The 37th Tianzhu Kingdom recruits relatives to meet the Jade Rabbit

Before dawn the next day, while the monks in the temple were still sleeping, Tang monks and apprentices quietly got up to pack their luggage, opened the mountain gate, and found their way to go. They slept in the open and walked for half a month. One evening, when their master and apprentice were preparing to stay, they saw a large temple in front of them, and on the mountain gate were written several golden characters of Douda: "Bujin Temple".

Under the mountain gate, it was crowded with people carrying burdens, carts, backpacks, and all kinds of pedestrians. As soon as they saw Tang Seng and his apprentices coming, they immediately gave way to the front of the King Kong Temple. An old monk came out of it to greet him, Tang Seng hurriedly gave a salute and reported his origin, and after the old monk listened, he said: "Please go to the room to drink tea and eat." ”

Tang Seng asked the old monk: "Why are there so many merchants in front of the mountain gate?" The old monk replied, "At the foot of the Baijiao Mountain in front, there is a rooster pass, and in recent years, centipedes have often appeared, blocking the road and biting pedestrians. Only when the rooster crows at dawn and the centipede dodges that pedestrians dare to pass the test. At this time, the old monk invited the four of them to eat first.

After the meal was finished, the first quarter moon rose, and Tang Seng asked Sun Wukong to accompany him for a walk in the moonlight. At this time, the head of the courtyard came to visit Tang Seng accompanied by a little monk. After they talked for a while, the head of the courtyard suggested that Tang Seng go to see the place where he had invited the Buddha to give lectures, and Tang Seng and Sun Wukong happily agreed. The master of the courtyard asked the little monk to open the back door, and the three of them walked in.

Walking to the stone platform, Tang Seng felt a little tired, so he sat down to rest. Suddenly, I heard a delicate woman's cry. Tang Seng asked, "Who is crying?" The master of the courtyard called the little monk to stand outside the door, and then knelt down in front of Tang Seng. Tang Seng hurriedly picked him up and asked, "Why does the old courtyard master make this big gift?" ”

Only then did the master explain the reason for the matter.

On the night of last year, the old owner suddenly heard a gust of wind, followed by a sad cry. So the old man found the backyard and saw a woman sitting outside the door, so he asked her where she came from.

The woman said, "I am the princess of Tianzhu Kingdom, and I am enjoying the flowers in the moonlight, and I have been blown here by the wind."

The owner couldn't tell the truth from the fake, so he locked her in an empty room.

The owner of the temple was afraid that the girl would be inconvenient in the temple, so he built the empty house with bricks, leaving only a small hole that could be used to deliver food. When the monks came to ask, the master lied and said, "This is a monster, and I have tied it up." The woman fully understood what the master meant, so she pretended to be crazy and stupid, and talked some nonsense during the day, and only dared to think about her father and mother in the dead of night, and cried secretly.

The master of the courtyard went into the city to inquire several times, and said that the princess was not lost in the palace. When the master of the courtyard said this, he bowed down to Tang Seng again and said, "Now fortunately, the Zen master has come to this place, hoping to see the king explain the situation and help the kind and good people." Tang Seng and Sun Wukong both expressed their willingness to do this. By this time it was almost dawn, and the three of them went to their rooms to rest.

The next day, when the rooster crowed, the merchants under the mountain gate began to busily light the lamps and cook. Tang Seng and his apprentices also hurriedly got up to pack their luggage. After breakfast, I thanked the monks in the temple and left on the road. Together with the merchants, they arrived in front of the Jiming Pass. At this time, it was almost dawn, but everyone still felt that the cold wind was blowing, and the yin qi was not dispersed, which made people feel frightened.

They walked into the imperial city of Tianzhu Kingdom, saw a post house, and walked in. The officials of the post house asked Tang Seng about his origin and whereabouts. When he heard that Tang Seng was going to meet the king to exchange papers, he told them: "You have come just in time, today the princess is throwing hydrangeas on the cross street to attract horses, and the king is still waiting on the palace, and has not retreated!" ”

Sun Wukong accompanied Tang Seng to the palace to exchange documents. When I got out of the post house, I saw that the streets and alleys were all crowded with people, noisily watching the princess throw hydrangeas. Sun Wukong wanted to follow to see it, but Tang Seng refused, so Wukong said: "When you go to the Cai Lou, you can see the princess, and you can tell the truth from the fake." Besides, the emperor is waiting for the good news of the princess, how can he care about the affairs of the court? ”

Tang Seng agreed. The two of them crowded to the front of the Cai Lou with the crowd. It turned out that this princess was a goblin change, she knew that Tang Seng must have passed through Tianzhu Country to learn scriptures, so she used spells to drive away the real princess, and hypothesized that she wanted to throw hydrangea to recruit horses, and wanted to marry Tang Seng, to take away the Yuanyang true qi in Tang Seng's body, and practice Taoism to become an immortal. She had been waiting for Tang Seng for a long time.

When the fake princess saw Tang Seng coming to the Cai Lou, she threw the hydrangea and landed on Tang Seng's head without bias or obliqueness. The palace maids upstairs all shouted: "It's a monk!" "Those grandchildren who came to pick up the hydrangea rushed up and wanted to grab the hydrangea. Sun Wukong shouted, and suddenly grew into a giant more than three feet tall, and everyone scattered in fright.

Sun Wukong returned to his original appearance. When he saw the palace maids and eunuchs coming to pay homage to Tang Seng, he said, "Welcome the nobles to the palace to congratulate you." Tang Seng complained that Sun Wukong should not play tricks on the master. Sun Wukong whispered a few words on Tang Seng's ear, and finally said: "This trick is called the demon subjugation plan according to marriage." You just need to make it clear to the king and summon the apprentices into the palace, and I will naturally have a way to do it then." ”

Tang Seng was embraced by the palace maids and eunuchs, and hurriedly told the king his origin, asking the king to change Guan Wen for him and let him go to the west to learn scriptures. The king also wanted to release Tang Seng, but the fake princess just didn't agree. The king had no choice but to pass down the holy decree and choose a good day to hold a wedding ceremony for the princess and Tang Seng and the two of them.

Tang Seng had no choice, remembered Sun Wukong's words, and kowtowed to the king: "My three apprentices are still in the post house, I hope Your Majesty will call them over, and change the official documents, I will tell them a few more words, let them go to learn the scriptures as soon as possible." The king agreed to Tang Seng's initiation, and ordered the chamberlain to call Sun Wukong and the three of them to the palace.

After a while, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng came to the Golden Palace, and the king saw that the three of them were ugly, and he was very scared, so he had the courage to let them report their origins. After the three of them reported the origins of the Monkey King, the Marshal of the Canopy, and the General of the Rolling Blinds, the king hurriedly got down from the dragon bed and called them immortal relatives.

The king ordered the chauffeur to clean the pavilions and pavilions of the royal garden, and to invite the steed and the three high-ranking disciples to rest. As soon as Tang Seng arrived at the residence in the imperial garden, he saw that there was no one next to him, so he reproached Sun Wukong and said, "What should I do if I provoke such a thing?" Sun Wukong said, "The king's face has a dark color, but he hasn't seen the princess yet, so he doesn't know if it's true or not?" ”

After being happy for several days, the wedding day soon came. The king was overjoyed, and he was about to go to the imperial garden to visit the horses, when the eunuch of the harem hurriedly came to him and said, "The lady of the main palace invites the emperor to come over." The king immediately rushed to Zhaoyang Palace. It turned out that the fake princess was afraid to see Sun Wukong at the wedding and see through her original form, so she said that she was afraid that they would be ugly and asked the king to send them away.

Sun Wukong had thought of it a long time ago, so when the driving officer and the ceremonial department came to invite them, they packed their luggage and horses, and walked all the way to the bottom of the steps of the palace. The king asked Sun Wukong and the three of them to come to him and said, "Bring your Guan Wen, I will hand over the Guan Yin and Gai Bao Hua to you, and I have prepared a lot of travel expenses to send you on the road to Lingshan to see the True Buddha as soon as possible." ”

Sun Wukong didn't want the gold and silver, he just took Guan Wen, turned around and was about to leave, so frightened that Tang Seng hurriedly grabbed Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong squeezed his master's palm and gave him another look. Although Tang Seng was not at ease, he had no choice but to let go of his hand. The three of them walked to His Royal Highness Jin, and Zhu Bajie kept looking back at the master and asked Wukong, "Are we really leaving?" ”

Sun Wukong didn't say a word, took Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng to the post house, and said, "You two are waiting here, don't go out, don't talk to me, I'm going to protect Master." After saying that, he plucked a hair and turned into a fake Wukong to stay in the post house, and he turned into a bee and flew back to the Golden Palace to find the master.

Sun Wukong fell on the brim of Tang Seng's hat and called softly: "Master, I'm back." When Tang Seng heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. Not long after, the palace official came to invite Tang Seng to meet his relatives. The king was very happy, so he took the horse to the princess's quarters, so that Tang Seng and the princess could meet each other. Sun Wukong struck Tang Seng's hat brim and followed inside.

As soon as the king entered the palace, the mother and the princess hurried out to greet him. Sun Wukong saw that the princess had a slight demonic aura on the top of her head, but it was not so vicious, so he crawled close to Tang Seng's ear and whispered: "Master, the princess is a fake, wait for me to show up and catch this goblin." Tang Seng hurriedly said, "No." Don't frighten the king and queen. ”

Of course, Sun Wukong couldn't listen to it, he shouted, showed his original appearance, grabbed the fake princess and scolded loudly: "Monster! You are here to make the fake come true and enjoy the glory and wealth, and you don't know how to be satisfied, and you actually deceived my master to destroy his pure yang true qi! Suddenly, the king, the concubines, and the palace maids were so frightened that they cried and screamed together, hid in Tibet, and became a mess.

The goblin saw that Sun Wukong had seen through it, broke free from Sun Wukong's hand, threw off some of the ornaments on his body, ran to the land temple in the imperial garden, and took out a short stick to beat Sun Wukong. The two of them fought from the ground to the air, frightening the people of the city, civil and military officials. Tang Seng told the king that this princess was a fake.

Sun Wukong and the goblin fought for a long time and couldn't tell the winner, so he threw the golden hoop stick up, and shouted "change", the golden hoop stick changed to ten, ten to hundred, and a hundred to thousand, and it was like a python in mid-air and kept swimming, beating around the goblin. The goblin was in a hurry, and she turned into a breeze and fled towards the ninefold clouds. Sun Wukong took back the golden hoop stick and chased after the goblin.

Sun Wukong's somersault cloud is faster than the goblin, and he rushes in front of the goblin to block her way. The goblin and the Monkey King fought again, and they fought for more than a dozen rounds. The goblin wanted to slip away, so he shook his body, turned into a golden light, and fled in the direction of due south. Sun Wukong chased to the front of a big mountain, and the goblin collected the golden light, so he couldn't find her.

Sun Wukong was afraid that after the goblin got out, he would return to Tianzhu Kingdom to hurt his master, so he saw the shape of the mountain clearly, drove back to Tianzhu Kingdom on the clouds, and landed in the palace. When he saw that his master was safe and sound, he went back to the post house and called Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng and asked them to protect his master, and then he turned over the somersault cloud and went back to the mountains to look for the goblin.

Sun Wukong came to the front of the mountain, and after looking for a long time and found no trace of the goblin, he recited the mantra, called the land and the mountain gods, and asked them if there were any goblins on the mountain. The two immortals told Wukong that this was Mao Ying Mountain, and there were only three rabbit holes on the mountain, and there were no goblins. Sun Wukong asked the two immortals to take him to the three rabbit holes to find it.

They went all the way to the top of the hill and found a large hole, which they blocked with two large stones. Sun Wukong took out the golden hoop stick and smashed the stone blocking the door, and when he saw it, the goblin was indeed hiding in the hole. The goblin jumped out violently, and while fighting Sun Wukong, he scolded the land and the mountain god and said, "Dead old man, who told you to bring him?" I'll settle accounts with you later. ”

They fought for more than a dozen rounds, and the goblin couldn't hold it anymore, and Sun Wukong was about to hit him with a stick, when he suddenly heard someone shouting in the nine-fold sky: "Great Sage, please be merciful with the stick, don't kill her." Sun Wukong looked back, and it turned out that Taiyin Xingjun and Fairy Chang'e were here. It turned out that this goblin was actually the jade rabbit who pounded the immortal medicine in the Guanghan Palace.

Taiyin Xingjun told Sun Wukong that the princess of Tianzhu Kingdom was originally a Su'e in the Moon Palace, and she was reincarnated in the lower realm because she missed mortal dust. She once slapped Jade Rabbit, who held a grudge and threw Su'e into the wilderness to suffer last year. Sun Wukong hated the Jade Rabbit and almost destroyed the master's Yuanyang, and raised a stick to fight, Taiyin Xingjun kept begging him for mercy, and Sun Wukong had to reluctantly agree.

Sun Wukong said, "It's okay to spare her, but you have to let her show her original form and go to Tianzhu Kingdom to let the king see it." Taiyin Xingjun pointed at the jade rabbit with his hand at that time, and the jade rabbit showed its original form. Sun Wukong was very happy to see it, he took Taiyin Xingjun, Chang'e Fairy and Jade Rabbit to ride the bright stars and moon, drive colorful auspicious clouds, and go to Tianzhu Kingdom.

The king and Tang Seng were all waiting for Sun Wukong to come back from catching demons in the imperial garden, and suddenly looked up and saw a beautiful colorful glow in the south sky, and heard Sun Wukong shouting loudly in the air: "Your Majesty King Tianzhu, you all come and see, these two immortals are Taiyin Xingjun and Chang'e Fairy, and this jade rabbit is the fake princess who changed after driving away the real princess." ”

When everyone saw it, they hurriedly knelt down and bowed to the night sky. Sun Wukong landed on the cloud head and returned to the front of the Golden Temple. Taiyin Xingjun and Fairy Chang'e took the jade rabbit back to the Moon Palace. The king thanked Wukong and asked him, "Where is my true princess now?" Sun Wukong said, "Your true princess is now in the Bujin Monastery." Wait until tomorrow, and I'll take you back to find the real princess. ”

Early the next morning, the king issued a holy decree: "The east and west palaces guard the palace, and the prince guards the country, and I want to lead the civil and military officials and four monks to Bujin Temple with the main palace Niangniang to welcome the princess back." It didn't take long for the emperor and them to come to the Bujin Temple, and the master of the courtyard took the king to the dilapidated house in the backyard. When the princess saw someone coming, she pretended to be crazy again.

The king ordered the master of the courtyard to open the door, and the queen recognized that it was the princess who was locked inside, and took no care of the filth on her body, so she put her arms around the princess and began to cry. After the king ordered the palace maid to bathe the princess and change her clothes, he first thanked the Tang monk and apprentice for saving his life, and then thanked the master of the courtyard for his support.

After the king returned to the palace, he set up a banquet to thank the Tang monks and apprentices, and also painted portraits for them, Sun Wukong said: "Hey, no need, there are some centipedes in the hundred-foot mountain of Bujin Temple recently blocking the road and hurting people, if the king can choose a thousand roosters to put on the mountain, eat centipedes, convenient for merchants, this is not a hundred times stronger than the portrait offering?" ”

The king was very pleased, and at that time he ordered a thousand large roosters to be put in the mountains, and when the centipedes saw the roosters, they all became straight sticks, and let the chickens eat them. In just one day, all the centipedes of Baijiao Mountain were eaten by roosters. The king changed the name of Baijiao Mountain to Baohua Mountain.

The next day, the king called the painter, painted the faces of the Tang monks and apprentices, and enshrined them on the Huayi Pavilion. He also asked the princess to dress neatly and come out to thank the Tang monk and apprentice for their rescue. Tang Seng said goodbye, and the king was going to the west to learn scriptures again. The king let Tang Seng get into his car and sent officials to give them a long journey, and the queen, concubines and subjects came to thank them.