The 36th Jinping Mansion Lantern Viewing Encounter Rhinoceros
The four Tang monks and apprentices left Yuhua City, walked for five or six days, and entered a county town called Jinping Mansion outside Tianzhu. They walked through a few alleys, and suddenly saw a Ciyun Temple in front of them, Tang Seng and his apprentices walked into the temple, wanting to rest the horse, eat a meal, and then leave. The presiding monk heard that they were from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and hurriedly greeted them.
After eating fasting, Tang Seng urged the apprentices to go on the road early. The monks in the temple persuaded him: "In two days it will be the Lantern Festival, and it is not too late to leave after the Lantern Festival." It was difficult to resist the enthusiasm, and Tang Seng had no choice but to agree. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the monks in the temple invited the Tang monks and apprentices to go to the street to see the lanterns together, and the Tang monks and apprentices followed the monks in the temple to the city to enjoy the lanterns.
The city is brightly lit, and the sound of sheng flutes and songs is endless. When they came to the mouth of the Golden Lantern Bridge, they saw three golden lamps as big as a water tank hanging on the pillars, and the oil they lit had a very special aroma. When Tang Seng asked, he learned that the lamp was lit with precious crispy sesame oil, and the oil of the three lamps was worth more than 50,000 taels of silver, all of which were paid by the people of the house.
As he was talking, the sound of whirring wind suddenly sounded in mid-air, and the frightened people who watched the lights hurriedly hid and avoided everywhere. The monks all said, "The wind is coming, it's the Buddha who is watching the lantern, let's go back quickly!" ”
Tang Seng heard that he was going to stay and worship the Buddha, and in an instant, three Buddha bodies appeared in the wind, Tang Seng hurriedly knelt down to worship, and Sun Wukong saw that it was three monsters.
Before Sun Wukong could open his mouth, a gust of wind blew, and Tang Seng disappeared immediately. Zhu Bajie was so anxious to look for it, and Sha Seng also shouted everywhere. Sun Wukong said, "Brothers, don't call anymore, Master has been captured by the goblins!" The two of you and the other monks went back to the monastery to guard the luggage and horses, and I followed the wind! With that, he went straight away.
Sun Wukong chased until dawn, the wind suddenly stopped, Sun Wukong landed on a cliff, looking for the path, and saw four people driving three sheep over. Sun Wukong took a closer look with his fiery eyes, and it turned out that the four Gong Cao changed from the year, month, day, and hour, and they specially came to tell Wukong: This mountain is called Qinglong Mountain, and there is a Xuanying Cave on the mountain, where three goblins live.
Sun Wukong asked clearly that the big goblin is called the King of Bihan, the second goblin is called the King of Bixia, and the third goblin is called the King of Bi Dust, so he let the four gongcao leave. He turned around the col to look for the fairy's cave, and sure enough, he found it. Sun Wukong didn't want to venture in, so he stood at the gate and shouted: "Monster, hurry up and send my master out, or I will beat you all to death!" ”
The little demons hurriedly ran to the cave to report. The three demon kings each walked out of the cave with their weapons, and other large and small bull-headed ghosts followed left and right. Seeing this, Sun Wukong waved the golden hoop stick and hit it, and the three demon kings also brandished their weapons to fight. Fought until dusk, the dust king waved the flag, and a group of little demons surrounded Sun Wukong and beat him.
Sun Wukong didn't dare to fight anymore and jumped into the clouds. Back at Ciyun Temple, he carefully told Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng what had happened. The three brothers were afraid that the goblin would harm the master that night, so after dinner, taking advantage of the moonlight, they drove the auspicious clouds to the entrance of the Xuanying Cave. Sun Wukong asked the juniors to wait for a while, and he turned into a firefly and went into the cave to listen to the reality.
Sun Wukong flew in front of Tang Seng, showed his original appearance, used an unlocking method to help Tang Seng take off the handcuffs, and then led the master to walk lightly towards the outside of the cave. I didn't expect to meet a patrolling demon on the road. Sun Wukong killed two little demons with a stick, and one little demon escaped, and he shouted as he ran: "The hairy-faced monk got into the hole and killed people!" ”
When the three demon kings heard the shouting, they quickly got up and shouted, "Catch him!" Tang Seng was so frightened that his hands and feet were soft and he couldn't take a step. Sun Wukong was afraid of being surrounded, so he had to leave his master and kill outside the cave alone, saw Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng, and briefly recounted what happened. The three of them listened to the cave again, and there was no movement, worried that the demon king would hurt the master.
Zhu Bajie was in a hurry, picked up the nail rake and hit the stone gate, smashing the door to pieces. The demon king, who had just walked back, heard that the door of the cave had been smashed, so he was so angry that he turned around and killed him again. The two sides fought inseparably, and the king of Bihan gave an order, and the little demons swarmed up, tripped Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng, tied them up and put them into the cave. Sun Wukong jumped on the cloud and ran.
Sun Wukong left the Xuanying Cave and ran all the way to the nine-fold clouds to the heavenly realm to move the rescuers. He met Tai Bai Xing at the West Heavenly Gate. Tai Bai Xing listened to Sun Wukong's story, and said that the three goblins were rhinoceros spirits, and as long as the four wood birds went to the lower realm, they could subdue the three demons, and as he spoke, he took Sun Wukong to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and played the Jade Emperor.
The Jade Emperor sent Xu Tianshi and Sun Wukong to the Bullfighting Palace together, and asked the Four Wood Fowl Stars to descend to the mortal realm to subdue demons. The four wooden birds, Xingjiao Wood Jiao, Doumu Hedgehog, Kui Wood Wolf, and Jing Mu Qian received the imperial order, and they drove the clouds together with Sun Wukong to the sky above the Xuanying Cave of Qinglong Mountain. The Four Wood Fowl Star said, "Great Sage, you go to fight with those three goblins first, lure the goblins out, and then we will follow." ”
Sun Wukong shouted and cursed in front of the cave door. The three demon kings were so angry that they led the little demon out of the cave gate, set up a circle formation, and besieged Sun Wukong in the middle of the array. The four wooden birds came down from the sky, and each of them picked up his weapon and shouted, "Animals that have created evil are not allowed to do anything!" "As soon as the big and small demons saw the Four Wood Fowl Stars, they all showed their original appearance and ran all over the mountain.
The three demon kings also showed their original appearances, which turned out to be three rhinoceros spirits, and they kept fleeing in the northeast direction. Sun Wukong, Jing Mu Qian, and Jiao Mu Jiao chased after him. Doumu Rhino and Kui Wood Wolf captured those cattle spirits alive in the valley and on the mountain, beat them to death, and then went into the cave to rescue Tang Seng, Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng.
The two fowl stars are going to help Sun Wukong capture the demon king. After Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng sent them away, they returned to the cave to find a load of cloth, silk, gold and silver, moved it outside the cave, and asked the master to sit firmly on the cliff, and then Zhu Bajie set a fire and burned the Xuanying Cave to ashes. The three of them slowly found their way back to Tsz Yun Temple.
Doumu Hedgehog and Kui Wood Wolf drove the clouds until they chased to the Western Sea, and saw Sun Wukong shouting on the sea from a distance, so they descended the clouds. It turned out that the goblins had already gobled into the water, and Jing Mu Qian and Jiaomu Jiao also chased them into the water, and Sun Wukong stayed on the water to guard them to prevent them from escaping. At this time, Sun Wukong saw that there were helpers, so he asked them to intercept them on the sea, recited a water avoidance spell, and went to the bottom of the sea to help fight.
Sun Wukong came to the bottom of the sea and saw Jing Mu Qian and Jiaomu Jiao fighting with the three demons, so he immediately jumped over to help. The three demons were already very tired, and when they saw Sun Wukong coming, they were so frightened that they fled towards the center of the sea again. Seeing this, the Yaksha hurriedly returned to the Crystal Palace to report to the Dragon King. The old dragon king ordered the prince of Moang to lead his soldiers to help.
Prince Moang led the turtle generals and shrimp soldiers and crab soldiers out of the Crystal Palace, blocking the rhinoceros spirit's way. The rhinoceros spirit was flanked back and forth, and fled in all directions. The dusty man was knocked to the ground by the soldiers led by Prince Moang, and his four hooves were tied together; At this time, Jing Mu Qian appeared in anger and bit off Bi Han's neck; Jiaomu Jiao also grabbed the heat at the same time.
They came to the Crystal Palace and sawed off the horns to ward off the cold, Sun Wukong took it with him, and the four wood birds and stars bet on the heat and dust, bid farewell to the Dragon King, and drove back to Jinping Mansion in the clouds. Sun Wukong shouted in the air, telling the soldiers and civilians that the gods had subdued the rhinoceros spirit that had been doing evil for many years, and that from now on they would never offer crispy sesame oil to the golden lamp.
Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng also jumped into the clouds when they heard Sun Wukong's shout, saying, "Push these two monsters down, let the local soldiers and civilians come to see, and the four star monarchs will also go down to earth." So the four star monarchs stepped on a cluster of colorful clouds and landed on the top of the mansion, and saw the officials, soldiers and civilians of the prefecture and county, hurriedly set up incense tables, and bowed to the gods.
Zhu Bajie's temperament came up, took a ring knife, cut off the heads of dust and heat, and sawed off four horns. Sun Wukong said, "Four star officials, please take these four rhino horns to the upper realm, pay tribute to the Jade Emperor, and go back to pay the decree!" He left one of the two rhino horns he had brought with him in the mansion, and the other was ready to be taken to Lingshan to worship the Buddha.
The four-star monarch took the rhinoceros horn, said goodbye to Sun Wukong, and rode back to the heavenly palace on the colorful clouds. According to Sun Wukong's meaning, the county officials of Jinping Mansion posted a notice, saying that they were not allowed to light the golden lamp again in the next year, and then built a four-star demon temple, and established a shrine for the four Tang monks and apprentices, set up a stone tablet and engraved words, and passed it on to future generations.