Chapter 51: Journey to the West (14)
Tang Xuanzang said happily: Wang Jushi, what do you say?
At this time, a voice came from the boiling river: Damn pig's head, you disturbed my sleep!
Zhu Bajie said: You miscellaneous demon, making waves in this river. Eat me a rake!
The red-haired monster in the river said: Huh! I've always been here, and I've never seen you so shameless, and you're still so bold to disturb people's sleep. Look at the shovel!
Zhu Bajie and the red-haired monster fought in the water, and these two people fought equally!
I said, "Master Wukong, don't do anything when you go up, and ask who that monster is." I think there's something strange here, you see that red-haired monster with a lot of scars on its back.
Wu Kongfei stepped forward and shouted: Stop it!
The red-haired monster heard it and knew that he couldn't beat Zhu Bajie, but he couldn't beat him at all. So I had to stop and wait to see what he had to say.
Zhu Bajie also knew that he and the red-haired monster, and no one could help anyone. I had to listen to it stupidly.
Wukong said: We are from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, escorting Master Tang Xuanzang, to the West Heaven to seek the true scriptures! Passing by your land, I'm really sorry to disturb your Qingxiu!
The red-haired monster looked excitedly at Tang Xuanzang who was riding a white horse in the middle of the team. The red-haired youkai descended to our team. knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Tang Xuanzang, and cried and said: Disciple Sha Seng, enlightened by Guanyin Bodhisattva, protected the Tang monks, and went to the west to seek the true scriptures. It's been hundreds of years, and I've finally arrived!
Tang Xuanzang has seen a lot of monsters, and when he saw Sha Wujing, he didn't feel so scared. But when he saw Sha Wujing's neck, the string of human heads, he was scared. But I heard that they were their own disciples. Buddhism pays attention to all sentient beings, and this monster is also a destined person, so it is better to take him to learn scriptures, so as to die less for other people.
Tang Xuanzang plucked up his courage, walked up to Sha Seng and said: Sha Seng, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?
Sha Seng said: The disciple is willing to worship you as a teacher!
Tang Xuanzang said: Bajie, take a spatula!
Zhu Bajie walked up to the burden, opened a box, took out a scraper from it, turned around and handed it to Tang Xuanzang.
Tang Xuanzang recited the scriptures and began to give the sand monk a gradient. It is also miraculous to say that when the spatula hits the head of the sand monk, the excess hair of the sand monk is cleaned up. The nine human heads hanging on his body also turned into nine rosaries.
Tang Xuanzang was not concerned about these changes, and said to Sha Seng: Apprentice, since you worship me as a teacher, then I will give you a legal name. Then you are called Wujing, Sha Wujing!
Sha Seng said: Disciple Sha Wujing, thank you master!
Tang Xuanzang said: Wujing, this monkey is your senior brother, the common name is Wukong, and the legal name is Wukong. This one who has just played with you is called Zhu Bajie, and his legal name is Wu Neng! This mortal is my guard, Wang Hongchun's guard! Wang Huwei is a mortal, and he can escort me all the way from Datang until he meets your senior brother.
Sha Wujing said: I have seen the senior brother, I have seen the second senior brother, and I have seen the Wang guard! Wang Guard, what a mortal I admire!
I said, "Master Wujing, wherever and wherever I am, I am also entrusted by others and loyal to others!"
Tang Xuanzang said: Wujing, tell me about your past!
Sha Wujing said that Master listened to me: The original skull on my body was not left by me from eating people. They are all people who have fallen into this river and drowned, and they are left with bones, which I made to deter other monsters. I have to be tortured every day, and the kung fu that comes from there eats people.
Tang Xuanzang said: Wujing, why are you being punished? I see that your back is full of scars, are they all left by torture?
Sha Wujing said: I am the general of the rolling shutter of the Heavenly Court Yaochi, and at the Yaochi banquet again, I accidentally broke the queen mother's favorite glass cup. I was removed from my immortal status and sent to this quicksand river to be punished. And every day, he has to be pierced through the chest by a flying sword.
Tang Xuanzang said: Amitabha! Realize that you have really suffered, and go with the teacher to learn the scriptures. From today onwards, you won't have to be tortured!
Sha Wujing said: Master, I thought Guanyin Bodhisattva was making fun of me. I didn't expect that after hundreds of years, you finally came.
Tang Xuanzang said: Wujing, do you have a way to cross the river?
Sha Wujing said: There is definitely no place to cross the river in this vicinity. I couldn't stay away from here before, I just knew that there was no place to cross the river nearby. I know the bottom of the river!
Tang Xuanzang said: What is the details, let's talk about it quickly.
Sha Wujing said: This is the realm of 800 miles of quicksand, and the depth of 3,000 weak waters. The goose feathers can't float, and the reed flowers sink to the bottom. I think the master let's take a detour, we can go over and you can't get by!
Wukong said: It sounds good, how to detour! It's thousands of miles, can the master stand it!
Tang Xuanzang said: Wang Huwei, do you have any way to cross the river?
I said, "Master Xuanzang, do we want to benefit future generations?"
Tang Xuanzang said: What do you mean by this?
I said, "Let's build a bridge here, and it won't take long for us to build it." Another way is to build a slide that can be completed in a few days.
Tang Xuanzang said: Don't think about building a bridge, we poor monks don't have the financial resources. How does this ride work?
I said, "The best way is to find a spot on our side and fix the rope." Find a spot on the other side and secure the other end of the rope. Bring the man and the horse to the other side with a pulley.
Tang Xuanzang said: What about the rope?
Wukong said: There are so many bamboos over there, let's get the bamboo skin off and make it into a rope.
Tang Xuanzang said: Then don't work quickly, strive to cross the river tomorrow!
I took my sword and went to the bamboo forest to be responsible for cutting the bamboo skin, and Sha Wujing was responsible for cutting the bamboo. I used other bamboos to build a bamboo house with fine bamboo on the side of the quicksand river. Tang Xuanzang liked this bamboo house very much, and after it was built, he couldn't wait to go in and rest.
We were busy until late at night, when we finished weaving hundreds of ropes. We made a winch out of thick wood on the bank of the river. The bamboo rope was thrown by Zhu Bajie to the other side of the quicksand river, and Wu Kong flew over and pulled up one end of the rope. The sand monk took the prepared winch and put it on the other side of the river.
I placed the finished pulley on a rope the thickness of the bowl. A total of four pulleys were installed, and we first experimented with the white dragon horse. Tie the horse and push the white dragon horse vigorously to safely row across the quicksand river. When they got there, Wukong and Sha Wujing unloaded their horses and luggage.
I used the tow rope to pull the pulley back, Tang Xuanzang sat in a hanging frame, and I also sat in a hanging frame. Zhu Bajie pushed hard in the back, and we crossed the quicksand river. Zhu Bajie also wants to try this new thing. He had barely slipped halfway through the rope when he fell off. He also fell into the river, we laughed on the shore, and Zhu Bajie flew back to the shore depressed.
Tang Xuanzang was in a good mood and said loudly: Okay! Let's set off, the goal is the West Heaven Great Leiyin Temple!