[Journey to the West] The Poor Monk Xuanzang

As soon as the picture turned, he walked around the carved pillars and went through the latticed doors, and came to a courtyard.

I saw a big tree in the middle, more than a thousand feet high, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and knotted roots. Several ginseng fruits were looming between the branches and leaves. The fruit was as pink and tender as a baby.

Even knowing that this is a ginseng fruit tree, everyone couldn't help being a little surprised that there is such a strange tree in the world.

In the picture, Mingyue and Qingfeng, one holding a golden hammer and the other holding a alchemy plate, knocked the fruit and took it away.After a while, I saw a ginseng fruit stretched, rubbed its eyes, and jumped down from the tree.

The fruit looked like a baby, but fell under the tree and quickly grew into a seven or eight-year-old child. The chubby little doll stood under the tree, looked at the ostentatious fruit, and grinned happily, revealing a white and neat face. the teeth of.

The ginseng fruit essence climbed up the tree, sat on the branch, dangling its legs, poking the fruit next to it boredly.He rubbed his stomach, and seemed to be hungry, so he stretched out his hand and stuffed a fruit into his mouth, chewing it crunchily.

He ate this hard-to-find ginseng fruit like chewing cabbage for five times before he burped with juice all over his face. He lay back on the branch and slowly turned into a fruit attached to the tree and swayed in the wind.

Qingfeng Mingyue blushed when she saw this place, the two fell to their knees on the ground, stammering: "I was the one who blamed the mage and all the disciples, I hope the mage will make amends."

Zhen Yuanzi stroked his beard and laughed, arranged a banquet and became brothers with the monkey.

"It's a miracle that the fruit turned into essence," Zhen Yuanzi and I chatted during the meeting, "He ate five ginseng fruits at once, sir, does your heart feel bad?"

He shook his head and smiled lightly: "Although the ginseng fruit is extremely precious, it is nothing compared to him."

"Oh?" What he said aroused my interest, "How do you say that?"

"Master, do you know how many apprentices I have?"

I instinctively felt that what he said was not really asking me, so I just laughed and didn't answer.

"I have 48 disciples now, although they all have their own abilities, none of them can compare to my big disciple Wanyi." He seemed to be in a very good mood, and there seemed to be nostalgia in his expression.

"There used to be two ginseng fruit trees that grew up together, but because one tree transformed, only one survived, and the one that transformed was my disciple."

"He has always been extremely intelligent, but also extremely mischievous, causing troubles all the time."

When he said this, the doting look on his brows gradually dissipated, and the rest was indescribably desolate: "I should have known that his character would cause trouble sooner or later."

"At that time, I was young and energetic, and relying on my own abilities, I spoiled him so much that he didn't know how high he was. As a result, my apprentice offended someone and was beaten to death outside. When I felt wrong and looked for him... only one A strand of soul cannot enter reincarnation."

As he spoke, he drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. Under the moonlight, this man's features were picturesque, handsome and unparalleled, but with an indescribable desolation.

"Amitabha..." I couldn't help but sigh when I heard this, even a man as powerful as Zhen Yuanzi couldn't protect his disciple.

"I put his soul into the ginseng fruit tree, and I just beg God to show mercy and give me a glimmer of life for that apprentice. Now, ten thousand years have passed, and I have waited."

On the second day, Zhen Yuanzi led all the fairies to see me off, and I saw a fat white doll standing in the first place on his right hand, about seven or eight years old, with a lively smile and very cute.

"Congratulations sir." I clapped my hands together and smiled.

"Saint Monk take care."

"Master, what are you thinking?" The monkey stretched out its hand and shook it in front of my eyes.

I smiled and couldn't help thinking.His apprentice, Cheng Ryoja, was born with no one to protect him, so he almost lost his soul. Now, my apprentice's ability to cause trouble is even worse than that of his family's.

If something really happens one day, I don't know...whether I can protect him.

Along the way, there are lush grasses, beautiful pine trees, thorns on the roadside, big pythons entrenched in the trees, and giant beasts peeking out from the half-person-high grass, whether it is a tiger or a leopard.

I was riding on a horse, and I was terrified when I saw it: "...Wukong."

"Master, don't be afraid." The monkey smiled, took a quick step, jumped to the top of the tree and screamed, only to see tigers and leopards running away, flocks of birds flapping their wings and leaving in a hurry.

Walking to the mountainside, they found a spacious place, and everyone stopped to rest, planning to eat something, drink some water, and leave later.

Wu Jing tossed and turned in the load, looked up for a while and said, "Master, I forgot to bring dry food when I left Wuzhuang Temple." He shook the bag as he spoke.

"Wukong, I'm hungry as a teacher..." And you idiots can even forget to bring dry food.

Before I finished speaking, the monkey continued: "Master, this is a barren mountain and wild ridge. There are no shops in front of the village or behind. Where are you going to get a meal?"

I looked at him coolly, took off the three treasures from his head and handed them to his arms, saying: "It's hungry too."

Three treasures were raised by me since I was a child. They are shiny and smooth, with dark eyes, and they are very spiritual when they stare blankly at people.

The two monkeys looked at each other, and finally the big monkey was defeated: "Master, don't wander around, let me have a look."

The monkey jumped onto the cloud and disappeared.

After a while, I heard a voice in the air saying: "There are no people here, but there is a piece of red peaches in Nanshan, which must be overripe mountain peaches. I will pick some and come back. Master, don't move around. The second and third brothers look after the master." !"

I was resting on the rock, when I suddenly saw a woman coming from the depths of the jungle pushing branches and leaves.

Bajie was so hungry that he murmured and complained, when suddenly he saw this woman, his whole body became energetic, he picked up the rake, and ran forward, saying: "Master, you sit with the Drifting Monk, and wait for the old man to wait." Pigs go and have a look."

"Female Bodhisattva, where are you going? What are you holding in your hand?" The Bajie couldn't walk when he saw a beautiful woman, so he opened his mouth to call the female Bodhisattva.

Seeing Bajie's face, the woman was not frightened at all, instead she lowered her head and smiled shyly, and whispered softly: "Elder, I have fragrant rice in this green pot and fried gluten in the green bottle, so I'm here specially." Because I also vowed to be a monk.”

Bajie was excited the moment he heard this, and ran back in a jerk, "Master, master! That monkey has gone, and we would have starved to death by the time he comes back. Besides, although the peaches are good, eating too much of them is not enough." Noisy man, here comes a female Bodhisattva who says she wants to fast to the monks!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw the woman stepping forward and bowing gracefully: "Elder."

When I first saw her face, she looked like my cousin who grew up with me as a childhood sweetheart, and I couldn't help being a little stunned: "Female benefactor..."

"Master," the idiot poked my back, "the female Bodhisattva is talking to you."

I suddenly came back to my senses, and saw that woman turned her face sideways, looking very shy, I couldn't help but feel embarrassed, and a series of words came out: "Female benefactor, where does your family live? What kind of family is it? What is your wish to come here to fast?"

The woman glanced at me secretly, then lowered her head, and said softly: "Elder, my husband is hoeing the field in the northern valley of the mountain. I brought him lunch. Suddenly, three people came from afar. They thought their parents were kind, so they gave this meal to the monk. , I hope the elders don’t dislike it.”

Before I got there and said anything, the idiot pushed me away, put a shy face in front of the woman, snatched the pot, and said with a simple smile: "Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, the female Bodhisattva is really a Bodhisattva with a heart. "

I hurriedly reached out to snatch it: "It's for her husband, you—"

Just at this time, the monkey flew back carrying a branch full of peaches, and before he could say a word to me, he threw the peach branch, raised the iron bar, and hit him head-on.

I shielded the woman behind me: "What are you doing?"

"Master, this is obviously a goblin!" He hurriedly came around from my side and wanted to hit the woman again.

"Master," the woman clutched my sleeve tightly, her eyes full of desolation, "Master, save me!"

"Master, where do you think there is a woman in this barren mountain?"

"This..." I just saw that this woman looked like an old friend before, but I forgot that this road is full of thorns, male chariots and horses, wolves, tigers and leopards everywhere, how could she be alone in this wilderness as a woman?

"When I was a demon in the Water Curtain Cave, if I wanted to eat human flesh, it would be like this: I would turn into gold or silver, or I would turn into a woman. If there is such an infatuated person, if he falls in love with me, I will lure him into the cave and let him go. You can use it as you like, steamed or boiled, if you can't eat it, you have to dry it to prevent the sky from being cloudy!"

"Master, if I come late, you will be killed by her!"

I heard his frightening words, and when I thought about the abnormalities in every aspect of this woman, I felt that her hairs were standing on her head, and I wished I could run away.

The monkey pushed me away and hit the woman on the head, only to hear a scream, the woman was rolled to the ground by him, lying in a pile of rubble and never moved again.

Bajie hurriedly ran over, stuck his nose under the woman's nose, and said in shock, "Master, she's dead!"

I took a look at the two of them, reached out and touched the woman's hand, it was already cold, this is by no means something that happens to a person who just died.

"Bury the body, and we're on our way."

"Master, look." Wukong helped me to see where there was fragrant rice in the jar, but there was a jar of maggots wriggling with their tails, which looked very disgusting.

Bajie looked at the jar of repelling insects, and said angrily: "Master, don't be fooled by senior brother, he must have wanted to test whether the woman is a goblin, but unexpectedly beat her to death with a heavy stick, and now he is afraid that you will scold her, I will use this blindfold to deceive you."

Hearing this, Wukong picked up the stick and wanted to beat him, and the two chased and fled across the mountains and plains.

I forced a smile: "Stop making trouble, eat something and go on the road."

Hearing this, Wukong ran back and picked peaches for me.

Bajie gnawed on the peaches while digging a hole and said angrily, "If this person is dead, why should he bury him?"

Seeing me staring at the woman's corpse, Wukong smiled and said, "Could it be that this woman's beauty has moved Master's heart?"

"Nonsense," I stretched out my hand to tease Sanbao for a while, "This woman looks like an old friend of mine."

"Master's old friend," the monkey regained his spirits instantly, "Master, you grew up in the temple, did you have an old friend with such a face?"

It was only then that I realized that I had slipped my tongue, so Nene turned her head away and stopped talking.

Just at this time, I suddenly heard someone calling my daughter in the mountains and forests. The old lady with silver hair and a bent bamboo stick came towards me tremblingly, and asked at the beginning: "Has the elder seen me?" daughter."

The monkey chuckled, picked up the stick and beat her to death again.

At this time, I can see it completely. This is obviously the difficulty of three beating the bone spirit, but watching this person die under the monkey stick like this, it really requires good psychological endurance.

I rubbed my head with some headaches, and asked the monkey to dig a hole with Bajie.

"Master, this is a monster!" The monkey was full of displeasure.

"The corpse is human." I took a bite of the peach and looked at him with a hard heart.

The corpse had just been bought, and the four of us packed our luggage and started on the road, but we ran into an old man leaning on a dragon head crutch, holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, and chanting scriptures.

I let out a long sigh, and felt that this goblin was too indomitable.

"Wukong, drive him away, I get a headache just looking at this man." Don't know how to use your brain, these wolves, tigers and leopards are all over the mountains and plains, you, an old man walking tremblingly, should have been taken away by wolves long ago.

The monkey was full of joy and went up to fight the monster. Seeing that the situation was not good, the old man ran away with a cane, faster than a rabbit.