The 38th Kou Yuan treats the Holy Tang monk well

The four Tang monks and apprentices went to bed late and got up early, and after nearly 14 years, they came to Diling County in Tongtai Mansion on this day. There is a big family in the county, the head of the household is surnamed Kou Minghong, and people call him Kou Yuanwai. This clerk was a good man and often gave alms to the monks. He heard that Tang Seng and his apprentices were from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and he was very happy, and he must stay with Tang Seng and them for a few more days.

Tang Seng was anxious to learn the scriptures and spent his days in the house of the Kou Yuan. Seeing that he couldn't keep it, he invited relatives, friends, neighbors, villagers and others, and invited some monks, Taoist priests, and drummers to send Tang monks and apprentices on the road. This scene happened to be seen by a group of robbers in the county, and they decided to take advantage of the dark and rainy sky to rob Kou's house.

That night, the gang of robbers armed with short knives, sticks and other weapons, torches, pine resin, and lanterns smashed open the door of Kou's house. They rummaged through the cabinets, lifted the tables and smashed the chairs, and not only robbed all the gold and silver treasures, but also swept away the silk and clothing, and dragged the robber's leader outside, begging him to leave a few clothes to protect him from the cold, but the robbers kicked him to death at the door.

After the robbers left, the men, women and children of the Kou family hugged the corpse of the Kou family and cried. Mrs. Kou thought that this incident was caused by Tang Seng and his apprentices, so she was very angry, and said to her two sons: "Last night, I hid under the bed, and saw that it was Tang Seng who held the fire, Zhu Bajie who held the knife, Sha Seng who carried gold and silver, and Sun Wukong who killed your father.

The two sons wrote a petition and sued the government.

That night, Tang monks and apprentices took shelter from the rain in a dilapidated house, and only continued to walk west after dawn. It happened that the gang of robbers last night also fled westward, and when they saw Tang Seng and his apprentices from a distance, they thought that the Kou family must have given them a lot of silver taels, so they decided to take the things and horses together, so they took the murder weapon in their hands, ran to the road, and stood in a row.

When Tang Seng saw it, he was frightened, Sha Seng and Bajie didn't know what to do, Wukong smiled and went up and asked, "Hehe, what are you doing?" The robber said, "Uncle is going to buy money for the road." Wukong pretended to be very scared and said, "The four of us, I am in charge of the accounts, and if you let the three of them go, I will give you all the money." ”

The robbers believed it and made a way to let Tang Seng, Bajie, and Sha Seng pass, Wukong saw them passing, so he lowered his head and opened the baggage, took the opportunity to grab a handful of soil, recited a spell, threw it up, and shouted "Stop" The robbers immediately gritted their teeth and glared, stood straight, unable to move. It turned out that Goku used the immobilization method.

Wukong called back the master and the junior brother, plucked some hairs into ropes, and distributed them to Bajie. The two men tied up all the robbers, and then recited a mantra to wake the robbers up. Wukong interrogated on the spot with weapons in hand, and the robbers didn't dare not answer, so they recruited all the things that happened to rob the robbers last night.

Tang Seng instructed his apprentices to take the robbers' stolen goods and return them to the Kou family. Wukong snatched the stolen goods, put some of them on the horse, and the rest were wrapped into packages for Bajie to carry, and then shook his body and retracted his hair, and the robber immediately loosened his ties and fled for his life. Tang Seng and his apprentices turned around and walked back to send property to the Kou family.

After walking a short distance, a group of officers and soldiers rushed over, surrounded Tang monks and apprentices, and shouted: "Monk, do you know the crime of murder and robbery?" "Don't say anything, first grab Tang Seng off the horse, tie it with a rope, and then tie Wukong and them together, put them on their shoulders, and carry them back to the city.

Tang Seng and his apprentices were escorted to the lobby, only to know that they had been falsely accused, and after being tortured and interrogated by officers and soldiers for a while, they were put in prison. In the middle of the night, Wukong used a spell to break free from the rope and turn into a midge, and flew all the way to the house outside the court, where he saw the family crying around the coffin in the hall.

Wukong stabbed on the coffin and coughed first, which frightened the old and young of the Kou family. Wukong learned the voice of the outside of the Kou Yuan and said, "It's all because you told lies and framed innocents, and the king of Hades sent me to tell you that you should go and save Tang Seng and his apprentices as soon as possible, otherwise, none of the old and young in the family will survive." ”

The two sons outside the Kou Yuan hurriedly kowtowed and promised to go to the government at dawn. Wukong flew to Thorn Shi's house again, and saw that Thorn Shi was burning incense and praying in front of a painting, so he turned into the horse rider in the painting and asked, "Why did you detain the four immortal monks who went to Lingshan to learn scriptures?" Hurry up and release them! "How dare Thorn Shi not agree.

Wukong flew to the lobby of Diling County, and it was already dawn, so he used a spell to get bigger, stretched out a big foot from the air, stepped on the lobby and said: "Listen, I am a wandering god sent by the Jade Emperor, and you have imprisoned the immortal monk who went to the west to learn scriptures, and this is okay!" Hurry up and let it go, or I'll put you on the ground. ”

After Wukong did these things, he flew back to the prison, changed back to his original state, and got into the rope noose. After a while, the jailer really released them, and the assassin Shi and the magistrate led all the officials to the cell to greet them, and made amends one after another. Tang Seng told the details of the situation, and everyone hurriedly said: "I blame you, please forgive me." ”

Wukong watched everyone talk to the master, and asked Bajie and Sha Seng to protect the master, he went to the netherworld with a somersault cloud, asked the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth to return Kou Hong's soul, put it in his sleeve, drove the cloud back to Kou's house, and asked Bajie to open the coffin lid and push his soul onto his body, and after a while, Kou Yuanwai was rescued.