White Bone Monkey King

At this time, the sky above our heads was getting darker and darker.

Smoke began to rise from more and more households in the village.

The aroma of firewood rice fills the air above the fields.

If it weren't for the rainy weather and there was the sun above our heads...

Jin An thinks it should be a sunset scene as the sun sets in the west, right?

At this time, an old man carrying a hoe on his shoulder, rolling up his trouser legs and walking barefoot on the field ridge came towards me.

He was still holding his little granddaughter's hand, talking and laughing.

When the old man saw Jin An, he smiled kindly and nodded in greeting.

Looking at the peaceful village in front of him, Jin An frowned more and more. He looked up at the top of his head. There was a divine light covering the world, creating an isolated Taoyuan Village.

With deep thought.

He continued walking towards the village.

When Jin An entered the village, many villagers along the way looked at him curiously when they saw him, a foreigner. How strange and doubtful were the curious eyes?

But he didn't pay much attention to the sidelong glances from these villagers, and just wandered around the village until he saw an old Taoist priest in khaki robes showing off to a group of thick-set rural women. Palm reading on the right hand, I don't know what the old Taoist priest said, which made the group of middle-aged women laugh, but made the men around them jealous, and planned to give his mother-in-law a good meal tonight.

"Senior!"

Seeing the familiar figure, Jin An shouted in surprise. He was deeply afraid that he had recognized the wrong person, so he hurriedly approached the old Taoist priest, intending to get closer to see if he was the old Taoist priest.

The old Taoist priest who was showing his right hand to the rural woman shivered. He turned around and looked at the familiar voice behind him. However, the next moment, the old Taoist priest opened his mouth. He was covered in jewels and was as full of jewels as the silly son of the landlord. The man, carrying a peach tree trunk on his shoulders, ran towards him joyfully.

The peach tree is full of fruits.

"Little, little brother?"

"Really...you?"

The old Taoist priest was shocked by the whole peach tree carried on the other party's shoulders.

Why does this peach tree look so familiar?

Aren't they just those peach trees outside the forest?

The old Taoist priest took a breath!

He picked a few peaches but was smashed all over his head by the wild monkeys. He even lost one of his shoes, not to mention how embarrassed he was.

As a result, someone uprooted the peach tree and ran toward him happily.

Looking at the peach tree that had been uprooted by someone, and the old Taoist priest who was still recovering after being hit on the head by a monkey, he felt a sense of relief in his heart, not to mention how much relief he felt.

When Jin An took off the beast-headed robe on his head, and then opened a corner of the robe that he wore inside out, revealing the five-color Taoist robe. After repeatedly confirming his identity, the old Taoist priest was convinced that the man in front of him was dressed in jewels and was dressed like the silly son of a landlord. The person is Jin An.

"Little brother, why are you dressed like this? Little brother, you uprooted a peach tree and robbed it, and the group of monkeys outside the forest didn't fight you?"

We met again after a long absence, but we didn't expect to meet in this way. The old Taoist priest became happier the more he thought about it.

He is indeed a little brother.

I only dare to steal a dozen peaches.

result! The little brother just robbed a peach tree and came back!

Just thinking about it makes you feel relieved.

Those monkeys must be so angry now that they can't sleep for three days and three nights, haha.

"It's precisely because they fight so hard with me. Anyway, picking a peach is hard work, and carrying a peach tree is also hard work. So I just carry a peach tree away." Jin An's answer made the old Taoist give a thumbs up and said In the past, Mrs. Ox, whose zodiac sign was Ox, did not dare to touch her little brother when she saw him. From now on, Mrs. Monkey, whose zodiac sign was Monkey, did not dare to touch her little brother when she saw him. There are cows on both sides.

Jin An was so happy to meet the old Taoist priest again in the ruins. He picked a peach and shared it with the old Taoist priest. Then he gnawed the peach himself. He looked around and saw no sharp sword. It seemed that Jiajian continued to wander in the ruins, his eyes a little downcast.

But he quickly recovered. What he was most worried about was the old Taoist priest who had old arms and legs. Even the old Taoist priest could survive intact. He was good at sharpening swords and could definitely take care of himself.

The grandfather and grandson ate the peaches they snatched from the monkeys and began to describe their experiences in the ruins these past few days.

I don’t know if there are too many woods here, which distracts more vitality. The peaches here are not as magical as Shouting peaches. Apart from being able to quickly restore physical strength, the body is warm, and they are not afraid of wind and air entering the body, they are not too magical. .

By narrating their experiences with each other, Jin An also learned that the old Taoist priest arrived at the river village one day earlier than him. He asked the old Taoist priest about the situation in the river village and what was going on in the river village.

The old Taoist priest arrived one day earlier than him and must have learned more information than him.

When talking about the river village in front of him, the old Taoist priest's face suddenly became serious. He shook his head slightly towards Jin An. There were many people here and it was not a place to talk.

At this time, the sky outside was getting darker and darker, smoke was rising from every thatched house, and the sound of a mother standing at the door calling her children to go home for dinner began to be heard in the village.

There are also thick-waisted women with wooden sticks in their hands, chasing naughty urchins all over the village. In the end, the urchins are carried home with their ears pinched, and then beat them again when they are full.

In the fields outside the village, more and more farmers are carrying hoes and pushing canoes back to the village.

Among the children who were led home with their ears pinched, Jin An saw the shepherd boy whom he had just asked for directions outside the village. The child shouted that a Taoist priest said that he was the reincarnation of the Toad Fairy, and that the Toad Fairy had been pinched. It's very shameful to carry him home with his ears covered. He is a Toad Fairy, an immortal. Immortals in mythology are all people with great abilities. When mortals see an immortal, they have to kneel down and kowtow.

As a result, the shepherd boy was beaten even more severely. His mother picked him up and beat him up. He burst into tears and cried miserably. He was crying as loudly as he had just screamed just now.

"I let you be the Great Toad Immortal, and I am letting you be the Great Toad Immortal. If you are the Great Toad Immortal, then I will be the Great Toad Immortal and his mother. The sky is big and the earth is big, and my parents are the biggest."

The shepherd boy was carried home by his mother and was beaten until he cried loudly along the way. When he passed by Jin An, the shepherd boy recognized Jin An. He forgot to cry for a moment and burst into tears at Jin An with a long string of snot bubbles hanging from his nose. He was so happy that he shouted: "Master! Master! Thank you for the peaches! When I become the Toad Fairy in the future, I will return you a hundred or a thousand peaches..."

Before the shepherd boy could finish shouting, he was beaten even harder and cried even harder.

"Laugh, laugh, I see your skin is getting thicker and thicker. I was still too gentle. Go home and let your father continue to beat you."

At this time, the shepherd boy's mother saw the old Taoist priest, greeted him politely, and then continued to carry her son home.

Then Jin An saw that the cousin who brought the shepherd boy to gamble with dice was also beaten wildly by a couple with a pole. He scolded him for bringing such an adult to gamble with his ignorant cousin. It was really an embarrassment to the old Song family. He scolded you and wanted to beat you to death for being an unfilial son.

The young man was beaten so hard by his parents that he ran away with his head in his arms.

This is really a lively village, full of human fireworks. This is called human flavor. This is a human flavor that has not been seen since entering the ruins. It is in sharp contrast to the dead ruins outside. Jin'an looks full of people. The flavorful village is very interesting.

"Little brother, do you know that shepherd boy?"

The old Taoist priest raised his hand and pointed at the shepherd boy who was being beaten and carried home by his wife, and said in surprise.

So Jin An briefly talked about what happened when he entered the village just now. After hearing this, the old Taoist priest slapped his thigh and said with surprise that it seemed that he had found a place to stay tonight.

The shepherd boy and his family are honest, hospitable villagers.

When the old Taoist priest brought Jin An to stay overnight, the shepherd boy's parents recognized the old Taoist priest as Taoist Chen, who was giving divination to the villagers for free for a day. They warmly and hospitably allowed the two to stay and prepared a sumptuous dinner.

However, the old Taoist priest did not let Jin An go to eat these dinners. He politely said to the couple that they had already eaten and they only needed to arrange a room that could protect them from wind and rain.

Then they started chatting all over the place with each other. The old Taoist priest got more and more excited as he chatted, his face glowing red. He talked about the customs and customs of various places. He talked about how he beat zombies to exorcise evil spirits, supported the righteousness of the world, and lived in a small mountain village for generations. The country couple, who had never seen the world, were amazed when they heard this.

Even the little shepherd boy on the side, holding the peach given to him by Jin An, ate it with gusto and listened intoxicated.

This peach was given to him by Jin An again.

Rural people went to bed early at night. As the night progressed, the villagers in Hezhuang gradually extinguished their candles and went to sleep. The little shepherd boy named Song Zhi at first clamored to live with the old Taoist priest, saying that he wanted to continue listening to the old Taoist priest's stories. , naturally his mother had to give him another beating, and then he went back to sleep by himself.

As the lights of hundreds of houses were extinguished, the people in Hezhuang gradually fell asleep, and the village became very quiet, so quiet that there was no barking of dogs or the chirping of insects and birds at night.

It's so quiet.

No matter inside or outside the village, it was so silent that there was no sound.

It wasn't until the two were alone that Jin An finally found out what was going on in this village.

Alas, there was a sigh in the dark night. The old Taoist priest did not answer immediately. Instead, he led Jin An to see it and believe it. When the old Taoist priest brought Jin An to the kitchen and opened the lid of the pot, there were leftovers from tonight in the pot. It turned into river mud, and the bacon strips hanging on the beams also turned into river mud.

Later, the old Taoist priest took Jin An out of the kitchen and went to the main room and knocked on the door, but the room was dark and no one answered. The old Taoist priest said "Sorry to bother you" and pushed the door into the house. Jin An found that there was no shepherd boy or Mr. and Mrs. Song in the house, only a muddy man lying on the bed who seemed to be asleep and had a strong mud smell.

Look at the facial features of the clay man, they are the shepherd boy and his family of three!

Jin An was stunned.

Next, the old Taoist priest took Jin An to a river outside Hezhuang that passed around the village.

At night, the sound of the gurgling river became clearer and clearer. It was already late at night, and an old boat with a blood-stained old man with a broken Taoist crown and disheveled hair was swimming upstream.

That lonely shadow of heaven and earth against the current!

It's like a strong obsession to do something against nature even though you know it's impossible to do it!

The old man raised his skinny palm, grabbed a handful of river mud, and shaped the shape of a little native. He blew a breath at the little native, and the little native came to life and turned into a talking and laughing man. Big living people.

Surprisingly, he was a villager he had just met in Hezhuang today.

The old man continued to pinch the native.

Every time he breathed on the natives, the natives would come to life and turn into villagers and come ashore, and the villagers would walk home one by one.

One native after another was pinched out.

Blow out one breath after another.

The natives came to life, went ashore and walked into the village, becoming Hezhuang villagers.

Among them are the shepherd boys and their parents.

After pinching the villagers, the old man began to pinch birds, insects, butterflies, and monkeys... These seemed to be the reappearance of the old man's childhood memories. He knew that death was like a lamp going out, but he still couldn't let go of his obsession with his homeland.

Just to make up for the regret in my heart.

"Little brother, this is the truth that the old Taoist discovered in this village. A senior master once died in Dongtianfudi Dojo. That senior master should be a villager from Hezhuang. It is said that everyone longs to become an immortal. The Immortal Queen can live as long as the heavens, be free and at ease, and can go anywhere in the world. But what this Immortal will never forget most after his death is his childhood parents, the popular Hezhuang when he was a child. When my mother is gone, when my relatives grow old one by one, when I see all the familiar people around me turn into dust, and I am left alone, isn’t this the biggest regret?"

…

It rains heavily during Qingming Festival.

Pedestrians on the road want to die.

Where is the restaurant.

The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance.

After listening to the old Taoist priest's words, Jin An had some subtle insights into his state of mind.

The old Taoist priest came one day earlier than Jin An. According to what the old Taoist priest said, every time the old man with a broken crown blows a breath of fairy air on a person, horse, monkey, etc. made of clay, those clay objects can live for one day. When night falls, It will turn back into a lifeless clay figure.

This Hezhuang is not some ghost village.

Instead, a great immortal was making people out of clay.

Perseverance day after day.

Create a prison for yourself.

Jin An noticed that the old man who made the man out of clay had only four fingers on each hand and a total of eight fingers on both hands. There was no surprise on his face.

The senior who made the human out of clay was indeed the reincarnation of the Toad Fairy, a shepherd boy from Song Dynasty.

Just when Jin An looked thoughtful, the old Taoist priest told another even more shocking news.

"Little brother, last night I saw an ancient corpse wrapped in gold and jade clothes, got on this boat, and went to an unknown place along the Round Village River."

The old Taoist priest continued to wink at Jin An and said: "That's why I didn't rush to leave the river village, because I have been thinking about how to get on the boat."

"According to my secret observation, there are quite a few people entering Hezhuang this time. It is estimated that they have discovered the secret of Hezhuang and want to board the boat of the Great Toad Immortal."

"The boat is narrow and can't hold many people. If there is no chance tonight, we will have to wait for the opportunity tomorrow. I just don't know where the Toad Immortal and the boat are going."

When the old Taoist priest said this, he glanced at Jin An curiously: "Little brother, you and the ancient corpse in jade clothes arrived at Hezhuang two days apart. You should have bumped into each other on the way here, right?"