<p class="ql-block">From the beginning of time, a rock had sat high on top of a mountain. The sun, the moon, Heaven, and Earth all worked their magic on the rock. One day the rock split open. Inside was a monkey.</p><p class="ql-block"> The monkey stood up and stretched. Suddenly powerful light shot from his eyes. For a moment the light reached the Cloud Palace in Heaven.</p><p class="ql-block"> The Jade Emperor, ruler of Heaven, sat up. He turned to one of his captains, who was standing nearby.</p><p class="ql-block"> "Find out what caused that light," said the emperor.</p><p class="ql-block"> "Yes, Your Majesty," said the captain.</p><p class="ql-block"> The captain rushed out of the hall. He looked out the southern gate of Heaven and saw the monkey on Earth below. The light was gone. But the captain had magical sight. He could see everything that had just happened.</p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/8TejuiaPMBzHRKpNGAicz1yOg4JyUgBfQB37iaCmJjghYFicia7eJR6l4NkCepIwnqEzkJL00tU1WMCfTEAmyfNBBVQ/640?wx_fmt=jpeg&tp=webp&wxfrom=5&wx_lazy=1&wx_co=1" alt="图片"></p><p class="ql-block"> “Interesting,” said the captain.</p><p class="ql-block"> "Well?" said the Jade Emperor when the captain returned. "What caused the light?"</p><p class="ql-block"> "It was a monkey," said the captain.</p><p class="ql-block"> "A monkey?" asked the Jade Emperor.</p><p class="ql-block"> "Yes," said the captain. He's on the Fruit and Flower Mountain, down on Earth. There had been a rock on the mountain. The monkey came from the rock. The light shone from the monkey's eyes."</p><p class="ql-block"> The emperor thought for a moment and then shrugged. I'm not surprised," he said. "Amazing things happen when Heaven and Earth work together."</p><p class="ql-block"> As time passed, Monkey learned to walk, run, and climb. He drank from streams and ate grasses and leaves. He gathered fruit and explored caves and mountaintops. He became friends with all the other monkeys and apes. At night he slept under a cliff.</p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/8TejuiaPMBzHRKpNGAicz1yOg4JyUgBfQBIRT6icdJPxIwMDrrLpW3SPyBjOxqPdhEcA535EAaVK8y0THaVhnJ60w/640?wx_fmt=jpeg&tp=webp&wxfrom=5&wx_lazy=1&wx_co=1" alt="图片"></p><p class="ql-block"> On every hot morning, all the monkeys and apes were playing in the shade.</p>