[Journey to the West] Wukong purchasing

"Master, senior brother, if you have anything to do, let's talk about it after dinner." Even after leaving the scripture-seeking team, Ao Lie still respected Tang Xuanzang as his master.He has always had clear grievances and grievances, and he knows who helped him out of the sea of ​​suffering. This time he came out of the West Sea Dragon Palace, one is to escape the blind date, and the other is to escort Tang Xuanzang back to the Tang Dynasty safely.

He didn't want to go to the West to get some scriptures, but it would be nice to go to the legendary Chang'an City.Sha Wujing and Zhu Bajie, the two heartless ones, disappeared after they returned to the Heavenly Court. If they were ignored, how many monsters would be entangled by Master and Senior Brother along the way.

However, His Royal Highness the third prince is just talking. There are waiters in the city lord's mansion, holding various meals, sweet wine, meat cakes, meat soup and so on. , drank two large bowls of meat soup, three palm-sized meatloaf in one breath, and ate a small plate of barbecue. After eating and drinking enough, I took a hot bath with great pleasure. After washing it, wearing a tight band, I always feel that the place that is blocked cannot be washed cleanly, and my hair is going to be bald. It is estimated that when Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva bestowed this tight band spell, he wanted Monkey King to shave his head and become a monk. , but I didn’t expect the real Monkey King to be a hairy monkey. How would you let him shave his head without laser hair removal?Doesn't it grow out quickly after being shaved?

I thought I would have to wait in this city for a few more days, but I didn't expect that the next morning, the craftsman who was in charge of polishing the cold jade bed for Wu Kong would bring the bed over.

A whole bed made of cold jade, the joints are decorated with gold, the petals made of gold and silver are dotted with the stamens made of fine gemstones, and the words "rich and willful" are written all over the body.

The city lord came after hearing the news, and couldn't help being a little greedy when he saw such a big cold jade bed.

In fact, it is not unusual for them to have cold jade here, it is this creativity that is so unusual.Because Hu merchants love to buy cold jade to resell or make jewelry pendants, no one has ever thought of using cold jade to make a bed. For this kind of thing, powerful Hu merchants are reluctant to spoil cold jade like this. Young people without strength, even With this brain hole and no financial strength, there is only Wu Hong. Although he is young, it is no exaggeration to say that he is rich. He has this strength to pay for his brain hole.

As the so-called wealth is not revealed, he has no plan to sell this cold jade bed. When he returns to Chang'an in the future, he will buy a big house in the center of Chang'an CBD, and then put this cold jade bed in the master bedroom. It must be the only one in Chang'an!

It is impossible to sell it. Vanity like Boss Wu, the first time he saw the cold jade bed, he fell in love with this coquettish and unpretentious little fairy at first sight.

What's more, this is the same style as Xiaolongnv!Who doesn't like Little Dragon Girl who has read martial arts novels?That is the white moonlight in the hearts of teenagers!

Elder Tang has also watched The Legend of Condor Heroes, but it is a TV series version. Seeing this cold jade bed now, what else do you not understand?He was speechless for a moment, he always thought that Wu Hong was a rational and mature adult, but he didn't expect to have a habit of collecting the same style as his idol.

Putting away the cold jade bed, Tang Xuanzang took Wu Kong and others to bid farewell to the city lord. The city lord also knew that they were going to the capital of Kucha, so he naturally prepared a generous gift. After all, this person can directly talk to the lord The eminent monk of the Tang Dynasty who was talking to him, when the time comes, he will help to say a few words in front of the king. Isn't it just around the corner to get promoted and make a fortune?

The next road is much more comfortable than before. At this time, although the national strength of the Kucha Kingdom is not as strong as that of the Tang Dynasty, the conditions are relatively good among the countries in the Western Regions. There are official roads between the oases, official roads Drought-tolerant trees such as Populus euphratica are also planted on both sides of the tree. Other plants have not yet sprouted in this season, only large patches of Pyracantha, with fiery red fruits hanging from the dry branches.

Boss Wu has the temperament to wait for wild geese to pluck their hair, so naturally he will not let go of this beautiful and edible firethorn.However, this thing has a lot of thorns, so it is very troublesome to pick it up, especially if Wu Hong wants to cut off the dry branches together, so that they can be sold as decorative flowers at that time, which is a bit troublesome.

"The left and right are not in a hurry to go back to Chang'an, so let's find a nearby village to stay overnight, Wukong, you might as well give some money or some rare items here, and ask the people here to help pick them. You don't have to work hard, and they get extra money, isn't it? Isn’t it killing two birds with one stone?” Tang Xuanzang was very happy to help Wu Kong make money, but he couldn’t help it. It is said that being a celebrity is very expensive, and you have to buy all kinds of outfits, spend money on trending lists, and various entertainments in the circle, just Wukong That spendthrift personality doesn't know if the money he earns is enough to spend, but it doesn't matter if it's not enough, isn't there him (and Wu Kong)?

Boss Wu: "..." Don't cue me for things like spending money, labor and capital belong to Paixiu.

Just as he was talking, he saw a few old men collecting firewood together from a distance, so Wu Kong stepped forward and asked if there was a nearby village where he could stay.When the old men heard that they were eminent monks who had come to the Western Regions to learn Buddhist scriptures from the Tang Dynasty, they were immediately in awe. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was really well-known far and wide. Wu Kong and the others, the "foreign guests", naturally gained the enthusiasm of the villagers. entertain.

There are only a dozen or so families in this village. There is a small date palm forest and dozens of tall Populus euphratica growing inside and outside the village. There is not a single well in the village. After asking, I found out that there is no water source here. To drink water, one has to walk half an hour to the nearest mountain depression, where there is a small spring, tick-tock, and the clear water that flows out overnight is just enough for the people in the village to drink.

It is impossible to take a bath. According to the villagers, they can only get the privilege of "washing up" at the three important life nodes of birth, marriage and death. Or, leave their hometown and leave this place. It is said that the nobles in big cities , can take a bath every day.

It is said that the nobles even added salt to the bath water!

Wu Kong: "..." The village is so poor that they can't even afford salt. The villagers dug some kind of plant roots from the desert. It is said that the roots taste salty when mashed, so they should contain a certain amount of salt. , used as a salt.

Wu Kong didn't know if the nobles would add salt to their baths, but he only knew that he wanted to add some salt to his vegetarian meals.

In order to entertain the distinguished guests from afar, the villagers took out the best ingredients in their own homes, but they were just rough wheat noodles and a piece of jerky that had been hidden for an unknown amount of time. Dried meat is sprinkled with a little precious salt. In the eyes of the villagers, this is already a delicacy that can only be enjoyed during the Chinese New Year.

The water source is precious, and the villagers here do not have the habit of drinking soup when they eat, and what is served with the staple food is still the simplest clear water.

Even so, from Tang Xuanzang to the third prince, no one disliked this crude vegetarian food, and carefully ate the vegetarian food in their own bowls. Seeing that the distinguished guests were "full", the villagers were uneasy. A smile finally appeared on their faces, and they each picked up their rice bowls and began to eat.

In their bowls, there is only some kind of plant roots they don't know. It looks like taro when cooked, and there is no trace of oil.

Wu Hao looked uncomfortable, thought for a while, and searched in the warehouse. When he went out to carry goods, he often went to some planets that were not connected to the Star Alliance, so he would often bring more convenience food and replenish his energy. High-calorie snacks. Looking at the yellow and thin faces of these villagers, they must not be full at ordinary times, and the food they eat is not nutritious. Thinking of this, he took out a large bag of small onion shortbread biscuits and cream sandwich cookies from the warehouse. Biscuits, and a bag full of 1000g packs of concentrated milk tablets.

"Old man, we master and apprentice have eaten your vegetarian meal, and you should also try our Chang'an food? This small pancake can be eaten directly after being opened, and this milk tablet can be chewed and eaten, or it can be soaked in a bowl. Half a bowl of water can produce more than half a bowl of milk. I see that there are two children in your family. If you give them a piece of milk every day, they can look like me, no, like this handsome little brother , majestic and mighty."

Wu Hao pointed to His Highness the Third Prince who was sitting next to him.

The villagers are simple and honest, if what Wu Kong brought out was gold and silver, they might not accept it. However, exchanging delicacies from their hometown, in their opinion, the eminent monks from the Tang Dynasty treated them as their own.Immediately, I happily took these "snacks from Datang."

Worried that they would not open the package, Wu Cong deliberately unpacked a pack of scallion and shortbread biscuits for the adults and children of the family. There are more than 30 individually packaged biscuits in a pack, just enough An adult replenishes energy during a trip and eats while walking without delaying the trip. The amount of biscuits is only seven or eight small biscuits for each person in the hands of the family.

The moment the package was unpacked, the unique aroma of scallions and ghee wafted out, and one was put into the mouth, and it melted in the mouth, with a strong taste of scallions and oil. For villagers who lack salt and oil It's simply delicious!

Wu Kong took apart the milk tablets for the two little ones, saying they were milk tablets, but in fact, in order to increase nutrition and calories in this small milk tablet as much as possible, he also added a lot of sugar and multivitamins. I don’t want to eat this unless I have to. However, from birth to now, perhaps I have never eaten anything sweet except for the Pyracantha fruit. The two little dolls are reluctant to lick the milk tablets in their mouths. Lick it, just want it to stay in your mouth for a while, so that you can feel the rich sweetness and milky aroma.

Food is the only tool in the world that can quickly warm up the relationship between people and people without words or words.

After exchanging food with each other, everything that followed was logical.

Boss Wu needs someone to cut some fruit-bearing pyracantha branches for him as flowers, and the reward is very generous: 10 pyracantha branches, with good quality, can be exchanged for a pound of shallot butter biscuits, or half a catty of milk flakes; The next best, the price is halved.If he can save 100 firethorn branches of good quality, he can pay a silver coin; 1000 is a gold coin.

The villagers have lived in the desert for half their life, and this is the first time they heard that the worthless firethorn branches outside can be exchanged for gold and silver. The melted biscuits are also good. If you can't finish them by yourself, you can take them to a nearby city and exchange them for grain or salt. In short, it's not a loss!

The villagers were used to collecting firewood in the desert, so they made an appointment immediately, and set off the next day with a machete and ropes for binding firethorn branches.