don't say such things to coax me, you are a liar, I don't care if you are a great sage or Brother Changliu, you are all liars. You wanted to kill me just now, and now you say you want to protect me. How can you believe me? Is it fun? Torturing me like this makes me die and live again, over and over again It's fun to make me feel so sad, isn't it?"

"It's not fun." Monkey said, he pushed me away.Seeing the tear stains in the corner of my eyes, he frowned, raised his hands tremblingly, and had to put them down again due to exhaustion.

Seeing this, I hurriedly held his hand.According to his wishes, I took his hand and put his palm on my face.He wiped away the tears on my face with his thumb, and asked softly: "Huanxi, you...do you still want to believe me?"

"..." I hesitated for a moment, his eyes immediately dimmed, and his hand slipped from my palm.I hurriedly held his cold fingertips, nodded and said: "I believe, I still believe you!"

He slowly closed his eyes, slightly raised the corners of his mouth, and said silently: "Then...wait for me..."

According to the Tathagata, the elder brother of Changliu is named "Liuer", which is also "Liugen". The "six roots" give birth to the "two hearts", and then the monkey is divided into two and turned into two people.

One person is the "self", guarding the heart, is the great sage.

One is the "ego", conservative, and is the elder brother of Changliu.

For a person who has fallen into Buddhism, the six faculties must be eliminated, so brother Changliu must disappear from the consciousness of the monkey.

It's a pity that he said so much to me for nothing, because I am a piece of rotten wood and can't understand anything at all.

Tathagata saved the monkey.He finally found someone who was willing to go through fire and water for Jin Chan and protect him to learn scriptures from the west, so how could he be willing to watch the monkey die?

What's more, the monkey has already sold his life and death book.Even if Tathagata doesn't save him, it doesn't seem easy for him to die.

When I realized this, I was planting flowers and plants in the yard of a thatched cottage at the foot of Lingshan Mountain. I picked a lot of wild peach blossoms and brewed several altars of peach blossoms.I took the water bottle and poured some water on a stalk of spirit grass. When I straightened up, I suddenly realized that I had been tricked by a monkey.He wouldn't die at all, but it caused me to shed so many tears for him in vain at that time, and made me beg the Buddha to save his soul.

For this, I sulked for three days.Three days later, I ate and slept as usual.

The monkey left with Jin Chan, and the last words he said to me were "wait for me" when he fell into my arms.Before I could figure out whether I should wait for him, or see him again when he woke up, I was invited by Tathagata to visit Lingshan.

Although I promised Brother Changliu, I will stay far away from Jin Chanzi and Lingshan from now on.But I'm sorry for him, I didn't listen to him again, and ran to the foot of Lingshan to settle down.

But you can't completely blame me. After all, the Tathagata Buddha is a Buddha above the nine heavens. He personally invites me. How can I refuse a small tree demon in the lower realm?What's more, he came forward to save the monkey.In terms of emotion and reason, I should accept his favor.

The monkey still doesn't know that I was brought back to Lingshan by Tathagata.I tried my best to light the fire at the bottom of the pot, and when I was cooking a pot of wild vegetable soup that was not very delicious but barely edible, I was adding firewood while thinking, when the monkey came back from learning scriptures, he had to learn from me if he wanted to climb Lingshan. Pass by.If he sees me at that time, he will be very surprised, maybe even startled.

I don't know if Brother Changliu has really disappeared from the monkey's consciousness, but my intuition tells me that he seems to be still alive, living in the deepest part of the monkey's heart.The monkey is obviously still alive and well, so Brother Changliu is sure to be safe as well.Didn't I say that they were originally one person?

"Is my great king coming back soon to learn the scriptures?" A little monkey tugged at the corner of my clothes and asked with its head raised.

"It's almost time." I said, unloading the sack of hay on my shoulders and wiping the hot sweat from my forehead.

The arm-armed ape grinned and said, "Hey, it's from the king's house. You're here right away. What gifts do you bring? It's so far away!" He took the sack, opened it, his smile froze, and said: "Yo, it's still grass. We don't lack anything in Huaguo Mountain, especially grass!"

I smiled and said, "General Ape, you don't know. I dug these grasses when I was climbing Lingshan Mountain. They are illuminated by Buddha's light, and they are different from ordinary grasses. They are used to make soup and drink, which can prolong life, cure diseases and strengthen the body." Woolen cloth."

"Really?" The gibbon monkey returned to its smile, and handed the sack to the little monkey beside it, saying, "The wine you brewed with the king before has almost reached its vintage, so you can take it out and drink it."

I sat down on the stone bench, picked up a fruit, rubbed it on my body, took a bite, chewed and said, "There's no rush, we'll have a drink together when the great sage comes back. Wine, the longer it's kept, the better it will be. The more fragrant the better the drink."

Huaguo Mountain was smashed to pieces a few years ago, but with the concerted efforts of the monkeys and my occasional help, it has now been rebuilt and restored to its old appearance.

Although most of the monkey children are older than me, they are all willing to treat me like a monkey and respect me very much.Over the years, I have also gotten used to treating them as juniors, taking care of them more than my own ability.

"My king is really blessed to have you as his husband-in-law." A little monkey with red buttocks pouted came over to refill tea for me.

Looking at her cute little appearance, I can't help but think of myself in the illusion of ten directions 500 years ago, and I was also such a fat and round little dumpling.So, I hugged her to my knees, and took out another piece of golden candy for her to crop.

The candy was given to me by the old man when I was invited to Daleiyin Temple to listen to the Tathagata's sermons.There were originally three yuan, but I chewed the other two yuan when I was idle at home.I wanted to leave a piece for the monkey to taste, but then I thought that he didn't look like a candy lover, so I gave up.

Just listening to Zen and reciting scriptures is quite boring. I confessed to Tathagata, the old man, that I couldn’t understand scriptures, and asked him not to ask me to go to any Dharma conference next time.All the people present are gods, Buddhas, and immortals, and I am the only one who is a little demon.People can talk about scriptures and books, but I don't know a few big characters. Isn't it embarrassing?

It’s okay to lose my own person. After the incident of the real and fake monkeys, everyone knows that I have such a small relationship with the monkey that can be brought to the surface, and by default I am a little demon under his care.So, if I behave badly, the monkey will be ashamed too.How can I let the monkey lose face because of me?

"Then you don't steam the steamed buns to save your breath." The little monkey boy sat on my lap, chewed the golden candy with a "cracking" sound, and said while eating: "If you have time, go to school and learn more. Words, make a long face for my king."

"Study..." I said, "I don't have any books, do you have them in Huaguo Mountain?"

The little boy ate clean candy, licked his fingers again, and said, "We are all monkeys, we just have to eat fruits and sleep in caves. What do we need books for, of course we don't have them."

"Oh." I nodded, and said: "Forget it then, knowing a few common characters and being able to write the names of myself and the Great Sage are enough."

"How can you forget it? You are different from us. You are a human being now. If you have no culture, it would be terrible." The boy said, "Don't you live in Lingshan? Daleiyin Temple must have Tibetan scriptures Pavilion, there are books in the Sutra Pavilion. Tathagata Buddha and Maitreya Buddha, they are so kind to you, and even give you sweets and snacks, and they will certainly not be stingy to lend you a few books to read."

I thought so too, all the gods and Buddhas seem to treat me well, it's just a few books, it shouldn't be difficult to read.Therefore, after returning from Huaguo Mountain, I was not in a hurry to go home to water the flowers. I climbed directly to the top of Lingshan Mountain and asked Tathagata for a key to the Buddhist scripture pavilion.

At that time, the Sutra Pavilion had not been relocated and renovated, it was just an old two-story wooden building next to the Sutra Chanting Hall.There is neither Lingyun Ferry nor a single-plank bridge in front of the gate.Naturally, there is no soul boy guarding it.

At first, I was a little surprised why it was so easy to get the permission to enter and exit the Sutra Pavilion. Later, when I saw the tens of thousands of volumes of books in the room, I picked out a few with paintings at random, and read them with great interest. What is the doubt.

However, I never expected that I would see Jin Chanzi's "Biography" in a stack of picture albums with illustrations.

It records the ninth reincarnation of the golden cicada. In each life, in order to save the gods and Buddhas, he would not hesitate to be boiled alive in a steamer, and his flesh and bones would be cut.The illustrations are extremely realistic, vividly depicting the tragic scenes at that time, combined with a few words of text description, I seem to hear the shrill and helpless screams of the golden cicada in the steamer under the scorching heat.

I also remembered that when I was in the daughter country, the monkey said that he saw Jin Chan's past in the illusion of ten directions.When he mentioned Jin Chan's desolate smile when he cut flesh and bone, he said, "Voluntary? How is it possible?"

Jin Chan is not voluntary!In other words, even though he was willing to save people, he couldn't bear the pain of being steamed alive and cut his flesh and bones!After breaking free from the steamer several times, everyone had to tie his hands and feet and throw him back!

"How is it possible?" Holding the booklet in my hand, I was so shocked that I couldn't describe it in words.

Jin Chanzi, was his past so miserable?Not to mention being a monkey, if I am strong enough, I want to protect him and love him with all my might.Thinking about it, Jin Chan seems to be deserted, but she is actually more helpless and sensitive than anyone else in her heart after being treated like this.

My fingertips trembled, and I flipped back a few pages.The following content is not as heavy and bloody as the previous few pages, but praises the merits of Jin Chan.

"The flesh and blood of the golden cicada, if you eat it, you can live and die, flesh and bones, help immortals overcome calamities, help demons soar, and let mortals live forever."

"However, eating the golden cicada is the next choice, and it is a last resort. Therefore, the golden cicada is willing to feed the Buddha with his body, which is really an immeasurable merit."

"There is another best strategy, which is..."

I read it and turned back quickly, only to find that it was the last page.Because the lower right corner of the book was damaged, the most crucial sentence was missing.

"Jintao." At this time, the voice of the mountain guardian came from outside the door, and he said: "The Buddhist scriptures from the Tang Dynasty are already at the foot of the mountain. The Buddha said that these two days, the Buddhist scriptures pavilion is only open to them, and people who have nothing to do are temporarily avoiding it." .You come out quickly."