Western Journey

# Introduction to the novel "The Story of the West" In the third year of Yongle, Zheng He led a fleet of treasure ships to the Western Ocean. The world thought that the emperor was in charge, but they didn't know that what this fleet was really looking for was the legendary snake god "Naga" who can regenerate severed limbs. Wu Liuzi, a handyman in the bottom cabin, accidentally witnessed Zheng He caressing an armless wooden sculpture late at night, and was involved in this taboo pursuit across thousands of miles of sea. They encountered a mirage on the Dead Sea and saw another complete version of themselves; they hunted giant snakes and cut out snake beads that could grow flesh and tendons; some swallowed beads and turned into monsters, and some grafted snake blood on severed roots in an attempt to regain their male bodies. The Buddha's tooth was taken away from Mount Ceylon, the casket was raised in the burial of Kochi State, and the curse of the corpse-headed barbarian spread in the cabin. When Zheng He vomited blood and fell down in Guli, the imperial decree to suspend sailing arrived at the same time - never send envoys to the west. He will be buried forever on a foreign shore, with the wooden sculpture that finally sprouted hands. Six hundred years later, a couple stepped into the Tianfei Palace in Taicang. The woman's face under the brim of her hat was as pale as before, and in her arms was a wooden sculpture stolen from Zheng He's cabin. And that man named Wu Liuzi had just spread Taicang's tide mud on the tomb of Niushou Mountain. "Duke, this Ming Dynasty soil will take you home." ——Some people walked for six hundred years before finally returning to their homeland.