Film & TV: Public Enemy of Justice

"Your Majesty, we've been talking for so long, and our mouths are dry. It's almost noon now, so please have someone prepare some vegetarian food for us. We're starving," Lin Yaoxie said to the Tang Emperor.

"That's right, my stomach has been protesting for a while now. Your Majesty, don't just listen to stories without giving us food!" Pigsy chimed in.

"Lin Yaoxie, Bajie, how dare you be so rude! How could you speak to His Majesty like that?" Tang Sanzang quickly reprimanded Lin Yaoxie and Zhu Bajie after hearing their words, as he was genuinely afraid of displeasing the emperor.

His disciples were so outspoken; luckily, he did not agree to the Tang emperor's request to keep them in the palace.

"Elder Tang, you are still too harsh on them. It is my fault. I was so focused on hearing your stories from your journey to the West that I forgot about the time. I will have someone prepare food for you now. You should go back to your rooms and rest." The Tang Emperor said to Tang Sanzang after hearing his words.

So Lin Yaoxie and his companions took Tang Seng back to his room. They didn't go back to their own rooms, but instead sat on the bed with Tang Seng.

"Master, you said that the Tang Emperor makes us tell him stories from our journey to the West every day, and he won't let us leave. What does he mean by that?" Lin Yaoxie couldn't help but ask Tang Seng.

"You don't want to stay here anymore? We'll leave in a few days. His Majesty is ordering people to build a temple for us. Until the temple is completed, we'll stay here temporarily. If you get bored, go for a stroll in the streets. But Bajie, you must keep your ears covered so as not to frighten the people."

When Pigsy heard Tang Sanzang call his name and say that he was scary, he immediately became unhappy.

"Master, I don't want to either, but this is what I look like. Otherwise, I'll go back to my Gao Village and stop scaring you all here," Pigsy said unhappily.

“Bajie, you’re talking nonsense again. Your master is just trying to be helpful and doesn’t mean any harm. You’re hurting your master’s feelings by talking like this,” Lin Yaoxie said to Zhu Bajie immediately after hearing his words.

He had clearly seen the look of self-reproach on Tang Sanzang's face, so he quickly stopped him from saying anything more, lest the fool say something else. Fortunately, Zhu Bajie didn't say anything else.

Chapter 166 Taking to the Streets

As they were talking, they suddenly heard someone knocking on their door. It turned out that a maid from the palace had brought them food.

"Master, let's eat quickly. We've been starving for so long. But they're quite efficient." Lin Yaoxie joked with the group, trying to ease the awkward atmosphere.

Fortunately, everyone was hungry, and when they saw the food arrive, they quickly went to eat. Pigsy was also really hungry, and when he saw the food, he stopped talking and quickly went to eat.

After they finished eating, they rested for a while. Lin Yaoxie also felt bored, so he called a few people and decided to go for a walk in the street.

"Senior Brother, you all go ahead, I won't go. I'll stay here and take care of Master," Sha Wujing said to Lin Yaoxie.

Lin Yaoxie didn't say anything when he heard Sha Wujing say that. Anyway, Tang Sanzang was in no danger in the palace, so leaving one person behind was fine. So he said goodbye to Sha Wujing and took Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie to Chang'an Street.

They arrived on the street and saw a bustling scene. The street was teeming with people, and there were vendors selling all sorts of snacks, trinkets, and even...

Acrobat.

"As expected, Chang'an Street is the most bustling place, just like the one I saw on TV." Lin Yaoxie couldn't help but sigh inwardly as he looked at the scene.

"Senior Brother, Senior Brother, what are you thinking about? I've called you several times and you haven't answered. Let's go see those acrobats up ahead, they look really fun," Sun Wukong asked Lin Yaoxie, who was lost in thought.

"It's nothing. Weren't we going to see the acrobatics? Let's hurry up and come back as soon as possible," Lin Yaoxie said to Sun Wukong after regaining his senses.

Soon they arrived at the acrobatic performance area. They pushed through the crowd to the front and saw a child standing on a stool that was obviously very high and flimsy. The child's legs were shaking.

But the child remained silent, as if he were terrified.

With a crash, the chair collapsed, and the little girl was thrown off. Seeing this, Lin Yaoxie immediately jumped up and caught the child from the air, preventing her from falling to the ground and suffering serious injuries.

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"You brat, did you steal something again? That's why the chair couldn't support your weight and fell over. Now the acrobatic performance is ruined. Let's see how we're going to make money." The adult with the little girl said, reaching for a whip to lash her.

"I didn't steal any food. I haven't eaten for three days. I really don't know why that chair fell over. Please, please don't hit me anymore." The little girl cried as she hid behind Lin Yaoxie.

"What's wrong with you? This little girl almost fell to the ground, and instead of asking if she was hurt, you were thinking about hitting her and making money," Lin Yaoxie said to the man.

"What's it to you? I'm disciplining my own daughter, and nobody can interfere. He messed up the acrobatic performance, so he has to be punished." As he spoke, the man tried to pull the little girl out from behind Lin Yaoxie.

But Lin Yaoxie wouldn't let him catch the little girl, and kept pulling her into his arms.

"He's not my father! Don't let him take me away!" the little girl cried as she spoke to Lin Yaoxie.

Chapter 167 Seeing Injustice

Hearing the little girl say that, Lin Yaoxie was even less likely to let the man take the little girl away.

"Don't cry, tell me, what exactly happened?" Lin Yaoxie squatted down and asked the little girl.

"Uncle, my family is poor. My father and mother had to sell me to this man in order to treat my younger brother's illness. So this man made me perform acrobatics with him. If I didn't perform well, he wouldn't give me food. Moreover, '530' also gambles a lot. When he loses, he takes it out on me. He has gambled away all our money." The little girl said to Lin Yaoxie while pulling up her sleeve.

Lin Yaoxie looked at the little girl's arms and saw that they were covered in whip marks, clearly indicating that this man often beat the little girl.

"Don't be afraid, little sister, your uncle will teach this bad guy a lesson for you." Lin Yaoxie said as he walked towards the man.

The man had just seen Lin Yaoxie go up to save the little girl, and seeing the aura of "keep away" emanating from Lin Yaoxie, he knew that this man was not to be trifled with, so he immediately backed down.

"Young hero, spare my life! I promise I will never hit him again. Please have mercy!" The man said, and knelt down on the ground with a thud, right in front of Lin Yaoxie.

Seeing the man's condition, Lin Yaoxie knew that he couldn't withstand her punches and kicks, so she decided to let him go as long as he stopped hitting the little girl.

So Lin Yaoxie warned the man a few more times and then thought of leaving, since they had been out for too long. But as soon as Lin Yaoxie turned around, he felt someone tugging at his clothes. He turned around and saw the little girl.

"Is there anything else?" Lin Yaoxie asked the little girl.

"Uncle, please take me with you. If you leave, he'll beat me even more when he gets back, and he'll make sure I don't eat for a long time. Please, please take me with you!" the little girl pleaded with Lin Yaoxie.

Lin Yaoxie was now in a dilemma. Not to mention that he was practically a monk following Tang Sanzang, there was no reason for him to bring a child with him. Besides, he would definitely leave this place sooner or later, so what would happen to the girl then?

But seeing how genuinely terrified the girl was of the man, he struggled with his decision and ultimately agreed to take her away.

"Eldest brother, where should we settle this child after we take him away?" Sun Wukong reminded Lin Yaoxie.

"I was just thinking about this too. If all else fails, we can leave him in the palace, or let him stay in the temple once it's built. That's better than having this beast by his side," Lin Yaoxie explained to Sun Wukong.

After Lin Yaoxie finished speaking, he was about to leave with the little girl.

"Hey? I bought this child with my own money. You can't just take him away like this. If you take him away, I'll have no source of income and he'll definitely starve to death!" The man said to Lin Yaoxie and his group as they were about to leave.

Lin Yaoxie glared at the man after hearing what he said, and the man immediately fell silent. However, he was still unwilling to let the little girl be taken away by them, so he risked his life to block their way.

"What else do you want?" Lin Yaoxie said impatiently to the man, clearly on the verge of exploding in anger.

Chapter 168 Rescuing the Little Girl

"I can give him to you, you just need to give me five taels of silver. I bought him for ten taels of silver, you just need to give me half." At this moment, the man said to Lin Yaoxie and the others with trembling courage.

Lin Yaoxie didn't want to waste any more words with him. He knew that people like this wouldn't leave unless he gave them money, so he turned to look at Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong immediately understood Lin Yaoxie's meaning. He took out five taels of silver from his clothes and threw it in front of the man. The man took the silver and ran away immediately, without even taking his props with him.

Lin Yaoxie and his companions went to the market today intending to buy some novelties for Tang Seng to try, but they ended up bringing back a child instead of buying anything. He needs to think about how to explain this to Tang Seng later.

"Let's go, I'll take you back." Lin Yaoxie turned to the little girl and said, so the three grown men took the little girl back to the palace.

Upon returning to the palace, they did not immediately go to see the Tang Emperor, but instead took the little girl directly to find Tang Sanzang. Tang Sanzang was greatly startled to see Lin Yaoxie and his companions return with a child.

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"Lin Yaoxie, didn't you go to the street? Why did you bring a child back?" Tang Seng asked the group in surprise.

“Oh, Master, don’t even mention it. We were planning to go to the market today to buy some novelties for you to try, but then we saw acrobatic performances, and our eldest brother insisted on intervening, so he brought the little girl back with him,” Pigsy chimed in.

Tang Sanzang didn't understand what Zhu Bajie was saying, so he asked Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong then explained the whole story to Tang Sanzang in detail, and Tang Sanzang finally understood.

"Child, come here to your master. Bajie, go and get her some food." Tang Sanzang said to Zhu Bajie after hearing this, feeling sorry for the child.

The child, after all, was someone who often performed acrobatics on the street and was not afraid of strangers at all. When he heard Tang Sanzang call him, he came to Tang Sanzang's side.

Next, Tang Sanzang asked her about her age and some other things. Just as the two finished talking, Zhu Bajie returned with the food, and the little girl began to wolf it down.

"Eat slowly, no one will take it from you, and you won't go hungry anymore," Tang Sanzang said to the little girl as he watched her eat.

After the little girl finished eating, Tang Sanzang took her to the Tang Emperor's palace. The Tang Emperor was initially surprised to see Tang Sanzang with a child, so Tang Sanzang told him about the child's origins again.

"I'm thinking of taking this child to the temple once it's finished, so that at least she won't have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of her life," Tang Sanzang said to the Tang Emperor.

"I think we should do this. This child is pitiful. Since you have met, it must be fate. And you have made such a great contribution to the Tang Dynasty. I will take her in as your goddaughter for your sake. Let her stay in the palace from now on. It is much better than letting her stay with you in the temple." The Tang Emperor said to Tang Sanzang.

It seems that the Tang emperor was a very kind-hearted person. Not only did he not look down on the girl because of her lowly status, he even wanted to take her in as his goddaughter.

"Then I will thank Your Majesty on behalf of the child," Tang Sanzang said to the Tang Emperor.

Chapter 169 Morning Morning

"Thank you, Your Majesty." When the little girl heard Tang Sanzang say this to the Tang Emperor, she quickly replied to him as well. She was very endearing and not afraid of people at all.

"I have done a good deed for the people of our Great Tang Dynasty," the Tang emperor continued.

Soon, it got dark again, so the group went to rest. The Tang Emperor prepared a separate room for the little girl, since men and women should be kept separate and she couldn't sleep in the same room as Tang Sanzang and the others.

The next day at daybreak, the Tang emperor summoned Tang Sanzang and his companions again, saying he wanted to hear more of their stories from their journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

"Master, I must say, it's really interesting that the Tang Emperor doesn't hold court every day and just listens to our stories." Lin Yaoxie said to Tang Seng.

"Lin Yaoxie, how dare you be so rude! You can't speak of His Majesty like that. Be careful, walls have ears! His Majesty must have summoned us after the morning court session," Tang Sanzang explained to Lin Yaoxie on behalf of the Tang Emperor.

In fact, the Tang emperor did summon them after the morning court session. Besides handling state affairs, he also spent his time strolling with his concubines in the imperial garden.

But now that Tang Sanzang and his companions have returned, he finds listening to their stories much more interesting than strolling around the Imperial Garden, and it also saves him from having to deal with the concubines' complaints about others in front of him every day.

"Elder Tang, please don't find me troublesome. I just want to hear more about your stories from your journey to the West," the Tang Emperor said to them upon their arrival.

"Amitabha Buddha, this humble monk thanks Your Majesty for your kindness. How could I possibly dislike Your Majesty? I will now have my disciples continue telling you the stories of the journey to the West," Tang Sanzang said to the Tang Emperor.

On this day, the master and his disciples arrived in another country—Japan.

"Master, we've arrived in Japan! We'll soon reach the Western Paradise!" Lin Yaoxie said happily to Tang Sanzang as he looked at the country before him. They were finally about to achieve their goal.

"What are these Japanese people saying? I can't understand them at all," Tang Sanzang asked Lin Yaoxie.

It's alright, Master. Just tell me what you need. I know a little Japanese, so communicating with them shouldn't be a problem. Let's find an inn first.

"Let's take a rest," Lin Yaoxie said to Tang Sanzang.

“Yes, Master, look how late it is. Let’s find an inn to rest for the night before we continue. Besides, the weather is about to change; there might be a heavy rainstorm tonight!” Sun Wukong advised Tang Sanzang after hearing what Lin Yaoxie said to him.

They were afraid that Tang Sanzang would be too busy rushing to reach the Western Paradise and end up exhausting himself.

When Tang Sanzang saw that Lin Yaoxie and Sun Wukong were both trying to persuade him, he knew that he absolutely had to rest here today, so he agreed.

So they continued walking forward (Li Hao's), looking for an inn. Suddenly, they saw a lot of delicious food ahead. As soon as Pigsy saw the food, he ran forward as fast as he could, as if he didn't care about his life.

“Master, are you hungry? Let’s go get something to eat.” Lin Yaoxie asked Tang Seng.

Tang Seng was about to say he wasn't hungry, but his stomach rumbled loudly. Tang Seng's face immediately turned red, and he covered his face as he followed Lin Yaoxie and the others to the stall.

Chapter 170 Free Meal

But when they arrived at the stall, they didn't see the stall owner, only Pigsy eating there.

"Lin Yaoxie, look, no one's watching this stall. Is it closed for business? Let's hurry up and leave," Tang Seng asked worriedly.

"Oh, master, maybe the stall owner just had something come up and went out temporarily. We can just pay him when he comes back. Anyway, there are so many of us, we can't just run away."