Tang Seng is a cook

Once the matter of the Bhikkhu kingdom was over, Zhuang Fan paid more attention when he went on the road again, and he didn't make do with the ordinary people, for fear that he would disturb their luck and destroy their peaceful life.

Fortunately, during the few days they were in the Bhikkhu country, they actually bought a lot of things. Except that there were fewer vegetables in winter, they didn't have to worry about eating and drinking. Even if they avoided the crowds, it was not a problem.

In winter, wild beasts are less and less, and their masters and apprentices are walking in the wild, and there are fewer people. Zhuang Fan is afraid that the children will feel lonely and boring, so he always sends them to run errands in turn, to send a letter to Guanyin, and to see Bodhi. See Maomao, or go to Hongye's place again, and send some things they bought along the way to Nao Nao and Hong Haier.

Originally, these could all be sent with paper kites, but Zhuang Fan wanted his apprentices to meet people and not to be stuck in the car all the time, so he took turns sending them out every few days.

Wukong is the one who goes out the most among the children. Zhuang Fan asks Wukong to take them with him at first, and leads them once, and then he can go out by himself next time.

Wu Wang loves to go to Lingtai Mountain to see Maomao the most, Wu You loves to go to Hong Ye’s house to quarrel with Hong Boy, Ba Jie is lazy and doesn’t like to go anywhere, Zhuang Fan asked him to go out ten times, he can grunt and push Eight times, and the remaining two times, basically go to Hongye.

After a long time, Zhuang Fan found that these children didn't like going to the South China Sea very much, so he couldn't help but feel very strange, so he talked about it one day.

Wu Wang said: "My aunt is there, I don't want to go."

Every time Long Nu sees Wu Wang, she can't help laughing, urging him to change his name, which is very annoying.

Wuyou said: "My brother is there, I don't want to go."

Every time Mu Zha saw Wu You, he was envious, and it was annoying to rack his brains to change his name.

Bajie said: "There are delicious food in Chang'an, if you go there, you will be full. The Bodhisattva of the South China Sea is too serious, and Lingtai Mountain is too deserted, so I don't want to go."

Hongye and Zhenyuanzi finally moved to Chang'an with their apprentice and daughter this winter.

These two people are very wealthy, bought a house in Chang'an, set up a family business, and sent Hongye to study in the academy. Now they live very comfortably in Chang'an.

Zhuang Fan was very helpless, so he didn't ask his disciples to go to the South China Sea, and he only asked Zhiyuan to deliver letters and things to Guanyin.

Fortunately, the cold days did not last forever. After the master and apprentice got together for a year on the snow field, the weather gradually recovered.

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and it is another good time of the year.

In the early spring, although the weather was warmer, the snow melted and the sledge could not be used, and the ground was muddy. Zhuang Fan and his disciples had to slow down again.

On this day, the master and apprentice were trekking in the forest, but fortunately this is a pine forest, the ground is covered with thick pine needles, the residual snow has melted and penetrated into the ground, making it easy to walk.

Because it was in the forest, Zhuang Fan also walked with his disciples, the forest was deep and quiet, only heard a few birdsong, but there was no trace of any beast.

As he walked, Bajie said: "Master, this forest is so quiet, walking makes my heart shudder! Could there be any goblins?"

Zhuang Fan laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? Master and brother are here, who else can come and snatch you, little fat pig?"

Bajie smiled, and said: "Master, don't blame me for being afraid, your beard has grown again, and your face has become fierce again. Let's master and apprentice, just look at me, I'm a fat old pig, and I'm easy to bully. My heart is in a state of turmoil, but I'm really afraid that another goblin will be blind and arrest me."

Wu Wang listened, laughed and said: "It's all right, isn't the second senior brother also like a monk? This time I will accompany you! You see, you still have a weapon anyway, senior brother has nothing, I look at it better than you You're still soft, what are you afraid of!"

Bajie grinned and said: "Second Senior Brother, why don't you take a rake to strengthen your courage?"

The rake couldn't be stowed away, it was carried on the shoulders, and it would touch the branches at every turn, and with a crash, Bajie's heart was completely chilled. Now everyone is afraid of suffering, so they avoid him and go away.

Wu Wang couldn't be fooled, pinched Ba Jie's fat face, and said, "Senior brother is not as timid as you! Carry it yourself!"

The brothers and sisters were chatting and laughing when they suddenly heard someone yelling in the depths of the dense forest in front of them: "Help, help! Is there anyone, help!"

The voice is delicate and weak, and it sounds mellow, obviously it is a woman's voice.

Before the others did anything, Bajie frightened him, jumped behind Zhuang Fan, hugged Master's arm, and whispered: "Master, goblin!"

Zhuang Fan made Xiaopang dumbfounded, and said with a smile: "How can it be a demon? Master, listening to this voice, it is obviously a woman."

Bajie groaned, and said urgently in a low voice: "Master, she is trying to lure you into the bait and lure us to save him! We are unsuspecting if we pretend to be women, if we use its real voice to shout, if it is a Xiong Jing, roar, who dares to go!"

Zhuang Fan was surprised, and said: "Bajie, Master has always avoided women when he saw you. Could it be because of the Gao Laozhuang incident that you have feared women from now on, so you don't want to get close to them?"

Bajie blushed, and distinguished: "What's the matter, master underestimated me, obviously it was this woman who appeared very suspicious, so I suspected that he became a goblin, it has nothing to do with those things!"

Zhuang Fan rubbed Xiaopang's dull face, and said: "It's not good, the master is afraid that you will make some knots, which is not good for cultivation."

After Bajie heard this, he quickly stood up straight, patted his chest and said, "Master, I am a big pig with a big heart and a fat body. I have never had any knots in my heart. If you don't believe me, just watch!"

After saying that, he carried the rake and went straight to the place where the sound was, his feet were fast, and he ran far away in a few steps.

Zhuang Fan was very afraid that he would suffer from his recklessness, so he hurriedly said: "Wukong, follow along! By the way, let's see who he is!"

Wukong agreed and chased after him.

Wukong was silent at his feet, he rushed up to take a look, Bajie was holding a rake in his hand, hiding behind a thick old tree, looking over there slyly.

The monkey walked over generously, and patted Bajie on the shoulder: "What are you doing!"

Ba Xiaodai was so taken aback that he jumped up, turned around and saw that it was Wukong, and whispered in shock, "Brother, you are going to scare me to death!"

Wukong raised his chin and said, "No, what are you looking at here?"

Bajie patted his chest, smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm thinking about observing here."

Wukong made a sharp cut and said, "What can you see!"

Bajie's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, brother, your piercing eyes are the most useful! Quickly take a look, are you a fairy!"

Wukong nodded, and was about to walk over, but was stopped by Bajie all of a sudden, and said: "Brother, what are you doing in the past, cleaning up the alarmed snakes, just watch here!"

Wukong flicked his brains and said with a smile: "Look at your little guts!"

He didn't pass by either, imitating Bajie's appearance, he poked his head and saw a woman tied to the big tree over there, her upper body was tightly tied to the tree with kudzu vines, her lower half was buried in the soil, her temple hair was disheveled, His face was terrified, and it was obvious that he was terrified.

Wukong gave a strange snort, and Bajie hurriedly asked: "How is it, what kind of fairy is it, brother?"

Wukong scratched his head and said, "It's really not a fairy, but a mortal woman."

Bajie immediately straightened his back, and wondered: "Really? Brother, you are not bluffing me?"

Wukong patted him on the forehead and said: "What are you doing to scare you? What's the fun?"

Bajie touched his forehead, but he was not angry, and said with a smile: "Since we are human, let's go quickly!"

Wukong felt itchy again and wanted to slap him, he said: "Forget about the monster, but the people still have to be saved, how far should we go?"

Bajie suddenly made a bitter face, and said: "Brother, we can't save this girl. If we can save her, she will fall in love with you, and she will say something that promises you! We can't get rid of it." dead!"

Wukong couldn't help laughing, and said: "You have lived in Gaolaozhuang for so long for nothing, come and have a look, this woman is well dressed, she has been married long ago, if you want someone to marry you, you can also think beautifully!"

Bajie blushed when he heard this, and looked with his head, and sure enough, the woman was wearing a woman's hair bun, Ba Xiaodai felt relieved, but still said: "Brother, men and women are very defensive, we have to avoid suspicion, Wait for Wuyou to come, let him go and save him, he is still young, so there is no taboo."

After thinking about it, Wukong nodded and agreed, seeing that Bajie was avoiding him, he said to him: "You go to meet Master and the others, the senior brother is here to guard."

Sure enough, Bajie was very happy when he heard it, and agreed, "Okay!"

Happily ran away!

Wukong looked at the back of Bajie jumping away, shook his head helplessly, jumped into the air, and looked around, intending to see if there was any evil spirit nearby.

Unexpectedly, when the Great Sage looked around, it was very peaceful and quiet for a hundred miles around. Except for the thicker and thicker cloud and mist above his master's head, which was slowly moving to this side, there was no movement around him.

Wukong felt suspicious, put away the somersault cloud, landed again, and saw that Master and Junior Brother had come, he walked up and said: "Master, I looked carefully, she is indeed just a mortal woman, I don't know why she is in trouble, the people around here There is no movement of goblins, what should we do? Shall we save them?"

Zhuang Fan was also very surprised, since he mentioned the Bhikkhu country, it should be that the white mouse spirit who worshiped Li Jing as his godfather came out to block the way and make trouble, why is it not her who came this time?

Zhuang Fan asked again: "Are you sure it's not a goblin? Isn't it some kind of mouse spirit or vixen spirit?"

Wukong shook his head and said, "Master, don't you believe my eyes?"

Zhuang Fan said with a smile: "Master naturally believes in Wukong's ability, but the monsters are full of tricks, and Master is just afraid that you will be careless."

Wukong smiled and said: "I have asked Master to discipline me several times, how dare I be careless."

Zhuang Fan rubbed the monkey's forehead and walked over with his disciples.

The woman had been tied up in the depths of the dense forest all night. She was sleepy and tired, frightened and frightened. She almost fainted. When she heard footsteps, she didn't know whether it was panic or fear. She opened her eyes wide in horror. Looking over, seeing that the leader was a big man with beards, he trembled with fright, screamed, and was about to faint.

Zhuang Fan took a look and realized that not only did he lose his physique to attract milk babies, but Tang Sanzang's women's friend design was also almost gone, so he had to stop, look back, and said to Bajie: " Fatty, you go!"

Bajie routinely wanted to shake his head, but Wukong's eyes were sharp, he pulled Xiaopang Dumb by the ear, and sent him out, saying: "Go and tell her to calm down, ask her where her home is, how did she get here, go!" Bajie's rake was also taken over.

Bajie pouted, and threw it out along the back of the elder brother's hand, rubbing his ears and muttering: "Tomorrow I want to grow a beard too!"

Wukong poked his buttocks with a rake, and urged, "You can do whatever you want, you can stay here tomorrow, so you have to go today!"

Bajie hummed and walked over, chanted the Buddha's name, and said: "Bodhisattva, don't panic, we are monks passing by to learn the scriptures, and we came here only when we heard you calling for help. We are not evil people."

Ba Xiaodai's voice was clear and very high, and the woman was so weak that her screams were suppressed. Hearing what Ba Jie said, she opened her eyes tremblingly and looked over, only to see a young monk in Tsing Yi standing in front of her. , looks fair and clean, with round face and big eyes, kind face, very amiable, he couldn't help but settle down, and tremblingly called out: "Elder... help!"

While speaking, tears came down.

Ba Jie hurriedly took two steps back, made an interrogation, and said, "I don't know why the female Bodhisattva wandered into this barren mountain? You show your identity, if you are not a villain, I will save you."

The woman hurriedly said: "Elder, I am a girl from a good family. I live in a poor woman's country. Yesterday evening, after serving my parents, I was walking in my own garden. I wanted to go back to my bedroom to rest. Unexpectedly, a gust of wind came. They dragged me into the air. I was so scared that I fainted. I woke up in the middle of the night, and I was in this forest! I beg the elders to save me. My parents love me very much. If the elders send me home, my parents will be rewarded! "

Bajie wondered: "I see you are dressed as a woman, why are you still living with your parents?"

After the woman said these words, her mouth was already dry and her tongue was cracked. She was dying and said: "My parents only gave birth to me. Because there is no one to inherit the property in the family, they recruited a son-in-law to come to the house. Therefore, although I am married, I still live here. at home."

Bajie clicked his tongue twice, and said: "Bodhisattva, wait a moment, I'll ask my junior brother to untie you, he's younger, so there's no taboo!"

When the woman heard this, she shed tears of gratitude, a gleam of light burst out of her eyes, and said, "Thank you, elder!"

Bajie ignored him, turned around and ran back, told Wuyou to rescue the girl, and told the master himself.

Zhuang Fan was surprised when he heard about the woman, and felt strange no matter what he heard, but he couldn't ignore it.

After Wuyou dug the man out of the pit, gave him water, and took half a sheet of bread to feed the girl. Seeing that she was wearing thin clothes, he took out an old fur for her to wear.

The woman wolfed down the food, wrapped her clothes in her clothes, and as her body warmed up, she thanked the master and the apprentice thousands of times, and said endless good things.

Probably because Wuyou was lazy just now, seeing the woman's lower body was buried tightly, he directly did it and lifted her out. No mortal has ever seen such a miracle, so after the woman was frightened, she only thought that she had met a fairy, and it was her. Facing Zhuang Fan, he also calmed down a lot, no longer afraid to scream.

Seeing that she had finished tidying up, Wukong was able to get up after a while, so he said to Zhuang Fan: "Master, we saved her, it's nothing, but what should we do after we save her? I don't know if the country of poor women is in our west or not." On the way there, what's more, our master and apprentice monks took a woman on the way, and people saw me, so I'm afraid there will be a lot of trivial troubles?"

Zhuang Fan frowned, and said: "Well, let's take her out of this dense forest first, wait outside, find a place where there are people, give her some money, tell her to hire a carriage, and then ask the little god to guard her. She returned home safely all the way, what do you think?"

Wukong rubbed his chin, thought for a while, and said: "Master's method is safe, so let's listen to Master."

So he let the caramel cake out, asked the woman to get on the horse, and carried her forward.

The woman was not shy either. After she thanked her, she pulled the horse and turned on her back. She was very agile, and she looked like she often rides a horse.

Seeing her master and apprentice looking at her, the woman blushed and said: "The family business is big. When I was young, my father asked me to dress up as a man and go out with him. Therefore, I can also know how to ride a horse."

Zhuang Fan nodded, thinking that such a father is rare in this age.

Just hearing the woman say that she was disguised as a man, she couldn't help but feel moved. She reached out and took out a suit of clothes, handed them to Wu You, and gave him a few instructions. Looking at the woman, she said: "Female benefactor, here is a set of men's clothes. It is new. It has only been washed once and has not been worn. There is also a pair of shoes, but they may not fit well. If you don't mind, change it!" It is convenient for traveling, and the second is that your body is either mud or dirt, and it is also dirty."

The woman looked down at her muddy skirt, blushed involuntarily, got off the horse, took it, and thanked her again, but Wu You casually threw a small tent out of thin air, saying: "Let's avoid it, The benefactor, change your clothes yourself!"

After speaking, he turned around and ran away.

Seeing that Zhuang Fan led his disciples away, the woman was only surrounded by the brown wild horse, staring at her with big dripping eyes, and when she saw that she was not moving, she arched her long face and told her to go in quickly, her eyes turned red. I was about to cry, but I made Caramel Cake make me laugh again. I finally lifted the curtain, entered the tent, and went to change clothes.

Not long after, the woman changed her clothes quickly, she was fat and thin, and it fit her well, but her boots were really too big. The woman was also smart, so she wrapped her feet with the changed clothes and stuffed them into the shoes, so that they barely fit .

For the rest of the dirty clothes and embroidered shoes, the woman carefully packed a small bundle and carried it on her back, then lifted the curtain and walked out.

As soon as he came out, Caramel Cake hurriedly gave Wuyou two voices, Wuyou heard it, turned around, ran over again, waved to close the tent, and said, "It's changed? Then get on the horse!"

The woman promised, got on the horse, Wuyou led the caramel cake, and chased after the master, and the group of people went back and forth in the dense forest.

He kept on going like this, and stopped for a meal in the middle, Zhuang Fan didn't shy away from it, and took out the wooden house to rest in the house as usual, but men and women are different after all, so he borrowed Wuyou's small tent for the woman to rest.

Wuyou came back from delivering the meal, holding the rice bowl and moaning, "Father, I want a new tent!"

Zhuang Fan said happily: "Next time Daddy writes, ask Brother Hongye to build you a log cabin, okay?"

Wuyou said: "No! I want a small tent!"

Zhuang Fan was amazed, and said: "The cabin is bigger than the tent, why doesn't Wuyou like it?"

Wuyou's mouth was full, Ulu Ulu said: "It's because I don't like it because I'm big. Open the small tent, get in, and light a lamp. It feels very safe!"

Zhuang Fan felt very sad when he heard this, and thought that no wonder Wu You liked his little tent so much, so he nodded and said, "Okay, Daddy will buy Wu You a new tent!"

The third prince was finally happy, and he ate a lot to his heart's content, and he was no longer reluctant to lead a horse for others in the afternoon.

The woman didn't know if she had that temperament, or she was frightened last night, or she was shocked by Zhuang Fan's extraordinary master and apprentice, or she had something on her mind, she walked very quietly along the way, never made a fuss, said very little, There are few things, and I have never asked for anything.

Zhuang Fan and Wukong also breathed a sigh of relief, they were also afraid of saving a dainty young lady and dragging their way into the city.

In the middle of the afternoon, I finally came out of the dense pine forest. In front of me was the endless wilderness, and to the east were rolling mountains. Are you familiar? Do you know how to get to the poor country of your family? Our master and apprentice have to go west. If the direction is wrong, I’m afraid we won’t be able to take you home. But my senior brother can send you a carriage, as long as you know the direction , there will naturally be a frame to take you home safely, don’t worry, don’t be afraid.”

Here in the barren mountains and wild mountains, Zhuang Fan discussed with Wu Kong just now, and simply asked the monkey to transform into a carriage and send the girl home.

The woman was shocked when she heard this, she sat on the horse and looked around the terrain, muttering: "It looks familiar, but I can't remember it clearly, let me think about it..."

Wu You crossed his arms and said, "Think carefully, if you continue walking, it will be dark. You are a woman, and it is not easy to stay overnight with us!"

When the woman heard this, she felt anxious, stretched out her hand to bite the nail of her index finger, and examined it more carefully. At this moment, she heard someone shouting from a distance: "Miss, where are you, mistress? Mistress!"

The voice is sad and desolate, very affectionate.

Everyone was startled, Qiqi turned their heads to look, and saw a group of people coming from there, staggering and walking in front, was a white-faced and beardless young man, dressed in brocade clothes, handsome in appearance, sad, with tears on his face, looking up. It must be that the jade tree faces the wind, and the wind blows people.