A white Mercedes Benz drove by on the road very fast. The young driver looked at the people walking and riding bicycles around him with a sense of superiority.
Someone as young and successful as him, who owns a luxury car at such a young age, is already a winner in life. The car he rides is almost as expensive as a house.
It is naturally more prestigious to open it on the street.
But he also has his worries. His girlfriend is always throwing tantrums and he has to coax her even when he is busy. There is nothing he can do about it, since his girlfriend is so pretty.
When the young man thought of his girlfriend's beautiful face, his heart was filled with sweetness. Women, especially beautiful women, definitely have tempers. They are like beautiful flowers that need men to care for them all the time.
She needs a man to pamper her and lower himself to please her. Besides, not every man can please a beautiful woman. Some men who are not doing well in life don’t even have the chance to talk to a beautiful woman...
Thinking of this, he whistled and planned to take a detour to meet his girlfriend.
The place where he took a detour was just outside Yaleju. He drove very slowly when turning the corner, and outside his car window, he saw an incredible scene.
It was a scene that completely overturned his three views.
A seemingly ordinary man, who was not seen driving any luxury car and was sitting there in ordinary clothes, was surrounded by seven or eight beautiful girls who looked like fairies from heaven, and they all urged him to drink.
Among those seven or eight girls, even the most ordinary-looking one was prettier and more elegant than his proud girlfriend.
No, any of these girls are ten times prettier than his girlfriend. Each of them is as pretty as a superstar. But such beautiful women are surrounding the man who is sitting there eating roasted whole lamb.
Show your courtesy with a smile on your face.
The BMW man who was watching this scene had his eyes wide open, and the sense of superiority he had for driving a luxury car collapsed in an instant.
What's the point of him driving a luxury car?
When his girlfriend is in a bad mood, he rushes over to comfort her? He tries so hard to please her. How can he be happier than this ordinary man eating skewers on the street?
Tsk tsk, so jealous. The BMW man drove the car very far away and looked at Zhang Fan with great envy through the rearview mirror, while he had to go to the one in front of him.
She thinks she is pretty, but she has a bad temper and is rude and unreasonable. She refuses to coax her girlfriend like the other beauties did just now.
Life is so miserable!
At this moment, the BMW man felt that life was too boring. He was so envious of Zhang Fan in the crowd.
At this time, Zhang Fan was enjoying the comfortable breeze. There were various delicacies on the table. Hongzhu had picked out the meat from the roasted whole lambs with a knife, while Luzhu was pouring wine for him.
The other girls were singing ditties to liven up the atmosphere. Rong Lecheng, who was standing nearby, smiled along but did not dare to sit down. He just helped Xu Zijun bring up fresh grilled skewers from time to time.
The night wind blows gently, and the laughter and joy here spread far away.
At some point, a full moon appeared in the sky, making the street lights seem dim. Zhang Fan looked up at the moon in the sky with great interest.
I just felt that it was like a white jade plate, so big and round.
"The moon is so beautiful tonight..."
Zhang Fan casually complimented him and heard Rong Lecheng on the other side busy responding.
"It is said that today's moon is the fullest it has been in the past hundred years. Many people on the Internet are posting about the supermoon on their Moments. Mr. Zhang, do you think the shadow on the moon looks like a sweet-scented osmanthus tree?"
There are actually many osmanthus trees planted outside Yaleju. At this time of year, there are already tiny yellow flowers dotted around. As the night wind blows, the fragrance of osmanthus fills the air and drifts everywhere.
The osmanthus tree that Rong Lecheng mentioned reminded Zhang Fan that the last time he went to Guanghan Palace, he seemed to really smell the fragrance of osmanthus and saw the huge tree that blocked out the sun.
Just didn’t see the legendary Wu Gang?
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan smiled slightly, took the glass of iced drink handed to him by Hongzhu, and drank it all in one gulp!
"I'm so thirsty! When will this labor ever end..."
The osmanthus tree in front of Guanghan Palace was lush and more than 500 feet high. Wu Gang, who looked haggard and whose clothes were a little tattered, sighed and could not help looking towards the lower world.
There were fewer clouds in the heaven today, allowing him to see the mountains and rivers of the lower world.
It's a pity that back then, because he knew that the flowers of the laurel tree could cure the plague on earth, he secretly climbed the ladder to heaven from the mortal world and came to the Guanghan Palace to steal the osmanthus flowers.
Just because time was running out, he was anxious and shook the laurel tree hard, breaking many branches and causing all the flowers in the tree to fall to the ground.
How could he know that the small laurel tree back then was also a treasure of the fairyland and did not exist in the human world at all.
His own actions caused the osmanthus trees to drift to many corners of the human world, but he violated the rules of heaven and was punished by the Jade Emperor to cut down the laurel tree in the Moon Palace.
The Jade Emperor once issued an edict:
"When you cut off the sacred laurel, you will be free!"
What Wu Gang didn't expect was that this laurel tree, which originally looked small, actually grew bigger and bigger as he cut it down. After thousands of years, it had grown to a height of more than 500 feet.
Moreover, this magical osmanthus tree was not only tall, but also able to heal itself from axe wounds. Every time Wu Gang chopped the tree with the axe, the wound would heal immediately, so he had no choice but to keep chopping.
They had no rest day or night, but they could not cut down the laurel tree.
Another year has passed and the Mid-Autumn Festival is almost here, but I am still alone, cutting down the osmanthus tree in the Moon Palace, without any expectations for the future.
Thousands of years have passed, and it's still like this. It's expected that it will still be like this in another thousand years. Will we have to keep cutting down these osmanthus trees endlessly?
Wu Gang felt that the punishment from the Jade Emperor was too severe. He was just watching the suffering of the people on earth, so he used the laurel tree to save them and scattered the osmanthus trees in heaven to the human world.
The Jade Emperor punished himself by cutting down trees for thousands of years without stopping, but there was no hope at all. Could he cut down the sacred tree?
I am so miserable, and the Jade Emperor is so hypocritical.
It was just an osmanthus tree, but it punished itself like this. A tear as big as a bean fell from Wu Gang's eyes.
Men don't shed tears easily, but they do when they are sad.
Who can understand his pain and despair? Who can help him and free him from this endless labor?
For the first several thousand years, he still hoped that he could move the Jade Emperor and get him to forgive him, but as time went by, his heart grew colder by the minute. But apart from the Jade Emperor, who else could help him?
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