Journey to the West begins with a full-level Tang monk

Chapter 1436 Barren Mountain Town

Tang Seng, who left Fuyun Valley, turned into a stream of light and flew towards the nearest city.

After flying for hundreds of miles, his flying speed gradually slowed down and finally landed on the ground.

This is a small town outside the city, and the location where he landed is at the foot of a hill outside the town.

After quickly changing back to the original monk's clothes and cassock, Tang Seng walked to a small town not far away.

The small town with hundreds of families looks very depressed. Almost all houses are built of adobe, with thatched roofs and dilapidated.

The street is very spacious, but there is no blue brick or stone in sight, and it is all paved with mud.

Such a road can imagine how muddy it will be when it is rainy.

The first impression given to people is that this town is just one word, poor, very poor.

Under Tang Seng's divine thoughts, he discovered that such impoverished small towns are not uncommon in the Great Xia Kingdom, and this is the case in common villages and towns.

Just like Zhaojiazhuang in Qingchuan County.

"Amitabha, may I ask the donor, in which direction is the capital?"

Tang Seng stepped on the loess streets of the small town, came to a farmer carrying a bamboo basket, saluted and asked.

"The capital? I don't know. To tell you the truth, old man, I've never walked a hundred miles away from the barren mountain town. How can I know the capital!"

The old man shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Can the benefactor help the poor monk find out!"

Hearing this, Tang Seng asked with a smile.

The old man hesitated for a while, then said: "The old man was going to pick some wild vegetables, since the master has a request, the old man will help you."

As he spoke, the old man looked around, and his eyes fell on a slightly better courtyard not far away.

"Except for Li Laosan, no one knows the location of the capital!"

After finishing speaking, the old man pointed towards the courtyard, and walked there first with the bamboo basket on his back.

Tang Seng shook his head slightly and followed slowly.

If he had known that places like the capital were so difficult to inquire about, he must have asked the third prince before he set off.

However, in order to keep it secret, he did not do so.

"Third brother, is third child there?"

The farmer's family is very simple. Although the old man asked loudly, he had already stepped into the yard and opened the door to enter the room.

"Old Wang, what's the matter?"

Tang Seng stopped outside the door when he heard a woman's voice coming from the room, the volume was loud and the tone was rough.

"The third child is not here?"

It was the old man's voice.

"Abducted! Arrested to serve as a soldier."

said the woman with a sigh.

"Isn't the third child lame? Do you want to catch him like this?"

the old man asked in surprise.

"What's so strange, people can arrest them if they want, we can't say no." The woman seemed to cry.

"By the way, Lao Wang, what are you looking for all the time? Isn't he a debt to you?"

The voice of the old man with a wry smile: "I'm so poor that this is the only one on my back. How can I be a creditor? I came to ask him about the direction of the capital. Don't feel bad about the old third's family. If the third is taken away like that, it's not a bad idea." Going to be a soldier is at most feeding a horse and doing some coolies, so don’t think too narrowly.”

"Really?"

When the old man said this, the woman burst into tears and laughed: "What's so narrow? If that's the case, it's too late to burn incense. At least there will be an extra place to eat. This is a great thing, just like his cripple, I’m afraid that I won’t be able to run away during the war, and I’ll be hacked to pieces.”

"The third one, do you really know the capital city?"

The old man did not continue to answer, but asked urgently.

"You're asking the right person. The third child told me that when he was begging for food, he traveled all over the world, and he hadn't been to any place. The capital is just to the north, and it was estimated that he would arrive there."

The woman's voice came out again.

Tang Seng shook his head in azimuth, the people in Daxia are too miserable, the people have lived like this, and the court is still arresting people.

"Eminent Monk, the capital is to the north, but if you go all the way there and want to get alms, you will probably starve to death. The old man has two elder sons here, so I will give them to you. I hope the Buddha can protect the old man from being taken away."

The door was pushed open, and the old man came out, fumbled for two copper coins from his pocket, and handed them to Tang Seng.

"Amitabha, Buddha will bless you!"

Tang Seng stretched out his hand to take it, and slapped it.

"I still have a vegetable dumpling here. If the monk doesn't mind it, I'll give it to you!"

Hearing the voice from outside, a bold-looking middle-aged woman poked her head out, said something, then turned around and took out a black vegetable dumpling.

Xu Shi saw that the monk's robe and cassock on Tang Seng's body were very high-grade, and the middle-aged woman hesitated when she took out the vegetable ball.

Can such a cleanly dressed monk be able to see his own fried dumplings?
Although, she still regards the vegetable dumpling as a treasure.

Most of them don't like it!

However, to her surprise, the monk, who was cleanly dressed and had an extraordinary temperament, actually took it, and immediately put it to his mouth and took a bite.

The middle-aged woman sighed secretly, it seems that the life of a monk is not easy, how hungry to this extent?
There is no strange smell in the mouth of the vegetable dumplings, but the taste is a bit astringent and slightly bitter.

Tang Seng swallowed hard, and finally swallowed the vegetable dumpling.

The common people are so poor that they eat such things, and those dignitaries are still fighting for power and profit, trying to start a war.

The anger in Tang Seng's heart burned instantly.

However, on the surface, he is still very calm.

After he finished eating the vegetable dumpling with a smile, he said to the old man and the middle-aged woman: "Thank you for your alms. You can return the money and food to the poor monk in such a difficult situation. The poor monk is very grateful. What wish do you have?"

"Wish, the old man's wish is to be able to have a full stomach!" The old man said with a wry smile.

The middle-aged woman's expression was also sour: "My wish is that the third child can come back safely and have a full meal together!"

Tang Seng knew that the person who took Li Laosan was definitely either the first prince or the second prince, and it must have nothing to do with the third prince.

I really have to take care of this matter!

"When was that benefactor Li taken away?" So Tang Seng asked.

"Only an hour later, Li Laosan and I went out to the town to dig wild vegetables. Who knew that we met a group of officers and soldiers, and they arrested Li Laosan without further explanation." The middle-aged woman said with a sad expression.

"That's good, poor monk, rescue Li benefactor now!"

When Tang Seng heard the words, he nodded slightly, and when he finished speaking, he flew up into the sky in a blink of an eye.

He no longer cared about being able to shock the world. At this time, he had already targeted a group of officers and soldiers, arresting people in a village thirty or forty miles away.

There were also more than a hundred civilians dressed as peasants who were taken into the team.

Among them was a man with bad legs.

Tang Seng guessed that this might be that Li Laosan.

(End of this chapter)