The Monkey King

   The next morning, a drop of dew dripped down the rock onto the monkey's cheek, and he woke up suddenly and sat up.

   The showers have passed, the sun is shining and the air is exceptionally fresh. The wet ground was full of stagnant water, and a few birds landed on the open space in front of the hole and pecked the ground, as if looking for earthworms that came out of the ground after the rain.

   rubbed his eyes, the monkey yawned, then stood up and stretched, took two deep breaths, bowed and picked up his cloud walking stick, turned and walked towards the cave.

  In the hall of Jinxia Cave, several wine bottles were slanted on the stone table, a mess.

  Ling Yunzi lay on the stone table and gritted his teeth, while Yuding simply fell to the ground and snored.

  Looking at the appearance, yesterday the two of them chatted happily and drank a lot of wine.

On the side, Yang Chan was almost submerged in the pile of books, boxes and bottles. She still sat cross-legged and looked at the tablet in her hand carefully. Her originally bright eyes were bloodshot, and she squinted slightly. He seemed to be sleepy, but he was not willing to sleep.

   "Are you up?" she asked casually without raising her head.

"yes."

   "I prepared rooms for you, but none of them were used. It was a waste of my time."

  The monkey didn't reply to her words. He walked over and picked up Ling Yunzi, who was still in a hangover, and asked, "Where is the room?"

  Yang Chan pointed at him.

   According to the direction she pointed, the monkey threw Ling Yunzi onto the prepared couch and turned back to carry the jade tripod.

   This time without the monkey asking, Yang Chan pointed to another stone room and said, "His room is over there."

   "Yeah." With a simple answer, the monkey threw the jade tripod back to his room.

  Yang Chan said again: "There are my brother's clothes in the room over there, you can take them and change them. However, it may be a bit big."

   looked down at his wet trousers, the monkey said: "No need, it will dry naturally in a while."

   "As you wish."

   In the current situation, Ling Yunzi might not be able to wake up for a while. Picking up the cloud stick, the monkey walked out of the cave again.

   "Don't go too far, there are many sects here, you are a demon, and it is easy to get into trouble outside the Jinxia Cave."

"understood."

   "Take this." Yang Chan picked up the waist card that had been prepared to be put aside and threw it to the monkey, saying: "If you meet someone, show this to him. Say you are a guest of Jinxia Cave."

   nodded silently, and the monkey went out of Jinxia Cave.

   Walking along the mountain road, through a small forest to the middle of the mountain, the monkey found a mountain spring.

  The spring water turned into a small waterfall and poured down from the mountain, and formed a clear pool with a width of five feet in the middle of the mountain, overflowing from the low rocks on the side and flowing down the mountain.

  The spring water is crystal clear, and you can clearly see the small fish swimming back and forth in the water when you stand on the shore.

   Lying by the lake and drinking two sips of spring water, the monkey felt refreshed. He simply took off his clothes and put them in the water and rubbed them on the branches to hang out. He also jumped into the pool to swim and washed away the muddy water that stuck to his body last night.

   After swimming enough, he got up from the pool and reached out to touch the clothes.

"almost."

   The mountains here are high and the wind is much stronger. After a while, the clothes are only slightly wet. If you leave it for a while, it will be completely dry.

  Thinking about it, he just put on a pair of trousers and lay shirtless on the rocks to bask in the sun, just like swimming in the mountains and water, but it was quite comfortable.

   squinted his eyes for a while, and he faintly heard someone's voice.

   propped up his body, he half sat up, and he listened carefully, it seemed like a man and a woman were arguing.

   Anyway, he had nothing to do, so he bowed and followed the sound all the way.

  I saw a man and a woman standing in the woods, the woman was wearing blue clothes, with long black hair pouring down, her figure was elegant. The man was tall and burly, dressed in white.

   The two stood not far from each other, with their backs to the monkey, and they could not see their faces.

  The woman seemed very excited and shouted loudly: "Didn't you agree to cultivate immortals together, local immortals? Why did you say go to the Sky Army?"

   "I'm not here to try it out. There's no way to focus on a path to the end when it comes to cultivating immortals. If you can choose a general, it's also a way out. Isn't this a matter of ignorance?"

   "You lied! They said that you have already climbed into the relationship of heaven, and this time you must pass! Why are you hiding it from me, why?" The woman burst into tears.

   "You...you believe them when they talk nonsense?"

   "Then, do you dare not to go to this selection?"

   "I..." The man turned around slowly, and the monkey could see his face clearly at this time, his face with Chinese characters, sword eyebrows and eagle eyes, and he was also handsome. He frowned and said, "Why are you so unreasonable?"

   The woman cried out, "If you dare to go, I will tell the master that you are frivolous! Tell me everything, so that your reputation will be discredited, and the Tianjun will not want you when you see it!"

   "You—if you ruin my future, even if you're a ghost, I won't let you go!"

   Hearing this, the monkey stopped listening.

   "Idiot man and woman, hey, amorous woman, a heartless man." Rubbing his eyes, he turned around and left.

   How do you manage this kind of business?

   went back to the pool along the original road, but saw two Taoist disciples fetching water, the two were stunned when they saw the monkey.

   "Monster...Monkey Monkey! Where did the Monkey Monkey come from!"

  The two also seemed to be new Taoist disciples, facing the monkey, one was holding a pole, and the other was holding a bucket as a weapon. It's just that I don't know the depth of the other party, and they refuse to take a step forward.

   The four legs were trembling, and it seemed that a gust of wind could blow them down.

   As if he hadn't seen them, the monkey reached out and touched the clothes, but it wasn't dry yet.

   "Forget it, it's just a little moisturizing, and it will dry out naturally. It's a matter of right and wrong, so don't stay for a long time."

  Although I haven’t cultivated the Tao of the Enlightened One, but I have read many books on the Tao of Enlightened One, the monkey still understands this truth.

   In front of the two startled Taoists, the monkey put on his clothes.

   After the shin guards were tied, the belt was fastened, and he picked up the cloud-walking stick leaning against the tree, the monkey took out his waist card and showed it to the two Taoists.

   "I am a guest of Jinxiadong."

   The two Taoist disciples slumped on the ground with a sigh of relief.

   Regardless of the two Daoist disciples who were so frightened, the monkey turned around and walked away, returning to Jinxia Cave along the way he came.

   It was noon at this time, and as soon as we entered the hall, we saw that the stone table that had been messed up had been cleaned up, and there was a plate on the table with many fruits stacked on it.

   "For you." Yang Chan, who was on the side, saw the monkey come in and said lightly.

   At this time, she was no longer studying the tablets, and instead wiped the dust on the boxes one by one, and sorted out all kinds of strange things.

   Looking at the fruit, the monkey muttered: "Do you know that you were wrong before, so you are so kind to me?"

   "Jinxia Cave, I'm half the owner. That old man doesn't know how to treat guests, so I'll do it for you." Yang Chan replied casually, ignoring the monkey.

   There was a thunderous snoring from Yu Ding's room, while on the other side Ling Yunzi's room was a burst of teeth grinding.

   "These two guys... It looks like they won't wake up for a while." The monkey sighed helplessly, sat down at the table and nibbled the fruit, watching Yang Chan busy with work from a distance.

  I haven't seen her stop since I entered Jinxia Cave, so my energy is so good. Seeing her like this, and listening to Yu Ding's past events, Monkey suddenly felt that his impression of Yang Chan should be repositioned.

   This makes Monkey curious. What are people who rarely see her in Xieyue Sanxingdong on weekdays?

  Alchemy? impossible. Smelter? Less likely.

   These two places are professional places, and it is not uncommon in Xieyue Sanxingdong, but the use of these places must be reported, and I have never heard of her going there.

   But would a person like her be free to travel around to kill time? It's not something she would do.

   "Wait!" The monkey suddenly widened his eyes and looked at Yang Chan in astonishment: "It won't be..."