Journey to the West: Interpretation and Teaching Disciples

Chapter201
Going west, the Buddha land flourishes, and he ascends to the gate of bliss early.

After bidding farewell to the hospitality of the king of Tianzhu, Xuanzang and his party lived in the open for more than half a month.Xuanzang rode a white dragon horse and looked into the distance with a tent in his hands, just in time to see a city wall standing on the ground in the distance.

Seeing people in the distance, Xuanzang was also a little excited, after all, no one wants to live a life of food and drink.Not long after walking forward, Sun Wukong, Zhang Xing and the others also saw the city wall in the distance. Among them, Bajie, the idiot, was the most excited. After all, the former canopy marshal couldn't stand the life of sleeping in the open for more than half a month. !Not to mention anything else, Bajie's stomach has never been full, and now that he sees the city wall, Bajie is not happy.

Xuanzang watched from a distance, under the willow tree outside the city wall, there were two old men playing chess.Seeing this place, Xuanzang was ready to go up and ask where this place was, and where there were good people.

Hearing that Xuanzang was going to ask for directions, Bajie, an idiot, wanted to rush forward to ask for directions, but Xuanzang stopped Bajie before he could move, because Bajie's appearance was unbearable to ordinary people , I am afraid that not only will I not be able to ask the way, but I will also scare others!
Although Xuanzang didn't say it, everyone knew what Xuanzang meant, so when they saw that Xuanzang was rejected by Bajie, they all burst into laughter.

Seeing that Xuanzang rejected his request, and seeing everyone laughing at him, Bajie threw the burden on the ground angrily, and said angrily, "Laugh! Laugh! My old pig is just delicious. Do you want it? What’s so funny! Don’t you, a skinny monkey, love to eat bananas? Brother Zhang, don’t think I don’t know that you often drink secretly. No need to be an old pig, what's so ridiculous!"

Xuanzang ignored Bajie's pouch, picked up his Zen staff and walked over to the two old men. The two old men were playing chess, so they didn't care about Xuanzang. Xuanzang had no choice but to wait for the two old men to finish playing.

After a while, one of the old men lost a hand. Just in time, he saw Xuanzang standing beside him and asked, "You monk, what are you doing standing here? If it weren't for you standing here, how could I have lost!"

Xuanzang felt very helpless when he heard the old man say that, but because he still had to ask the old man for directions, he didn't answer anything, so he complied.Then Xuanzang began to ask the two old men for directions.

The old man who won said back: "This place is Tongtai Mansion. There is a county behind the mansion called Diling County. There is a good place for fasting Buddha in Tongtai Mansion. If you go forward, there is a tiger sitting on the gate tower. It’s the famous house of the fasting monk in our place, if you go to him, you will definitely have food and lodging!”

Hearing this, Xuanzang bid farewell to the two old men.Going back to the distance, Xuanzang repeated what the old man said. Hearing that there is such a good place this time, Monkey King and the others are a little happy. The secret is that the Buddhism is flourishing in the place of Westward Journey, but there are only a few stars and Bajie among them. His complexion is not very good, after all, the two are still members of Taoism, and they will not be happy to see the prosperity of Buddhism.

After walking forward for a while, a group of people came to the Huzuo gate tower. Looking at the gate in front of them, Xuanzang went up and knocked on the door. After some introductions, the owner of the house, Kou Yuanwai, came out to greet Xuanzang and the others in person.

It turns out that Kou Yuanwai made a great wish to fast ten thousand monks, and he has already fasted nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-six people, just four people are short of consummation. Today, I heard the report from the servant that four foreign monks came outside. Happy to come out to greet you.

Although Kou Yuanwai worshiped Buddha, he didn't treat Zhang Xing coldly. Although he was a little surprised why Zhang Xing, a man dressed in Taoist clothes, was with the four monks Xuanzang, he didn't say much.

After staying for a day, Kou Yuanwai also sincerely entertained a few people when he came, but there were some entanglements in Kou Yuanwai's house, so Xuanzang was about to leave first. Early in the morning, Xuanzang led three apprentices, riding a white horse, Following Zhang Xing, he left under Kou Yuanwai's see-off.

Before leaving, Kou Yuanwai sent some gold and silver, but Xuanzang did not accept it. In the end, Kou Yuanwai had no choice but to ask someone to take it back, but neither Xuanzang nor Kou Yuanwai found out. Kou Yuanwai sent gold and silver to Xuanzang. This scene was seen by a few gangsters, but this small incident also caused a catastrophe for Kou Yuanwai.

Not long after Xuanzang and the others left, it suddenly began to rain.There was no way Xuanzang and his party had to find a place to hide from the rain.

Xuanzang, who was hiding from the rain, didn't know that there was a robbery at Kou Yuanwai's home at this time, and among the robbers happened to be the gangsters who saw Kou Yuanwai giving gold and silver to Xuanzang today.

Kou Yuanwai saw that the things in this house were taken away by these gangsters, so he was about to step forward to stop him, but those gangsters would not care about Kou Yuanwai, and sent Kou Yuanwai's soul to the underworld in one fell swoop!
It wasn't until the next day that members of Kou Yuanwai's family found out that Kou Yuanwai had gone to the underworld. At this time, the family was preparing to report to the police, when Kou Yuanwai's wife suddenly rushed out and said that Tang Seng and his gang had robbed the family property last night and killed Kou Yuanwai. .

It turned out that the wife of Kou Yuanwai felt that Xuanzang had neglected her yesterday, so she blamed Xuanzang and his party at this time. At the same time, she also felt that Xuanzang and his group were the thieves. After all, their house had never been stolen. However, now that Xuanzang and the others have stolen it as soon as they arrived, it cannot be justified!

Kou Yuanwai's sons heard what their mother said, and they also felt that it was reasonable, so they wrote a petition and handed it to the county government office.

Xuanzang and his party hid from the rain all night, and finally the rain stopped at dawn. Xuanzang and his party were about to go on the road, but they were stopped by a group of bandits before they had gone a few steps. Zang took out the money, and felt sorry for Xuanzang, a monk, where did he get the money. Fortunately, no one in the team was an ordinary person except Xuanzang, so he defeated the bandits by three times and five times.

According to Xuanzang's idea, let's just knock them down and let these bandits go, but Sun Wukong has insight and thinks it's abnormal for these bandits to appear here, so he interrogated them, and this interrogation finally found out what happened last night. They ransacked Kou Yuanwai's family.

It turned out that the gangsters here didn't see that Xuanzang didn't accept the gold and silver from Kou Yuanwai, so they planned to snatch the gold and silver from Xuanzang and his party, but they didn't expect that they would be unlucky to meet Monkey King and his party !
When Xuanzang heard that the bandits said that they had killed the bandits, he prepared to send them to the county government office. After discussing with them, they decided that it was a good idea, and rushed to the county government office with the bandits and the gold and silver they had looted.

What Xuanzang didn't expect was that not long after he left, he saw a group of yamen servants with weapons surrounding him and his party!It turned out that this group of yamen servants were the yamen servants who had come to arrest Xuanzang and his gang.They saw that Xuanzang and his party had a lot of money from the Kou Yuanwai's family, so they thought that Xuanzang and his party had robbed the Kou Yuanwai's family, so they put Xuanzang and his party in prison.

(End of this chapter)