Chapter 405: Matters of the Heart
Early morning dew slowly rolls and drips on the leaves.
The monsters in the courtyard listened one by one, and there was silence.
In the main hall, the monkey stood dumbfounded, staring at Yang Chan, and his mind was blank.
"Why did you ...... all of a sudden?"
"Didn't you say anything else?, didn't you say it yourself?" Yang Chan looked at the monkey in a daze and said, "Is this request also impossible?"
After standing dumbfounded for a long time, the monkey frowned and said, "I...... Can we not be at this time...... ...... because of this kind of problem"
"Do you think this is an irrelevant question?" asked Yang Chan in a daze.
"I knew I would have to face this sooner or later...... But...... But...... I can't tell...... Why don't you change your ......?"
Yang Chan opened her eyes, smiled blankly, and stepped back step by step.
"Can't tell? Is this the result of more than 100 years of waiting?"
"I appreciate your contributions over the past 100 years, but ......"
"Gratitude?" Yang Chan covered her lips with the back of her hand, tears raining down.
There was a loud bang.
The door to the main hall was broken open.
Yang Chan lowered her head, wrapped her cloak tightly and walked quickly through the courtyard, and walked out of the temple without looking back.
In the gloomy main hall, the monkey still stood quietly, quietly watching her distant figure.
All the monsters were stunned.
Finally relieved, a few monsters quickly followed the footsteps of the Virgin, and the remaining few looked back at the Monkey King standing in the main hall in a daze.
"We ...... What to do?"
With her head down all the way, Yang Chan walked briskly onto the suspension bridge.
A few monsters guarding the floating ship panicked when they saw the Virgin with tears on her face.
"Sail the boat. She hid her lips. Tears still burst like a.
"Oh...... Oh. No!"
The horn of the return voyage slowly sounded in the mountains.
The youkai who remained in the courtyard listened to the sound. He looked back at the monkeys, and finally bowed hesitantly and exited the temple.
Raising the sails, the float ship returned.
The monkey still stood in the middle of the main hall and looked at the sails that were fading away.
The old monk broke free of the rope and ran back in a panic, and when he saw that the little monks were all well, all of a sudden, the master and apprentice hugged each other and cried.
Glancing faintly at the monks who were hugging together, the monkey slowly turned his back. Picking up a string of rosaries that had fallen to the ground, he sat down on the futon with a bent eye, in a daze.
......
In the cabin, a group of five big and three thick monsters surrounded a three virgins who were in tears, helpless, and could only keep handing handkerchiefs.
"This ...... The Great Sage is really too much this time! I can't even stand it!"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Holy Mother, don't you cry, hasn't the Great Sage replied yet?"
"That's right, maybe the Great Sage is still hesitating. I think the Great Sage is also affectionate and righteous to Our Lady, so why don't you all rest assured that Your Lady will take care of it?
"Yes, yes, yes. The monsters nodded.
Yang Chan still lowered her head and cried. The monsters panicked even more.
"Wrinkled, wrinkled!" roared the eagle demon.
"Here, here!" a lizardspirit with a wrinkled face like an eighty-year-old man emerged from the mound.
"Don't you have eight daughters-in-law? We don't understand this kind of thing about men and women. You come to give the Three Virgins an idea. ”
"I ...... I was taken captive when I was the king of the mountain before, and I brought them with me when I took refuge. ”
"The captives have no idea?"
The lizard demon blinked his eyes and whispered, "Why don't we return and take the Great Sage back for the Third Holy Mother?"
"That's a good idea!" the Eagle Demon nodded.
"Good mom!" the Ox Demon slapped the back of the Eagle Demon's head and said, "You can beat the Great Sage?"
A group of monsters suddenly became a mess.
"Get out of here!" Yang Chan suddenly threw the handkerchief stained with tears on the lizard demon's face, and frightened the group of monsters out of the cabin.
Standing at the door, they all had bitter faces and were at a loss.
......
The sun shone obliquely on the mountains.
The monks in the temple have already begun to clean up the mess left by the yokai.
A seven-year-old monk was ordered not to make trouble, and he was stuffed next to the monkey and shook his head to read the Buddhist scriptures.
Raising his hands, the monkey leaned slightly towards the little monk, frowned and asked, "You say, did I do something wrong?"
"Huh?" the little monk stretched out his head and listened blankly.
Looking at the little monk with half-squinted eyes, the monkey whispered, "Tell me, did I really do something wrong?"
The little monk blinked, scratched his head and thought for a long time, shook his head and said, "I don't understand." ”
"It's normal that you don't understand. The monkey bent down and thought blankly, and said softly, "It is so, I owe a man a great deal, I owe her a life, she died for me, and I promised to resurrect her, and to marry her." ”
"Is she a female monkey?"
"It's a canary. ”
"Can a monkey still be with a canary?"
The monkey immediately glared at the little monk viciously.
The little monk hurriedly shut up, lowered his head, half a sound, and secretly raised his eyes to look at the monkey cautiously.
The monkey continued, "But then something went wrong...... It's a complicated question, and you don't understand it. In short, there are a lot of big bad guys staring at her and making a fuss about her. One of the most abominable of them all, not only did he not want me to resurrect her, but he wanted to wipe her out of the face of the earth altogether. Do you think I can be treacherous because of the cost?"
The little monk shook his head solemnly: "I can't." ”
"Well, it looks like we have a common language. The monkey nodded, moved the futon in the direction of the little monk, pinched his fingers and continued: "This is originally a very simple thing, anyway, I and that Wang Ba Lamb are incompatible, everyone just stumbles." But now the shape has changed a little...... Ay. You don't understand it. ”
He waved his hand. The monkey wanted to move the futon back.
"You mean. What is half of it?" said the little monk with a frown.
"You understand?"
"Understood...... A little. It's like a Buddhist scripture. Anyway, I will listen to it first, and then I will talk about it later. ”
"Okay, let's talk about it. ”
The futon moved a little closer.
Outside the house, the monks who were trying to put the temple gate back in place saw the monkey and the little monk leaning together, chatting with relish, and looking at each other one by one.
......
In the cabin of the floating ship, the wind whistled through the open porthole.
Yang Chan sat quietly, letting the wind outside the window blow the tears on her cheeks.
After a long time, she lowered her head, took out the embroidery she had carried with her from her sleeve, and reached out to stroke the stitches and threads on it.
It's still the crooked crow. Still no color.
Months passed, and because of her busy schedule, she couldn't even find time to paint it.
It was just such a crow, she had embroidered it for a hundred years, and she thought that the day it was given to him, he would be ecstatic. I didn't expect ......
"Raven...... Is it really not as good as a canary?" she sighed quietly, her eyes clouding with tears.
......
The gate of the temple has finally been installed, and now it is the turn of the courtyard that has been turned upside down by the monsters.
In the main hall, the confused conversation continued.
“...... Well, that's probably the case. I started out just trying to resurrect her. Later, Huaguo Mountain was established, and then I turned against the sky and became the Monkey King. I went to the underworld to check the book of life and death, and the results were ...... The book of life and death was actually blank...... I suddenly realized that everything I was doing was for nothing, and people had been ready for it more than 100 years earlier!"
The little monk blinked blankly.
The monkey crossed his hands, shook his head helplessly and sighed: "I can see it, that Wang Ba Lamb has been doing the work of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle." Huaguo Mountain?Monkey King?What is this to him? Even if I wipe out all the army of Jiaomu Jiao? As long as that king and eight lambs nod, in a few years, Heavenly Court will be an army of millions. The Jade Emperor is just a marionette. ”
Taking a deep breath, the monkey said in a daze: "Those guys are more cunning than anyone else, all of them are tens of thousands of years old monsters, and they have lived to be fines. They seem to be doing nothing, they seem to be doing nonsense from me, but a light action can force me to be cornered. They know what I care about and what my weaknesses are...... This game is fundamentally psychological warfare. These days here, the Buddha has not been cultivated, but I have figured it out, these old guys......"
Lowering his head, the monkey muttered to himself, "Whatever I care, they take advantage of." All the qiē are their weapons...... The king also told me that he could accept me and Yang Chan getting married...... Hey, he's long overdue for this day. Next, will he also threaten me with Yang Chan......?
After choking for a long time, the monkey frowned and whispered, "In that way, it will be equivalent to further rolling her into this whirlpool." It's not just her, even Huaguoshan. When it comes to life and death, God knows what will happen to these old guys. The more you care, the easier it is to lose. Only in the place where this bird doesn't, with a broken Buddhist scripture, will they take me for nothing. ”
"Along the way, I've always wanted to get out of it, but the more I walked, the more I got involved, and in the end, I just kept sinking in. Why? Just because I think too much, I don't abandon the illusion and get to the point like they do. I can't go on like this......" The monkey propped his forehead and said, "If I continue like this, I will definitely go back to the old way." When the time comes, it will be a result of losing all the dishes and letting the mermaid flesh. It's not just me, it's all around me. ”
"Look at me and I've got a qiē. But do I really have it? No, I don't have anything. All the qiē is what they nod and I have, as long as one day...... One day, when they shake their heads, they can take away a qiē lightly. Once I walk back to the old road, in case I am really crushed under the Five Elements Mountain, where is Yang Chan? Where are the wind chimes? Where are my brothers from Huaguo Mountain?"
"Actually, I really want to cut all the qiē clean, but the finch can't, I can't let it go anyway, because she only has me. She was left with me...... If I let go......" swallowed. The monkey whispered, "If I let go." She really didn't even have the last shred of hope......"
Pursing his lips, he sat with his head bowed, staring at the empty ground.
A breeze filtered in through the window lattice, trembling slightly at the fluff on his face.
The eye sockets were slightly red.
The little monk blinked his eyes in confusion and looked at him quietly.
......
In the cabin, Yang Chan untied the silk thread that she had embroidered for a hundred years little by little, trying to turn the "crow" into a mandarin duck, into what it should be.
But tears fell drop by drop. In just a moment, the tears were glued together with the silk threads, and it turned into an ugly duck.
All the threads twisted together and could no longer be untied.
She could only stare blankly and weep blankly.
The long hair undulated slightly in the wind.
She said dumbfoundedly, "Really...... Can't you remedy it?"
......
"Do you want to marry that sister just now?"
"Huh?" the monkey asked, "You are a monk, do you have such a question?"
The little monk flattened his mouth and said, "Do you think I want to be a monk?"
"Don't you want to?"
"I definitely don't want to. The little monk shook his head and said, "I don't know what a woman is, and I don't know what meat tastes like." Before you enter the mortal dust, you have to jump out of the mortal dust...... But the master said, I was born to be a monk. Because as soon as I was born, I was sent here. Only lent food. Naturally, you can only eat vegetarian. ”
"People are small and big. If you don't want to be a monk, I'll tell your master to go, turn around, and I'll send you down the mountain. ”
The little monk shook his head and said, "However, then the master will definitely be sad." The master raised me, how can I make him sad because of my own selfish desires? I want to be a good monk and take over the mantle of the master when I grow up. ”
Suddenly, both of them fell silent.
After a long time, the little monk asked in a low voice, "Don't you like that sister?"
The monkey lowered his head, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, but he couldn't smile in the end.
He said dumbfoundedly, "How do you say that...... She's so nice, so good that I don't even feel like I'm worthy of her. ”
"She's different from the finch. Sparrow, I can only hold on to her to have a glimmer of life. She...... Only when I let go of her can she be happy. ”
"She said she had a nightmare, dreamed that I went back to Huaguo Mountain, saw a piece of scorched earth, and cried, and dreamed that I was taken down by the Jade Emperor and no one went to save me...... Actually, I dreamed of her too. I dreamed that she married Liu Yanchang, and on the day I got married, I was drunk and unconscious...... I dreamed that she was crushed under Mount Hua, and I went to see her every day. I dreamed that her child came to me, and I did everything I could to teach him...... You don't know what it's like......"
"It's like someone is holding a knife and poking you in the heart, one after another. ”
The bright sunlight poured in from the window, shining crookedly on the two of them.
The little monk looked up at the monkey with his head tilted and stared intently.
"The Three Realms all know that I am acting recklessly, and the Jade Emperor's face can be beaten if he wants. But I don't dare to ...... her" He blinked blankly: "There are some things that she can sue me, but I don't dare to sue her......"
"She has given so much for me, should I sacrifice her happiness?"
"I don't want that day if I could. But I can't give her happiness, really, I can't. Follow me, and she'll only sink deeper and deeper into this maelstrom. One day, become a bargaining chip that those old guys use against me. ”
"Actually, I understand, I just thought, wait a little longer, wait until Liu Yanchang appears, maybe...... Maybe when the time comes, she won't be able to look down on me as a monkey again. Although it was also bumpy, at least, she was happy in the end. ”
"So many old fellows are staring at the finch...... I don't want her to be the same one day. I've already hurt one, I can't hurt the second one......"
The monkey was sad, but the little monk suddenly interjected: "Then you like her?"
"How do you talk about this little monk?"
The monkey was furious, but the little monk was not afraid of him at all, folded his hands, and said in the same way as his master: "Amitabha, good and good." Donor, like it and make her sad, what's the reason?"
In a word, the monkey was suddenly speechless.
In the middle of the sound, he raised his hand and slammed it on the little monk's brain.
"What are you doing?"
"I hit you, what's wrong?"
"Why are you beating me?" said the little monk with his head covered and puffed out.
"If you don't recite Buddha well at a young age, if you mix these things, you will definitely not be able to become a Buddha in the future. ”
As he spoke, the monkey patted his thigh and slowly stood up and walked out.
"Where are you going?"
Stopping, the monkey plucked out his ears, and lazily turned back and said, "Go back to Huaguo Mountain to clean up the Jiaomu Jiao, lest she continue to be sad." (To be continued......)
PS: Yang Chanmei said that she wanted to marry her with only 40 monthly passes, which was too cheap, and she didn't agree.
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