Qu Zheng listened to Xuanzang saying not to learn the scriptures, and when he returned to Chang'an, his hand involuntarily touched Xuanzang's forehead. It felt warm and cool, but he didn't have any fever. You're talking nonsense."

Xuanzang smiled wryly, took Qu Zheng's hand from his forehead, held it in the palm of his hand, kneaded it lightly, sighed, and said, "Xiao Zheng, I'm tired, and I just want to go back to Chang'an with you, find a quiet and peaceful place Where people disturb you, live a good life.”

Qu Zheng said: "It's not like Xuanzang what you can say, let's not talk about how you confessed to the king of Tang and committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, just say that Wukong and I are protecting you from a distance of [-] miles. , It took more than ten years of time, the black hair was stained with frost, but in the end it was as high as a mountain and fell short. Are you worthy of us? Doesn’t your conscience hurt? "

"Xiaozheng, have you thought about it?" Xuanzang said with a look of pain on his face, "For a Buddha like Tathagata, his scriptures can be imagined. I don't want such scriptures to be introduced into China and harm my Tang Dynasty." people."

"It's too late, Xuanzang. The moment you left Chang'an to learn the scriptures, the ending was already doomed. No one can change it, including you."

Qu Zheng also sighed, and said: "However, I have always believed that what is really important in traveling west is not for the Buddhist scriptures, but for the process. A little bit of belief in my heart, that is, a man should travel all over the world in order to live in this world, and the scriptures are the evidence of all this, to prove it to future generations, so we must get it."

Tianjie, Daodegong, Taibai Jinxing walked into his bedroom, and saw His Majesty the Jade Emperor, his immediate superior, sitting on his bed with a gloomy face.

Taibai was startled, stepped forward hurriedly, bowed and said: "Chang Geng has seen His Majesty."

The Jade Emperor stared at him coldly, without speaking.

Taibai was a little uneasy, and tentatively called: "Your Majesty?"

"Hmph..." The Jade Emperor suddenly snorted coldly, and said coldly, "Li Changgeng, where is my elixir?"

Taibai's heart skipped a beat, he bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I am ashamed, I haven't mastered it yet."

"Li Changgeng..." The Jade Emperor's complexion changed, and he said angrily: "I want you to make alchemy, but you repeatedly evade it and can't do it.

At the extreme of hate! "

Taibai calmly said: "It is true that the minister is incompetent, please forgive me."

"You..." The Jade Emperor said angrily, "Don't think that you are Laojun's younger brother, I dare not do anything to you!"

Taibai said: "Your Majesty, please condemn me."

"Okay! Very good!" The Jade Emperor was so angry that he walked around, not knowing what to do. No matter how Taibai disobeyed him, he would never hurt Taibai, because Taibai was not only a monarch, but also a brother to him.

He suddenly shouted: "I want to leave the palace!"

Taibai finally raised his head and looked at his Majesty Jade Emperor in surprise.

The Jade Emperor was proud, coughed lightly, and said: "According to the Laojun's performance this morning, the golden cicada is almost at the foot of the Lingshan Mountain. I am bored anyway, so let's go to Xitian to have a look."

As soon as he said he was leaving, the white light flashed and disappeared.

Taibai couldn't help rolling his eyes, and murmured: "Your Majesty's temper is getting worse and worse."

The Jade Emperor drove the colorful clouds, flew all the way, opened his eyes, and saw everything in the world. He traveled all over the world, three mountains and five mountains, and went straight to the west.

On this day, when he arrived in the sky above a place called Fengxian County, the Jade Emperor suddenly felt hungry. His eyes swept away and he saw that the government office was holding a ceremony of praying to the sky. There were countless offerings of fruit to eat, and the fragrance was attractive. Ya Nei picked up a delicious roast chicken and gnawed on it.

The owner of Fengxian County is called Shangguanren. On December 25th, his wife was offering offerings for the fasting day.

Because his son was unfilial and stubborn, he walked into the Zhaitang angrily and scolded his wife: "You are a mother, and you don't want to discipline your son well, but you come to do these useless things."

Madam ignored him at all, and still bowed in front of the hall, chanting words.

Shangguan Ren was furious, and suddenly pushed down the altar, and the offerings on the altar scattered all over the floor.

"You are crazy!" the madam screamed, stepped forward to grab her husband, and shouted: "You will be punished, and the sky will be struck by lightning!"

Hearing the words, Shangguanren was even more angry, he whistled and called out: "Rhubarb! Rhubarb!"

After a while, a big yellow dog came in wagging its tail and happily ate the leftovers on the ground.

Shangguan Ren smiled triumphantly, and said: "Madam, you said that I would suffer retribution, so I will ask Da Huang to eat this offering. If there is really old Jade Emperor in the sky, I will tell him that he will not be able to eat it."

Jade Emperor: "..."

He was gnawing on the roast chicken and almost choked.

This Shangguan Ren is so courageous, he dared to insult me, the Jade Emperor, just to repay you alone, the hatred in my heart cannot be dispelled, let your people in Fengxian County suffer together, haha...

The Jade Emperor immediately returned to the Heavenly Palace, and ordered the steward to set up a rice mountain ten feet high in the Pixiang Temple, so that a chicken with the size of a fist could peck it slowly, even after 20 years. over.

A twenty-foot-high noodle mountain can be licked by a pug for decades.

Put another oil lamp, the fireworks flicker and go out, as small as a firefly, and a thick iron chain burns underneath, and it may not be broken after another 100 years of burning.

Looking at these masterpieces, the Jade Emperor still couldn't get rid of the evil spirit in his heart, and said: "I will set up these three things until the chickens have eaten the rice, the dogs have licked the face, and the lamp flames have burnt the iron chains. , it will rain in Fengxian County."

In this way, because the Jade Emperor broke through the narrow eyes of the universe, the people of Fengxian County suffered a severe drought for three years, and finally waited for a savior.

One day, Wukong went out to get medicine for his master. When he came out of the pharmacy, he saw crowds of people in the street, and a group of officials were posting the imperial list. He was curious, so he squeezed in to watch.

I saw the words on the wall: "Shangguan Marquis of Fengxian County, Great Tianzhu Kingdom, set up a list to hire enlightened teachers and recruit great masters. The land in Ziyin County has suffered three consecutive years of drought, no grain of rain, rivers and fields cracked , there is no water in the well, no water at the bottom of the spring, rich families move out, poor people are hard to survive, and there are even tragedies of robbery and cannibalism. I wish to use this list, look up to the magic powers of the ten directions, pray for rain to save the people, and be rewarded with a thousand gold In repayment, never lie.”

"Old Sun's business is here again." After reading it, Wukong laughed and tore down the list without hesitation.

The official who kept the list was overjoyed, and immediately introduced him to the Lord of Shangguanren County.

The Marquis of the county picked up Xuanzang and others from the post station and entertained them with grand ceremony.

The Marquis of the county remembered the suffering of the three-year drought in Fengxian County, and he couldn't help but burst into tears. He said: "In the past three years, the people have sold their daughters and daughters in order to have a full meal, and finally moved their families to other places. They are all from the same line of my Shangguan family, they are struggling to support, if there is no rain, our Fengxian County will become a dead city."

Xuanzang recuperates in the room, Ao Lie takes care of him at the bedside, and Bajie goes to make medicine.

So only Qu Zheng and Wukong were talking to the Marquis in the front hall.

Wukong patted his chest and laughed: "Old official, don't complain, the old grandson will send you a heavy rain, and there will be no severe drought."

Shangguan Ren was overjoyed, kowtowed to the ground, and said: "Master is merciful, if it rains, I will worship the master day and night to repay the great kindness."

"Old Sun, let's go now." Wukong was about to leave through the clouds.

"Wait a minute, monkey!" Qu Zheng stopped suddenly.

Wukong had no choice but to pause and said, "What do you want me to do, brother?"

"Let me ask the Marquis one thing first." Qu Zheng asked Shangguan Ren: "December 25 three years ago, when the Marquis was in the fasting day, did he overturn the altar and curse the heavens?"

Shangguan Ren turned pale with shock, and said in a trembling voice: "It is true that this happened, the master really has supernatural powers."

Qu Zheng said: "At that time, the Jade Emperor was eating offerings at your house, and seeing it, he kept a grudge in his heart and let your Fengxian County not rain for three years."

"Oh my God!" Shangguan Ren fell to the ground crying, and shouted to the sky: "It's all my fault, but I have brought down my people in Fengxian County. I really have committed a heinous crime."

"Master! Master! My condolences!" Several subordinates hurriedly helped him up.

Qu Zheng said: "The Jade Emperor committed crimes to the people of a city just because of a trivial matter. He is so petty and doesn't have the bearing of a lord of the heavens. He is too cold and heartless and treats human life like nothing."

"Oh, master, you can't talk like this again, offending the emperor of heaven." Shangguan Ren was so frightened that he almost cried again.

"I like to tell the truth." Qu Zheng grinned, made a harmonious gesture to the sky, and said: "The Jade Emperor has made three things before he is willing to rain, monkey, if you go to ask the Jade Emperor now , he will also accuse you of being nosy."

He ended by briefly talking about what the Jade Emperor had done in the Pixiang Temple.

"Master! Master!" Shangguan Ren rolled his eyes and passed out when he heard this, and his subordinates were in a panic again.

Wukong said: "Brother, what should we do now?"

Qu Zheng said: "What else can I do? If the people don't fight with the officials, they can't conquer the top. When this county marquis wakes up, tell him to worship the sky with the whole city immediately, and then go to the upper realm to find the Jade Emperor." , to explain the matter clearly, he will definitely let go because of face."

In this way, Shangguan Ren led the people of the city to hold a grand sacrifice ceremony, while Wukong went to the sky and asked the Jade Emperor for the imperial decree of rain, and ordered the Dragon King of the Four Seas to spread clouds and rain in the world, and it rained heavily for seven days in a row. , solved the three-year drought in Fengxian County.

A month later, when spring was warm and flowers were blooming, Xuanzang's illness was completely cured, and the five of them set off for Tianzhu.

On the second day, after traveling a hundred miles, they came to a city.

Xuanzang saw clearly on the horse, the three big characters of Bhikkhus were engraved on the city gate, he got off the horse immediately, and walked side by side with Qu Zheng, he said: "I didn't expect that there was a small country on the road to Tianzhu, and I had to change it again." The customs clearance document has been issued."

Qu Zheng frowned, and said: "This bhikkhu country is also called the country of children, there may be more than 1000 children dying."

Xuanzang was taken aback, and lost his voice: "How could such a thing happen?"

Qu Zheng said: "We will know when we enter the city."

When the five entered the city, the streets were bustling with people coming and going. The strange thing was that there was a goose cage hanging on the eaves of every house, covered with colorful satin.

Xuanzang said in amazement: "The customs here are so strange. Every household hangs a goose cage. I don't know why?"

Qu Zheng didn't answer, but raised his voice to Wukong who opened the way ahead: "Monkey, go and have a look inside the cage."

"Okay!" Wukong transformed into a little bee, and got into the goose cage from the bottom, only to see a little boy sitting inside, and went to seven or eight goose cages in a row, all of them were boys, not a single one. Girls, these children, some are playing, some are crying, some are eating fruit, sitting or sleeping.

Wukong appeared in human body and said: "Master, senior brother, there are little boys in the goose cage, about five to seven years old, I don't know why, it's really strange."

Qu Zheng said: "There are monsters in the city, let's go to the post house first, and then discuss countermeasures."

The five went to the Jinting post house, and the post office received them warmly. Xuanzang asked the post office about the goose cage.

Yi Cheng's face changed drastically, and he hesitated to answer.

Xuanzang said: "The children in this cage are all father's sperm and mother's blood. They have been conceived for ten months, and it is not easy to bring up the children. Why are they so inhumane and placed in the goose cage?"

At the end of his speech, he was already stern.

Yi Cheng was so frightened that he took a few steps back, and then said: "The elder is not angry with thunder, and the next official will report it in detail."

He said with a long sigh, with a sad face, and said: "This country was originally called the Bhikkhu country, but now the people privately call it the Xiaoer country. Three years ago, an old Taoist priest took a 16-year-old daughter and dedicated it to the present day. Your Majesty. Your Majesty loves her beauty and loves her incomparably. She is called the Empress of Beauty. She abandons the Empress of the Three Palaces and the Concubine of the Sixth Court. She is greedy for pleasure with the Empress Day and night. Between day and night, the imperial physicians were helpless."

Wukong interjected: "What happened afterwards? Has your king died?"

Qu Zheng said coldly, "It's easy to die."

Bajie said: "The king fell into the trick of the pink skull, and he will not be wronged if he dies."

Ao Lie said: "If you die under the peony flower, you will be romantic even if you are a ghost."

Yi Cheng's face turned blue when he heard it, and he said repeatedly: "Not dead! Not dead!"

Xuanzang asked, "Then how did the king heal his illness?"

Yicheng shook his head and said: "It hasn't been cured yet, Empress Mei's father has been made the head of the country. He has a secret overseas recipe, which he claims can prolong life. In order to cure His Majesty's illness, he went to Shizhou and three islands to collect immortal medicine. But, The medicine primer needs to use the hearts and livers of one thousand one hundred and one children, decoct them and take the medicine. Take its heart and liver and prepare medicine."

Xuanzang let out an "Ah" and said angrily: "Foolish lord! Faint lord! My family is greedy for pleasure and beauty, but I want to kill so many children!"

Yi Cheng didn't dare to answer, and tiptoed away.

Xuanzang turned to Wukong and said, "Wukong, use all means to save those children."

"Master, this is easy!" Wukong immediately flew away through the clouds, and a gust of wind blew over the city, blowing the more than 1000 children in the goose cages to the ground. Their parents guarded them day and night. When the goose cage fell to the ground, he hurriedly took his child home, sealed the door firmly, and never came out again.

Seeing this, Wukong plucked a bunch of monkey hair from his body, threw it into the city, and shouted: "Change!"

The monkey hair has turned into more than 1000 little monkeys, which are hidden in every household for protection to prevent officers and soldiers from snatching the children again.

After Wukong finished all this, he went back to the post house. The next day, Xuanzang and the five made some preparations, and the postman introduced him to the palace.

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