Report at the beginning of Journey to the West

Chapter 196 The Avalokitesvara's Fish

Weird!

In this village, the doors of every house are closed, and there is not even a dog on the road, which seems extremely abnormal.

The four masters and apprentices walked around the village for a long time, and finally at the intersection in front of them, they saw a large house with an open door.

There is a banner at the door of this house, and there is a faint scent of Zen inside, and the sound of wooden fish and chanting sutras also come from inside, it seems that there is a funeral at home.

Xie Yun stepped forward to knock on the door, and after a short while, a middle-aged man with the appearance of a housekeeper trotted out from inside.

He was holding a Buddhist bead in his hand, chanting Amitabha Buddha in his mouth, and without looking at anyone, he opened his mouth and complained: "You monk, if you want to do something, don't come early..."

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!" Xie Yunji uttered his first voice, his voice was like Huang Zhong Dalu, shaking the housekeeper awake.

"Daoist?"

"Poverty and desolation, I passed by here, and I came here to stay. Behind me are my three incompetent apprentices."

The housekeeper looked at Monkey King, Zhu Bajie and Drifting Monk, turned around in horror and wanted to run away, but was stopped by Xie Yun directly.

"Benefactor, Pindao came from the Tang Dynasty in the Eastern Land and went to the Western Paradise to learn scriptures. These are the three apprentices I have accepted. Although they are monsters, their character is not bad, and they don't hurt people."

"Master Dao, do you know how to pray?" The steward asked tentatively, "As long as you pray, my master will not only take care of the food, but also give you three liters of cooked rice, one foot of white cloth, and ten copper coins."

"Why pray?" Xie Yun frowned and asked.

The butler sighed, and said helplessly, "Send my lady and young master a ride."

"My condolences, poor people don't give alms, pray for free." Xie Yunji said first.

The housekeeper hurriedly opened the door, happily welcomed the four of them in, and shouted: "Master, another Taoist priest has come to pray for our young lady and young master."

When several people entered the hall, they saw seven or eight monks gathered together, chanting scriptures.

Zhu Bajie approached cheerfully and asked, "What scriptures are you guys reading?"

The monks opened their eyes and saw Zhu Bajie with a long mouth and big ears, a thick body and a broad back, and a voice like thunder. They also saw Monkey King with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks.

"Why are you running, old pig, I don't eat people!" Zhu Bajie said depressedly.

When the monks heard this, they became more and more terrified, kowtowed their heads, yelled for monsters, and ran for their lives in the blink of an eye.

"Why are you arguing?" An old man came out of the back room, leaning on a cane, and said angrily.

After seeing Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Drifting Monk, he collapsed in the grand teacher's chair, shouting that good people will not be rewarded, the monsters in the river have not been sent away, and new monsters have come.

boom!
Xie Yun kicked the three apprentices out of the house, and explained to the old man with a dark face: "Benefactor, those three are apprentices accepted by the poor Taoist. They don't hurt anyone. What do you mean by monsters in the river?"

Weeping, the old man took Xie Yun's hand and complained for a long time.

It turns out that this is Chenjiazhuang, Chechi Guoyuanhui County. He is the head of the local clan, known as Master Chen.

50 years ago, a goldfish spirit came down from the upper reaches of the Tongtian River. Since the king of inspiration, he built a temple on the bank of the Tongtian River to enshrine the Guanyin Bodhisattva.

"Is this a bad thing?" Xie Yun was puzzled.

Master Chen jumped on his feet and beat his chest, cursing with his cane on the ground: "What's the matter, that monster wants to worship virgin boys and girls, this year it's my family's turn to worship him."

"I have done good all my life, but my children are hard. I am nearly fifty years old, and there is only an [-]-year-old girl under my knees, named Yicheng Jin. Tonight, I will be sent to the mouth of a monster. My heart hurts!"

boom!
Xie Yun slapped the table and said angrily: "Don't worry, old benefactor, as a monk, the poor Taoist must take care of such evil things when he encounters such evil things."

"Master Dao, that monster has great powers." Master Chen said worriedly.

"Bullshit has great supernatural powers, and a poor man can poke him to death with a single finger." After Xie Yun comforted Mr. Chen, gossip ignited in his eyes and asked, "Why is your daughter called a scale of gold?"

"Master Taoist, little old man, when I do good deeds, I always keep accounts. For repairing bridges and repairing roads, building temples and pagodas, and giving to monks, I use three taels here, and five taels there. When my daughter is born, I count it and it's just used. 30 taels of gold, thirty catties is a scale, so it is called a scale of gold."

"Whoever said that good things are rewarded with good things, spent thirty catties of gold to get a girl instead of a son." Master Chen was indignant.

Xie Yun is speechless. From a scientific point of view, the matter of having a boy or a girl is determined by the man. If you pray to the gods and Buddhas, you will really have a son. Do you dare to admit it?

"There are virgins, but what about virgins?"

Master Chen gritted his teeth and said, "My brother's family has a seven-year-old son named Chen Guanbao. He is also the only son and only seedling. He has been extremely intelligent since he was a child, but he was favored by the king of inspiration, so he had to donate it."

"The monsters are coming to my house tonight to take away the boys and girls. We can't stop them, so we can only hold a supernatural ceremony for the children first."

"Tonight, it's still early, there's still time." Xie Yun took over the important task of catching the monster.

Master Chen was overjoyed, and set up a banquet on the spot, with enough food and wine to entertain the four masters and apprentices.

The Chen family is also one of the most wealthy and noble families in a radius of hundreds of miles. They have [-] to [-] hectares of paddy fields, [-] to [-] hectares of dry land, [-] to [-] grasslands, thousands of cattle and sheep, and countless chickens and ducks.

The cooks in the family are all hired with a lot of money, and their cooking skills are superb.

The four masters and apprentices were tired of eating Xiong Da's handicrafts, and when they occasionally ate this mortal meal, they felt that it had a special flavor and immediately whetted their appetites.

Especially Zhu Bajie, holding a red lacquered wooden bowl, a bowl full of white rice, covered with vegetables, poured it into his mouth, and swallowed it in two bites.

The servant who was cooking next to him refilled his meal seven or eight times in a row, and was dumbfounded.

"This Taoist priest is not calculating. If you want to take steamed buns, how can you keep white rice without fear of dirtying your sleeves?"

Zhu Bajie patted his big belly triumphantly, and said: "Who caged it, I ate it!"

The servant doesn't believe it!

"Look, let's have another bowl!" Zhu Bajie poured a bowl of white rice into his mouth with a big mouth, and swallowed it as soon as he closed his mouth.

When the servants saw this, their eyes almost popped out, and they said together: "This Taoist priest has a big appetite, this is a throat made of bricks, it's amazing!"

After a meal, there was always one person taller than the empty plates and bowls, and the cooks and servants serving the meals in Chenjiazhuang collapsed to the ground from exhaustion.

Zhu Bajie burped, picked between his teeth with a small nine-toothed rake, and said, "Master, Shu Tan, why didn't you say that I can eat today?"

"Eating people is short-mouthed, and taking others softly, Bajie, today you should be prepared to be a sacrifice for Old Man Chen's daughter, let's go." Xie Yun said with a smile.

With a bitter face, Zhu Bajie said with great reluctance: "Master, you want to feed my old pig to monsters?"

"Master, why don't you change someone else? The third junior brother has a thick skin, I'm afraid the monster won't be able to bite him!" Monkey King couldn't hold back, he laughed out loud.

"Wukong, don't laugh, you will be a sacrifice for Chen Guanbao later, and accompany your junior brother for a while." Xie Yun poured cold water on Monkey King.

Monkey King was stupid, the retribution came too fast, like a tornado, without the slightest defense!

boom!
Xie Yun looked at the two bitter-faced apprentices, kicked them over, and cursed: "You two big Luo Jinxians, are you afraid of a bird monster?"

(End of this chapter)