One Punch Tang Monk

Chapter 20 A Big, Big Old Sophora Tree

Tang Sanzang hugged Ao Xiaobai who was wrapped into a ball, his face was slightly gloomy, he didn't expect such a thing to happen in this small town, the reaction of the residents was understandable, he pondered for a while, and asked again: " By the way, you said a man-eating monster, has anyone seen what he looks like?"

The middle-aged man shook his head, "No one has ever seen it. When I was a child, I heard stories told by old people in the town. They said that children would disappear in the town when it rained. I always thought it was a legend. But it was repeated a while ago After more than ten days of rain, more than a dozen children disappeared in the town at once, but the people who lost their children were driven crazy."

"It seems that there is a monster who eats children who has been living near this small town, and will come out to eat children whenever it rains." Sun Wukong's voice was low, and he glanced at Ao Xiaobai, "It must be a child like this It's more delicious."

"Senior Sister, don't scare me." Ao Xiaobai buried his head deeper.

"By the way, since you are monks, you can spend the night at the Guanyin Temple in front of you. Don't even think about it in the town. It's getting dark, so I have to go back first." The middle-aged man pointed in the direction, then turned and walked away quickly. went.

"Let's go, go to the temple to spend the night." Tang Sanzang held Ao Xiaobai in his arms and walked forward with one hand leading the horse.

Ao Xiaobai is very light, but wrapped in a ball is not easy to hug. After walking for a while, she jumped to the ground by herself, holding Tang Sanzang's hand tightly.

"I can't feel the evil spirit. This monster is either stronger than me, or it's not in the town." Sun Wukong closed his eyes for a while, opened them and looked at Tang Sanzang and said.

"Well, it's not in the town." Tang Sanzang nodded, and he didn't feel the breath of the monster, and he hadn't seen what a monster stronger than him looked like.

Walking along the way, the cold wind blows on the empty street, which is extraordinarily deserted, and we can faintly hear crying, which should be the crying of those who have lost their children.

A monster that eats children is really not a good monster, it ruined a family overnight

"Master, can I sleep with you at night?" Ao Xiaobai shook Tang Sanzang's hand with a pitiful expression on his face.

"If you're afraid, sleep with your senior sister. It's not good to sleep with master." Tang Sanzang shook his head and said.

"No." Wukong shook his head and refused, "She slept next to me and bit my hand last time."

"Senior sister, okay..." Ao Xiaobai let go of Tang Sanzang's hand, hugged Sun Wukong's long legs and began to act coquettishly.

After leaving the small town and walking west for a while, in a mountain depression, a temple with a rather wide area and overlapping temples and meditation rooms appeared in sight.

"It's quite big." Tang Sanzang was a little surprised. He thought that the temple on the edge of such a small town should be a small dilapidated temple, but he didn't expect that the scale of this temple could catch up with Jinshan Temple.

The three of them led their horses and walked over to the gate of the temple. When they looked up, they saw four large characters on the horizontal plaque: "Guanyin Temple".The trees on both sides of the stone road have lost their leaves. If it is summer, it must be a scene of dense forests.

"It's Sister Guanyin's dojo." Xiaobai pointed to the plaque and said, turned his head slightly to look at Sun Wukong, and silently put his finger back.

"Avalokitesvara Temple?" Tang Sanzang whispered, no, why does this temple sound so familiar?It seems to have appeared in Journey to the West, but I can't remember where it is for a while.

Sun Wukong pushed the sunglasses on his head, just covering the two animal ears.

"I'll knock on the door." Tang Sanzang handed the reins to Wu Kong, and was about to go up to knock on the door, but the door creaked open, and a tall and thin man in gray monk robes came out, about twenty A handsome and handsome monk.

When the monk opened the door and saw Tang Sanzang and the others, he was also taken aback for a moment. Seeing Tang Sanzang wearing cassocks, he put his hands together and said, "Little Monk Guangzhi, I don't know where the master came from? I'm not far away to welcome you, so don't expect anything strange." The voice said. Gentle, but quite kind.

Tang Sanzang also clasped his hands together and said: "The poor monk Tang Sanzang came from the Tang Dynasty in the east, and went to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures. It was getting late here, and he wanted to spend the night in Baocha."

Hearing this, Guangzhi glanced at Sun Wukong and Ao Xiaobai, with a look of distress on his face, "It's no problem if the master wants to stay overnight, but it's just a place of pure Buddhism, and the two girls are a bit uncomfortable." Convenience, look..."

Tang Sanzang smiled and waved his hands and said, "These two are disciples of the poor monk, and they are also Buddhists. You don't have to worry about it."

Hearing this, Guangzhi hesitated for a while, and wanted to speak, but Sun Wukong raised his eyebrows and said: "Monk, don't take us in, be careful I will smash your ruined temple."

Guangzhi was surprised, glanced at Sun Wukong, turned around and walked towards the temple, and said as he walked, "Those three please come in first, I will report everything to Master Abbot, and then he will decide."

Tang Sanzang nodded and followed Guangzhi into the gate.Ao Xiaobai pulled the hem of his clothes and followed him step by step.Sun Wukong turned his head and said something to the white horse, without holding him, the white horse followed into the door.

Entering the gate of the temple, there is a large courtyard. The pagoda tree on the left side of the courtyard immediately attracted Tang Sanzang's attention.

Because the locust tree is too big, twenty people can't hug the trunk, it is more than twenty feet high, the leaves are all gone, and the black branches reach out to the sky like claws, as if from the depths of the ground A devil's claw came, which was shocking.

There are some blessing cloth strips and sachets tied to the lower branches, red and white, fluttering wantonly with the cold wind, which looks extraordinarily weird in this slightly dim environment.

At this time, there was an old woman with a square scarf wrapped around her head under the tree, and while burning yellow paper, she was crying something in a low voice, accompanied by the whistling wind, very shrill and piercing.

Ao Xiaobai immediately hugged Tang Sanzang's thigh.Tang Sanzang stopped, glanced at the old woman, looked at the old locust tree, and narrowed his eyes.

The Avalokitesvara Temple gave him a strange feeling. Generally, temples enshrined gods and Buddhas, even if they were not shrouded in Buddha's light, they would not feel cold.

But this Guanyin Temple seems to be shrouded in a layer of mist. It seems to be resentment, but I don't know where it is.

Sun Wukong stared at the tree trunk for a long time, shook his head, and looked around again.

"This is the Buddha tree of our Guanyin Temple. I don't know how old it is. For thousands of years, the Guanyin Temple has declined and been rebuilt several times. Only this old locust tree has been standing. There is a book in the temple. In the book, there are also recorded several times when the Buddha tree appeared."

Seeing that the three of them stopped and looked at the big locust tree, Guangzhi also stopped and introduced, his eyes fell on the old woman under the tree, with a pitiful expression on his face, he sighed and said: "That is Wang Po, her five-year-old daughter disappeared 30 years ago, and her four-year-old granddaughter Yaner also disappeared a few days ago. These days, she comes to the temple every day to worship the Buddha tree, hoping that the Buddha tree can save the child from the monster. Send it back."

"The old lady is so pitiful." Ao Xiaobai said softly, but the hand holding Tang Sanzang's thigh was a little harder, "Master, it seems that there are really monsters that eat children."

Sun Wukong walked towards the old locust tree.Tang Sanzang leaned over and picked up Ao Xiaobai, looked at Guangzhi and asked, "You said monsters, have you ever seen them? Are there any records in your temple?"

"If I have seen it before, I am afraid I will be eaten by that monster." Guangzhi shook his head with a wry smile, but suddenly remembered something, and smiled: "However, the abbot said that he seemed to have seen that monster once when he was young. If you are curious, you can ask him later."

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