At the foot of Huaguo Mountain, every intersection between going up and down the mountain has been guarded by the sergeants of the East China Sea Coastal Defense Battalion.

At some intersections, there are officials of the governor's office, holding a long wooden stick or rope in their hands, wandering around.

"You, stop. What for? ”

A servant stopped Uncle Jiao, who was going out today to go up the mountain to collect firewood, and shouted with a gloomy face.

"Well, this poor master is already you. I'm going up the mountain to fetch firewood. Uncle Jiao bowed again and again, nodded again and again, and replied with a smile on his face.

"Collecting firewood? Mountain? Then you better go back. This Huaguo Mountain has been closed today. ”

The servant waved his left hand impatiently, and the long stick in his right hand paused on the ground, stirring up some sparse stone chips.

"This, this, please make it convenient for the master. I, my name is Boss Jiao, and I am the woodcutter under this Huaguo Mountain. My family lives two miles away from the southeast corner of Huaguo Mountain, and this firewood, going up the mountain to collect firewood is my daily livelihood. This, please also ask the poor master to be able to do it conveniently. ”

As soon as Boss Jiao heard that he couldn't go up the mountain, he immediately became a little impatient in his heart, and couldn't help but beg aloud.

"No, I can't. Ay? I asked who you are and where you live. Don't give me a trick. The notices for closing the mountain are almost all over Haizhou City, and there are also some notices on the main roads and small roads that go up the mountain, just on the trees on the side of the road? You can't see any of them? ”

"I, I, don't hide it, I, I, I don't recognize that word."

Boss Jiao bowed his head and smiled with a smile.

"Oh? Can't read? The mountain guard raised his eyes and looked Boss Jiao up and down, and said with a sense of superiority: "It's the same, a woodcutter who collects firewood, where can he recognize that word."

"Yes, yes, yes, I want to ask the master to give me a convenient and convenient line."

"No, I can't. Lord Zhizhou strictly ordered that the East China Sea General was affiliated with each other, and during the rebuilding of the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, idle people were not allowed to enter the mountain. ”

"This, this is to rebuild the collapsed water curtain hole? Rebuild, rebuild, rebuild. Bad master, I'm sorry, I'm leaving, I'm going back, I'm going back. ”

Boss Jiao nodded and said this, turned around and went back and forth.

"Yo hi! These mud legs, as soon as they heard that they were going to rebuild this water curtain hole, they immediately stopped chattering crookedly, I really couldn't figure it out. ”

Looking at the back of Boss Jiao gradually moving away, the official shook his head, turned around with a wooden stick and continued to wander at the intersection.

……

On Huaguo Mountain, Chen Minghua, who had been up the mountain yesterday, was sitting in a pavilion not far from the collapsed water curtain cave.

From here, you can vaguely see the site of the collapsed water curtain cave.

Before I came to this mountain, I saw nothing but piles of rocks and dirt that had been pulled up and messy, and it was the stone monkey statue that I didn't know who covered it with a tarpaulin.

It's also strange to say, this water curtain cave has collapsed, but this stone monkey statue has not happened at all. And the things I wanted were still under those rocks, and they were in those waterholes.

Chen Minghua was eating dried meat and drinking the "Drunken Dream Red Flower" wine in the wine gourd, and his whole body was happy for a while.

"Ang Ang ......"

Suddenly, a terrible cry resounded through the mountain stream, startling a large group of birds to rush out of the mountain forest and fly into the sky.

Chen Minghua was startled, stood up, and listened carefully, but he couldn't hear any sound, so he couldn't help shaking his head, sat down and continued to drink.

……

In an unknown mountain stream in Huaguo Mountain, a group of wild monkeys, large and small, are huddled together in fear and trembling, and from time to time let out some low hiss.

A young man in black with a pale face was sitting on a big rock, gulping down food, looking intoxicated and enjoying.

A monkey that looked very sturdy was sitting in front of the black-clad young man, his eyes widening and becoming more and more blank, and occasionally blinking his own blank eyes.

With a "poof" sound, I saw the young man in black sitting on the rock, and suddenly kicked forward again, kicking the monkey sitting in front of him under the big rock.

"You monkey king, hurry up and arrange for your little wolf grandfather to come over one by one. Remember to pick one, if it doesn't fit the wolf's mouth, then it's your turn. Hahaha......"

The young man in black sat on the rock, baring his teeth as if talking to himself.

The group of wild monkeys not far away suddenly stirred, but not a single monkey ran away. A wild monkey in the shape of a monkey king, after a "chirping" squeak in his mouth, only to see a sturdy wild monkey trembling violently, dragging out step by step, no longer the strength and agility of the past. All the other wild monkeys were watching it, and a few of them were stronger

The monkey was still baring its teeth at it, as if to tell it to go faster.

No matter how far the road is, there will be an end, let alone this short distance of about three zhang.

The monkey that was ordered by the Monkey King finally came to the bottom of the rock, and the black-clothed young man sitting on the stone was looking up at the sky, grinning and smashing his mouth from time to time, as if he was still reminiscing about the fresh delicacy of the monkey's brain just now.

With an angry hiss, the wild monkey that had been lying on its stomach under the boulder suddenly jumped at a rapid speed, like a brown lightning, and pounced on the black-clothed young man who was sitting upright on the stone and looking up at the sky....... The sharp monkey's claws shimmered with cold anger in the early morning sun.

"Good! Hahahaha...... Enough energy. It seems to be a world of difference compared to the one just now. The more tyrannical the more delicious, hahahaha......"

Facing the oncoming wild monkeys, the young man in black seemed to be unconscious and laughed loudly.

"Poof" sounded again, and I saw that the wild monkey that had accelerated to the highest point in the air and was pounced on the air suddenly fell on the big rock again, as if it had been pounced on by an invisible big hand, and was pressed in front of the black-clothed young man sitting on the rock.

The wild monkey struggled violently, hissing in pain from its mouth.

"Evil animals." The black-clothed boy snorted.

"Crackling" in a series of bones breaking sounds, I saw that the wild monkey that was lying on the stone and struggling suddenly became motionless.

"Humph! You're not good. If you don't behave, you have to be punished. In that case, then you can lie down here. I'm going to eat your brain bit by bit, and even the inner wall of the skull will be scraped clean, and I'll never be done with just two or three bites. You're so smart, it must be more delicious than the one just now, I'm really looking forward to it. Hahahaha......"

The black-clothed boy looked up and laughed, the wild monkeys three feet away were surprisingly quiet, and even the young monkeys were motionless. Some were hanging from the belly of the female monkey, some were riding on the back of the male monkey, and some were alone and stunned, blinking their little eyes, looking at the big rock not far away.

As the sun rises in the morning, the temperature in the mountains and forests begins to rise. Some unknown little beasts are drinking from a pool of mountain streams, and from time to time some birds will fly down here, fluttering their wings and walking to the edge of the pool, and arranging their feathers with their pointed beaks as they drink. There are also birds that are gathering together in groups of three or four, some are arranging their feathers with their thin beaks, some are chasing and frolicking by the waterhole, flying from one side of the waterhole to the other from time to time, and some of them will suddenly flutter their wings and fly away.

Flowers and fruits go up the mountain, a quiet and peaceful scene. In the streets and alleys of Haizhou City, the first thing many people say after meeting each other today is to ask each other: "Hey, do you know, the new Lord Zhizhou is going to rebuild the Water Curtain Cave."

"yes, yes. Our Huaguo Mountain is the overseas immortal mountain that has been recorded in the Ming people's novel "Journey to the West", how can there be no water curtain cave on this mountain? We must cultivate, we must cultivate, otherwise, how can we compete with those other places in the Qing Dynasty for the status of this orthodox immortal mountain Huaguo Mountain? ”

"yes, who's to say it isn't? This Huaguo Mountain can't be without the Water Curtain Cave. Is this Huaguo Mountain without the Water Curtain Cave still Huaguo Mountain? ”

"Hey, I heard that Liu Shixun, the vice president of the Haicheng Chamber of Commerce, has made a lot of efforts this time."

"yes, I heard. It seems that our Haizhou City not only has a good official, but also a great good person. ”

Similar scenes are happening from time to time in many places in Haizhou City today.

It seems that it won't take a few days for it to spread throughout the entire Haizhou territory, and maybe it will spread to Huai'an Mansion, or even Jiangning Mansion or even further away.