After completing the transmission of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, Zen Master Wuchao stepped on the clouds and wanted to return to Wuchao.

This Heart Sutra is so exquisite, Tang Seng knew that Wuchao Zen Master was either a Buddha or a Bodhisattva, so he could have such a mysterious Heart Sutra to be passed on, so he hurriedly grabbed it and asked again and again how the way to the West Heaven was.

Wuchao Zen Master said with a smile: "The road is not difficult, listen to my instructions: thousands of mountains and thousands of rivers are deep, and there are many miasma and many demons." If you encounter a cliff, rest assured that you will be terrified. Walk to Moore Rock and follow the footsteps sideways. Carefully in the black pine forest, the demon fox intercepts the road. The elves are full of cities, and the demon lord Yingshan lives. The tiger sits in the piano hall, and the blue wolf is the main book. Lions and elephants are kings, and tigers and leopards are kings. The wild boar carries the burden, and the water monster meets in front. The old stone monkey for many years, there is anger. You ask the acquaintance, and he knows the way to the west. ”

Sun Wukong sneered beside him: "Master, let's go! You don't have to ask him, just ask me!"

Tang Seng didn't know what it meant, and was asking, when the Wuchao Zen Master turned into a ball of golden light and flew up to the Wuchao.

Tang Seng hurriedly thanked him, but Sun Wukong raised the golden hoop stick and stabbed it upward, the stick was everywhere, and ten thousand lotus flowers suddenly appeared on the black nest, and the auspicious clouds rose up into the air, and the castration was extremely fast, and the golden hoop stick did not hit the black nest.

Tang Seng hurriedly grabbed Sun Wukong: "This is a bodhisattva, and we have passed on the Heart Sutra, what are you going to do to poke his nest?"

Sun Wukong sneered: "He pretended to be profound and scolded my senior brother!"

"He just talked about the journey to the west, why did he scold you?"

"Didn't you hear it! He said that the wild boar carried the burden, and he scolded Bajie. The old stone monkey for many years scolded the old grandson. ”

This old Zen master knows the past and the future, and he also said that the water monster encountered in the past, and he didn't know if it would work, so let him go first. "Zhu Bajie has some friendship with Wuchao Zen Master to persuade Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong saw that Wuchao Zen Master ran to the tree, and he couldn't beat him for a while, so he took up his magic skills, opened his fire eyes, and looked at the tree with golden light, and there was a colorful peacock faintly in the auspicious clouds.

"It's not a good bird!" Sun Wukong scolded and asked Tang Seng, "Master, you are familiar with the Buddhist scriptures, do you know which Bodhisattva and Buddha are the same bird?"

"Bird, what bird?" Tang Seng was inexplicable.

"Peacock!"

"Oh!" Tang Seng said, "The Peacock King of the West Heaven Buddha is a peacock, and the King of Daming gave birth to a son and a daughter, and naturally they are also two little peacocks." What is this for, you ask?"

Sun Wukong ignored Tang Seng, raised his head and laughed loudly at the top of the fragrant cypress tree: "No wonder you run so fast, it turns out that you are a bird cub!"

A group of three people passed the Futu Mountain, slept in the open air, I don't know how many days and nights they walked, the trees knew how to sing, and it was the middle of summer again.

Buddhism has three treasures: the Buddha treasure, the Dharma treasure, and the Sangha treasure. Since Tang Seng got the "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", it is like getting a treasure, and he often recites it whenever he has time.

On this day, Zhu Bajie wiped his sweat and shouted: "Master, after walking for so long, there is no one in sight, the sun is going down again, and the old pig is very hungry." The weather is hot, take a break, eat some dry food and then go, and only when you are full will you have the strength to carry your luggage. ”

"Bajie, you bear with it first, let's go quickly, see if there is anyone in front, so that we can find a place to spend the night before dark!" Tang Seng didn't want to rest, so he whipped his horse and got to go.

Zhu Bajie muttered, beat his spirit, and chased after him. Suddenly, I heard Sun Wukong shouting in front of me: "There is someone over there!"

Someone has a house, there is something to eat, Zhu Bajie was overjoyed, carried the burden like flying, ran to Sun Wukong's side, and looked ahead, where is there any home? There are only seven turns and eight bends of the mountain road.

Zhu Bajie snorted with a long mouth: "Senior brother, why are you playing tricks on the old pig again?"

"You family lover! You've only been away from home for a few days, and you're complaining all the time, where do you look like a monk who walks on your feet!" Sun Wukong scolded back.

"Senior brother, you are a real person who eats and drinks dew, with a belly like copper and iron, I can't compare with you, my belly and intestines are big, and they are all fleshy, not like you. I have been starving since I followed the master and traveled every day, and I have never eaten a full meal, and I still carry such a heavy burden on my shoulders, if I don't eat, how can I have the strength? Do you know?" Zhu Bajie shrugged his luggage as he walked.

Zhu Bajie complained, and Tang Seng was a little displeased: "Bajie, if you are serious at home and can't stand the suffering of being a monk, you should go back and be your son-in-law!"

Zhu Bajie was startled, hurriedly put down his luggage, and knelt down: "Master, don't listen to my brother's nonsense! He loves to wronged people, I didn't complain, but he said I was complaining, I have a straight nature, a fast mouth, and a stupid mind, I said that I was hungry, so he came to lie to me, and scolded me for being a family lover." Master, I have received the bodhisattva's vows, and I have received the mercy of the master, and I have been asked to follow the master and go to the west to worship the Buddha and seek scriptures.

"Okay! Since you really want to go to the West Heaven, then get up! Don't slack off in the future!"

Zhu Bajie answered, got up, picked up the burden and walked, and babbled a few words to Sun Wukong.

After turning two or three more corners, Tang Seng shouted on horseback: "Bajie, there is someone over there!"

Zhu Bajie's stomach screamed a few more times, and he said without raising his head: "Master, I walked fast enough, why did you come to coax the old pig?"

"If the monks don't speak, how could I lie to you?"

"Isn't Senior Brother also a monk, why did he lie to me?" Zhu Bajie grabbed Tang Seng's words, counterattacked Sun Wukong, and sped up his pace again.

When I walked to the bend and looked up, not far in front of me, there was really a family, hidden in the shade of the trees.

Zhu Bajie was overjoyed and said: "There really is a family! Master! I don't have to sleep in the stone cave tonight! I have something to eat!"

After a while, the three of them came to the front of the house, Tang Seng got off the horse and handed the reins to Sun Wukong, and Zhu Bajie also put down the burden of luggage and stood in the shade with Sun Wukong.

Tang Seng came to the gate with a nine-ring tin cane. There was a bamboo bed in the door, and an old man was leaning over it and closing his eyes to enjoy the coolness.

The old man didn't notice that anyone was coming, so he just closed his eyes and rested. Tang Seng waited for a while, had no choice but to make a Buddhist salute, and said softly: "Donor!

When the old man heard the words, he opened his eyes and saw a monk with big ears standing in front of him. He hurriedly turned over, straightened his clothes, got out of the bamboo bed, and walked out of the door to return the salute: "Elder! Where did the elder come from? What happened to the humble house?"

"The poor monk came from the Tang Dynasty in the east and went to the West Tianda Leiyin Temple to worship the Buddha and ask for scriptures. Passing by the treasure land, I want to spend a night, and I hope to travel conveniently. ”

"Go to the West Heaven?" the old man waved his hand and said, "You can't go, you can't go there! If you want to learn from the scriptures, go to the eastern heavens!"

Tang Seng didn't know what he meant, and asked: "The poor monk was guided by Guanyin Bodhisattva, saying that there is a Sanzang Mahayana Sutra in the West Heaven Da Lei Yin Temple, why did the donor say that he wanted to go to the East Heaven to learn the scriptures? What scriptures are available in the East Heaven?"

The old man said: "I heard that Dongtian has "Tao Te Ching", "Huang Ting Sutra", "Hui Ming Sutra", "Biyuan Tan Sutra", "Changqing Jing Sutra", "Jiji Zhen Sutra...... Sweat cows are abundant, and so on. The elder came from the East, but why didn't he know that there was a scripture in the East?"

Sun Wukong listened to the old man's words next to him, and the scriptures he said were all Taoist classics, could it be that this old man was a Taoist immortal? Sun Wukong hurriedly opened his fiery eyes and looked over, but he didn't see anything.

He was not at ease, so he jumped forward and said in a vicious voice: "You old man, you are very old, why are you unreasonable! We monks have traveled a long way to spend the night, and you actually use these words to scare us! If your family has no place to sleep and does not want to spend the night, we will sit under the tree and spend the night, so we don't need to disturb you! What kind of oriental Taoist scriptures do you say in front of the monks?"

The old man was taken aback by Sun Wukong, and pulled Tang Seng and said in fear: "Elder, who is that red-eyed tuberculosis ghost?

Tang Seng said: "Don't be afraid, that's my apprentice, his face is disgusting and kind, and he won't hurt anyone." ”

"What kind of eyes do you old man have? Although Lao Sun is thin and small, he has great powers, and he can do everything from heaven to earth. Yan Jun in the underworld was once frightened by me, and the Taishang Laojun of the Tushi Palace was also thrown by me!" Sun Wukong glared at the old man, his face was tight, and he deliberately said Taishang Laojun.

"In this way, you have some skills? I don't know where you live, and why did you become a monk?"

"Lao Sun Ben lived in the Dongsheng Shenzhou Overseas Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, and the Jade Emperor once named me the Monkey King. No matter how difficult it is to walk on the West Heaven Road, there is my grandson here, opening the road in the mountains, building bridges in the water, there are demons and monsters, there are demons and demons, how can there be no reason!"

"It turned out to be a swaggering and deceitful monk!" the old man laughed.

"Your son is the one who is swaggering and deceiving, and he is bragging! The road is far, and I am too lazy to talk!"

"Since you are so capable, then you should go to the West Heaven!" The old man didn't want to entangle with Sun Wukong, so he turned his head to Tang Seng, "How many people are there in the elder's party, please go to the grass hut to rest!"

Tang Seng replied: "Thank you, old donor! ”

"What about the other one?"

"Are you dazzled? Isn't there one standing in the shade of the tree?" Sun Wukong pointed with his hand.

The old man looked up at Zhu Bajie, and ran back in fright, shouting: "Close the door!

Tang Seng hurriedly said: "Don't be afraid, old benefactor, that's my second apprentice, although he looks ugly, but he is also a good person!"

"Why is one uglier than the other?" said the old man tremblingly.

Zhu Bajie was unhappy: "Old man, how do you judge people by their appearance? We are ugly, but we are all useful!"

At this moment, a group of people came from the south. In front of them was a young man and woman, carrying a load of seedlings, barefoot and holding trouser legs, who had just returned from planting seedlings, and behind them was an old woman and four small children.