Since the beginning of the world, this peach tree has blossomed every 10,000 years and borne fruit every 10,000 years. It blooms like a golden tassel hanging on a red canopy. Its fruit-needless to say, is also very big. However, what is even more incredible is that in every fruit it bears, there are beautiful babies in the place where it should be pitted.
A long time ago, that tree was quietly bathed in sunshine, and its branches were covered with countless fruits, which could cover the whole valley. The fruit that bears every 10,000 years will not fall to the ground even if it is hung on a tree for 1000 years. But on a silent morning, an eight-foot crow that changed his fate landed on a branch and pecked a fruit that had turned red. However, when it rushed into the sky with fruit in its mouth, the fruit in its mouth fell into the mountain stream that passed through the mountain and was filled with water mist. That mountain stream leads all the way to the human world. ...
Who will pick this baby-bearing fruit after it leaves the depths of the mountain? As a result, everyone may know that this is not the case. At the end of the mountain, an old woman is washing clothes for her grandfather who is chopping wood on the mountain.
Momotaro, who jumped out of the peach, made up his mind to conquer the ghost island. As for why he has this idea, it is because he doesn't want to be busy in the mountains and rivers like his grandfather or grandmother. Hearing this, the old couple thought he was a little naughty boy, but at Momotaro's request, they quickly prepared something for him to fight, such as flags, broadswords and capes. Even the soldiers' food on the way to war was cooked zongzi, as Momotaro wished.
In this way, Momotaro embarked on a journey to conquer the ghost island. On the way, a wild dog greeted Momotaro with hungry eyes.
"Momotaro, Momotaro, what's that bulging under your waist?"
"It is the number one rice ball in Japan."
Momotaro replied proudly. Although he himself is a little skeptical about whether Japan is the first. But as soon as the dog heard this, he ran to him at once.
"Then give me one, and I will be your companion."
Momotaro made a quick calculation in his mind.
"I can't give you one, I can only give you half."
The dog persisted for a while. "I want one." But Momotaro won't give in anyway. I'll only give you half. In this way, like all businesses, there is always no obedience to the master's will. The dog finally sighed and became Momotaro's attendant at the expense of half a rice ball.
Later, in addition to dogs, Momotaro used half a rice ball as a temptation to turn monkeys and pheasants into his followers. They look down on each other when they are angry. The dog with hard teeth treats the monkey with no ambition as a fool, and the monkey who counts jiaozi just thinks that the prude pheasant is a fool, but even the pheasant who is proficient in seismology thinks that the dull dog is a fool-these noisy guys have never done anything since they became Momotaro's entourage.
Moreover, monkeys sometimes groan and sing: "You only have half of jiaozi, how can you beat a ghost?" . On hearing it sing, the dog will growl and pounce on it, almost killing it. If the pheasant hadn't stopped him, the monkey might have died before he could resist. Although the pheasant comforted the dog and taught the monkey to obey the master-servant relationship and listen to Momotaro's orders, the monkey just escaped the dog's attack and was climbing a tree on the side of the road in shock, not listening to what the pheasant said. What really convinced the monkey was Momotaro's tactics. Momotaro looked up and stared at the monkey, while fanning the sun in his hand, and coldly said:
"Well, then you don't want to be my entourage. In this way, after conquering the ghost island, you won't want to have a treasure. "
The greedy monkey opened his eyes wide.
"Treasure? Really, there are treasures in Ghost Island? "
"It's not that there is any treasure, but that there is a mallet. You can hit whatever you want."
"As long as a few pen can get everything you want? Yes, yes. Please take me with you! "
So Momotaro and his party set foot on the road to conquer the ghost island.
Ghost Island is an island surrounded by the sea. But it's not like people think, there are stones everywhere. In fact, there are coconut groves and birds of paradise here, which is a beautiful paradise of nature. Ghosts living in this promised land are of course peace-loving ghosts. In fact, ghosts are a race that we enjoy more than humans. Ghosts on the island danced all night to discuss how to reverse the tumor.
Ghosts play the piano, sing and recite ancient poems in a tropical scenery, and live a very calm and stable life. Ghost's wife and daughter spin cloth to make wine, gather orchids and tie them into a bunch, just like our wife and daughter. Especially those ghost grandmothers with gray hair, toothless teeth and pouting lips always guard their grandchildren and tell them the horror stories of our human beings.
"If you are naughty again, I will send you to the island where humans live. Ghosts who reach the island of man, just like drunken teenagers (note 1), will be killed. Hmm? You ask what is human? Human beings are things that have no horns on their heads, white faces, white hands and feet, and in short, they feel very bad. What is even more unbearable is that those human women have to put white powder on their already white faces and hands. But that's enough. They are all passive Nuo Nuo people, greed, jealousy, narcissism, killing each other between partners, setting fires and stealing things are all inhuman things ... "
The arrival of Momotaro has brought unprecedented panic to this world without evil spirits. The ghost forgot to take the iron bar and shouted, "There is a human coming!" " "Running around in the slender coconut grove.
"Forward! Forward! As long as you see ghosts, kill them one by one! " Momotaro held a banner with peach in one hand and patted a fan with sun in the other, calling for dogs, monkeys and pheasants. These three dogs, monkeys and pheasants may not be followers of Qi Xin and Qi Xin, but even brave soldiers can't compare with hungry animals. They are like a gust of wind, chasing ghosts fleeing everywhere. The dog immediately bit a little ghost's throat. And the pheasant's beak killed many ghost children. As for the monkey-it is most similar to us humans, so it is inevitable to humiliate the woman who strangles the ghost first.
After rehearsing all the crimes, the ghost head and several ghosts who managed to survive finally came to Momotaro to surrender. Momotaro is really on cloud nine. At this time, the ghost island is no longer a paradise where there were birds in heaven yesterday, and the ghost body is lying in the coconut grove. Tao Taidulang still held the banner in one hand, with three followers, and said majestically to the ghost chief who was crawling on the ground like a flat spider.
"Then I will pity you and let you live. However, you must present all the treasures on the ghost island. "
"Do it, do it."
"Your child will be taken hostage for us to take away."
"I understand."
Guikui kowtowed again and asked Taolang nervously, "We must have been rude to you, which led to your crusade. But I really don't know what the ghosts of Ghost Island have offended you. Can you please tell us what we did wrong so that we can pay attention to it in the future? "
Momotaro nodded haughtily.
"Momotaro, the number one Japanese figure, summoned three loyal ministers and came to conquer the ghost island."
"Then why do you call three loyal ministers?"
"Because I made up my mind to conquer the ghost island, I called them with rice balls. -Why? I still don't understand, then I will kill you, too. "
Ghost chief was startled, even three feet back, hurriedly bowed, afraid to ask again.
So Momotaro, the first Japanese, led the dog, monkey and pheasant, and let the hostage children pull the car full of treasures and return home in triumph. -This is a well-known result. But Momotaro may not live a happy life in the future. When the children grew up, they killed the pheasant and fled back to the ghost island. Moreover, the ghosts who survived on the ghost island also crossed the sea from time to time, set fire to Momotaro's house, let Momotaro sleep, and killed monkeys. Momotaro witnessed many misfortunes and could not help sighing.
"These ghosts are so stubborn, they don't appreciate you sparing their lives, a bunch of ungrateful guys."
Dogs always mutter regretfully when they see Momotaro's gloomy face.
In the meantime, on the rocks bathed in tropical soft moonlight, five or six little ghosts are planning to transform coconuts into shells for the independence of Ghost Island. The gentle ghost girl also temporarily forgot her love and stayed quietly, but her eyes, which revealed joy like a teacup, were shining. ...
In the depths of the unknown mountains, the peach trees that broke through the sky still bear numerous fruits as before. Of course, there was once a peach that gave birth to Momotaro and fell into the river in the mountains and rivers. Among these fruits, there are many future geniuses sleeping quietly. I don't know when the eight-foot crow will land on the branches and trees again. Those unknown geniuses are waiting quietly. ...
Note 1 drunken boy: The legendary ghost head often goes to the market to rob women and treasure. Later, Yuan Laiguang led the four heavenly kings to retreat.