Chapter 8: The Lunar Palace
Thinking that this black branch searched carefully in this Moon Palace, he first shouted inside, and saw that no one responded for a long time, and then patiently searched one building after another, room by room, and he spent a long time carefully searching each room, and from time to time he deliberately made some movements when searching, so that if someone was there, he could attract his attention. But when he searched all the rooms here, he still didn't find a single figure.
"Heyγγγ A sense of discouragement rose in his heart, it seemed that there was really no one here, and he thought about it and confirmed his conjecture even more. Because when he was searching, he found that this place was completely dusty, many rooms, floors, and windows were covered with a thick layer of dust, obviously looking like they had not been cleaned for a long time, and there were deep weeds growing on the corridors and even in the houses, which was completely barren. All of this is enough to prove that no one has been here for a long time. Because if there were people living in it, he would not be able to let these weeds grow in the house.
It seems that no one lives here anymore. He came to this conclusion after thinking about it several times. It's just that fortunately, some living utensils such as tables and chairs in these buildings are still complete, and even the pots and pans in the kitchen, the beds and bedding in the room still exist one by one, but they are just a little older, so that you can live here in the future with a lot less trouble.
Just as he was thinking about these miscellaneous things, he suddenly remembered one thing, he remembered that there seemed to be a tablet on the left side of the gate just after entering the first courtyard, and when he thought about it, there seemed to be some words on the tablet.
"Got a word?" Thinking of this, he was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly ran towards the monument. That inscription is the best key to solving the mystery of the Moon Palace.
That's right, he ran here and saw a monument here, and there were words on it. But if you look closely, there are some small characters on it.
The seal character is also stronger than not, thinking about the black branch, he looked at the inscription on it and read it word by word.
Because it is a seal, he has a hard time reading, and there are a few words he doesn't recognize, but the general gist is as follows: in the first year of the lunar calendar, just because of the debasement of this, the tree was cut down to apologize. At the beginning of the second year, a new bureau was opened, the air was created, and the environment was good; after knowing the fairy, he took the fairy to build a house to live in, cultivated and fed his strength, and enjoyed himself. In the first month of the third year, he made every effort to build a new house, built a number of buildings and palaces, and in June of the same year, he took the fairy to set up a pearl on it, and took its light to drive away the cold. In August of the fifth year, the construction was completed, the pavilions and pavilions were readily available, and the name was Guanghan Palace, and the osmanthus flowers and plants were widely planted during the periodγγγγγγ Ninety-nine years of the lunar calendar, on the forgiveness of sins, just returned to the west of the fairy, with the fairy and the rabbit to go together, the number of young rabbits, vacant houses to wait for the back of the people, a stele stone is specially built to commemorate. Monument builder: Wu Gang Chang'e. Date of monument building: September 9, 99th year of the lunar calendar.
Although Wuzhi is not very literate, but the inscription is written in a simple and easy to understand, he still understands it, which roughly means that Wu Gang was condemned by the heavenly court and was relegated to this desolate place on the moon to cut down trees to punish him for his crimes, maybe the environment here is too bad, Wu Gang is improving the living environment here while cutting down trees. He first opened up a place as a place to stay, and then created air, etc., and later, Chang'e Fairy also came here, so Wu Gang and Chang'e worked together to improve the environment here, they not only lived a self-reliant life here, but also spent three years building this palace, and then planted all kinds of flowers and trees in this palace, and named it Guanghan Palace.
Moreover, Wu Gang and Chang'e thought that the climate here was too cold, so they deliberately set up a huge luminous sphere to put on top of the Guanghan Palace, wanting to use the light it emitted to drive away the cold here. Later, because the Jade Emperor pardoned Wu Gang's sins, he ended his mission here, took Chang'e and her little rabbit to fly to the sky, and never returned.
It may be that the Jade Rabbit bred the rabbits here, or maybe they couldn't take them all away, so they left some rabbits here, and Wu Gang and the others made a wish to leave the building they built together for those who need them in the future. In the end, it can be inferred from the time that Wu Gang should have stayed here for ninety-nine years, and then erected this monument on the day he left, that is, on September 9 of that year.
After reading the inscription, Wu Zhi sat on the ground, and he understood that Wu Gang and they would not come back, which means that there will be no one in the Guanghan Palace, or maybe there is no one on the entire moon, because so far, he has only found this place on this moon that is alive.
Wu Zhi was disappointed when he thought about it, he had hoped that this beautiful Moon Palace would be inhabited and that he could be his companion, but now this only hope was shattered.
In the disappointment, the black branch became sleepy, and gradually dozed off on the ground, and slowly he fell asleep, in which he dreamed that he was alone in the sky, and suddenly floated alone from the sky to the sea, and then from the sea to a desert Gobi, and finally from the desert Gobi to the moon. While he was looking around on the barren moon, he suddenly saw a group of monsters rushing towards him, trying to bite him and eat him, and he fought with the monsters, but the monsters fought more and more, and they surrounded themselves, and when the monsters were about to open their mouths and eat him, he suddenly woke up with fright.
After waking up, Wu Zhifa was already sweating all over his body, he should have been frightened by that dream, just as he wiped the sweat with his sleeve, but at this time he heard a dull sound, the sound came with a bang, it sounded like it was far away from here.
Wu Zhi was startled, and hurriedly stood up to see what was going on, he thought, it has been determined that there is no one here, but where is the voice. Thinking of this, he took up his sword and sought the voice.
Out of the palace, he first watched the neighborhood for a while, but there was nothing unusual nearby. He walked farther away with his sword in hand, and carefully searched for the source of the sound from place to place, but after searching for a long time, he still found nothing suspicious.
Just as he was about to give up looking, a rustling sound suddenly came again, accompanied by the sound of ouching.
He was startled, and hurriedly followed the sound to find it, and slowly saw that there was a suspicious figure on the edge of the grass in the distance, and the thing was moving, and it made a sound from time to time.
"Who?" called out the black branch, and he slowly leaned forward with courage, trying to figure things out. But the thing grunted up when it heard his voice. Now Wuzhi saw clearly, it turned out to be a person. But after Wu Zhi saw this person, he became nervous in his heart, he actually knew this person.
He clenched the sword in his hand, and approached the man step by step, the man saw him clearly while standing up, only to see the man's expression of surprise, he clenched his fist with one hand and made a stopping movement with the other, and frequently stopped while retreating: "You? Here?" said as he retreated, and said in horror from time to time:
"Don't come here, don't come hereγγγγγγ β