Nezha, catch that monkey

Jin Chanzi lowered his head and walked towards the incense table, reaching out his hand to extinguish the fireworks.

The room immediately plunged into darkness.

Jin Chanzi, who was interrupted to worship the Buddha, was not displeased at all. He stood in front of the case in thin clothes, and turned his head blankly.

The door, I do not know when, has been opened.The two black wooden doors were opened and closed by the wind, and the creaking and creaking were creepy.

The moonlight streamed in and reflected on half of Jin Chanzi's face, like a blurred line dividing his two sides.

The moonlight on the other side was blocked by someone. This person was an extremely old grandmother with a cane.

She came in, faltering.

There was a smile on her face, a kind, kind, and gratifying smile.

She didn't speak, neither did Jin Chanzi, the two of them stood in the dark room like two statues.

"Amitabha, I see that the master has not rested yet, and I am afraid that the benefactor may not sleep well, so come and have a look." After the old lady finished speaking, she took a few steps towards Jin Chanzi.

"Trouble." Jin Chanzi nodded politely.

"The sorcerer..." Before the old lady could finish her sentence, the room was already bright as day.

All the lamps in the house were lit, and the monkey sat on the kang with his legs crossed, looked at the old woman with a three-point smile in his eyes and said, "It's too dark here, it's inconvenient for you to talk to my master, why don't you light all the lamps, everyone It’s good to know each other clearly!”

After the monkey finished speaking, he squinted his eyes and bared his teeth and stared at the old grandma, then turned his head and sat at the table on the kang with his back to the two people.

"Whether the mage can move over, I will ask for another matter." The old lady walked to the other side and waved to Jin Chanzi.

"Huh?" Monkey turned around and squinted his eyes, and sat alone next to Jin Chanzi, waved his hand at the old grandma, and said; Also helpful."

The old lady smiled awkwardly at Jin Chanzi, and said, "Master, I'll come back another day."

"Don't make it another day, just today!" The monkey looked at the back of the old lady leaving, turned and closed the door, looked at his master, and said, "Master, this visitor is not kind, please pay more attention."

Jin Chanzi put away the scriptures on the kang, raised his eyes and stared at the monkey for a while before saying: "If the visitor is really bad, wouldn't it be a matter of paying attention to you and my group?"

"Master, you sleep, I'll watch." Monkey scratched his head and said.

"Go to sleep too, there's no need to worry about unknown things." After Jin Chanzi finished speaking, she made the mattress and went to sleep alone.

The monkey snapped his fingers to extinguish the candles in the house, and he lay on the beam holding the golden cudgel.

After a peaceful night, there was no abnormality. On the second day, when the master and apprentice were sitting in the small courtyard and adjusting their luggage, the old lady came again.

Only this time, she was no longer alone.

She led a seven or eight-year-old girl with braided shofars and a red cloth pocket, and walked over.

"Benefactor." Jin Chanzi stood up and saluted.

"Yesterday, what I wanted to tell the Master was about this girl." The old woman pushed the little girl in front of Jin Chanzi as she said.

"This girl has been sick for many days and hasn't recovered. The doctor in the village can find a mage to take a look and she will understand." The old grandmother pinched the little girl's wrist and carried it to Jin Chanzi as she said.

Jin Chanzi nodded, and put three fingers on the little girl's wrist.

The monkey's face sank slowly, and he saw black blood flowing slowly like thick smoke under the girl's wrist.

The thick smoke climbed up Jin Chanzi's nails.

It's a black bug.

The monkey's eyes were bright, and after seeing everything clearly, he picked up the Ruyi golden cudgel and slammed it down on the little girl without any hesitation.

"Monster, my old grandson warned you yesterday, how dare you do it again today!" The monkey jumped up, clasped the Ruyi golden cudgel with both hands, and slashed at the little girl.

With one blow, the little girl was hit by the stick, her brain burst and she fell into a pool of blood.

Jin Chanzi turned to look at the monkey.

The monkey's eyes were red, and Ruyi's golden cudgel was stained with bright red blood.

Jin Chanzi bit her lower lip, closed her eyes and couldn't bear to look any further.

But the monkey's eyes lingered in Jin Chanzi's mind.

Those eyes are very much like a child he met in the sky, a child who is full of abilities but is manic and bloody.

A child whose eyes were red when he ran away.

A child he really wanted to convert him into a Buddha.

but……

However, Jin Chanzi forbade himself to think about it, because every time he thought about the child, he felt more guilty.

He opened his eyes and raised his head, fixedly looked at the monkey, and said in a weak tone, "You can't kill as a monk."

"Killing, my old grandson killed a monster, but Master, this girl is a monster!" The monkey held the golden cudgel and jumped in front of Jin Chanzi to explain.Jin Chanzi shook his head, looked past the magic spell on the monkey's head, opened the door and walked into the room.

"Wu Neng, help the benefactor to rest, we will stay here until others wake up, can't we accompany you." Jin Chanzi finished speaking and went back to the room.

"Big brother..." Rolling shutter looked at the monkey worriedly, and stretched out his hand to clean up the ground.

Unexpectedly, he was stopped by a monkey. He shook his head towards the roller blind and said, "This girl is a monster. Don't move, Laosha, and she will show her original shape later."

"But……"

"No, but, rolling shutter, I believe in monkeys." Tianpeng tied the white dragon horse back to its place, expressing support for the monkey's views.

For a moment, the world was dark, the wind was strong, and the lightning flashed and thundered.

The roller blind shuddered, and before it could make a sound, a heavy rain came down, washing away the blood on the ground.

White lightning flashed blindingly in the black, and rumbling thunder struck.

A sudden flash of white light flashed in front of the three of them, and then, thunderclaps rolled over from the sky, and struck straight on the girl's body on the ground.

"Fire, it's on fire!" Canopy said, looking at the little girl's body on the ground.

At the place where the thunder struck, green smoke rose straight up, the flames burned, and the clothes were burned away in an instant, the flesh and skin were peeled off, leaving only a pile of bones.

"Brother..." Rolling Shutter opened his mouth, only to find that his voice was trembling.

"This is the real body of the monster!" the monkey said angrily.

But obviously Rolling Blind didn't believe it, he looked at the monkey, opened the door and walked back to the room without saying a word.

The monkey was drenched in the rain, and his eyes were deep, looking ahead.

In his ears, someone was calling him in a bewitching tone.

But the monkey didn't speak, he turned his head and went into the stable, patted the white dragon horse's head, and silently clenched his fist with the other hand.

The room was also pitch black, Jin Chanzi re-lit the three sticks of incense in the incense burner, and lowered her body.kneel down.

He clasped his hands together, kowtowed three times, then sat cross-legged on the futon, closed his eyes and muttered something.

After a while, he opened his eyes and saw the incense burner.

The figure that appeared in front of the incense burner was covered in golden light, and his kind eyes were convincing.

"Tang Monk." Tathagata calmed his inner turmoil and called out.

"Buddha." Jin Chanzi kowtowed again, looked at Tathagata, bit his lower lip and said, "I have karma in my heart, so Buddha..."

"Kamma, let's hear it." Tathagata asked with a smile before Jin Chanzi could finish speaking.

"Buddha, you are distracted because your disciple was worried about a young man in your lecture class. Taoism and Buddhism are in turmoil, and you need someone who can cross the Buddha, so let me pay the merits and demote me to become a person who can cross the Buddha. But now disciples still can't cross people and become Buddhas without distractions, so the Buddha..."

"It seems that it has been ten lives, and that boy is still your karma." There was no anger on Tathagata's face, and his eyes were still peaceful.

"Yes." Jin Chanzi nodded solemnly, and continued: "My disciple, apart from him, no one has the intention to cross. It is my disciple's incompetence. I hope the Buddha will punish him."

"Incompetent?" Tathagata's voice was gentle, he raised his hand, looked at his fingertips and said, "Jin Chanzi, if you were incompetent, then I would not send you to ferry people. Monkeys are just like that child. If you are angry with a capable person, if you can cross the monkey, you will naturally be able to cross him."

"Buddha?" Jin Chanzi raised his head, his eyes were full of piety.

"Well, yes, if you survived the monkeys, I will naturally let you rescue the child. Therefore, Jin Chanzi, you should have hope in your heart, not despair."

"Then...that child...?" Jin Chanzi asked.

"He's very good, and he's waiting for you to come. But why have you forgotten that the Buddhist school saves all sentient beings, why don't you see any sentient beings in your eyes?"

"Buddha." After hearing what the Tathagata said, Jin Chanzi lowered his head slightly, and he said, "I think too, but I just didn't cross him. .Buddha..."

When it came to the end, Jin Chanzi's voice was slightly nasal, as if it wasn't him who had such a big emotional ups and downs.

"Needless to say, I know everything, he...he knows it too, but now you have to get rid of this group of people before you get rid of him." Tathagata said.

"Yes, Buddha." Jin Chanzi raised his head, the cigarette was burned out, and the Tathagata was gone.

He found himself asleep on the futon, and the last words of the Tathagata still remained in his mind.

If he is your karma, why are you not his karma?

————————————————————

"Have you seen the golden cicada?" On the 33rd day, the boy-like Tathagata sat under the locust tree with red eyes, listened to Guanyin's question, and nodded.

"So I couldn't take it for a while, so I showed my real body and ran over?" Guanyin continued to ask.

Tathagata nodded, and when he looked up at Guanyin, there was a smile in his eyes.

He said: "Aguan, Jin Chanzi..."

"Taishang Laojun!" Nezha opened the door and rushed in. When he saw the two people under the locust tree, he nodded hastily.

"What's wrong?" Taishang Laojun came out of the house when he heard the cry.

"Fairy Chang'e is gone, Second Brother asked me to inform you."

"What, what about Yang Jian?"

"Second brother took the Xiaotian dog to look for it!"