Chapter 206: Consummation (2)
Venerable Ah Ya and Venerable Gaya's request for the benefits of distributing scriptures, Zhu Tianpeng understood. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info people help you do things, you have to pay something, right? This is very common in the world.
Tang Seng was honest and ashamed: "The disciple came from afar and didn't prepare a gift!"
Sun Wukong was very annoyed, it had always been others who had given him benefits, and the two Venerables actually asked Lao Sun for gifts?
This is an unspoken rule, how can it be brought to the surface?
Venerable Ah Tai hurriedly said: "Don't make trouble! I'll wait for you to give you the scriptures, come and receive it!"
So, the two Venerables selected 35 scriptures and handed them over to the Journey to the West.
Zhu Tianpeng originally wanted to open it and check it, but he didn't expect that those scriptures were all packaged, and if he wanted to read the books, he had to take them out of the packaging, the action was too obvious, so he could only give up!
Thirty-five scriptures, a total of 15,144 volumes, most of which are carried by the white dragon horse, and the rest are carried by the sand monks.
When the Tang monks and apprentices got the scriptures, they didn't say goodbye to the Buddha, and went down the Lingshan directly.
As soon as I came down from Lingshan, before I arrived at the Jade True Temple, a strong wind rolled up in the air, blowing so that people couldn't open their eyes.
At this moment, Feng Zhong stretched out a big hand, grabbed the scripture on the back of the white dragon horse, and quickly flew into the air.
Tang Seng shouted in a panic, and Sha Seng hurriedly protected the scriptures he was carrying.
Sun Wukong and Zhu Tianpeng hurriedly jumped into the air to chase after the guy who grabbed the scriptures. As soon as they rose into the air, countless scrolls fell from the sky and smashed into the two of them.
At the foot of Lingshan, whether it is a true scripture or a false scripture, before it is clear, it must always show love for the scriptures.
Zhu Tianpeng hurriedly went to pick up the scriptures, looking like he was afraid of breaking the scriptures.
Only a dozen copies were received, and the other scriptures had fallen to the ground, and Lao Zhu returned to the ground to pick them up. When he saw a loose scroll, he pretended to look through it unintentionally, and then he cried out:
"Master, why is there no word on this scripture?"
Sun Wukong reacted the fastest, looked at the scriptures in his hand, and shouted: "There are indeed no words!"
When Tang Seng heard this, he hurriedly checked the scriptures around him, of course, they were also blank.
"Quick, quick, look at the rest of the scriptures!"
The four of them went through all the scriptures, but they couldn't see any words in them!
Tang Seng cried: "What is the use of the wordless scriptures? How can I take them to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty? This is the crime of deceiving the king!"
Sun Wuqi was menacing, and said sharply: "Master, this is a fake scripture book deliberately taken by Ah Wu and Jia Ye, and I will sue Rulai!"
Tang monks and apprentices collected all the fake scriptures, kept them as evidence, and went up to Lingshan again in anger.
Seeing Rulai, Sun Wukong fiercely accused Ah Da and Gaye of their bad behavior.
After hearing this, the Buddha smiled and said: "The sutra cannot be passed on lightly, how can it be taken empty? In the past, there were monks who went down to the mountain to chant sutras for people, to ensure the safety of the living and the detachment of the dead, and to get back three buckets and three liters of gold, and I blamed them for charging low. You took the scriptures empty-handed, so you gave the wordless scriptures. ”
After saying that, the Buddha called Ah Tai and Jia Ye again, and asked the two Venerables to distribute the scriptures with words to the Journey to the West team.
Tang monks and apprentices followed the two venerables into the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion again.
"What are you going to give to me this time?"
Hearing that Ah Tai and Gaye still wanted benefits, Sun Wukong stopped talking.
What can you do with the fact that people ask for a handling fee, but it is approved by the leader? Buddhism does not have a discipline inspection department, and no one accepts complaints, so you can only bribe them obediently!
After the two Venerable Ones got the purple gold bowl of Tang Seng, they distributed thirty-five scriptures with words to them.
Tang monks and apprentices checked one by one, and made sure that there were words and scriptures, so they put their minds at ease.
After passing the scriptures, the two Venerable Ones led them back to the Mahavira Hall to bid farewell to the Buddha.
After this toss, although the Tang monk and apprentice obtained the true scriptures, they did not have the excitement of the consummation of merit, and they left the Daxiong Treasure Hall and just bowed their heads and hurried.
Before I got down the Ling Mountain, I heard someone in the air shouting: "Learner, follow me!"
I saw eight Vajra wrestlers in the air, waving to everyone on the journey to the west. Immediately, Tang Seng flew into the air.
Lao Zhu understood that this was an escort team sent by the Buddha.
Buddhism asked Vajra Lux to send Tang Seng back to the Tang Dynasty, in order to hurry up and control the number of days spent on learning scriptures, and the requirement was the number of one collection, that is, 5048 days.
Tang Seng once said that it had taken 14 years to learn the scriptures, but in fact it was an imaginary number, in fact, it was more than 13 years, but it was almost the number of days of one collection. If you let Tang Seng walk back slowly, it will take a long time, and it will be imperfect!
Standing above the clouds and looking down on the earth, that feeling made Tang Seng intoxicated.
He was thinking, such magnificent mountains and rivers, and the long scroll of history that keeps writing, will it carve the deeds of my Chen Xuanzang who traveled west to learn scriptures and pass them on to future generations?
Eight Vajra Lux drove the clouds and flew continuously with Tang monks and apprentices for a day and a night.
The next morning, during the flight, a Buddhist sect chased after him, pulling Vajra Lux and whispering.
As soon as he saw this situation, Lao Zhu knew that it was going to be bad, and Tang Seng probably still had a catastrophe that had not been completed!
Tang Seng suffered eighty-one difficulties in learning scriptures, and Lao Zhu never figured out how to calculate it.
It stands to reason that Xiaolongnu's kidnapping of Tang Seng was not in the original plot, although it was the catastrophe caused by Lao Zhu, but Tang Seng was indeed frightened, and he must be counted in the eighty-one difficulties, how can there be one less difficulty?
In addition, when Lao Zhu read "Journey to the West" in his previous life, he found that "getting the Wordless Scripture" was not counted in the eighty-one difficulties, what is the reason for this?
After the Buddha revealed the truth and finished talking to Vajra Lux, the Vajra Warriors put away their spells and disappeared in an instant.
The white clouds that were gathered at the feet of everyone suddenly dissipated, and Tang Seng and the white dragon horse were caught off guard and fell down with a "whoosh"!
Lao Zhu saw Tang Seng falling like a meteorite, so he hurriedly ran over and grabbed him, and slowly landed on the ground.
In fact, Tang Seng is no longer a mortal mortal, and he won't even be injured if he falls, Lao Zhu is deliberately doing favors!
When I fell to the ground, I found that I had come to the Tongtian River.
The goldfish in Guanshi's house, once in the Tongtian River, plagued the east bank of Chenjiazhuang, every year to eat a pair of boys and girls, but also made it difficult for the westward journey team, and was later put back by Guanshi Bodhisattva with a purple bamboo basket.
There is also a thousand-year-old giant turtle in the river, which once sent Tang Seng across the river. Tang Seng promised it and asked the Buddha when it would be able to shed its shell and turn into a human.
Four men and one horse fell on the west bank of the Tongtian River.
Just when the apprentices were worried about this, the thousand-year-old giant turtle appeared again, and carried Tang Seng across the river!
Seeing that he was about to reach the east coast, Tang Seng never mentioned the transformation of the thousand-year-old giant turtle.
The thousand-year-old giant turtle is very unhappy! I thought, I carried you from the east coast to the west coast, and now I have sent you from the west bank to the east coast, asking you to ask the Buddha a word, and there is not even a reply, don't you take my old turtle in your eyes?
It took the initiative to ask Tang Seng, and Tang Seng was immediately dumbfounded. He has long forgotten about this, and is bent on learning scriptures, how can he have the heart to ask the Buddha questions for others?
The result is not to be seen, Tang Seng and the scriptures were thrown into the river by the thousand-year-old giant turtle!
Sun, Zhu, and Sha were in a hurry, and hurriedly fished out Tang Seng and the scriptures from the river.
The crowd was ready to open the scroll to see if there was any wetness. Who knows, the wind blew again, and then lightning and thunder, and heavy rain fell.
When the wind and rain passed and the sun came out, everyone hurriedly opened the package and looked, and the scriptures were all soaked!
So, the Tang monks and apprentices spread out the scriptures and dried them on the rocks.
The soaked paper sticks to each other, and it is also sticky to dry on the rocks, and 15,144 volumes of scriptures have to be dried at once, no matter how careful you are, it is inevitable that there will be some damage, and the Sanzang scriptures are therefore incomplete!
Sun Wukong also smiled: "Heaven and earth are not complete, and this scripture is not complete, which is in line with the way of heaven." ”
The people of Chenjiazhuang had already learned the news and brought the Tang monks and apprentices into the village.
Tang monks and apprentices visited the "life-saving temple" set up by Chenjiazhuang because of gratitude, and there were statues of four people and one horse.
In the middle of the night, Tang Seng called his apprentices and quietly left Chenjiazhuang.
As soon as they came out of Chenjiazhuang, eight King Kong Lux were waiting in mid-air, and once again drove the clouds to hold up Tang Seng and flew straight to Datang.
In less than a day, they arrived at Chang'an City in Datang.
The four of them landed in Chang'an City, and Tang Emperor Li Shimin was already waiting for them in the Wangjing Tower.
Seeing Li Shimin, Lao Zhu felt very cordial, and wanted to have a good chat with Tang Taizong, and casually asked Wu Meiniang about it. As soon as I learned that it was the twenty-seventh year of Zhenguan, I lost all interest!
Lao Zhu Ke studied liberal arts, if he didn't even understand the "rule of Zhenguan," how could he be confused? Li Shimin had only been emperor for 23 years, so where did he come from Zhenguan for 27 years?
Alas, this life and the previous life are living in two different worlds!
Lao Zhu remembered his grandmother in his previous life, and he was suddenly full of melancholy! My world in my previous life is goodbye!
The next day, Tang Seng was asked by Li Shimin to recite the Sanzang Sutra in Yanta Temple, just opened the scriptures, smelled the fragrant wind, and the call of Vajra Lux came in mid-air.
"Chanting scriptures, put down the scriptures and follow me back to the western heavens!"