Chapter Seventy-Five: The Legend of the Volcano

Sanzang laughed when he heard this, shook his head and said: "Uncle, you are really worried, Tianshu is also a disciple of the poor monk along the way, she is kind-hearted, smart and wise, and she follows us all the way to the west to learn the true scriptures, not a demon." Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½β€

The old man had not yet spoken, but some of the surrounding villagers were unhappy, and said angrily: "You elder is so unlucky, you are all the men who are monks, but along the way you take this beautiful woman to the west, it can't help but make people feel a little, and some people are suspicious of melons and plums." ”

Wukong laughed when he heard this, squeezed his eyebrows, and teased as much as he could: "It's not that we have bad intentions, but that you have some dirty hearts in your hearts, how can we be that worldly monks, ignorant and sour, who want to respect those many rules and precepts, and delay their cultivation in vain." ”

"The Buddha said that there is no unacceptable person in the world, as long as he puts down the butcher's knife and becomes a Buddha on the ground, since even such a great traitor and evil person can still be saved, but she, a mentally handicapped woman, can't be saved, and follow us to the west to learn scriptures?"

These words were really sonorous and powerful, and they were so loud that everyone was silent and thoughtful.

The elder actually stood up from his seat, lined up the crowd, clasped his palms together, and said: "What the elder said is very true, but it really seems that my generation of young people is shallow and sparse, and it is humiliating to listen to it. ”

As soon as the words came out, all the villagers sitting in the group around stood up, bowed their hands, and turned to his seat, but gave up a few vacant seats to the Sanzang master and apprentice.

After walking on the road for a long time, several people did feel a little hungry in their stomachs, and after listening to the sincere invitation of the elders, they all sat down happily.

Bajie was very delicious, sat on the position, hurriedly observed the table, thinking that the master and apprentice came at the right time, just in time to catch up with the food to set the table, and before they had time to move the chopsticks, they were all placed there as they were, maintaining the state when they were just out of the pot.

The old pig glanced at it with the corner of his eye, and found that the table was full of food, thinking that it was close to the eight hundred miles of flame mountain, extremely short of water, and the food was mainly fried and baked, and it was also mostly the meat that the old pig liked, the old pig couldn't help but be overjoyed, and was just about to launch an offensive, but found that there were two plates of red things in the center of the table that particularly attracted attention, the old pig fixed his eyes and couldn't help but be surprised, these two plates were a plate of fried shrimp and a plate of roast crab, in this extremely water-scarce flame mountain boundary, it is really very rare.

Obviously, everyone around also discovered this problem, and all of them showed surprise, Tang Sanzang was slightly stunned for a moment, and arched his hand towards the elder and said: "Old man, I never thought that your flame mountain realm has been dry and rainless for many years, and according to the poor monk's thoughts, you should live quite poor, you don't want to eat three meals one by one, and you are quite rich, and even the shrimp and crabs in the river are on the table, which is really beyond the expectations of the poor monk." ”

The elder smiled when he heard this, his face was desolate, and he sighed faintly: "What the elder said should be the old things of our villagers hundreds of years ago, but today's wealth is exchanged for a change of concept, and the land grandfather here is really indispensable." ”

Wukong was very curious when he heard this, and said with a puzzled face: "What kind of change of concept, is it possible that in a barren sandy land like yours, there is no water source necessary to solve people's lives, and you can still dig up treasures?"

As soon as the words came out, the elder's face was calm, and he nodded slowly: "What the elder said is true, it is the treasure that has been dug up that has earned ordinary wealth. ”

As soon as he heard that there was a treasure, Bajie couldn't help but move his index finger, and said happily when he saw Hunting: "Wow, but I don't know what valuable treasures can earn such wealth." ”

The elder pointed his hand at this, faced the west, and said, "It is from the continuous eight-hundred-mile Flame Mountain. ”

As soon as he heard this, even the ignorant Sha Wujing couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and said sweatily: "No, that's a mountain of flames, the mountains are full of raging flames, don't say that it's just such a fire, how can you mortals in this area enter the mountain, even if you go into the mountain, there is nothing else on it except for the flames, how can you dig up treasures and feed many people in your huge village, it is really tantamount to a fantasy." ”

"Even so, there is really an infinite treasure hidden in this mountain, and it is really a great achievement to feed the people of my village for nearly a hundred years. As soon as the words came out, the old man smiled and said confidently, seeing that several people were wide-eyed, with a look of surprise and doubt, he was even more proud in his heart, and explained slowly with the white beard under his chin: " This is a long story, or a grandfather of the little old man several generations ago met a god in a dream, saying that in front of us this continuous hundreds of miles of a flame mountain, although it is currently a dangerous place for one party, but because it is a corner of the furnace brick on the Taishang Laojun Bagua Dan furnace in the Miaoshang Heavenly Court Tushi Palace, it is made of falling into the dust and burning, which contains infinite treasures, only waiting for my villagers to develop it, which is enough to raise the people of this side. ”

Angry that the old man babbled at length, Bajie was very impatient, and patted the table depressedly and said: "Ya, you old man is really lazy, muttering a lot, not to the point, you should quickly talk about it, what kind of precious treasures are hidden in this flame mountain, which can raise the people of your village for generations, say it quickly, really rush to death my old pig." ”

Seeing the old pig's urging, the old man was quite embarrassed, coughed dryly, and replied: " Ah, this person is old, just love to talk a few words, you are strange, because this flame mountain is Taishang Laojun gossip Dan furnace on a corner of the bricks fell into the dust of the formation, and the Dan furnace is Lao Jun for many years to refine the nine turns of the golden pill, although it is only this small corner of the bricks, but also for a long time by the nine turns of the golden pill immortal edification, burned to the ground, thrown away, formed a radius of hundreds of miles of red dansha, buried deep at the bottom of the flame mountain, these red dansa are contaminated with the nine turns of the golden pill of the immortal qi, although the immortal qi is weak, does not have the function of making people immortal, but the harmony of medicinal wine to take, can also play a role in making people live longer, the effect of driving away all diseases。 ”

When the ancestors woke up from their dreams, they were also skeptical, but they also had the mentality of being a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and led the people in the family to dig out this red dansha on the ground near the Flame Mountain. ”

As soon as the ancestors were verified, they taught this method to the local villagers, and asked about the many hardships and sufferings of life in the world, although it is inevitable to die after all, but who does not want to be able to survive all diseases and prolong life, so the villagers who dig red dansha on the side of the flame mountain are eager to rush to it, and they have all been verified. ”

Gradually, my villagers will drive away all kinds of diseases of the red dansha resold to the surrounding countries, used in exchange for the necessary drinking water and food, but only three or two years, the flame mountain produced by the red dansha is well-known in the surrounding countries, especially by those princes and nobles, everyone rushes to buy, competing to buy, coupled with the villagers to adopt the principle of centralized management, limited supply, the price of this red dansha in the market is getting higher and higher, the price of the same year is very higher than gold, even to the point that there is no market, a medicine is hard to find, so we and other villagers have to rely on such treasures to be able to bake in this majestic flame, long years of drought and no rain, no grass near the 800 miles of fire burning plain to live in peace and prosperity, so that you will not die of thirst and fatigue. ”

At this point, everyone was stunned, and sighed: "I don't want to gossip a corner of the furnace bricks, but because I have been contaminated with the immortal qi of the Nine Turns Golden Pill for many years, it is really unexpected to have such medicinal properties to drive away all diseases and prolong life." ”

"It's no wonder that the old man has such a high prestige among the villagers, probably because of the remnants of the ancestors, and he is really a great good person to tell the villagers about such a good thing for the benefit of the common people. ”

Seeing that everyone couldn't stop nodding yes, Sha Wujing scratched his scalp and asked innocently: "I don't know who the god who dreamed of your ancestors is, since he has done this great deed, has he ever left his name and surname?"

The elder smiled when he heard this, and said calmly: "The ancestor also said when he woke up from his dream, he is the land of my Flame Mountain Village, and his predecessor was the Taoist priest who took care of the Dan furnace under the Taishang Dao Ancestor. ”

"This land has fallen to the earth for decades, firstly, to pity the lack of water and food for the people on this side, and to live a hard life, and secondly, because of the lack of blood and food offerings for their own children, hungry and thirsty for food, and living a very hard life, so I turned my ancestor into a dream and taught him the method of refining red dansha, which was used to change the living conditions of the people on my side, and also relied on such merits to get some people's blood and food offerings. ”

As soon as the words came out, Bajie couldn't help nodding his head and exclaimed: "It's wonderful, this land is also a character, so the wonderful thing that kills two birds with one stone makes him think of it, it's really rare." It's just that you, a villager, are really not afraid of fire, and you haven't been too hot to dig red dansha near the Flame Mountain for many years?"

It seemed that he knew that the old pig had asked this question, and the old man smiled slightly, and explained confidently: "Where and where, although we have lived here for a long time, although we are more heat-resistant than people in other places, but after all, we are also flesh and blood, and it is actually unimaginable to enter the Flame Mountain for a long time to dig red dansha." ”

"When only a few people excavated the red dansha before, we could barely carry out the operation in the surrounding area of the Flame Mountain, but when the people of the whole village excavated on a large scale, we had to use the banana fan in the hand of the iron fan fairy in the banana cave of Cuiyun Mountain on the southwest side to temporarily extinguish the flames in the mountain, so that we could go into the mountain to dig the red dansha. ”