[Journey to the West] The Poor Monk Xuanzang

I was sleepy and dizzy, and suddenly felt that my whole body was cold, but I couldn't open my eyes for a long time.

"Master, master!" the monkey yelled as it pulled my clothes, as if its tail had been burned.

I opened my eyes with quite a headache, and my whole body woke up suddenly. It turned out that the river water had spread to my body at some point.

The monkey helped me up, turned around and saluted Bajie while kicking Bajie Drifting monks awake: "Get up, get up!"

"You plague-stricken monkey, why are you screaming before dawn!" Bajie jumped up suddenly, swung his sleeves and screamed, and saw the bottom of his feet again: "Why did the water flood here overnight?"

"Second senior brother, the water is probably weird." Drifting received it.

The moon hangs high in the sky.

A few people discredited and walked up another 80 [-] meters, found an open place to sit down, and barely fell asleep again.

"Monster! Monster!" Several shrill screams shocked me soberly.

More than a dozen people were running in all directions, screaming shrillly from time to time.

Bajie hugged his stomach and smiled honestly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

The man he blocked under the tree was pale, his legs were trembling, and he looked like he was about to pee his pants in fright.

"I said you, what are you afraid of?" The monkey squatted on the tree and dangled back and forth.

Hearing the voice, the man raised his head, and when he saw Wukong, he even had an expression of wanting to pass out.

I sighed, and went forward to salute: "This benefactor, the poor monk is very polite."

When the man saw me, it was like seeing a living Bodhisattva, and he was about to rush over. It seemed that he was completely unaware that there was a big stone in front of his feet.

"—Bang!" The fall was not light.

"...Amitabha." I silently turned my head away.

"Hahahahahahaha." The monkey laughed wildly and shook his head, "This man is too timid, he can't help but be scared!"

The man crawled over covered in blood and hugged my thigh: "Elder, save me." As soon as he finished saying this, he rolled his eyes and passed out.

I silently pulled my leg out of his hand, but I couldn't move it... What a great resentment.

When the man woke up, he sat dazedly again, and suddenly kowtowed to the surging river, with the tendency to kowtow until his head was bleeding.

I asked Wukong to stop him and asked, "Does the benefactor have any difficulties?"

The man's face was covered in blood, and his face was ashes: "It's not that I have troubles, but, it's that this evildoer in the river wants to destroy my family." After saying that, his legs and feet went limp, and he knelt down on the ground.

"Oh, there are such daring and reckless monsters!" The monkey was visibly excited and moved closer, "Come, come, tell me what's going on."

The man let out a long sigh: "This matter has to start from three years ago."

Three years ago, Wang San insisted that he saw a fairy on the water. He spoke so convincingly that he even described the fairy's body and appearance clearly.

According to Wang San, the immortal was sitting on a piece of driftwood, with no hair on his body, and his long hair submerged in the water.

Wang San is a well-known honest man in the local area, but this matter is so bizarre that no one believes him.

Not to mention that the theory of immortals is illusory, it sounds even more absurd that immortals would sit on a broken log without clothes.

Someone said: "You old man, could it be that you can't find a wife, so you have a daydream for nothing." Everyone laughed and echoed: "San'er, if you ask that fairy to be your wife, you have to bring it to your brother." Let's take a look."

Wang San was so angry that he bet that he would stay by the river every day and say he wanted to find the immortal.

Unexpectedly, the immortal was not found, but the man was gone.

When the man said this, his face was pale, as if he had thought of something extremely bad: "When we found him, his internal organs were all empty, and only half of his body was soaked white by the river."

Everyone talked a lot, saying that what Wang San saw was not a fairy, but a monster.

For a long time, people in the village did not dare to go near the water, for fear of being fascinated by the alluring monster and being eaten to death.

"But my younger brother is not afraid of death," the man said bitterly, "everyone is afraid of that monster and wishes to stay far away from the Tongtian River, but he thinks his life is too long. If he has nothing to do, he runs to the river and stops him. Can't live."

One day, my younger brother came back from the river and brought back a handsome man.Our place is a little remote, although there are some beauties, but compared with that one, they are all low in the dirt.

"However, in the face of such an unknown person, my younger brother is not only unguarded, but as if he has been fascinated by his mind, he eats and sleeps with that monster, playing hand in hand..."

The man seemed to recall some extremely frightening things, and he was sweating coldly: "Until that day, I went to find my brother..."

"Sanlang Sanlang!" He walked around the room several times without seeing anyone, so he went straight in.

There was a faint sound of water in the room accompanied by small groans.Curious for a while, he secretly lifted the curtain and took a look inside, only to see the two of them doing such a messy thing.

"Hahahahaha," Monkey Head pulled my sleeve and laughed, "Master, this man is so dishonest, he even peeks at other people doing that."

The man's face was red and white, and he said: "But it's a monster."

I froze for a moment: "Why do you say it's a monster?"

"Well, that man's waist is full of fish tails," he said, stretching out his hands and gesticulating, "It's quite, it's as long as it is!"

"It sounds a bit like a shark." I rubbed my chin and looked at my three apprentices.

Bajie casually tore off steamed buns and stuffed them into his mouth: "My old pig is in charge of Tianhe's [-]-thousand navy, and this mermaid has only heard of it but never seen it."

"Master, if you want to meet that merman," the monkey bragged again, "Old Sun Custodian will teach him to come out."

The middle-aged man almost cried when he heard this, and jumped on the monkey: "Elder, don't make such a joke, that monster, he is a cannibal."

"Yo, it's still only a meaty fish," Bajie said with a smile, "much better than my old pig."

"Idiot," the monkey slapped him, then turned to ask the middle-aged man, "what do you mean?"

"The monster was overwhelmed by me, and became angry from embarrassment. He bit off my brother's head and turned around to eat me again."

I frowned slightly.

The monkey next to him grinned, tugged at the middle-aged man's mustache, and leaned over with a hairy face: "Since that's the case, how did you escape this disaster?"

The middle-aged man was scared out of his wits by him, fell on the ground with his head up and couldn't get up for a long time, stumbled and faltered for a long time, and couldn't even speak clearly.

The monkey laughed and slapped his thigh: "This man, this man is so timid." After saying that, he helped the man up: "Come, come, don't be afraid, tell me what's going on."

The middle-aged man got up tremblingly, but he avoided the monkey and shrank behind me: "The monster wanted to eat me, but suddenly changed his mind."

"He wants us to sacrifice a pair of virgin boys and girls to him every six months, otherwise our clan will be destroyed."

"This monster seems to have some brains," the idiot laughed, "It's planning to eat for a long time."

The man flinched: "Master, what did you say? This is clearly my lifeline."

"Then you can give it?" Monkey asked.

"How can you not give it?" The man's face was full of vicissitudes. "If you don't give it, the monster will stir up trouble and make the river swell, and everyone who is flooded will die."

"So it wasn't drowned?" I asked.

"I didn't drown," the man gritted his teeth with tears all over his face, "he was bitten to death by that monster!"

"It's just that this year, there are really no suitable children to contribute." He pointed to the raging river, "I'm afraid that none of us will survive this year."

"You are too timid," the monkey laughed, "How about Lao Sun helping you understand this monster?"

When Bajie heard the words, he immediately hid behind me.

"The little elder can catch demons?" The man crawled out from behind me and threw himself under the monkey's hairy legs: "I beg the elder to save me."

"Get up." The monkey held the golden cudgel and propped it on the ground, looking like a big man.

"I don't know what weapons the little elder needs and how many people he needs? I'll send someone to do it right away." The middle-aged man got up tremblingly, with a flattering expression on his face.

"No hurry, no hurry, just stay with my master, I'll take my junior brother to have a look." The monkey said, grabbing Bajie by the ear and dragging him out from behind me, "Junior brother Sha, take care of master, The old grandson will come as soon as he goes."

The monkey went to fight again, and I sighed, so I had to follow the middle-aged man to his house.

"Elder, please." The middle-aged man pushed open the courtyard door and stepped aside.

This courtyard is not very big, but there are dozens of people surrounding it. When they saw us coming in, they all looked over in unison.