"Did you hear about it? The commander-in-chief has been reading a story book recently, and he was fascinated by it."
"What, is it true or false? When did it happen?"
"Really, it's been a while."
"How did you know?"
"It was Yu Jin, the personal guard in front of the commander-in-chief's tent, who revealed it. You came too late and didn't see it. When many people came to the canteen this morning, they saw Yu Jin and the canteen chef also looking at the book.
, I stayed up all night without sleeping."
"What book is so beautiful?"
"It seems to be called 'Journey to the West'."
"Hmm? Then I'll take a look too..."
…
At the entrance of the cafeteria, there was a crowd of people in front of the literary list. Many people were heard in the crowd shouting: "Where is 'Journey to the West'? Why can't it be found on the list?"
"I found it. This book is not on the list, it's just hanging at the back of the list."
"Where is it? Where is it..."
The crowd immediately swarmed in, and then a large group of people frantically invested money in the text, took rice paper and printed out the entire text, thinking of finding a place where no one was around to read it slowly.
There were too few entertainments at the border, and the soldiers often had no place to spend their military pay, so reading became their only pleasure.
Not long after, the entrance to the cafeteria was filled with people, each with a stack of manuscripts in their hands. They were all reading with gusto, but as they looked, different voices began to appear.
"Hey, is the protagonist of this book this monkey? It's quite rare for a demon cultivator to be the protagonist."
"Yeah, how could anyone write about demon cultivators?"
"I think it's okay. The story is quite interesting, with ups and downs. It's a new type of story, about seeking immortality and immortality."
"I also think it's quite fresh, and although it's about a demon cultivator, I think it's about how this demon cultivator seeks death. I think he will definitely be suppressed by us humans in the future."
"That's right, let's continue to look at it later..."
As soldiers guarding the border, they have been dealing with demon cultivators all year round, so they almost have a natural sense of hostility and opposition towards demon cultivators.
Therefore, when everyone saw "Journey to the West", their first impression was that they didn't like the "Monkey King" very much, but at the same time they were attracted by the various magical settings and magical methods in the book, so they continued to follow it.
However, as the story developed later, everyone gradually became interested in it. Especially when the battle between Sun Wukong and the gods of heaven came, everyone was even more dazzled and cheered.
And gradually, the crowd began to divide into two camps.
On one side, I just don’t like demon cultivators. When I read the book, I wished that the heavenly soldiers and generals would kill the monkey monkey as soon as possible. On the other side, many soldiers began to feel that this demon monkey seemed to be not bad at all. He would fight against the heaven and the earth, fearless, and go straight.
Very happy.
There was a big quarrel between the two parties over this.
The Anti-Monkey Faction angrily rebuked: "This monkey is a demon cultivator and refuses to obey discipline. How can you like such a protagonist?"
The supporting group said: "This is just a story, don't take it so seriously. Moreover, this monkey has not done any evil things. Even if it has, it is all troubles that come to the door. If the Jade Emperor does not recruit him, he will not do anything bad."
If you live freely in Huaguo Mountain, you won't cause so many troubles."
The Inverted Monkey Sect said: "Then the Dragon Palace that Sun Monkey broke into first caused trouble in the underworld. If he doesn't do this, will heaven come to deal with him?"
The supporting group said: "That is also the fault of the Dragon Palace and the underworld. The Dragon King of the Dragon Palace took the initiative to tell Sun Wukong that if he could hold the golden hoop, he would give it to him. But he took it away, and he turned around and went to heaven.
If you file a complaint and say that Sun Houhou was robbed, isn't this a rogue act?
There is also the underworld, Monkey King has obviously jumped out of the Three Realms and is no longer in the Five Elements. The underworld is seducing souls, so of course Monkey King is not happy!"
"That's nonsense, it's obviously Sun Houhou's fault!"
"You are still making excuses, this is Heaven's fault!"
"Monkey Sun's fault!"
"Heaven's fault!"
…
The two sides quarreled endlessly, and in the end there was no winner and they had to break up. However, the fight did not stop there.
In a blink of an eye, at night, the sergeants changed their posts. Many of them came to their posts quietly with their manuscripts, and then while standing guard, they would secretly read when no one was around. And those soldiers who were laid off after hearing about it
After the incident during the day, they quickly began to look for books based on their titles. When they went to look at the rankings, oh, in just one day, 'Journey to the West' had already entered the literary rankings.
.
Although it is still in the same condition as the crane, its popularity is increasing rapidly, which makes these soldiers even more curious about this storybook.
At the same time, on the city wall at the border gate, the soldiers standing guard on the high posts saw the patrol passing by, and immediately took out a stack of manuscripts and started reading.
"This Monkey King has finally been caught by Heaven. I wonder how Heaven will deal with him later?"
With this curiosity, the soldier read on happily, but before he took a second look, someone suddenly came over to deliver a supper. The soldier temporarily placed the manuscript on the city wall, then took the supper, and opened the supper box.
He was about to read a story while eating, but who knew that a strong wind blew by at this time, and the manuscript he had placed on the tower was suddenly blown away, fell outside the gate, and soon disappeared with the wind.
"Hell, I haven't finished reading my manuscript yet..."
The soldier immediately let out a cry of pain.
It's not that he feels sorry for these manuscripts of his, but that he is miserable after losing these manuscripts. How can he survive the night?
As for the manuscripts that fell outside Bianguan, they were scattered far away by the wind, and then fell near the woods nearly one thousand meters away.
In the woods, several pairs of eyes saw the manuscripts, and then several figures rushed out. After just a few flashes, all the manuscripts that fell on the ground disappeared, and then there was a sound coming from the woods.
There were bursts of sounds.
"Hey, what is this? It's so densely written. I just thought it was a border defense map?"
"I know, this is a storybook written by human civilization."
"Storybook? Forget it, I'm not interested."
"Give me, give me, I like reading these story books..."
Immediately afterwards, those twinkling eyes in the woods disappeared.
…
"Yu Jin, Yu Jin..."
In the tent at night, Commander Xiong Yan had just finished handling the military affairs and was about to ask the guards in front of the tent to see if there was any new military information to deal with. But when he looked up, he saw that his own guard was standing right next to him.
Take a nap.
Xiong Yan couldn't help but feel happy, and then deliberately shouted loudly, "Yu Jin..."
"arrive!"
Yu Jin shuddered, trembled, woke up immediately, and responded subconsciously.
Xiong Yan then smiled and said: "You kid has been listless during the day, and now you are so sleepy that you have taken a nap in the account. Tell me honestly, what have you been doing these two days?"
Although Xiong Yan looks majestic on the surface, he is still very approachable to his own people in private.
When Yu Jin heard this, he immediately scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "I'm sorry, Commander-in-Chief, I haven't been busy these past two days. I was just reading a book last night and accidentally read too much and stayed up all night, so..."
"Ah……"
Upon hearing this, Xiong Yan became even happier, "You stayed up all night reading? What kind of book is so beautiful that it can make you so fascinated that you can't even sleep."
Seeing that the commander-in-chief didn't seem angry, Yu Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with a smile: "Actually, it's not another book, it's the 'Journey to the West' that I saw that the commander-in-chief had been reading before.
I was curious about how good this book was and how it caught the attention of the commander-in-chief, so my subordinates took a look at it out of curiosity, but after seeing it... they couldn't take it anymore!"
"Hahaha...it turns out you are reading this book."
Seeing that someone had the same vision as his own, Xiong Yan became interested and followed him and asked: "Then tell me, what do you think of this story?"
Yu Jin heard the strong interest in the commander's words. He suddenly felt happy and said to himself: I really didn't read this book in vain. Now I am a 'book friend' with the commander?!