Chapter 10: Lead the way, boy
On this day, the stone monkey carried the flag around the small city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the way, the stone monkey deliberately ran to the gate of the government to visit.
The government is the only brick building and the tallest building in the area. But apart from the plaque and the two guards standing guard, there was not even a step at the dusty door. Not to mention the drums and mirrors.
The stone monkey still wanted to find the legendary Qinglou, but he couldn't find it. It is pointed out that the green building here is called Goolan but there is no one in this city! And most of them are part-time, and they have fixed guests, so it is easy not to entertain new people, and it is not good to be introduced by acquaintances. After thinking about this, the stone monkey finally thought that he was a monkey, and had to give up all kinds of bad ideas.
The casino was also pointed into. Most gambling equipment is dice. The gambling method is also simple, bet on the size, whoever is bigger wins. Bet on odds and evens, and you will receive money if you hit it. As for what other gambling methods there are, the stone monkey didn't understand it. And these gamblers speak in tongues, which he simply doesn't understand. After looking at it for a while, he left.
There is also a temple, which is a land temple and is just off the street. An open thatched mud house with an old grandfather's land made of clay sculptures. There are many people who put on incense.
Other buildings worth mentioning don't seem to be there.
The overall feeling of this small town is that except for the streets that are clean, the rest of the place is dusty, and there are even places where it is impossible to get a foot.
Of course, no one knew the address of the three-star cave of the slanting moon along the way, and they had never heard of it!
The stone monkey decided to continue in a different place tomorrow, and returned to the woman's hotel tonight.
The boy stood at the door of the three-star cave of the slanting moon and was confused.
The ancestor said that he would let him find a monkey, and then lead him to the ancestor. But what I saw was a monkey? Does the monkey still have to wear clothes? It's still dressed so strangely! Even the ancestor didn't let himself mention the matter of the three-star cave of the slanting moon. Then why did the ancestor want to see him? And the ancestor didn't say where to find the monkey? What can I do?
Why don't you ask your brothers and sisters for help? Fortunately, I have an ancestor to make a decree. But which brother and sister to find?
Wu Yu, Wu Qiao, Wu Geng, Wu Reading, Wu Qin, Wu Qi, Wu Shu, and Wu Painting are all locals under the mountain, and they have never been out, so it is not okay to ask them for help.
Senior brother eats fasting and recites Buddha, and he will descend to the truth, but I want to find someone, so I shouldn't be able to.
The second senior sister Shenzen asked, will subdue demons and exorcise evil spirits, no!
The third senior brother is astrological and miscellaneous, and he can tell divination and ask hexagrams, right! Find the third senior brother and ask him to calculate whether the ancestor is looking for a monkey or a human? Where to find it?
Thinking of this, the boy hurriedly ran towards the courtyard of the third senior brother.
"The Ancestor sent down a decree to let you go find a monkey?" the third senior brother asked after hearing the boy's intentions.
The boy nodded and immediately shook his head, confused: "The old ancestor said that it was a monkey in the edict, but in the mirror technique that he pointed out to me, it looked like a person. I don't know if he's a monkey or a human now. ”
The third senior brother said: "Since the old ancestor said that it was a monkey, then he must be a monkey. You want me to help you figure out where the monkey is?"
The boy nodded repeatedly.
"Since you have the Ancestral Decree, then I'll help you do the math!" After speaking, the third senior brother took a tortoise shell from the incense table on the side, and then took out three copper coins from his sleeve pocket and put them into the tortoise shell.
The third senior brother closed his eyes and meditated silently, while holding the tortoise shell with both hands and shaking it up and down. After a while, the three copper coins were shaken out of the tortoiseshell and fell to the ground.
The third senior brother stared at the three copper coins on the ground and pinched his fingers to count. After a while, I found another book and quickly flipped through it. It took a while to get the result.
Only then did the third senior brother say to the boy, "The monkey is now in the eastern coastal city of Linbo, and will come out of the south gate at noon tomorrow." So you have to be fast. It's best to ask the fourth junior brother for a thousand-mile rush talisman!"
The boy hurriedly thanked the third senior brother, then ran towards the courtyard of the fourth senior brother, and then relied on his own ancestor law to ask the fourth senior brother for a thousand-mile rush talisman.
When I got up early in the morning, the stone monkey felt uncomfortable all over my body, and it was a little itchy here for a while, and a little itchy for a while. Take a bath! Find a place to bathe right away, but where do you go to take a bath? You can't reveal the identity of the monkey.
So the stone monkey found the woman who was watching the shop at the front desk and asked.
"Are you looking for a special place to bathe?" the woman was a little surprised.
You must know that ordinary people rarely take a bath in autumn and winter, and hot water is very firewood-intensive. Even if you want to take a shower, you usually just close the door and wipe it yourself. Besides, you can't get sick from the cold in the bath, it will cost a lot of money.
After thinking about it, the woman continued: "We are too small here to have such a place!
The stone monkey was a little regretful, and wanted to open a single room in the bathroom, steam, wipe his back, and massage it. Hey, that's just fantasy. It's nice for a monkey to find a place to take a bath!
"I can pay! Please help me find a bigger tub and put it in my room." The stone monkey immediately understood what the woman meant. Nothing that can be solved with money is a problem!
Looking at the steaming water in the bathtub, the stone monkey immediately locked the door of the room, and carefully looked at the four walls, but fortunately there were no small holes.
There is a large towel and a melon in the tub. There was a black mass on the wooden stool.
The stone monkey took the black mass and sniffed it, but it didn't taste much. I think it's for bathing. Just use it as soap.
The melon pulp is used to wipe the back, but I don't seem to need it, and there are yellow hairs all over my body. Black things don't work well, and the yellow hairs are sticky together. Hey, I can only soak it and comb the yellow hair with my hands.
After taking a shower and walking out of the hotel, it was almost noon, so I found a place to eat breakfast and lunch together.
Using the Thousand Miles Rush Talisman, the boy finally arrived at the south gate of Linbo City at noon.
Standing outside the south gate, the boy looked at the sun from time to time and stared at the south gate from time to time.
Sure enough, as the third senior brother said, as soon as noon came, the monkey who was wearing strange clothes in the ancestor mirror technique came out.
The stone monkey was still dressed as before, and now he was carrying a flag and a cloth bag. As the crowd walked down the avenue to the south.
The boy trotted to the stone monkey and shouted excitedly, "Monkey, monkey, I have finally found you, come with me." ”
At first, the stone monkey didn't notice that there was a child next to him, and he didn't hear what the child was saying. He was in a daze, wondering if he should hire an ox cart. Because I just inquired, the city in the south is three days away from me.
When the boy saw that the monkey did not pay attention to him, he stepped forward and pulled the corner of his coat directly, and then shouted at him loudly: "Monkey, monkey, why do you ignore me?"
Only then did the stone monkey react, someone was talking to him, and he was still a cute little boy.
He was dressed in a small robe, and his hair was draped behind his head, and he was tied with a hemp rope. The face is clean and fair, and there are two small dimples at the corners of the mouth.
The stone monkey lowered his body and said, "Child, whose child are you?
The boy did not answer the question, but said, "Come with me, monkey." I know where the three-star hole of the slanting moon on your flag is. I'll take you. ”
"You know?", the stone monkey still didn't believe the child's words, took out a copper coin from his waist and handed it to the child, saying: "Take this copper coin to buy candy to eat, and after eating, hurry home." Otherwise, your family will be in a hurry. With that, he shoved the copper coin into the child's hand.
The boy watched the monkey ignore himself after speaking, and was about to go away again, so he hurriedly chased after him and grabbed the corner of the stone monkey's clothes, and shouted: "Monkey! Monkey! I really know where the three-star cave of the slanting moon is! I will take you! I will take you!"
Seeing the child holding on to the corner of his clothes, the stone monkey had to stop, lowered his body again, and said to the child, "Why do you keep calling me monkey? The monkey will still talk to you? Will they give you copper coins to buy candy to eat?"
The boy thought about these two questions very seriously, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a person in front of him! There was a monkey there! But the old ancestor said in the decree that this was a monkey! The old ancestor would not be wrong! But was this really a monkey in front of him?
The more the boy thought about it, the more confused and anxious he became, and then he cried loudly, crying and shouting, "I don't know! I don't know, but you have to go with me! you have to go with me!" and he grabbed the corner of the stone monkey's coat with both hands.
The stone monkey was the most unbearable to cry, especially the children and women! Hurriedly went up and comforted: "Okay! Okay! Okay! I'll go with you! I'll go with you! Don't cry, okay! If you don't cry, I'll go with you!"
When the boy heard that the stone monkey had promised to go with him, he stopped crying, touched his tears and asked, "Are you really going with me?"
The stone monkey nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I'll go with you! I'm a monkey!"
Hearing the stone monkey say that he was a monkey, the boy didn't believe it at this time, and asked, "Then how do you prove that you are a monkey?" After speaking, he stared curiously at the two small holes on the stone monkey's hood and looked inside, as if he could see a monkey jumping out of the small hole.
The stone monkey sighed in his heart, sure enough, children are as difficult as women. So he took the child's hand and put it into his clothes, and explained, "Did you touch it? This is a monkey hair! If you touch it again, this is a monkey tail!"
The more the boy touched it, the more excited he became, his eyes sparkled, and he shouted happily: "You are really a monkey! You are really a monkey! But how can you speak human words? Where did your copper coins come from?......
The stone monkey hurriedly covered the child's mouth and whispered, "Be quiet, be quiet! This is the secret of the two of us! Can't let anyone else know. ”
The boy's eyes widened and he nodded nervously. Keep telling yourself in your heart that this is a secret! You can't let anyone else know! This is a secret!
Seeing that the child's excitement had gone down, the stone monkey let go of the hand covering the child and asked him, "Child, what is your name?
With a common secret, the boy has regarded the monkey as a good friend, and happily replied: "I am the ancestor of the palace boy, I have not officially worshiped the ancestor, and now I have no legal name." My brothers and sisters all call me a boy. Just call me a boy!"
Hearing this, the stone monkey was stunned, the ancestor, the boy in front of the palace, the subordinates, the senior brothers and sisters, this should be the title of a gate sect. Could it be that this boy is from some sect? It seems to be a Taoist sect, because the boy wears a Taoist robe.
The stone monkey then tried to ask, "Okay! I'll call you a boy from now on." Tell me, who is the ancestor, boy?"
"Ancestor is Ancestor, he is him, is he him, is he not him? Is it impossible? I have been following Ancestor and I have not found out that he is not him?" said the boy in a little confusion.
This is a Zen saying. It's so esoteric. He's who he is! Isn't he he? The stone monkey decided not to worry about who this ancestor was.
The stone monkey changed the question and asked, "Boy, how do you know about the Three Stars Cave of the Leaning Moon, and how do you recognize me as a monkey at a glance?"
"The Ancestor decree says that you are a monkey, you are a monkey! Although I couldn't believe it before, the Ancestor was really right! Yes! The Ancestor is always right. "The more the boy talked, the more he worshipped the ancestor.
Seeing that the topic had returned to the ancestor, the stone monkey hurriedly said, "You haven't answered how you know about the three-star cave of the slanting moon!"
Hearing the stone monkey ask him about the Three-Star Cave of the Leaning Moon, the boy immediately covered his mouth and said in a low voice: "The Old Ancestor said that I can't tell you about the Three-Star Cave of the Leaning Moon!
By now, the stone monkey was already very sure that this boy must know where the three-star cave of the slanting moon is. And he must be a disciple of some Taoist sect. In that case, let's go with him.
The stone monkey stood up, took the boy's hand, and said, "Then let's go! ”
The boy happily took the hand of the stone monkey in front of him and trotted up, but stopped after just a few steps, and touched his stomach with a bitter face.
The stone monkey hurriedly asked, "Boy, what's wrong with you?" After speaking, he touched his forehead again. No fever!
The boy replied with a bitter face, "I'm hungry! ”
The stone monkey originally thought it was a big deal, wasn't it just hungry?
Picking up the boy, the stone monkey turned around and walked towards the city, and took the boy down to the restaurant to have a good meal.
After eating his fill, the stone monkey took the boy to play and buy in the city. So the relationship between the two people is better. The boys all called the stone monkey the monkey brother.
Seeing that the sun had begun to set in the west, the stone monkey hurriedly asked, "Boy, when will you take me to the three-star cave of the slanting moon?"
Looking at the sky, the boy also knew that he had been playing for a little too long, so he hurriedly said, "I'll take you there!"
After saying that, the boy pulled the stone monkey to a place where there was no one and took out a yellow paper talisman from his bosom. He put the yellow paper talisman on his chest, pulled the stone monkey tightly, and then shouted loudly: "Go!"
After hearing a "go", the stone monkey suddenly saw a light and shadow in front of him, and the white light flickered away from him, and he came to the foot of a mountain in an instant.