Read an excerpt of "Journey to the West" of no less than 1,500 words

In the Aolai Kingdom of Dongsheng Shenzhou, there is a mountain of flowers and fruits. There is an immortal stone on the mountain.

One day, the immortal stone cracked and an egg rolled out from the stone. The wind turned into a stone monkey, and its eyes shot out streaks of golden light, worshiping in all directions.

The monkey can walk and run. When it is thirsty, it drinks some spring water from the mountain stream, and when it is hungry, it eats some fruits from the mountain.

I had a great time playing with the animals in the mountains all day long. One day, the weather was extremely hot. In order to escape the hot weather, the monkeys ran to the mountain stream to take a bath. When they saw the spring water flowing, they walked forward along the stream to find its source.

The monkeys climbed and climbed, and when they reached the end, they saw a waterfall, as if falling from the sky

. The monkeys were surprised and discussed: "Whoever dares to get into the waterfall and find the source of the spring water without harming his body will be worshiped as king." After shouting three times, the stone monkey The stone monkey jumped out and shouted loudly:

"I'm going in, I'm going in!"

The stone monkey closed his eyes and jumped into the waterfall. It didn't feel like he was in the water. Then he opened his eyes and looked around

and found that he was standing on an iron bridge. The water under the bridge rushed through the stone holes and flowed out upside down.

Cover the bridge door so that people outside cannot see inside. The stone monkey walked across the bridge and found that this was a really good place.

There were stone chairs, stone beds, stone basins, and stone bowls.

It looks like someone lived here not long ago. It is a natural house, quiet and tidy, with pots, bowls, ladles

and basins neatly placed on the stove. There is a stone tablet in the middle, which is engraved on it: Huaguoshan blessed land, water

Curtain cave and sky. The stone monkey was so happy that he turned around and walked out, then jumped out of the hole with a swish.

The monkeys were surprised and happy when they saw the stone monkey coming out without any injuries. They surrounded him

and asked him what was going on inside. The stone monkey scratched his cheeks, scratched his itch, and said to everyone with a smile: "There is no water inside, so it is a good place to stay. When the wind blows, we have a place to hide, and when it rains heavily, we are not afraid of getting wet.

. "When the monkeys heard this, they jumped up and down with joy.

The monkeys followed the stone monkey through the waterfall and entered the water curtain cave. They saw so many good things.

You fight for them one by one, and the one with the basin takes them. Those who hold the basins take the bowls, those who occupy the stove occupy the stove, and those who compete for the bed compete for the bed. Move them here and there until they are exhausted. The monkeys all kept their promise and worshiped the Stone Monkey as their king. The Stone Monkey then ascended the throne, omitting the word "stone" and calling himself the "Monkey King".

The Monkey King took the monkeys to travel around the mountains and rivers every day, and soon three to five hundred years passed. One day when I was having fun, the Monkey King thought that he would inevitably die in the future, and he couldn't help but shed tears of sadness. At this time, a thong-backed ape jumped out from the group of monkeys and said: ∶ "If the king wants to live forever, he can only learn Buddhism, immortality, and the magic of gods."

The Monkey King decided to travel all over the world to find immortals and learn from them. That ability to live forever. The next day

the monkeys made him a raft and prepared some wild fruits. So the Monkey King said goodbye to the monkeys

and held the raft alone. Run towards the vast ocean.

Probably due to the Monkey King's good luck, the southeast wind for days brought him to the northwest coast. He got off the raft and boarded the shore. He saw many people working on the shore, some catching fish, some hunting geese in the sky, and some Digging clams and washing some for salt, he walked over quietly. Unexpectedly, he was so frightened that the people threw their things away and ran for their lives.

On this day, he came to a high mountain, and suddenly a beautiful song came from the woods on the mountainside

Singing some words about becoming an immortal. The Monkey King thought: This person singing must be a god, so he followed the singing to find him.

The singer was a young man who was chopping firewood in the woods. The Monkey King learned from the young man

that this mountain is called Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, which is seven or eight miles away from here. On the road, there is a cave with a setting moon and three stars. In the cave lives an immortal called the Bodhi Patriarch.

The Monkey King said goodbye to the young man collecting firewood, walked out of the woods, and walked up the hillside. Sure enough, he saw a cave in the distance

The door of the cave was tightly closed. There is a stone tablet standing on the hill opposite the cave door. It is about three feet high and eight feet wide. It has ten characters written on it: "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain Xianyue Sanxing Cave". While I was watching

the door suddenly opened and a fairy boy came out.

The Monkey King hurriedly stepped forward and bowed deeply to explain his purpose. The fairy boy said: "My master

was about to preach just now when he suddenly shouted I came out to open the door and said that there was a apprentice outside. It turned out to be you! Come with me!" The Monkey King quickly adjusted his clothes and followed the fairy boy respectfully into the cave. ,

Come to the Dharma platform where the Patriarch preached.