My Journey to the West on the Heavenly Road

Chapter 237
"it is good!"

In the corner of the city, at the intersection of the market, there was a sudden burst of applause, causing passers-by to stop and turn their heads.

"What, so lively?"

"Looks like a monkey."

"Playing with monkeys? Beasts also have spirits. They belong to the mountains and wilds. How can they be raised in captivity and abused? There is nothing to see. Let's go for a walk and drink tea. I heard that the storyteller in Shengxuanlou is going to open a new chapter today. You and I don't want it." miss."

"My friend, this juggling monkey is different from ordinary ones. His monkey doesn't need to be tied by a rope or whipped. It is smart and intelligent. It can not only understand people's words, but also juggle tricks."

"Can juggle? This is a novelty. Brother Liu, let's join in the fun too."

Interested passers-by squeezed through the crowd, and saw an old man in coarse linen, sitting casually on the ground, with no whip or chain in his hand, and a little monkey wandering around him.

"Little monkey, come on, do somersaults."

Someone shouted excitedly, throwing a few copper coins in the past.

The little monkey gathered the copper plate, held it into the old man's arms, and then jumped lightly, turned over in the air, rose steadily, and finally rose to the middle of the air, and the crowd had to look up.

"Okay!" All of them applauded immediately.

The passers-by who were attracted here thought it was good, but they wanted to see the tricks even more, so they muttered, "Don't you know how to do tricks?"

The person next to him smiled and pointed to the copper coins in the old man's arms. The man understood, curled his lips, took out a bunch of copper coins from his arms, threw them over, and shouted, "Let's do a trick!"

The little monkey turned over and fell to the ground, glanced at the man, twisted its body and crawled over with its back bent, grabbed the string of copper plates, and stroked them along the rope, the copper coins fell to the ground with a clatter.

In the next moment, the crowd erupted and applauded desperately. The eyes of the person who paid for the trick almost popped out.

It turned out that the string of copper coins fell to the ground and automatically piled up, like a straight copper pillar.

Immediately, the little monkey threw the rope in his hand casually, and the hemp rope fluttered in the air for a moment, then suddenly slid into the copper coin pillar like a swimming snake, connected end to end, tied a knot, and became a money string again.

Crack, the copper coin fell to the ground, the little monkey stepped forward to pick it up, turned around and put it into the old man's arms.

"Fairy Monkey, Fairy Monkey!"

The face of the person who paid the money turned red with excitement, he rushed into the arena, and shouted loudly: "Old man, what do you want me to sell you fairy monkey? I will offer ten gold, no, thirty gold."

The crowd was in an uproar, one gold is ten thousand dollars, two or three thousand dollars can buy an acre of good land, this monkey can buy a hundred acres of good land!

Some people are envious, some are jealous, and some people shout angrily: "What's the matter with money, we haven't seen enough! Old man, don't sell your fairy monkey, go and perform for the city lord. If you don't get a reward once, you can get a hundred and ten." gold."

The man who bought the monkey was immediately annoyed. He was about to sacrifice the monkey to the city lord's mansion. He turned his head, glared at the shouting man, and cursed: "You vulgar man, when will I buy a monkey for you? Go home and find it!" Go, your wife."

"Damn it, how dare you insult my mother!" The shouter was furious, rolling up his sleeves and about to rush over.

The crowd of onlookers became even more excited, their necks stretched out, and they shouted "Don't do it, don't do it", but they didn't move half a step.

The old man sitting in the field had an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes narrowed slightly, covering the contempt and disdain in his pupils.

"squeak"

The little monkey squeaked twice, came to lie down beside the old man, and rolled its eyes to look at the excited crowd.

"How about it, little fox, isn't the human world interesting?" The old man stretched out his hand to caress the little monkey, and laughed softly.

The little monkey rolled his eyes and glanced at the old man, his eyes flashed with confusion, then he shook his head, the two of them started fighting, then he turned his head and watched with great interest.

The old man patted the little monkey's head, and looked at the figure punching and kicking, smiling and showing yellow teeth.

Suddenly, the old man moved his ears, twisted his neck slightly, and listened in one direction. Slowly, the old man's expression changed, he seemed surprised, excited, and had a lot of doubts.

The old man stood up abruptly, stuffed the copper coins in his arms into his waist pocket, picked up the little monkey and threw it over his shoulder, and strode out of the crowd.

"Hey, the monkey tricker is leaving!"

"Stop beating, the fairy monkeys are gone, so why fight?"

"Hey, wait, you villain! Hey, old man, don't go, I can add money, fifty gold!"

The crowd was noisy and there were people chasing it, but the old man held the little monkey on his shoulders, and without turning his head, he limped around the market and disappeared.

After a while, the old man leisurely walked out of the city gate, walked straight through the farmland outside the city, and turned into a forest behind a village. After walking a few steps in the forest, a voice sounded from the forest beside the road:

"My lord, an old man has entered the mountain. Why don't we let the little ones eat some blood before we go on our way?"

"Hmph! It's not enough to rest. You still want to eat? You can do it, but you can't delay any longer. I caught people and ate while walking."

"The mighty king!"

Hula, five or six wild boars, gray wolves, and foxes jumped out of the jungle, and rushed at the old man with bloody mouths and fangs.

The old man let out a cold snort, stretched out his hand, and threw out a black lacquered iron rod. Bang, he smashed the brains of the gray wolf that rushed to the front, and with another blow, beat the wild boar with upside-down fangs into a meat paste. .

The remaining few foxes were scared out of their wits and turned their heads to flee in a hurry. The old man took a big step and flew up at a speed that didn't match his appearance and age.

Before the fox got into the jungle, the bastard iron rod spun, slap, slap, several lumps of flesh and blood exploded.

"If you move, I will let you taste the power of the stick!"

The old man shook off the blood stains on the stick without looking back. He sneered casually, and the rustling sound in the depths of the jungle stopped immediately.

"Great, Great Immortal, I'm just passing by, I don't intend to offend you, you have a lot of adults, don't have the same knowledge as me, a little mountain monster, just treat me like a fart."

Trembling begging for mercy came from the jungle.

With a calm face, the old man comforted the frightened little monkey on his shoulder, and then walked into the jungle with a stick.

A mountain tiger lay prostrate in the grass, and when it saw the old man, it kowtowed repeatedly: "Great Immortal, spare your life! Great Immortal, spare your life!"

"Shut up! I have something to ask you."

The old man knocked the iron rod on the ground, and the mountain tiger felt the ground tremble twice suddenly, and the trembling became even stronger immediately.

The old man glanced at Shan Hu contemptuously, and said coldly: "I heard you talking about the Long Live Fox King's reward, please tell me what you know."

Shan Hu raised his head cautiously, showing a flattering smile, "Daxian, you are also going to grab the reward? I, I can help you."

"What nonsense, you want to eat a stick, don't you?" The old man showed a cold look, and when the iron stick hit the ground, spider web-like cracks swayed in all directions.

Shan Hu hastily apologized: "The little monster has a clumsy mouth, don't get angry with the Great Immortal! Don't get angry!"

"Back to the Great Immortal, I was originally a mountain spirit. I overheard a passing demon talking about rewards a few days ago. I didn't understand it at first, and I didn't care. Until recently, I heard it again from a big river water demon."

"The king of the water demon was invited by a dragon son to help out and compete for rewards. In order to show off, the water demon told me about the wealth of the Long Live Fox King. I was greedy for a while, so I led the crowd, er, , a few little monsters are going to pick up the leak."

The old man's eyes flickered, and he asked, "Then what's going on with the 'competition for the reward'?"

Shan Hu organized the conversation, "According to the water demon, the thief who was offered a reward by the Long Live Fox King was taken down by some Yuetuo Kingdom demon fairy. But because the thief is so powerful, the demon fairy was also seriously injured, and was bumped into by Longzi. This led to disputes, which led to scrambles. Because the Yaoxian invited helpers to protect them, Longzi also invited the water tribes everywhere."

"Yuetuo Kingdom Yaoxian." The old man pondered for a while, then suddenly said: "But it's called Beiqiu Immortal, Nanqiu Immortal?"

Shanhu nodded immediately, "It's the name."

The old man's eyes were fixed, and he suddenly shouted: "This place is separated from Yuetuo Kingdom by thousands of mountains and rivers, why do you know their names so well?"

Shan Hu shivered in fright, and blurted out: "I heard what that water demon said! When Longzi invited his king, he cursed at those two demons for bullying the few, and scolded those two names many times."

The old man was silent for a while, then asked again: "How did those two demons capture the thief?"

Shan Hu looked at the old man in fear, and said hesitantly: "I don't know the details, it seems that they used a trick, uh, I heard that one of the demons almost fell."

The old man rubbed the black iron rod unconsciously, and fell silent again.

This time the silence was longer.

The sunlight that poured into the forest shifted a great angle. The old man's shadow was originally at the foot, but gradually moved to the mountain tiger kneeling on the ground, covering the beast king in the mountain in the shadow.

Shanhu secretly glanced at the old man, feeling the ferocious aura that overflowed from the old man from time to time, he dared not breathe out, feeling that he was about to suffocate.

After a long time, the old man finally said, "Where are they?"

Shanhu was stunned for a moment, and then realized that "they" should refer to Longzi and Yaoxian, and quickly shouted: "The water demon said that it is in Luohuang Mountain, seven hundred miles to the southeast."

The old man's eyes became deep, and the mountain tiger glanced at it, and suddenly felt as if he had fallen into the underworld, where the wind eroded his bones, and the evil ghost devoured his soul, and he was instantly submerged in a tide of fear.

"Big, Daxian, I've told you everything I know. Look, can you let me go?"

The mountain tiger's teeth chattered and mustered up the courage to beg for mercy.

"You go."

The old man raised his eyelids and said something lightly.

"Xie Daxian! I wish Xie Daxian a long life and heaven, and the Dao will be prosperous!"

Shanhu was overjoyed immediately, and kowtowed to thank him, then turned around excitedly, and jumped into the distance.

boom!
A black stick shadow hit the back of Shanhu's head, and the round tiger's head exploded on the spot like a watermelon, splashing blood and brains all over the sky.

Pfft, the headless tiger carcass fell into the bushes, twitched twice in the bloody beach, and soon became cold.

"Squeak!"

The little monkey on the old man's shoulder screamed in fright, covering his eyes tightly with his paws.

"Don't be afraid, little fox, I won't hurt you."

The old man casually put away the iron rod, without even looking at the blood corpse, he smiled and comforted the little monkey.

"Your father loves you so much, and I can't bear to let him lose his beloved daughter at such a young age. When I get rid of that nasty boy and relieve my hatred, I will send you home."

Home?father?
The little monkey slowly lowered its paws covering its eyes, with a confused look on its face.

The old man glanced at the confused little monkey on his shoulder, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and then he faced the sky, casting a spell to summon a cloud of air to roll upwards.

The cloud cluster swayed and fled away.

(End of this chapter)