Chapter 1 The Heavenly Palace Holds a Banquet
The poem says: People are like grass and trees in autumn several times, bustling looking for the marquis. The pursuit of fame and fortune is empty, and only the Yangtze River skyline is seen.
And said that after Sun Wukong made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, he and Tang Seng, Sha Seng, and Zhu Bajie set off from Chang'an in 627 A.D. to the West to learn scriptures, after 17 years, encountered 9981 difficulties, and after obtaining the true scriptures, the heavenly court passed a thousand years peacefully.
Since there is one day in heaven and one year on earth, the earth is 365,645 A.D. The first day of the first lunar month is the day of the New Year in Heaven.
This year is a thousand years in the Heavenly Court, and the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West felt that they should celebrate grandly, so they convened hundreds of officials to discuss, and finally decided that the Queen Mother of the West would take the lead, and Tai Bai Xing would be specifically responsible for the celebration. The location was set at Yaochi.
As soon as the first half of the year passed, the Heavenly Court Shuangqing entered the countdown, and Tai Baixing drew up a list of banquets for the Queen Mother of the West to see:
13 first-class guests:
The founding Yuan Ling and his four disciples, Hongjun Ancestor, Mixed Kun Patriarch, Nuwa Niangniang and Lu Jian Daojun; the three major disciples of Hongjun Ancestor, Taishang Laojun, Yuan Shi Tianzun, Tongtian Sect Master, Five Dou Xingjun, Dongdou, Xidou, Nandou, Beidou, and Zhongdou.
21 second-class guests:
The Four Heavenly Masters, Zhang Daoling, Xu Xun, Qiu Hongji, and Ge Hong.
The gods of the four directions, the Qinglong Mengzhang Divine Monarch, the White Tiger Supervisor Divine Monarch, the Vermilion Bird Mausoleum Light Divine Monarch, and the Xuanwu Zhiming Divine Monarch.
The Big Dipper Seven Star Monarch, the Beidou First Yang Ming Greedy Wolf Star Monarch, the Beidou Second ** Giant Gate Star Monarch, the Beidou Third True Person Lu Cun Xingjun, and the Beidou Fourth Xuan Ming Wenqu Xingjun;
Beidou Fifth Dan Yuan Lian Zhen Xingjun, Beidou Sixth Arctic Wuqu Xingjun, Beidou Seventh Day Guan Po Jun Xingjun.
The Six Stars of the Southern Dipper, the first day of the palace, the Si Ming Xingjun, the second day of the Xiang Palace, the Si Lu Xingjun, the third day of the Liang Palace, the longevity of the Xingjun, the fourth day of the same palace, the Yisuan Xingjun, the fifth day of the Shu Palace, the Doom Star Monarch, the sixth day of the Ji Palace, the Shangsheng Xingjun.
33 third-class guests:
Heavenly Immortals on the Earth, Jiang Ziya, Penglai Three Immortals, Fan Liwen God of Wealth, Birthday Star Antarctic Immortal Weng, Female Birthday Star Magu, Dragon King, Dragon King Ao Guang of the East China Sea, Dragon King Ao Qin of the South China Sea, Dragon King Ao Yan of the West Sea, Dragon King Ao Shun of the North Sea, King of Jinghai.
Eight immortals, Tie Guan Li, Han Zhongli, Lu Dongbin, He Xiangu, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi, Cao Guoshu, Zhang Guolao.
48 insiders:
The four values of Gong Cao, the god of the year Li Bing, the god of the moon Huang Chengyi, the god of the sun Zhou Deng, the god of the time Liu Hong, the thirty-six heavenly generals, Jiang Guang, Zhong Ying, Jin You, Yin Jiao, Pang Yu, Liu Ji, Guan Yu;
Ma Sheng, Wen Qiong, Wang Shan, Kang Ying, Zhu Yan, Lv Kui, Fang Jiao, Geng Tong, Deng Bowen, Xin Hanchen, Zhang Yuanbo, Tao Yuanxin, Xun Leiji, Bi Zongyuan, Zhao Gongming, Wu Mingyuan;
Li Qingtian, Mei Tianshun, Xiong Guangxian, Shi Yuanxin, Kong Leijie, Chen Yuanyuan, Lin Dahua, Zhou Qingyuan, Ji Leigang, Cui Zhixu, Jiang Feijie, He Tianxiang, Gao Ke.
Handymen: Clairvoyant, Shunfeng Ear, Golden Boy, Jade Girl, Lei Gong, Electric Mother, Feng Bo, Rain Master.
Attached: Xitian Rulai and Nanhai Guanyin Bodhisattva and other guests, because the journey is too far away, they will prepare a valuable gift and send a messenger to give it.
After the Queen Mother of the West reviewed them one by one, she was very satisfied, but she felt that Lu Zhudao Jun might not come. Lu Zhuan Dao people, this great immortal has always been reluctant to socialize, he is messy by nature, and he has never been serious for a day. Taishang Laojun, Rulai, etc., still respect him as a little uncle, and those who know also respect him as Lu Jian Daojun, among the junior immortals, but those who hear it are insignificant.
Lu Zhuan Daojun is the essence of the fire, with vast magical powers, flying out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements, not in the Three Holy Emperors of the Fire Cloud, ignoring the Yao Chi and the Heavenly Emperor, not in the Three Sects, not in the Land of Bliss. It is not under the control of the king, and it is not subject to the earth. I live a life of Xiaoxiao and I can swim freely, and I am free to scatter the life of saints. If you don't participate in the banquet by then, you can prepare a gift from Xitian Rulai as the standard and send it.
Everything was according to the established arrangement, and Tai Bai Xing asked the imperial chef to prepare the dishes first.
There are 12 cold dishes, including: fried peanuts, marinated mountain eggs, cold salad shredded celery, asparagus mixed with sea cucumber, cool shredded chicken, cold white jade jade roll, salted braised duck tongue, spicy goose intestines, salted quail eggs, raw mixed purple cabbage, sweet and sour cabbage.
There are 48 hot dishes, including: spicy fat sausage pot, braised bear heart, spicy leopard gall, boiled live fish, fried dragon liver with garlic and chili, fragrant and dry taste, Zuo Zhongtang chicken, spicy pork ribs with beans;
Dried fried phoenix crown, shredded chicken with leek and yellow boil, shredded squid bamboo shoots, stewed chicken with ginger, spicy pheasant, silver crucian carp, glutinous pork ribs, steamed bullfrog with chopped pepper, duck pieces, fried pork foam in the snow;
Coke chicken wings, steamed goat lamb, steamed bear paws, assorted crispy plates, steamed eight-treasure pig, bamboo canned pheasant, canned quail, dried rabbit breast, steamed whitebait, boiled yellow eel, bean drum abalone;
Rotten soft-shelled turtle, fried prawns, boiled jackdaws, boiled fresh mushrooms, boiled fish belly, boiled pigeon eggs, boiled saury, steamed ham, boiled green clams, boiled bamboo shoots and yellow chicken, braised sea cucumbers, fried hoof tendons;
Stir-fried liver tips, osmanthus wings, fried birds, steamed Jiang Jiaozhu, mixed crab meat, stewed duck palms, eggplant and dried donkey meat.
There are 12 soups, see them: Sixi Meatball Soup, Crystal Leaf Soup, Pot Roasted Elbow Soup, Braised Mutton Soup, Braised Antarctic Penguin Heart and Lung Soup, Roasted Lotus Soup, Braised Magnolia Slices, Roasted Mandarin Duck Soup, Three Fresh Shark Fin Soup, Braised Polar Bear Ear Soup, Braised Bird's Nest Soup, Three Silk Soup.
Eighteen dim sums, including: longevity peach buns, goldfish buns, seamless buns, crystal buns, curry crispy dumplings, eyebrow dumplings, prawn dumplings, five-color round muffins, rose fruit honey cakes;
Silver silk rolls, chicken silk rolls, Ruyi sesame cold rolls, scallion oil shortbread, meat pot cakes, mandarin duck crisps, Xuanhua crisps, lotus silk crisps, double hemp shortbreads.
There are six kinds of decanting cold drinks, which are: decanting three fresh drinks, decanting three bean drinks, decanting three flower drinks, decanting three white drinks, chrysanthemum honey drinks, hawthorn wheat winter drinks.
Before the meal, there are seven kinds in the water: Nanyang red banana, lychee fruit, loquat fruit, roselle fruit, Hainan red pear, African rambutan, and Brazilian guiyaba.
After the meal, there are ten kinds of tea, see the following: Huangshan Maofeng, Dongting Biluochun, Mengding nectar, Xinyang Maojian, West Lake Longjing, Duyun Maojian, Lushan Yunwu, Anhui melon slices, Anxi Tieguanyin, Suzhou jasmine each prepare forty catties.
Prepare a hundred gifts, fifty for the upper class, and fifty for the lower class.
Each of the best ones is seen: a handle of gold and jade Ruyi, an agarwood crutch, a string of Ganan prayer beads, four peaches, 100 golden flowers, 12 bottles of imperial wine, 100 pills, a night pearl, four palace satin, four palace silk, ten spindles of purple gold "pen ingot Ruyi", two gold and silver jue, two pairs of gold and silver bills in the new format, two pairs of gold and silver collars, and two pairs of gold and silver bills.
Each of the inferior ones is seen: a string of Ganan prayer beads, two peaches, forty golden flowers, twelve bottles of imperial wine, fifty pills, four palace satin, four palace silk, ten ingots of purple gold "pen ingot Ruyi", two gold and silver jue, two pairs of gold and silver bills in the new format, two gold and silver collars, and two pairs of gold and silver bills.
The dishes and fruits and vegetables are fully prepared, and 100 sets of tables and chairs, 800 sets of dishes and chopsticks are prepared one after another, and the Weaver Girl is responsible for 120 reception personnel, and Zhou Deng, the god on duty, is responsible for 80 miscellaneous personnel, who are ready to be dispatched at any time.
Everything is ready to stop, and when it enters the wax moon, as soon as the twenty-third year of the wax moon in the world passes, the mortal people will send all kinds of fairy guests one after another. Seeing that the first day of the first month of the New Year is getting closer and closer, all kinds of personnel in the Heavenly Court are getting busier and busier.
On the first day of the first lunar month, all the gods came as promised, and when they arrived at the Nantianmen, they saw: ten thousand golden lights rolling red, and thousands of rui qi spraying purple mist. Pieces of blue and heavy glass, pieces of bright and pretended jade.
The golden-scaled and dazzling red-whiskered dragon wrapped around several large pillars, and the colorful feather volley red-crowned phoenix circled several long bridges. The bright glow reflects the sky, and the blue fog covers the mouth. Thirty-six Heavenly Palaces swallow gold and stabilize beasts, and seventy-two treasure halls and pillars are lined with jade unicorns.
The gods followed the ceremonial guide, all the way steadily to Yaochi, and came to Yaochi is another scene: I saw Zixia Palace from afar, and when I arrived at the ground of Zixia Palace, a tall thousand-year-old welcome pine covered the four characters of "Fairy Yaochi", and the four characters of Fairy Yao Pond flashed with golden light, and the golden light passed through the evergreen tree needles, emitting ten thousand rays of light, which was extremely brilliant.
Obviously, on the basis of previous years, there is a more luxurious decoration, the top of the door has been newly arranged, the festive couplets on both sides have already been posted in a regular manner, the couplet reads: I like to see the fairy world Milky Way far away, and laugh at the blessings of the world.
As soon as you enter the main entrance of the welcome guest, there are three roads in front of the door, there are two small roads on the left and right, about 20 meters wide, on both sides of the road are the famous flowers that have not been thanked for thousands of years; go about 50 meters to the left, there is an osmanthus tree that blooms in all seasons on the left hand, the osmanthus and the unknown strange fragrance exude bursts of fragrance, permeate the air, go straight to the nostrils, people will lose their way unconsciously;
Walk about 50 meters to the right, there is a coral tree given by the Dragon King of the East China Sea 3,000 years ago in the right hand, the branches are straight, the bark has turned gray-brown into purple-brown, the leaves are oblong on one side, the leaves are inverted-lanceolate, the surface of the oval is dark green and bright, the back is pale green, and it is verdant all the year round;
Some of the flowers have withered, revealing oval-shaped fruits, some are orange-red, and some of the red fade to purple-black, like strings of agate hanging from the tree. Under the two trees, evergreen grass is planted.
From the middle of the door to the front is a road, about 100 meters wide, about 200 meters forward, there is an incense burner, the four seasons of sandalwood, green smoke, perennial constant. Behind the incense burner is the dining place, the Juxian Hall. Forty-eight fairies were already in place in front of the hall. It is like a foreign body in the heavenly palace, and there is nothing in the world like him.
Jinque Yinluan and Purple Mansion, Qihua Yao Grass and Qiongbao. Towards the edge of the King Jade Rabbit Altar, the Holy Golden Crow flew at the bottom. Smoke cage phoenix, fragrant dragon building. The light shakes Danjun and moves, and the clouds blow and cuihua flows. The courtier's lamp, the palace maid's fan, both reflect the color, the peacock screen, the unicorn hall, everywhere the light floats. The silent whip sounded three times, and the clothes were crowned. The palace flowers are splendid and fragrant, and the willows are soft and musical.
Pearl curtain, jade curtain, gold hook high control, dragon and phoenix fan, mountain and river fan, treasure chariot stay. The gold medal and purple ribbon ride the three elephants, and the earth is long and the sky is long.
Don't say how prosperous Yaochi is, and don't say how lively the Juxian Hall is, just say that this meal, everyone guesses the boxing order, Yan Huan put the lamp, from noon to unitary, there are poems as evidence:
There are thousands of banquets for guests, but only the heavenly court is not ordinary.
There is no hospitality host in the world, and the guests are all gods and immortals.
During the banquet, there are cloud-piercing swallows, as well as fairy springs splashing.
The fairy flicked the silk and danced, and Chang'e danced with it.
The lotus seat is temporarily parted, and the right to step aside in front of the delicacies.
The music is long and orchestral, and there is no need to throw gold and silver.
But looking at the drunken state at the table, who is the fairy in the wine.
When I saw the palm lamp, a few immortals were still making fist orders. Most of the immortals were full of wine and food, drunk, hazy, and staggering, and got up to say goodbye and leave.
The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West stood at the door of the Juxian Hall to bid farewell to the immortals.
The Queen Mother of the West sent away some of the fairies, and is negotiating with Tai Bai Xing to prepare some beds, considering giving rest to the gods who stay in the heavenly palace and are drunk;
The Jade Emperor sent away a few groups of guests, moved to Yaochi, and waved goodbye to Jiang Ziya. Sending Jiang Ziya away, just returned to the door of the Juxian Hall, the three immortals of Penglai - Fan Liwen God of Wealth, Birthday Star Antarctic Immortal Weng, and Female Birthday Star Magu also happened to leave the table.
The Jade Emperor had to say hello to the three immortals, and the three immortals drove the auspicious clouds back to Penglai and went on the road; the Dragon King of the Four Seas shook his shoulders and spewed a large stream of wine from the Juxian Hall, the Dragon King of the East China Sea Ao Guang pulled the Dragon King of the South China Sea Ao Qin with his left hand, and the Dragon King of the West Sea Ao Yan with his right hand, and the Dragon King of the North Sea Ao Shun couldn't help nodding his head, and several people pulled and pulled behind the Jade Emperor while talking, and almost hit the Jade Emperor, and the Dragon King of the Four Seas was so frightened that most of the wine also woke up, and quickly stopped to salute.
The Jade Emperor instructed the Dragon King of the Four Seas not to stay halfway, and after returning to the sea, he must perform his duties and not have any mistakes. As soon as the Jade Emperor sent away the Dragon King of the Four Seas, Liu Hong, the god of time, came panting and ran to report, saying that a raging fire was found under the Nantian Gate, only to see the light and flames, reflecting half of the sky, I don't know where the fire came from, what is the situation.
The Jade Emperor asked Liu Hong, the god on duty, to call clairvoyance and immediately take a look. After the clairvoyance arrived, he asked the reason, quickly arrived at the Nantianmen, stepped on the clouds, put his hands on the pergola, and looked down, but he was stabbed and couldn't open his eyes, and then his eyes widened, only to see a building with a radius of hundreds of kilometers under his feet, emitting golden light, and the reflection was very strong, but he couldn't see it. Go back immediately and report this to the Jade Emperor.
The Jade Emperor asked his entourage how long this phenomenon had been occurring, and all the officials said that it had not appeared before, and they had only heard about it this evening. The Jade Emperor felt very strange, while asking people to watch the changes in the situation, every hour to report to the moon god Huang Chengyi, if the situation changes, at any time to report to the god of the year Li Bing, if the situation is not right, then immediately reported to him by the god of the year Li Bing.
The Queen Mother and the Jade Emperor sent away all the guests and came to the Palace of Nourishing the Heart, a fairy had already handed over the jade cup, and the Queen Mother took the jade cup, waved her hand and retreated, and said with a smile:
"Holy Lord, the wife of a minister has something to ask for, is it okay?"
The Jade Emperor took a sip of tea, looked up and said:
"Why should a good wife be polite, please tell me something!"
"I told the Holy One about it a while ago, I wonder if the Holy One still has an impression?"
The Jade Emperor frowned and looked at the Queen Mother with apologetic eyes.
"I knew that there were so many things in the Holy Heavens that I had forgotten about them. The Weaver Girl brought the two children of the Heavenly Palace......"
"Oh, I've got someone to do it. The Jade Emperor raised his head and thought for a moment, "It should have been ten days ago, I asked Tai Bai Xing to reincarnate the flesh of the two children into the mortal world, and the souls stayed in the Heavenly Palace for the time being." Tai Bai Xing replied, it has been done, one person was reincarnated into the Shen family, and one person was reincarnated into the Dong family, and there will be a gap of five days in between. ”
"Thank you, Holy Lord, when will the two children also have a Tiangong hukou, you are a grandfather. ”
The Jade Emperor lowered his head, put the lid on the jade jar, and said after a moment of silence:
"Madame, you can't be in too much of a hurry. No matter how relatives are, they can't violate the order of the heavenly court, let the two boys go to the mortal world to cultivate first, and when they have merits, it is not too late to go to the heavenly court, so that they can meet the conditions for entering the heavenly palace and be convincing to the gods. Now I'm not the emperor of heaven, and everyone is watching with their eyes. ”
The Queen Mother looked at the Jade Emperor with disgusted eyes:
"Hmph, order, Tiantiao, you don't talk about it one day. Two children have been in the basket for more than a thousand years, and you don't let them grow up in IQ or grow up physically, how can you bear it?"
"There's no way around it, so don't talk about it. One thing, I almost forgot to tell you, is that these two children deserve to be in trouble. Tai Baixing said to me, there is still a difficulty in reincarnating a child surnamed Dong......"
When the Queen Mother heard the words of the Jade Emperor, she was extremely anxious: "What? There is another calamity, this is ...... This...... You have this in mind, right?"
"What an arrangement, this is providence. But don't worry, madam, there have been some small things in the mortal world recently, and when I send someone down to investigate, I will deal with them together, okay?"
"Who to send down, when, and won't miss the time, right?"
"No, no, the secret of heaven cannot be revealed. Madame, don't worry. ”
"I don't care, anyway, I want the two children to ascend to the fairy world as soon as possible. ”
"Okay, I will send someone to inspect at that time, and if the conditions are met, let the two of them go to the Heavenly Palace as soon as possible. ”
The two of them rested and did not mention.
There was nothing to do that night, the next morning, the god on duty Zhou Deng played the heavenly drum, the civil and military officials went to the Jinque Cloud Palace Lingxiao Treasure Hall on time, the Jade Emperor ascended the throne of Jinluan, the civil and military officials knelt down, three shouts long live, the ceremony was over, and the supervisor shouted:
"The officials have something to do, but nothing to listen to the oracle."
The officials below replied in unison: "It's okay." ”
The Jade Emperor glanced at the monarch and asked:
"Zhong Aiqing, yesterday evening, what was the ten thousand golden lights emitted from under the Nantian Gate?"
The officials were silent for a while, and from time to time someone whispered. In the class, clairvoyance jumped out and the ear of the wind was downwind:
"In the past, I only vaguely found that someone in the mortal world built a house, but there was no golden light, the golden light only appeared for the first time last night, because the reflection was too strong, I couldn't see clearly, this morning, Weichen went to see it again, the golden light was more intense with the help of the sun, and I asked the saint to decide. ”
Huang Chengyi, the god of the moon, flashed out in the class and said:
"Qi Qi Sheng, a few months ago I also heard clairvoyance and Shunfeng Ear say a thing, one day, I heard a bang, outside the Nantian Gate found a column of water rushing to the sky, just fleeting, and then nothing happened, please make a decision. ”
The sequence is paced out of the platinum star:
"Holy Lord, although it is only a short-lived thing to make a loud noise and a column of water to the sky, but do not take it lightly; especially the light of last night, it is even stronger today, and it is inevitable to get to the bottom of it, I don't think it is better to do this, both things must be investigated, and two people will be sent to investigate the loud sound of the water column by clairvoyance and ears of the wind;
Since clairvoyance can't see the matter of Jin Guang clearly, it takes a bold and careful person, but Weichen doesn't have a suitable candidate yet. ”
Jade Emperor: "Quasi-play, all Aiqing, who is suitable?"
There was silence again. In the middle of the night, Li Jing, the king of Tota, flashed out of the class, and said:
"Dealing with human beings, I think there is a person who has not only dealt with God, but also has a lot of dealings with human beings, this person is the Monkey King who once made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, and later converted to Buddhism, and now cultivates in front of the Buddha in the West Heaven, and is waiting to be dispatched. Sun Wukong helped Tang Seng to learn the scriptures and came back to practice for thousands of years, and he is no longer a naughty boy, please rest assured. ”
The Jade Emperor said:
"Quasi-play, it's just that the fighting Holy Buddha alone is not enough, it's so good that it needs a helper, besides, the road is far away, who will invite the right one?"
Tai Bai Xing stepped forward and said: "According to Weichen, if you want a helper, Mu Zha, this person cultivates under Guanyin Bodhisattva, is loyal and honest, and works steadfastly, and his partner with Wukong is just right, moving and quiet." Nezha is the most suitable to go and please, firstly, he is fast, and he can reunite with his second brother once, and secondly, he will also go to give gifts by the way, I don't know what the saint wants?"
Jade Emperor: "Very good. This is the end of today's pilgrimage, tomorrow we will prepare for each other, and we will set off the day after tomorrow. "The officials retreated.
Two flowers in the sky, one branch for the time being. Let's start with clairvoyance and downwind ear to investigate the loud noise and the water column. In order to facilitate work, clairvoyance turned into a man of about 50 years old who traveled abroad, and the ears of the wind turned into a donkey friend who traveled in the mountains and rivers, and the two went together.
Through the visits, we learned that after more than 365,600 years, the development of human society has now entered a period of unprecedented prosperity, and the overall world peace.
But there are also powerful countries that are restless and take advantage of opportunities to flex their muscles. Half a year ago, the huge noise and water column that occurred was that two countries with a large number of nuclear weapons, country S and country B, in order to show their national power and put pressure on other countries, jointly carried out military exercises in the Pacific no man's land, each took out the two most powerful neutron bombs, and tried to burst on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.
The two recorded the materials they investigated, and also took some corroborating images, and returned to the Heavenly Palace to resume their lives.