[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

One day in the sky, one year on earth.

Although to this immortal gentleman, I have only been away from Shilipu for more than three months, but according to the calculation of the world, my house has a history of hundreds of years.

For 100 years, under the wind and sun, frost and rain, moss has grown on the corners of the courtyard, the pine trees have become taller and taller, and the bark can also be seen a bit of vicissitudes.Besides, the tables, chairs, benches, bed cabinets, cups, plates, dishes, etc. in the house were also covered with a thin layer of dust.

Zitong and I hurriedly got together to clean up the mess, and finally got rid of the weeds and moss before nightfall. We washed and replaced everything that could be washed, so that the whole house looked like new.

The houses in the Immortal World are all built facing south from the north, and there are magnificent duplex high-rises.Naturally, the three bamboo houses in the west mountain of this fairy are not within this range.

Zitong grew up in the Heavenly Court since he was a child, and has never been to the human world. Today he saw the courtyard house for the first time except for the small bungalow, and everything seemed very strange to him.He went through each room, touched the quilt made of cotton wool and said it was softer than the cloud quilt in the fairy world.

Zitong held an emerald green silk quilt and did not let go. He ran to this fairy and flattered him, saying, "Your Majesty, I like this quilt. Cover it for me when I sleep at night."

"All right, all right, I won't rob you." Ben Xianjun nodded his forehead, "Look, you look so worthless, a quilt makes you stare straight."

"Hey." Zitong smiled embarrassedly, sat on the chair with his buttocks up, and said, "Your Majesty, I just saw that there is a main hall on the east, west, north, and north sides of our house, and there are two other halls next to it." Wing room. To the south is the gate of the courtyard, and there is a small wing room on each side of the door. Calculated in this way, there are more than a dozen rooms."

Ben Xianjun nestled in the grand teacher's chair with a soft mattress, picked up a piece of ashes stained snacks brought from Xishan, blew the ashes into his mouth, chewed and said: "Yeah, the house seems to be a bit big It's not good if the house is too big. I don't know which room to sleep in. It's like our original bamboo house. You see, it only has two bedrooms, one for you and one for me. There is no choice. Looking at it now...cough, here I'm salivating."

Zitong hurriedly poured a glass of water and handed it over, saying: "Your Majesty, stop talking when you eat, how uncomfortable it is to choke."

"..." Ben Xianjun gulped down two sips of water to put down the dessert, and said: "It took too long to make that piece of cake just now, and it choked people when it was a little hard. If it was freshly made, then it wouldn't be..."

"I know, I know." Zitong interrupted me with a smile.

Ben Xianjun drank a few more sips of water, glanced at him, and said, "It's difficult for me to choose. When it comes to making up my mind, I get a headache. You choose."

Zitong thought for a while, and said, "I think this room faces south. It has good lighting and is warm in winter and cool in summer. I will leave it to you. I will live in the small side room to the east of you. It will be better to have a room near you." Take care, what do you think?"

"I have no problem sleeping in this room." Ben Xianjun paused, put down his cup, and said softly, "But you can't sleep in the east side room."

"Huh?" Zitong said, "Didn't you let me choose?"

"It's up to you to choose." Ben Xianjun said: "But this one is the only one that can't, because it's occupied."

"Ah?!" Zitong said in surprise: "I went to see it just now, and there is no one in the house. Who lives? A ghost?"

Ben Xianjun sat upright, lowered his head and sighed sadly, and said slowly: "Is he a ghost now... I don't know. According to the calculation of one day in the sky and one year in the ground, he has been dead for 100 years Yes. If he had been reincarnated, he would be a human now, but if he hadn’t been reincarnated, he should be...a ghost..."

"Your Majesty..." Seeing that I was suddenly depressed, Zitong didn't dare to speak loudly. He stretched out his hand and gently grabbed my sleeve, saying, "Are you okay?"

"..." Ben Xianjun scratched the corner of the table with his fingernails, and without looking at him, he said softly, "The room you want was lived in before. I first came to Shilipu at that time, and thanks to his care, although We have only known each other for a month, but we have experienced life and death together, and even later..."

"What happened next?" Zitong asked, but it could be seen from his expression that he had already guessed the result.

Ben Xianjun looked out the window, "I understand the reason why the dead are gone, but he died to save me. I have never owed such a big debt of favor to anyone, and I will pay it off in this life. The only way I can All I did was keep that room for him. It seems that the only thing he left me is that room."

"You owe a huge debt of favor to others, so... does the Great Sage know?" Zitong blinked.

"..." Ben Xianjun was taken aback, and turned his head to look at him.Zitong was a little uncomfortable being stared at by this fairy, and he stammered: "Look... what do you see me doing?"

"Pfft——" Ben Xianjun couldn't help laughing, but he didn't know what he was laughing at. He just smiled and said: "How do you grow your brain? Why do you always get involved with the Great Sage? Who do I owe, and who am I? It doesn't matter to him Why does he have to know?"

"Ah, that...haha." Zitong rubbed his forehead and said with a smile: "I just think that the Great Sage treats you differently from others, and you may not know it, but every time you see the Great Sage, your eyes are always different. It's so bright, it's as if you can't see anything except the Great Sage."

"Uh ha ha." Ben Xianjun laughed dryly and said, "Do I care so much that he cares so obviously?"

"Yes." Zitong nodded, "And when he kissed you, you blushed. So I think you two are very important to each other. Since they are so important, you If you owe a debt of favor to others, you can naturally tell the Great Sage and ask him to help you pay it off."

Listening to Zitong's words, Ben Xianjun said with a smile: "We will talk about the magic operation of paying off the debt together. Let's talk about it later. Look at him, he used to bully me so much, I didn't say anything, but now I just said it to him." After two serious words, he turned his head and left. What else can I expect from him?"

"The great sage isn't that bad. You are the one who wants to drive the great sage away. It's useless if you say you have a root of affection. You don't want to see him anymore." Zitong groaned for the monkey and said, "Since you all Having said that, what are you doing if you don’t leave, stay here and continue to hinder your eyes?”

"Are you blaming me for saying that?" No matter not mentioning it, when it comes to the root of love, the anger that the fairy just subsided "cracked" up again.I slapped the table and shouted: "Then do you know how much he has done?!"

Zitong shook his head blankly: "I don't know..."

"He today, him! He didn't even ask me a question! Just..." Ben Xianjun's voice was a little loud, and half of his anger was vented after half a sentence, so he could only stroke his chest and said: "Forget it, lazy Talk about him. In the future, don’t mention him in front of me, let alone your love, and you will get angry if you mention it!”

It was said to be "coming of qi", but the strange thing is that the qi in my heart dissipated in an instant with just a voice.So much so that I have to suspect that the love silk grass has already started to work, which made me unable to even get angry at the monkey. From then on, I can only focus on him with all my heart and eyes.

Therefore, the monkey has indeed gone too far in this matter.He only wanted to make this fairy change his mind, but he didn't know that this fairy no longer wanted to be like 2000 years ago, centered on him in everything, and ran away with him forever.Ben Xianjun thought, what a goddamn shit love silk grass, it would be great if I could eat it and spit it out!

"Spit what?" Zitong heard this fairy's broken thoughts.

"Don't vomit, I'm hungry." Ben Xianjun rubbed his stomach and said, "I finished the snacks brought back from Xishan, and I'm still a little hungry, how about you?"

Zitong looked at the empty dim sum bag and said, "I haven't eaten any, I'm even more hungry."

"Sorry, hehe, I only care about eating by myself." Ben Xianjun said, "Why don't we just cook something to eat?"

"Okay!" Zitong's eyes lit up, and he said, "I only know how to grill fish, but there is no fish now. Your lord, what kind of food do you know, what do you do, what do I eat, I'm not picky eaters haha."

"..." Ben Xianjun smiled awkwardly: "Hehe, I don't know how to cook, so I still want to count on you."

"Huh?" Zitong asked, "Didn't you say that you lived here for a month before? How did you eat at that time?"

"At that time..." Ben Xianjun recalled, and said: "At that time, I was controlling the flood in Shilipu and saved many people. Everyone regarded me as a god. Whoever had fish, meat, melons and fruits would send them naturally. Chang Liu He can cook, and he cooks for me."

"Chang Liu is..." Zitong frowned, thinking of something, and said, "Could it be the one who lives in the east wing?"

"Well, it's him." Ben Xianjun lowered his head and bent the corners of his mouth, and there were circles of ripples in his heart, and an indescribable sadness gushed out.

At that time, I had just ascended to the throne and had been a 2000-year-old tree. I had long forgotten the ability to communicate with people. In addition, I had deliberately forced myself to forget all the past, so that my mind was as pure as a piece of white paper. They are all ignorant.If I hadn't met Chang Liu, I wouldn't have gradually learned how to treat others and get along with others.

During that month, apart from controlling the water, I spent most of the time with him.I am often in a trance.For a moment, I would feel like "stay forever" and "stay forever".But more often, I suddenly can't remember, why I always weigh the word "long stay" in my heart.

Who is Brother Changliu?It seems that I should remember him, but I shouldn't.Later, it was really unpredictable, so I didn't bother with that thought.They are just similar in homophony of their names, one is a human being, the other is a god, but Chang Liu is much more stable than his elder brother Chang Liu, and the food is also delicious.

"Let's go out to eat, before it's dark and the shops are still closed." Ben Xianjun sighed, picked up a few pieces of silver, and took Zitong out.

Knowing that Zitong came to the world for the first time, he might be curious to see new things, so besides the meal money, Ben Xianjun specially brought some more, preparing to buy him some toys and snacks.

Shilipu is not a big place, but there are mixed people, gods, demons and ghosts here.Ben Xianjun told Zitong to follow me closely and not to run around.He was also well-behaved, he only looked at the small shops along the road, and didn't run wild.

At that time, when the lights came on, red or light yellow lanterns were lit up in front of the shops on the street, illuminating the whole city as bright as day.Under the shroud of a thin fairy mist, a few ghosts ran to the steamed stuffed bun shop to buy meat buns with ghost coins, and some immortals exchanged fairy coins or incense for roast chicken.

There is no restriction on the type of currency here, and all coins, fairy coins, incense, gold and silver, etc. are accepted as they are.

It's just that the Jade Emperor hasn't rewarded me with immortal coins since I was ascended, and I don't have temples or the like in the lower realms, and I don't have anyone to worship, so I don't have incense, and I'm very poor.

But in the human world, it is quite different.When I came here to control the flood, I had no place to live. The people in Shilipu exchanged a lot of money. The courtyard house was built at that time. The remaining money was exchanged for some gold and silver utensils. A few pieces of silver are enough to spend half a month.

Although not short of money, Ben Xianjun was very frugal and only ordered two desserts of seven meat and eight vegetables and a pot of hot soup at the most luxurious restaurant in the city, "Hanyanlou".

"Your Majesty, if we order so much, can we finish it?" Zitong looked at the table of food, a little embarrassed.

"Open it up and eat it, you can finish it. Even if you can't finish it, someone will clean it up." Ben Xianjun said.

We sat on the second floor by the window, with a good view, and we could see most of the street.Ben Xianjun motioned Zitong to look downstairs. There was a low house there. Next to the house was a snack street called "Lianhua Street".

Zitong understood the meaning of this fairy, so he stopped worrying and started to move.While eating, he asked: "Your Majesty, I see that the people in Shilipu are very wealthy, and the town looks very prosperous, almost catching up with the 'Shilitian Street' in Thirteen Heavens."

Ben Xianjun said: "Ten Mile Heaven Street? What kind of place is that, I have never been there."

Zitong said: "Why haven't you visited it yet? It's the busiest market in our entire Tianting. It sells everything! It's very lively. Hey, you really should go and see it, or wait until you get back Heavenly Court, let the Great Sage take you there?"

"..." Ben Xianjun tapped the edge of Zitong's bowl with chopsticks, "Eat, eat."

"My father said that you can't knock the bowl when eating, otherwise you will become a beggar." Zitong hurriedly took away his small porcelain bowl.

Ben Xianjun smiled: "You are already a fairy, are you still worried that you will become a beggar?"

"..." Zitong thought for a while, and said, "That's right." He glanced at the shack outside the window, "However, I'm quite surprised to see people begging along the street in such a bustling place as Shilipu."

"There is nothing surprising." Ben Xianjun said: "Since ancient times, the more prosperous a place is, the more poverty can be highlighted. There is a saying that there is no harm without comparison. This kind of gap between rich and poor is everywhere in the Three Realms. There are all of them, it’s just that you’re so young and don’t know much, so you’ll be surprised.”

"Then I want to learn more this time, and when I go back and chat with Heling and Qingtong, I can tell them what I have seen and heard." Zitong laughed.

Ben Xianjun shook his head with a smile, and picked some food for him.

Sure enough, it was too difficult for Zitong and I to cope with [-] dishes. In the end, we had to ask the store to fetch a packing bag made of pig bladder, pack the rest of the meal, and take it out of the Hanyan Building and go straight to it. The small shack in front of Lianhua Street.

It was just a little far away, and those people were all in the shadow of the shed, so I couldn't see the situation in the shed clearly.Now that I got closer, a big straw mat was spread on the ground, and the people lying or sitting on the mat were all beggars as young as five or six years old and as old as eleven or twelve.There was only one person lying on his side, who seemed to have a bigger frame, maybe eighteen or nineteen years old, and should be the leader.

Seeing us walking over with food, a group of little beggars hurriedly got up, crawled and rolled around, stretched out their hands to get food, and called me sweetly: "Brother, brother, kind brother."

"Don't grab it, everyone has a share." Zitong, who was about the same age as them, enthusiastically handed over the food.

The noise of a group of little beggars was not too loud, but it still woke up the sleeping man on the ground.He kicked his legs first, then tugged at his shirt, and brushed the messy hair on his forehead, then turned over and slowly sat up from the ground.

This person's facial features seemed to have been cut with a thin blade, with thin lips and narrow nose, sharp lines.But because he had just woken up, his slender eyes were slightly squinted, and a weed from a mat was stained on his head, which added a bit of softness to his sharpness.He yawned lazily, rolled his eyelids, and looked at me.

Ben Xianjun obviously felt that Zitong was stunned, and he whispered: "Your Majesty, you just said that no matter how bad the gods are, they will not be reduced to beggars, so what is Xiuwen Jun doing now?"

"This..." His question made this fairy difficult, so he could only laugh dryly: "Hehe, there are always exceptions to everything."

Su Qingyan suppressed the chill from the night covering his body, smiled softly, and said: "Cheng Xianjun, this can all happen, it seems that you and I are really destined."

"Yes yes yes." Ben Xianjun smiled back and said: "But I just don't know whether it is a good or a bad fate."