Journey to the West: Interpretation and Teaching Disciples

Chapter 177 Encountering Qingniu Road Blocking the Sky
After issuing the certificate of customs clearance and bidding farewell to the king of Chechi Kingdom, Xuanzang and his party walked for more than a month. The journey was safe and sound, but Xuanzang was a hard-working person after all, so he left Chechi Kingdom Soon, another difficulty awaited him.

On this day, the five of Xuanzang traveled for a long time across the mountains, and seeing that the sun was about to set, they did not find a place to stay.Seeing this situation, Xuanzang couldn't help nagging: "Hey! I haven't seen anyone after walking for a long time. It seems that I'm going to sleep in the open again tonight!"

Sun Wukong happened to hear Xuanzang's words, so he laughed and said, "Hey! Master, why do you say that? I am a monk who is a family from all over the world, and I am not the one who has a family. Why do you say such a thing? "

Hearing what Sun Wukong said, Xuanzang also felt a little embarrassed, after all, he, a master, was taught a lesson by his apprentice!But Xuanzang is extraordinary after all, this kind of thought just passed in his mind and then disappeared.

At this moment, Bajie suddenly said: "Brother Monkey, what you said is so unreasonable. You didn't take the burden and lead the horse, so you don't know how hard it is for us to wait. If we meet someone, we should rest well and eat some food." Take a meal to refresh your spirit, if you don't meet him, we will have worked hard!"

For the sake of Bajie's words, Sun Wukong couldn't refute, so he just laughed a few times to defuse his embarrassment.Xuanzang couldn't bear to hear Bajie's words, so he said to Sun Wukong: "Wukong, what Wu Neng said is also reasonable, why don't you go and see, is there anyone who can stay overnight?"

Sun Wukong received Xuanzang's order, and went to investigate after a fight.After a while, Monkey King returned, saying that there was a big river blocking the way ahead, and it would be difficult to cross tonight.

Xuanzang heard what Sun Wukong said. After walking forward for a while, he happened to see a big river blocking the way to the west. In addition, the sky was getting dark at this time. Zang had nothing to do.

Suddenly there was a cry, Xuanzang looked back, it turned out that Bajie found a stone tablet, and then made the call, Xuanzang didn't know why, now Bajie walked over.

When Bajie saw Xuanzang approaching, he quickly said to Xuanzang, "Master, here is a stone tablet, please take a look!"

Xuanzang looked at the stele, and his expression changed drastically, as if he was about to cry. Sun Wukong was amazed and asked, "Master, why are you crying?"

Xuanzang didn't speak, just stretched out his hand to point to the stele, Sun Wukong looked at the stele along Xuanzang's finger, and saw that the first thing on the stele was the three big characters "Tongtianhe" followed by two lines Small characters, that small characters read: "Across eight hundred miles, few people have traveled since ancient times."

Seeing this, Zhang Xing also knew that they had arrived at Tongtianhe!At this moment, Sun Wukong heard the sound of a trumpet and suona in his ears. It seemed that there was a family, so he asked Xuanzang to go to the house for a night, and it happened that he could find a boatman to cross the river tomorrow.

As soon as Xuanzang heard some voices, he agreed.A group of people walked towards the sound led by Monkey King.

After some words, Monkey King and others entered the house where the ceremony was performed. Monkey King and the others were curious, so they asked why the ceremony was performed, and the family then talked about why they performed the ceremony.

It turned out that there was a monster in the Tongtian River, who called himself the God of the River, and asked the people here to sacrifice boys and girls every year. This year, it happened to be the turn of Monkey King and the others to stay at this house.

Monkey King was moved when he heard it, so he asked the master to call out the child who was going to be sacrificed. The master didn't know what it meant, but he called out the boy without thinking too much. , With a movement of his figure, he turned into that boy, and the host was amazed when he saw this scene.

Sun Wukong saw that his master had seen his ability, so he talked about the matter of eliminating demons. After the master agreed, Monkey King found Zhang Xing and wanted Zhang Xing to become the girl who was going to sacrifice. Zhang Xing also wanted to see After seeing the carp spirit from Guanyin's family, he agreed, and after seeing the girl's appearance, he transformed into the girl's appearance.

On the second day, according to the agreement, the host family took the children transformed by Monkey King and Zhang Xing as sacrifices and sent them to the temple of the carp spirit. The carp spirit really appeared at night, but the carp spirit was also careful, and tried it when it came up. After a while, Monkey King accidentally showed his flaws and let the carp spirit run away, leaving only a piece of fish scale.

Back at the master's house, Monkey King told the story again.The host family thanked Monkey King and Zhang Xing for saving their family, so the whole group stayed in the host's house for one night!
When he slept in the middle of the night, Xuanzang suddenly felt a little cold. Just as he was wondering, the host brought quilts, saying that it was snowing outside, and sent some quilts to the holy monk.It wasn't until this time that Xuanzang realized that it was snowing outside. Although he felt a little strange, Xuanzang didn't care and fell asleep again.

The next day, when Xuanzang woke up, he heard from his host that there was a thick layer of ice on the Tongtian River, and many people could walk on it without hindrance.

Hearing this news, Xuanzang wanted to set off.Although Sun Wukong felt that the snow was strange, he didn't think much about it, but there was one person who knew why the snow fell, and that person was Zhang Xing.

Although Zhang Xing knew why the snow fell, he didn't tell Xuanzang, because it was a disaster that Xuanzang had to go through.Didn't you see that after Xuanzang arrived in the Western Paradise, when there was still one less disaster, didn't the Bodhisattva also create a disaster?All of this has its own definite number, and Zhang Xing will not change anything.

A group of five people soon came to the Tongtian River. Xuanzang saw that there were indeed many pedestrians walking on the ice. Seeing this scene, Xuanzang was overjoyed and prepared to cross the river.

On the other hand, Bajie had been a marshal of the canopy, so he knew some common sense of walking on ice, corrected some mistakes in the group, and asked everyone to walk sideways with weapons, so that even if there is a dark eye on the ice, they are somewhat prepared.

The ice surface was really thick, and there was no difference between a group of people walking on it and the ground. When the group reached the middle of the river, they were a little far away from Xuanzang because Sun Wukong wanted to lead the horse, and Zhang Xing was also walking between Bajie and Drifting Monk. In the middle, Xuanzang came to the front for some reason.At this moment, there was a loud noise on the ice, and then a cave suddenly appeared at Xuanzang's feet. Xuanzang was caught off guard by the monster that had been prepared in the water for a while.

Seeing that Xuanzang was taken away, Sun Wukong wanted to rescue Xuanzang, but the monster seemed to know Sun Wukong's weakness, so he didn't fight with Sun Wukong, and took Xuanzang captive and dived into the water.

It turned out that after the monster was beaten by Monkey King and Zhang Xing, he returned to the mansion and talked about Monkey King's appearance. At this moment, a mandarin woman in striped clothes flashed out from among the monsters. , when the monster told the appearance of Sun Wukong, he said to the monster: "The king's happy event has arrived!"

The monster didn't understand what it meant, so he asked the mandarin woman in striped clothes, and the woman in striped clothes said, "The one who injured the king was Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven who made trouble in the Heavenly Palace 500 years ago. Now he protects the Buddhist scriptures to go west." To learn the scriptures, Sun Wukong is here, and the person who takes the scriptures must also be here! If you eat a piece of the meat of the person who took the scriptures, you will live forever. Isn’t this a happy event for the king?”

The monster was overjoyed when he heard what the striped mandarin woman said, and after discussing for a while, they came up with such a solution.

The carp spirit caught Xuanzang and was about to eat it, when suddenly a little demon came and reported that a pig-headed man with a big beard had come and was yelling outside the cave. Hearing this, the carp spirit knew that it was Xuanzang's disciple who had come. So he was not in a hurry to eat Xuanzang, took his cloak and weapons and came out of the cave,
This carp spirit is very skilled, he fought with Bajie and Sand Monk for dozens of rounds without losing sight of the monster, so Bajie winked at Drifting Monk, and the two retreated while fighting and came out of the water after a while , The monster was so excited that he was killing that he didn't notice that he came out of the water. As soon as he woke up, he saw a stick and a sword stabbing at him. Seeing this scene, the carp spirit was so frightened that he quickly used his weapon. The petal red copper hammer moves upwards.

With a loud noise, although the two weapons were blocked, the strength on the weapons could not stop it. The carp spirit spit out a mouthful of blood on the spot, but the carp spirit just returned to the water with the help of these two forces.Afterwards, no matter how insulted Ren Bajie and Drifting were, the carp spirit would not come out, which made Monkey King and Zhang Xing on the shore helpless.

In the end, Monkey King dispatched to find Guanyin Bodhisattva of the South China Sea.When he arrived in the South China Sea, Monkey King realized that the goblin in the Tongtian River was a carp raised by Guanyin Bodhisattva.Guanyin Bodhisattva didn't wash up either, and followed Sun Wukong to Tongtian River with a basket in hand. After some magic spells, Guanyin Bodhisattva took the carp essence, and this Tongtian River water mansion belonged to an old tortoise here. When collecting carp essence, Xuanzang was released. After Xuanzang thanked the Bodhisattva, he crossed the Tongtian River with five people and one horse on his back.

After crossing the Tongtian River, the group of people walked for more than a month. On this day, Xuanzang and his party encountered a high mountain blocking the way. As the saying goes: "There must be strange things when the mountain is high, and the high mountain will produce essence." Xuanzang looked at the mountain in front of him and felt a feeling A sense of fear, but in order to get the Western Scriptures, Xuanzang still walked up the mountain.

After a while, it was noon, and Xuanzang was a little hungry, so he asked Monkey King to ask for alms.From a distance, Bajie saw a building on a mountain peak not far away, and said, "Master, there are people there, let's go there to rest!"

Xuanzang was also tired from walking and wanted to take a rest, so he wanted to agree.But Sun Wukong looked at the building and thought it was not good. Although he didn't see any evil spirit, he also had an ominous feeling, so he stopped Bajie and Xuanzang, and took the alms bowl to go outside for alms. Before leaving However, Sun Wukong was still worried, and drew a circle with a golden cudgel, asking Xuanzang and others to stay in the circle and wait for him to come back.

Ba Jie didn't want to see Monkey King's move, but Hu Wei, who was photographed by Monkey King, didn't dare to refute, so he had to stay in the circle, but the whole group waited and waited until Monkey King came back. The strong mountain wind made Xuanzang and the others feel a little cold, so Bajie ordered everyone to leave the circle painted by Monkey King and hide in the building they saw, maybe they would still have something to eat.

When Bajie said this, Xuanzang and Drifting also moved their minds, but Zhang Xing knew that there was a big monster in that building, but Zhang Xing would not spoil the plot, so he naturally agreed, and waited until a few people came to the building. In front of him, Bajie went to search and found no one, but found four pieces of clothes, so several people put them on, but Xuanzang didn't want to wear them, so he didn't wear them, so Bajie and Sand Monk put them on together As soon as the two of them put it on, the clothes turned into ropes and tied Bajie and Drifting. Just as Zhang Xing was about to take Xuanzang away, he saw a big man with bull horns on his head killing him with a big gun. come over.

(End of this chapter)