Chapter 4 4. It's old friends who come to meet each other

overture The ground is hazy and the trees are tall, and the Buddhas of the Tang Dynasty worked hard. There is a bowl of rice for thousands of families when hungry, and a thousand needles and a robe for cold. Don't let the horse's chest be dissolute, but don't howl when the ape is obedient. Emotion and nature are determined by fate, and the golden flower of the full moon is the cutting of hair. But Tang Seng and his party of three said goodbye to Gao Laozhuang and all his relatives and friends, and fled west. The three of them headed westward, and they walked on a steady road for a month.After walking through the Tibetan border of Uzbekistan, we came to a high mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, the three of them stopped there to rest. "Wukong, I'm hungry and thirsty, go get some fruit to eat." Tang Seng ordered. "Pig head, the monk is hungry, go pick some fruit." Wukong ordered. "Little Bailong, I'm tired, you go!" The pig ordered to the horse. "Hululu!" the white horse exhaled angrily. "Sin, sin! Wukong, how can you talk to Wuneng like this." After a pause, Tang Seng seemed to have thought of something again, and said to the canopy: "Wu Neng, I have called you by your Dharma name for a month, and I always find it awkward. , don't you have another name?"

"Yes!" Tianpeng said, "In Gao Laozhuang, my alias is Zhu Peng. In fact, I have an official name called Zhu Ganglu, and in my previous life I was called Tianpeng Marshal. You can figure out what to call it! " Tang Seng pondered for a long time, and said, "No, no! Why don't I give you another name?" "casual." "Well... since you don't eat five meats and three things, you should be called Bajie!" "Bajie? Can't it be nicer?" "I think this is good, how is it?" "Just listen to your honor!" Tianpeng was too lazy to argue with him.

"Bajie is so nice, I like a simple person like you to do things by my side." "Stop talking nonsense! It's been a month, what about the salary?" "Bajie, is our relationship only based on money?" Tang Seng sighed deeply and sang: Friends walk together for a lifetime, those days are gone, in a word, a lifetime, a lifetime of love, a glass of wine; a friend has never been alone, you will understand when you say a friend... "Smelly monkey! Shut his mouth!" Canopy yelled impatiently. Wukong threw the golden cudgel on the ground with a "Keng", leaned on the stick, and stared at Tang Seng with his head tilted.

"Oh! It's getting late, let's set up a tent and spend the night there before leaving!" Tang Seng cut to the point immediately. Since then, the canopy has been called Zhu Bajie by everyone. In the early morning of the next day, the three of them started to go up the mountain at once, but they saw: there were pines and bicypresses in the south of the mountain, and green willows and red peaches in the north of the mountain.Noisy and noisy, the mountain birds talk to each other; dancing, the cranes fly together.The fragrance is fragrant, and there are thousands of colors of flowers;There is surging green water under the stream, and auspicious clouds in front of the cliff.It's really a place with very elegant scenery, and there are no people coming and going.

The three of them reached the top of the mountain at noon. Tang Seng raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and said with emotion: "A high mountain!...you are so fucking tall!" "This is not a high mountain." Bajie lay on the white horse and said, "It's called Futu Mountain." "Pig head, wake up! Give the horse to the monk." "Can you tell me first, why am I sleeping on the horse?" "You were admiring the moon all night and didn't fall asleep until morning. No matter what I told you, you didn't wake up. It's better to be a monk, let you sleep on the horse, and he will follow behind with the burden alone."

"Huh? Why don't you take the burden?" "I am the Monkey King, not a burden-bearer." "You were just what you were. A hero doesn't mention being brave." Bajie suddenly jumped off his horse. "Stop arguing. Wukong, I'm hungry." Tang Seng said. "Dead monk, do you have anything else to do besides crying out for hunger?" "Huh? Didn't I mend your tiger skin skirt?" "Stop making noise!" Bajie yelled, "I'm hungry! Go get something to eat!" "Old Sun is not a waiter! You have to go yourself!"

"Hey! It's better to be a horse!" Tang Seng looked deeply at the white dragon horse who was eating grass with his head down. The monkey and the pig also looked at the little white dragon in unison. "Now I feel that this horse is really fat!" the monkey thought while resting its chin. "Does it taste better on barbecue? Or cut into slices and eat hot pot?" A scene of a table of fragrant, delicious and tempting horse meat hot pot appeared in Ba Jie's mind. Three old hooligans stared at a grazing horse, salivating. Ma ate comfortably on his own, and only glanced at the three of them with disdainful eyes: What are you looking at?Not happy!

The monkey and the pig couldn't bear it any longer: one swung a stick, the other held up a nail, and rushed towards the white horse "howling". "Keng! Keng!" With two solid impacts, both the monkey and the pig fell to the ground.The monk behind held his stick, "Amitabha!" "Good! Good! Good!" There was a clapping sound from behind the crowd. Everyone looked back, only to see the man: unkempt, with black teeth.Wearing a tattered and dirty dark black seven-star Taoist robe, and a pair of black boots with full openings, he walked towards the crowd, laughing and laughing wildly.

The monkey scratched his head and said, "Where did the beggar come from?" "Snapped"!Another slap on the monkey's head. "A monkey without a tutor! This is Zen Master Wuchao who lives on the back mountain. He can know the past and the future!" "Holy monk! Greetings!" "Oh, it turned out to be a Taoist who practiced Zen." Tang Seng returned the courtesy. "Zen Master, is there anything to eat?" Bajie asked as soon as he came up. "There are only a few plates of vegetarian fruits." Wu Chao waved his hand, and a table of rich and delicious fruits appeared in front of him.

Tang Seng and the three were very grateful. After saying "Amitabha", before Wuchao could return the gift, they put it on the table and began to gnaw wildly. All of a sudden, saliva, nuts, peels, and pomace danced all over the sky, and the explosion of desire was like a flood of torrents, even better than the flood of the Yellow River on "June 22"! "belch"!Bajie burped.The desktop is already a mess, maybe this word is not enough to express the degree of filth on the desktop. "Many... hiccups! Thank you for your hospitality." Tang Seng saluted, but he didn't know that there was still a large piece of wild fruit dregs left by his mouth. "Heh, heh heh... No, you're welcome." Wu Chao said with shame. "Zen Master, this poor monk would like to ask you for advice on one thing." "Do you want to ask about the way to the west?" Wu Chao asked. "Oh!" Tang Seng said in surprise, "Zen Master is indeed an expert, how do you know?" "Haha..." Wu Chao laughed and said, "I look up to the sky and look down on the earth! The green dragon on the left and the white tiger on the right! You can master astronomy and geography! You can know what happened before and after your life, and you can save yin and yang without disasters! Ha ha……" Tang Seng and the other three quietly looked at Wu Chao who was smiling. "Monk, let's go!" Wukong whispered to Tang Seng. "why?" "This is a madman, don't you see it?" "No! He said it very profoundly, and I haven't understood it yet!" "Let me do it!" Bajie showed his nine-tooth nail palladium and coughed loudly. "Cough..." Wu Chao fell silent, cleared his throat, and said, "Actually, I have already figured out the question you asked me." Seeing this situation, Wukong thought to himself: Dare to love this old man Wu and this monk is a virtue. "Zen Master, you just said a lot, but you haven't answered my question yet!" "Hehe, the road is far away, but there are many tigers and leopards on the road, so it's difficult!" "How far is it?" "It's a long journey, but one day we will arrive. It's just..." Wuchao looked around and said mysteriously, "This is not a place to talk. Come with me to Wuchao. I have something you don't know. I want to tell you something about it.” "Why only tell a little?" Bajie asked. "Hey!" Wu Chao sighed, "I've told too much, I'm afraid I'm even hurting myself." "Huh? What do you mean?" Tang Seng was puzzled, "What's wrong with you? Is it me?" Bajie and Wukong stopped talking. Wu Chao led them to the back mountain. The so-called black nest is just a grass nest built on a big fragrant juniper tree. Four people sat in the black nest, each with a cup of tea in front of them. "Zen Master, what are you going to tell me?" "Tang Xuanzang, do you know who you were in your previous life?" "I don't know. Do you want to tell me? Who was my previous life?" Tang Seng asked curiously. "Yes! But you forgot." Wu Chao sighed. "Come on, have a sip of tea first." Wu Chao raised a cup. The three Tang monks raised their cups at the same time, blew at the same time, and drank the tea with their necks raised. At this moment, Wu Chao suddenly pointed out the window behind Tang Seng and shouted, "Oh! Sows can climb trees!" "puff"!The pig and the monkey spouted the tea all at once. Only Tang Seng swallowed his tea unhurriedly and looked back out of the window. "Nothing! It's just... a little..." Tang Seng fell by the table. "Zen Master, what are you doing?" Bajie asked puzzled. "It's nothing, it's just a sweat medicine." Wu Chao said, "There are some things that he can't know, because they will bring back sad memories for him." "Now you can tell." Wukong asked, "Who was he in his previous life?" "The Great Sage is so smart, why don't you guess?" "Is it like me, a demon?" "No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you were a demon in the previous life." Bajie said, "Maybe he was demoted from the heaven again." "Hehe..." Wu Chao smiled wryly, "It's true that the one who got demoted is right, but it didn't come from the sky above." "Is there still a piece of sky?" Wukong asked. "Western Heaven Buddha Heaven." The pig and monkey were stunned. "Oh! I see! You're talking about him..." cried the monkey. "Don't talk! I'll come..." The pig also shouted. "It's him! Dead pig! It must be!" "I know, stinky monkey! He is the second disciple of Tathagata—" "Golden Cicada!" The pig and the monkey looked at Wuchao in surprise. Wu Chao took a sip of tea and said, "Not bad. It seems that you have heard about him more or less." "What!" Wukong said, "You think we just debuted! Their affairs have long been known to everyone in the world of immortals and Buddhas." "However," Wu Chao said, "the degree of knowing is different." "Oh?" "My lord, you only know the general outline of this matter, but you don't understand the outcome of this process." "Then who knows the outcome of this process?" "I only know the result, but I have to ask three people after the process." "One must be Tathagata." Wukong said, "Who are the other two?" "The other two..." Wu Chao said, "One is Yue Lao, because he can't control the red thread in his hand, but the red thread has chosen its owner, so he pays more attention to this matter, and he knows the ins and outs of it best." "What about the last one?" "It's just..." Wu Chao said two words in astonishment: "Canopy!" "Pig?" Wukong looked at Bajie in surprise - Bajie took a sip of tea calmly. "Because I am the general in charge of Tianhe, the most charming and romantic holy place in the night, when I patrol the river, there will always be a warm feeling in my heart. Not only because of the beautiful scenery on a good day, but because I Know that in the night around it, there are many magical love stories hidden, and they are not only unknown, but also hidden from the light of day!" "Canopy..." Wukong stared at Bajie with incredulous eyes, "What do you... know?" "I know too much, I don't know which one you want to ask?" "Of course it's about Jin Chanzi and Nine Heavens Xuannv!" Wukong exclaimed impatiently. After a long pause, Bajie said without raising his head, "I'm sorry, I don't know anything." The two stared at him in surprise. "Canopy," Wu Chao said, "what are you afraid of?" "You're also afraid, aren't you?" Bajie looked up at Wuchao and said, "No one wants you to come here, and no one wants you to tell us all these things." "Hmph..." Wu Chao secretly laughed, "Marshal Tianpeng, haven't you noticed that something is wrong with this Journey to the West?" "how?" "After Jin Chanzi's Dongchuang incident happened, he was relegated to the human world and reincarnated as a monk by the Tathagata. Why is he asked to go to the west to learn scriptures today?" "I think," Bajie said, "it should be for Jin Chanzi to rehabilitate his results and offset his previous crimes." "Hahaha..." Wu Chao looked up to the sky and laughed. Wukong and Bajie looked at him inexplicably. "Is it that simple?" Wu Chao said coldly, "Tianpeng, you are so naive." "If not? What else?" "Do you think you can escape the crime of violating the prohibition of heaven?" "Then what do they want?" Wukong shouted angrily. "This journey to the west is a road of no return." Zen Master Wuchao said every word. Wukong and Bajie were stunned, and sat there blankly, beads of sweat streaming down their cheeks. "In the future, you will also accept a junior brother, who is also your brother in difficulty, so that you can get together the number of five elements." "The number of the five elements? What do you mean?" Wukong asked. "The great sage belongs to gold, the marshal is called wood, the white dragon controls the water, and the quicksand has earth. This Tang monk came from the Great Tang Kingdom in Nanfangbuzhou, so he belongs to the nature of fire." "What will happen if we get everything together?" Bajie asked. "It's like remnant jade joining a wall, attracting death!" "How do you say that?" The two asked at the same time. "In the world of heaven, the underworld, and the world of Buddhism, it is said that there are four sinners escorting the reincarnated Golden Cicada to the west to learn scriptures. At the time of the horse, Journey to the West really started. But in the world of demons and demons, there is another story..." Wu Chao picked up the cup, took a sip, and continued: "When all the demon kings and demon kings heard that Sun Wukong, the number one demon king in the world today, was going to learn scriptures from the Tathagata of the Western Paradise, there was news that the Tathagata was going to kill the demon king. Killing everything, going to the west is a trap set by nature. So the demon kings and demon kings are mainly leading the demons, and they want to intercept you on the road to the west." "Who are the Demon King and Demon King now?" Wukong asked. "Tongtian Dasheng Macaque King is the head of the demon king, and Huntian Dasheng Peng Demon King is the head of the demon king." "Okay! That macaque's skills are on par with Old Sun's, and the monster clan is saved." Wukong's eyes shone strangely. "How about Tathagata?" Bajie asked. "I don't know." Wu Chao said, "He is so quiet that it makes my heart palpitate." "Will he take extreme action?" "If I'm right...it will be." "You came to inform us based on your estimation?" "That's right. If I were Tathagata, I would be worried that those monsters would not be able to do it. At this time, I would send some trustworthy people to do it." "The Tathagata wants us to disappear? Want us to die on the Westward Journey?" Bajie couldn't believe his own judgment. "Yes. That's exactly what I want to tell you today." "But the demons want us to change our minds and not go to the west," Wukong said. "Under such circumstances," Wu Chao analyzed, "they may use Monk Tang as a bait to force you to break up, so you must protect Monk. If Monk dies, Tathagata's purpose will be achieved, and you will not die." It doesn't matter." "Under such circumstances," Bajie asked, "is it possible for Tathagata to cooperate with demons?" "I don't know." "Then why does Tathagata have to kill the monk?" Wukong asked. "Set an example." Wu Chao said, "There will be no more sentient beings in the heavens from now on." "Ouch..." Tang Seng woke up, "My head really hurts... Huh? Why did I fall here?" "It's really forgetful." Bajie lied, "You said you wanted to take a lunch break!" "Oh, I see!" "Holy Monk," Wu Chao held up a book and presented it to Tang Seng, "I have a volume of "Multi-Heart Sutra", with fifty-four lines, totaling two hundred and seventy words. If you encounter a miasma, just read this Sutra, no harm to oneself." "Oh, thank you Zen Master." Tang Seng got on his horse and headed west. Wu Chao patted Bajie and Wukong on the shoulders at the same time, and said, "Remember, protect the monk well." The three of them headed west together, and Wu Chao was about to leave Futu Mountain when he suddenly felt thousands of golden lights shining from above his head. When he looked up, he saw a thousand layers of auspicious mist descending from the sky covering ten thousand golden lotuses. "Wuchao," a voice came from the mist, "Why do you come here if you don't buy the Buddha's fruit?" "Hehe," Wu Chao smiled wryly, and said, "Besides the Buddha, there are only two venerables who can break the 'Golden Crystal Mask of King Ming' I set up outside Futu Mountain." "Wu Chao, what have you done?" Another voice came. "I've done what I shouldn't have done, you just take me to the West Paradise, why bother talking nonsense!" On the Westward Journey, the pig asked the monkey. "There is a question that I haven't asked Wu Chao clearly." "You rotten pig, why do you have so many questions to ask all day long?" "Why are we traveling west?" "Protect the monk!" "Do you think this is Tathagata's original intention?" The monkey was taken aback, "The Tathagata will not ask us to protect the monk. Then..." "...It's her?" Both of them were taken aback by their own thoughts at the same time. "But why would she do that?" asked the monkey. "We'll find out if we keep going west," replied the pig. first quarter "Boom!" Bajie stumbled into the eight hundred li Liusha River, thinking back to what the monkey said just now. "Although I was the governor of Tianhe back then..." Bajie said, "I'm afraid that the monsters in this water will come with all their children, old and young. How can I beat them?" "It's simple." The monkey said, "You may lose but not win, just lure him out, and I will help you on the shore." "Hmph!" Bajie sulked in the water, "It's easy to say, and the credit will be given to you at that time." Just as he was angry, suddenly there was a murderous aura, which came from the waterway. "The monk! Where are you going! Let's hit!" A stick struck in front of him. Ba Jie and Yi Pao stopped him, and said: "What kind of fairy are you, dare to block the way here?" "Bah!" cried the monster, "I'm not a goblin!" "Wow!" The two hit the water. "Oh, so there is a helper." The monster sensed that there was someone behind him. "Monkey, he said he's not a monster." Bajie stood on a boulder and said. "Oh? Then who do you say you are?" The monkey leaned on the stick and looked at the strange man. "Huh? It sounds so familiar." The monster turned his head and caught sight of Monkey King. "Monkey King!" The strange eyes suddenly became fierce and sharp. "Hey!" Wukong straightened his messy hair, and said leisurely, "There are fans everywhere, I can't stand it." "Bah!" the monster said angrily, "Sun Wukong! You damn monkey! I want to tear you to pieces, and I just came to you! Send me to your death!" Wukong hurriedly raised his stick to catch the monster's Zen stick. "Hey! Brother, you have admitted the wrong person!" "Aren't you called Sun Wukong?! Although you and I only met once, I can recognize you when you turn into ashes!" After speaking, he swung his stick and hit again. "Monkey, do you owe someone money?" Bajie sat on the boulder, rubbing the nail palladium without incident. "Rotten pig's head, I don't have one! Why don't you help me?" The monster beat so fiercely that Wukong couldn't stand it for a while. "If you owe someone money, pay it back quickly, monk, don't you think so?" "That's right, Wukong." Tang Seng was lying on the rocky beach taking a sunbath, and said unhurriedly, "If you owe money to others, you should pay them back quickly. We monks are two-sleeved, and we are indifferent to fame and fortune. Money is something outside of the body. If you don’t bring it with you, why don’t you take it away? Why do you have to fight, kill, and use knives and guns just because of it? We are all highly educated gentlemen! Come down and talk about philosophy, let’s talk about the truth!” "Shut up! Smelly monk!" When Wukong yelled, he was suddenly kicked firmly by the monster. "Hey! The monkey was kicked, the first time in five hundred years!" Bajie laughed, "Monster, go away, or there will be no bones left." "Okay! Come if you have the ability!" The monster held his stick in his hand confidently. "Huh!" With a roar, Monkey King stood upright 20 meters away from the monster, with a sharp murderous look all over his body. "You... angered me!" A devil's voice spread on the rocky beach. The monster took a step back unconsciously, feeling a little palpitated. "Cubic Yaksha!" the monster shouted. There was a small eddy in the quicksand river, "wow"!A Yasha with a steel fork jumped out from inside, and came straight to Wukong. "Ah! Look at the fork!" Yaksha yelled.The monster also attacked Sun Wukong at the same time. "Eh? It's still a hag." Bajie clearly heard a woman's voice. Without raising his head, Wukong swung his stick, "Oh!" Yasha fell to the side. "Alas!" Bajie sighed, and shook his head, "It really doesn't matter." Wukong and the monster fought together, only ten rounds, the monster was sent flying, hit the ground firmly, spit out a puddle of blood. "I told you to stay away!" "Hmph..." The monster sneered, "This is the Monkey King five hundred years ago, I'm not mistaken!" "You..." Wukong asked in a deep voice, "Who is it?" "Do you remember five hundred years ago, when you made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace... outside the Lingxiao Palace... did you meet anyone?" "I remember..." Wukong recalled, "Wang Lingguan, the assistant of Yousheng Zhenjun, blocked the way with a golden whip." "and then?" "Oh?" Wukong remembered, "You are..."