"Monkey, where are you from?"
"I come from Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, and I am the Monkey King there!"
After speaking, he stood up proudly, puffed out his chest, and then continued to squat down to drink porridge.
The young man believed him, as this was the first time he had seen such a clever monkey.
"Then why did you leave being the Monkey King to seek immortality?"
"Because there's a very annoying three-eyed one."
These two lonely males thus became mutually recognized friends after a night of chatting and sleeping side by side.
The next day, Zhang Chu bought a lot of food with his newly acquired silver and then continued to go out to chop wood. Shi Hou tagged along purely out of boredom. While Zhang Chu was working, Shi Hou was entirely playing around. However, Shi Hou's strength was formidable and by the end of the day had chopped six or seven times the wood Zhang Chu did. If it weren't because he couldn't carry any more, he could have chopped even more.
