Chapter 20: The Cause
In Journey to the West, most of the temples, Taoist temples or countries hide filth and dirt.
In such a strict place as the palace, it is really difficult for people outside to want to do something, but if they really want to do something, it is not without channels.
It's easy to do anything with money, and money can make ghosts grind, as long as you have money.
The rat spirit was instructed by Jin Xiongxiong to go around the city, and soon found a few little people, and through the palace maids and palace guards they knew, the news soon reached the ears of Tang monks and apprentices.
It is not difficult to solve the princess's matter, Jin Xiongxiong wants to let the master and apprentice know about this matter, and take the initiative to solve it There are actually several reasons.
First, Tang Seng and his apprentices must go through hardships to learn scriptures from the West, and they must go through hardships and hardships, and if she protects some monsters on the West Heaven Road, then they will definitely need other hardships to make up.
Rather than using unknown monsters as whetstones when she didn't notice, she took the initiative to send the whetstones up and make up the number for them.
Second, she is a cook, and she can't use food to override the princess's resentment.
Third, this matter is related to the heavenly realm. The Heavenly Realm Immortals have been descending to the mortal world for a long time, and she stood up against it, because she was afraid that her life would not last long enough.
Let those who can do the things that are excessive.
She got the word out to them, choosing to take care of it or not to their own business.
As long as they are worthy of their Dao heart.
Jin Xiongxiong looks at people as well as thinking about the worst, and feels that the masters and apprentices are somewhat of a bit of a bully and afraid of the hard. But rationally think about it, in fact, the masters and apprentices are not all bad.
As far as Sun Wukong is concerned, he is a righteous and outspoken character.
If he knew about the princess and was not stopped by Tang Seng as much as he could, maybe he would find a way to help.
Modern girls don't all say that Brother Monkey is actually a warm man, and he is always more merciful to female monsters and rude to male monsters.
Jin Xiongxiong thought so, and by the time she received an affirmative reply from the rat spirit, it was already completely dark.
It was clear that there was still a long time, but there were no pedestrians on the streets, and many shops were closed. The doors and windows of the houses were closed, and the candles were extinguished a lot.
The inn they were staying at was also closed.
will be so serious to warn Jin Xiongxiong that they don't go out, and the shopkeeper must be very nervous about the resentment of the child.
He was so nervous that Jin Xiongxiong almost wondered if something had happened to him.
It's no wonder she thinks so, it's really that the shopkeeper is a little too nervous.
The world is taboo to talk about gods and ghosts, and she is obedient, even if she has many doubts in her heart, she does not ask for it.
"A few guest officers have eaten, so let's wash up and sleep," the shopkeeper took a candlestick and walked to the back kitchen to remind Jin Xiongxiong and the others, "Don't go out no matter what you hear when you sleep, and don't look out through the window." ”
When staying at this inn, Jin Xiongxiong told the shopkeeper that he would borrow the kitchen when he ate.
The ingredients don't need to be from the inn, she has prepared them herself.
Monsters need to cultivate, and if they can eat dishes with spiritual power, they will naturally not eat ordinary dishes. There is still a task today, Jin Xiongxiong took out the instant noodles in the Qiankun bag, and planned to deal with it with the other little brothers.
As for Jiaolong, naturally what they ate, she also ate. Jiaolong doesn't pick.
Jin Xiong is the head chef, and the other monsters are in charge.
When the instant noodles were ready to cook, Jin Xiongxiong heard footsteps outside the kitchen, and then heard the shopkeeper's reminder.
It was dark everywhere at night, and the shopkeeper was holding a candlestick. The light hit his chin, and the picture was somewhat weird.
If it weren't for the fact that they were monsters, they weren't very afraid of ghosts, and if they were humans, they might be scared out of a bad one.
"Ah, okay, we got it." Jin Xiongxiong nodded in response.
"Hmm."
The shopkeeper became extremely serious at night, and after reminding him to turn around and prepare to go back to bed. He took a few steps and stopped, shrugging his nose in surprise.
The tip of his nose shrugged, then he turned around and stared straight at the golden pot, his voice somewhat stern, "What are you cooking?" ”
Because he was extremely nervous, the shopkeeper's question was questioning.
Instant noodles are made by a golden bear, so it is naturally clearest if there is a problem.
Listening to his words, she was a little puzzled, frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Jin Xiongxiong thought, could it be that instant noodles had committed a taboo in Loulan.
"It's so fragrant, can you sell me a little?" The shopkeeper seemed to be very entangled, and asked such a sentence with a straight face.
His stern tone had really frightened Jin Xiongxiong before.
Jin Xiongxiong should be what is the matter, he was relieved when he heard that he wanted to eat instant noodles, "What is not sold, we don't need silver money to borrow the back kitchen of the inn, and the shopkeeper naturally doesn't need silver money if he wants to taste a bowl." ”
As the saying goes, take people short and eat people with soft mouths. The shopkeeper, along with the other monsters, gathered around the boiler like a hungry ghost waiting to be fed, and he lost his previous seriousness and rigidity at all.
When the shopkeeper came in, the instant noodles were actually ready.
Now, the Golden Bear only needs to be divided one by one.
Instant noodles were made in her spare time before, with some aura, not much, just a little. The little monsters eat a bowl like a tooth sacrifice, and mortals can bear a bowl of it.
Jin Xiongxiong wanted to ask for more things, so he filled the shopkeeper with an extra egg when he divided the packaging.
Eggs are ordinary eggs, but the soup that can be soaked in aura is not ordinary, and it is very fragrant just by smelling.
Not only fragrant, but also a little refreshing after smelling for a long time.
"It is said that the food culture of Dongtu has a long history, and I have never been to Dongtu, thinking that is like that. I never thought that just a bowl of noodles would be so sweet. ”
The shopkeeper took a sip of powder, and seemed to be ashamed of the dog's eyes to look down on people before.
The food civilization of Dongtu is indeed splendid, and Jin Xiongxiong did not explain that the reason why this bowl of noodles is delicious is entirely because of the blessing of spiritual plants, so it is a wonderful misunderstanding.
"The king's cooking skills are better than before." The pig essence sucked the powder into his stomach in a few bites, and after sucking a few more mouthfuls of soup, he said.
In the past, the noodles were delicious, but they were far less delicious than they are now.
Not only is it delicious, but it seems that the spiritual power has become more lush? The pig smacked its lips and thought so.
After listening to the words of the pig spirit, the rat spirit also nodded, affirming that Jin Xiongxiong's cooking skills had improved.
Jiaolong saw that the little monsters were all saying that, and lowered his eyes and drank a big mouthful of soup.
She didn't know what Jin Xiongxiong's cooking skills were like before, so she couldn't make an accurate comment, but it was delicious.
Coming out with Jin Xiongxiong, Jiaolong still thinks that it was a good decision.
The pig spirit is called the Golden Bear King, and the other little monsters and dragons are nothing unusual, after all, they have been used to such a name for a long time.
But the shopkeeper is different, he didn't know that they were demons, and Jin Xiong was their king, so he was a little stunned when he heard it.
"Great, King?" The shopkeeper looked at Jin Xiongxiong and felt that she was still the queen of the East Land.
However, he had never heard of a woman king in the East. The shopkeeper scratched his head.
Jin Xiongxiong was stunned by the shopkeeper's question, "Ah", and hurriedly explained, "It's just a nickname, my nickname." Don't get me wrong, I'm a weak woman. ”
She secretly threw a warning look at her younger brothers.
She warned them when she entered the ancient city of Loulan, and it didn't matter when there was no one, they were not cautious in front of outsiders, and they almost showed their stuff.
The little monsters just ate noodles and ate comfortably, and they relaxed their vigilance for a while, and when they said it, they quickly lowered their heads when they saw that they were warned.
"That's it, it's a nickname, don't think about it." Pig essence is timely to help line.
"It turned out to be a nickname, I thought this guest officer was a queen...... "The shopkeeper said, feeling a little ashamed of his previous thoughts.
The ancients were subtle, and they would feel ashamed to even guess the wrong identity.
Jin Xiongxiong didn't want to talk about this anymore, looked at the sky to change the topic, and said, "There is still more than an hour left." ”
She looked at the shopkeeper's face, and sure enough, she saw the shopkeeper step down his face instantly.
Before the friendship of eating noodles together, the shopkeeper had a completely serious and rigid face, but now in addition to these, there is more fear.
Yes, scared. The shopkeeper is afraid.
What to fear. Jin Xiongxiong felt that it must be a matter of the child's time.
"After eating noodles, a few guest officers washed and washed up and went back to sleep, don't be greedy for cold at night, cover the quilt." The shopkeeper also finished eating instant noodles, sighed comfortably, and put down the dishes and chopsticks.
"When the shopkeeper seems to be scared, I don't know if you can tell us some inside information, so that we can be on guard." Jin Xiongxiong watched the shopkeeper get up and asked.
When she asked, she didn't do it out of curiosity, but because she wanted to prepare well, so that nothing could go wrong when the time came.
There was nothing bad in her words, and the shopkeeper opened his mouth and didn't seem to want to say it, probably thinking that he had just eaten a bowl of noodles from others, and people gradually relaxed.
The shopkeeper sat back down, "Well, it's a long story. ”
The shopkeeper then told Jin Xiongxiong a story about Princess Loulan and Loulan's first national teacher.
Somewhat different from what Tiger Spirit and Golden Bear tell him, he tells a story from a human perspective.
Human beings don't know that the national teacher is an immortal who went down to the mortal world to survive the calamity, but they only know that the national teacher did a very bad thing to that princess. The princess's soul is imprisoned in this city, wandering day by day.
The princess is the princess of Loulan, and she is also the general and guardian saint of Loulan.
The princess will not harm her subjects, this is the consensus of the people of Loulan.
They are not afraid of this princess, and they will even feel sad for her.
"I wonder if the princess has been imprisoned for too long, and her spirit has gradually become irritable, and she has attacked her subjects." ”
The people of Loulan are not afraid of this princess, and they are not afraid to go out when they arrive at night.
She looked into the distance from the castle tower, stared at the sky from the star-picking tower, or laughed at the strings of lanterns in the street.
The princess is good-looking, and when she sees her subjects, she smiles and groans at all times. Everyone liked her very much and treated her like a fairy.
They didn't think she was a ghost, but rather that she should be a fairy.
Loulan's subjects knew what she had died for, and what she wanted to do was unlawful. They also knew that people could not talk to demons, so they never spoke to her.
And the children in the family have also been told by the adults not to talk to the princess.
All changes start with a child who doesn't follow the instructions.
The child said that the princess was the most beautiful fairy and should go to heaven to be an immortal.
"The best people in the world are immortals, and immortals are considerate of human suffering."
The child's words were blessings, and they should not have angered the princess. But the princess was angry, more angry than ever, her eyes were red and her pupils were gone, and her face became gray.
She hurt the child with her teeth and claws.
The child was frightened and screamed.
"That kid ......," Jin Xiong asked belatedly.
A resentful soul wants to hurt a human child, and if there is no cultivator to stop it, it will be difficult for the child to survive.
"The child survived, and the princess stopped." The shopkeeper sighed.
He gave a golden unexpected answer.
"As if awakened by the cry of the child, the princess's eyes gradually cleared, and she looked at the frightened subjects in the street, panicked for a while, and fled away, and did not appear in the city again for a long time."
Recently, she came out again, and she no longer looked like a fairy. His face was gray, his fangs were long, his eyes were all red, and he laughed and cried everywhere in the city. ”
Hearing the shopkeeper's words, Jin Xiong was stunned.
"It's time." The rat spirit whispered to her to remind her.
Before you know it, the time has come.