Hi I would transmit ESP8266-01 serialprintln messages to…

Hi, I would transmit ESP8266-01 serial.println messages to Arduino in order to output them on serial monitor and/or execute code depending on the message arrivated to Arduino. I tried with

#include //Including the AltSoftSerial library
SoftwareSerial esp (8,9);

void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
esp.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
Serial.println(esp.read());
}

and

#include //Including the AltSoftSerial library
AltSoftSerial esp;

void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
esp.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
Serial.println(esp.read());
}

without success… Any suggestions?