Chapter 258: Guardian General, Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick

Three hundred miles west of Jinmen Prefecture, there is Monkey Mountain, which is also within the Xijing Mountain boundary.

Xu Qing had never been here before. Now that he came to Monkey Mountain for the first time, he found that the mountain was steep like a knife, and the vines in the forest were as messy as hemp. If ordinary woodcutters and mountain people came in, they would probably get lost before they could go very far.

The red-tailed monkey is the master of this mountain, and he is familiar with the road along the way.

When he came to the mountain, three white-browed old monkeys jumped down from the five or six-zhang-high cave wall, holding vines.

The red-tailed monkey pulled a literary phrase and said: "My cave dwelling is simple and crude, built on the mountain, not comparable to the square boxes, high walls and courtyards that people live in. I hope Brother Xu won't dislike it."

Xu Qing smiled: "Your cave dwelling is quiet and clear. Although it lacks some craftsmanship, it has more natural flavor. Even if others want to live here, they have to have that blessing!"

"Mountain folk cave, what's rare about it? If Brother Xu likes it, you can open a cave in Xijing Mountain, and I can come to Brother Xu's mansion as a guest nearby..."

Xu Qing smiled and passed. If he wants to live, he will choose a geomantic treasure land, dig a good coffin, and live in that four-mountain-worshiping, wind-hiding and qi-gathering cave grave; at worst, go to the imperial mausoleum to stay; if it really doesn't work, find a mass grave with heavy yin energy and squeeze with everyone.

As for the immortal cave, it has to meet his taste.

Entering the Monkey Cave, the red-tailed monkey showed great enthusiasm, including but not limited to monkeys offering fruit and wine, and picking the most beautiful and well-proportioned female monkeys in the monkey group to serve wine.

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Don't hit the smiling monkey with your hand. Xu Qing ate a fresh meal at this apology banquet.

Xuanyu is different from the girls and maids in secular families. She not only won't dislike the simple environment and food in the mountains, but instead likes this novel feeling very much.

For a cat, maybe no good residence is as comfortable as an old cardboard box.

Only Xu Qing felt a bit of pity in his heart. If this cave dwelling could be more grounded, half buried in the soil, and the other half built like a bun, how good would it be...

There are no meals in the deep mountains and old forests. Fruits, wild game, and incense offerings are the diet of these immortals, but the Monkey Immortal Hall has something particularly different, which is the monkey wine brewed by the monkeys themselves using local methods.

It is said to be brewed by local methods, but it is actually hiding the various fresh fruits picked into the old tree hearts. Those fresh fruits are not the long-lived fruits hiding in the shells and can last for a long time.

The result of these monkeys hiding fresh fruits in the tree hearts can be imagined. It doesn't take long for them to rot and spoil!

However, there are always exceptions to everything. Most of the places where monkeys store hundreds of fruits for the winter are dry and cool tree holes and stone caves. When the winter snow melts, there will always be one or two places where the hundreds of fruits, by extreme coincidence, respond to the changes of the heaven and earth seasons and naturally ferment into wine.

This kind of wine is the so-called monkey wine.

Xu Qing had never drunk this kind of wine. According to the red-tailed monkey, there are only three tree holes and one stone pit blocked by the cliff top on the entire Monkey Mountain that can brew wine.

And in the years when the red-tailed monkey left Monkey Mountain, the only three tree holes were also damaged due to tree decay and ant and insect theft. Now only the stone pit at the bottom of the cliff and the old willow tree hole in the south of the mountain are still intact.

The red-tailed monkey sighed. It is not just the monkeys on the mountain that have changed, but also the environment of Monkey Mountain.

"In the past, my Monkey Immortal Hall was also one of the best in Jinmen. I didn't expect that it would become like this in just a few years."

Xu Qing was not surprised. In the entire Monkey Immortal Hall, only this red-tailed monkey is good at human affairs. This most social monkey king is gone, and the rest are all naughty and unruly monkeys. It would be a ghost if they could do the immortal hall well!

"In comparison, Brother Xu's Cat Immortal Hall is managed better. I don't know how Immortal Xuanyu and Brother Xu did it. It really makes me envious."

Xu Qing didn't pick up the conversation. He is now thinking about the monkey wine in front of him. As for the Monkey Immortal Hall, he has no intention of intervening.

In the days he was away, the Cat Immortal Hall contacted many new businesses, and its influence expanded a lot. As the Sect Leader, he still has to take time to make new plans and instructions for the hall. How can he have leisure to stay and be a military advisor for the monkey?

"Immortal Hou, don't worry. Before, the Monkey Immortal Hall had no leader, but now that you are sitting in town, it will naturally get better and better in the future."

The red-tailed monkey scratched his ears and cheeks. The calmer Xu Qing was, the more anxious he became.

In the cave, the white-browed old monkey held a wine cup that was neither porcelain nor jade and came to the seat.

Xu Qing took a look and found that the wine cup was a gourd ladle split in half, and the clear yellow wine was swirling in the ladle belly.

Before the wine reached his mouth, Xu Qing smelled the strange wine fragrance.

At first smell, it was a bit wild apricot sour, then it was the flower fragrance of honey, and finally there was the sweetness of pear.

Xu Qing took a light sip, and his eyes lit up.

This wine is really extraordinary!

"Does Immortal Xuanyu want to drink?"

There is no cat in the world that is not curious. Xuanyu doesn't like drinking, but the monkey wine in front of her has the fragrance of hundreds of fruits. This kind of taste, let alone people who don't drink, even if a monk who doesn't touch any meat comes, I'm afraid he can't suppress the greedy worm in his stomach.

The young girl took the wine ladle handed by Xu Qing, first took a small sip carefully, and after tasting the sweetness, she sipped it in small sips.

After drinking the wine in the small ladle, Xuanyu's ears were already red, and even white gas was coming out of her head.

On this side, the white-browed old monkey filled another ladle of monkey wine. Xu Qing drank it all, only feeling fruit pits jumping in his throat, as if he had swallowed a whole orchard in spring.

In his mouth, throat, and stomach, there were peach blossom buds and green plum stems jumping one after another. He was afraid he would never forget this strange feeling even after a thousand or ten thousand years.

Xu Qing's eyes fell on the red-tailed monkey. He had no interest in the Monkey Immortal Hall before, but the wine he drank today made him interested...

"Immortal Hou, say what you have to say now. If you come to find me after today, I may not be so easy to talk to."

The red-tailed monkey, who is good at human affairs, learned the wine table culture without a teacher. After toasting Xu Qing and Xuanyu twice, the red-tailed monkey said:

"Brother Xu, don't speak dark words. When I was learning art in the cave, I was pointed out by the Monkey King, saying that the heavenly road is broken in the current world, yin and yang are unbalanced, gods and immortals don't care about the human world, this world is already a world of five turbid evils, and people's hearts are also dark and unclear, far from the past."

"When I traveled to Central Province, I saw too many natural and man-made disasters. Even immortals couldn't escape the influence of the general trend. Has Brother Xu ever seen immortals occupy the body of a horse-riding disciple and eat people to become gods?"

The red-tailed monkey said with lingering fear: "Those immortals think that by attaching to the horse, killing and harming lives, the sins they commit will not fall on their own heads. Little do they know that this is the pollution of the yin river's turbid qi to the yang world, which has an impact on them."

"Demons are not as smart as humans, and they practice demon evil turbid qi, which is more easily affected by the qi escaping from the yin river. Now the road to heaven is broken, and immortals who want to become immortals have no hope. Who is willing to cultivate their hearts and nature? Everyone cultivates their hearts to become immortals. If they can't become immortals, what is the difference from working for free?"

"Can the little merit incense that everyone worked so hard to obtain avoid the thunder disaster, and can it avoid the fire disaster and wind disaster?"

The red-tailed monkey, who had opened his eyes to see the world, said powerlessly: "I returned from traveling in Central Province, only to learn that the monkeys on the mountain took advantage of my absence to harm the villagers everywhere. Because of their livelihood, the horse-riding disciples actually abandoned the hall and took the old and young monkeys to Jinmen to sell art on the street..."

"This must have been affected by the evil turbid qi!"

The red-tailed monkey said firmly.

Xu Qing was completely silent when he heard this. ===== CHAPTER 259 =====