Chapter Seventy-Eight: Sneaking Away
The two little Taoist children walked out of the garden gate, came to the hall, and pointed at Tang Xuanzang's bald front and back, foul language and foul language, thief head rat brain, and shouted nonsense angrily.
Tang Xuanzang closed his hearing and let him scold, he couldn't hear anything anyway, he could only see the mouths of the two little Taoist boys and didn't stop.
Seeing that the two little Taoist boys finally stopped, Tang Xuanzang pretended to be innocent and said: "Xiantong, what are you making trouble? Stop for a while, talk slowly if you have something to say, don't talk nonsense." ”
Qingfeng said angrily: "You stole the ginseng fruit, don't you want me to say it?"
Tang Seng looked innocent and said, "What does the ginseng fruit look like?"
Mingyue said angrily: "It's the kind of fruit I gave you to eat yesterday!"
Tang Xuanzang pretended to be frightened, retreated his body, and shouted: "Amitabha! A poor monk is a monk, how could he do such a thing? Even if he is addicted, he doesn't dare to steal anything! Don't blame people!"
Qingfeng glared at him angrily, with some hesitation in his eyes, and said, "Even if it's not you, maybe someone from your subordinates will steal it!"
Tang Xuanzang said thoughtfully: "That's true, I'll call them over and ask, if it's really them who stole food, I'll compensate you for some money!"
Mingyue said indignantly: "If you have money, you have nowhere to buy it?!"
Tang Xuanzang looked pedantic and said: "Even if there is no place to buy it, as the saying goes, benevolence and righteousness are worth a thousand gold." Ask him to make amends for you, and forget it. I don't know if it's him!"
Mingyue and Qingfeng glanced at each other and saw the despair in each other's eyes, the ginseng fruits on the trees were gone, and the master wanted to know that he could peel off their skins!
Tang Xuanzang shouted: "Apprentices, come here!"
Sun Wukong instructed the two junior brothers in the kitchen, and said earnestly: "Grit your teeth, don't admit it even if you kill you!"
Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing both nodded.
The three of them went to the main hall together, and let him say nothing and not say anything back.
Tang Xuanzang gave Sun Wukong a look, he understood, left a distraction, went to the back garden, and pushed the ginseng fruit tree to the ground!
The fairy boy in the hall pointed at their noses and scolded for a while, and Qingfeng was puzzled: "Mingyue, these monks can also stand it, we are like scolding chickens, we have been scolding for so long, and we have not made a sound, could it be that they didn't steal food?"
Mingyue pondered: "That's what I said, could it be that I entered the thief? Let's go and see if there are any other clues!"
The two little Taoist children went to the back garden again, and saw the ginseng fruit tree fall to the ground, and even half of the leaves had fallen, so frightened that Qingfeng's feet fell softly, and Mingyue only shivered!
If the fruit is lost, it is better to find the thief who stole the fruit and say that it is nothing more than to suffer some sin.
But now that even the fruit trees have fallen, this is not as simple as peeling the skin, I am afraid that I will have to break the bones and scatter the ashes!
The two little Taoist boys were so frightened that they fell to the ground and shouted: "What should I do! What should I do! I have cut off the Miao descendants of my immortal family, and when the master comes back, should the two of us talk back?"
Mingyue's mind was a little more active, and said: "Senior brother, don't shout, let's get dressed up, don't startle the snake and scare away these monks." ”
"There's no one else here, they must have broken our treasure. If you argue with them, they will deny it. ”
"If there is a fight then, how can the two of us beat the four of him?"
"It's better to coax him, just say that the fruit is not lost, and give him a companion. Their meal is already cooked, and when he eats, give him some side dishes. ”
"While they are eating, close the door, lock it with a lock, lock all the doors on these floors, don't let them go, wait for the master to come back, and see what he does." ”
"He is also the master's old man, spare him, and it is also the master's favor, if we don't spare him, we will also take the thief, maybe we can avoid our sins. ”
Qingfeng nodded and said, "That's the truth!"
The two of them fought hard and came to the hall from the back garden, bowed to Tang Xuanzang and said, "Elder, the words just now are offensive, don't be strange!"
Zhu Bajie shouted: "You child, you are young and ignorant, you open your mouth and scold indiscriminately, you have wronged us in vain, and you are not a son of man!"
Tang Xuanzang sneered in his heart, he just wanted to lure Zhenyuan Daxian out, anyway, no matter how big the matter was, he was now an ally with Nanhai Guanyin, and she was carrying him.
Let's do it!
He commanded, "Go and bring the food." ”
Zhu Bajie went to serve dinner, and Sha Seng set up tables and chairs. The two little Taoist boys hurriedly took some side dishes, all of which were pickled melons, pickled tomatoes, etc., made seven or eight plates, and brought a pot of good tea, waiting for them.
As soon as the four masters and apprentices picked up the bowl, one on each of the two little Taoist boys, they closed the door and inserted a copper lock.
Zhu Bajie smiled: "You have bad customs here, why did you close the door to eat?"
Tang Xuanzang and Sun Wukong stopped the dishes and chopsticks and stared at Zhu Bajie with the eyes of a fool.
I heard Mingyue outside say: "Exactly, exactly, wait until you finish eating before opening the door." ”
Qingfeng scolded: "You gluttonous and stealing bald thief! You stole my fairy fruit, and knocked down my fairy tree, and damaged the fairy roots in my Wuzhuang Temple, you still want to go to the west to learn the scriptures, unless the sea is dry and the rocks are rotten, and the chaos is reopened!"
The four masters and apprentices looked at each other speechlessly, and Tang Xuanzang said softly: "Eat first." ”
The three apprentices did not move their chopsticks.
Tang Xuanzang put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "I want to lure their master out, no matter what, Guanyin will settle this matter in the end." ”
Hearing this, since there was the participation of Nanhai Guanyin, the three apprentices were relieved.
The two little Taoist boys outside locked the front mountain gate and the second mountain gate, and came to the door of the main hall again, and scolded until it was getting late, and then went to eat.
When it was late, the two little Taoist boys fell asleep, and Tang Xuanzang called the three apprentices up.
"Apprentices, we're going to have a show with him!"
The eyes of the three apprentices flashed with confusion.
Tang Xuanzang explained: "I'll take you to leave first, and then be captured by their master!"
The three apprentices looked at Tang Xuanzang blankly, they always felt that the master seemed to have some problems in his brain in the past two days.
I ran away, why should I be caught again?!
If you don't want to leave, you just stay in your room, why bother?
Tang Xuanzang was stared at like this by the apprentices, his face was a little unbearable, he coughed dryly, and said, "I have my own plans for the teacher!"
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After Zhenyuan Daxian dismissed from the Yuan Shi Palace, he led many apprentices back to the gate of Wanshou Mountain Wuzhuang Temple.
Seeing that the gate was wide open and the ground was clean, Zhenyuan Daxian smiled and said: "The breeze and the bright moon are also useful." Normally, Hidaka Sanzhang doesn't get up, and when we are not at home, he is willing to get up early and open the door and sweep the floor. ”
When I walked to the temple, I saw that there was no incense and no one!
The apprentices exclaimed, "The two of them saw that we were not there, stole things and ran away!"
Zhenyuan Daxian flicked his sleeves and said: "How can a person who cultivates immortals think like this! It should be that he forgot to close the door last night, and he didn't get up in the morning." ”
When they went to their room, the door was closed, and they were really sleeping!