Tang Seng is a cook

When he got up early the next morning, Zhuang Fan took out his equipment again. He had shaved his head and beard yesterday, and his clothes were dusted and washed. Cassock and robes, a gold-topped Pilu hat, and a tin staff with nine rings in his hand, the whole person is really heroic, with picturesque features.

Zhuang Fan led his disciples out of the hall and said goodbye to Jinding Daxian. Jinding said with a smile: "Yesterday, he was full of dust and dust, and he didn't look like it. Today, he is really a Buddha!"

Zhuang Fan said with a smile: "I was in a hurry on the way, I didn't have time to take care of my face, I made Daxian laugh at me!"

Jinding laughed and said: "The holy monk knows the importance and the truth, what's so funny, I'll give the holy monk a ride!"

Zhuang Fan didn't refuse, the two of them put their hands together, walked through the central hall, and went straight out the back door. The golden roof pointed to the top of the vulture mountain and said: "Holy monk, look, there are five colors of auspicious light and a thousand auspiciousness in the half sky. Yes, it is the Vulture Peak. Tathagata Buddha is there!"

Zhuang Fan bowed eleven times and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Great Immortal!"

Jinding smiled and said: "Holy Monk, this place is already a blessed land of spiritual mountains. If you move forward, there will be no more ghosts and ghosts. Just move forward with peace of mind, and the poor will be sent here! Let's leave here!"

Zhuang Fan led his apprentice to bid farewell to Jinding Daxian calmly, Wukong and Wuyou followed the master, Wuwang and Wuneng led the caramel cake, followed behind, left the Yuzhen Temple, and went straight to Lingshan.

Going far away, Wukong was amazed, and said: "In the past, you come in the clouds and go in the fog. This is the first time for my grandson to go up to the Lingshan Mountain from the ground!"

Bajie said: "Brother, tell me, isn't this Xiniu Hezhou the Buddha's land? Why is there a Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain? It's really strange!"

Wukong laughed and said: "That's very strange. This Xiniu Hezhou was not occupied by the Buddha from the very beginning. Maybe, the Jinding Immortal came earlier than the Buddha! It can't be the Buddha who came later. Instead, they are going to be kicked out of the household!"

Wu Wang nodded, and said: "Speaking of which, isn't Master Bodhi of Lingtai Mountain also in Hezhou, Xiniu? They are also Taoists!"

Zhuang Fan said with a smile: "Buddhism and Taoism trace their origins. They started from the prehistoric era, but they came from the same school. It's just that one is cultivating the afterlife and the other is cultivating the present life; one talks about cause and effect, and the other talks about responsibility. It's not a distinction between good and evil, so it's not unusual to live together in the same place."

Wuyou grinned and said: "It's like I walked all the way with my father and senior brother. Others don't look like me, but we ourselves are very comfortable!"

Zhuang Fan laughed and said, "That's right, that's exactly the truth!"

The master and apprentice chatted and laughed, and walked along the mountain road for about five or six miles, when they heard the sound of rushing in their ears, looked up, and saw a huge current blocking the way in front of them. Eight miles wide, there is no one in the four directions, only the sound of water piercing through the ears is deafening.

Zhuang Fan said: "I guess this is Lingyundu?" When he was Jin Chan, he traveled all over the Lingshan Mountain, but he had never seen Lingyundu, so he thought it was built later.

Wukong ran over to check and shouted from a distance: "Master, there is a bridge here!"

Zhuang Fan brought everyone over to have a look, and there was indeed a single-plank bridge with thin and thin beams, wet and slippery, and it was very difficult to walk.

Wuyou took a look and said, "Daddy, it's easy for us to walk, only caramel cake, I'm afraid it has four hooves, it can't walk such a long straight line!"

Bajie said: "Then it is feasible to let it fly there on a green boat?"

Wukong shook his head and said: "If we bring it here, it will have a chance to become a real fruit. It has to go for a journey by itself, and we can't be opportunistic anymore!"

The children frowned, thinking about how to bring the caramel cake there, but Zhuang Fan was not in a hurry. He raised his eyes and looked down the river. Come over and yell: "Shangdu! Shangdu!"

Zhuang Fan smiled and said: "It's done, we don't need to go by ourselves, no, the boatman is here!"

Wukong followed the trend and saw the real body of the boatman at a glance. It was the Buddha who was guided by the Western Paradise, also known as Nanwu Baozhuang Guangwang Buddha. "Waiting for you! Waiting for you!"

Zhuang Fan came over with a few smaller ones, and after seeing the boat clearly, Wuyou took a breath and said, "My dear, how do you get on this bottomless boat?"

Wukong smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, this is a spiritual mountain, there are many strange things! What's so scary about a bottomless boat!"

Wu You heard this, and muttered, "That's true!"

Then Jieyin Buddha urged: "Everyone, don't delay, and get on the boat!"

Zhuang Fan always remembered what Taiyin Xingjun said to him that day. Since he came to Lingyundu, he kept paying attention to his feet. Seeing that the boat had no bottom, he didn't dare to ask his disciples to get on first. Huanzhang, stood on the shore and jumped, and landed steadily on the bottomless boat. Seeing that he could stand firmly, he stretched out his hand to pick up the disciples on board.

Wu You leads the horse first, Wu Wang and Ba Jie follow, Wu Kong is the last one to come up, the monkey doesn't say anything about his identity as the guide Buddha, just smiles and says: "Boatman, we are done, let's do it!"

Jieyin Buddha said with a smile: "The holy monk is indeed courageous and skilled. If it weren't for this, I'm afraid he would have arrived at the Lingshan Mountain in two or three years!"

Zhuang Fan looked at the surface of the water, not distracted, just smiled when he heard the words, and still said: "This trip depends on the help of all parties, if only the poor monk himself, I'm afraid I can do it in ten or twenty years!"

Receiving and leading the Buddha smiled slightly, did not answer, propped up the penny, turned the bow steadily, and rowed towards the center of the river.

Just at this moment, he suddenly saw a corpse slowly drifting down from the upper reaches of the river. Although Zhuang Fan was familiar with Journey to the West, he was already prepared for this scene, but when he saw it at this moment, he was still shocked. He stared at the corpse and observed it carefully. See, won't take your eyes off.

Wukong didn't know Taiyin's admonition. Seeing the master was terrified, he smiled and comforted him: "Master, don't be afraid, that was your mortal body, take it off at this time, and it will become a real fruit!"

The boatman also laughed and said, "Yes! That's the holy monk! Congratulations! Congratulations!"

Wu Wang and the others met, and they also came up to congratulate Master.

Unexpectedly, the corpse was already near the bottomless boat at this time, and was about to float over. Zhuang Fan lay beside the boat, and finally saw clearly the pale face floating up and down in the river. Don't show your skills, jump into the river, and go to catch the floating corpse!

Seeing the master staring at the corpse all the time, the monkey jumped into the rolling river at this time, thinking that Zhuang Fan was blinded by the current, he couldn't help being shocked, and rushed to save him.

The other three little ones were also frightened by this sudden scene, and their colors changed, they all shouted and wanted to jump!

This sudden turn of events almost frightened the leading Buddha to death. In a panic, he flicked his big sleeves, fixed the three little ones and the messy wild horse on the boat, and jumped into the river on tiptoe, first to catch the monkeys, and then dragged them to the boat. Zhuang Fan, bring their master and apprentice aboard.

It's just that Zhuang Fan had already grabbed the floating corpse's clothes at this time, and he didn't want to let go. The Buddha had no choice but to bring the floating corpse to the boat!

All of a sudden, the boat lost control and turned around in the middle of the river again, guiding the Buddha to gain a firm foothold. The Tang monk and his disciples ignored him, so he quickly took out another penny and gave it a hard push to stop. The bow of the boat, and then propped up a few more times, and sailed to the opposite bank.

Wukong was still in shock, surrounded by the master, all of them were terrified, Wukong said: "Master, why did you suddenly go into the water, but you were blinded by the river water?"

Wuyou also said, "Daddy, did you see any monster in the water?"

Seeing that Zhuang Fan was only holding the corpse and not letting go, Wuwang said, "Master, it's just your mortal body, it doesn't matter if it flows down, why are you holding him?"

Bajie also said: "Master, are you fascinated by the water ghost?"

Zhuang Fan fell down on the bottomless boat, hugged his dead body, gently wiped the cold river water off his face, sneered, and said, "The mortal body? If Master loses the mortal body, it will be true." Bewitched!"

Seeing that his master was in a bad mood, Wukong leaned over to take a look, and saw that the corpse in his arms had a face he had never seen before, he couldn't help but wondered: "Who is this!"

Zhuang Fan raised his eyes and looked at the Buddha with embarrassment on his face, and said without hesitation: "This is the master's previous life!"

A few little ones were shocked!Didn't it mean that he passed away to a mortal body in this life?How did this get out of the previous life? What kind of operation is this?

Wu Wang asked directly, and said, "It doesn't mean that after passing Lingyundu, what is abandoned is the mortal body of this life! What is the situation now?"

The master and the disciples all looked at the receiving Buddha. Unexpectedly, the hidden body of the Tathagata suddenly appeared here. He was stared at by the Tang monk and his disciples, and he was flustered for a moment. I didn't know how to answer, so I just smiled helplessly and said: "Holy Monk, I don't know about this matter, if you want to ask, just go to Lingshan!"

Zhuang Fan said coldly: "But I'm going there!"

There was no further conversation for the next two or so.

While speaking, the boat had already reached the other side. Zhuang Fan hugged his previous body, jumped off the boat first, and watched his apprentices get off the boat with their horses. gone.

Wukong clicked his tongue and said, "You run really fast!"

The monkey came to the master's side, looked at the body that the master was holding, and said softly: "Master, let me hold this, your clothes are all wet."

Zhuang Fan sighed, and said, "It's okay, Master holds me and doesn't feel heavy!"

After saying that, the spiritual energy in his whole body shook, not only himself, but also the drenched clothes on his body became dry again.

Wu Wang and others also gathered around, Qi Qi looked down at the short-haired man in Master's arms, Wu You said: "Daddy, you looked like this in your last life!"

Bajie said, "Too thin!"

Wu Wang said: "It's very fair!"

The master and the disciples found a flat place, sat down to calm down, and Zhuang Fan had to think about what to do next. He put the body on the grass, sniffed, felt his pulse, and took his body temperature. Although the eyes are closed, there is no pulse or breath, but the body is warm, and the whole body is also very soft, it is quite different from the dead body, it is obvious that it is actually a living person.

Wu Wang said: "Master, it doesn't look like he's dead, but rather like he's entered a state of tortoise's breath."

Wuyou also said: "Yes, Dad, this is exactly the same as my master when he entered meditation!"

Bajie said: "Master, did you know how to cultivate in your previous life?"

Zhuang Fan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Master was an ordinary mortal who couldn't be more ordinary in his previous life!"

It's not ordinary, in modern times, let alone gods, he doesn't even see a single ghost. It's a waste of his courage to be afraid of the dark and ghosts when he was a child.

Wukong reached out and took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and asked curiously, "What is this for?"

While speaking, he punched his own eyes.

Zhuang Fan couldn't stop him, he just said: "Be careful!" Seeing the monkey sitting on the ground, he covered his head and said: "Dizzy!"

Zhuang Fan was highly myopic in his previous life, with over 900 degrees in one eye and over 1000 degrees in the other eye, as well as astigmatism. How can ordinary people easily wear his glasses, especially the eyesight of monkeys? There is no dizziness.

Wukong rubbed his eyes, got up, held the glasses and said: "Master, what kind of hidden weapon is this? Who put it on your body? Has the old grandson been plotted against!"

After saying that, he was about to throw it away, but Zhuang Fan quickly stopped him and said, "Don't throw it away! Those are the glasses that Master wears! They are very expensive!"

Zhuang Fan has a high degree of presbyopia, and it costs thousands of dollars to get a pair of glasses. When Zhuang Fan was in school, in order to save money, he was reluctant to buy a new pair of spectacle lenses when he was running out of money, so he just dealt with them.This pair, he joined the work after graduation, and he was willing to pay for a new one for the sake of his image. He cherishes it very much on weekdays, and never dares to wipe it with paper towels again.

Wukong wondered: "Master can carry this thing? How can I be dazzled just looking at it?"

Zhuang Fan laughed and said, "Your eyes are fine, so of course you don't need this!"

Wukong put the glasses back on for Master's physical body, looked at the strange sweater again, and said, "This dress is so hairy, it's very comfortable to touch."

Wu Wang and the others also chirped and said: "Master, you also had short hair in your previous life. Could it be that you are also a monk?"

"Oh, these shoes are actually shiny!"

"The material of these pants is so hard!"

"Daddy, why aren't you wearing a robe?"

Zhuang Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His physical body was dressed exactly like the one he wore when he passed out on the kang at home during the Chinese New Year. He had thermal underwear and a cashmere sweater on his upper body, jeans with cotton trousers underneath, and a pair of black leather cotton boots on his feet. Because indoors, I didn't wear down jackets, from head to toe, it was completely different from the costumes of the people of Tang Dynasty. The children looked at it, and they were naturally surprised.

The disciples looked at it happily, and drove away the heavy heart in Zhuang Fan's heart. Only Wukong, who was careful and intelligent, went to the master and said in a low voice: "Master, you don't want to give up this body, and you don't hesitate to expose your cultivation. Because you want to get this body back, the disciple guessed that you are going, but which time and space is this body?"

Zhuang Fan looked at the monkey in surprise, nodded quietly, and said in a low voice, "Yes."

Wukong scratched his head and said, "Master, since the Buddha threw this body down from the upper reaches, I'm afraid he meant that he told you not to go back. Master also knows that going to that time and space may be extremely difficult, so disciple I want to ask, then why does Master still want to go back?"

Zhuang Fan sighed, rubbed Wukong's Maodudu's head, quickly explained the cause and effect, and said: "Master didn't want to tell you this, but I thought that traveling through time and space is very dangerous. I will go by myself. If you are safe, you will serve your parents there for the rest of your life, and come back later if you have no relatives and no reason there. If you are unfortunately lost in the turbulence of time and space, it will not implicate you."

He sighed, raised his eyes to look at the top of Lingjiu Mountain, and said: "But look at it now, if Master wants to go back, he has to pass the test of Buddha first!"

Because Zhuang Fan deliberately avoided Wukong's sanctification without mentioning it, the monkey asked: "Master, I have never heard of this time-traveling. You also said that even the Buddha relied on many people." How can the door of time and space be opened only by you alone? Is it too difficult?"

When the master and apprentice were talking, the three younger ones came over silently, and Bajie said eagerly: "Master, no matter what, you can't leave me behind. No matter which world you go to, I will follow you!"

Wu Wang also said: "Master, I will go too!"

Wuyou touched the little bun in distress, and said: "I want to go too, but I still can't bear to part with my master, daddy, can I stay here for a while and live there for a while?"

Wukong gave Wuyou a headache, and said angrily, "You should hang out with Zizhulin, go as soon as you say, go as soon as you say!"

Wuyou held his forehead aggrievedly and said: "Daddy said it, there must be a way!"

Wu Wang and Ba Jie also trusted Master inexplicably, they both nodded and said: "That's right, Master said it and said it again, then there must be a way!"

Zhuang Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to say: "Let's wait and see step by step! The thing before us is going to Lingshan!"

After hearing this, the younger ones hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, let's go!"

But when everyone got up, they encountered another difficulty. Wukong said: "Master, what should we do with such a big body? Go to see the Buddha behind our backs?"

Zhuang Fan didn't want to take that risk. Although guiding the Buddha would definitely tell the Tathagata what happened just now, he didn't want to just hold his precious body and go up.

What if the Buddha ruined his physical body by playing tricks?

Burned to ashes by fire, smashed into slag by lightning, or simply fell from the mountain and smashed to pieces, then he really can't go back!

Just as Zhuang Fan was pondering whether the storage beads and storage bag could hold the body, he suddenly heard someone smiling and said: "If you don't go on, why are you dawdling here? We've been waiting for a long time!"

Zhuang Fan and his apprentices were startled, they all looked up and saw that it was Hongye!

I saw this ancestor, still wearing his big red robe, walking down the mountain road with no one around him, only himself.

Zhuang Fan was overjoyed and said, "Why are you here! Hurry up! It's a coincidence that you came! Help me hide someone!"

The monkey also said: "Brother, why did you come by yourself? It happened to be a coincidence, and I just kept it for you!"

Hongye wondered: "Who is hiding? I keep everything? Did you fish something from the river? Drink! Who is this!"

As he was talking, he was walking, and just a few young people greeted him, moved away, and Hongye saw the fleshy body lying in the middle of the ground at a glance.

Hongye's cultivation base is profound, and she can see the connection between this physical body and Zhuang Fan at a glance. She wondered, "Master, isn't this you?"

Zhuang Fan smiled wryly: "It's not me! It's just that it's me in my previous life!"

Hongye rubbed her chin, and said: "I just said, I have something to do, I was sitting in the hall just now, I saw the guide sneaking in, sneaking in, I don't know what to say to the Tathagata, the Tathagata's face is quite ugly, I just said Guess you guys have something to do!" Then he sneaked out to look for the master and apprentice.

Wukong smiled and said, "Brother, you are the one who will do the best!"

Hong Ye giggled, and said, "That's it!" Then she asked Zhuang Fan, "What? Uncle Master, have you been tricked again?"

Zhuang Fan smiled wryly, and said: "I don't know why, after passing this Lingyundu, my mortal body in this life has not come down, and the one in my previous life has flowed along the river!"

He sighed and said: "Perhaps the Buddha really didn't want me to go home, so he left this body and told me to stop thinking about it!"

After hearing this, Hongye counted with her fingers, and suddenly burst out laughing, saying: "Mistake, misstep! Misstep!"

Wukong wondered: "Brother, what are you laughing at? Where did you make a mistake?"

Hongye laughed for a while, wiped away her tears, waved her hand, and said, "Master, don't worry, it's a good thing!"

After finishing speaking, he laughed to himself again, but it was Wukong who urged him, so he stopped laughing, and explained to the master and apprentice who looked at him eagerly: "Master, didn't we just say that Ling Yundu can only get rid of mortals?" mortal body?"

Zhuang Fan nodded and said, "It is so!"

Hong Ye couldn't help laughing, and said: "Then think about it, you have absorbed the Primordial Purple Qi, not to mention your cultivation, even if you have returned the memories of your previous life, are you still a mortal? How can you get rid of your mortal body in this life?"

Zhuang Fan was startled when he heard this, and said, "This..."

He pointed to the fleshy body on the ground again, and said, "Then...this..."

Hong Ye laughed and said: "This body, it is really a complete accident. It seems that when the Buddha captured your soul from another world, he did not bring back only the soul but not the body as we thought. He decided It brought you all over here, but the soul can be poured into Tang Sanzang's body, but your body can't be dealt with, and it's not easy to damage it, so it can only be hidden, but it's unthinkable, you After crossing Lingyundu, the body was dragged into the river and caught by you!"

Zhuang Fan was startled and frightened when he heard this, Wukong wondered, "Brother, how do you know that the Buddha didn't deliberately throw this body into the river?"

Hongye patted Wukong on the forehead, and said: "If Tathagata is stupid, your master is not blind! Besides, he is pinching your master's body in the previous life, how can your master go back there? Don't you still have to work hard for him honestly, you just say Said, why didn't the Buddha hide your master's body, but threw it into the river so stupidly?"

The monkey oh-oh, scratched the back of the head, and said, "Tsk tsk, stealing a chicken won't cost you a lot of money, no wonder you said you made a mistake!"

Zhuang Fan let out a long breath, patted his chest, and said, "This can be regarded as God's blessing!"

Hongye was happy when she heard this, clapped her palms and smiled: "No, my father is still facing you!" Then he said, "It's done, since my father is all facing you, my son has to work too, uncle, you Don't worry, I will take care of your body, and I will return it to you when everything is over!"

Wukong and his younger siblings saluted their master together and said, "Thank you, brother!"

Hong Ye laughed, waved his sleeves, and rolled up Zhuang Fan's body, leaving him somewhere.

Zhuang Fan felt his whole body lighten suddenly, and a boulder fell to the ground in his heart, but he remembered something again, and said: "Hongye, my soul came to this Tang Sanzang halfway, so this Tang Sanzang Original soul, where did it go?"

Hong Ye laughed and said: "From the beginning to the end, it was only you. Where did the original soul come from? Oh, as for that Jiang Liuer back then, didn't he go to another world with you? At this time, I'm afraid he is still in your hometown!"

Zhuang Fan was taken aback, thought for a while, and smiled wryly: "Speaking of which, life is like duckweed, I really can't help myself!"

Wukong wondered: "Master, what are you talking about? What Jiang Liuer?"

Zhuang Fan remembered that the monkey had suffered so much, so he didn't want to mention Jiang Liu'er, so he said, "It's an old friend, it doesn't matter!"

The monkey grinned and said, "It's nothing important, then Master, let's go on!"

Zhuang Fan nodded and said, "Let's go! Go to Lingshan!"

Then go straight all the way, go straight to the top of the mountain, and meet the Tathagata face to face!