So Difficult

Flower Fruit Mountain, the schoolhouse.

"Confucius said: Is it not a joy to learn and practice from time to time? Is it not a delight to have friends come from afar? If others do not understand you and you do not take offense, are you not a gentleman?"

"This character is pronounced zi, and written like this. This one is pronounced yue..."

In the schoolhouse, a clothed middle-aged monkey stood at the front teaching them to read and write.

Inside the classroom, many little monsters were bored stiff. The monkeys were lively and restless, but there were also some monsters who knew how to study.

The most serious among them was especially a little bird-headed monster. He held his book with utter focus, and when he raised his head to look at the monkey, his gaze was ravenous.

That was a thirst for learning.

They wished they could learn every single character the monkey taught them.

He was also the monster in the schoolhouse who knew the most.

At the same time, in the class next door, there also appeared such a serious little ox-headed monster.

The two monkey teachers looked at these two hardworking, diligent students and nodded in relief.

From then on, in Flower Fruit Mountain's schoolhouse, there appeared two monsters whose admirable spirit of studying day and night was worthy of praise.

Three days later, a streak of golden light landed outside Water Curtain Cave, transformed with a shake into Sun Wukong in an ordinary gray robe, and walked into the cave dwelling.

Old Ape asked, "Great King, have you returned after borrowing that treasure?"

"Of course!" Monkey smiled. "Since I went, there was naturally no reason to return empty-handed. Someone come."

A monkey standing guard at the cave entrance said, "What are Your Majesty's orders?"

Monkey