The rumored third prince

Taishang Laojun took Sun Wukong away as he wished, and Li Jing also followed him to the Tushita Palace for the restoration of his pagoda.

The dungeon of the Divine General's Mansion is made of gold and stone, bright and bright, so that people can see all the furnishings at a glance, and then cut off their thoughts of trying to escape.

Liu Wuxiu was waiting in the first room at the corner, flipping through a book in his hand, and I didn't even notice it when I stood beside him for a long time.

"cough......"

I covered my lips with my fist and coughed lightly. Liu Wuxiu raised his head when he heard the sound, and suddenly closed his book. Seeing that I was looking at him with great interest, he scratched his head and asked a little embarrassedly: "When did Your Highness come?"

"It's been a while," I teased, "but what got you hooked?"

"Your Highness, look," Liu Wuxiu spread the folder in front of my eyes, straightened his expression, "Sun Wukong has obtained the record of heaven, so he can be called the Monkey King. I'm afraid this group of monsters borrowed courage from the sky, and they didn't Look at what kind of cat and dog I am, I dare to join in the fun."

I took a cursory glance, and the booklet recorded the confessions of several demon kings in Huaguo Mountain. The overall content of the confessions is not bad, that is, the reason for being called the Great Sage is different——

The Lion Camel King called himself a great sage who moved mountains, and he said that he was seduced by Sun Wukong; King Yutamarin said that he thought of today's disaster as early as when Sun Wukong called him the Monkey King, for the sake of brotherhood. , so he was called the Great Sage of Exorcism; the Bull Demon King thought that his ability was not inferior to Sun Wukong, and he was called the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, so he could also be called the Great Sage of Pingtian; Playing Fengyun, called the Great Sage of Hunting Sky...

There is also a dragon demon king who said that when his body rolls, he can overturn the river and sea, causing huge waves to surge into the sky, causing tsunamis and landslides, so he is called the great sage who overwhelms the sea.

The one who was never arrested and brought to justice along the coast of the East China Sea coincides with his own title of "Sage of Ventilation" in his confession.

After I read the scriptures carefully, I found that apart from this difference, the only thing in common is that none of these people mentioned where the name of Monkey King's great sage came from.

"Here are all their confessions?"

Liu Wuxiu responded: "Yes, they are all here."

I thought for a while, closed the booklet, pushed open the prison door, and walked in. Inside the prison door was Monkey King Yu Tamarin, who claimed to be brotherly and rebellious.

I saw him sitting cross-legged on the ground in a horse-brown cloth, and if there were a few ring scars on his round, bald forehead, he would look no different from an ordinary monk.

This appearance is really very different from the demon king and ghost in my impression.

"I have said everything that should be said, and there are still some things that have not been said. Should I also talk about it now?"

King Yu Tamarin slowly opened his eyes, looked directly at me, and asked calmly: "I have already explained everything that needs to be explained. What else does the Prince's Palace think we have not said?"

I threw the confession at his feet: "What do you think?"

King Yu Tamarin picked up the folder without any haste, looked through it for a long while, and then said aloud to Amitabha, and then said: "Their confession is true, and the Prince's Palace is so inquisitive to ask Wukong why he is called Holy?"

I really want to find out the source, so I don't intend to say any nonsense, so I said bluntly: "Speak."

"Monks don't lie." King Yu Tamarin's voice was still calm: "Wukong calls the sage equal to heaven, one is that the Heavenly Palace deceives people too much, and he is not angry; the other is that the one-horned ghost king knows that he has returned to the mountain, and knows that he has Immeasurable supernatural powers, come to surrender and present him with ocher yellow robes."

The one-horned ghost king, that is, the one captured in the pearl umbrella of Duowen Tianwang?

While thinking about it, I asked again: "Who inspired you to be sanctified together?"

King Yu Tamarin shook his head slowly, denying the idea of ​​being instigated by others: "It's just that Wukong mentioned it casually at the celebration banquet, and the Bull Demon King is not a person who is willing to submit to others easily. The way is that he is not inferior to Wukong. Called Qitian, he will be called Pingtian when he is the eldest brother, the lion camel king and the macaque king will follow him, and the brothers and sisters who are more thoughtful will not be able to shirk and drive the ducks to the shelves."

"This is the principle of prosperity for all, and loss for all." I accepted the confession and said, "If you don't care about your friendship, you may not be arrested, and Sun Wukong may not be captured either."

"The implication of the Prince's Hall is that the macaque king disregards brotherly loyalty?" King Yutamarin argued, "If he hadn't been good at listening to music, being able to understand things, and knowing Tianding's future in advance, how would we have time to hide innocent creatures in the mountains?"

If it was true loyalty, he wouldn't be the only one left before the net of heaven and earth.

I thought so, but I didn't explain it. I just smiled, walked out of the prison, and divided the confession into four copies, and then asked Liu Wuxiu to hand over the other three copies to each of Xiao Qiming, Zhang Jiqing, and Lian Zhonggong. portion, just ask three points:

One, where did Sun Wukong say that the Holy Origin originated.

Second, who encouraged them to rebel together.

Three, which ones are good at feeding on people.

Liu Wuxiu heard that it should be true, and asked again: "The third point, why didn't His Highness ask..." He pointed to the prison door.

I said: "Anyway, I am a Buddhist practitioner. Even if I go wrong for a while, I will never take pleasure in eating people. Why bother to humiliate him with such a question."

The results of the interrogation came out very quickly, within a few quarters of an hour, Liu Wuxiu and the others came out of the prison, checked the confession, and found that there was no difference between the first two points and the confession of King Yu Tamarin, except for the issue of cannibalism. Above, the confessions vary.

Because of this, after they exchanged their confessions, they stepped into different prison doors respectively. After repeating this several times, there are still subtle differences in the testimony of the Jiao Demon King and the Bull Demon King about the green lion.

On the other hand, Demon King Peng’s confession is consistent and has never been changed. The only way is that the green lion eats every meal, and he feels unhappy if he has no flesh. The Demon King refused to admit it, but the Bull Demon King was full of cover-ups.

"This group of monsters originally gathered because of profit, and now that the profit is exhausted, there is no need to wear a mask and pretend to be a snake...The Jiao Demon King does not tell the truth, but it is the nature of all things to live stealthily. The Bull Demon King protects them like this , what's the benefit?"

Speaking of this, I said: "It is easy to kill, but not easy to kill. Xiao Qiming will go again."

Xiao Qiming took the confession from me, thought for a while, and turned into the prison door.After a while, he walked out with brisk steps, holding two pieces of paper with the same words in his hands.

Liu Wuxiu took a closer look, and asked cheerfully, "Brother Qiming, how did you make them change their minds?"

Xiao Qiming said with a smile: "It is well known that Western golden-winged eagles like to eat dragon livers. Once the confession I made with that dragon demon is found to be false, he will be thrown into the evolutionary dragon pool and turned into a fake dragon. Go to the foot of the Lingshan Mountain, and teach the Golden Winged Eagle to eat him raw. But the Bull Demon King values ​​fame and wealth, and now his fame has become a false one. It is not yet known whether his life will be preserved. It is not difficult to understand that he wants to live and die with his sworn brothers. , but he doesn’t know the origin of the green lion, I just need to explain that the green lion is the mount of Manjusri Bodhisattva on Mount Wutai and will be protected by the Bodhisattva, so why worry about him not telling the truth?”

Liu Wuxiu stared at a pair of big eyes, and blinked puzzledly: "It's nothing to be afraid of, how can you kill your heart?"

Lian Zhonggong patted Liu Wuxiu's shoulder carelessly, his eyes were very loving, as if he was looking at the idiot son of the landlord's family: "Brother Liu, that flood dragon is greedy for life and fears death, if he really throws himself at the golden-winged eagle for raw food, he will even come and go The chance of reincarnation is also gone, wouldn't it be a complete death?"

With a handsome face, Zhang Jiqing said in an old father's tone: "Xiu'er, the bull devil will not say anything about death, it's all about brotherly loyalty, but the blue lion was originally the mount of Manjusri Bodhisattva, and he never knew it. There is no one to accompany him on the road to Huangquan, what kind of friendship does he have, no matter how stubborn he is?"

"Okay," I took the confession from Xiao Qiming, and ordered: "The dragon demon king is not considered cannibal, and he is a lewd, evil woman. Death is not a pity. Immediately escort him to the demon-killing platform, and beheaded to death with severe punishment. Bull demon king ..." I thought about it for a while, and gave an order: Throw it into the Western Raksha ghost country, and its life and death will be determined by heaven. "

"Although His Highness has the responsibility to protect the emperor, he has the right to behead the emperor first," Xiao Qiming hesitated, "But what they participated in was Sun Wukong's conspiracy against the sky, and His Highness did not report their crimes to the Jade Emperor, so he punished them privately." I'm afraid it's not good."

Liu Wuxiu laughed and tried to regain his mind: "Brother Xiao, don't worry too much. The Jade Emperor only valued the main culprit. Why would he care about these few shrimp soldiers and crab generals?"

I nodded, boasted that I was wise and foolish, and then said: "Then Pengniao and Yutamarin will make a record, and there is no need to file a record. Let's see what they are willing to do. If they are willing to stay in the sky, I will ask if there is any fairy king who wants to raise a fairy." If you want to become an immortal, you can see which mountain field needs a thug to protect the mountain. As for the green lion, it still depends on the owner to beat the dog. First, keep the evidence of the crime and send it to prison. Not the slightest bit fishy."

Heh, I see when Manjusri comes to my place to ask for someone...

After explaining everything in detail, I turned around and left the dungeon, heading to the 33-day Tushita Palace.

When passing by the Tianhe River, the navy was practicing formation, and the flags that were displayed high were blowing violently with the wind, but the leader of the marshal was replaced by a face-to-face fairy, plain silver armor, blue robe, tall and thin with a bamboo pole body. The shape is very refined, not as round as the canopy, showing a naive air.

Lihentian, in Dousita Palace, as soon as I entered the door, I saw Li Jingdui leaving the main hall with a smile all over his face, Taishang Laojun stroked his snow-white beard, looked at the pagoda fragment on the table and muttered to himself, his brows relaxed for a moment , momentary screw up, seems to have many ideas.

After Yintong, the golden boy who guarded the door, informed me, Laojun ordered them to put away the fragments and store them, then came out and asked me, "It's getting late, why did the third prince come suddenly?"

I laughed: "Nezha and Sun Wukong met at least once. Seeing him enter Laojun's alchemy furnace, I came to give him a gift, and it was considered as the friendship of this acquaintance."

"So that's how it is, the third prince is very loyal!" Taishang Laojun laughed, and said with a stroke of his beard, "It's better to come early than to be in time. This old man untied his shackles here, and then sent him to the gossip furnace for a while." , I think he should still be struggling in the fire of Liuding in the furnace at this moment, and the third prince will pass by at this time, so maybe he can have a few words with him."

I cupped my hands and said thanks: "Lao Jun is lenient."

In the middle of the alchemy room, two fire-making boys squatted in front of the gossip stove, carefully controlling the heat, their expressions were very cautious, for fear that something might go wrong.

Standing at the door, I heard angry shouts and curses coming from the furnace, so I asked, "Tong'er, how long has it been since Sun Wukong entered the furnace?"

The boy on the left who was shaking the firewood responded: "It's been about half an hour." Then he said to himself: "Being tempered by Liuding's divine fire, you can still live like a dragon and a tiger. No wonder the old man specially told you to practice enough It took him seven to seven days to open the furnace."

"Sun Dasheng, at this moment, do you know your mistake?" I circled the alchemy furnace with my hands behind my back, looking around, but I was looking for something to say.

Although this elixir furnace is called a gossip furnace, from this experience, the eight directions of Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, and Dui are slightly different from the positions of the general innate gossip.

"Old grandson is right! No—wrong—" Sun Wukong refused to admit his mistake came from the furnace, followed by an angry blow, bang, bang, and finally turned into a sound as long and long as the morning bell in the mountains and forests. ——

duang......

I stood in Xun's position according to the innate gossip, and dealt with it casually, but suddenly felt a gust of cool wind blowing from the opposite tremor position, and when the wind reached Xun's position, it instantly gathered into a bunch and disappeared quietly.

Sunda is the wind, earthquake is thunder, Laojun also set up a large eight trigrams formation outside, but he did it in the opposite way... From the perspective of the alchemy room, the external wind comes from the earthquake position, and reaches the alchemy. Influenced by the eight trigrams when the furnace is in position, it forms a bunch and penetrates through the gaps in the pores. The pores are small on the outside and large on the inside, easy to enter and difficult to exit...

If the alchemy furnace is a complete anti-gossip, and the outside is set up to be a positive gossip, then the Xun bit will become a fire chimney that can quench all impurities. At that time, if you want to save the monkey's life, I am afraid that you will only have to lift it up. The path of opening the alchemy furnace is over.

Heh... Laojun's alchemy method is really ingenious.

The boy asked softly, "Why did the third prince suddenly laugh?"

If the alchemy furnace is a complete anti-gossip, and the outside is set up to be a positive gossip, then the Xun bit will become a fire chimney that can quench all impurities. At that time, if you want to save the monkey's life, I am afraid that you will only have to lift it up. The path of opening the alchemy furnace is over.

Fortunately, Laojun is obsessed with refining alchemy and casting tools, rather than studying gossip formations.Thinking of this, I breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the boy, "It's nothing, I just thought of something interesting."

Hearing that there was no movement in the alchemy furnace, he raised his hand and knocked on the furnace wall, warning: "Your way is not wrong, his way is wrong, is it wrong?"

There was no movement in the furnace for a long time, and I was not sure what happened to Monkey King, but since the boy who started the fire said that he would practice for seven to seven days, nothing would happen in a while.

Now that the monkey is suffering from the fire of the Liuding God, he probably doesn't want to talk to me anymore. With this in mind, I planned to leave first, but when I turned around, I heard the monkey's weak voice from the furnace: "Wrong, Really wrong, big mistake!"

You changed your words so quickly, did you really understand what I meant?

"Since it's a mistake, don't shout any more, so as not to spoil Laojun's tranquility." I still wondered, but under the eyes of this boy, I couldn't make my words too clear, so I could only leave for the time being and plan to Let's take some time to come over another day.