Chapter 8: The Monkeys
After the strong monkey and the snow-white old monkey left, the monkeys that were originally around also dispersed quietly, leaving only Ma Yun and the little monkey. Ma Yun was a little relieved at this time, it seems that these monkeys have no malicious intent. Needless to say, the strong monkey must be the king of this monkey pack.
"It's going to be a hassle to go back, you have to climb that high rattan. And the straw rope that took three days to weave, it's a pity to throw it away like this, and I'll see if I can climb it up and untie it. Even if you go back, you have to find out the situation here first. ”
Thinking of this, Ma Yun hurriedly looked around, and had already seen the general situation at a high place: he got out of the air from a cliff, and the other three sides were also towering peaks, but they were all far away, and below was a dense forest, which should be a large flat land. It seems that a river runs through the woods, and such a river usually ends up in the plains where there are people, and it is a way to get out of here.
Just as Ma Yun was thinking, the little monkey made the action that made him familiar with it again: let him follow. "I knew you monkey still had something!" he said with a smile and slowly followed.
The little monkey didn't walk fast this time, gesturing at him as he walked, but he didn't understand what he wanted to express at all. The little monkey walked towards a forest, and one of the trees in the woods stood out, much taller than the other trees around it, and it looked like it was a hundred meters high, and judging by the direction, the giant tree was probably the destination of the trip.
As soon as he entered the woods, Ma Yun saw many monkeys, either perched on the trees or jumping between the trees, and the monkeys screamed in all directions. The ground of the woods is overgrown with bushes and vines, and as soon as the little monkey enters the woods, it is much more difficult for Ma Yun to walk on the ground, and the coarse cloth clothes on his body are torn out several times by the bushes, and what makes him even more embarrassed is that there are many monkey droppings on the ground, not only to endure the bad smell, but also to be careful to avoid the feces.
Shortly after entering the woods like this, he lost his way, his vision obscured by the dense woods, and the huge tree was completely out of sight. Fortunately, there is the little monkey on top of his head to lead the way, so he doesn't have to worry about getting lost.
After about two hours of difficult walking through the trees, Ma Yun's clothes were already in tatters, and he accidentally stepped on monkey feces on his feet several times, and finally reached the big tree.
The large tree is four or five meters in diameter, towering into the sky, and the view from standing below is blocked by the canopy, and the top cannot be seen. There are significantly fewer monkeys near the tree, and there is also a lot less excrement on the ground, so it can be seen that the monkeys cannot appear near the tree. The strong monkey that had left before was now sitting on a branch halfway up the giant tree, munching on something.
Seeing the little monkey and Ma Yun coming, he jumped down from the tree in a few clicks, still carrying the bowl of thick wooden sticks on his shoulders. The strong monkey raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, then placed his stick on the ground and sat down on a large stump under the tree. After a while, the otherwise quiet forest became noisy, and the monkeys gathered to the trees from all directions. The strong monkey roared again, and several monkeys came out of the group of monkeys, carrying a burden of animal skin in their hands like little monkeys.
Several of the monkeys wrapped the hides in front of the strong monkeys and retreated into the group. The strong monkey roared again, and several more monkeys came out of the group, each holding a bundle of branches of varying thickness in his hand, which was also thrown in front of the strong monkey. After all this, the monkey king made a few movements towards the little monkey, and the little monkey stepped forward and untied the animal skin baggage, which was a bunch of insects that Ma Yunyao had eaten before.
The little monkey caught a bug and walked up to Ma Yun, made a few gestures, and pointed to the firewood on the ground. Ma Yun immediately understood what the little monkey meant, didn't this just let him make a fire and burn insects in front of the monkeys, this is not simple! There are a lot of dry moss in the woods, and there is one not far from Ma Yun's feet, after digging up a piece of dry moss, he walked to a clearing without weeds and shrubs. Put down the burden on your body, take out the flint, hit the moss twice, and there is a spark, and it blows lightly. The moment the moss caught fire, the surrounding monkeys boiled all at once.
The Monkey King let out a low roar, and then slowly quieted down. Soon a bonfire was lit. The Monkey King stared intently at Ma Yun's every move, his face showing excitement. Next, throw the worm into the fire and burn it for a while, and then take it out to be done. It didn't take long to burn a lot of bugs. The Monkey King, who was originally sitting upright, finally couldn't hold back his excitement, walked to the burned insect, picked up an insect and observed it carefully, put it next to his nose and sniffed it a few times, and then threw it into his mouth.
After a few moments, the Monkey King roared, turned his head, and walked back to sit down. The little monkey picked up a bunch of burned insects from the animal skin and walked to the monkeys, and the monkeys grabbed the burned insects from the little monkey's hands and threw them into their mouths without looking at them. There are so many monkeys that the little monkeys have enough to taste a small portion of the burned bugs in their hands. But all the monkeys who have eaten the burned insects are all excited.
Seeing this situation, Ma Yun didn't stop for a moment, and kept throwing the insects into the fire and taking them out. Fortunately, the insects are very easy to cook, and they can be thrown into the fire many times at a time, and it didn't take long for several large bags of bugs to be burned. Every monkey in the monkey group had eaten the burned worms, and some of the greedy monkeys fought for the remaining bugs, but the strange monkey king did not stop them, and finally the strong monkeys got another share of the bugs.
When all the insects had been eaten, the Monkey King stood up with a low roar, and then jumped to the giant tree and disappeared after a few jumps, and after a few moments jumped down from the giant tree, but there was an extra ring in his hand that seemed to be surrounded by dead wood. The Monkey King walked up to Jack Ma, looked down at him, and then put the ring on his head. While the Monkey King was doing all this, Ma Yun was standing quietly, even when the Monkey King put the ring on his head, he didn't move. The monkeys around were very excited when they saw the Monkey King's actions, and kept rotating around Ma Yun and the Monkey King.
Suddenly a loud roar came from behind the monkeys, and the monkeys suddenly quieted down again, but it was the snow-white old monkey that had never been seen who didn't know when it appeared, holding a dark green bowl in his hand, and slowly walked in front of Ma Yun, and handed him the bowl.
Ma Yun took the bowl and found that it was not a bowl, but a dried thing, similar in shape to a bowl, probably some kind of fungus. What intrigued him even more was the large half of the liquid in the bowl. The liquid is turquoise in color, crystal clear, and has a faint fragrance, which smells like wine at first, and looks like fruit after the aftertaste. Ma Yun immediately concluded that the contents of the bowl must be the legendary monkey wine.
Monkey wine, it is said that the monkeys in the mountains pick a hundred fruits in a hole (usually a tree hole, can also be a stone cave), at first to store the wintering food, but if there is no shortage of wintering food in the season, the monkeys will forget that they have stored a hole of fruits, and then this hole of fruits will gradually ferment, and then make a hole of fruit wine. This kind of wild brew is really a coincidence, and the real monkey wine is worth a thousand gold. Because the empty trees that the monkeys choose to store the hundred fruits must be enough to ensure that the hundred fruits do not rot during the winter, how many of them must be hollow and sealed...... Therefore, monkey wine is simply something that can be encountered but not reached. What's more, the monkey wine only has one season, and as time goes by, the wine gradually decreases, and it is so difficult to get the monkey wine!
Although Ma Yun usually doesn't like to drink, two taels of liquor and two bottles of beer should be poured, and you can't miss this kind of good thing, this half bowl of monkey wine is estimated to have two taels, and it doesn't smell like wine, so it's estimated that there is nothing wrong with drinking it. I drank half a sip first, and after the entrance, it was first cool and sweet, and then mellow and gloomy, and the whole person was refreshed and indescribably comfortable. So he drank the rest of the monkey wine directly, and returned the dark green bowl to the snow-white old monkey.
"I didn't expect to be able to drink such good wine, thank you very much. Ma Yun didn't care whether the monkeys could understand or not, he raised his fists and bowed around. It was only then that his heart was completely relaxed, and these monkeys not only had no ill will towards him, but were very enthusiastic about him. Just as he was trying to communicate more with the monkeys, there was a sudden heat in the dantian area of his abdomen, and then a huge sense of alcohol came to his head, and he slowly collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
Ma Yun slowly opened his eyes and found himself lying on the ground, his head still aching. I lay quietly for a while before I remembered what had happened before. "It seems that the monkey was drunk, but I didn't expect the wine to be so strong. I don't know how long I slept. This monkey wine seems to have a wonderful effect, and my body feels much lighter and stronger. ”
When he sat up, he saw the embers of the fire, and then the giant tree, but not a single monkey. He got up and looked around, and shouted twice, but still not a single monkey appeared. "It seems that there are no monkeys around at this time, so let's walk around. It's just that at this time, deep in the dense forest, according to the location of the fire, you can probably judge the direction of the time, Ma Yun thought about it and decided not to go too far, it is easy to get lost in the dense forest, and it will be troublesome at that time. Leaving the burden and gourd in place, he simply circled around the giant tree within a few dozen meters, and found nothing abnormal, only a small puddle with a radius of only seven or eight meters behind the giant tree.
The water in the puddle is very clear, and you can see a few small fish swimming in it, and there are bubbles coming out of the bottom from time to time, which seems to be a spring. This is the first time Ma Yun has seen the water source, and he should replenish a lot of water after being in the wild for so many days, but maybe it is because the wild fruit is full of water, he only occasionally feels thirsty, just eat a fruit.
"After so many days, although I am not thirsty, I have to wash my face. When Ma Yun squatted on the edge of the puddle and saw the reflection in the water, he was stunned: he saw a young figure reflected in the water, with a thin face, a full forehead, bright eyes, and long hair tied behind his head. At this moment, the shadow also stared at Ma Yun with wide eyes, his face full of incredulity.
Ma Yun touched his face, and touched the hair on the back of his head, when he saw the shadow doing the same thing, he had to admit that he was not dazzled, the shadow was what he was now.
"How did I become like this? I should be middle-aged, with glasses, flat head, and a slightly chubby face, right? Is it ......?" Ma Yun had felt that the purple light he had seen on the top of the mountain was strange since he first woke up on the grass, but he didn't expect it to be so strange. When I saw my clothes, flints, and long hair, I just suspected that I had been in a coma for a long time. But this time when he saw that he was actually a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, he realized the seriousness of the problem, either he was insane, or he had really changed and became a young man.
Thinking of insanity, Ma Yun recalled all his memories since childhood, and everything was normal until he met the purple light. "Insanity?Traveling?Rebirth?Otherworld?Whichever it is, it's not easy to accept, it doesn't seem to feel good, so what's the choice! Regardless of its insanity, it's still reborn, or coming to another world, in short, I want to live well. What's more, when he connected everything, he felt more likely to have crossed over and been reborn into another body. Although it is said that "color is emptiness, emptiness is color", and the body is just a pair of skins, but it is still difficult to accept it in my heart when I suddenly change a pair of skins, especially since a few days ago he was still a staunch Marxist atheist.
Ma Yun smiled at the shadow in the puddle: "Hello, I'm Ma Yun, you are also Ma Yun, we are all Ma Yun." From now on I am you, you are me, and we will live a wonderful life together! Goodbye, that once greasy middle-aged man!"