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Chapter 183 Xiaopo's Birthday-Monkey King

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Xiaopo suddenly became confused, and then opened his eyes to see that he had come to a hill.There are some coconut trees on the top of the mountain, like chicken feathers, blowing back and forth the gray clouds in the sky with the wind. "Hawk!" Xiaopo shouted.oops!It was so sad that I couldn't cry out no matter how hard I tried.With great difficulty, he clenched his fists hard and sweated profusely before shouting, "Happy! Where are you?" No one agreed!Xiaopo looked around, but there was nothing there, and he felt a little flustered.This is Wolf Mountain, right?He thought: I have read in the Mandarin textbook that "wolves look like dogs", and I have heard people say that wolves are powerful; if a few wolf-like things come out and tell him to be unarmed, what will he do!

He walked a few steps forward, found a big rock, and sat down, "Maybe the wolves have taken the slapstick?!" Just as he was thinking about it, a monkey came from the small loess road on the mountain and rode on it. A long-horned black goat, the monkey is wearing a white coat on the upper body, and the lower body is naked, with a little red cap on the head.Sometimes the goat stopped and wanted to eat some green grass by the roadside. The monkey didn't hold a whip, but just whipped his tail automatically on the goat's back, and the goat ran quickly. Xiaopo really saw God.A few feet away from him, the monkey turned its horns, like closing the brakes of a car, and the goat stopped motionless.The monkey covered his eyes with one hand, bent forward a little, looked at it for a while, and then called out loudly: "It's Xiaopo, isn't it?"

How does the monkey know me?Xiaopo was astonished!Could this be a botanical garden?No!Or the monkeys from the botanical garden came here?Just as he was guessing wildly, the monkey said again: "You are Xiaopo, aren't you? Why don't you speak! What's the matter if you're dumb?!" "I'm Xiaopo, how do you know?" Xiaopo took a few steps forward.The monkey also pulled the goat to meet him and said, "Can't you hear my voice? I'm Baldy Zhang!" "Baldy Zhang?" Xiaopo didn't trust his ears, "Baldy Zhang?" At this time, the monkey was already very close to Xiaopo. He put the goat on the grass, took off his hat and bowed to Xiaopo, and said, "Don't you believe me? I'm really bald!"

Xiaopo looked at the monkey's head, and found that it had very little hair, just like Zhang Bald. "Sit down, sit down! Let's talk for a while!" Bald Zhang turned into a monkey, and seemed to be more disciplined than before. The two sat on the big rock, and Xiaopo was speechless for a while. "Xiaopo, why are you pretending to be stupid?" Baldy Zhang opened his monkey mouth a little, as if he was smiling. "Did you forget me?" Xiaopo could only shake his head. "Listen to me telling you!" "Ouch!" Xiaopo was still in shock, unable to remember what to say.Bald Zhang put the little red hat on his head, and sat half squatting on the boulder, saying:

"One day I went to the Botanical Garden, just in time for the Monkey King's birthday. I gave him some bananas, and he liked it very much. While eating, he asked me if I would like to join the Monkey Kingdom. I thought: In school, I would always ask my teacher to tell me a lesson. At home, my father’s big hands often beat us on the head, making our hair less and less. Being a human like this is not as good as being a monkey! But to the Monkey King : I can't be an ordinary monkey, at least I have to be a monkey king. Guess what, the monkey king said: "It's okay, you go to Langshan to be king. The monkey king there is my younger brother,——" Poe, let me tell you, the monkey kings who dare to love are all relatives, not brothers, but uncles and nephews. ——Two days ago he and the wolf king of Langshan paid homage to the brothers. The wolf king invited him to dinner, but the wolf king is a The old cunning ghost, pretending to be drunk, bit off one of my brother's ears and ate it as a drink. Then he pretended to be drunk and said to the little monkeys: "Let's pretend to kill the Monkey King, shall we?" Little monkeys They killed my brother in a hurry!"

"It's so unfair! It's disgraceful! Wolf cubs!" Xiaopo listened intently at this moment, and gradually forgot Zhang Baldzi's surprise of turning into a monkey. "Of course it's unfair! Xiaopo, look, how fair it is for us to fight behind the playground! Isn't it?" "Of course!" Xiaopo seemed to have forgotten about school, and was very happy to hear Baldy Zhang mention it. "The Monkey King shed a lot of tears, saying that his brother died too unjustly!" "Won't he find Langshan to avenge his brother?" Xiaopo asked. "No way, the Monkey King doesn't know where the Shadow Kingdom is! He hasn't seen the movie." "You must have seen the movie, Baldy Zhang?"

"Of course, I often climb in through the back wall of the movie park, and I don't need to buy a ticket!" Baldy Zhang opened his mouth wide again, as if he was smiling. "Don't laugh, it's so ugly! Let's continue." At this time, Xiaopo resumed his usual attitude of talking with Zhang Baldy. "The Monkey King asked his brothers and relatives who would want to be king at Wolf Mountain, and everyone cooed and said nothing. Later, he said, since none of you dare to go, I will invite this gentleman! Not my relative, but if he dares to go, I will recognize him as a brother. So the monkey king and I held hands very affectionately, and decided to invite me to be the monkey king of Langshan. As for myself, of course I am willing to go ;My father often said this: the bald man will be the president in the future, or at least a generalissimo!" "What does the generalissimo do?"

"Grand Marshal? Who knows!" "Don't know, you say?" "Say, you must know, right? Anyway, that's what my father said, it's over, it's over!" "Okay, let's go on!" "I promised the Monkey King, and he wrote me a letter." "He still writes?" Xiaopo asked. Baldy Zhang leaned closer to Xiaopo, and said next to Xiaopo's ear: "They are kings who can't write, but they pretend to know a lot, so that the little monkeys respect them." He only drew three circles on the paper, which was not round at all. He said to me: Take this letter to Langshan and show it to the officials there. They will know that you are their I'm the new king." Baldy Zhang scratched the bottom of his neck, like a monkey.

Xiaopo laughed. "Are you laughing at me?" Baldy Zhang seemed to be angry: "You have to know, I'm the king now. You'd better be careful!" "Come on, Zhang Bald! If you don't accept me, let's fight! You should be the monkey king, and I'm afraid of you!" Bald Zhang was speechless, still scratching here and there, with a very monkey air. Xiaopo said in his heart: The people who are kings rely on blowing their breath and staring at their eyes to do their best. You have to know their old background, and they still push their heads all the way!Then he said to Baldy Zhang:

"Come on, let's not quarrel! You are king, I think I should respect you a little bit. But don't pretend to be capable and deliberately underestimate me! Come on, let's talk about you." Bald Zhang has indeed become more generous since he became king. Thinking that what Xiaopo said was reasonable, he blew all his anger out. "No one is looking at us, so do what you like; in front of the little monkeys, you have to be respectful; otherwise, how can I make them afraid of me? Well, let me go on: take the monkey king letter, I will flee to Ying’er Country.” "Where did you come in?"

"Come in through the back door of the pastry shop." "Have you drank the milk on the street?" Xiaopo wanted to show his experience. "Of course, six glasses of milk and a dozen pastries!" "Your stomach doesn't hurt?" Xiaopo seemed very concerned about the Monkey King's health. "It will be fine after a while." "Okay, let's go on." "If you keep interrupting like this, how can I finish talking?" "Anyway, you will be fine for a day when you are king, just say whatever you want." "It's okay? It's okay?" Zhang Baldzi squinted and said, "You've never been a king, so of course you don't know. It's okay? You can't be idle all day long. See that monkey is stronger and mischievous, so let's recognize him quickly." Relatives, make friends, give gifts; wait for someone who is caught off guard, so that I can bite off one of his ears and knock him down! As for those monkeys who are easy to talk, I will slap a few times so that they will tremble when they see me! There are so many things Is it all right? You are too underestimated to be a king!" "Ouch!" Xiaopo didn't say anything else, feeling somewhat contemptuous of the Monkey King's personality. Seeing that Xiaopo didn't say anything, Zhang Baldy thought Xiaopo admired him, and said proudly: "When I arrived at Wolf Mountain, I stood on the top of the mountain and shouted: Citizens of the Monkey Kingdom Listener: The new king is here, come out and look, come out and look! It doesn't matter if you shout, drink! Everyone on the mountain shouted, Group after group, group after group, men, women, young and old, old ladies and girls, all are here! I am a little scared in my heart, if they really give me a swarm, it will be fine! I kept thinking: Baldy Zhang! Baldy Zhang Straighten your chest and do it! So I opened the letter and shouted loudly: This is a letter from the brother of your dead monkey king, asking me to be your king! Drink! They looked at the circle on the paper , all knelt down and kowtowed their heads." "How many knocks?" Xiaopo asked. "Countless! Countless! Tell them to kowtow, knock their heads out, won't they be able to fight with me? After they kowtow for a long time, I shouted again: "Bring the crown! There are some old monkeys with white beards, 嗻With a cry, he climbed to the coconut tree and took off the little red hat." Baldy Zhang pointed to the red helmet on his head. "It's very similar to the little red helmets worn by the Arabs in Singapore!" Xiaopo said. "The Arabs are all tired of being kings, so they go to Singapore to do business!" "Ouch!" Xiaopo admired Baldy Zhang for knowing so many things. "I put on the crown and shouted: Pull the horses!" "What is a war horse?" "Haven't you heard storytelling on Erma Road? When Zhang Fei fought against Kong Ming, he just shouted: Pull the horse!" "Kong Ming?" "When you go back to Singapore tomorrow, go to Second Avenue and listen to it, and you will understand. Stand and listen, and you don't need to spend money." "Ouch!" Xiaopo regretted a little: in school, he always looked down on Baldy Zhang and didn't get along with him much, so he knew he had such things in his heart! "As soon as I yelled, they brought it here." Bald Zhang pointed to the long-horned goat and said, "I came here wearing a white coat, so I didn't ask them for clothes. I just wore a crown and rode a war horse." , ran back and forth on the hillside three times. They were all so frightened that they kowtowed. I saw that they all had tails, but I didn’t. What should I do? I broke a palm leaf and put the two I tore it off, leaving only the leaf stalk, and tied it behind my back with a hemp rope. It looked hard and long. When they saw that I had such a good tail, they respected me even more. They even cut off the real tail in the past few days. It’s to put brown leaf stalks on to please me. Do you think it’s ridiculous? I’m having a meeting with them these two days to discuss how to fight the wolf king.” "Your meeting is also the same as the meeting of the principal and the teacher in the school?" "It's almost the same, but in our meeting, only I am allowed to speak, and no one else is allowed to speak!" Zhang Baldzi said, shaking his head very proudly. "You want to fight the wolf king, can you beat him?" "Actually, we come out during the day, and the wolves come out at night. No one can meet anyone, and they won't fight. But I have to fight with them; otherwise, the monkeys will look down on me! The king is If you have this difficulty, if you have to fight, people will not admire you!" "When you really want to start a war with the wolf king, I can help you!" Xiaopo said affectionately. "So, are you all right?" "Yo!" Xiaopo jumped up cleverly, and suddenly remembered Halabaji: "I have something to do! I almost forgot! Tell me, have you seen Halabaji?" "Yes, I'm sleeping in a cave." "You fool! Forget about finding the tiger!" "Why are you looking for a tiger?" Baldy Zhang asked, clutching his chest. "The tiger has carried Gougou away!" Baldy Zhang laughed gaggingly. "What are you laughing at?" Xiaopo looked at himself, but couldn't find anything ridiculous. "He went to find the tiger? He told the tiger to carry Gougou away!" "I don't believe it! He shed tears as soon as he lifted the hook! Besides, how do you know?" "You don't believe it? Because you don't know the temper of the people in Ying'er Kingdom. They have nothing to do all day, so they have to make trouble on purpose. He called The tiger carried Gougou back, so that he could go to the tiger again and refuse to agree. But there is one thing, the tiger might be happy and forget that it was just a joke, so he held on to Gougou and would not let go." "I really hope that the tiger will change his mind, so that he can help Helabaji fight him!" Xiaopo rubbed his hands and said. "Okay then, come with me to see him." Baldy Zhang mounted the goat and asked Xiao Po to ride behind him, like a bicycle for two people to ride.While walking, Zhang Baldzi suddenly asked: "Xiaopo, have you seen Xiaoying?" "What are you doing?" "I really want to take her as the king's younger sister. Oh, what should the king's younger sister be called? The king's daughter-in-law is called the queen, and the king's son is called the prince. Where is the younger sister?" Xiaopo couldn't remember either, so he just said, "Xiaoying hates you!" "Hate me? I became the Monkey King, how can she still hate me?" Xiaopo didn't say anything. After walking for a long time, I met many monkeys on the road, and they all respectfully stood by the roadside and raised their hands to them.Baldy Zhang didn't pay any attention, and raised his head, holding the goat's horn with one hand, and clutching his neck with the other.Xiaopo supported the sheep's back with one hand, and covered his mouth with the other while smiling.After passing a mountain ring, the trees became denser.Through the woods, there is an open field where several groups of monkeys are practicing; all of them have long tails around their waists as belts, with short bayonets hanging from them. After passing the empty field, there is another hillside with two rows of monkey soldiers guarding a cave door. There is a big paper flag on the entrance of the cave, with two big black characters written: "Baldy". "It's here!" Zhang Bald said.
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