"Master, what should we do in the future? Should I continue to go to the west? Or are you going home?" Zhu Bajie asked me.
Who should I ask? Guanyin doesn't care about us anymore. If we go to the west, we'll probably lose our lives.
I looked up at them." Wukong, Wujing, what do you think?”
Friar Sand shook his head." I don't know?"
Sun Wukong said,"Without Butcher Zhang, we still eat mixed pigs." We can still go to the west without Guanyin. Master, don't worry. I'll give up my life to ensure that you get the true scripture safely.”
Anyway, my goal is not to learn the scriptures, but to go to the Kingdom of Women. After that, I won't care about whether the Taoist priest fights the monk or the Immortal Realm fights the Buddhist Realm. I didn't bring the Buddhist scriptures back to the Eastern Land. It's a good thing for the Taoist priests.
"Alright, let's follow Wukong's words and continue our journey to the west. However, we don't have to follow any Buddhist precepts in the future. We have to plan for our future. We have to earn more money.”I said with determination.
That being said, the atmosphere was clearly down as we headed west. Only then did I know that Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Monk Sand, and Little White Dragon were either untalented, wronged, or imprisoned. It was Guanyin who saved them and gave them hope for revenge and life. It was no exaggeration to say that Guanyin was the soul of the team heading west, the lighthouse of progress, and the final guarantee. Now that they had lost their souls, their lighthouse, and their last protection, how could they cheer up? It was me. Actually, I had been deceiving myself, thinking that I had already forgotten about Guanyin, but in fact, I found that I could not let go of her in my heart.
After walking in this gloomy atmosphere for a few days, Sun Wukong said to me in the evening,""Master, it's getting late, but we still haven't seen the market. There's a monastery in front. You'll have to suffer a little and stay in this monastery tonight.”
I nodded." Then I'll go and negotiate with the monks in the temple. We'll go and stay there.”Sun Wukong said.
"I'll go. I've always troubled you guys. Occasionally, I should do something.”Actually, I just wanted to walk around alone for a while.
I lifted my legs and walked towards the monastery. Not long after, I arrived at the monastery's entrance. There was a plaque on the temple gate with a few big words on it. It should be the name of the temple. Anyway, I didn't know it, so I didn't care about it.
After entering the monastery, a Daoist Firesman came up to him." Where did you come from, Master? What brings you to our temple?"
" I'm from the Tang Empire of the East. I'm on my way to the Western Paradise to pray to Buddha and ask for scriptures. I passed by your precious land and the four of us came to stay for the night."”
"Master, you don't know this, but our country respects Buddhism and banishes Taoism." Taoist priests like us can only do some sweeping and odd jobs. How can we make the decision? Moreover, the abbot of the temple, Elder Haisheng, is stingy. Not to mention Taoist priests like us, even the monks of the temple often don't give us enough food. He would not welcome any wandering monks. Grandmaster, you should think of another way. There is no need to hit the nail on the head.”
I frowned. F * ck, stingy monk, I'm going to make you lose money today." It's okay. Although I came from afar, I'm quite rich. Please inform Elder Haisheng." This poor monk will only stay for one night. When I leave tomorrow, I will add more incense money to your temple.”I said to Firesword Daoist.
"How much money can you add to my temple?”A fat monk with a round face came out from the side and asked. He had a familiar expression as if he had seen him there before. "This Penniless Monk is staying in your temple for a night. I'm willing to give Buddha ten taels of gold!”
Hai Sheng's small eyes immediately widened." Ten taels of gold! Is it true or false?"
I smiled slightly and took out two gold ingots from my pocket and handed them to the fat monk. The fat monk almost snatched them away from my hand and examined them over and over again before putting them into his mouth and biting them. "Holy Monk, please come in. Men, prepare a good room and clean it up to welcome Holy Monk.”
"This Penniless Monk still has three disciples waiting outside the temple.”I said to the fat monk Hai Sheng.
" No problem, but they're staying here…" Hai Sheng put on a greedy look.
"Of course." I took out a few gold ingots from my pocket.”
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Open the middle door! Ring the bell and gather the monks! Line up to welcome the Great Tang's holy monk!" The fat monk shouted at Daoist Firesword.
Not long after, a hundred and eighty monks and two to three hundred Taoist priests lined up at the temple gate. The fat monk Hai Sheng personally led the team to welcome them.
I went back and smiled at the dumbfounded Sun Wukongs." When you go to the temple, don't talk too much. Just eat and drink well. Do what I tell you." The Sun Wukongs nodded in agreement.
When we arrived at the temple, I deliberately instructed Zhu Bajie and Monk Sand to move the gold and jewelry out of the car in front of the fat monk Haisheng." Disciples, temporarily put the gold in my room to pave the way and the jewelry as a pillow!”On the other hand, the fat monk Hai Sheng's eyes were emitting green light.
F * ck, if this fat monk was born in the modern world, he would definitely be the boss of China Teleportation. How greedy and petty! We paid forty taels of gold, but there were only two dishes for our meal: stir-fried radish with cabbage, stewed radish with cabbage, and a bowl of brown rice. After eating, we couldn't add more. We, who hadn't eaten such food for a long time, were naturally furious. Zhu Bajie simply cursed! However, compared to those firework Daoists in the temple, we were already very happy. We could even see the shadows in their bowls of wild vegetable porridge.
After dinner, I returned to my room and waited for the fat monk to take the bait. As expected, a voice came from outside the door." Is the Holy Monk resting? This Penniless Monk Haisheng requests an audience."”
"Please come in, host." I smiled. The fish had taken the bait.
"Holy monk, this poor monk pays his respects to you." The fat monk came up and greeted me politely for a long time, so I replied with a few words.
"Holy Monk, I see that you have a lot of gold and silver, but I don't know what method you have to amass wealth. Please give me some pointers. If I learn it, I can renovate the monastery and carry forward the Buddhist Dharma.”The fat monk finally revealed his fox tail.
" It's nothing much to give you pointers, it's just that…" I kept the fat monk in suspense.
"But what? Please enlighten me, holy monk." The fat monk asked.
Seeing that I didn't speak for a long time, the fat monk Haisheng simply knelt down. "Holy Monk, look at the hundreds of monks and Taoists in my temple. They don't have enough clothes to cover their bodies and food to eat. I saw it with my eyes and felt pain in my heart, but I was helpless. Please be merciful and save our temple.”After saying that, he kowtowed repeatedly and actually burst into tears.
Damn it, you don't have enough clothes to cover your body and food to cover your stomach. Then why are you so fat? It was only eight o'clock in the evening, and the entire temple was like a ghost temple. The lights were dark, but where were the lights? I won't make you bankrupt today. My surname isn't Li, oh, not Tang.
"Since Master Haisheng is so compassionate, This Penniless Monk will not dare to refuse. To be honest, I was also very poor in the past. I only became rich because I focused on Buddhism and received a treasure altar from Guan Yin Bodhisattva.”I said to the fat monk.
"Treasure Gathering Altar! Where was he? The fat monk's eyes almost doubled in size.
I took out the wine jar that I had prepared earlier." Abbot, please take a look. As long as you put a gold ingot in, then fill it with stones, and put it in front of the Guanyin Buddha statue for a night, the stones will all turn into gold the next day!”
"Really? Please demonstrate." The fat monk's eyes were already three times bigger.
"Sure," I put a piece of gold into the altar and sent the fat monk to find some stones to fill the altar and seal it. "Abbot, we just have to wait until tomorrow morning, and the stones will all turn into gold.”
The fat monk Hai Sheng was skeptical. In order to eliminate his suspicion, I asked him to carry the wine jar to the front of the Guanyin statue in the hall. The fat monk Hai Sheng naturally stayed up all night without mentioning it, while I fell asleep.
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