Chapter 43: Hundred Miles of Grassland

Wen Tianshu laughed when he heard this, and covered his mouth and teased: "Master thinks this way, but it is unfounded, regardless of whether he transforms the monkey group or not, anyway, we have already passed the three hundred miles of small holy mountain at this moment, no matter how powerful they are, it is impossible for them to pose the slightest substantial threat to us." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Instead of caring about this, why don't you think about where we should go for lunch today?"

Hearing this, Bajie jumped up suddenly, bared his teeth, and said with pain: "Yes, it's all because the master is a loser child, in order to please the monkeys of Xiaosheng Mountain, he actually gave away all the food seized from Jindou Cave, but let us go to drink the northwest wind at this moment? It's good now, I don't have to eat like this, I don't have to drink, and I can't go hungry all the time?"

As soon as the words came out, Sha Wujing smiled cheaply, and said with an expression of intention: "Second senior brother, you are wrong, it is summer now, even if you want to drink the northwest wind, I am afraid that there is no place to find it." ”

Bajie was even more annoyed when he heard this, looked up to the sky and roared, beating his chest and almost vomiting blood.

Tang Sanzang was unmoved, and said disdainfully: "This pig's head thinks that it has eaten ready-made meals too smoothly these days, but has forgotten our previous livelihood, so what if there is no food, the monks are already breezy with their sleeves, they have no long things, and they have hands and feet, and they have brute force, looking at this vast world, how can there be a reason to starve people to death?"

Seeing that the old pig was still ignorant, looking dazed and confused, Ao Bai shrugged his shoulders and couldn't help but remind: "The second senior brother is really stupid, he can't even understand such simple and easy-to-understand words, Master is asking us to go out hunting." ”

Bajie's eyes lit up when he heard this, his tears did not dry, and he burst into tears and smiled: "Yes, yes, yes, it is indeed running around day and night, too hard, and my brain is really a little unable to turn around, this little holy mountain realm is rich in products, and you can hit a lot of prey with a casual shot, but you are still worried that you can't fill my stomach? ”

Seeing him so anxious, Tang Sanzang smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to stop him, and said: "I know that you have been working very hard these days, let's let Ao Bai and Wujing go, you two can go to the west to hunt, first, just to explore a path along the way, and second, you can also connect with us on the road, saving some time and effort." ”

Bajie muttered and stubbornly said: "Although the master has arranged it like this, but my old pig is really a little hungry, I thought that I could eat ready-made food when I arrived at the team, and I didn't want to wait for the hunting to come back before I could eat, but I didn't have a good stomach, how could I wait for so long?

Sanzang couldn't help nodding when he heard this, and said with a smile on his face: "This pig's head, the teacher knows that you are very anxious, but I didn't expect to be in such a hurry, so let Wujing accompany you, we have been dragged down by the monkeys of Xiaosheng Mountain these days, so we can only walk cautiously, but the master is suffocated, this will have escaped alive, you can trust the reins of the horse, and catch up with the ride." ”

The two brothers smiled when they heard this, said goodbye to the master in the envious eyes of Wukong and Ao Bai, turned over and jumped into the clouds and went straight to the west. And Tang Sanzang also rode on a white horse, holding the reins in his hand, and strode westward with a few apprentices in high spirits.

Walking through the last small hill in the boundary of Xiaosheng Mountain, looking at the scenery ahead, even the well-informed and hard-fought Sanzang army couldn't help but be stunned and sighed: the geographical appearance here seems to have been deliberately arranged by the creator, presenting two completely different and unbelievable different pictures. Behind the Sanzang master and apprentice is the mountain forest area within a radius of 100 miles of the small holy mountain boundary, rich in vegetation, flourishing fruit trees, and at this moment they set foot on this side of the land, but it is an endless prairie, looking at hundreds of square kilometers of the huge land boundary, almost no trees can be seen standing, the whole lush and vast grassland, the grass here grows gratifyingly, basically grows to more than half a person high, exudes an abundant and rich sweet fragrance of pasture, with the breeze blowing wantonly swaying, just like the green waves in the heaven and earth tumbling and surging, giving people the sky high and the sea wide, the beautiful imagination flying in the wind.

Looking at this prairie, Tang Sanzang only felt open-minded, relaxed, and couldn't help but take a deep breath, stretched out his arms, and said proudly: "The sky is vast, the wilderness is vast, it is really a vast prairie, look at this rich and fresh pasture, if it is not used for grazing, it is really a pity, I really hope that I can live in this calm and vast prairie for the rest of my life, riding horses and grazing, the sky is covered, the earth is the bed, how happy and free." ”

However, before he could get out of the five miles, the holy monk's transcendent artistic conception was shattered, it was August and September, the weather was unusually hot, there was not a single cloud in the blue sky, only the scorching sun hung hotly overhead, baking the earth. The worst thing is that there is no shade to enjoy on this endless prairie, so the Sanzang master and apprentice can only harden their heads and walk the grass in direct sunlight, and they will be sweaty and chest tightness by the scorching sun after a short time. And the half-human-high grass looks very gratifying, in fact, it greatly hinders the pace of everyone's march, even if it is a white dragon horse with strong feet, it is difficult to gallop in such a prosperous grass, only follow behind Wukong, when he uses a stick to press the grass low, it is good to move forward step by step with difficulty.

And the seemingly weak grass leaves, because they have grown for too long, are thick and straight, and they are as fluffy as countless sharp knives, and they can open several shallow small openings on the human body with just a few random flicks. If it's just this time, it's nothing, the tragic thing is that the whole world here is full of such pastures, and the grass is pulled along the way, and from time to time it is scratched by the blades of grass, not to say that the thin-skinned and tender Sanzang and Tianshu are deeply affected, full of unhappiness, and even the powerful Ao Bai is also scratched full of scars, grinning teeth, and screaming again and again.

The weather was hot and boring, the heart was impetuous, and the endless torture and destruction of this grass leaf, the Sanzang master and apprentice had no choice but to release the exquisite pavilion and hide in it temporarily, lingering for a long time, thinking about countermeasures.

Tang Sanzang lay depressedly on the jade floor, panting weakly, and only slowly recovered after drinking the three cups of hot tea handed over by Tianshu. The holy monk stood up, closed his eyes and gathered some strength, and was about to speak, when he saw someone rudely knock open the door of the living room, and two wet people ran in from the outside like a whirlwind, and as soon as they entered, they lay on the floor in all directions, ripped off their robes, and shouted loudly for water to drink.

Everyone looked at it, but it turned out to be Bajie and Wujing, who were out hunting, these two people thought they were extremely hot, their faces were covered with hot sweat, lying on the ground, panting heavily. After drinking a few cups of hot tea, Bajie's face regained its vitality, he got up from the ground with a bone, fanned his head vigorously with his sleeve robe, and shouted: "Hot hot hot, this ghost weather, really hot kills me, if you don't have these few mouthfuls of water to drink, when you can kill my old pig, you can have a cup of tea to drink after the heat, it's really happy." ”

Seeing that he was exaggerating, Tang Sanzang smiled and teased: "This pig's head, didn't you tell you to go hunting, why did you come back so soon, where is the teacher's lunch?"

When the old pig heard this, he was indignant, and waved his hand very angrily: "Master is so unreasonable, my old pig is dizzy from the heat, sweating, and it is too late to run back without a life, how can I still be in the mood to find food for you? ”

As soon as the words came out, Sha Wujing's face was full of disdain, and he squeezed his eyebrows and said: "Master, don't listen to his nonsense, just his gluttonous pig, no matter how hot the weather is, as long as he can find food to fill his stomach, he dares to break into the Longtan Tiger's Den, not to mention how hot it is?" But the sunlight was really poisonous, and we really didn't find any living creatures running on the grass, but we also found a few handfuls of plump blackberries and a bag of fresh red fruits. ”

"After he finished eating, he didn't feel enjoyable, but the weather was really hot and unbearable, and the two of them were seriously dehydrated, so he led me Lao Sha back to find your whereabouts. ”

When the old pig heard this, his face was red with shame, his fists were clenched, and he was about to sneer at him, but it was Sanzang who stared at his face tightly, with a terrifying expression, and said: "Bajie, don't be excited, touch your nose first, why does it seem to be bleeding?"

"Master is so bad, my old pig couldn't help himself for a while, so he ate it back against his will, but forty or fifty small fruits, so that a monk like you intimidated me like this, my old pig is naturally timid, if you scare out a good one, then how can you get it?" In the face of such a strange look of the master, Bajie did not think so, and waved his hand and said, but seeing that everyone was looking at him with such exaggerated eyes, the old pig couldn't help but feel hairy in his heart, so he subconsciously touched his nose, and when he raised his hand to look, he really saw that his fingers were sticky with bright red pig blood, so frightened that the former Marshal Tianpeng couldn't help but fly out of the sky, his legs and feet were weak, and he sat on the ground with a few steps back, panicked in his heart, and said with a sad face:" O Buddha of great compassion, my old pig knew that he was wrong, so he only ate this time alone, so did he punish me like this? Looking at this situation, eighty percent of them have been poisoned, and their lives are not long, how can this be good?"