When Ajahn came into this world, he saw a place that resembled the Five Finger Mountain, and there happened to be a monkey trapped under the mountain.
This inevitably reminded her of the Journey to the West world, but she still needed to ask for more details.
"What's your name? Why are you lying here?"
"Three years after three years, three years after three years, the gold mountain grows no grass, and the monkeys never see the sky."
It didn't answer, but just mumbled some doggerel.
"How many years have you been imprisoned? Are you waiting for someone?"
Upon hearing this, the monkey laboriously raised its head.
It looked Bai Chongjiang up and down: "That's strange. There are monsters in this world that I've never seen before."
Ajahn Khan, how did I become a monster?
"I am not a monster."
"Not a monster, not a monk, hehe, just a passerby, a random person passing by."
"A monk? Are you waiting for a monk?"
"Three years after three years, three years after three years, when will the somersault cloud rise above the heavens?"
The monkey was muttering to itself again, and seemed to be in an unstable mental state.
This is unlike any of the versions of Sun Wukong that Ajahn Chah had ever imagined.
In her mind, Sun Wukong was a hero, and for a while she paid special attention to editing his scenes, saying that the Monkey King was the pinnacle of male protagonist character design.
But the monkey in front of me was thin and small, and its hair was all tangled.
According to the Journey to the West setting, Tang Sanzang will come here one day and break the seal. Sun Wukong will be grateful to him, and at the same time, he will go on his journey to retrieve the scriptures.
Ah Jiang looked up at the Five Finger Mountain. It wasn't very high, but it was quite steep.
If I break the seal, will Sun Wukong accept me and sign a contract with me?
But here's the problem: can I break the seal? And once the monkey is released, will it sign a contract with me as I imagine?
Ajahn had many worries in his heart.
Do you have anything to eat?
The monkey suddenly asked.
What would you like to eat?
"I'm not picky about food, whether it's melons, fruits, pears, peaches, humans, gods, demons, or anything else."
Ajahn took a few steps back. The Monkey King really must have eaten people, how terrifying.
"I'm just joking. Have you ever seen a monkey eat a person? We all eat fruit, and you're so thin and small. If I were to eat you, I'd be eating the Queen Mother's peaches, not you."
Me, Old Sun?
When A-Jiang heard this, he felt a sense of familiarity.
"Are you trapped by a seal? Let me try to remove it for you."
The monkey's eyes lit up, then dimmed again.
"It's no use. You're not a pilgrim, you can't do it. You'd better hurry up and find me, Old Sun, something to eat."
【really!】
A-Jiang perked up a bit: "I'll give it a try. If I succeed, you can be my friend and let me stamp your seal, okay?"
"Okay, okay, ten are fine, go ahead and do it."
A-Jiang stopped thinking about it. Even if the monkey didn't keep its promise, he could just go back to the cultivation world.
After thinking about all this, A-Jiang went hiking.
The seal shimmered with golden light and was easy to find; it was right on her middle finger, and she climbed up it with ease.
On a stone platform was a golden slip of paper with six characters written on it. The characters were not complicated, but when put together, they were hard to read, let alone understand.
Ajahn approached cautiously, bowed respectfully, and tore it off.
The gold paper shattered in the air and then turned into wisps of golden light that entered Ah Jiang's body. The scene was rather strange, but she did not feel anything unusual.
A moment later, the mountain shook a few times, and then several eerie cackling laughs came from below.
Another violent shaking came, sand and dust rose up and blocked out the sun, the boulder beneath him cracked open and his body fell down, as if A-Jiang was inside a giant sand and gravel mixer.
A large rock came crashing down straight at her. Ah Jiang quickly released a protective shield, and her body shone with golden light. Before the rock even got close, it had already turned into dust.
The protective shield kept the rocks and sand out. Inside the light, A-Jiang watched the Five Finger Mountain outside rumbling and constantly collapsing and crumbling, like an apocalyptic scene from a movie.
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