Chapter 1: The Birth of the Dragon

July 21, 34th year of Guangxu (1908). Sun Wukong's hometown, Xu Fu's hometown - Songzhuang, Ganyu County, Haizhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province.

At noon, the sky was clear and the sun was blazing. Not far from the village to the east, is the Yellow Sea, which is the "food and clothing" of the local fishermen. In the waves, a middle-aged man is holding a fishing fork, staring intently at a big fish, and the net pocket on one side is already full, enough to weigh hundreds of catties.

At this time, a man came from the shore, sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a broken straw hat, shirtless, and wearing only a large trousers. The man had been standing slowly and aimlessly, looking around from time to time, as if looking for something, and when he saw a flock of seabirds flying around the man in the water, he immediately ran to the fisherman, and saw from a distance that it was the person he was looking for, so he cried out: "Big brother, go home quickly, sister-in-law is about to give birth!" ”

Seabirds soar high, and big fish leap into the deep sea. The fisherman turned around and saw that it was his younger brother who was running in a hurry, so he whispered: "What a troublemaker, look at it, you can scare away this hundred-pound fish." What's the big deal, born and born, and actually messed up our good things?! ”

Saying this, the fisherman, Song Desen's subordinates, did not slow down, and a dumbfounded perch was a fork to the side, only to see a live fish weighing more than ten catties, constantly struggling on the steel fork. Desen habitually picked the gills of the fish, put away the fishing hairpin, and instructed: "You carry all the fish in this net to the big sand set and open them to the peddlers, and the price should not be too high, go and return quickly." With that, he took the bass in one hand and the steel fork in the other, and ran to the west of the shore on his own.

Song Desen walked hurriedly on the way home, and his brain couldn't help but think of the scene of burning incense and making a wish a year ago. They have been married for more than two years and have no children, which is called the old parents who have a strong idea of inheritance, and they have become the topic of "harvesting" themselves all day long, and in order to listen to less troubled nagging, they have to beg the "gods".

Not far from Zhuangxi, where Song Desen lived, there is a ten-mile temple, which is named because it is about ten miles away from the mussels. What kind of gods are offered in this temple, no one can completely say, but the good men and women who are looking for psychological sustenance, in order to eliminate the disease, pray for the birth of children, study and take the exam, and make a fortune come here to burn incense. At that time, people were ignorant, and they were very sincere when they made wishes, and if they came across an idea, they would say that they would be spiritual, and if they didn't come across, they would come again, and they would not be willing until they met an idea. After a long time, there are many times, and there will always be a time to meet.

After coming and going, the incense of this small temple is flourishing, and the people within a radius of dozens of miles know the fairy Troling here.

Mr. and Mrs. Desen couldn't stand the verbosity of the two elders in the family, so they also came to the incense, and both respectfully came to the gods and knelt down, prayed silently, and kowtowed three times at the same time, and then walked out. It really happened that night, Mrs. Song had a dream, and dreamed that in the middle of the glow, a fairy said to her: "You have a noble grandson, who is the order of the general who is the incarnation of Jiaolong, and your family should be sincere to the Buddha and raise it well." The secret of heaven must not be divulged, and it must be kept secret. Go ahead! ”

With that, the immortal flashed and disappeared. Mrs. Song was stunned by fright, broke out in a cold sweat, woke up from her dream, and woke up her husband next to her in surprise......

While thinking about it, he trotted all the way, and he had already reached his broken door, Song Desen heard his wife's heart-rending screams from a distance, and his steps couldn't help but speed up, and he ran in three steps and two steps, and suddenly arrived at the "delivery room".

At this time, I saw beads of sweat rolling down my wife's face. Desen hurriedly dropped the things in his hand, ran to the side of the basin, took out a towel, twisted it, and wiped his wife's sweat. The mother and the midwife were busy delivering the baby, and no one cared about him.

After wiping his wife's sweat, Desen saw that she was still opening her mouth and howling, so he quickly washed the towel in water, twisted it and put it in his wife's mouth for her to bite, but he never expected that his arm would let his wife bite it. At that time, Desen, who was in terrible pain, did not pull out his arm, but let it bite. I thought: "As long as I can alleviate the pain of the woman I love, it is worth losing this arm!" ”

Song Desen was bitten so painfully that he sweated profusely, and the sweat flowed from his head to his eyes, drowning him to close his eyes involuntarily. Just when Desen Wangong was uncomfortable, a baby's loud cry was heard in his ears......

Desen looked at his newborn son, he was really smiling, and when he turned his face to see the big willow tree outside the window, he smiled and said: "Let's call it Jiliu, and continue to carry forward the blessing that this willow tree brings to our family!" ”

Soon, the Chinese New Year is coming, and the old Song family is happily surrounding the lying basket, only a few months old Jiliu, only a few months old, only to see the little guy smiling innocently. Song Laohan said while smoking a cigarette pouch: "As the saying goes, the official sacrifice is three and the people sacrifice four. Today is the twenty-second day of the lunar month, why are the surnames of Zhang in Zhangchengzhuang all sacrificial stoves? ”

Desen, who was holding a small flower drum to tease Jiliu, glanced at his father and said: "Big, you don't even know this, that's the case, they have a great hero of the Kangxi period against the Qing Dynasty - Zhang Ziyuan, who was locked up by the Qing Dynasty at that time, and when he was confiscated into the army, it happened to be the twenty-third day of the lunar month, so he Lao Zhang had to sacrifice the stove in advance." Since then, this family surnamed Zhang has been from the 22nd sacrifice stove of the 22nd month of the lunar month. ”

It is said that on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the housewife of a family in a village in Ganyu was washing dishes and washing pots, preparing to make some delicious sacrificial stoves. In the first few nights, she heard the old man of the stove give her a dream, saying: "The son you just gave birth to now will be a pillar of the country, and now you must raise it well." When he grows up, he must love the people like a son and be a good prime minister! At the same time, he was told to help a general born at the same time in a village in his county when he grew up. ”

This strong-hearted woman, in order to repay the fairy spirit of the stove master, deliberately got up early to cook and prepared a table of good dishes for the stove master, and is now busy doing it.

While the housewife was smiling and putting all the dishes and chopsticks in the pot with hot water and preparing to wash them, several sharp-mouthed women who often bullied and had trouble with them were cursing at her house outside the gate. She was so angry that she smashed the pot with a spoon and smashed several dishes. kept scolding: "These bad seeds are really bad, they bully my family every day, and if you don't want my family to live in peace during the New Year, you can't die well...... When my son becomes the prime minister, hehe, I'll kill you all......"

It is said that the old man of the stove, who was waiting for a feast, was preparing to eat a beautiful meal with his mouth open, but he never expected that he would be pounded by the housewife like this and smash a few big bumps on his head. The good thing was not obtained, but was beaten, and the old man ran to the Jade Emperor angrily to complain. The Jade Emperor was also angry when he heard this, so he deprived the baby of the right to be the prime minister in the future, and gave him a profession of killing dogs and pigs.

Later, this baby could only do the work of killing pigs and slaughtering them, and his mother invisibly leaked the secret of heaven and injured the old man of the stove, inadvertently ruining her son's good deeds. Later, the locals prepared a big sugar during the annual sacrifice stove, so that the stove master who ate and drank well would not be able to talk more after going to heaven.

Although this is just a folk legend, the habits of the common people have been handed down.

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and four or five years have passed in a blink of an eye. In the past few years, because Song Desen got up early and was greedy for night, and he was not idle to go to the sea to catch fish and shrimp for a while, the life of the family was relatively rich. Later, several more sons were born, and it is said that they should live a well-off life. However, due to natural and man-made disasters at that time, crops have not grown in the field for several years. As a result, the surrounding farmers came to the sea to catch fish, and everyone came to fight for food, which made these local fishermen miserable.

Soon after, the local fisherman Jing Xiaoli and others bribed the county order to seize the entire 110-mile coastline of Ganyu.

So, Song Desen had to go out to work to earn barely enough for the whole family to drink half a year's confused wages. Xiao Jiliu had no choice but to take his second brother out to ask for food, and subsidize his own family.

One day, Jiliu was really hungry at home, so he took his second brother to the gate of the big landlord's house surnamed Qingkou Yiqi to ask for food. The second brother knocked on the door outside the gate for most of the day, but no one came to open the door. The second brother had to push hard, and the gate was opened, and the two entered one after another. As soon as I entered, I saw two lambs of the little landlord come up and beat them, and immediately beat the two brothers into "panda" eyes, and then beat the poor yellow-faced and thin-skinned little brothers out of the door.

The little landlord lamb said while beating: "His grandmother's, where did you come from to ask for food, her body is not as clean as our dog, don't make my house dirty, get out of here." ”

Another small landlord rushed to Jiliu again, and according to Jiliu's stomach, he punched and scolded: "Cooperate with your mother, I have given you these two kinds of rice to eat, it is better to feed the dog!" The dog can still wag its tail at us, what's the use of giving it to you! ”

Jiliu took his younger brother to run the road, so as to get rid of the pursuit of the landlord lamb. The two ran with dry mouths and sweaty profusely, so they ran to the Xiaosha River to hold water and drink. As soon as they arrived at the water's edge, the two of them saw two people on the water with blue noses and swollen faces, and then they realized that they had been beaten badly. So the two young brothers drank a lot of water, ran to the shore, and one of them found a stick the size of an egg, and rushed to the local house.

After Liu took his younger brother to the landlord's house, he hit the heads of the two landlord lambs who beat people with a few sticks, and immediately opened the heads of the two little villains, and the two little villains immediately lay on the ground and pretended to be dead......

A few days later, Song Desen came home from working outside and lost all his hard-earned money, which settled the matter.

That night, the hungry Desen lay on the bed and said to his wife on the side: "Brother Starling has asked me to lead people to open Ganyu City with him and open a warehouse to help the people." ”

"This ......" Aunt Song was so frightened that she couldn't speak.

When Xiao Jiliu on the side heard this, he got up happily and clapped his two little hands: "Okay!" I also participate! ”

Aunt Song angrily slapped Jiliu's little buttocks: "Fuck you!" You kid just don't know how to worry, and you're still so strong! If you hadn't fought back with your brother, we'd still be able to get by......"