Chapter 426 I'm not eating fish
Sun Wukong had never received such etiquette when he was so old. He had always saluted his master, uncle and senior sister before. When he was worshipped, he was shocked to jump up from his high place.
"Everyone, I can't do it, no matter whether you are a woman or a monster man, I can't afford to salute me when I'm so old." After Sun Wukong said that, he jumped to a stone in the distance.
"The fairy can bear it, and the fairy can bear it. No matter how old we are, we are still mortals. How dare we be with the fairy? It's natural to worship the tripod." The island owner knelt on the ground, stood up, and clasped his fists and said.
The seagull stood still, and he enjoyed being worshipped.
"His sister! Am I a god? If you say yes, I can't do anything! But if you say no, my master and senior sister both have magic! Alas! It's all my fault that I'm too lazy in normal times. It would be very helpful to learn some magic to make people call immortals." Sun Wukong stood on the stone and thought to himself.
"Fairy, can you come down? Listen to me nagging with you." The island owner shouted to Sun Wukong with a hoarse voice.
Sun Wukong looked up at the night sky and thought to himself: "The night is still long, so it's okay to listen to this monster's nagging. Even if I can hear the story and order food by the way, my stomach is rumbled."
After thinking about it, he jumped off the stone.
"You all get up, can you get some food?"
"Yes, yes, we have nothing to do to respect. Can you give the fairy a few fish to eat?" The island owner stood up and said to Sun Wukong.
"Okay, okay, just fill your stomach." Sun Wukong replied.
"Just hurry up and get fish for the fairy." The island owner greeted.
"No! No!" The other old men and the old ladies stood up in a hurry and walked towards the cave behind them.
After a while, they each brought a few sea fish, put them in a stone pot, then lit the fire and simmered it. Then they sat around the fire again.
Sun Wukong glanced around several old men and women and asked, "Are you humans or monsters? How long have you lived on this island? What wish do you want the gods to fulfill? Have you ever seen the gods before? And what is the mud monkey you are referring to? But first I declare that you'd better not treat me as a god, because I can't help you become an immortal or live forever. To be more precise, I am an individual, and a delicate and cute little woman!"
"The ou is so damn, there are so many questions, don't want to sleep? You might as well ask them if they are humans or not. What kind of gods, mud monkeys, and wishes, how can you listen? Really, why did Sun Xiaohou become a night cat?" The seagull scolded him disgusted, then yawned and lay on the ground.
"Hahaha……"
Several old men and ladies laughed at the same time after hearing this.
"Fairy, we are not monsters, we are human beings, the poor old man who left his hometown and wandered here!"
"What, what? Do you say you are from the Great Qin Kingdom? And you are from the hometown?"
"Yes, yes, it's fairy."
"Then why do you leave your hometown? Why do you still carry a well when you leave your hometown? Is the tea I just drank made of boiled water from the well you carried?"
"Haha... the fairy was joking, how could he carry the well? If he really could carry it, we would not have so much pain." The expression on the island owner's face changed from joy to sorrow.
Sun Wukong didn't understand that leaving his hometown was an idiom, so he didn't feel embarrassed and continued to listen to the island owner's story.
The island owner said: "We are from Jiangdong. We used to live by fishing and farming at home. Although our lives are hard, every family is together, and our wives are virtuous and their children are filial. But since Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, such good days have ended. He levies violent burials and donated miscellaneous taxes every year, but also levied corvee labor indiscriminately and captured young and middle-aged people from all over the world to build a Great Wall, saying that it was to resist the Huns. For a time, the people were living in poverty and the people were wronged."
The island owner sighed and looked at Sun Wukong. Seeing that Sun Wukong was listening carefully, he was ready to continue talking...
Sun Wukong didn't understand it very well, but when he saw that the speaker was moved, he could continue to listen.
"Our village is not spared. When the officials sent us to our village to collect corvee labor, several of us became the targets of the collection."
The island owner said and pointed at the three old men, and the three old men nodded incessantly.
"Hehe, I'll tell you, we were young and young at that time, and they were in their prime. We all had their own sweethearts one after another." As he said that, the island owner pointed to the old lady who was singing the song, and the old lady smiled embarrassedly.
"This is my aunt. He, she is a couple, he and her are a couple. As for his one, unfortunately he was lost on the road." The island owner said to the old man wearing black clothes and barefoot.
The old man frowned and sighed, looking very sad.
Sun Wukong felt a little uncomfortable when he looked at it, thinking: "This love on earth looks sweet and painful, I really don't understand."
While speaking, the fish in the stone pot was cooked.
The old lady who sang the song used a stone bowl to hand it to Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong was not polite and took it and ate it. Maybe it was because of her hunger and she thought the fish was very delicious.
Several old men liked Sun Wukong very much when he saw him eating fish.
The island owner continued: "We love each other, so how could we be separated? We took advantage of the unpreparedness of the officials who were employed by the corvee labor service and bid farewell to their parents. We drew a bamboo raft together, walked down the river and fled our homes in order to find a quiet paradise and settle down. But, but I didn't expect it..."
The island owner said, and stopped abruptly, with a sad expression lowered his head for a long time without saying a word.
Sun Wukong stopped eating fish and watched the island owner wait for the following text.
At this time, the moon secretly emerged from the clouds, and the cold moonlight shone on the sea, giving people a cold feeling.
The island owner suddenly raised his head and looked at the bright moon.
"Oh! The moon is waning and people are dispersed. Our bamboo rafts drifted from the river to the sea. After drifting for several days, it was still fine. We didn't encounter strong winds and waves. But just when we were secretly glad, a strong wind suddenly broke out on the sea, knocking our bamboo rafts over and rotting. At that time, we all fell into the sea. We struggled hard, and then held hands and swearing to die, intending to die together. But unexpectedly, another tornado came from the sea to roll us up. I was in a trance and wanted to see a goddess in the sky, waving her hands, and then losing consciousness. When we woke up, we were on this island, but unfortunately, one person was missing, that is, his wife."
After the island owner finished speaking, he pointed at the old man in black clothes.
Sun Wukong seemed to see tears on the old man's face.
"After we were rolled up on this island, we settled down. Although the island was barren, we finally survived. There were trees on this island, but there was no fruit tree. After we came, we mainly made fishing and then used branches and sticks to make fire. This fire was not easy. We made it by drilling wood to make fire, so we never dared to let it be destroyed. We took turns to hold on to the fire on dark days and white nights, and moved into the cave when it rained. Anyway, it has been more than 30 years and has never been destroyed. Look, the trees on this island are almost burned."
The island owner's eyes were full of pride and a little worried when he spoke.
Chapter completed!