Chapter 21 2. Finding roots

Along the way, Zhu Neng kept repeating this sentence: Sun Kong is back, Sun Kong is back... The corridor was a bit dark, and his footsteps were loud in the empty corridor.Everything around became gloomy.Zhu Neng could feel a foul smell overflowing from the crack of the door and flowing down the stairs. Opening the door, he saw Yuan Shoucheng sitting upright on his bed with a blank expression. Zhu Neng didn't know how he got in. He was still wearing that Taoist robe, and there was some mud on it, as if he had fallen somewhere.Next to it is a summoning flag with some strange characters written on it, and white paper money hanging on it.

Dazed for a moment, Zhu Neng poured a cup of tea and served it to him. Yuan Shoucheng seemed to sense that something was wrong with Zhu Neng's expression, so he asked, "What happened again?" Zhu Neng said hesitantly, "It's a more terrifying thing..." "you say." "I saw Sun Kong." Zhu Neng whispered. Yuan Shoucheng looked at him blankly. Zhu Neng looked at him helplessly and said, "I think I may not be able to get rid of him in the future." Yuan Shoucheng narrowed his eyes, looked at Zhu Neng for a while, and suddenly said: "Tell me honestly, did you know them before? Do you have any festivals?"

Zhu Neng shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I don't know, I really don't know." "Have you noticed..." Yuan Shoucheng hesitated to speak. Zhu Neng was taken aback: "What?" "Have you noticed...is there anything special about your name?" Zhu Neng shook his head. "Zhu Neng, Sun Kong, think about it carefully." Zhu Neng's hair stood on end. Yuan Shoucheng saw the change in him, and said, "I think you are also from this place." "Impossible. This is my first time here. I have never even heard of Xitian Film and Television Resort before."

Yuan Shoucheng nodded, picked up his teacup, and drank tea. After a pause, he said again, "Has your father been here?" After thinking for a while, Zhu Neng said, "He seems to have never traveled far in his life." "Where's your grandpa?" Zhu Neng stopped talking. Yuan Shoucheng noticed something, and asked: "Your grandfather has been here?" "My grandfather was sent to a labor camp..." The light in Yuan Shoucheng's eyes lit up immediately: "Is it here?" "I don't know, he didn't say." "Your parents don't know either?"

"They didn't say either." "You never asked your grandfather?" "He's not mentally normal." Zhu Neng lowered his head. Yuan Shoucheng lowered his head and continued drinking tea. Zhu Neng had a premonition of something, and asked anxiously: "You mean... these things are related to my grandfather?" Yuan Shoucheng's face became a little ugly, he seemed to be talking to himself, and he seemed to be saying to Zhu Neng: "This place used to be a labor reform farm." Zhu Neng was a little overwhelmed. Yuan Shoucheng stood up and said, "I'm leaving first, you should think about it."

Zhu Neng grabbed him: "Master Yuan, you can't leave! You have to help me..." Yuan Shoucheng seemed to be worried about getting bad luck. He put down his teacup and said unnaturally: "Pay back debts, pay for murder, and if your grandfather has any trouble with them, no one can help you." After finishing speaking, he went straight out . Zhu Neng stood there blankly, feeling even lonelier and more panicked. After thinking for a long time, he called Yuan Shoucheng: "Hey, Master Yuan, it's me, Zhu Neng." Yuan Shoucheng didn't seem to want to talk to him anymore, and asked coldly, "What's the matter?"

"I want to ask, what enmity does my grandfather have with them?" "You should know better than me." "I don't know, I really don't know..." Yuan Shoucheng hung up the phone. All afternoon, Zhu Neng was thinking about this matter.He became more and more sure that grandpa must have been here before, and had made enemies with someone.Now, their descendants are looking for their own revenge. He finally knew why he was called Zhu Neng, the name was full of deep meaning. He just didn't know what hatred made them so deliberately take revenge on him.

When it was getting dark, Hou Bing called and said that the monkey had been selected, and asked Zhu Neng to go and have a look. Zhu Neng went out and hurried towards Huaguo Mountain. Hou Bing and the others have locked more than a dozen monkeys in a big cage.A few people stood by and pointed, talking and laughing.Yuan Hui was also there, holding a little monkey in her arms. Zhu Neng glanced at the Water Curtain Cave, where the monkey in the red raincoat was standing there, watching all this coldly. He turned his head quickly. Hou Bing came over and asked, "Mr. Zhu, can you see these monkeys?"

"Give me some fruit." Someone next to him immediately handed over a plate of fruit. Zhu Neng threw the fruits into the cage one by one and observed them for a while. He pointed to some of the monkeys and said, "Pick out these monkeys, they can't do it." Hou Bing asked puzzledly, "Why?" Zhu Neng said: "Not every monkey can be trained to perform on stage. There are also special considerations in the selection of monkeys for training. Generally, you have to choose strong and greedy monkeys, and you have to pay attention to their behavior to judge the performance. The level of intelligence of the monkeys. Only monkeys that are strong, gluttonous and intelligent can be trained."

Hou Bing took out a small notebook and wrote down his words. "You pick out those monkeys." Several people immediately started to work. Zhu Neng pulled Yuan Hui aside and asked in a low voice, "Are you and Lao Yuan from the same village?" Yuan Hui obviously didn't expect Zhu Neng to ask this question, she was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "It's from the same village, his family is not far from mine, and we are still relatives who beat around the bush." "Who else is in his family?" Yuan Hui said, "His father is at home."

After hesitating for a while, Zhu Neng said, "Take me to his house." Yuan Hui looked surprised. It was dark and there were few cars on the road.Zhu Neng rode Yuan Hui's electric car, and she sat behind to guide the way.After walking for a while, the asphalt road narrowed and was uneven, with scattered cow and sheep dung.Looking to both sides, there are strange-looking trees, lifeless. "Is it coming soon?" Zhu Neng asked. "There are still three miles to go." "Ask you something." "You tell me." Zhu Neng cleared his throat and said, "The names of the people here are similar to the names of the people here. Is it changed now or is there a custom in the past?" Yuan Hui smiled and said: "Some people have changed it now, but there were also people whose names were the same as those in the movie before." "Why is there such a strange custom?" Yuan Hui laughed again: "Actually, this is not a custom. In the past, almost no one here was literate, and we had to ask others to name our children. It just so happened that that person liked to watch..." Zhu Neng remembered that there were several versions in his grandfather's house.After a long silence, he asked, "Who is that person?" "I don't know either. According to the old man in the village, he seems to be a prisoner of labor reform." Zhu Neng took a deep breath. Yuan Hui asked: "Mr. Zhu, what's wrong with you?" "It's nothing, I'm just curious. By the way, how do you let a labor prisoner name the child?" "I heard from the old people in the village that the reform-through-labour prisoners at that time were different from the current ones. They could go in and out of the farms, and people in the village often saw them. They were very gentle, and they were not bad people at first sight." Zhu Neng was silent - his grandfather was very gentle in appearance. He vaguely heard a dog barking ahead. "It's our village." Zhu Neng looked, but there was no light in front of him. "People in your village go to bed early," he said. Yuan Hui murmured, "What happened today? Could it be a power outage?" Zhu Neng trembled.He suddenly had a premonition—something was going to happen tonight. After walking forward for a while, Yuan Hui said, "Mr. Zhu, why don't you go to my house first? I'll take you to old Yuan's house after dinner." After thinking for a while, Zhu Neng said, "No need, just tell me where his home is, and I'll go by myself." This matter is related to his grandfather's reputation, and he doesn't want others to know. "Go straight along this road, and the east end is the old Yuan's house." "Thank you, you go back." Yuan Hui glanced at him, got on the electric bike, turned the corner and left. Zhu Neng looked up to the sky, the dark sky was pressing on top of his head, it was too close, and he felt a great sense of oppression.It was pitch black, with no expression, no answers. He kept walking east. He is going to find the answer. This move is risky and could even be fatal. He walked through a tall gatehouse, the gate was closed tightly, and there was no sound inside, and he didn't know if there was anyone there.There are two tall trees in front of the door, with dead branches showing teeth and claws. I walked through another dilapidated courtyard without a door, and the inside was dark and eerie. His pace slowed down a little. A few big black birds flew up, and they kept calling in the dark sky: "Gumi—Gumi—" as if they were pointing him to something. He came to the easternmost end of the road. Old Yuan's house has arrived. Earth walls, wooden doors, and gatehouses that are neither high nor low, nothing unusual can be seen. Zhu Neng stepped forward boldly and knocked on the door. No one answered. He felt that the wooden door was not latched, and when he pushed it lightly, the wooden door made a harsh sound: "Squeak—ah——"