Chapter 15: Tavern Killing
Nuwa Niangniang waved her hand after speaking, and a golden light flew straight behind Sun Wukong's head, and the monkey touched it, and sure enough, there were three more hairs, longer and thicker than the general one, knowing that the things that Nuwa Niangniang rewarded must have something magical, so he arched his hand and said: "Thank you Niangniang." ”
Wukong was rewarded by Nuwa Niangniang for saving his life, and he was a little more happy in his heart, and after saying goodbye to Nuwa Niangniang, he accompanied Jiang Liu'er to continue his journey. Just when they were hurrying to Chang'an, a major event happened in Chang'an City that shocked the world.
Outside the west gate of Chang'an City, there is a tavern that is not big or small, and there is a conspicuous customer in the tavern in the past few days. More conspicuous than people is a Zen stick he carries, look at the thickness of the Zen stick, you know that it has a lot of weight, once when Toutuo was drinking, Xiao Er tried to move his Zen stick, but it didn't move, and this Toutuo himself, taking this Zen stick is as light as holding chopsticks, Xiao Er and the shopkeeper muttered in private, this is not the Arhat who subdued the dragon and the tiger?
This Tuo's ability is not just as simple as subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger, he is here to wait for someone, to be precise, he wants to get rid of the demon. For three days, he came to the tavern on time every morning and did not leave until the sun went down. Because he got the news that in the next few days, there may be a monster here.
Toutuo has been coming to Chang'an for a while. Not long after Li Shimin and Su Dingfang got Lao Jun's guidance, one day, a head tuo who went to the rivers and lakes to sell his art suddenly appeared at the door of Su Dingfang's general's mansion. Toutuo's fists and feet are very good, and he praises his medicine like an elixir, buying medicine and watching the excitement, and after a while, he gathered a lot of people.
A young man walked in separately from the crowd, it was Su Dingfang's third son, Su Yi, who was sixteen years old. Su Dingfang has three sons, Su Zhong, Su Yong, Su Yi, the eldest son and the second son are all used in the army with Su Dingfang, these three sons are still young, so they stay at home, and when they hear the excitement outside, they come to inspect.
This little boy has never had a good impression of running the rivers and lakes to sell medicine, so he came over and said: "You medicine seller, I don't look at what kind of place this is, my father has been fighting for many years, what kind of knife wound medicine has never been seen, you are mostly a trick to deceive people." Your fists and feet are just good-looking, and it's useless to think about them on the battlefield, do you dare to fight with me?"
Natou Tuo said: "I am afraid of being hurt and angry, I have a Zen staff here, can the son play with it?"
The Zen staff was inserted on the ground by the head, and the little boy said disdainfully: "What's so difficult about this?" stepped forward to pull up the Zen stick, but unexpectedly it didn't move, and the little boy's face was a little unbearable, clapped his hands, pulled his sleeves a few times, and wanted to try again. Suddenly, I heard a person cough and asked, "Yi'er, what are you doing here?" It turned out that General Su Dingfang had returned.
When the little boy saw his father, he was not as unruly as he was just now, lowered his eyebrows, and replied: "The child saw that this person was selling medicine, and he thought it was a deception, so he came to investigate." ”
Su Dingfang said "oh", nodded slightly, walked a few steps forward, came to the center of the crowd, looked at the head, and saw that the man was a little honest in his might, and he couldn't help but feel a little good in his heart. He walked all the way to the medicine box of the head of the Tuo, picked up a pill, looked at it, and sniffed it with his nose, the medicine was indeed the real material, and walked to the Zen staff, gently held it, with his decades of experience, he knew that this head of the head was a strange person with a unique skill, so he arched his hand and said: "The dog is rude, don't be surprised by the master." ”
Toutuo knew that this was Su Dingfang, so he replied: "It's okay, don't blame those who don't know." ”
Su Dingfang asked, "Dare to ask where the master is from, and who is his surname?"
Natoutuo said: "Sprinkle the family Sha Wujing, the ancestral home of the quicksand river, walking the rivers and lakes to sell art for a living, this body, just for the convenience of walking, in fact, is not a monk." ”
Su Dingfang nodded slightly, and said: "Walking the rivers and lakes, eating and sleeping, it is very hard, I am Su Dingfang, if the master does not dislike it, you can go to Su's mansion to teach dogs and family members to practice martial arts." Su Dingfang decided that this Sha Wujing was a master and wanted to keep him.
Sha Wujing excused himself and said: "The general is kind, Sha understands it, but Sha is used to being alone, and he has to go out for a few months every year, and in this mansion, I am afraid it will be inconvenient." ”
Su Dingfang said with a smile: "It's okay to do this, in my house, the master can come if he wants, and he can leave if he wants, everything is convenient for the master." ”
The general's enthusiasm was difficult, and Sha was more respectful than obedient. After Sha Wujing finished speaking, he saluted Su Dingfang.
Su Dingfang was overjoyed and greeted his son: "Yi'er, come and meet Master Sha." The little boy came to apprentice in a proper manner.
Since then, Sha Wujing has lived in Su Dingfang's mansion, a few days ago, he received news that in Chang'an City, there may be a monster, the monster came from the west, he waited in the tavern outside the West Gate.
Early on the morning of the fourth day, Sha Wujing came to the tavern again, and his news was very reliable, so he believed that he would soon be able to wait for those monsters. The weather was excellent and there were a little more people than usual. Not long after Sha Wujing entered, a scholar also walked into the tavern, the scholar was of medium stature, white-faced and beardless, and looked like he was twenty or thirty years old, slightly fat. When the scholar came in, he looked around the store, came to a table in the middle of the store, sat down facing the door, and then asked for two side dishes and a pot of wine, and drank it to himself.
Soon after the scholar came in, another Taoist priest came outside the store, and the Taoist priest seemed to be very familiar with the shopkeeper, and said hello to the shopkeeper and the man with a smile, borrowed a table and stool from the store, placed it outside the door of the shop, and hung a flag, which turned out to be a fortune teller.
The Taoist priest began to tell fortunes, Sha Wujing began to drink, and the white-faced scholar soon began to drink a second pot of wine. Sha Wujing looked at the white-faced scholar with a strange feeling, because he had no fireworks in the world, not like ordinary people, or not like a person, that scholar was indeed from the west, could he be a demon? The white-faced scholar didn't seem to raise his head, in fact, everything inside and outside the small shop was in full view, he also noticed Sha Wujing, in this small shop, except for himself and this Toutuo, the others are mortals, could it be that this Toutuo is a demon?
Looking at Toutuo's Zen staff, it is not something that mortals can use, especially the huge string of rosaries on Toutuo's chest, although the rosary has been blinded, but the scholar can clearly feel that there is a human breath on the rosary, which is made of a human skull! As for the Taoist priest outside, although it is not the same as a mortal, the scholar judged that it was just a mortal who cultivated the Tao.