Chapter 873: First Strike is Stronger
Master, you're right, the national teacher and the king are conspiring to poison us!"
In the room of the palace, Jiang Liu and the others waited quietly, and soon, the fly that Sun Wukong had turned into came back, changed back to his appearance, and spoke.
Then, he recounted the conversation between the king and the national teacher that he had overheard in the garden, and told it all over the time.
"Master is really a clever plan, what the national teacher wants to do, everything is in the master's control!" As Sun Wukong's words fell, Zhu Bajie next to him immediately opened his mouth and shouted 666 to Jiang Liu.
No matter what, as long as there is a little bit of praise for the master, he must spare no effort to praise him, this is the truth that Zhu Bajie has long understood.
Otherwise, how would Master like himself the most, and how would Master teach him the technique of picking up girls?
"Is it poisoned?" Jiang Liu had heard enough of Zhu Bajie's praise, and his heart had no fluctuations, but he muttered secretly in his heart.
If you use poisoning to deal with yourself, this thing is really dangerous, after all, you have not made any achievements in poisoning.
Of course, last time, I almost emptied half of the Doushi Palace, and I also left a lot of detoxification pills.
It's just that, as the mount of the Antarctic Immortal, this time it will be a disaster, and the Antarctic Immortal should be secretly supporting.
If the Antarctic Immortal Weng finds a way to get a few particularly powerful poisons, the consequences will be difficult to say.
If it is really poisoned, it will be a little difficult to prevent, after all, in this palace, do you cook all three meals a day?
Do you bring your own food and water?
So, if it's poisoned, it's a little hard to prevent!
Although I already know how the national teacher is going to do it, but I know it in advance, how to deal with it?
Jiang Liu also felt a little distressed for a while.
"Master, let's strike first, shall we?" Sun Wukong, who was next to him, opened his mouth and proposed to Jiang Liu.
"Yes, the first strike is stronger, and the second strike will suffer!" As Sun Wukong's words fell, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing also nodded in agreement.
Obviously, none of them were willing to risk their own poisoning.
"Yes, it's really time to start first!" Sun Wukong's proposal made Jiang Liu's heart move slightly, and then he nodded.
"In this case, I'm going to do it, let's do it, let's stone the national teacher to death first!?" Hearing that the master agreed with his own point of view, Sun Wukong looked anxious and said.
"No, Goku, wait......"
It's just that, seeing Sun Wukong's anxious appearance, he was about to do it, Jiang Liu hurriedly spoke, stopped Sun Wukong, and said: "The teacher said to start first, but not to kill!"
"Then Master, what do you mean by striking first?" Hearing Jiang Liu's words, Sun Wukong looked at him strangely and asked.
Yes, the first strike is stronger, but not the killing?
Zhu Bajie and the others also looked at each other, as if they couldn't keep up with the master's thinking rhythm at all.
"Wukong, it's still early, the night banquet that the king has prepared for us will take about two hours, let's go to the royal city for a walk, shall we?" Without explaining too much, Jiang Liu opened his mouth and said to Sun Wukong.
"Aren't there no people in Wang Cheng? What are we going to visit?" Listening to Jiang Liu's words, Sun Wukong and the others became even more strange.
When you came, didn't you already see what the royal city looked like?
"Let's go, I have my own plans for the teacher!" Jiang Liu said.
While speaking, Jiang Liu walked out of the palace and left, naturally, Sun Wukong and several of them had doubts in their hearts, and then followed Jiang Liu's footsteps, and the group walked out of the palace.
"Mage, where are you going?"
The attendants outside the palace asked when they saw that Jiang Liu and the others had come out and were about to leave.
"Amitabha, we want to go for a walk outside the palace, we were in a hurry when we came, and we haven't seen the scenery in the royal city yet......" Hearing the attendant's inquiry, Jiang Liu spoke.
"This ......" Listening to Jiang Liu's words, the squire's face had a look of embarrassment.
"What? We are guests, not prisoners, are we not allowed to go out?" Seeing that this attendant was about to stop him, Sun Wukong next to him asked very unceremoniously.
"Yes, yes, are you bhikshus treating us as prisoners?" As Sun Wukong's words fell, Zhu Bajie next to him also nodded, looking very unhappy.
Sun Wukong is just a short and thin monkey, but the appearance of this Zhu Bajie is terrifying.
Listening to Zhu Bajie's unkind words, this attendant was shocked in his heart, and immediately, he hurriedly shook his head and said: "Master, you are serious, you are a guest of my bhikshu country, so naturally you have the freedom to come and go!"
As soon as he said this, the attendant paused slightly, and then said: "In this way, I will let a team of guards follow you, one is good for you to explain, and the other is how about guarding your safety?"
If Master Xuanzang and his party were lost like this, they couldn't afford to bear the guilt, so this attendant used a roundabout method to let a team of guards follow.
"That's fine, it's tiring!" Jiang Liu's purpose was not to escape secretly, so he listened to the words of this attendant, and there was no objection, as long as he could get out.
After the two sides reached a consensus, Jiang Liu and his party soon left the palace under the protection of dozens of guards.
Although it is deserted outside the palace, everyone still has to live after all, so there are still people walking around on this street.
It's just that it's not lively.
And Jiang Liu and his party, under the protection of dozens of guards, walked through the streets of Wangcheng, such a battle naturally attracted the attention of many people.
Many people pointed at this side and whispered, but there was no goodwill in their eyes.
Obviously, the king wanted to collect the hearts and livers of 1,110 children as medicine, and this incident aroused the anger of the people, and the people in the royal city had no good opinion of the king.
Jiang Liu took Sun Wukong and a few of them to walk through the streets of this palace, followed by dozens of guards, wearing armor, and swaggering through the city.
shook a big circle, and naturally attracted enough eyeballs.
Although Sun Wukong and the others don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the master's gourd, what the master wants to do, he can only accompany the apprentices.
Therefore, after going all the way, the master occasionally chatted with him, and Sun Wukong and the others would also respond well.
While chatting, Jiang Liu talked a lot about things on the way west.
For example, he got the will of the Tang Emperor and went to the West Heaven to worship the Buddha and ask for scriptures, and he went so far, this bhikshu country looks quite distinctive.
For example, here's a gadget that looks similar to something you came across on the westbound road.
For another example, when he walked west to the country of bhikshus, the king welcomed him warmly, and after changing the customs clearance documents, he had to leave.
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Words and deeds, most of them revolve around the matter of traveling west to learn scriptures, coupled with Jiang Liu and others swaggering through the city, naturally, more and more people in the bhikshu country know Xuanzang's identity.
It turned out that they were people who traveled west from the Tang Dynasty in the east and traveled thousands of miles to learn scriptures.
After shaking around for a long time, seeing that almost most of the people knew about their existence and understood their identity, Jiang Liu immediately came to a store.
This shop is an inn, and there is also a large cage hanging under the eaves, covered with a black cloth, so that people can't see the inside clearly.
Because of the desertion, business in this inn is not so good.
I don't know if it's because of the children in the cage, or because of this dismal business.
"Hello, shopkeeper!" Jiang Liu approached the inn and greeted the innkeeper with a humble and polite appearance.
"Master, hello!" Hearing Jiang Liu's words, seeing a group of people coming in in an uproar, and even many soldiers gathered outside the door, the shopkeeper immediately cheered up and echoed.
"Shopkeeper, the poor monk has a doubt, and wants to ask you!" Jiang Liu asked, looking humble and polite.
"Master, please speak!" the shopkeeper asked with some flattery when he saw Jiang Liu's humble and polite appearance.
"That's the case, I see that every house of yours has a big goose cage hanging at the door, I don't know why?" Jiang Liu asked the shopkeeper knowingly.
"This ......" Listening to Jiang Liu's inquiry, the shopkeeper looked at the guards beside Jiang Liu, his face was embarrassed, and he couldn't speak.
"Master, don't ask about this matter!" The guard next to him heard Jiang Liu's question, and took two steps forward and said.
"Why? can't the poor monk ask?" Jiang Liu said to the guard with an unkind expression.
"Hey, hey, hey, you don't want to say it, I want to know, if you don't say it, I'll go and see for myself what's inside!" After Sha Wujing got Jiang Liu's hint, he made a vicious appearance with a blue face and fangs, and said viciously.
Sha Wujing's height is three meters away, and his appearance of the demon clan is already terrifying, and this deliberately revealing a vicious appearance is even more frightening!
"Speak quickly!" After frightening the guards, Sha Wujing turned his head and scolded the shopkeeper fiercely.
"This, this ......"
Seeing Sha Wujing's vicious appearance, the shopkeeper's expression was shocked, and he immediately replied: "What is contained in these goose cages, in fact, is all our children!"
"What a strange custom in your bhikshu country, to put your own children in a goose cage and hang them up?" Jiang Liu continued to ask the shopkeeper with a puzzled look on his face.
"This ......" In front of these guards, the shopkeeper didn't dare to say it.
"Say it quickly!" Sha Wujing's eyes widened.
"It is the king's ...... to collect the hearts and livers of 1,110 children as medicine and refine the elixir of life."
(PS: I've been preparing a new book recently.,This update of Journey to the West is a bit salty?No.,I'm going to work hard!Starting tomorrow.,Try to maintain three updates a day!)
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