7.祖父的园子

Lesson Seven

The Monkey

1. Overseas, there is a land called Aolaiguo.

2. It is near the sea, and there is a famous mountain in the sea, which is called Huaguo Mountain.

3. There is a fairy stone on the top of the mountain. The stone is three zhang, six chi and five cun high and has a circle of two zhang and four chi.

4. There is no shade of trees on all sides, but irises and orchids on the left and right sides.

5. From the beginning of the time, the sun, the moon, Heaven and Earth all worked their magic on the rock.

6. A fairy cell is bred inside, which burst in one day and produce one stone egg, which is as big as a ball.

7. It turns into a stone monkey because of the wind.

8. The monkey lives in the mountains, but he can walk and jump. He eats vegetation, drinks springs, collects mountain flowers, and picks trees and fruits; accompanied by wolves, tigers and leopards, roe deer as friends and apes as relatives; it lives under the cliff overnight, and swims toward the peak cave.

9. One day, it and other moneys stayed away from the heat, and they all played under the loose shade.

10. A group of monkeys played for a while, and went to take a bath in the mountain stream.

11. Seeing that the stream of water is running, it is like rolling melons and splashing.

12. As the old saying goes, “Birds have their words, and beasts have their words.”

13. All the monkeys said, “I don’t know where this water is.

14. Today, we have nothing to do, let’s heads up along the river to look for the source and flow, and play games!”

15. When they shouted, all monkeys come here, and they all ran along the stream and climbed mountains until they reached the origin. It was a waterfall and a flying spring.

16. The monkeys clapped their hands and shouted, “Good water!

17. Good water!

18. It turns out that this place goes as far as the foot of the mountain, and it goes directly to the waves of the sea.”

19. And he said, “I’ll worship the one who has the ability to go in and find a source without hurting his body.”

20. After screaming three times, suddenly the stone monkey jumped out of the miscellaneous, and shouted, “I’ll go in!”

21. I’m going in!”

22. He closed his eyes, jumped into the waterfall spring with his body in a vertical direction. He looked up with his eyes open, but there was no water, no waves and a clear bridge.

23. He stopped, set his mind, and looked again carefully. It turned out to be an iron slab bridge.

24. The water under the bridge runs through the stone openings, hangs upside down and flows out, covering the bridge door.

25. He walked to the bridge, and see around. It seems that there is a family residence, which is a good place.

26. After watching for a long time, the stone monkey jumped over the middle of the bridge and looked left and right, only to see a stone tablet in the middle.

27. There is a line of regular script characters inscribed with “Blessed Land of Huaguoshan, water curtain cave”.

28. He was so happy, hurried out and went out. He kept down, jumped out of the water, and said, “Great luck!

29. Great nature!”

30. The monkeys surrounded him and asked, “How is it inside?

31. How deep is the water?”

32. “There is no water,” said the stone monkey.

33. There is no water!

34. It turned out to be an iron slab bridge.

35. On the other side of the bridge is a place made in heaven.”

36. The monkeys said, “How can you see that it is a household?”

37. The stone monkey said with a smile, “The water runs through the stone hole under the bridge and hangs upside down to cover the door.

38. There are flowers and trees beside the bridge, which is a stone house.

39. There are stone pot, stone stove, stone bowl, stone basin, stone bed and stone stool.

40. In the middle of a stone tablet, engraved “Blessed Land of Huaguoshan, water curtain cave”.

41. It’s really where we live.

42. And it is wide, and contains thousands of young and old monkeys.

43. We all go in and live, and we don’t have to bear the bad weather.”

44. Hearing this, all the monkeys were happy.

45. They all said, “You still go first, take us in, go in!”

46. But the stone monkey crouched in his sleep, jumped in and cried, “Follow me in!

47. Come in!”

48. Those brave monkeys jumped in; the timid ones, one by one, stretched their heads and necks, scratched their ears and cheeks, yelled and twisted for a while, and they all went in.

49. Jumping over the bridge, grabbing pots and bowls one by one, occupying the stove and fighting for the bed, moving over and over are just the monkey’s bad nature. They move things from there to here and from here to there, until they are tired.

50. The stone monkey sat on it and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, a person cannot do without credibility.

51. You just said that he who has the ability to enter and go out and does not harm his health, you will worship him as king.

52. Now I come in and go out, go out and come in again. I have found this cave, and I have a good sleep with you. Why don’t you worship me as king.

53. Other monkeys all agreed after they heard that.

54. They rank them according to their age and worship in the morning.

55. From then on, the stone monkey ascended to the throne, and the word “stone” was hidden, so he was called Monkey King.