[Journey to the West] Wearing the tight hoop of the Great Sage

◎The dead body at the foot of Lingshan◎

After leaving the kingdom of Tianzhu, the master and apprentice went to another Tongtai mansion. Behind the Tongtai mansion is a county called Diling County.

I heard that there was a Kou Yuanwai who was a great philanthropist, and there was a sign at the door of his house that said "All monks are not hindered" to fast monks to do good deeds.

After Jin Chan heard about this, she said: "The west is the land of the Buddhist family. It's true that I want to come to fast for monks. Let's go there and rest for a night tonight."

It was already dark and it was difficult to hurry, so they found their way to Kou Yuanwai's mansion, and saw a sign on the wall next to the gatehouse, with the words "Wan Monk No Obstruction" written on it.

Sha Wujing knocked on the door, and after a while an old man poked his head out. Seeing Jin Chan wearing cassock, he said happily, "Where did the holy monk come from, but he came to my house for alms?"

After explaining the purpose of coming here, Jin Chan said, "I wonder if the old benefactor can be accommodating?"

"Tong Rong, Tong Rong!" The old man hurriedly invited them in, and counted them, there were six of them, and seeing that none of them looked like monks, he felt a little troubled for a while.

Jin Chan said: "Old benefactor, these three are apprentices of the poor monk, and these two are friends of the poor monk."

Hearing that he was his good friend, Ao Lie snorted softly and turned his head away.

The old man was already smiling, "Very good, very good."

He led the way and invited the master and disciples in, only to see that the Buddhist hall, scripture hall, and fasting hall occupied most of the houses in the mansion.

They were brought to the entrance of a sutra hall, and the old man went in and reported to the outsider: "My lord, four eminent monks have come to the house, and they are waiting outside the hall."

The member who was chanting opened his eyes with joy on his face: "There are really four eminent monks here?"

It turned out that the member's name was Kou Hong, and he was 64 years old. As early as 20 years ago, he had devoted himself to doing good deeds, and he had vowed to make sacrifices to all monks.Up to now, he has fasted 96 monks, and there are only four people who can satisfy ten thousand monks, and his merits and virtues are complete.

It just so happened that four of them came today, how could he not like it?

He hastily went out to greet them, and was in awe of the master and apprentice.Zhu Bajie was curious and asked, "Why are you so polite?"

Kou Yuanwai said about his fasting to thousands of monks, "Masters, just stay here with peace of mind."

He was overjoyed, and ordered his servants to carry firewood and water, knead dough for cooking, and ordered some rich vegetarian meals to be made.

When his wife heard that several monks had come to visit, she was astonished when she looked up. They were all imposing and majestic.He hurriedly brought his three sons to worship.

Not long after, the banquet was set up, with melons, fruits, side dishes, vegetarian soup and rice, steamed buns and flatbreads all available, which made Zhu Bajie very happy.The meal was overwhelming, and there was nothing left to eat. This appetite even made Yuanwai's family call him a divine monk.

Several people wanted to leave early the next morning, but Kou Yuanwai tried hard to keep them: "Please ask the holy monk to stay for a few more days to fulfill my disciple's wish. When I complete my work, my disciple will definitely send the masters up to Lingshan."

Monkey King and Jin Chan looked at each other, they both knew that Lingshan was less than [-] miles away, so naturally they didn't want to delay any longer.

Jin Wushu didn't know the urgency in the hearts of the two of them. Seeing Kou Yuanwai's sincerity, he proposed: "How about we stay for one more day? Or ask Yuanwai to start Buddhist activities and run a consummation Taoist temple."

It's about the same day, since Wu Shu opened his mouth, Sun Wukong naturally let him go.

Jin Chan said: "That's fine, let's go on our way tomorrow."

Kou Yuanwai was overjoyed, so he hurriedly invited several famous local monks to join him in the Consummation Dojo.The monks were invited to come, and when they selected a good time, they began to prepare for the Buddhist ceremony.

Laying incense tables, raising flags and holding candles, beating drums and beating cymbals, all the monks sat cross-legged in the scripture hall and recited scriptures, every sentence to eliminate disasters and doubts.

At dawn the next day, Kou Yuanwai was trying to persuade him to stay again, Jin Chan said: "Thank you for your kindness, the poor monk and his apprentice have urgent matters, so we must not stay."

Seeing that they couldn't stay, they had to invite neighbors and relatives to practice for them, waved colorful flags, beat gongs and drums, and bought a lot of money and objects for their masters and apprentices, but they were all refused to come back.

It was almost noon, and Sun Wukong was already impatient. Jin Wushu comforted him and said to Kou Yuanwai: "Please wait outside, we will leave now."

Kou Yuanwai wanted to send them up to Lingshan personally, but the master and apprentice refused to allow others to follow, so he could only send them to the ten-mile long pavilion before turning around and coming back.

Jin Chan and his party walked forty to fifty miles, and it was getting late and raining, so they had to rest temporarily in a dilapidated courtyard.

Jin Wushu found a clean place, pulled Sun Wukong to sit down, and heard Zhu Bajie on the other side muttering "strange."

Jin Wushu stretched his neck and asked him, "Brother Bajie, what are you talking about?"

Zhu Bajie sat up, "Walking on Xitian Road for so many years, Master has encountered disasters every step of the way, and the old pig has also gained some experience. It stands to reason that there should be a disaster when we meet the Kou Yuanwai. How come we have traveled so far? Not yet, could it be that Master's calamity is over?"

Although Ao Lie didn't want to pay attention to Jin Chan, but when he heard this, he couldn't help casting Zhu Bajie a glance, and said coldly, "Are you hoping that your master will be in trouble?"

Zhu Bajie: ...

"Who is looking forward to it?" He snorted twice: "These days your temper has become so violent that you don't even want to call Second Senior Brother."

Ao Lie said unceremoniously: "I'm not your senior brother, I should call you senior brother for whatever I do."

"Hey!" Zhu Bajie refused to accept, "Then why are you willing to call Sun Houzi a senior brother?"

Sun Wukong was pinching Jin Wushu's shoulders, and Zhu Bajie flinched when he heard the words.

The words fell apart.

Jin Chan wanted to talk to Ao Lie on purpose, but when she got up to go over, she turned around angrily, leaving him with a stubborn back.

However, after being reminded by Senior Brother Bajie, Jin Wushu suddenly remembered that Kou Yuanwai Zhaiseng's encounter was indeed a catastrophe.

Sha Wujing thought for a while and said, "Perhaps we are almost at Lingshan Mountain. Not only did the Kou Yuanwai meet us, but Master also completed his merits, so there will be no more disasters."

Zhu Bajie smiled: "Hey, that's good."

Jin Wushu didn't answer the words, thinking that Kou Yuanwai's family had already suffered disaster at this time, and by tomorrow morning, the disaster would be found on them.

Sure enough, something happened to Kou Yuan's family that night.

In order to make a living, a group of murderers robbed houses at night.Today they learned that Kou Yuanwai donated gold and silver to several monks, held a big banquet, raised flags and banners, which really showed their wealth.

A murderer suggested: "The family property of Kou Yuanwai is very rich, why don't we take advantage of the night rain and rob his house?"

All the murderers naturally agreed, and they all brought short knives, sticks, hemp ropes, etc., and braved the heavy rain to break into Kou Yuanwai's house.

A group of thieves broke in ferociously, but Kou Yuanwai's family was frightened.The wife outside the member reacted fairly quickly, and hurriedly hugged a jewelry box and crawled under the bed.

The servants in the mansion were stunned and knocked out, and the few clever ones scattered and fled in all directions, none of them dared to fight the murderer.

Kou Yuanwai hid in the cabinet and watched helplessly as the gangsters searched for gold, silver, jewelry, jewelry and clothes, not even leaving a single used utensil.

He still had a big family to support, so he couldn't bear it, so he bravely crawled out and begged the gangsters: "Grandfathers, please leave some clothes and money for this old man to survive, don't loot my house. "

His appearance frightened the thieves, since they are murderers, they would not listen to his yelling, they wanted to grab something and leave, but this old guy was not afraid to come out to obstruct it, it is really hateful.

One person was furious in vain, and kicked Yuanwai Kou in the heart: "Old man, you still want to save your money to survive, I will see if you still have a life today!"

Saying that, he made up for it viciously.

Kou Yuanwai lay motionless on the ground, and Yuanwai's wife hid under the bed too frightened to make a sound, covering her mouth and crying.I don't know how long it took, but the murderers were finally satisfied, and took up the big and small bags and rushed west overnight.

When the sky dawned, the master and apprentice continued on the road, and after walking not far away, they saw a group of masked people gathered in a mountain depression, happy and excited, as if they were dividing something.

Their ears were good, and they heard the group say excitedly: "This is really a good deal, the Kou family is really rich, so many gold and silver utensils are enough for us to eat and drink for three years."

"Yeah, but my second son, why did you kick that member to death? It's a big deal, we have to hide for a year or so."

"Hide and hide. If he dies, he can't blame me. If he wants to blame, he can blame those monks. Without them, we wouldn't know the wealth of his family."

The thieves shared the loot talking and laughing, but they didn't know that the monks they were talking about had listened to their words.

The master and apprentice were furious, and Monkey King stepped forward in an instant, and cast a immobilization method on the thief who couldn't react in time.

The smiles of the thieves froze on their lips, and their eyes were filled with horror.

Without saying a word, Monkey King collected all the stolen goods, and then picked up a stick to break the legs of all the thieves one by one.

The thieves broke out in cold sweat from the pain, and shouted loudly: "Grandpa, please forgive me, please forgive me, grandfather!"

Jin Wushu was also very angry, stepped forward and kicked one by one to discourage him, "If the Great Sage hadn't shown mercy, you would have already become dead souls! Break your legs and see how you will be thieves in the future."

Zhu Bajie rolled up his sleeves and ran forward, "Get out of the way, and the old pig will come to make up for it." After finishing speaking, he kicked the head of the thief for several meters: "I'll fuck you——"

The wailing of the thieves was really ear-piercing, Monkey King snapped his fingers to silence them, grabbed the gold and silver treasures and said, "Let's go."

Jin Chan glanced at him and realized that he was running out of patience.

Kou Yuanwai's death was regarded as his catastrophe, but Sun Wukong didn't play his cards according to the routine, so this catastrophe passed casually, and it was nothing more than a waste of two days.

They turned back along the way, and Kou Yuanwai's house was indeed a mess.

As soon as the Mrs. Yuanwai saw them, she rushed up like crazy, and kept saying that they were thieves who harmed her family.

She yelled and threw herself on Jin Chan, and Ao Lie stepped in front of her, holding back her anger, and said, "Don't spit out blood, we took care of the thieves for your family, and sent you the gold and silver that was robbed. I was depending on you?"

"It's you, it's you!" The madam cried unconsciously, and said that they were pretending to be robbers to kill and rob, "The robbers are here, report to the police, report to the police!"

The people in the mansion panicked, and some people ran to report to the officials.

The madam made people's ears hurt, and Jin Wushu yelled a few times at the side, and couldn't help rubbing his ears. Sun Wukong hugged him in his arms, and with one breath, everyone in Yuanwai's mansion was frozen, and Sealed.

Jin Wushu was afraid that he would also break the lady's leg, so he hurriedly said: "My great sage, it won't happen."

Sun Wukong pinched his earlobe amusedly: "Why not, where did Wu Shu think?"

Jin Wushu blinked: "You are carrying the stick..."

Monkey King bowed his head and kissed him, "Wait for me." He turned and disappeared.

Sha Wujing turned his head and was taken aback: "Where did the elder brother go?"

Jin Wushu shrugged, "I don't know, but I should be back soon."

Sun Wukong went to the Netherland Realm and went straight to the Senluo Hall. When he came, the ten kings of Hades panicked and saluted, and the five ghosts kowtowed to welcome him.

Because he was holding the golden cudgel in his hand, they knew that the Great Sage was not in a good mood today, so they were all cautious, for fear of accidentally offending others.

"I don't know what the great sage is here for?"

Sun Wukong asked directly, "Wai Kou Hong's soul, a member of Diling County in Tongtai Prefecture, who took it?"

This question frightened Ten Hades very much, thinking that the ghost messengers hooked up the wrong soul.If you can ask the Great Sage to come here to ask in person, you must be someone the Great Sage cares about.

Ten Hades hurriedly called the judge: "Quickly find out where Kou Hong's soul is."

After checking, it was found that there was no ghost sent to seduce Kou Hong's soul, but Kou Hong himself came here inexplicably, met the golden-clothed boy beside Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva on the way, and took him away.

Sun Wukong didn't stay long after learning about it, and went to Cuiyun Palace to meet Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in a short while.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva did not expect him to come, and was about to ask why, when he heard the newly accepted case chief shout: "Master Sun, Master Sun, I am here, please save me—"

Sun Wukong took a look: "You captured his soul?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva: "...No." He said: "Kou Hong's life is not over yet, but he came here from the world. Because of his pure kindness during his lifetime, I accepted him as the chief case in charge of good deeds. .”

Sun Wukong said: "If the chief case is not enough, just find another one and ask him to go back with the old grandson."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva:  …

He didn't argue, nodded and said: "Forget it, since you're here, I'll extend his lifespan for another 12 years, and come and be the case chief with me when his lifespan is exhausted."

In a short while, Sun Wukong returned with Kou Hong's soul. Zhu Bajie had already received his voice transmission, and rushed to the meditation room, and opened the coffin containing Kou Hong's body.

Sun Wukong breathed out, pushed Kou Hong's soul back to himself with a slight push, and after a while, Kou Yuanwai with a pale face gasped for breath and came back to life.

At this time, the people in Yuanwai's mansion were able to move. They were both happy and scared to see the master alive.

Kou Yuanwai climbed out of the coffin, knelt down at Sun Wukong's feet, and cried loudly: "Master Sun! Kou Hong suffered an accident and died an untimely death. If Master hadn't been supernaturally powerful to come to the underworld to save me, I... I would never come back again! Thank you, Master Thank you for the grace of regeneration, Master, for the grace of regeneration—”

Everyone in the mansion finally saw Monkey King's ability, and they all knelt and kowtowed along with the outsiders.

Suddenly there was chaos outside the gate, and the servants who went to report to the officials came with the magistrate and dozens of officers and soldiers.

The magistrate only heard his voice but could not see him: "Where is the thief? Hurry up and take it down!"

Kou Yuanwai suddenly realized that his benefactor had been wronged, and he was furious, "Which newspaper official is it?"

The lady stopped crying and just said in a daze, "I...I..."

The officer's servant ran in and saw his master and fainted. The magistrate didn't know what was going on inside, so he came in and took a look: "You, how did you survive?"

Kou Yuanwai explained the matter very quickly, and then hurriedly said: "We will dismiss the complaint and not report to the official. The magistrate Lao has run away, please go back."

The magistrate learned that the monks really had supernatural powers, and wanted to stay but dared not, so he had to leave with the officers and soldiers.

Kou Hong survived, and in order to repay Monkey King, he kept sending money and things, but they were all rejected.He wanted to throw a banquet in return for saving his life, but the master and apprentice refused to stay for long, and left before it was dark.

They stayed overnight at Xiaoxing, and after seven or eight days, they finally saw a towering tall building in front of them, soaring a hundred feet into the sky.Outside the building, there are yellow cranes and colorful luan flying together, and the treasure of Linggong is looming.

Jin Chan raised his eyes and suddenly felt a pain in his heart, bowed down, Ao Lie hurriedly supported him, "What's wrong with you?"

This involuntary concern made Jin Chan feel happy, she squeezed his hand reluctantly and asked with a smile, "Are you worried about me?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ao Lie frowned and wanted to pull his hand out, but he couldn't.

Jin Chan held her hand tightly and did not let go, making a gesture of unbearable pain: "Don't move, let me take it easy."

Ao Lie was angry and worried, "What happened to you?"

In fact, Jin Chan himself didn't know what was wrong, he felt uncomfortable seeing the scene of Lingshan, so he could only smile and said: "It's nothing, I think it's my mortal body that came to the holy place of Buddhism, and I couldn't bear it for a while."

Ao Lie breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, but he didn't take out his hand again, and let him hold it.

They continued to move forward, and after walking for a long time, they did not reach Lingshan Mountain, but there was a stream of flowing water in front of them, which was about nine or ten miles wide.

Even though Zhu Bajie was familiar with the nature of water, he couldn't help retreating when he saw this water: "There is such a turbulent water at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, how do we get there?"

There is a sign beside the tumbling waves, with the words "Lingyundu" written on it.

Monkey King said to Jin Chan: "Only after passing Lingyundu can you escape from the mortal womb."

It was only the last step, they couldn't fly, they had no choice but to swim across.

Jin Chan regained her composure and decided to swim there, but suddenly saw a boat appearing in the middle of the boiling water, and someone on board shouted, "I'll ferry you over."

Unexpectedly, when the boat got close, it turned out to be a bottomless boat, and the boatman was standing on the water.

Sun Wukong's piercing eyes have already seen the real body of the person, "It turns out that it is to guide the Buddha."

Receive and lead the Buddha to look at him with a smile: "You monkey head is really hiding something."

Ao Lie didn't care what kind of Buddha he was, he was afraid that Jin Chan would step into the bottomless boat and drown.

"This boat can't pass, don't go aboard."

He was not annoyed when he received the Buddha: "Don't worry, with me punting the boat, even if there are winds and waves, it will not capsize, and you will be flat and stable."

Jin Chan patted Ao Lie's hand reassuringly, "Don't worry, it's fine."

Ao Lie had no choice but to pull him back, "Wait, I'll go up first."

At this time, Monkey King turned his head and said something to Jin Wushu, Jin Wushu nodded, turned around and went back to Zifu to stay.

The master and the disciples all boarded the boat, and guided the Buddha to hold the paddle and push it lightly. The boat was already in the middle of the boiling water, and it was indeed stable.

Suddenly, Jin Chan's expression was in a trance, and she had a splitting headache, as if her soul was being torn apart.

He couldn't help but snorted, and Ao Lie was so frightened that he quickly hugged him: "Jin Chan, what's wrong with you, Jin Chan?"

Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing worried at the same time: "Master!"

When Zhu Bajie turned around, he saw a dead body under the boiling water with his sharp eyes. He was shocked when he saw it: "Why are there dead people here?"

Sun Wukong looked down and finally understood why Jin Chan was in such pain: "That dead body is Jin Chan's previous life."

"what?"

Ao Lie looked over in disbelief, and suddenly saw three corpses. The corpses were stiff but not decayed, and they all looked like golden cicadas.

He could imagine how helpless Jin Chan had been in her previous lives learning the scriptures alone, and how much suffering she had suffered.He was heartbroken and hated why the Buddha tortured his disciples like this.

Jin Chan's soul was in pain from being torn apart, he couldn't bear the pain and bit his arm, bleeding out instantly.

Seeing this, Ao Lie was about to go crazy: "Let go, let go." As he spoke, he stretched out his arm: "Be obedient, bite me..."

After some tugging, Jin Chan's blood dripped into the boiling water, making the already churning waves even more turbulent.

Receiving the Buddha secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly paddled, but was stopped by Monkey King.

"do not move."