ninety thousand miles

Chapter 101 Blacksmith Cen

Near noon the next day, Li Chuan and Zhang Yuanwai arrived at Chongfu Temple.Accompanied by the host, incense was offered and vegetarian food was eaten.Zhang Yuanwai talked with the host about Buddhist scriptures. After listening to it for a while, Li Chuan felt drowsy. After he found out the location of Monk Wukong, he went there by himself.

Wukong meditated and recited scriptures in the meditation room. After Li Chuan entered, he still closed his eyes.

Li Chuan felt very at ease, so he moved a stool and sat down by the window, read a few pages of Buddhist scriptures, looked at the scenery, and turned a few more pages.

Wukong finished reading this volume of scriptures, put down the prayer beads, opened his eyes, and said, "Benefactor Li, thanks to you, the temple has been full of incense in recent days, and there are almost not enough monks."

"Huh?" Li Chuan was at a loss.

"What happened in Xiushan County, I heard that a villager died there, and the murderer moved the whole mountain away. People from Qin Tianjian went to investigate, but they also disappeared. People from several surrounding counties Everyone is in danger!" Wukong smiled and described exaggeratedly, "So, there are many more people who come to offer incense to pray for safety, isn't it the business brought by Brother Li?"

Li Chuan understood, and he also said with a smile: "Then I have to get a commission."

"You talk to the host, it's useless to talk to me," said Wukong, walked up to Li Chuan, found a chair and sat down, and said, "Tell me quickly, what's going on in Xiushan County ?”

Li Chuan didn't hide it from him, only concealed part of Xinyuan, and then told him the whole thing.

After Wukong listened, his expression turned solemn, and after a moment of silence, he said, "So that's how it is."

Li Chuan said: "Fortunately, this matter has been settled, and Xialin Mountain has reappeared in the world. It is estimated that after a while, the rumors will end."

"Yes," Wukong agreed with Li Chuan's statement, and then he suddenly remembered something, and said, "Do you know the King of Lingyu in Suliu Lake?"

"I've heard of it, what's the matter?" Li Chuan asked.

"I heard that he gathered a group of elite soldiers and generals, and he wants to declare war with Gong Wuguang." Wu Kong said.

"Declaring war with Qin Tianjian? Isn't that declaring war with the imperial court? Does he think his life is long?"

"That's what he said. Gong Wuguang deliberately set up a trap, killed his brothers King Shilong and King Black Horn, and broke the agreement between the imperial court and the demon. They said that as long as the imperial court handed over Gong Wuguang, He will stop the war, and if the imperial court insists on protecting him, the demons of Suliu Lake will fight bloody to the end."

"Is the relationship between monsters so good?" Li Chuan asked suspiciously.

"I also think it's a cover. Now Qin Tianjian has also issued a notice to start recruiting troops, and I heard that the chief apprentice of the palace supervisor, the second apprentice, has arrived at Suliu Lake. It is estimated that the Suliu Lake will start soon. Suppress the demon."

Gold melting in Suliu Lake?

"Is this news true?" Li Chuan asked.

"Which part are you referring to?" Wu Kong asked.

"The big apprentice and the second apprentice are in Suliu Lake."

"I can't be sure about that." Seeing Li Chuan's troubled face, Wukong hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"I originally planned to go to the capital to find Jinrong, the second apprentice. Now if he is in Suliu Lake..." Li Chuan said his difficulties, "It's not impossible to change the way to Suliu Lake, but I'm afraid of going. , he is not here, so we will delay the time."

"In my opinion, it's safer for Brother Li to go to the capital first. Even if he's not in the capital, he's in Suliu Lake. If there's definite news, he'll just make another trip. If he goes to Suliu Lake rashly, if their arrangement is broken, then he will go to Suliu Lake." It’s not beautiful anymore.” Wukong said his thoughts.

After hearing this, Li Chuan was deeply convinced.

Wukong continued to say: "This time Qin Tianjian is recruiting troops, I also want to go. Brother Li, can you take me for a ride?"

Li Chuan was a little surprised when he heard this. In his memory, Wukong was not much more daring than him. He only dared to fight the little country monsters, not the Xuanshuishan monsters.

"Suliu Lake...there may be many powerful demon cultivators...so" Li Chuan and Wukong told what he heard in Tianju Mountain, "the few demon cultivators I saw, although they said No, but there are a few of them who are obviously motivated...they are still demon cultivators protected by the Four Gods Palace."

Then Li Chuan expressed the doubts in his heart, "What kind of benefits did King Lingyu give them, so that these demon cultivators in the Xuanmen have to come to this muddy water?"

The same goes for those big monsters, if they don't cultivate immortals well, what are they doing in the world to take up space?
Wukong replied: "I don't know either. But... I just thought that the last time Xuanshuishan suppressed monsters, I finally let out a breath of anger. If this time because of the unfavorable war, the court gave up the palace guard and gave up again, those monsters I don’t know how arrogant it will be.”

He said: "I didn't want to go either... A few days ago, a friend of mine invited me to go to the capital together, but I declined. He said something to me before he left, and these words have been repeated in my heart for the past few days Yes. So today you are here, and you are going to the capital, I think this is the Buddha telling me that I should go to the capital."

"What is it?" Li Chuan asked.

"Only mortals are not afraid of death, and mortals are worth saving."

Li Chuan disagreed, "At that time, we defended Yunqiao Township and hunted monsters in winter. We saved not a thousand lives, but several hundred. How can you say that if you don't go to the capital, you are afraid of death and useless?"

"I also want to visit the capital city. I think I have reached a bottleneck in my practice recently. Maybe I can break through by going out for a walk." As he spoke, Wukong smiled and begged Li Chuan, "Brother Li, when the time comes, you have to help I arrange an idle job, and I can get money and be safe, such as letting a few masters protect me and chant scriptures."

Li Chuan knew he couldn't persuade him any more, he said, "I'll leave after lunch the day after tomorrow, shall we gather under the big tree in front of the village then?"

"Okay, I just happen to have some things to arrange."

"What's the matter?" Li Chuan asked casually.

"I can't say it clearly. If Brother Li is interested, why don't you come with me now?"

"Okay." Li Chuan immediately agreed.

Zhang Yuanwai wanted to stay in the temple for one night, after Li Chuan told him, he followed Wukong and left Chongfu Temple.

Wukong carried a bamboo basket on his back, and led him along small paths, wandering through many houses, and collected a lot of medicinal herbs, all of which were common, such as dangshen, angelica and poria cocos.

Some of these families are orphans and widows, and some have only two brothers and sisters. They are all poor families.

Looking at Wukong's conversations with these people, it is obvious that this behavior has been going on for a long time.Every time he finishes collecting one family, he will say that he will go out in the near future, and the return date is uncertain, and let them go to the market to sell by themselves later, without waiting for him.

The price of empty acquisition is not high.

After Li Chuan's calculations, it should be about the same as the normal market price, and he will lower the price when he sees that the quality is not good.However, if these people sell them piecemeal, they should not be able to sell at the market price.

By the time the last household was collected, it was already dark.Wukong took Li Chuan back.

Li Chuan asked him, "How long have you been doing this?"

Wu Kong replied: "It's been about five or six years, since I came to Chongfu Temple... I taught them to identify herbs, and then sold them to me, and I sold them to medicinal herbs shops I know well."

After sleeping in Chongfu Temple for one night, and going home to rest for another day, Li Chuan set off.When waiting for monk Wukong under the big tree at the entrance of the village, he found that Wukong had brought someone with him.He was a man in his thirties, with a burly figure, with a big hammer on his back, and several hammers of different sizes hanging on his waist.

Wukong introduced: "You can call him Blacksmith Cen, he... is a half-baked craftsman, he made my wooden stick and Brother Tong's bow and arrow, in the future, if you need a kitchen knife, you can use it Find him. He heard that I decided to go to the capital, so he came to look for me and wanted to go with me."

(End of this chapter)