Chapter 896: 691 chapters, beautiful and tender care

691 chapters, beautiful and tender care

691 chapters, beautiful and tender care

In the previous chapter, the story spoke of the two strange stones.

Therefore, some monkeys are smarter than humans. Because in genetic inheritance, monkeys have one more aperture than humans.

But, in the monkeys' genetic makeup, they also lack one void compared to humans. Monkeys remain monkeys in the end.

Monkeys will never change **. Here we do not discuss life genetics, only talk about the two stones on Huaguo Shan and the No Opportunity Cliff of Great Wilderness Mountain.

Why?

Because, these two stones are related to this book, and also to Chinese culture.

Later, one of these strange stones became the protagonist Sun Wukong in Journey to the West, and the other became the protagonist Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber.

One caused a havoc in Heaven's palace, alarming the Jade Emperor; on the road to the Western Heaven, subduing demons and capturing monsters, letting the people of the world applaud and praise without end. The other became a prosperous and flourishing state, a clan observant of poetry and rites, a place of bustling flowers and willows, a gentle and wealthy village's playboy.

All extraordinary people and events have an unusual origin. The strange stone on Huaguo Shan has no trees around it, while other places on Huaguo Shan have trees. Only this strange stone has no trees around it—this is one oddity. Readers know, trees would block sunlight; with no trees blocking, one can receive more of the essence of heaven and earth, and more sunlight. Is this strange? Could it be a deliberate arrangement by the gods?

What's even more remarkable is that orchids and sweetgrass grow year-round on the left and right of the stone; this orchid and sweetgrass bloom facing each other, with fragrance continuous through the seasons. Orchid and sweetgrass, for thousands of years, have used their fragrance and beauty to nourish and gently transform this strange stone.

As for this strange stone, after receiving the essence of heaven and earth, the sun and moon's brilliance, over time it gains a spiritual sense. As the saying goes: with love, sincerity, truthfulness, perseverance, and confidence, even a stubborn stone can be transformed.

Reader, why repeat this passage? Simply because, with Sun Wukong existing in the world, we should be even more grateful for the orchids and sweetgrass flanking the strange stone on Huaguo Shan. It is precisely the constant fragrance of those orchids and sweetgrass that nourishes the stone. Those beautiful and tender attentions are what turn the cold, hard stone into the invincible Sun Wukong. Therefore, all might in the world is inseparable from gentle and beautiful care—including the earth-shaking Sun Wukong.

Moreover, the previous incarnation of Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber was also a stone. This stone also had an extraordinary experience. I already told readers about it in the previous chapter. I just won't say it, but readers already understand in their hearts. Since you understand, why do you still want me to say it? Have I said too much? Confucius said, 'Is it not a pleasure to learn and practice what you have learned?'

I mainly want to share with friends the joy of 'reviewing'.

For example, when I say Nüwa refined stones to mend the heavens, at the No Opportunity Cliff of Great Wilderness Mountain she produced thirty-six thousand five hundred and one stubborn stones, each twelve zhang high and twenty-four zhang square on each side.

Actually, Nüwa had already measured the deficient parts of heaven. To mend heaven, only twelve zhang high, twenty-four zhang square stones numbering thirty-six thousand six hundred are needed.

Then why did Nüwa refine an extra stone?

Yes, why did Nüwa refine an extra Heaven-mending Stone? Isn't that wasting talent? Is it easy to cultivate talent? Since you have spent so much money and energy to cultivate a person into talent, why not use it? Isn't that trampling on a person?

Clearly, this Nüwa is not a good thing. Perhaps she is also using the pretense of cultivating talent as a cover to make money for profit—a kind of deceitful trick of swindlers, another harmful tactic.

Someone might speak for Nüwa: 'This reasoning is simple; that stone is prepared just in case! To have a spare if the mending of heaven is accidentally ruined.'

Being on standby equals not being used.

A perfectly good Heaven-mending talent goes unused! Thus, that stone feels unbalanced inside.

Thus, the stone discarded by Nüwa at the No Opportunity Cliff of Great Wilderness Mountain spent all day complaining and feeling bored, wandering about playing. Coincidentally, one day that stone cast off by Nüwa wandered to a riverbank. This river is not far from Great Wilderness Mountain, right at its foothills. This river is called the Spirit River. The Spirit River is special: its riverbed is very wide, and that broad riverbed is everywhere covered with stones. The river water is only a little at the center. That little bit of water flows down from Great Wilderness Mountain.

The Heaven-mending Stone said: 'I have been in Great Wilderness Mountain for thousands of years; how come I have never seen this river?'

While the Heaven-mending Stone was in doubt……