Chapter 103: Substitute Sacrifice
The old man was stunned when he heard this, his face became even more gloomy, and his tiger eyes were full of tears.
Xuanzang glared at Zhu Bajie and said in a deep voice: "Bajie, don't laugh here, it's really disrespectful to disturb other people's fasting!"
Zhu Bajie shrank his head when he heard this, and didn't dare to speak with a hippie smile anymore.
The old man led everyone to the west wing room and closed the door, sighing, "My precious daughter is not terminally ill, but because she was taken by the inspiration king in the Tongtian River, she wants to be accepted for a tooth sacrifice!"
"Who is the King of Inspiration, who dares to eat other people's children? Is it a monster?" Sun Wukong asked loudly when he heard this.
Hearing this, the old man Chen Cheng hurriedly made a silent movement, put his index finger in front of his lips, and said anxiously: "This elder should not chant the name of the king aloud, the king has magical powers!"
"There is a temple of the Great King of Inspiration in the south of the stone monument of the Tianhe River, which enshrines His Royal Highness the King of Inspiration, whose magical powers are vast, and can give Ganyu and fall Qingyun, and the crops in the Zhuangzi can be harvested all pointing to the King of Inspiration!" explained the old man Chen Cheng.
Xiong Likui was a little curious, and asked: "Shi Ganyu and Luo Qingyun are all good things, could it be that they have to use boys and girls to worship in order to get the wind and rain?"
"It's not like that, it's just that every year we have a sacrificial ceremony in Chenjiazhuang, and the inspiration king only needs a pair of boys and girls, and more than 400 of our Zhuang households take turns to contribute every year, but now it's my family's turn!"
Chen Cheng's face was bitter, he didn't feel it when other families worshiped their children a few years ago, but now that it was his turn, he felt like digging out his heart and lungs, and he was really distressed.
"How many children and grandchildren do you have in your house?" asked Sun Wukong interjected.
At this time, a slightly younger old man in Tsing Yi came in, served some tea to a few people, and then sat down against the door.
Chen Cheng was even more angry when he heard this, and beat his chest and said: "Poor, pitiful! What are you talking about, children and grandchildren, the old man is almost looking for a crack in the ground to get into, and he really has no face to see people! This is my brother, his name is Chen Qing, and the old man is called Chen Cheng." I'm sixty-three years old, he's fifty-eight years old, and my children are having a hard time. I didn't have a son at the age of fifty, and my relatives and friends persuaded me to take a concubine, but I didn't expect to have a daughter, who was just eight years old this year, and named it a scale of gold. ”
"Tsk, what a noble name, it's called a scale of gold!" Zhu Bajie slammed his mouth and said, taking a sip of tea, he felt that it was not very delicious, and swallowed it with difficulty.
Chen Cheng explained: "Because it is difficult for me to give birth to children, I build bridges and roads, build temples and pagodas, give alms to monks, and do good deeds, hoping that the Bodhisattva Buddha can open his eyes and give me a son."
There was an account there, and by the year of the birth of a daughter, it had used exactly thirty pounds of gold. Thirty catties is a scale, so my daughter called a scale of gold. ”
Speaking of which, it was even more unpleasant in his heart, and the girl who had worked so hard to ask for it was going to be sent to the monster to devour, which really made his heart bleed.
"Where did that boy come from?"
As soon as Sun Wukong finished asking, he heard a sigh from the door.
Everyone suddenly realized that the boy was Chen Qing's son.
"The love between father and son is hard to part, first make a supernatal dojo for the child, pre-repair the dead fast, and in the future, on the Huangquan Road, it will also go more smoothly......"
After speaking, the two brothers of the Chen family burst into tears, their shoulders trembled and they hid their faces and cried bitterly.
"Amitabha, the two old gentlemen are sad for a while, the apprentices of the poor monks are all good at catching monsters and monsters, and let them go to sacrifice on behalf of your children!" Xuanzang walked forward and said.
Chen Qing shook his head and said dejectedly: "That King of Inspiration is extremely miraculous, he often goes to various houses to walk, the birthdays of the old and the young, the appearance and temperament are all clear, your apprentice is not a virgin at first glance, how can he replace it? As long as he has his own children, he can be sacrificed to the King of Inspiration as a tooth sacrifice." ”
"Wukong, you turn into a little boy and show them!" Xuanzang said to Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong's consciousness was put outside, and he turned around in place, his body shrank abruptly, and he became the little boy who was sleeping outside, and even the clothes on his body were the same.
"Ah, this is Guan Bao! How could this be a means!" Chen Cheng was surprised, with an incredible expression on his face.
Chen Qing approached directly, grabbed Sun Wukong's shoulder, and looked carefully back and forth, "God! God! This little elder is a person with great skills!"
"Now my grandson can go up to the altar for your son, right?"
The voice is crisp, like a child.
"Ahaha, okay, if this can be done, I am willing to give a thousand taels of silver to the master to make a coil on the road, and build a mansion for this little elder!" Chen Qing said in surprise, and his snot bubbles burst with laughter.
Sun Wukong was stunned for a moment, and said with a strange expression: "Bah, bah, what kind of tomb to build for my old grandson, provoke bad luck for no reason!"
"The little elder will definitely lose his life this time for the sacrifice, so we naturally want to bury the elder thickly!" Chen Qing explained.
Sun Wukong shook his head: "That monster can't eat my old grandson, who will eat whom at that time, I'm not sure yet!"
Chen Qing was a little dazed, not knowing where the little elder in front of him came from with such confidence.
Chen Cheng on the side suddenly knelt down and begged: "Holy monk, what should I do with my daughter! There is only one substitute sacrifice, and my daughter can't escape!"
"Old gentleman, don't be in a hurry, Bajie, you can also perform a change technique!" Xuanzang beckoned to Zhu Bajie who was hiding behind.
Zhu Bajie walked in front of the person very reluctantly, "Master, the origin of that monster is still unknown, and my old pig is also a little afraid!"
"You idiot, when Master tells you to change, you will change, where did you get so much nonsense?" Sun Wukong stretched out his hand and pulled Zhu Bajie's ear and said.
In one stroke, because of the great force, he almost broke Zhu Bajie's transformation technique, and his ears were all widened.
Zhu Bajie shook his hand and exclaimed: "Oh! Brother Monkey, let go, I know it's wrong, this is changing!"
Sun Wukong stopped, Zhu Bajie walked to the field, recited a spell, and a girl in a red jacket appeared in front of everyone.
"This ...... This belly is too big!" Chen Cheng looked at the girl turned into by Zhu Bajie, and it seemed that she was holding her belly ten months pregnant, and the scene made him a little uncomfortable.
Zhu Bajie held up a big belly and continued to chant the mantra, but he withdrew his belly a little, and he couldn't completely transform it.
Seeing this, Sun Wukong blew a breath of fairy air there, and suddenly Zhu Bajie's completely turned into a scale of gold, petite and exquisite, delicate and cute.
"Brother Monkey, you're still amazing!" Zhu Bajie hurriedly sent a sycophant, and his voice had changed to a young girl's voice.
Xuanzang walked to the two of them and said: "When the time comes, don't hesitate, you two will directly kill that monster, he is a fish spirit, bring back the demon body, let's have a whole fish feast on the way!"
Sun Wukong's eyes lit up, and he finally understood why the master asked him if he would do sweet and sour carp things, it turned out that he had long been thinking about the fish demon in the heavenly river.