Guide to raising cubs in westbound [Journey to the West]

Sun Wukong led three rhinoceros spirits to the sky above Jinping Mansion, and said, "Officials of Jinping Mansion and people inside and outside the city listen, I am Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven! Your prefecture and county offer golden lanterns every year." ..."

Suhe sesame oil is extremely rare, one tael of sesame oil costs two taels of silver, and it costs more than 5 taels of silver to worship once a year.From ancient times to the present, the custom of enshrining sesame oil in Jinping Mansion has been around for at least hundreds of years, and it has cost countless money, not to mention the consumption of manpower and material resources.

At this time, when they learned that the ones enshrined were not the real Buddha, but a few rhinoceros spirits, the officials and common people in the whole city immediately started discussing in an uproar.

Ciyun Temple.

As soon as Xiaoshi was carried by Zhu Bajie, he heard a voice from the sky, and said in surprise, "It's the big stone! The big stone has caught the monster!"

After he finished speaking, he wanted to go to the sky eagerly, but he still couldn't fly.

Zhu Bajie noticed his small movements, so he simply flew into the air and led him to join Monkey King.

"This cow is really strange, the horns are like this!" Little Shitou was so curious that he stretched out his hand to sit on the cow's back.

Zhu Bajie put him on it conveniently, and said: "This is a rhinoceros, it's naturally different from the ox you saw before."

"Is Master okay?" Sun Wukong asked after looking at the little guy riding on the back of the bull.

Zhu Bajie said: "Master is fine, he has gone back to Ciyun Temple to rest."

"Brother Monkey, where did you catch these three goblins?"

"They went to the West Sea, and the Dragon King and his son of the West Sea helped me take them down together."

The two brothers chatted for a while, and finally discussed going to the mansion to let the officials here have a closer look at the three rhinoceros.

When they came down on the clouds, the officials of Jinping Mansion and the people in the city set up incense cases and worshiped the gods.

After a while, monks from Ciyun Temple carried Tang Monk and Drifting Monk into the city in sedan chairs, and they were reunited as master and apprentice.

"Brother Monkey, what should we do with these goblins? The rhino horn is a treasure, why not cut off the horn first!" Zhu Bajie said.

Monkey King is optional, but Xiao Shitou asked subconsciously: "Will it hurt if the horn is cut off?"

When the three rhinoceros heard that their horns were going to be cut off, they regretted a lot, knowing that they might not survive this time.However, ants are still alive, let alone a few rhinos that have matured for thousands of years.

When they heard the little guy's voice, they knelt down with a glimmer of hope, obviously begging for mercy and admitting their mistakes.

Tang Seng was soft-hearted. When he saw the three rhinos bowing their forelegs, he looked at his disciples and said, "Amitabha, I think they already know their mistakes, so it's better to spare their lives."

"Just now if I was one step late, they would all fry Master with sesame oil and eat them, but Master would plead for them." Monkey King continued, "What's more, these three rhinoceros spirits have more than one crime. They pretended to be a Buddha to deceive people, wasting people and wasting money, so there may not be no people in Jinping's mansion who suffered because of this."

The people at the bottom are always the most bitter, and Suhe sesame oil is hard to come by. In the process of collecting, it is possible that someone's family will be ruined because of it.

When Tang Seng heard this, he really stopped talking.On the contrary, an official next to him said cautiously: "The so-called Buddha's guarantee of good weather in Jinping Mansion is also a lie?"

"You are also easy to deceive, how can the monster keep you in good order!" Monkey King said angrily.

"But every year Buddha... If the sesame oil is taken away, there will be a year of good weather. If the oil is not good in a year and it is not taken away, it will become a barren year."

Sun Wukong couldn't help laughing when he heard the official's words.

"Big Stone, what are you laughing at?" The little guy was still sitting on the back of the bull, and asked when he heard his laughter.

"I laugh at them for being so easy to deceive."

As soon as he said this, Tang Seng also became curious: "Wukong, what's going on?"

"Since the master wants to know, let me tell you about it. These three rhinoceros spirits don't have the ability to keep a place in good weather, but they can distinguish the year. When the weather is good and the weather is good, they will take away the sesame oil. It will not be collected in a disaster year, so as to deceive the local people."

After finishing speaking, Sun Wukong looked at the officials who had questioned before him and said, "Don't even think about it. Since it is the sesame oil for worship, do you dare to take bad oil? Why is the same sesame oil sometimes taken away and sometimes not taken away?" !"

The officials present were woken up by him, and their faces showed a bit of enlightened expression.

"No wonder, no wonder!"

"It's a pity that I only now know that I worshiped a false Buddha, but I don't know how many people died in vain because of the sesame oil!"

When Tang Seng heard this exclamation, he had to ask a question.

The officials present have now regarded the master and apprentice as gods, so they naturally know everything.

But it turns out that every time the sesame oil is not taken away and a bad year comes, everyone thinks it is because the oil is not good, so they blame those who produce oil, make oil and other related people, and some poor people always die because of it.

Although these people were not killed by the rhinoceros spirit, they died indirectly because of them.

"Amitabha." Tang Seng heard the inside story, and he couldn't help chanting Buddha for those innocent people who lost their lives.

In order not to scare the little guy, Monkey King still didn't deal with the rhinoceros in front of him.

In the end, the horns of the three rhinos were still cut off, but the rhinos survived, and were fined to work hard in Jinping Mansion to repay the sesame oil money they had cheated before.

Two of the cut rhino horns were sent to the West Sea to the Dragon King and his son as a thank you gift for their help in catching monsters; one was left in the town warehouse of Jinping Mansion as evidence of the exemption of sesame oil in the future; and the rest were collected by Zhu Bajie. Carried out in Lizhong.

After the magistrate put away the rhinoceros horn, he immediately sent someone to arrange a banquet to reward Tang Monk and his disciples.At the same time, a notice was issued that starting from next year, the golden lamps would no longer be lit, and the oil levy would be permanently exempted.

The people who bought the sesame oil before thought that they would not have to bother to collect the sesame oil in the future, and they were very grateful to Tang Seng and his apprentices, and then they also hosted banquets for them.

Zhu Bajie ate happily, and specially distributed the gold, silver and jewels found in the monster's cave to each family.

Seeing that people wanted to invite them every day, Tang Seng felt that this could not go on, so he confessed to leave the remaining gold and silver to Ciyun Temple, and they left as soon as possible.

Zhu Bajie was a little unhappy, but he dared not refuse.

Before dawn the next day, Monk Drifting had already packed his luggage, Monkey King held the little guy in his arms, only Zhu Bajie was still lying on the bed and sound asleep.

"This idiot, he eats and sleeps all day long."

He hugged the little guy who hadn't woken up, so he didn't move well, so he motioned Drifting to call someone.

Drifting sat down beside the bed, but it took him a long time to wake him up.

"It's not yet dawn, Junior Brother Sha, why did you call me?" Zhu Bajie said unwillingly.

"Idiot, forget that Master said last night that we have to hurry today!"

After wiping his face, Zhu Bajie complained: "There are still many people waiting to invite us to dinner, why bother to leave in such a hurry..."

The reason why Tang Seng left without waiting for dawn was because he was afraid that staying here to enjoy himself would delay his learning of Buddhist scriptures, so he couldn't help repeating a few words when he heard his words.

Zhu Bajie got up quickly and left with him.

When the sky was bright, the group had already driven for a while.

When Xiao Shitou woke up, he found that he was not on the bed. He blinked and looked at the blue sky and white clouds above his head, as well as the flowers, plants and trees nearby, with a dazed expression on his face.

Sun Wukong saw that he still hadn't woken up, so he stretched out his hand to touch his soft face and said, "Are you awake at last?"

"Big stone, are we leaving again?" the little guy asked after rubbing his eyes.

"Yes, Master is in a hurry to get scriptures."

After Monkey King finished speaking, he reached out his hand to feel in his purse, and seeing that there was indeed food in it, he brought a piece of snack to his mouth.

Xiao Shitou fully woke up after filling his stomach, but he was very used to the life on the road, he nestled in his arms for a while, then came down and ran in front.

Ever since Sun Wukong and the others learned some skills in Yuhuazhou when they were teaching their apprentices, the little guy has become more and more lively.I used to run and jump at most, but now I don’t just run, I can’t help but jump up when I see trees on the side of the road, and even jump from one tree to another.

"Little stone, be careful, don't jump around on the tree." Tang Seng couldn't help worrying about him when he saw it, and reminded.

Zhu Bajie laughed: "As expected of a child raised by Brother Monkey, he looks more and more like a little monkey."

Hearing the master's voice, the little monkey obediently got down from the tree, but jumped onto a boulder again in the blink of an eye.

Tang Seng shook his head helplessly, signaling to Monkey King to follow him.

That night, they didn't meet anyone and could only sleep in the wild.It was okay during the day, but it was a bit cold at night when the wind picked up.

"The body of the big rock is so warm~"

When sleeping, the little guy nestled in his arms and couldn't help laughing, and covered his face with his equally warm furry hands.

Sun Wukong grabbed his face and patted his back with the other hand to lull him to sleep.

"Big Stone, can you tell me the story of the disturbance in the Heavenly Palace?"

"Don't talk, you go to bed quickly."

He didn't get tired of listening, and Monkey King was almost tired of talking, so he refused directly.

Seeing that he refused to speak, Xiao Shitou pouted and said, "Then let me read the names of hundreds of families to you, okay?"

After he finished speaking, he read directly without waiting for Monkey King to answer, and deliberately dragged his voice when he said the word "Sun".

"Zhao Qian, Sun Li..."

The little guy's voice was soft, and Sun Wukong slowly fell asleep after listening to it.

Around the warm fire, Tang Monk and his disciples are lying in different postures. Although they are eating and sleeping in the open, the picture from a distance is somewhat warm.

When Xiao Shitou found out that the pat on his body had stopped, he blinked his eyes twice, then held Monkey King's hand and continued to pat himself on his own.

Xiaoxing stayed overnight like this, half a month later, they met Gaoshan again.Fortunately, there are no monsters in this mountain, and they walked out smoothly all the way.

"What a big tree!"

When he got to the foot of the mountain, Xiaoshi saw a particularly thick tree at a glance. He ran to the tree and stretched his arms, but found that he could only hug a little.The surrounding trees were all very tall, and the one he chose was especially thick, making it difficult for several people to hug, let alone such a little guy as him.

Tang Seng was about to stop and rest for a while, but when he saw him playing under the tree, he came over and sat down.

"Look at the big rock, this tree trunk can lie down like a bed."

When they sat down to rest the little one had climbed up a tree and was still lying down on a branch big enough for him to lie flat on his back.

Monkey King looked up and couldn't help jumping up the tree.

"Master, look at these two monkeys on the tree." Zhu Bajie joked while sitting under the tree.

Sun Wukong threw a branch from the tree and hit the idiot on the bottom, then looked into the distance.

"Master, there seems to be a monastery ahead!"

Standing tall and looking far, Sun Wukong immediately got down from the tree with the little guy in his arms after seeing the boundary in front of him clearly.

When Tang Seng learned that there was a monastery in front of him, he immediately showed a joyful expression, and without resting, he remounted his horse and started on his way.

After walking for a while, there was a temple in front of me.

"Bujin Temple." Sun Wukong walked in the front with the little guy in his arms, and he could clearly see the name of the temple from the plaque.

Zhu Bajie followed after him, and also said: "Bujin Temple."

Tang Seng got down from his horse, but he felt a little familiar when he heard the name of this temple.

"Bujin..." He muttered the word "Bujin", but he remembered something, "Could it be that this is the border of Sravasti."

Zhu Bajie was surprised when he heard the words: "Master didn't know the way before, but today he knows the way?"

"Master is amazing~" Xiao Shitou boasted subconsciously.

Hearing his praise, Tang Seng waved his hand and said, "It's not that I know the way, but I read a story in scriptures about paving the Gion with gold bricks for a lonely elder, so I know this is the country of Savatthi."

"I want to hear stories, I want to hear stories!" Little Stone ran over immediately when he heard the word "story".

Brother Zhu Bajie was also interested in the gold brick pavement, so they couldn't help but gather around him.

Tang Seng stretched out his hand to pick up the little guy, and said with a smile: "For the lonely elder who wants to buy a garden from the prince, I invite the Buddha to come here to give a lecture..."

"Who wants to buy a garden?" As soon as the story started, the little guy tilted his head and asked a question.

"It's 'for the lonely elder' who wants to buy a garden." Tang Seng still looked puzzled when he saw him, and explained with a smile, "The real name of the lonely elder is Suda. 'Give the Lonely Elder' the nickname."

Little Stone finally understood, nodded and continued to listen to the story.

"The prince said that his garden is not for sale. If he wants to buy it, he will have to cover the ground with gold bricks..."

The environment of Bujin Temple is quiet, Sun Wukong and others walked around the master and listened to his storytelling, the atmosphere was indescribably beautiful.

At the end of the story, it is natural to buy a garden for a lonely elder paved with gold bricks, and he successfully invites the Buddha to come here to give a lecture.

"This Bujin Temple, I think it should be the Gion Jinshe in the scriptures."

After Tang Monk finished speaking, the little stone immediately got down from his arms and started searching everywhere.

"What are you looking for, little stone?" Sun Wukong saw him groping all over the floor with his little butt pouted, and was amused by his gesture.

The little guy said without raising his head, "Let me see if there is really gold on the ground."

When Zhu Bajie heard this, he felt that it would be good if there was gold to touch a few gold bricks, so he immediately went over to search with him.

"You really..."

When Tang Seng saw them listening to the story, his first reaction was to look for gold. He was angry and funny.

Monkey King stepped forward and kicked Zhu Bajie's ass, and reminded angrily: "It's written in the scriptures that I don't know how many years have passed. If there is gold, you have to wait until you get it."

Zhu Bajie thought about it too, so he didn't continue to search.

When they entered the mountain gate, monks immediately came out to greet them.

Tang Seng was probably in a good mood when he saw the ancient sites in the scriptures, with a smile on his face all the time.

The monks in the monastery were very friendly when they learned that their master and apprentice came from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and immediately ordered people to bring fasting meals.

Zhu Bajie is a person who gets excited when he sees a meal. Tang Seng and the others eat well and put down the bowls and chopsticks, but he is still eating.

"Second Senior Brother, why don't you use chopsticks?" Xiao Shitou couldn't help asking when he saw that he was eating with his hands.

When the monks in the monastery learned that there were monks from the Tang Dynasty, they all hid outside and watched curiously, and sighed softly, saying that some of them were handsome and some were ugly.

After Drifting noticed the monks outside, he came to the table and reminded: "Second senior brother, you should be gentle." Don't let people see the joke.

"Sven can't be eaten as a meal." After Zhu Bajie finished speaking, he directly pulled the plate with rice in front of him, picked up the group rice and brought it to the little guy's mouth, "Do you want to eat some more, little stone?"

"I'm full." The little guy rubbed his stomach and shook his head.

Seeing that he didn't want to eat, Zhu Bajie began to eat by himself.

While he was eating, there was a sound of "Master is coming" outside, and then he saw the monks coming towards an old monk.

Tang Seng quickly adjusted his clothes and went to the door to meet him and interrogate him.

After greeting each other, the two sides chatted, and Tang Seng confirmed from the mouth of the old monk that this place was indeed the former site of Gion.

At the same time, the old monk also learned from him that they came from the Eastern Tang Dynasty and went to the Western Paradise to learn scriptures.

After the two sides chatted for a while, there was a faint cry in the evening wind.

Tang Seng listened for a while, and felt like a woman's voice, so he had to ask a question.

"Master, please come with me." After the old monk sent away the monks in the monastery, he led them out.

At this time, it was already dark outside, combined with the faint crying of a woman, it was scary no matter how you looked at it.

"Big Shitou, where are we going?" Little Shitou unconsciously lowered his voice.

Sun Wukong patted him on the back and said, "Just look at it."

The old monk took them all the way to the former site of Gion, which was very dilapidated, with only one house behind.

But it turned out that in the old year and today, a gust of wind blew a woman into the monastery.The old monk was afraid of causing trouble, so he first placed the woman in the empty room here, and only said to the outside world that a goblin was locked up to prevent the monks from approaching.

"This woman said she was the princess of Tianzhu Kingdom. I went to the city several times to inquire, but I didn't hear that the king lost the princess. I can only stay here and take care of two meals a day..."

The reason why the old monk told Tang Seng and them was because he felt that it was not appropriate to keep the girl here for a long time, and he wanted to ask them to help inquire when they entered the city to see which family lost their daughter.

For this reason, he also opened that room to let Tang Seng and his disciples take a look at the woman inside.

It was getting late, and seeing the woman inside showing panic when she heard the door opening, the old monk immediately took Tang Seng and the others away.

On the way back to the meditation room, the old monk sincerely begged for the woman, and Tang Seng agreed without hesitation, saying that he would help inquire when he went to the city tomorrow.

"Why was that sister blown here by the wind?"

Before going to bed, Xiao Shitou asked curiously while lying on the bed.

Zhu Bajie said: "I think it was a strong wind, and it was blown over by accident. That's why you have to eat more like me, and the wind can't blow it away."

There was still time to hurry tomorrow morning, and after Tang Seng reminded them not to chat any more, the room became quiet.

In the early morning of the next day, Tang Seng and his disciples were ready to leave after breakfast. Before leaving, the old monk reminded him: "I forgot what the masters entrusted me last night."

"Don't worry, I won't forget." Sun Wukong answered on behalf of his master, picked up the little guy and led the way.

They left Bujin Temple, and after walking for about an hour, they saw the city wall of Tianzhu Kingdom.

After entering the city, Tang Seng and his disciples first settled down in the post, and then asked about switching Guanwen.

Yicheng told them that today is a good day for the princess to recruit a son-in-law, and the king has not retired yet, so it is appropriate for them to change Guanwen and go now.

It was already noon at this time, and Yicheng had already ordered someone to serve a fast meal, so Tang Seng and his party simply finished eating before going out.

"A lot of people!"

As soon as Xiao Shitou came out, he felt the bustle of the street, and couldn't help getting excited.

Because the princess wanted to throw a hydrangea ball to recruit a husband, there were a lot of people on the street, especially married men, all flocking in the same direction.

"Master, why don't we join in the fun too." Sun Wukong suggested.

Tang Seng waved his hand and said: "We are monks, how can we join in this kind of excitement, in case... it is really inappropriate."

"Could it be that Master has forgotten what the old monk at Bujin Temple said? We must not tell the truth from the false."

After Monkey King finished speaking, Tang Seng remembered what the old monk entrusted, so he agreed.

But it is said that the king of Tianzhu Kingdom took the princess to play in the imperial garden the year before last, but there was a goblin playing with the wind and blowing the real princess away, turning himself into a real princess.

She was recruiting a son-in-law today, and she was waiting for Tang Seng, so she didn't move until she saw Tang Seng appearing, and she immediately threw the hydrangea ball at him.

"Big Shitou, why does this princess look exactly like my sister from last night?" Little Shitou was just watching the fun, but soon discovered this strange thing.

After the little guy finished speaking, someone on the Cailou yelled loudly: "The hydrangea hit a monk!"

In the blink of an eye, someone immediately came to invite Tang Seng to enter the court.

"Wukong..." Tang Seng didn't want to come to join in the fun before because he was worried about this. Seeing that he was really hit, he looked at his apprentice helplessly.

Sun Wukong leaned into his ear and comforted him: "Master, don't worry, you can let them go to the court. If the king doesn't recruit you, you just change Guan Wen. If he wants to recruit you, you can tell him that you have something to tell me." Disciples, let the king pass us on."

Tang Seng was relieved after hearing this, and followed the guards to the palace.

He thought that since he was a monk, the king would not want him to be a son-in-law, so he immediately revealed his background after meeting the saint.

However, the king heard that he came from the Tang Dynasty in the east, and felt that this was a good fate linked by a thousand miles of marriage.

Tang Seng frowned unconsciously when he heard him say "good fate", and repeatedly declined: "Your Majesty, the poor monk is a monk..."

Seeing that he was unwilling, the king called the princess over to ask her what she meant.

The fake princess came here for Tang Seng, so naturally it was impossible to let him go, and she vowed that she would not marry unless he was the one.

The king dotes on his daughter, but when he sees that she refuses to marry Tang Seng, he immediately threatens her.

Tang Seng thought of the apprentice's explanation, so he could only let go temporarily, saying that he would first call a few apprentices to explain some things.