Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

"Mom, I screwed up."

That night, Xuanzang's voice came along the sound transmission note, full of distress.

Wen Jiao was about to answer when she heard Yu La slapping the jade table in front of her with force. She laughed and raised her wine bowl towards Pi Xie: "You shot that arrow really accurately. If it was a little off, it would have hit my sister's face. How did you practice that?"

The evil-repelling man said with a sour face, "Shoot at my father's head as the target."

Yu La slammed the table again: "Is this okay? I will practice this way later."

His sister Danbalam snatched the wine bowl from his hand and smiled apologetically to Pixie: "My brother is drunk and said nonsense. Little Tianjiang please don't take it to heart."

Yula yelled, "I'm not drunk! Brother Bixie, do you think I should paint the target in the shape of my father? That way it will feel better when I shoot with the arrow?"

Bixie said coldly: "That's not necessary, but you must first have a father who will abandon you and escape to enjoy happiness in heaven."

Yula was confused: "What do you mean?"

Seeing that the evil spirit's face was almost blue, Danbalam shouted: "Yula! You are drunk! Go to bed!"

Huo Ling'er, who had become as soft as mud, raised her head and shouted, "Who said I was drunk? Fengji, I tell you, I can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk! A thousand cups without getting drunk!"

Fengji was originally wiping her face with a piece of silk soaked in spring water from the snowy mountains. When he saw her suddenly come back to life and do this, he couldn't help but grin, "Okay, okay, you have the best alcohol tolerance. The stupid lion who got drunk after eating a fairy fruit and just woke up and fell down after another gulp of wine is definitely not you."

Huo Linger said proudly: "It's good that you know." After that, she fell on the jade table again with a bang.

Yuan Tiangang shouted, "Yu Laxiu, don't be so presumptuous. When you have had enough wine, go to sleep and don't bother your sister to talk!"

Then he said to Wen Jiao, "How about you leave first?"

Wen Jiao nodded.

Xuanzang was so upset that he was about to confide his feelings, but he only heard a lot of noise from the other side. He couldn't help but ask, "Mother, are you busy with something over there?"

Wen Jiao said, "It's a bit chaotic, wait till I get to a quiet place before we talk." Then she said loudly, "Lam, take good care of your brother. Pixie, if you feel uncomfortable, take your brother to practice archery, don't follow Yu La and make trouble!"

"Practice archery, practice archery, Yula wants to go too!" Yula slammed the table and stood up.

Danbaram quickly pushed him down: "No! You don't want to!"

She didn't want her brother to learn the archery method of "shooting at the target like his father's head". If he got confused while practicing and shot at his father's head like a target, it would be all over!

Wen Jiao walked into the courtyard. The faint light of the stars and the moon was attracted by her fairy clothes, and turned into light dust floating around her. She smiled back at the Taoists who saluted her from afar, and said to the sound transmission note in her palm: "Xuanzang, what trouble have you encountered?"

Xuanzang's voice was filled with depression: "Mother, the Queen of the Western Liang Kingdom has sent soldiers to surround the inn where I live, and wants me to marry her. If I don't obey, she will not let me out. If I don't obey for the rest of my life, she will never let me out."

Wen Jiao asked curiously, "Didn't you tell her that you have fairy thorns on your body, and whoever gets close to you will be pricked?"

"I did." Xuanzang gritted his teeth, "But I don't know which gossipmonger leaked the news..."

Behind him came Bajie's loud sneeze, like thunder.

"...Now the king wants the girl to take off the fairy clothes herself and marry him!" Fortunately, Xuanzang's voice was strong enough so that it was not covered by Bajie's sneeze.

"It's really troublesome." Thinking of Yuan Tiangang's reminder that day, Wen Jiao sighed, "Mother thought that relying on a purple fairy dress would be enough to protect you from the Kingdom of Women. It seems that mother underestimated the heroes of the world."

The thorn on Xuanzang's body originated from a piece of clothing. This was known to heaven and earth, and to the four masters and apprentices plus the white dragon horse. If someone hadn't noticed something was wrong and paid attention to it, how could it have been leaked? This could only be that Xuanzang and his men had left something out, and the people of the Kingdom of Women had discovered the flaw.

"Then what are you going to do? Do you want me to come over and support you as your mother?" Wen Jiao said with a hint of sarcasm.

Xuanzang said hurriedly: "That's not necessary, Wukong already has a solution."

"Oh?" Considering Wukong's erratic personality that wanted to create chaos in the world, Wen Jiao had already guessed what idea he had come up with. She couldn't help but become interested and even raised her voice a beat.

Xuanzang's voice was filled with embarrassment and anger: "He wants me to temporarily accept the king's request and marry him."

Wen Jiao raised her voice a little higher and said in a "sad" voice: "Oh my, how can this be done? How can she force a man to marry her? Who does the Queen of the Kingdom of Women think my child is? She wants to marry me just because she wants to? Even if she is the ruler of a country, she shouldn't do things like this. Xuanzang, wait, my mother will come to support you soon!"

Her own eldest son was about to get married, so how could she, as a parent, not be there? She was determined to interfere in the wedding!

He didn’t know if it was Xuanzang’s illusion, but he always felt that there was an indescribable... excitement in his mother’s tone?

He said hastily, "Mother, Wukong's intention is not for me to marry for real, but for me to pretend to agree to her. He tricked her into stamping the pass, and then pretended to send the three disciples out of the city to obtain the scriptures. Then, when Wukong cast a spell to immobilize them, the king and his subjects, I could escape and leave."

Wen Jiao hummed, and said happily: "Then just in case something happens, you should come, mother."

Xuanzang: ...

Wen Jiao pretended to be unhappy: "Do you look down on my mother and think that she is not worthy of protecting you?"

Xuanzang quickly denied: "How could it be..."

"Then the matter has been happily decided." Wen Jiao smiled with satisfaction, cut off the voice transmission, and leisurely returned to the table.

This was a welcoming banquet for her and Huo Linger, and all the guests at the banquet were Yula and the two brothers Bixie and Zhen'e.

There was an episode during the hunting trip of the three boys. At that time, Pixie was chasing a deer. The deer was in a panic and ran away desperately. It ran into the mount of Princess Danbalam of Jiang Kingdom, who was riding on the horse, and pierced the belly of the poor black horse on the spot. The deer flew into the air and overlapped with the figure of Princess Ram who turned over and dismounted when she saw the situation was not good. At this time, Pixie's bowstring was loosened, and an arrow flew out, missing Princess Ram's face by a very subtle distance and piercing the deer's throat.

Yula saw it from afar and was so frightened that her heart almost stopped beating. She spurred her mount to gallop over, looked around her sister several times, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Luckily, sister is fine. How would you compensate if your face was hurt? If it can't be healed, you won't have to marry this heavenly general brother?"

Princess Ram was still in shock, and was choked to death by her brother's words. Her cheeks flushed, and she spat, "You are getting more and more outrageous. If you keep talking nonsense, I will whip your tongue with a whip! Where is the queen mother? The princess of Ling Kingdom wants to see you."

After hearing the news about her daughter, the White Horse Queen left in a hurry, but left her daughter behind, asking her to look after her brother and, most importantly, to leave a good impression on the celestial being who came to the world for the first time. Thus, the messy scene at the beginning happened.

When Wen Jiao returned to the banquet, the two little werewolf brothers had already gone hunting to vent their anger. Yula was forced by her sister to lie on the table and finally fell asleep after a while. Feng Ji was looking after Huo Linger who was sleeping soundly. Only Yuan Tiangang was sitting there quietly, looking up at her when she came back.

Seeing that no one was around to see them, Wen Jiao smiled, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "Come with me to Xiliang Women's Kingdom tomorrow."

"What are you doing?" Yuan Tiangang just felt his ears itchy.

Wen Jiao smiled and said, "Be a parent."

Yuan Tiangang understood what he meant and said shyly: "Xuanzang might mind. I have called him bald before... cough."

He coughed.

Seeing that he was itchy, Wen Jiao deliberately blew air into his collar: "He is bald to begin with."

In the far west, the gloomy Xuanzang suddenly felt a chill in his head.