Sun Wukong waved his hand and interrupted: "Don't listen, don't listen, what does your cause and effect have to do with me!"

King Jizo Bodhisattva shook his head and sighed:

"Okay, you're a monkey, you have average skills, and you have a hand in spoaching. ”

Who knew that Wukong heard this, and said angrily:

"I'm average, then you're going to try my skills. ”

After that, he raised the Ruyi golden hoop stick and wanted to hit the bald head in front of him.

Jizo King Bodhisattva waved his hand and said: "If I don't fight you, I won't fight you, what is standing in front of you is just an incarnation outside my body, it's useless to kill him, there is no one to speak in vain, why bother!"

"Since you think that the cause and effect of my Buddha has nothing to do with you, then take a look again!"

Yubi, the king of the earth Bodhisattva waved his hand, and the scenery of this place changed again.

Sun Wukong looked around and saw that this place was a remote small town, and in front of him were two small courtyards, which were only separated by a wall, and there were two old men living in them.

The two old men called each other Meng Laohan and Jiang Laohan, and Meng Laohan planted a gourd seed in the corner of the courtyard.

Under Meng Laohan's careful watering, fertilization and cultivation, the gourd vine grew rapidly, and finally crossed the wall and stretched out to Jiang Laohan's yard, but it also produced a gourd melon weighing dozens of catties.

Jiang Laohan saw that the gourd was knotted in his yard, so he picked it off when the gourd was ripe, and after cutting it with a knife, he didn't want the gourd to be a white and chubby female doll lying in it.

The female doll cried when she saw the light, and was listened to by Meng Laohan next door, he thought to himself, this Jiang Laohan is just a lonely old man like himself, where did the female doll cry.

So Meng Laohan entered Jiang Laohan's courtyard and saw Jiang Laohan holding a knife in his hand, and on the ground was a big gourd cut in half, and the gourd vine planted by himself stretched over, and there was a white and chubby little girl crying in the gourd.

I don't know if this old man Jiang stole his own melon, as for why there is a female doll in the melon, who cares so much about the two lonely old men.

The two old men quarreled endlessly, Jiang Laohan said that the melon grew in his yard, and that was his, and the female doll was obtained by cutting the gourd with a knife, and it was also his.

Meng Laohan said that the gourd vine was carefully cultivated and raised by him, so that this gourd could grow and the girl could be cut.

The two argued for a long time, regardless of victory or defeat, and finally had to negotiate with the two to raise the female doll, in order to name the female doll, the two argued for a long time, and finally the little girl finally got a name, named Meng Jiang.

The great river flows eastward, and the dead are like this.

Sun Wukong is like being in the picture scroll of time, just go forward, the time in the picture scroll is rolling, sixteen years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Meng Jiang is also slim.

Meng Jiang is ingenious, smart, beautiful, weaving cloth to compare with the weaver girl, singing to race the yellow warbler, Meng Laohan and Jiang Laohan love like a treasure.

One day, Meng Jiang was swinging in the garden, and suddenly saw a scholar enter over the wall and hide under the loofah frame planted by Meng Laohan.

Meng Jiang hurriedly looked for Meng Laohan, Meng Laohan heard about it, found a firewood knife and ran to question, only to see him say:

"Who are you, how dare you climb over the wall into my courtyard, if you don't recruit from the truth, be careful of the firewood knife in my hand!"

The young scholar hurriedly got up and asked for a complaint to explain the reason, it turned out that this scholar's real name was Chai Qiliang, Bengu Su Ren's family, he had been reading since childhood, full of articles, but Qin Shi Huang wanted to build the Great Wall, and he caught strong men everywhere, and the people of Li complained about it.

Chai Qiliang is the only son in the family, so he had no choice but to escape in disguise.

Meng Jiang saw that Chai Qiliang knew books and was courteous, loyal and honest, so she secretly promised that she would express her mind to Meng Laohan, and Meng Laohan saw that Chai Qiliang was a talent, and he knew books and courtesy, so he was very much in favor.

Meng Laohan hurriedly came to the front hall and said to Chai Qiliang:

"You are running away now, thinking that the pursuers are already full of eyeliner near your home, and you can't go back to your home, so there is no fixed place, I want to recruit you as a son-in-law, what do you think?"

Chai Qiliang saw that the daughter of the Meng family, Qing Shui Furong, had her sleeves like Su Ni, and she was willing in every way, but she still hurriedly left her seat and excused herself:

"I am a fugitive, I am afraid that I will affect the young lady in the future, and I dare not think about marriage. ”

Meng Jiangnu had made up her mind, Meng Laohan urged again and again, and finally Chai Qiliang finally agreed. Meng Laohan happily closed his mouth, and hurriedly discussed with Jiang Laohan to choose a good day and an auspicious day to give them a marriage.

The good times did not last long, and they were immersed in joy on their wedding day, when suddenly there was an uproar, the door was slammed open, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed up.

The officers and soldiers couldn't help but say that they were about to take away the ropes and ropes of the firewood and beams, Meng Jiangnu hurriedly pounced, and was pushed away by the officers and soldiers, and watched her husband be taken away by the officers and soldiers.

It turned out that the officers and soldiers found Chai Qiliang, and now they have been arrested to build the Great Wall.

Since then, Meng Jiangnu has been thinking about Jun day and night, not thinking about tea, not wanting to eat, and being sad, it has been a year in the blink of an eye, but her husband Chai Qiliang has not heard from her.

The cold winter has arrived, the snow is heavy, Jiang Nu is worried that her husband will build the Great Wall, the weather is cold, and there is no clothes to keep out the cold, so she hurries to sew cotton clothes day and night.

After making cotton clothes, Meng Jiangnu said goodbye to Meng Laohan and Jiang Laohan, and embarked on a journey of thousands of miles.

Along the way, trekking through mountains and rivers, sleeping in the open air, hungry and cold, rushing forward day and night, Meng Jiang walked and explored, and finally came to the foot of the Great Wall.

But there are tens of thousands of people under the Great Wall, but there has never been a trace of Chai Qiliang?

She inquired about people when she met them, and finally a folk man who was familiar with Chai Qiliang told her that Chai Qiliang had already died of exhaustion.

Meng Jiangnu's heart was like a knife, tears were like rain, she couldn't cry, and asked:

"And please tell me where my poor husband is buried now?"

The man sighed and said:

"There were too many tired and starving people to bury them, and the overseer ordered that all the dead men be built into the Great Wall. ”

When Meng Jiangnu heard this, she sat down under the city, filled with grief and indignation, and her intestines were broken, she did not drink or eat, and cried bitterly, like a cuckoo crying blood, crying so that the sun and moon were dark, and the sky was dark;

She cried for ten days and ten nights, the white clouds stopped, the birds were silenced, and even Wukong outside the picture scroll couldn't bear it.

Suddenly, Wukong looked into the city wall, and saw a white bone in the wall, and the white bone began to tremble when he heard the cry.

Suddenly, everyone felt that the earth was shaking, and for a while, the Great Wall rumbled and collapsed in sections, and it collapsed for 800 miles, and piles of white bones were exposed.

Meng Jiang bit his middle finger and dripped blood on the pile of white bones, but when it dripped onto Chai Qiliang's bones, the blood beads froze and did not move.

Meng Jiang gave the cotton clothes in his hand to the man who was familiar with Chai Qiliang, and said to him:

"Please also ask my eldest brother to do a favor and bury my husband and wife in the same cave, and the two of us will repay the kindness in the next life. ”

With that, Meng Jiang hugged Chai Qiliang's white bones and crashed headlong into the collapsed city wall.

Seeing this, King Jizo Bodhisattva sang a Buddha horn and sighed:

Qin Zhi has no way to dry up in the four seas, and builds the Great Wall to cover Beihu.

Build people and build soil for 10,000 miles, and the virgin woman of Qiliang whines.

There is no father and no husband, and there is no child and loneliness.

The No. 1 city collapsed and was bitter, and then the bones of the pillars were unearthed.

Tired souls and hungry chase each other, and the young man is not the same. ①

Note (1): Quoted from Tang Dynasty Guan Xiu's "Qiliang Wife"