"Jingping Temple has arrived, Master." Bajie shouted from the front.
Sun Wukong and others finally arrived at the place where they thought the Buddha's seal was. It was also a temple and there was a town nearby.
The incense in the temple seems to be very strong. On their way here, they saw a lot of people coming to offer incense.
"Masters, is there anything wrong with you?" The young novice at the temple gate ran over and asked after seeing Tang Monk and his group.
"Amitabha. Young Master, we would like to meet your abbot, can you?" Tang Monk asked after performing a Buddhist salute.
"Please wait a moment. I will go in and ask the abbot before I can reply to you." The little novice monk said quickly.
Whether it is Tang Monk or Sun Wukong, the three deformed monsters are not something that the novice monk can provoke.
"Thank you, little master." Tang Seng said.
Then, the young novice monk ran in and informed the abbot. Whether the abbot would see them or not was another matter.
"Master, is this the case? Can't we just go in and see the abbot? Why wait here?" Bajie said unhappily.
"Bajie, we are guests, so we must not be rude." Tang Seng said with a light drink.
"Master, I think what Bajie said is right. After we enter, you can also worship the Buddha without delaying our meeting with the abbot. You kill two birds with one stone. Why wait here?" Sun Wukong agreed with Bajie's words.
"I came to pay homage to the mountain because I have something to ask for. The etiquette must be in place, otherwise you will be in constant trouble if you are reckless along the way!" Tang Seng insisted on his opinion.
"Anyway, we are here to rob other people of their temple-protecting treasures, and we will be in constant trouble when the time comes!" Bajie muttered.
It was said to be a murmur, but everyone present heard it. Even Tang Monk heard it clearly, and he immediately wanted to preach to Bajie.
At this time, Sun Wukong saw the little novice monk arriving with a person who looked like a senior monk, so he interrupted Tang Monk and said.
"Master, stop arguing, the abbot seems to be here."
Tang Seng and Bajie stopped arguing and looked at the person. Tang Seng quickly put his hands together and said.
"I've met the abbot."
"Masters, please come in, let's talk inside." The abbot also performed another Buddhist ritual and called Tang Monk, Master, Disciple, and Enemies to come in and talk.
"Excuse me." Tang Monk replied and followed the abbot into the temple.
Several people followed the abbot to the reception room. The abbot looked at Tang Monk and Sun Wukong and asked.
"This elder, which temple are you from? Why haven't I heard of it?"
"Abbott, the poor monk is named Tang Seng. He came from the Tang Dynasty and prepared to go to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. These are the disciples that the poor monk took on along the way." Tang Seng replied.
"The poor monk admires him. Elder Tang is really upright and upright. He must have put a lot of effort into going to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. The poor monk admires him." The abbot said to Tang Monk happily.
However, Tang Monk did not see the abbot's eyes flashing with solemnity when he heard that Tang Monk came from the Tang Dynasty and went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.
Bajie and Wujing were not thinking about the conversation between Tang Monk and the abbot, and they did not notice this. Only Sun Wukong did!
Seeing this, Sun Wukong knew that there must be some trouble here this time.
"I don't dare to take it seriously. It's because of the Buddha's blessing that the poor monk didn't have any accidents on the way and arrived at your temple." Tang Monk said quickly.
"Then why did Elder Tang come to our temple?" the abbot asked again.
"We are going to the West to obtain scriptures and need the Buddha's Buddhist scriptures scattered all over the place. Only by obtaining these Buddhist scriptures can we obtain the true scriptures from the Buddha. And among the instructions given by the Buddha to the poor monk, there is a Buddhist scripture in your temple.
I came here to ask for this Buddhist sticker." Tang Monk said hopefully.
"Elder Tang, are you sure this is true?" the abbot suddenly said with a solemn expression.
"I'm sure, this is the guidance given by Dingguang Buddha to the poor monk. The poor monk will not get it wrong." Seeing the abbot like this, Tang Monk said with some surprise.
"Could it be that Dingguang Buddha made a mistake? We don't have the Buddhist inscriptions mentioned by Elder Tang in Jingping Temple. This poor monk can guarantee this!" The abbot looked at Tang Monk seriously and said.
"How could it be? The instructions given by Dingguang Buddha were in your temple. How could Dingguang Buddha make a mistake?" Tang Monk said in disbelief.
"But in our Jingping Temple, we really don't have the Buddhist scriptures that Elder Tang mentioned. If there are, we will let the surrounding people know, because that will attract a lot of pilgrims and make our Jingping Temple more prosperous, right?"
"But Elder Tang, on your way here, did you ever hear anything about pilgrims saying anything about Buddha's prayers?" the abbot asked.
This is true. Before Tang Seng and the others came, they had asked dozens of people. None of them had heard of the Buddhist scriptures. At that time, Tang Seng and others had some bad premonitions in their hearts. They did not expect that it seems to be true now.
Something went wrong.
"Maybe you have them in Jingping Temple, but it's not necessarily true that you've hidden them." Bajie said suddenly.
"That's right, your Jingping Temple is already filled with pilgrims. There is no need to use magical things like Buddha stickers to attract pilgrims. You can hide them and study them carefully, which can enhance your Dharma and cultivation, and make your Jingping Temple continuous and permanent.
Inheritance." Sun Wukong also said.
"What the two elders said is also possible, but we really don't have such Buddhist scriptures. If we do, we will enshrine them and display them so that the light of our Buddha can shine on everyone. This is what we practice.
The purpose of Buddhism. If you don’t believe it, you can search it! As long as you can find it, you can take it away!” the abbot said directly.
After the abbot said this, the four masters and disciples of Tang Seng fell silent. They did not expect such a situation to occur.
They thought that the Buddhist altarpiece might have been snatched away by others, but they did not expect that there might be an error in the information.
"Then did your Jingping Temple have any Buddhist inscriptions before?" Bajie suddenly asked.
"It did exist before, but it has disappeared. That happened thousands of years ago, and we can't find it now," the abbot said.
"What's the matter with disappearing?" Tang Monk asked anxiously.
"He just disappeared out of thin air. We can't find him no matter how hard we look for him. This is also the pain we experienced at Jingping Temple in the past!" the abbot said with a sigh.
"Are you sure you disappeared instead of being robbed?" Sun Wukong asked.
"It should have disappeared. We were guarded by several eminent monks at the time. If it was robbed, we would have noticed it, but we have no information at all. How could it be possible that it was robbed?" the abbot said in response to Sun Wukong's words.
"If that's the case, why don't you just say that from the beginning? Why do you talk so much nonsense!" Bajie said unhappily.
"Bajie, don't be rude!" Tang Monk shouted softly at Bajie.
"Elder Tang, it's okay, but the poor monk did say from the beginning that our temple had no Buddhist inscriptions. It's just that you didn't believe it. No wonder the poor monk!" the abbot said with a smile.
The abbot's smile was very dazzling in the eyes of Tang Seng and his disciples, but they had nothing to do.
After all, what the abbot said was not wrong. He said from the beginning that there were no Buddhist inscriptions in their Jingping Temple. They had always been forcing the abbot.
"This is also the reason why the poor monk has been asking Elder Tang to confirm. It is not that the poor monk is making things difficult for you." The abbot explained again.
This made Tang Seng and others not know what to say. The fact was indeed the same as what the abbot said. They didn't know what to do now.