【Short Story】The Legend of the Green Ox

01

Thirty-three heavens, immortal qi and smoke. A quaint and heavy palace looms.

Tushi Palace, the residence of Taishang Laojun, is also his alchemy room. The door with copper nails on a red background is painted with Tai Chi, tightly closed, and inside the door is a different scene.

A bronze tripod was burned red, and golden light flashed from time to time. The flames under the furnace are blazing, showing three colors: red, yellow and blue. The two boys in Taoist robes on the side kept fanning their fans vigorously, and their faces were sweating profusely.

Passing through the center of the hall, in the back hall, a golden rope was tied to a lamp post, and at the other end of the rope was led a cyan bull, which looked exceptionally strong and had a fine light in its eyes. But he wore a slick iron ring on his nose, and the rope was tied to the iron ring, which tied him and made him very uncomfortable.

02

Qingniu felt unwilling, he was the demon king of the powerful side at the beginning, which was terrifying. He remembered when he hadn't met the kid yet.

In a very long time, when he was still on a mountain south of the Taiqing Palace, he was still called the One-Horned King. Relying on his fierce appearance, he bites when he sees things, eats people when he sees them, and when the lion and tiger sees him, he will make a detour, and when he stomps his foot, the whole mountain will tremble.

Until I met the kid. The child said that his name was Li Er, and he came to the mountains to cut the grass, and the green ox drooled when he saw such a tender child, and pounced on him to eat him. Li Er was not afraid at all, and raised his own scythe to cut him.

The green bull roared, but the child still didn't change his face, and the green bull kicked violently, sticking out his tongue and rushing towards him. Li Er dodged, and the green cow's tongue licked to the ground, and with a "snort", the ground was dented. At this time, Li Er took out a shiny iron ring from his arms and threw it at him, and the nose of the green cow was passed through, and then Li Er took out a yellow rope and tied it to the ring, and the green cow was led away by his nose like this.

Qingniu stopped eating people later, and Li Er also grew up and grew old, became an immortal, and came to Tushi Palace, refining the pill wholeheartedly.

03

Qingniu woke up from his memories again, and the two Taoist boys came to feed him grass.

The two Dao Tong looked almost identical, Qingniu felt very kind to them, and Xiao Dao Tong was also very good to him, calling him Brother Qingniu.

The two Taoist children would sit over every day after refining the Dan, chat with Qingniu, and tell the unhappiness in their hearts. Sometimes, I would bring some delicious food that Master had rewarded and distributed to the green cows.

"Qingniu, do you know? Master, he always kept a straight face and looked unhappy, and when we asked him, he scolded us and punished us for not being allowed to eat. The older Dao Tong said sullenly.

Qingniu had no choice but to comfort: "When I met your master, he always had a stinky face, probably because he didn't have a daughter-in-law." After Qingniu finished speaking, the three of them laughed together.

When Qingniu mentioned his daughter-in-law, how could he not be alone? He always wondered if he had not been subdued by the child Li Er, whether he would already have a child, and the child would have been able to talk to him.

Qingniu was tired of being with the two little Taoist children all day long, and when they came crying, he gently touched their shoulders with his mouth and licked their heads gently. One day, Qingniu told them about his past, and they were fascinated by it, showing a yearning look. Qingniu said: "One day, I will take you to the south mountain of Taiqing Palace, where there is the most beautiful grassland. ”

Qingniu seems to feel less lonely, he has a kind of homely warmth. But suddenly one day, when it was lunch, he was still looking forward to the two people coming, but the two people did not show up for a long time, he waited for a long time, but he did not see them for several days.

04

Qingniu later learned from Lao Jun's conversation with others that they had gone down to earth.

The green bull shook his head vigorously, and with all his strength, both eyes were red, and he did not break the rope.

He fell to the ground in frustration and stopped moving. When he opened his eyes again, the two Dao boys came back and stood next to him.

The two Taoist boys sobbed and said, "We were instructed by others, and the master also knew about it, and gave us our names respectively, called Golden Horn and Silver Horn. We went down to arrest a monk named Tang Seng, but we were beaten badly by a monkey, and the master appeared, but he wanted to punish us, abolish our immortal roots, and ask us to alchemy forever, without stopping. ”

Qing Niu knew that he might never see the two Dao Tong again, so he said to them, "Can you loosen the tie for me? I will take you away, get out of here, and teach you a lesson by the way." ”

Dao Tong thought about it again and again, and hesitated, but looking at Qingniu's resolute appearance, they still loosened the rope for Qingniu.

Qingniu asked, "Does Master know?" They said, "Master knows." The green ox then asked, "Who is the one who instructed you?" and they replied, "Many people do not know who it is." ”

Qingniu finally decided to call himself a name that he hadn't called for a long time again: "One-horned King, I was originally called One-Horned King!" Qingniu took off the iron ring on his nose, touched it, and said, "I know how to use it, you used it once before, and I still remember --- King Kongzhuo." ”

05

Qingniu arrived in the mortal world and put the two Dao boys into his sleeve. He investigated, Tang monks and apprentices would pass by a mountain, he occupied the mountain, found a cave, named the mountain "Jindou Mountain", and the cave house was named "Jindou Cave". He gathered the monsters in the mountains again, and called himself the One-Horned King.

He set a trap, lit up an immortal village, and emitted light, attracting Tang Seng, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Monk, and tricked them into putting on three Najin cotton vests to bind themselves as cocoons, and the three vests turned into ropes to easily tie up the three people.

Qingniu captured three people without much effort, and he felt that the rest of Sun Wukong was nothing more than that. He had not drunk wine or eaten meat for a long time, and he threw a lot of food into his sleeve for the two Taoist boys to celebrate with him.

"Hey, who dares to arrest my master and brother!" a monkey outside the cave was scolding. The little demon standing guard came to report in a panic that the monkey had injured many of them.

The one-horned king walked out of the cave, and he conjured up a steel spear two feet long, and looked at the monkey with disdain. When the monkey saw this, he was very annoyed, and took out his golden rod and threw it at him.

He used a steel gun, "Khoo!" The stick hit the gun, and the hand he held the steel gun went numb in an instant. "It's amazing!" he realized in his heart that the monkey was capable, and he didn't dare to underestimate the enemy anymore, so he used all his strength to fight.

After more than a dozen rounds, he felt like the monkey had endless strength, and he couldn't support it anymore. He hurriedly took out the Vajra Zhuo and recited the incantation that Li Er had recited, the originally black Vajra Zhuo instantly shone brightly, and then produced a large circle of light towards Sun Wukong, the aperture was like a whirlpool, and sucked Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick into it.

Sun Wukong was dumbfounded, without the golden hoop stick, he reacted quickly and flipped away.

06

Sun Wukong did not give up, he moved around to rescue the soldiers. First the father and son of the Tota Heavenly King, then the Huode Xingjun, the Yellow River Hebo, and finally the eighteen Arhats came.

Qingniu is not afraid at all, he is calm, unhurried to take out the vajra, chanting the spell, all the gods and arhats are like mice seeing cats, all the weapons and magic weapons have been sucked away, people are so frightened that they ran away, and they didn't dare to come over to ask for their magic weapons.

Sun Wukong saw that all the immortals he invited were not Qingniu's opponents, so he lost his things, and all of them came to ask him for it. He was very aggrieved in his heart, and his eyes rolled to think of a punch.

He disguised himself as a demon and blended into the cave, and the green cow drank heavily, chatting happily with the two boys, not paying attention to his arrival. Sun Wukong waited for the green cow and the demons to get drunk, ran to the place where the green cow hid the magic weapons of the gods, and took back the treasures one by one.

"Ahh The green cow looked at the burning cave and was furious, while the arsonist was still making a fuss in the cave. Sun Wukong waved the flag of Huo De Xingjun, and with a wave, a fire rose in a place, and the rocks were to be burned.

The green bull yelled to take Sun Wukong, but Sun Wukong quickly dodged and escaped from the cave.

07

Sun Wukong returned all the treasures to the owner, and then he knew that he was not the opponent of the green bull, so he flew to the west to find the Buddha.

The Buddha preached the scriptures, but was unwilling to receive them, and sent eighteen arhats to reveal to him that Jin Dansha could subdue the green cow essence. Sun Wukong probed his brain and was puzzled. The Eighteen Arhats said again, only Taishang Laojun has Jin Dansha.

The monkey suddenly realized. "Okay, if you come, if you don't want to say too much, you have to turn a corner. The monkey knew that Rulai and Lao Jun had a holiday, so he disappeared without saying anything.

Qingniu is not afraid at all, he is calm, unhurried to take out the vajra, chanting the spell, all the gods and arhats are like mice seeing cats, all the weapons and magic weapons have been sucked away, people are so frightened that they ran away, and they didn't dare to come over to ask for their magic weapons.

Sun Wukong saw that all the immortals he invited were not Qingniu's opponents, so he lost his things, and all of them came to ask him for it. He was very aggrieved in his heart, and his eyes rolled to think of a punch.

He disguised himself as a demon and blended into the cave, and the green cow drank heavily, chatting happily with the two boys, not paying attention to his arrival. Sun Wukong waited for the green cow and the demons to get drunk, ran to the place where the green cow hid the magic weapons of the gods, and took back the treasures one by one.

"Ahh The green cow looked at the burning cave and was furious, while the arsonist was still making a fuss in the cave. Sun Wukong waved the flag of Huo De Xingjun, and with a wave, a fire rose in a place, and the rocks were to be burned.

The green bull yelled to take Sun Wukong, but Sun Wukong quickly dodged and escaped from the cave.

07

Sun Wukong returned all the treasures to the owner, and then he knew that he was not the opponent of the green bull, so he flew to the west to find the Buddha.

The Buddha preached the scriptures, but was unwilling to receive them, and sent eighteen arhats to reveal to him that Jin Dansha could subdue the green cow essence. Sun Wukong probed his brain and was puzzled. The Eighteen Arhats said again, only Taishang Laojun has Jin Dansha.

The monkey suddenly realized. "Okay, if you come, if you don't want to say too much, you have to turn a corner. The monkey knew that Rulai and Lao Jun had a holiday, so he disappeared without saying anything.

He set up a somersault cloud, and after a while, he came to the Doushi Palace in the Thirty-Three Heavens, and he kicked open the palace door. And he got in.

Lao Jun was sitting in meditation, and when he saw him come in, he was very panicked, and hurriedly shouted: "Thief, thief!" Lao Jun said and was about to leave him.

The monkey stopped him and said to him, "Why did you connive at your apprentice to go down to earth, and now you let your mount go down to earth?" Lao Jun knew that he was ashamed, but he didn't know that the mount was down, so he still asked, "The mount is down?"

The monkey grabbed him by the sleeve and told him to lead him to see his mount. Lao Jun was caught and had to take him to see it.

"Ah, the green cow is gone!" Lao Jun found out that his mount, the green cow, had really descended to earth. Sun Wukong gloated proudly.

08

Lao Jun set up auspicious clouds and slowly followed Sun Wukong to the sky above Jindou Mountain. Sun Wukong shouted below: "Qingniu, who do you see coming?"

Qingniu came out of the cave unexpectedly, but saw the person he didn't want to see. He knew he was done, but he still had to fight.

He took out the vajra and recited the incantation, but the vajra didn't move at all. The old man in the sky shook the dust, and King Kong flew into the sky and fell into his hands.

Lao Jun said: "The evil animal has not yet appeared!" The green cow knelt on the ground, revealing its true body, but the real body refused to admit defeat, its nose spewed hot air, and it kicked the bowl of big hooves to hit it.

Sun Wukong wanted to beat him, but Qingniu turned around and ran away. Sun Wukong hurried to catch up.

Qingniu rode the clouds and came to a fairy mountain, which was his original residence. He fell, changed back into his human form, and released two Taoist children from his sleeves.

He said, "Is it beautiful here?" I said I was going to show you. The two children said, "Beautiful." Qingniu said again: "I have avenged you, those who instructed you and bullied you have been taught a good lesson by me, but I can't beat Li Er." ”

Qingniu cried as he spoke, and the two children also cried, and the three of them hugged each other and clinged to each other tightly. Sun Wukong came, and when he saw this, he didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, the robes on the two children disappeared, one glowing golden, the other silver, then shrunk and sharpened, slowly turning into horns.

Finally, the light dissipated, and a golden horn and a silver horn appeared in front of the green bull. The horns on his own head seemed to be induced, and the golden and silver horns slowly merged with his horns.

Sun Wukong was dumbfounded, but the old gentleman who came later was thoughtful. Lao Jun still spoke: "In order to tame you, I cut off your two horns and replaced them with ordinary horns." I didn't expect your two horns to become an adult, so I accepted them as apprentices, but I didn't expect them to return to their main body. ”

Qingniu stood up, held the golden horn and the silver horn, and said, "I will go with you, but you will let them go in the future." After saying that, he broke off the horns again, put them on the ground, and the golden horns and silver horns turned into human form again.

Later, Golden Horn and Silver Horn would visit Qingniu every day, and the three of them returned to their usual lives.