[Journey to the West] Jagged Tang San Burial

Bajie twisted his body resentfully, and did not talk to them, but saw the only rolling curtain that did not intervene suddenly looked at him and smiled. The facial expression, why the smile, the suspicion in my heart that I really thought it was because the moon was too big and the monkey was too treacherous, which caused me to be blinded, and I felt like he was laughing at me when I looked at the roller blind. I always felt that this was not a good omen. Then she glared at him, then climbed onto her rattan bed, lay down with her clothes on, and stopped looking at them.

The monkey here also said that the night wind is cold, so the master should close the door early and go to bed to avoid the evil wind from invading, but he thought in his heart that deep in the mountains and old forests, it is inevitable that there will be some ghosts and ghosts. Take it away and eat it, the monk has a Zen stick, and the monster has a simple knife. Although they do not need their help, it is still very noisy. It is not certain how many houses will be demolished. It is hard to find a place to live. It is better to treat others well. / I will look up at the moon every night.

Sanzang responded, but refused to go to sleep. He hadn't seen such a full moon for a long time, the radiance was clear, and he was instantly refreshed. He responded casually, but refused to sleep. The monkey was shocked when he saw that he wanted to go out. He went up to him and asked, "Master, why do you still want to go out?" Sanzang said, "It's a good night, I'm going to the night jogging meeting for Master, you can go to bed first." Without waiting for the monkey to answer, he opened the door of the meditation hall and went out. The figure disappeared at the end of the corridor.

The monkey was very tangled at the door, wanting to follow, but he was afraid that Sanzang would be too energetic at that time, and it would be very bad to drag him to run and punch together. The three juniors behind him were already lying on the bed. Bailong yawned, curled up into a ball, and said to the monkey in a vague voice: "Elder brother, why are you worried? If you really encounter a monster, it's because the monster's life is not good. It is destined to be rescued by the master. It's better to rest earlier." It’s good, lest tomorrow’s spirit will not be good, and I will be rejected by the master.” The monkey thought to himself, even if the Baolin Temple is not demolished, they can only live for one night, so it’s better to bless the nearby monsters in the dream, don’t worry about it. The eyes grow to the heels, to provoke monks who should not be provoked.

It was fate, and the monkey's crow's mouth turned out to be true.It is said that Sanzang recited Buddhist scriptures, straightened his cassocks, and ran slowly around the huge Baolin Temple under the bright moonlight. I don’t know how long he ran. The wind was howling, the clouds were rolling, covering the moon, the birds in the mountains were choking, and the windows and doors were shaking, so he stopped and looked around, thinking that the wind must have something to do with it, and he didn't bring a Zen stick , I could only pick up a broken branch on the spot and watch the surroundings quietly.

The wind came quickly and left without a trace. Sanzang heard the wind pass by and was about to move on when he heard someone calling him master. He looked up and found that there was an extra man at the other end of the corridor, dressed in a tidy.The corridor was very dark, and Sanzang couldn't make out the other person's face for a while, thinking it was a monk in the temple, but he saw a thunder billowing from the sky, and the white light struck the man's face instantly, and Sanzang suddenly realized that The person is actually wearing a beautiful crown, a jade belt around his waist, a nine-clawed golden dragon ocher yellow robe, and a white jade gui in his hand, but his whole body seems to be dripping with water, his head and face are covered with water, and the corners of his eyes are constantly crying. The water was going to flow all the way to his feet.

The thunder and lightning disappeared into the sky in an instant, and the man's face was once again silent in the darkness. He just wailed, "Master! Master, save me!" Sanzang thought that he might have encountered a water demon, and how could the monster call him? Help, another thunderbolt struck across the sky, Sanzang saw clearly that the corridor was empty and there was no sign of that person, and he realized in his heart whether he had encountered a water ghost or a ghost with an extraordinary status, so he said softly : "You said, what's the matter with looking for poor monks?"

The man took a few steps forward, as if he was afraid of Sanzang, he didn't dare to approach, and said from a distance: "Master, my family lives in Zhengxi, only forty miles away from here, and the name Wuji Kingdom was founded by the widow. About five years ago, there was a severe drought, no grass grew, the people died of hunger, the treasury was empty, and the money and food were cut off. The widow has already stopped the salary of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, and shares the suffering with the people, and the food does not see meat. The monks in the country say this is heaven The widow took a bath, fasted, burned incense and prayed to heaven. In this way, the water has been cut off for a year. It is no longer a country, no family, no people. Suddenly a Quanzhen Taoist came from Zhongnan Mountain, who said that he could call wind and rain , Turning stone into gold, with great supernatural powers, has been seen by the prime minister. The widow also has nothing to do, let him try it first, ask him to go up to the altar to do the trick, and the token will go up to the sky. Sure enough, within a short while, heavy rain poured cats and dogs. Absolutely. The widow doesn’t ask for much, only expecting three feet of rain is enough, but the Taoist said that a year’s drought has suffered my people, so even if he loses a little bit of mana, he needs to moisten it, so it rains two inches more The widow saw that he was so dedicated to the people, so he made friends with him eight times and became brothers. He said that he was several hundred years older than the widow, so he regarded him as a brother and the widow as a younger brother.

That Taoist is not only powerful in mana, but also proficient in poetry and books, and has extraordinary appearance. I am like a close confidant with him, sleeping and eating together, going in and out together.After two years like this, one spring day, the widow walked hand in hand with him in the imperial garden, and then talked about flowers and birds. When he walked to the octagonal glazed well, he coaxed the widow to say that he saw thousands of golden lights in the well, and the widow was approaching the well. Look, he was pushed back into the well, and his body fell to death on the spot, and the Taoist did not know what to do next to the well, the widow's soul couldn't leave here, and after three years of detention, the Taoist became a widow I can't understand the appearance of civil and martial arts, and the empress and concubine can't know. I often go down to the well to see the widow, but I don't let the widow out. Recently, the shackles of magic have been suddenly loosened. After making a masterpiece, I found out that it was a master with strong magic power, and came to beg the master to save the widow! "

When the ghost talked about his sadness, he sobbed and cried bitterly, regardless of his status as a former king, he pulled his sleeves and wiped his tears. After listening to his intermittent description, Sanzang had a conclusion in his heart: this case is not new, and it has not yet been seen. There are those who peel off the human skin and put it on themselves, pretending to be someone else's mother, someone else's father-in-law, or his first son, and they can still deceive them. Sanzang pointed out that he is a monster, and no one believed him at all. They just looked at Master Sanzang's face and didn't refute it on the spot. .However, wearing human skin doesn't last long, and no one will find out after several months of concealment, but this monster who claims to be a Quanzhen Taoist has some monster power, and no one will know it within three years, which is more troublesome than what he encountered before many.

Sanzang was thinking of a solution here, but the ghost over there was still crying non-stop, with water droplets falling from his body, echoing in this empty corridor, the sound was very clear, but it disturbed him so he couldn't think deeply, he could only say: "If A year and a half, it's okay, the poor monk beat the monster in the court and turned into its original shape. If it is three years, even if the poor monk can beat the monster, I'm afraid your ministers and concubines will not recognize you and say that the monster He is the real king, the poor monk and you are both monsters."

Hearing this, the ghost cried even more miserably. Big drops of water fell down, and Sanzang had no choice but to order him to stop: "It's useless for you to cry! Is there anyone in the court who can trust you?" Sanzang stopped, only sobbing, without the demeanor of a monarch of a country. After thinking and thinking, he said: "I used to have a prince, who was the son of the deceased imperial brother. He adopted it to me and raised him as the heir. The monster is afraid." Talking to the crown prince, he missed the point, so he was forbidden to enter the palace for three years, and he was not allowed to meet with the concubine. He was only allowed to be in the Jinluan Hall, in the Wufeng Tower, or to lecture and compile books with the great scholars, or to burn incense at the altar. I saw that monster a few days ago and begged him to treat the prince kindly, but the monster said he hadn’t seen him for three years, how could he treat him kindly... The prince was raised by me since I was a child, seeing him is like seeing my dead brother, and I don’t know what he is doing now.”

Sanzang had a terrible headache, and the water ghost kept dripping water all over his body, even his eyes seemed to contain a well of water. Forced to ignore it, he said: "Tomorrow I will rush to your black-bone chicken country to look for your prince. What do you have for me as a token?"

The water ghost thought for a while, the action was actually to take off the clothes on his body, Sanzang stopped him quickly, and finally had no choice but to take the white jade in his hand, walked towards Sanzang, and wanted to hand it to Sanzang.The ghost walked out slowly from the shadow of the corridor, with the dark water lying on its feet, and was about to walk out of the darkness, but it refused to take a step forward. From the shadow, it stretched out a palm with white muscles and edema, and held the Bai Yugui was placed on the ground.

Sanzang went forward to pick up Bai Yugui, and when he looked up, he suddenly saw the water ghost's face very close at hand. He shouted in his mouth: "Master..."

"Master?? Master?? Monk!!"

Sanzang woke up suddenly, the sunlight came in from the window, shining on his face, but his eyes were so painful that he couldn't open them, the monkey shook him desperately, with several disciples beside him, and they didn't know what to do, seeing him wake up Come and breathe a sigh of relief.Sanzang thought to himself that he had just met the water ghost and took the Bai Yugui, but he was too close to avoid being frightened, why suddenly he was in the meditation hall again, and when he moved, something hard in his arms crushed him , reached into his clothes, and took out a piece of white jade.

Bajie watched from the side, wondering: "Master, where did you pick this up? Why didn't you see this when you went to bed last night?" The monkey had a flash of inspiration, and asked: "Master slept a little strangely last night. Is it possible that I dreamed of a monster?" Bajie gave him a sideways glance: "Eldest brother, why did he say everything he saw was a monster? Master sleeps here, how can a monster dare to act presumptuously?"

Xiao Bailong persuaded embarrassingly: "Uh, second senior brother, we are all monsters..."

Sanzang looked at the Bai Yugui in his hand, and thought about what happened last night. Could it be that seeing the water ghost was just a dream of his own, and the king was still suppressed in the well, and his soul could not escape, so he had to ask for help in a dream. The words are not false, there really is a monster that can suppress the soul, and after three years in the shape of a human, it must not be an ordinary person, so he got up and said: "It's not a monster, it's a water ghost, seek help from the teacher, and set off now .”