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

Yuan Zhen's face was flushed from moving the water tank, and the busy people who got up early in the morning didn't even know that Master Tang in the guest courtyard had left.

The Bodhisattva's words yesterday kept Abbot Yuanzhen awake all night, recalling over and over what the Ciyun Temple had done for generations, he was half afraid and half obedient to the three temple spirits for so many years.

He actually still has the face to go to the Daxiong Palace to cry with the Buddha every day, and he really feels ashamed when he thinks of this circle. If it weren't for the fact that there is no one in Ciyun Temple to take his place, last night he wanted to pack his bags and go home from Jinping Mansion overnight.

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Master and apprentice Chen Wei went back on the road, listening to the cranes in the pines every day, the spring water flowing, the cold air piercing through human hair, just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the snow in the mountains has not yet melted, walking on the path from time to time see heavy The heavy snow fell from the treetops, and it was heartbreaking to hit people.

The mountain road is rugged, and there are strange pine trees and snow everywhere. After living in the cave for half a month, Chen Wei finally saw towers and palaces in the valley in the distance on horseback.

"Wukong, go and see if it's a temple over there?"

Sitting on the horseback, Chen Wei spread his palms on the eyebrows and looked in that direction: "It happens that we will spend the night there tonight."

"Master, you wait, my old grandson goes over to take a look."

Wukong jumped directly from the boulder between the cliffs into the mid-air, and stared carefully at the stacked towers with piercing eyes. The Wanfo Pavilion is facing the Tathagata Hall, and the Chaoyang Tower is facing the Manjusri Terrace. There are still monks cleaning in front of the abbot.

"Master, it really is a monastery. We have a place to stay tonight."

Sun Wukong fell down from mid-air, pointed in that direction and said: "My old grandson can see clearly, but I'm afraid there are not many monks in this temple."

When he looked at the mountain gate in mid-air just now, he only felt that although there were words on the gate, it was covered by dust, and he didn't know what name was written in it.

"It doesn't matter how many monks there are, as long as there is a piece of tile to block the wind." Wu Neng carried his nine-toothed rake, ran to Chen Wei in three steps at a time, pulled the reins of the white dragon horse for him, and hurriedly Busily went to the valley.

The four of them got there all the way, stood outside the mountain gate and looked up at the plaque on it. No one had wiped it for many years. The spider web and dust covered only half of the temple name, and they vaguely saw three Jianyu trees. large characters.

"Drifting, use this to wipe the plaque."

Chen Wei took out a handkerchief and handed it to the four-foot-tall third apprentice, asking him to wipe off all the dirt on the plaque.

Sand Monk complied, and soon everyone saw the full name of this temple, "Chijian Baolin Temple".

"You guys stand here for a while, and I'll knock on the mountain gate." Chen Wei walked up the steps with a nine-ringed tin staff, reached the red-painted railings on both sides of the mountain gate, and knocked on the door.

After a while, footsteps came from behind the door, and soon the mountain gate was opened, and a Taoist dressed up stood behind the door, wondering who would come to the door in this cold winter and twelfth lunar month, when he opened it, he saw a strange-looking man standing outside the door, The monk with extraordinary grace quickly opened all the temple doors, stepped forward and saluted: "Where did the mage come from?"

Chen Wei clasped his hands together with a smile on his face: "The poor monk was sent from the Tang Dynasty in the east, and went to the west to worship Buddha and get the scriptures. It will be late in Baodi today, and I want to stay here for a night."

Hearing that he wanted to stay overnight, the Taoist guard at the door waved his hands quickly: "I'm afraid I can't make the decision. I'm just a person who sweeps the floor and rings the bell to watch the door. There is also the teacher and father inside. I will go in and ask the teacher and father. If he agrees, I will let you go." Come in, if you don't agree, I dare not force you to stay."

"It's okay, Daoist, just ask."

The mountain gate was closed again, and the sound of footsteps inside gradually faded away. Chen Wei jumped a few times on the spot to warm his frozen feet again, and then shouted at the three apprentices standing not far away: "Wait a minute, He went in and asked the master."

Inside the door, the Taoist sweeping the floor and ringing the bell hurriedly saw the abbot hall and knocked on the door: "Master, there is someone outside."

A monk official in the room was reading scriptures, when he heard the sound, he quickly put on his cassock and opened the door to greet him: "Where are they from? But the scholar-officials from the city came to offer incense?"

The Taoist sweeper pointed to the location of the mountain gate: "It's not from the city, it's a monk who came from the Tang Dynasty in the east to go to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures. He passed by here and wanted to stay overnight."

When the monk officer heard that he was a Buddhist monk from the Tang Dynasty, his face turned black on the spot, and he turned around and walked into the room: "Any liar dares to come to the door to borrow a night, and he will be chased away! How can a wandering monk live? What? He just wants to spend the night in our temple and let him go."

The Taoist sweeper was taught a lesson, and walked out after being scolded.

Outside the mountain gate, Wukong could already hear the conversation inside. He took out his golden cudgel and jumped up the steps. After a few steps, he reached the mountain gate: "Master, get out of the way, let me talk about it later."

"Then don't scare people." Chen Wei didn't hear the conversation inside, thinking that he couldn't wait to go in, so he stepped back a meter away and stood at the railing of the mountain gate waiting for the people inside open the door.

The sound of the footsteps of the Taoist who was being trained gradually approached, and when he finally reached the gate of the mountain, he took a deep breath, then pressed his hands on the wooden bar on the gate, pulled it out to open the door, and directly said out.

"Master, please forgive me. Teacher and father said that there is a [-]-mile shop four or five miles to the west from here. There are food sellers and accommodation in the shop. It is inconvenient for us to stay here, so we will not keep monks from far away." The sweeping Taoist dared to raise his head after he finished speaking, but when he looked, his eyes were blank.

The very handsome monk who had just stood outside the door disappeared, only a stick four feet long and the width of a soup bowl stood erect at the door.

The Taoist followed the top of the stick, moved his eyes from top to bottom, and then fell on a monkey figure, looked at the monkey dumbfounded and murmured: "Master?"

"My old grandson asks you, is this a temple?" Wukong didn't deny what he just said about the mage, and asked him with one hand on his hips and a stick in his hand.

The Taoist sweeper took a look at his hairy face with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and then recalled the appearance of the mage he met after opening the door just now.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! Teacher father! There are monsters rushing to the door!"

On the one hand, he was still thinking about how to reject the mage Taoist who came from Datang, but in the next second he turned around and ran, crying and howling, running all the way to the abbot's hall just now, shouting all the way: "Teacher, father, help, the mage just now has been killed!" The monster has eaten it, and our temple is about to suffer!"

The Taoist who was over half a century old ran faster than Chen Wei, and he disappeared from everyone's eyes in the blink of an eye.

Chen Wei stood for a long time, put his hands in his arms coldly, poked his head through the temple door and looked in, watching the Taoist sweeper and the wild dog fly away like this.

Turning around, he taught his apprentice: "Look, it would be great to let me knock on the door from the beginning." Now that I have scared people away, I am afraid that the matter of staying overnight will also fly.

Looking up at the sky again, the sun has set in the west, leaving only the last twilight.

"The existing temple can't live. Why do you have to leave? Don't worry, Master, all temples in the world are one family, no matter if they are Taoist priests or monks, we will spend the night here tonight." Wukong kicked the temple door open. , and then beckoned Wu Neng and Drifting to come with the white dragon horse.

A few people stepped in directly from the mountain gate, four people stood in a row, from tall to short, from human to demon to monkey, after the monks and officials in the abbot's hall were hurriedly pulled out by the sweeping Taoist, what they saw was this strange look screen.

"Amitabha." Chen Wei saw another person coming. The other person was still wearing a collar of 25 dharma clothes and a pair of muddy tagong shoes on his feet. He rushed out with a "da da da." Glancing at the three apprentices standing beside him, he walked over angrily.

"Where did you come from, monk!" The monk went to the only monk among the four who looked like a human.

"The poor monk came from the Tang Dynasty in the East, and wanted to go to the Lingshan Mountain in the West to worship Buddha and seek scriptures. He passed by Baodi Tianwan and wanted to stay overnight." Chen Wei repeated what he had just said to the Taoist sweeper.

As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, the other party stared at Lao Gao with a pair of corny eyes like a vindictive rooster: "Are you Tang Sanzang?"

"It's the poor monk."

Chen Wei was surprised that the other party knew his nickname.

"Tch." The monk sneered and looked at him sideways: "You are a monk who is going to the west to learn the scriptures, and you don't even know the way. My temple is not the West Heaven Lingshan where you want to learn the scriptures. If you want to go, go down and turn west. That is the direction you are going to go to the west."

Chen Wei put down his clasped palms, suppressed the sincere smile on his face, and looked directly at the sarcasm monk: "The nunneries and temples in this world are all posthouses for our master. When you see the mountain gate, there are three You can’t understand all the good words, Wukong, teach him how to speak.”

"Okay, Master."

Wukong wanted to hit someone from the moment he heard the conversation in the abbot's hall, and now the monk took the initiative to make Chen Wei unhappy, he was looking for a lesson twice.

"Wuneng, find a clean room, we will spend the night here tonight." Chen Wei called Wu Neng over and asked him to find a clean room.

Wu Neng quickly went away with the nine-tooth nail rake on his shoulders. The sweeping Taoist stood not far away, watching the scene where the painting style changed over there, and shrank under the tree in fright, not daring to move or make a sound, for fear of being caught. Man notices his own existence.

But he wanted to hide, but the monk who looked the most human came up to him.

"Amitabha, the monks are based on compassion. Those three are apprentices of poor monks. They are just scary-looking but kind-hearted. They are powerful and can protect my safety all the way on the way to learn the scriptures. They don't eat people, so you don't have to be afraid. "

The Taoist sweeper looked at the teacher who was taken away by the monkey from the corner of his eye. Don't be afraid that the four words are not convincing.

"That master has a bad temper, and my apprentice won't beat him and eat him. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself. If my apprentice does something hurtful, please come and inform me. We will leave your temple immediately. How about it?" Chen Wei saw that he still didn't believe it, so he had to ask him to see it himself.

The Taoist sweeper had no choice but to move over there to see how the monkey taught the teacher a lesson.

At night, Liu Ding Liujia went to the kitchen to boil some hot water, and warmed the pancakes for dinner for the four masters and apprentices. Chen Wei only ate one, and hugged the blanket he brought, and squeezed into two sheets with the four apprentices. Woke up and fell asleep on the small bed.

In the middle of the night and the second watch, the charcoal that Ding Mo burned in the room completely lost the last gleam of light. Chen Wei only heard a loud piercing sound from outside the door, and then a gust of cold wind came in.

The sleeping person vaguely felt that the surrounding area was getting colder and colder, and the wind was blowing. He opened his eyes and looked at the gate over there while he was half asleep.

The door opened a gap, and a white figure stood outside the door, looking at him dripping from head to toe.

Chen Wei's sleepy head was instantly chilled, he hugged the blanket and watched the figure come in through the crack of the door and float in front of him.

"Master, help me."

The author has something to say: Xuanzang: It's scary in the middle of the night, so I can't help it.

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