Huaguo Mountain in Haizhou City is now famous throughout the Qing Dynasty. And it was originally just an island in the East China Sea, in the 50th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, due to the earthquake, the sea retreated eastward, and the sea city Huaguo Mountain became land from the island.

The reason why this Huaguo Mountain is very famous is entirely because of the fairy and strange novel "Journey to the West" written by Wu Chengen, who called himself a person who shot Yang Mountain in the former Ming Dynasty, in his later years. I don't know if it's a real thing, or a coincidence, or if future generations will attach a famous book.

Since the Huaguo Mountain of Haizhou City has become a land mountain from the island, the scenery has become more and more beautiful in the past ten years, the strange rocks in the mountains, the strange flowers and plants, the mountain springs and waterfalls, many birds and beasts are inhabited here, and especially the groups of wild monkeys in the mountains are the most eye-catching. As a result, people, especially those literati and writers, have exerted great enthusiasm and cited classics to verify that today's Huaguo Mountain is the overseas immortal mountain Huaguo Mountain in the novel "Journey to the West" written by Wu Chengen. And now there is indeed a large cave in the Huaguo Mountain of this Haicheng, there are often a little mountain spring water or rain drops above the cave door, there are also several large and small waterholes in the cave, some birds and beasts in the mountain and those wild monkeys often appear here, drinking water and foraging to avoid the wind and rain. Therefore, there are good deeds who do not hesitate to waste time, effort and money, at first it is to get some stone tables, stone benches, stone pots, etc., and put them in the cave, and later someone carved a stone statue of a monkey and placed it in the high place in the cave, saying that it is the Monkey King Monkey King. Later, someone carved three big characters of the water curtain hole above the door of the cave, and carved a couplet on the mountain stones on the left and right sides of the cave, saying: "Huaguo Mountain blessed land, water curtain cave cave sky". So in the past few decades, this Huaguo Mountain has become more and more prosperous, and the incense in front of the stone monkey statue in the cave has become more and more prosperous day by day. And in many places in the country, there are a lot of Huaguo Mountain, Water Curtain Cave, people from all over the country, up to the local government, down to the old and weak women and children all say that the east or west or south or north of the mountain is the real Huaguo Mountain, the mountain in front of the door, the water system in the cave criss-cross the cave is the authentic Water Curtain Cave, and other places are fake.

Most of the true and false are no longer verifiable, and with the passage of time, many facts and truths will always be lost, not to mention that just by virtue of a novel of gods and monsters, there are different opinions. In general, most of the words of novelists are not credible and cannot be true. Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, novels and other literary themes have been enjoyed by the general public as a pastime after tea and dinner, and are mainly used by storytellers to interpret and preach as a means of livelihood, and have developed into an industry. In addition, it has been used as a source of story themes for some dramas and operas, and has prospered and derived new industries. I am afraid that this is something that the person who wrote the novel for some reason could not have imagined at the beginning.

"Nameless nephew, this is the foot of the flower and fruit mountain. When you and I climb to the water curtain cave, it will be almost dawn that day. ”

The rainy Taoist took the two little Taoist priests, Nameless and Flowerless, and did not alarm anyone else in the Jade Emperor Palace an hour ago, and quietly walked out of the Jade Emperor Taoist Temple and went straight to this Huaguo Mountain. It's finally here. Along the way, the rainy Taoist chief and the two little Taoist priests talked about this Huaguo Mountain.

"Lord, shall we take a break before we go up the mountain?"

"Wuhua, I am entangled in mundane affairs on weekdays, and I don't have time to care about your cultivation, you have only walked for an hour and you are so unbearable? For the rest of the Jade Emperor Dao Palace, you and I are both outsiders, since that year, you who were abandoned were only two or three years old, and brought back to the Taoist Temple from the gate of Haizhou City, this is almost more than ten years in a blink of an eye, you have to fight for breath, although you have not been allowed to worship me as a teacher over the years, you have been calling me the master of the old Tao over the years, but in fact you are my apprentice. ”

"Lord, I ......" Hearing this, the flower boy couldn't help choking up.

"Still called the Viewer?"

"Huh?" Wuhua raised her head suddenly, as if in disbelief, and suddenly knelt on the ground, crying, "Disciple to see Master."

"Okay, okay, get up. In the future, I will get close to your nameless senior brother and ask for more advice on some cultivation methods. The rainy Taoist raised his hand to support the Taoist boy who had been brought up since he was a child, and he looked deeply pleased.

"Congratulations to Uncle Shi, you have received a good apprenticeship today. Congratulations to my junior brother, thank you for the meal I prepared today. In the future, we will really be veritable brothers. ”

"I've seen the nameless brother. The junior brother is polite. ”

"Alright, alright, haha...... Your brothers and sisters will have the opportunity to get close in the future, so don't meet here and see the past. Let's go, climb the mountain. ”

"Yes, Master."

"Yes, Uncle Shi."

On the third day of March, at this time, in the sky, the moon has gradually gone west, and the cold light is swaying all over the Huaguo Mountain.

The cooing of birds continued to be heard in the mountains, and the group of three began to walk along the narrow and winding mountain path towards the mountain.