The road was peaceful, and it was past noon, Sun Wumao and Sha Wuyu walked to the mountainside, facing the scattered caves on the mountainside, at a loss. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The mountainside is too steep, and there is no way to the top, so it seems that we have to find the answer from these caves. Sun Wumao sighed.

"Well, hopefully here. Sha Wuyu replied.

"The question is, which one of these caves is it? You can't find them all, can you? When will you see the skeleton couple?" Sun Wumao made a difficulty, sat on the ground, and frowned, "Hey, Sha Wuyu, where did you say these caves came from?"

Sha Wuyu thought for a moment and replied: "I think it was the skeletal couple on the mountain who arranged a maze array in order to prevent others from disturbing them, so that others could not find the entrance to the mountain, and either retreated in the face of difficulties or were trapped inside. ”

"Well, we want to go together, so there must be guards in the cave that leads to the top of the mountain, because that's the passage for the skeleton couple to go up and down the mountain, and it can't be without a guard. ”

"Then how do we know which cave it is?" Sha Wuyu retreated, "Otherwise, let's go back!"

"What, go back?" Sun Wumao thought he had misheard, "When I was in the corpse forest last night, you said that even if I didn't come, you would pull me hard, why did you retreat again?"

"I ...... I'm afraid, it's too dangerous. ”

"Isn't that for nothing......"

While the dispute was being made, a slight noise came into the ears of Sun Wumao--sheng songs and drums, human voices were boiling, and from time to time there was the sound of shouting and selling, from which it sounded that it should be a bustling street market.

He pricked up his ears and carefully discerned the source of the sound, thinking that it was coming from the mountain.

"Sha Wuyu, listen! Is there any sound in the mountain?"

"What sound? I didn't hear it. ”

"Oh, forgot, you're a fish with no ears on land. ”

This sentence made a trace of doubt flash in Sha Wuyu's eyes.

Sun Wumao listened carefully for a while, convinced that the sound was coming from the mountain, he ran a few steps to the left, found that the sound was far away from him, and chased the sound to the right, and finally stopped at the mouth of a hole overgrown with wild grass.

"Sha Wuyu! Come here! The voice came from the mouth of this cave!" Sun Wumao waved at Sha Wuyu and shouted excitedly.

Sha Wuyu ran over and hid behind Sun Wumao, who was listening carefully to the sound coming from the cave with his ears sideways.

"It's strange, how can there be a noise in this cave? Could it be a trick played by the monsters to lure me in?"

"Let's not go in, let's think of another way!" "Sha Wuyu seemed to be worried about something.

"I think I should go in and have a look, maybe this is the entrance, and even if it's not the entrance, there should always be something new to discover. After that, he took Sha Wuyu's hand and drilled into the hole, and Sha Wuyu struggled for a while, but he couldn't resist him, so he followed in.

The moment he took Sha Wuyu's hand, a strange feeling arose, Sun Wumao felt that her hand was cold and piercing, so cold that he shivered, but, fish, if it was hot, it would be strange, it was a steamed fish.

They cautiously moved towards the cave, which was dark and had no torches, but the eyes of the Monkey King were enough to give him insight into everything in the darkness. He looked up and down, and the cave was about two feet high and three feet wide, and he saw nothing but the uneven walls.

It was getting closer and closer to the noise, but Sun Wumao did not see any trace of the market, only found a colorful mural on the wall on the right, he leaned his head towards the mural, but was surprised to find that the noise actually came from the mural.

The fresco stretched from his front to the depths of the cavern, long, long. He walked forward along the mural, frowning and carefully looking at the mural, the painting shows a forest of shops, flags fluttering, tea shops, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples everything, the crowd is bustling, there are pig killers, there are sheep slaughterers, there are shopping, there are flirting and scolding, there are bargaining with traders, there are sedan chairs, there are horseback riding, there are burdens, there are wheelbarrows, there are donkeys to deliver goods, just like a bustling street market, backed by the valley, vivid, ready to come out.

They walked inside and watched, trying to figure out why there was a sound coming from the mural. Sun Wumao suddenly stopped, stared at a place in the mural and became confused, looking closely at that place, the painting was a group of people gathered in front of a large stone pillar in the middle of the street, some pointing, some talking to each other, some looking angry, some looking frightened, some laughing, some crying, some were coming from afar, and some were fleeing in a hurry. Although the expressions were different, even ridiculously different, they all had one thing in common, that is, everyone's eyes were fixed on the stone pillar.

"It's strange, is there anything special about this stone pillar? Why are the expressions of the people looking at it so different?" Sun Wumao muttered to himself.

He looked at the pillar carefully, hoping to find some clues, but there was nothing bare on the pillar, it was extremely ordinary, except that under the pillar, there was a lot of dry wood and a locked chain, and in the distance there was a man who was rushing here with a bundle of dry firewood.

"Stone pillar, dry firewood, iron chain?" Sun Wumao said "oh", and suddenly realized, "This is a pillar of burning at the stake! They are preparing to burn the people on the pillar! In this way, the expressions of those people can be explained, a face of anger is angry, a face of horror is frightened, laughter is joy, and crying is sadness."

However, his expression quickly became heavy again, "But, what about people? There is no one on the pillar! Judging from the expressions of the onlookers and the point of sight of the onlookers, it is impossible that there is no one! This mural is well preserved, and there are no traces of scratching around the stone pillar, can the people on the pillar still escape from this mural?"

He took a step back, trying to find the prisoner who had "escaped", but it was in vain, because it was impossible for the onlookers to point at the stake when the prisoner had already escaped, and from their different expressions and determined eyes, it could also be seen that there must be a person locked on the pillar.

Sha Wuyu has been hiding behind Sun Wu Cat, not daring to make a sound, listening to Sun Wu Mao muttering to himself in the mural.

"Could it be that the person who painted the mural did it on purpose, and why did he do this?" Sun Wumao really couldn't understand, "Regardless of it, let's first figure out why there is a sound in this mural!"

"Knock knock!" Sun Wumao knocked the mural a few times with the back of his hand, and the noise stopped abruptly, but after a while it resumed, and he heard someone inside: "Why is there thunder on this sunny day?"

Another voice replied: "I guess God can't stand it anymore!

Sun Wumao listened to these two dialogues and was pondering, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the people on the mural gradually moving, and the flag also floated.

At this time, Sun Wumao couldn't tell whether he was getting smaller or the people in the mural were getting bigger, and after a while, he and Sha Wuyu became one with the mural, standing on the street in the mural, with a blue sky overhead, and the person in the mural just now became the same size as himself, coming and going around him. He looked around, and it was like a dream.

"Hey, do you two buy it, don't buy it, don't get in my way, delay my business!" came an impatient voice from behind him.

Sun Wumao turned his head to see that it was a roast chicken seller, he had noticed this roast chicken seller when he observed the mural just now, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva at that time, after all, he hadn't eaten for more than a day, and his stomach was already hungry.

He turned to stare at the roast chicken and kept swallowing his saliva, and asked Sha Wuyu: "Sha Wuyu, are you hungry? Let's eat a roast chicken!"

Sha Wuyu still looked a little scared, he hid behind Sun Wu's cat and even said that he was not hungry and did not eat.

"Don't be afraid, we're in the mural we just had, and it's all good mortals, and there's no danger. Sun Wumao comforted.

When the old man who sold roast chicken heard Sun Wumao say this, he glanced at him disdainfully, full of displeasure, as if to say: "Pretend to be a big-tailed wolf, as if you are not mortal." ”

Sun Wumao saw the old man give him a blank look, and thought to himself what kind of sentence made him unhappy? So he straightened his waist and said, "Uncle, your roast chicken is too fragrant! Bring me two!"

"Okay!" the old man skillfully took down two roast chickens from the roast fork, wrapped them in two large lotus leaves, and handed them to Sun Wumao, "Twenty Wen!"

"What?" Sun Wumao didn't understand, and asked rhetorically.

"Two roast chickens are twenty dollars in total!" the old man raised his tone and emphasized.

"Twenty Wen?money?" Obviously, Sun Wumao, who has been growing up in Xitianling Mountain, is interested in "money" This word is very unfamiliar, I want to be in Lingshan when I was the protector of the eight Yin, I ate the frost and dew spring of the first watch, the northwest wind of the second watch, the Qingluan smoke of the third watch, the auspicious clouds of the fourth watch, the blessing oil of the fifth watch, the prayer incense of the sixth watch, the vigorous face of the seventh watch, the listening rice of the eighth watch, the hard work and sweat of the ninth watch, and the joy of the tenth watch, although they are all leftovers eaten by the Buddha, but they have never spent money, and they have never had money on their bodies, and they have never been exposed to money, and they have never even heard of money. Later, he was a pet to Sun Wukong, and he ate the food that the owner had turned into, and occasionally sneaked out to catch pheasants a few times to open a small stove, and when he mentioned the money, he was obviously a little confused, so he asked the old man:

"What is money?"

When the old man heard this, he immediately became angry, took back the two roast chickens, and scolded: "Don't eat it!

Sun Wumao saw that the old man was angry, and he was confused, thinking that this mortal is quite fierce, if he doesn't give him food, he won't eat it, can't he do it if he doesn't eat it? So he took Sha Wuyu's hand and left, before leaving, Sha Wuyu glared at the old man with vicious eyes, which made the old man shudder.

They walked towards the center of the market, and Sun Wumao wanted to go to the stake that he had just seen to see what the group of people were doing, and by the way, to see if they could get something to eat on the way.

They had only walked a few steps when suddenly a ragged little Hanako jumped up in front of them with a steaming roast leg of lamb, blocking the way.