[Journey to the West] The monster took me away again

"Idle, can't I come to you if I have nothing to do?"

Cihang took all of Wukong's snack cloth pockets, and inserted five fingers in his right hand, holding five slender dried sweet potatoes.

Take a bite on top of each.

The hard dried sweet potato, Chen Wei had to grind it in his mouth for a long time before swallowing it. This Bodhisattva was like a monkey, a piece of the dried sweet potato was missing from his fingers when he took a bite.

The teeth are quite sharp, and no animal is as hard as his teeth.

"Of course you can look for it, but it's rare to see a bodhisattva who seems to be very idle."

Fortunately, he woke up, otherwise, if Xuanzang heard this, he would definitely write a whole page in his diary, criticizing this Bodhisattva for being too idle, always looking for trouble.

"Actually, I'm free most of the time." Cihang curled his lips, smiling maliciously: "Don't you think so in your heart?"

Chen Wei blinked his black eyes and pretended to be innocent: "How could it be? Ordinary monks can't see the real body of Bodhisattva once in their life. Poor monks have better luck than ordinary people. It's not a good thing for monks to see Bodhisattva all the time."

It's strange to say that every time this Bodhisattva appears, he turns into a man and a woman.

But every time Chen Wei was able to recognize him at a glance.

After all, the only one in front of me is the one in front of me who is so idle.

"Good luck."

Cihang smiled, and swallowed all the five dried sweet potatoes in one gulp, "Let me tell you a story."

"do not!"

Chen Wei raised his hand and refused without thinking.

Facing the surprised and puzzled look in the man's eyes, he laughed before he even opened his mouth.

"The Bodhisattva has never heard of an old saying in the mortal world."

"You talk."

Chen Wei said: "As the old saying goes, when you are away from home, as long as someone walks up to you and tells you a story, never listen to it."

It was the first time Cihang heard such rumors in the mortal world: "Why can't you listen?"

The monk, who was still a mortal, squinted at him: "Because it will be bad luck."

"Why is it bad luck?"

"When you are walking on the road and a person finds you and wants to tell you a story, this person usually has two purposes. The first purpose is that the story is related to you and requires you to continue walking. Usually this kind of thing is because there is something ahead. There's a huge hole waiting for me to jump in and lead the way to my death causing a huge wave."

Cihang frowned: "What is the second purpose?"

Chen Wei sighed: "The second purpose is to persuade people to die. There are thousands of reasons. The ultimate goal is to let the people who hear it die. The story the Bodhisattva wants to tell me is to hope that I will take the first road. Or the second way?"

The person who finished speaking looked to the distant mountain range in front of him. The mountain was so high in the darkness, the birds pattered, the beasts were ferocious, there were thousands of pine trees in the forest, and the sound of wolves roaring and hungry tigers fighting for food could be heard from time to time.

Chen Wei watched a gopher come up from the ground, and realized that he was about to get close to the fire. He was so frightened that he turned around and went down, and he didn't forget to bury the hole before he left.

"This Bodhisattva just wants to tell you a story, if you don't want to listen to it, forget it."

It took a long time for Cihang to speak, and with his left hand, he went to get the cloth bag with snacks on the ground, and when he lifted the bag up, he found that he had eaten all the dried sweet potatoes inside.

"That's a mortal's rumor. It must be different from a merciful god like you Bodhisattva. I just can't sleep, so tell me."

Chen Wei saw his palm hanging on his knee with no place to rest, smiled and got up and walked to the suitcase beside him.

From there I took out several more cloth bags.

They are all snacks for Wukong and Wuneng.

The two of them were cheap in the middle of the night.

The dried sweet potatoes were gone, but there was a bag of fried sunflower seeds. Chen Wei grabbed a handful and gave it to Cihang. When he ate a few of the sweets, he caught a glimpse of Cihang's focused eyes from the corner of his eye.

Intentionally or unintentionally, he slowed down the movement of eating melon seeds, and after eating four or five more melon seeds.

That person held the melon seeds in a dignified manner, and started nibbling too.

"Where does the story come from? Let me think about it." Cihang knocked on the melon seeds and flipped through his memories, and finally found the beginning of the story that had been buried in dust for a long time.

"There used to be a mountain called Qingu Mountain, which was rich in gold and jade. The Ju River originated from these 23 mountains and poured into the river all the way to the southeast. In the Ju River, there was a shark who practiced here for 300 years. As a result, one day on Jingshan Mountain, a guy named Ji Meng fought with Zuo Wei. The fight between the two of them was so dark that the source of Ju water was cut off, and the shark who was practicing was also implicated and got out of the water. At a critical moment Saved by someone."

Cihang said here, paused, knocked a few melon seeds before continuing: "Screw fish practiced day and night in order to repay his life-saving kindness. If you had to go far away and die on the road, Tang Seng, what would you do if you were a shark?"

The human sitting next to him eating melon seeds did not raise his head: "Keep on living, I have already cultivated to become an adult, and my lifespan must be super long. If I am lucky, I can wait until his reincarnation, but does it seem too rustic for a fish to repay his favor? ?”

Chen Wei thought that he had lived in the Huasheng Temple in Chang'an for three years, and every year when he went to the mountain behind the temple on Buddha's Birthday, those kind-hearted people would release countless wild cats and dogs, even crocodiles, snakes, ducks, sparrows, and even some Once he saw a three-month-old leopard in the guest courtyard.

Good guy, is that life release?That is simply to develop an ecological chain of the animal world for the mountain behind the temple.

If he would be rewarded by animals for saving a life by releasing life, he would start to feel sorry for the few benevolent people who had been caught for a long time.

In this next life, how frivolous is it to live.

Countless animals came to the door to repay their kindness.

Why don't you scratch your face every day, shouting that I came first, he saved me first, and let me repay his favor first?They can scratch each other for two hours every day just to fight over who will wear shoes for their benefactor.

"Soil?" Cihang lowered his head, looked at the soil under his feet, and didn't understand what this matter had to do with the soil.

"I was talking nonsense, Bodhisattva, you continue to talk."

Chen Wei waved his hand, telling him not to care about this small detail, just continue telling the story.

So Cihang continued on, saying that the shark became a soldier in order to avenge his benefactor, relying on his identity as a demon, he has been invincible on the battlefield since then, and his achievements in just ten years have shined through thousands of years. The general who frightened the world, and later assisted the new king to change the world, dedicated to benefiting the people and making countless contributions to thousands of people.

"This kind of monster must have died a long time ago." Chen Wei stopped eating melon seeds and concentrated on complaining.

"You said he is so powerful and dedicated, this kind of monster will definitely die before long."

Cihang took a deep look at him: "He died. Before he died, he said that his repayment had not been completed, and there would be an afterlife, afterlife, as long as he did not repay his kindness for a day, he would follow him forever."

The mortal monk eating melon seeds was suddenly curious, and looked at him with his head tilted: "How many times did that stupid fish fail?"

"A lot of times, what is a silly fish!"

"I'm willing to call him a silly fish."

Cihang is angry.

Chen Wei looked at the unfinished melon seeds in his palm, and suddenly felt like eating melon seeds and listening to stories.

As the old saying goes, never listen to stories casually. The first person to hear such a story will definitely die.

"Where did you buy this thing?"

It was the first time for Cihang to eat melon seeds, and he thought the taste was not bad.

"I'm going to ask Wukong about this, he bought it." Chen Wei poured all the melon seeds in his palm to him, patted the residue in his heart and changed the subject nonchalantly: "It's almost dawn, when are you leaving?" ?”

"Chasing me?" Cihang raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah, you know that I'm going to Xitian Lingshan to learn Buddhist scriptures. I'm on my way during the day and I don't sleep at night to chat with you. If you die suddenly in this way, wouldn't your idea of ​​promoting Mahayana Buddhism come to nothing?"

Chen Wei chased away the gods with confidence.

"It's the first time this Bodhisattva heard someone tell me to go. Other mortals don't even ask me to tell a story. Even if I tell three, five, nine, they will hold their eyelids with tree branches if they can't open their eyes." Listen to me."

"What a pity." The mortal monk spread his hands together: "I'm not other mortals, so I won't follow your example."

Cihang: "..."

After a stick of incense, all the snacks that Wukong and Wu Neng put in the suitcase were not left, and all of them were forcibly taken away by a certain angry Bodhisattva.

Before leaving, they all went up to the clouds, covered with auspicious clouds and rays of light, halfway through the take-off, and lowered the height to Chen Wei by pressing the lotus platform: "The story of this Bodhisattva is not finished yet. I will tell you the second one when we meet next time." story."

"Can I refuse?" Chen Wei always felt that he wanted to brainwash him through stories and do something.

Cihang pondered for a while, then shook his head affirmatively: "This Bodhisattva is willing to make things difficult for others."

Very good, Chen Wei succeeded in getting angry.

Before going to bed, I wrote a diary for Xuanzang, and when I saw the message the other party had left for him, the story of Cihang appeared in my mind again.

Taking a deep breath, he squeezed a charcoal pencil and wrote bad things about Cihang on the paper.

After finishing writing, throwing away the notebook, he fell down and lay down, hugged the blanket tightly and closed his eyes to comfort himself.

"That stupid fish is so stupid. How could it have chased a person so many times? Maybe it was because of the love of the other person when it first saw the person, and used the excuse of repaying the favor."

"puff!"

In the sky, Cihang, who was hiding in the clouds, ate the snacks he had robbed, listened to the muttering of the monk in the lower realm while he was sleeping, and burst out laughing.

The whole person fell down on the lotus platform in a disfigured manner. A night tour god who was in a hurry to get off work saw that Guanyin Bodhisattva on Luojia Mountain would do such a thing, and quickly fled the scene in embarrassment.

Cihang coughed secretly and sat down again on the lotus platform, holding many snacks in his arms: "One story made Tang Monk gradually startled and disturbed. It seems that the road is still far away, and Lei Yin is also far away."

Chen Wei, who was lying on the grass, was half asleep and half awake.

When he opened his eyes again, the sun was already shining in the sky, Drifting held a huge banana leaf in front of him, shielding him from the glare of the sun.

In the distance, a monkey and pig demon are under a peach tree, one is picking peaches on top, and the other is standing below directing. The division of labor between the two is a rare harmony.

Cihang over there also returned to his Luojia Mountain with a bunch of mortal things, surrounded by golden boys and jade girls.

I saw those things on his body scattered all over the lotus platform.

"Bodhisattva, what are these?"

The jade girl curiously picked up a peanut and asked him about it.

"Good food, pack it up and put it in Chaoyin Cave."

Cihang rubbed her little head, and walked down the lotus platform to look at the flowers on the railing by the lotus pool.

The wooden fork walker who was left by him last night was still in place. When he saw him coming back, he strode up to him, stepped sideways to his side, took a step back and stood up.

"The Bodhisattva didn't return last night, but he went to see that golden cicada?"

"What's so good about that guy, he opens his mouth every time and doesn't speak human words." Cihang opened the melon seeds he had just brought over, and threw one into the water.

Look at the koi in the pond curiously looking at the strange food floating on the water.

As if to eat or not.

The wooden fork walker's eyelids twitched, and he also learned a lesson after suffering from the golden cicada's hand a few times, and turned his attention to look at the thing in the Bodhisattva's hand.

"This is?"

"The snacks given by Tang Monk are quite delicious." Cihang waited for the koi to eat the melon seeds, and then dropped another one.

Mu Cha stood behind him and watched him drop the koi one by one to feed, thinking to himself, didn't you just say you didn't go to see Jin Chanzi?

Why did he take something that mortals eat from him again?

The author has something to say: Xuanzang: Hey, feed more, or I will feed you in the future.