Time is like an arrow, Tang monk and apprentice walked out of the Xilu Hutong Road, and it was the scorching summer season.

A city appeared in front of him, and Tang Seng reined in his horse and asked, "Apprentices, what is the place in front?"

Sun Wukong came to joke and said: "Master, you can't read and write! How did you get the holy decree of King Tang?"

Tang Seng said: "I have been a monk since I was a child, I have thousands of classics, I know everything, how can I say that I am illiterate?"

"Since you are literate, why is it that on the apricot yellow flag on the head of the city, there are clearly three big characters written on it, but you don't recognize it, but you come to ask where it is?"

"This monkey is talking nonsense! That flag is blown by the wind, where can you see the words clearly!" Tang Seng raised his voice.

"Why can Lao Sun see it?"

Zhu Bajie said: "Master, don't listen to his nonsense, it's so far away, you can't see the city clearly, where can you see what the font is?"

Sun Wukong said: "Isn't that the three characters of Zhu Ziguo?"

This monkey is showing off his eyesight!

Tang Seng smiled, didn't care, and said: "Zhu Ziguo must be a Western Kingdom, and he wants to change Guan Wen." ”

"That's it. Sun Wukong echoed and stopped making fun.

After a while, when I arrived at the city gate, I dismounted and crossed the bridge and walked into the three-story city gate. But seeing the busy traffic and the full market, it is really a prosperous imperial city.

Tang monks and apprentices walked on the street, and those who were buying and selling, when they saw a few ugly-looking strange monks, they all put down their work and looked at strange things, and they all came to watch.

Tang Seng hurriedly instructed a few apprentices: "Don't get into trouble!

Zhu Bajie carried a lotus pod mouth in his arms as he said, and Monk Sha only walked low, not looking at people, but Sun Wukong was looking around and following Tang Seng.

Some people watched for a while and then went back. There were also some idle people, as well as some naughty boys, who still didn't leave, laughing and laughing, and were not afraid, seeing Zhu Bajie covering his face in his clothes, picking up some stones and broken tiles and throwing them at Zhu Bajie to play.

Tang Seng pinched a handful of sweat, worried that Zhu Bajie or Sun Wukong couldn't help but frighten people, and kept reminding:

"Don't make trouble!

Zhu Bajie covered his face and walked with his head down, not daring to raise his head.

After a while, I turned around a street market and saw a door wall in front of me, on which the words "Huitongguan" were written.

Tang Seng breathed a sigh of relief: "Apprentice, let's go into this yamen." ”

"What are you doing here?" asked Sun Wukong.

Tang Seng said: "The Huitong Hall is the place where the world is connected, and we can also disturb it." Let's go inside and rest first, and when I see the king, I will change Guan Wen, and then we will go out of the city and hurry. ”

Zhu Bajie lowered his head, covered his mouth, walked for a long time, stuffy and tired, and heard that there was a place to enter, so he pulled out the lotus shower's mouth.

This time it was terrible, and when those who followed the stones and tiles saw it, they were so frightened that they were like ghosts, and their souls were scattered, and they fell down a dozen times.

Zhu Bajie opened his mouth and smiled, and those who had just gotten up saw it, thinking that he was going to bite, and fell down again.

Zhu Bajie ignored them and said with a smile: "What the master said is that we should go inside and hide it, so as not to make noise from this group of birdmen." ”

The four masters and apprentices then walked to the hall.

There were two embassy envoys in the same hall, one positive and one deputy, who were both checking the personnel in the hall at this time, preparing to go out to receive visiting officials.

Suddenly, when I saw Tang Seng and his apprentices coming over, they were all frightened, and they boldly came over and asked, "Who is it? Where are you going?"

Tang Seng clasped his hands and said: "The poor monk is a monk who drove down the Tang Dynasty in the East and sent to the West to learn scriptures. ”

It turned out to be from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, I heard that the Eastern Tang Dynasty is a treasure of the country, and the characters are romantic, why is there only one monk who is majestic, but the other three are ugly?

The two envoys thought in their hearts, but they didn't show it on their faces, and invited Tang Seng and his apprentices into the hall to sit down, and asked someone to clean the guest room for them to rest.

Tang Seng thanked him, and the two took people out after arranging.

His subordinates came to invite Tang Seng and the four of them to the guest room to rest, and Tang Seng followed them.

Seeing that the embassy envoy only asked his men to entertain them, Sun Wukong said hatefully: "Why is this person like this? Why don't you let Lao Sun rest in the main hall?"

Tang Seng said: "He is not subject to the jurisdiction of my Tang Dynasty here, and he is not connected to my country, and from time to time there are bosses and officials coming and going, so it's not good to keep us here, don't care." ”

"I want to deal with them!" Sun Wukong was angry in his heart.

The four of them came to the guest room in the side room, and the steward brought some food, which was a plate of white rice, a plate of white noodles, two handfuls of green vegetables, four pieces of tofu, two gluten, a plate of dried bamboo shoots, and a plate of fungus.

Tang Seng asked the apprentice to accept it and thanked the steward.

The steward said, "There is a clean pot and stove in the west room, and the firewood is convenient, please cook by yourself." ”

Tang Seng said: "Let me ask you, is the king in the palace?"

The steward replied: "My long live grandfather hasn't been to the court for a long time, today is the auspicious day of the zodiac, and he is discussing the yellow list with the civil and military officials, so he happens to be in the court." If you want to change Guan Wen, you can catch up while you go now. Tomorrow, Grandpa Banzai won't go to court again, you won't be able to see you, I don't know when you have to wait?"

When Tang Seng heard this, he couldn't take care of eating, and hurriedly said: "Quickly take Guan Wen out!" Wukong, you guys are cooking here, I went to check Guan Wen and came back, and I will walk after eating!"

Sun Wukong responded, and Zhu Bajie hurriedly took out the robe and Guan Wen to Tang Seng.

Tang Seng tidied up his clothes and instructed his apprentices not to go out to make trouble, and went to the palace.

After a while, when I arrived in front of the Wufeng Tower, I asked the official to turn the performance.

The Huangmen official entered the jade steps and said: "Long live, there is a monk sent by the Tang Dynasty in the East to worship the Buddha and seek scriptures in the West Heaven Da Lei Yin Temple, and he wants to change the customs clearance document and listen to the announcement outside the court. ”

When the king heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "The widow has not been in the court for a long time, and today he will go to the palace to recruit doctors, and a high-ranking monk will come!

Tang Seng entered the jade steps, after the prayer, the king announced that he went to the Jinluan Hall to sit, and ordered Guanglu Temple to prepare a meal.

Tang Seng thanked him and checked the literature.

The king looked at it and asked, "Master, how many dynasties of the Tang Dynasty do you have?" How did the King of Tang come back from the dead and send you all the way to seek scriptures?"

Tang Seng clasped his palms together and said that since Pangu opened the world, the three emperors ruled the world, the five emperors divided into Lun, Yao Shunyu Tang Ding Bangmin, and all dynasties.

He also said that the Tang Dynasty was ordered by the sky, the world was peaceful, and all nations came to the court. When the emperor of the dynasty was unparalleled in martial arts, Rendeze was by all the people.

As well as the Jinghe water god carved the number of rains, violated the rules of heaven, and was beheaded in a dream by the virtuous ministers under the emperor, and later the emperor sleepwalked in the underworld, and sent him to the west to learn scriptures after returning to the sun, and said it one by one.

When the king heard Tang Seng speak, he couldn't help but sigh a little: "Master, where did that virtuous minister come from?"

Tang Seng said: "It is my Tang Wang's former prime minister, surnamed Wei Mingzheng." He knew astronomy, geography, yin and yang, and was the prime minister of Anbang. Because he beheaded the Dragon King of Jinghe in his dream, the Dragon King sued Yin Si, saying that the King of Tang promised to save him but killed him, so King Tang fell ill and gradually felt that his life was in danger. Wei Zheng wrote another letter, asking my king to take him to the Yin Si and hand it over to Cui Jue, the judge of the capital city. Not long after, the king of Tang died, and on the third day, he came back to life, and it turned out that Wei Zheng asked Judge Cui to change the book of life and death, and added twenty years of longevity to the king of Tang. Now the king of Tang wants to do a water and land conference, so he sends a poor monk to the west to worship the Buddha and ask for scriptures, and the soul of the dead ascends to heaven. ”

The king sighed again: "What a great power of the Celestial Empire, a monarch and a virtuous minister! ”

When Tang Seng heard that the king said that he was sick, he secretly took a look, and saw that the king was really yellow and thin, and his appearance was sluggish. Just as he was about to ask what kind of illness he had, the officials of Guanglu Temple came up to play and invited Tang Seng to eat fasting.

The king decreed: "In the Phi Xiang Palace, I will eat with the mage with my meal." ”

Tang Seng thanked him and went to dinner with the king.

In the same hall, Sun Wukong asked Monk Sha to cook.

Monk Sha said: "The rice is easy to cook, but the food is not easy to make." ”

"Why?" asked Sun Wukong.

"There is no oil, salt, sauce and vinegar!"

"I have a few dollars here, and I asked Bajie to buy them on the street. Sun Wukong took out the copper coin.

"I don't dare to go, my face is not good-looking, and I am afraid that I will cause trouble when I go out, and the master will scold me. Before he went out, he told me not to be born outside. ”

Zhu Bajie was lazy, and he was surrounded and teased on the street just now, and he didn't want to go out.

Sun Wukong said: "Fair trade, it's not to turn him in, it's not to rob him, if you have money for him, what will happen!"

Zhu Bajie muttered: "Didn't you see that just now? I showed my mouth in front of the door outside the hall and scared more than a dozen people." If you go to the crowd in the downtown area, I don't know how many people will be scared to death!"

"Did you see what was being sold in the market just now?" Sun Wukong saw that he didn't want to go, so he had a plan.

Zhu Bajie said: "Master told me to keep my head down and not to get into trouble, so I didn't see it." ”

"I've seen it all, I'll tell you: hotels, rice shops, mills, ayaluo, groceries, etc., needless to say, there are also tea rooms, noodle shops, big baked cakes, big steamed buns, good soup and rice in the restaurant, good peppers, good vegetables, and his unique sugar cakes, steamed cakes, dim sum, rolls, fritters, sweet cakes, etc., countless good things, I will buy some for you to eat, how about it?"

Sun Wukong counted his fingers and said colorfully.

Zhu Bajie was drooling by him, and his throat gurgled loudly, jumped up and grabbed Sun Wukong's sleeve, begging: "Good monkey brother! This time you invite me to eat, and next time I save money, I will invite you back!"

Sun Wukong laughed secretly, turned his head and said, "Senior Brother Sha, you cook well, let's go buy spices." ”

Monk Sha knew that Sun Wukong was teasing Zhu Bajie, and it was not easy to break it, so he had to respond: "You guys, buy more, and come back when you're full." ”

Zhu Bajie happily took the bowl with the seasoning and followed Sun Wukong out of the door.