[Journey to the West] Wukong purchasing

Ao Qing was the first to discover the abnormality.

There is no way, she is a snake, and she is most afraid of fire. As soon as she smells the burning charcoal, she gets up with a groan.Then, Ao Lie and Wu Kong both smelled the pungent smell of burning charcoal.

His Highness the third prince seemed to get up very angry, sat on the bed for a while, seemed to be disconnected in his mind for a while, and then suddenly connected again, smelling the choking smoke of burning firewood at the tip of his nose, and instantly flew into a rage: Oh, that one Those who don't have eyesight dare to set fire to labor and capital?Don't you know that there is a word in your world called "water and fire are incompatible"?

How dare you set fire under the eyes of the Dragon Prince, I don't think you want to ask for rain anymore.

After setting fire to the third prince of the Dragon King, Wu Hao didn't know whether to celebrate their lives or light a row of wax on the unlucky King of Kucha first.

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"Eldest brother, you take master out first, leave this to me." With a cold face, Ao Lie pulled out the sword from his waist with a swish.

"Wait! Your Highness, don't want to hurt anyone's life!" Tang Xuanzang urged hastily.

Wu Hao gave him a strange look. Last night, this guy was planning to fight an economic war to make the King of Kucha go bankrupt and jump the city wall. Why is he suddenly merciful now?

"When the lord dies, the capital of the country must be closed for seven days. It's too late to buy." Tang Xuanzang grabbed the third prince and solemnly said, "No matter what, you must not hurt people's lives!"

It doesn't matter which member of the royal family hangs up, but the king must not hang up, otherwise it will be a national funeral, and all the markets will be closed at that time, wouldn't it be a mistake for Boss Wu to buy?

Wu Kong: "..."

"I'll put out the fire, don't kill people, you guys run away quickly." Elder Tang grabbed his sleeve, the third prince had to stop and explain patiently, he just wanted these mortals with fishy lips to remember one thing: thousand Don't set fire in front of a dragon, otherwise, the end will be very, very miserable!

His Royal Highness the third prince told the King of Qiuci a truth with practical actions: not only sacrifices can be successful in praying for rain, but if you set fire to the dragon, the rainfall will be even greater.

Looking at the palace that was flooded into a pool of water in less than half a day, the King of Kucha wanted to cry, not knowing what he had done wrong. How could God punish him like this? !

As for this, His Royal Highness the Third Prince is still not satisfied. If it wasn’t for the master’s repeated instructions, the eldest brother would have to go to the market to buy supplies, let alone the palace, he would have flooded the entire city of King Kucha in one go. Tell you to let me burn me!Don't you know that the dragon scales of labor and capital are very precious?

"Calm down, wait until I smash you to death with gold." Wu Hong dishonestly threw a pack of spicy sticks to Ao Lie. It is said that this stuff was a blood pressure-reducing food for the Chinese people in the ancient earth period. , Eating a pack of spicy strips, all diseases will disappear!

Wu Hao can't guarantee the effect, but it's true that I'm sweating and refreshed after eating.

"What is this?" The outer packaging of the spicy strips is quite festive. It is a bunch of red peppers. His Highness the third prince has never eaten peppers. At first glance, he thought it was dried fruit. Stuffed in the mouth.

After a moment-

"Water! Give me water!" Ao Lie's white face was flushed red, and two lines of tears of regret dripped from the corners of his eyes. He really shouldn't believe the big brother, this little red fruit doesn't care at all. not sweet!

His Royal Highness the third prince, who was majesticly jumping up to the sky just now to make wind and rain, was successfully knocked down by half a bag of spicy strips, and changed from a water-breathing dragon to a fire-breathing dragon...

The snake spirit girl was frightened half to death, and ran out in a hurry. After a while, she got a lot of ice cubes from nowhere, chopped them up and let Ao Lie hold them in her mouth. With tears in her eyes, Ao Lie gave the snake spirit girl a grateful look .But he tightly clutched the spicy stick in his hand and refused to let it go.

Ao Qing originally wanted to help him throw away the spicy sticks, but seeing him clutching them tightly, she mistakenly thought that this guy was holding grudges, so she didn't dare to say anything, so she went to boil herbal medicine for the third prince. There is no harm to the body if you eat spicy sticks, but if you eat too much, it will easily hurt your stomach. Although the stomach of a dragon can digest even ancient monsters, but, as the saying goes, shyness appears in the eye of the beholder, no matter how tough it is. In front of the person you like, it is inevitable that you will show your vulnerable side.

Although the palace was flooded, it had no effect on Boss Wu's procurement plan. Even because the people in the palace were busy rebuilding after the disaster, no one noticed that Tang Xuanzang's master and disciples who were placed in a remote palace had already disappeared. Sneaked out quietly to go shopping.

However, although the third prince did not flood the entire capital of Kucha in one breath, the flooding of the royal palace still had some impact on the outer city: the flooding of the royal palace happened, and the people who came and went were a little unwilling to do business. They were all discussing the weird phenomenon of the sudden rainstorm in the palace last night, and the people who are good at brainstorming have even derived several versions of rumors based on this phenomenon.The most widely spread and most credible is that the king of Qiuci actually neglected the holy monks who came to the west to learn scriptures from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and disrespected Buddhism, so that he was punished by the Buddha. It is a small punishment and a big warning.

Elder Tang: "..." No wonder the people of Kucha looked at them a little strangely along the way. It didn't look like the usual inquiry and curiosity towards strangers, but more like some kind of awe mixed with pity?

Does he look like the kind of small-minded person who floods people's houses because of poor hospitality?

The real narrow-minded third prince is a rough nerve, he didn't even notice that there was something wrong with the way people around him looked at him. Anyway, for them, any mortal would have various unusual reactions when seeing them, really Isn't it normal to have no reaction?

However, as the saying goes, the masters and apprentices of the eminent monks of the Tang Dynasty who were "not to be messed with" were made up by people's brains. Walking on the streets of the capital of Kucha, they are simply the spokespersons of the walking Buddha!

Buddhism is the state religion in the country of Kucha. It can be said that all the people of Kucha believe in Buddhism. Now even their most honorable rulers have been punished by the Buddha for neglecting these holy monks. How dare they take Joe?

Boss Wu came forward to inquire about the price, and all the shop owners he asked were walking on eggshells, wishing they could just give it to him at the cost price.Some people want to sell things to themselves at a cost price. As a standard profiteer, can Boss Wu agree?

That must be done!

Although Elder Tang hinted that he would use gold coins to buy out the food reserves of the Kucha Kingdom, and by the way depreciate the currency of the Kucha Kingdom, so as to reduce the difficulty for the Tang army to capture Kucha.However, Datang is not his Datang, so why spend his money to do things for the King of Tang?Although gold coins are not expensive, mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are!

After thinking about it, Boss Wu decided: Gold coins still need to be spent, but there is no need to raise the price of Kucha too high all of a sudden. Take a little bit, collect a batch this year, and collect another batch next year. , Sooner or later, the King of Kucha can be bankrupted with gold coins...why be so anxious?

Boss Wu waved his hand, one family counts as one family, as long as it can be sold at a high price in Datang after the evaluation of Elder Tang, or it can be sold at a good price on Xingwang after his own evaluation, all of them will be paid!

Not only that, what amazed the people of Kucha was that the legendary Tang monk who was rumored to be very difficult to provoke and even covered the Buddha was unexpectedly generous. He paid half of the deposit without looking at anything, and the rest Wait for them to deliver the things to the palace before paying the final payment.

Those who can do business in the capital are not stupid. Maybe there were a few who thought that this eminent monk of the Tang Dynasty looked like a fat sheep. Should he take the opportunity to slaughter him? It's suppressed: The lord of their family hasn't counted these few people yet. It is said that they just didn't entertain them well. They were assigned to live in a remote and dilapidated palace temporarily. The whole palace was flooded. Who is he?If the Buddha is offended, I'm afraid their whole family will be finished.

With such an idea, how could anyone dare to cheat Boss Wu?

Therefore, on this day, the guards in charge of guarding the palace in the Kucha Kingdom saw a rare event that was rare in a hundred years: those rich and noble families in the Wangcheng who were doing business, even sent their own big shopkeepers to personally escort things to the palace to hand them over. goods!In the past, even if it was purchased by the royal palace, these people just sent a few small stewards to give it away. What happened today?

When asked, these things were purchased by those Tang monks, the guards were shocked and dared not say a word.

In fact, the rumor that "the Lord of Kucha was condemned by the Buddha for neglecting the eminent monks of the Tang Dynasty" was spread from the palace. They guarded the palace gate and were the eyes and ears of the whole palace, so they naturally knew about it a long time ago.

"Could it be that Tang Xuanzang is really blessed by the Buddha?" The Lord of Kucha sat down on a hastily found seat with a gloomy expression.

It rained heavily last night, the palace was flooded, and his dragon chair was smashed to pieces by the falling beams. This was another reason why the King of Kucha was shocked and frightened—the entire palace and other halls were fine, except His political affairs hall and imperial study room suffered the most serious losses. The Lord of Kucha has always been greedy. There are many gold and silver playthings and priceless treasures in the imperial study room. , the Lord of Kucha is so heartbroken that he can't breathe!

All these things reminded the Lord of Kucha of the rumors in the palace today: Tang Xuanzang was enlightened by Guanyin Bodhisattva, and presented him with brocade cassocks and nine-ringed tin rods to protect him on his journey to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures. When they arrived in Kucha, not only did they not receive any courtesy, they were even kicked away by the lord of the country and kicked to the most remote palace in the palace.

That's all, he still listened to the national teacher's slander and tried to set fire to Tang Xuanzang... Thinking of this, the King of Kucha couldn't help but shudder, and immediately gave the national teacher a bad look: If it wasn't for this guy who entered Slander, he would not be misled, thinking that Tang Xuanzang was a secret agent sent by the Tang king to the Western Regions, so he wanted to set fire to them to death, so that he offended the Buddha and was condemned by the Buddha.

Thinking about it carefully, Tang Xuanzang might really be the Buddhist scriptures enlightened by Guanyin Bodhisattva, otherwise, how could he not burn them to death if he sent people to take so many charcoal fires over there?And it rained halfway?What is the secret work of Tang Wang here?He is clearly a Buddhist learner blessed by heaven!

Thinking about it this way, when he saw Tang Xuanzang's master and apprentice again, the Lord of Kucha's complexion was distorted for a moment, but the next moment, he immediately became enthusiastic: "Elder Tang was frightened last night, please take a seat!"

Wu Hao secretly rolled his eyes, but saw that Elder Tang acted as if nothing had happened, and politely exchanged greetings with the Lord of Kucha. After chatting, they came to Boss Wu's "small business"——

"I, an unlucky disciple, like to buy local products from all over the world on weekdays. I heard that there are abundant products in Kucha, so I allowed him to stay here for a few more days and take some local products from Kucha back. home use."

"Family? Is it possible...Your beloved disciple is not a monk?" The Lord of Kucha was shocked.

Being good at brainstorming, he immediately thought of something: Could it be that this is the real reason why Tang Xuanzang traveled thousands of miles to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures?There are no scriptures in the temples of the Tang Dynasty, so there are few incense sticks, and even young monks like Monkey King are forced to return to the vulgar to earn money for the temple?

This is too miserable, right?

Thinking that he had figured it all out, the smirk on the face of the King of Kucha immediately turned into a smile mixed with sympathy, pity, and a slight sense of superiority: Look!He said that the Tang Dynasty was nothing more than that. After a long time, even the monks in China had to return to the secular world to earn money to support temples.

Hearing that Wu Kong would stay in Qiucha for a few days to buy local products, the King of Qiucha waved his hand: How can the holy monk buy it himself?Draw up a list and ask them to buy it and send it over.

He was kind and generous, as if he wasn't the one who burned Tang Xuanzang last night.