[Red Mansion] February is the season of wishing

Bailong couldn't bear it at first, so he went out to breathe.Monkey King was afraid that the monster would violently attack and hurt people, so he blocked his ears with cotton and stood by and listened.

Only Xichun listened with relish.

In later generations, the Dharma faded away, and Buddhism and Taoism all became brocade quilts to cover up all filth.None of the emperors who wanted to innovate did not set their sights on them—destroying Buddhas and Taoism.

It is very rare to hear Master Xuanzang explaining Buddhist principles.

……

It wasn't until the sky was getting dark that Xuanzang finished his speech with more content.

Knowledge, when learning, there is a level of understanding, and after speaking, there is another level of in-depth understanding.This time he talked about Buddhism from the perspective of monsters, which touched him a lot.

Buddhism should save all living beings, and so should monsters.

Xuanzang said: "The poor monk is finished."

But seeing that the bone spirit didn't move for a long time, it wasn't until Sun Wukong saw that Xuanzang's mouth hadn't moved, he took off the cotton, drew the golden rope, and pushed the skeleton: "Hey, it's over!"

Only then did the Bone Essence wake up from a dream, knelt down to Xuanzang and said, "Thank you for your teaching." Afterwards, his footsteps were vain, and he walked away step by step, as if the bones on his body would shatter on the ground in the next moment.

Looking at it from a distance, there is some glint on the bone, which echoes the light of the hazy sunset, and it is actually a bit beautiful.

Xichun stared blankly for a moment, feeling that this world is quite funny, but there are also some sincere things.

Xuanzang said: "Tell Bailong to come back, we should go."

Monkey King said yes, and said: "It's getting dark, and we have to go to the next village."

Xichun: "???"

Xichun hurriedly shouted: "Bone Demon! You come back!!!"

The Bone Demon was startled, turned back and sighed, "Does the holy monk still want to talk about some Buddhist teachings?"

"No," Xichun said, "You have a cave, right? We don't have a place to live at night, so we can borrow your place?"

Bone Demon: "...Okay."

It was getting dark gradually, and her figure became more and more bleak.

After forcing her to listen to the Dharma for a long time, she even forcibly occupied her cave... She has nowhere to complain, only the desolate back can confide her misery.

……

All the way west.

The reputation of Xuanzang and his party gradually increased.

A monk who loves to talk about the Dharma, a pair of demons holding guns and clubs to force people to listen to the monk's Dharma, and a nun who talks and laughs with indifference and murderousness, and gestures with the majesty of heaven.

This is a strange combination, and it is also a combination that makes all the monsters along the way tremble.

The Buddha specially passed on the news, such as the news that smearing honey to attract bees, and the news that "eating Tang monk meat can live forever", many monsters still believe it, but no monster dares to bite the meat.

The monsters who were blinded by greed for a while were all baptized by Buddhism, and when they sent Xuanzang away, their eyes were empty and respectful.

However, not all monsters can listen to Xuanzang's lectures.

Monkey King was merciless, he disabled a certain fairy's mount with a stick, pulled out his fairy bones, and let the gods in the sky lead him.

When the mount first came down to earth, it turned into a Taoist priest. Using his sprained spells, he easily got into the position of the national teacher. The disabled are countless.

The mount is worshiped in the mortal world, but it is so useless that it can't even withstand a blow from Monkey King.

Seeing the slumped state of the horse, Xichun suddenly said: "My father was also a Taoist priest."

She was talking about Jia Jing.Her nominal father is Jia Jing, so she is used to calling Jia Jing as "father".Although she doesn't know who her real father is.

No one would tell her, and she wouldn't ask.

Sun Wukong giggled and said, "Then why did you become a nun?"

Xichun wanted to say that when she was a child, when she thought Jia Jing was her real father, she often asked her nurse where her father was and why he didn't come to see her.The wet nurse would say that the master is practicing alchemy in the Taoist temple on the outskirts of the city, and the smoke is lingering, so it is not easy to come to see the girl.She asked several times, and finally got this answer. Gradually, she began to hate the Taoism of alchemy.

Why is the smoke everywhere?It's bad for my father to come and see me.

Even if she later found out her identity, and knew that the smoke from burning incense and worshiping Buddha in Buddhist temples was no less than that of Taoism, she still subconsciously hated Taoism, and eventually became a monk to avoid the world and chose to become a nun.

Xichun was silent for a while, then said: "Father died from taking elixir."

Sun Wukong grinned and said: "No wonder, no wonder, all the elixir in the world are poisonous, and they are the ones who can say it. It is indeed better to practice Buddhism than Taoism."

After finishing speaking, Sun Wukong gave Xichun the extracted fairy bone and said, "I'll give it to you."

Xichun raised her eyebrows and said, "Why did you give me this?"

Wukong said: "If I destroy this thing, Heaven will probably chop me into a dead monkey. But you won't—please help."

Xichun smiled and said, "That's disrespectful." Then he said, "Take me to the place where the monks are doing hard labor."

……

On the other side, Xuanzang squatted down to look at the huge furry mount with interest, and sighed: "Your mount will feel much more comfortable when you sit on it."

The mount was seriously injured, unable to speak, and could only roll its eyes as hard as it could.

Bailong smiled and said: "He can't be a mount anymore, the fairy bone has been drawn, and he doesn't know how long he can live in the future."

Xuanzang clasped his hands together and said, "One predestined relationship and one dharma are determined by the past. Amitabha."

Avalokitesvara thought that Xuanzang was sympathetic, so he took the opportunity to ask Tudigong to come out and ask him to help spread the word: "As long as you accept him as an apprentice, it doesn't matter if the fairy bone is removed, he can be your mount."

Xuanzang said, "No need, those horses are fine."

Sun Wukong and Bailong are still not used to sitting on ordinary horses, they prefer to fly up and down, left and right, and finally have two horses free to store their foot strength.Xuanzang rode over and felt that he had some emotions.

not to mention……

When Master Tudi said with a sneer, "You're welcome, it's easy to do with your hands", Xuanzang said again: "Besides, I don't dare to accept this guy."

The land official asked hurriedly, "Why?"

Xuanzang said: "Immortals cannot interfere with the affairs of the mortal world, because the mortal world's thousands of years of hard work can be wiped out with a single wave of the gods. He already knows what he can bring to the mortal world with a single word." , the heart is already impetuous, and I can't be a poor monk's mount."

After listening to all this, Guan Yin was annoyed: "Tell him, he must have three apprentices!"

Whether it is for the requirements of the Buddha, the requirements of heaven, or the requirements of the five elements, in short, there must be three apprentices!Now that the journey is halfway through, and there is still a vacancy for an apprentice, how can this work?

Letting Tang Seng gather all three apprentices is his last insistence as Guanshiyin Bodhisattva!

The Lord of Earth carefully conveyed the meaning to Xuanzang.

Xuanzang thought for a moment, and said, "Now we must have an apprentice?"

Di Gongdao: "Yeah, it's a bit outrageous to have another apprentice after we're almost at the Buddha's feet..."

Xuanzang said: "The poor monk feels that the bone spirit is not bad, he has good talent, and he can understand Buddhism." He turned his head and greeted Bailong, "if you are tired, go to the cave of the bone spirit and ask him if he would like to become a disciple. Son."

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Bone Demon (Looking at Dongfu): I am wronged QAQ

Bailong: Hey, do you want to be Tang Sanzang's apprentice?

Bone Demon: How far are you going to squeeze me before you stop!

Bailong:? ? ?