Chapter 28 I'm awake
Sun Xingzhe waited for the chopping sound to subside before raising his head.
The bandit said, "What a monk! Your head is so hard!"
Wukong also smiled, looking very talkative, "I'll just make do with it. I think you guys are tired of beating me too."
"But it's time for my old grandson to come back and let me play with needles!"
After hearing Wukong's words, the thief leader also smiled and said, "I'm afraid this monk was originally a doctor. We don't have any diseases, what kind of injections do we need?"
Wukong reached out and put his hand on his ear, and when he pulled it out, he pulled out an embroidery needle.
The monkey held the embroidery needle in his hand and shook it against the wind, only to see that the embroidery needle had grown into an iron rod.
This iron rod is as thick as the mouth of a bowl. Compared with it, the figure of the traveler looks like an ant.
Although the six thieves blocking the road were hateful, they were not stupid either.
Such miracles must have power.
The six people behaved like birds and animals and fled in all directions.
Wukong shouted, "Don't run away! You have beaten Lao Sun so many times, why don't you let Lao Sun give you a try with a stick?"
How could these thieves listen to him?
Everyone runs their own thing.
The traveler had no choice but to arrest him with a stick. When he caught one, he grabbed his neck and hit him with an iron rod to test whether it was the thief's heavenly spirit cap or the iron rod in his hand that was stronger.
Not long after, all six thieves caught up one by one.
The hardness of their heads was compared with the golden cudgel, but unfortunately they were not as hard as the iron rod.
White snow is falling in the sky.
Wukong grabbed a handful of snowflakes and wiped the blood on the stick.
He put the stick in his ear, then stripped off the clothes of these thieves one by one and took their money.
He said with a smile, "Master, please go first, I have wiped out this group of thieves!"
Li Fu said, "No hurry, no hurry. I will write a letter to the underworld."
Li Fu took out pen and ink from his luggage, and even though his hands were stiff due to the cold weather, he filled the yellow paper with words. When he took out the tinder and lit it, he muttered something.
Wukong asked, "Master, you are so kind. Please save these thieves who are blocking the road!"
Li Fu's ceremony is over.
He said, "As a teacher, this does not count as saving their souls. I just wrote a letter to the underworld to explain the cause and effect."
"Inform the judge in the underworld that these thieves did not listen to dissuasion and deliberately committed crimes."
"Master, let them reflect more in the eighteenth level of hell."
"It is recommended that the magistrates of the underworld deal with them severely and severely, so as to prevent them from not reflecting enough and causing harm to the world in the next life."
After listening to Li Fu's words, Wukong praised him repeatedly, "Master really has the heart of a Bodhisattva."
When Wukong said this, he suddenly remembered something.
He said, "Master, Old Sun is very familiar with the Netherworld. How about Old Sun go to that Netherworld and help Master implement this matter?"
Li Fu said, "No, no need. No matter how familiar I am with the underworld, I'm afraid I just went there hundreds of years ago. I only went to the underworld for a few months as a teacher."
"It's such a small thing, so Wukong will appear."
When the curious monkey heard that Master had also been to the underworld, he asked, "Master has also been to that underworld? Have you seen the Ten Palaces of Yama?"
"I've seen it, of course I've seen it."
Li Fu did not hide anything. He told his disciples everything about how he followed his father into the underworld when he was in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty.
When the monkey Sun Wukong heard that his master had also tampered with the "Book of Life and Death", he couldn't help but remind him, "Master! Master! It's better that the "Book of Life and Death" be touched less!"
"Lao Sun just erased all the longevity of monkeys, but they actually said that I messed up the entire "Book of Life and Death"!"
When Sun Xingzhe talked about this, Li Fu remembered his father's words.
Li Fu said, "My master has also read some ancient books, and I probably know what my disciple has done. Master has some of his own opinions here, so let me tell you about them."
Li Fu started from the fire dragon burning the warehouse, and received the "Book of Life and Death" from the underworld, the peach garden from heaven, and the alchemy furnace from Laojun.
Li Fu said, "If there are bad debts and dead debts in the world, they will be burned to death without any evidence."
"I'm afraid this is also the case in heaven and earth."
"Disciple, you must be very popular in the Heavenly Court and the Netherworld."
"Because everyone who knows about your affairs will pity you, the poor monkey, and help them take the blame and settle old scores."
"And those who don't know the specific causes and consequences also think that you are very powerful, and you can actually cause trouble in heaven and earth. In the end, your punishment is just to suppress you for a few years."
After listening to Li Fu's words, the smart monkey suddenly became enlightened.
He kept saying, "That's it! That's it!"
He danced and said, "Master is indeed a master! I have been pressed under the mountain for more than five hundred years. After thinking about it, I still don't understand what happened in the past."
"I didn't expect Master to be so thorough when he said it. It's so serious! It's so serious!"
When the monkey head said this, he scratched his head in embarrassment.
The frank monkey said, "Master, actually I was a bit harsher on those thieves just now."
"I could have just chased away the tiger."
"But I beat them all to death directly. I was deliberately trying to make Master angry."
Of course, Li Fu also knew that letting a monkey who travels across the three realms be a disciple of a mortal would definitely not make him feel comfortable if he had to obey this mortal.
Presumably this is what Guanyin did intentionally when she chose the team to collect Buddhist scriptures.
If the pilgrimage team is really harmonious, they will feel warm and harmonious with each other.
That is not a good thing for Bodhisattva, the project manager.
The only way is to make people with high status "incompetent and unable to convince the crowd", and to make people with great ability "low status and dissatisfied".
It is in Guanyin's best interests to keep the entire Buddhist scripture-seeking team at odds with each other but not break up.
Li Fu said honestly, "It doesn't matter. I know that you, my disciple, have traveled across the three realms. I just feel that the master is a mortal and has some ideas in his heart, so I tried it out."
"However, as far as my teacher is concerned, I made it clear to these thieves before they died."
"They are unwilling to put down the butcher's knife, so it is not unreasonable to send them to the netherworld to die."
"Although when people sweep the floor, they are afraid of hurting the lives of ants."
"However, if these ants eat away at the pillars of the temple and the temple is about to collapse, will the monks still have a kind heart?"
"Disciple, you are holding the golden hoop of wishful thinking."
"It's just holding a sharp knife and having a murderous intention."
"This is human nature."
"As long as you pay attention to the scale, keep everything in order, and stick to your heart, then you'll be fine."
"However, we are in the mountains and forests this time. If they die like this, they will die."
"If we walk in the city in the future, we should first abide by the laws in the city."
"If there is no fairness and justice on their side, it will not be too late for us to take action."
"Otherwise, it will be difficult for you and me to escape, as a master. It will be a bit troublesome."
Chapter completed!