Chapter Fifty-Six: Wealth Touches People's Hearts
"What does the old host have to say?" Tang Xuanzang asked with a smile.
The old monk said: "This treasure is unfolded now, and it is already late, but my old eyes are dizzy and I can't see clearly, isn't this just no blessing!"
After speaking, the old monk hid his face and cried again.
Tang Xuanzang sneered in his heart and said, "It's simple, ask someone to hold the lamp and let you see it again." ”
The old monk said: "Qincha's treasure is already very bright, and if you light the lamp again, it will be even more dazzling, and it will be even more unclear." ”
Sun Wukong scratched his head impatiently and said, "Then what do you want to see?"
The old monk said: "If Qin Cha is relieved, let me take it to the back room, watch it carefully all night, and return it to Qin Cha tomorrow morning, let you go west, I don't know how?"
Sun Wukong was just about to say something, but he found that Tang Xuanzang glanced at him and stopped talking.
Tang Xuanzang smiled and said, "Of course you can!"
asked Sun Wukong to hand the robe to the old monk and said, "You take it and look at it casually, and return it to me tomorrow morning as it is, and there can be no defacement." ”
The old monk agreed again and again, so he asked the boy to take the robe in, and then instructed the monks to clean the meditation hall in front, and then take out two rattan beds, make the cover, and let the master and apprentice rest.
After the old monk deceived the robe, he watched under the lamp in the back room, and cried bitterly at the robe, and the child did not know what the reason was, so he went to tell the monks and said: "The ancestor cried until the second watch, and he was still crying." ”
There were two apprentices, who were the beloved disciples of the old monk, so they stepped forward and asked, "Master Zu, why are you crying?"
The old monk said: "I have no blessing in crying, and I can't see the treasure of the Tang monk!"
The little monk said: "Master Zu is really old, his robe is now in front of your eyes, you can just look at it, why are you crying?"
"I can't see it for long! I'm two hundred and seventy years old this year, and I've saved hundreds of robes for nothing, how can I compare to him? How can I be a Tang monk?" The old monk continued to weep.
The little monk said: "Master Zu, you are confused, Tang Seng is a walking monk who has left his hometown, you are so old, why do you want to be a walking monk like him?"
The old monk wiped away his tears and said, "Although I am happy at home, I can't wear his robe! If I can wear it for a day, I will be willing to die!"
The monks said: "Master Zu is becoming more and more improper, you want to wear his robe, what's so difficult? We will keep him for one more day tomorrow, you will wear him for one day, and if you keep him for ten days, then wear him for ten days." What else is there to cry about?"
The old monk sighed and said, "Even if he stays for half a year, he can only wear it for half a year, and it won't last long! If he leaves then, this robe will still have to be returned to him!"
Speaking of which, there was a little monk named Guangzhi, who rolled his eyes and said, "It's easy to wear it for a long time." ”
When the old monk heard this, he cheered and said, "My son, what can you do?"
Guangzhi said: "The two Tang monks are the people who are traveling, and they are tired on the road, and I am afraid that they have fallen asleep now." We thought that a few people with great strength took knives and guns, opened the meditation hall, killed him, and buried his body in the back garden. ”
"As far as those of us know, we can take away his white horse and bag, and leave his robe as a family heirloom, isn't this a long-term solution?"
When the old monk heard this, he was full of joy, wiped his tears, and said, "Good! Good! This plan is so good, I don't usually hurt you in vain!"
Just as he was about to give orders to prepare knives, guns, and clubs, a monk named Guangmou, who was Guangzhi's junior disciple, stepped forward and said, "This strategy is not good! If you want to kill them, you have to see what they do." The white-faced monk seems to be easy to deal with, but the hairy-faced monk with a thunderous mouth is difficult to look at. If you don't kill it, you'll get into trouble for nothing!"
"I have a way not to use knives and guns, I don't know if Master Zu wants to hear it?"
The old monk said, "My son, what can you do, say it quickly!"
Guangmou looked at all the monks looking at him, and said: "If you want me to say, let's give up the three meditation halls and burn him down with fire! I promise that he will have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth! Even if others see it, it is only necessary to say that he himself accidentally walked away from the water and burned down our meditation hall." ”
In this way, the two monks were not only burned to death, but also able to hide people's eyes and ears. Isn't the robe ours?"
When the monks heard this, they said, "Good, good, good! This plan is better!"
And he commanded them to begin preparing dry wood.
Tang Xuanzang's master and apprentice did not fall asleep, but kept listening from a distance.
Sun Wukong was surprised: "Master, how did you know that they were going to harm us?"
Tang Xuanzang showed a confident smile and said, "Because I am your master!"
Sun Wukong has no way to refute it, because it is a fact.
The monks outside the meditation hall were already carrying firewood and grass, preparing to surround the meditation hall and set it on fire.
"Master, I'll go to the Hiromu Heavenly King to borrow a fire cover, so that I can protect the two of us and burn down his temple again. Sun Wukong scratched his head and came up with an idea.
Tang Xuanzang shook his head with a smile and said, "He deserves to burn his Zen courtyard, who made him feel evil." ”
"But this yard full of treasures is innocent!"
Sun Wukong asked, "What do you mean, Master?"
Tang Xuanzang thought for a while and said, "These treasures are related to me. You also go to borrow the fire cover, and I will take advantage of the chaos to take away the treasure!"
Sun Wukong listened to his master's instructions, and jumped into the Nantian Gate with a somersault, so frightened that the heavenly soldiers guarding the gate shouted: "Oh no! Oh no! The person who made trouble in the Heavenly Palace is here again!"
Sun Wukong shook his hand and said, "Don't panic, I'm here to find the Wide-eyed Heavenly King!"
The Guangmu Heavenly King rushed over and said, "Great Sage, I haven't seen you for a long time! A few days ago, Guanyin Bodhisattva came to see the Jade Emperor, borrowed the Four Values Gong Cao, Liuding Liujia and Jiedi, and protected Tang Seng to go to the West Heaven to learn scriptures, saying that you have become his apprentice, why do you have time to come here today?"
Sun Wukong said: "Don't chat, my master met a villain on the road, set fire to him, and came to you to borrow a fire cover." Hurry up and bring it to you, and I'll pay you back later!"
The Wide-eyed Heavenly King was surprised: "Are you mistaken, since it was a villain who set the fire, you should borrow water to save him, why do you want to open the fire cover instead?"
"How do you know, I won't tell you more, hurry up and lend me as an envoy!" Sun Wukong said impatiently.
The Wide-eyed Heavenly King smiled: "This monkey is still like this, only caring about himself, not others!"
Sun Wukong took the fire cover, fell down the clouds, went to the ridge of the meditation hall, covered the white horse and luggage, and saw that the master was already sitting on the abbot's room where the old monk lived behind, so he ran over.
"Master, Master, my grandson is back!"
Tang Xuanzang looked at the sea of fire below with cold eyes, and had already put away all kinds of treasures, but he left the robe, just to protect it, not to put it away.
"Master, Master, let's go?" Sun Wukong said when he saw that Master should have succeeded.
Tang Xuanzang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, this scene is not over yet!"
With that, he cast a spell to cover the two of them.
A monster came in the distance, came down from the clouds, saw that the temple was empty, and there were fireworks on both sides, he strode in, and was just about to ask someone to bring water, but he saw that there was no fire in the back room, and broke directly over.
When I entered the abbot's room, I saw a cyan burden on the table, and the sun was shining.
When he untied it, he saw that it was a splendid robe, and when he took it up, he stopped putting out the fire, and returned to the mountains.
Tang Xuanzang stood on the ridge of the house and saw that the monster was gone, so he withdrew the spell.
Sun Wukong was puzzled and asked, "Master, what's going on......?"
"You don't have to worry about it, there are some things you don't know. Tang Xuanzang didn't mean to explain to him, "You go and return the fire cover, there are still things to do tomorrow!"
Sun Wukong nodded, didn't ask any more, and went up to Nantianmen again with a somersault.