Chapter 862 (1/2)
Li Shimin excitedly took Xuanzang to the Buddha to worship for four times, and recognized the Royal brother on the spot.
Everyone knows that going to the West must go through thousands of mountains and rivers, many hardships, and countless tiger and leopard demons who eat people and don't spit bones on the road
On this premise, among the more than 1200 monks present today, is there another person besides master Xuanzang who has the courage to go to the west to learn Scriptures for him?
You can't tell him to run away!
To be honest, Li Shimin doesn't care about whether the three Zang Sutra can cure ghosts and subdue demons. The only thing he cares about is that he can cure people and make people good.
To be able to help others means that there will be fewer struggles in the world, so his rule will be much more stable. What he wants is to make Li Tang's rivers and mountains permanent, and the world will always be in the hands of his Li family's descendants.
”Listen, master Xuanzang will be my royal brother from now on.”
After worshipping, Li Shimin held Xuanzang's hand high and loudly announced the matter to all around.
As the old saying goes: a scholar dies for a bosom friend. The Emperor himself recognizes him as a monk as his brother. I'm afraid the monk will be very happy and will work hard for me?
Li Shimin glanced at Xuanzang and saw that Xuanzang's face did not show much happiness, and his expression remained unchanged.
A few days later, outside Chang'an city.
Li Shimin sent Xuanzang out of the city ten miles away. They walked side by side and were reluctant to say goodbye. Next to them, the Minister of civil and military affairs and several attendants led by Tang Monk waited with horses.
Li Shimin stopped and raised his hand. A servant brought up two glasses of wine.
Li Shimin pointed to a cup and said, ”brother Yu, please drink this cup full!”
Xuanzang's eyes showed an emotional color. He hesitated and took up the cup.
Li Shimin squatted down, pinched a pinch of soil on the ground and looked up to put it in Xuanzang's cup. Suddenly, he was stunned.
Xuanzang was holding an empty wine glass.
”Drink?”
”Full drink!”
Li Shimin's expression was stiff. Although he prepared plain wine, how can you refuse as a monk and let me throw a pinch of soil in?
”Your Majesty, this is...”
Xuanzang looked at Li Shimin's fingers.
Li Shimin sprinkled the soil into another glass of wine and said, ”brother Yu, have another cup!”
Xuanzang looked at the wine floating on the floating soil, frowned and said, ”Your Majesty, I shouldn't drink more for the first time.”
Sprinkle soil on the wine. What's the matter?
This is inconsistent with his usual personal hygiene concept. You can't drink!
”This is a plain wine specially prepared by me. It doesn't matter.”
Li Shimin said enthusiastically, ”I hope my younger brother will love his hometown rather than ten thousand liang of gold!”
Xuanzang refused, but he had to bite the bullet, drank wine in the gaze of Li Shimin, and set off on the road with a man and a horse to pass the customs and an ultimatum.
In the sky, Guanyin and Muzha looked at the people who rode away.
Muzha: ”the scripture reader has set out, Bodhisattva!”
Guanyin: ”I see. It's just learning from the west, not going out to play. What's the matter with seven or eight attendants?”
Mu Zha said, ”there should be goblins in front.”
Guanyin nodded and sighed, ”now it's time to find a mount for the scripture reader.”
”Mount?”
Mu Zha was stunned: ”isn't there?”
Guanyin nodded and said, ”you see, although this horse is a thousand miles good foal in the world, when the body is born, where can it go eighteen thousand miles to the west?”
After hearing this, Mu Zha thought and suddenly said, ”it's not ordinary... By the way, Bodhisattva, isn't the mount of Zhenwu a dragon horse?”
”Zhenwu mount?”
Guanyin was stunned. He knew that.
But he heard that the horse had a bigger temper than the owner's. it was a rogue temper.
Let it carry Xuanzang. Those who could have lived to the West should worry about whether they could hold on to the West.
Mu Zha hurriedly said, ”yes, Bodhisattva, we have been busy for so long. This time, learning scriptures from the west is the cooperation between the two sides. Now it's time for him to make some efforts.”
”You follow them all the way first. I'll go to heaven and report to the Jade Emperor.”
Guanyin thought for a moment, looked up at the sky and said, driving the clouds into the sky.
If you can't, just borrow a heavenly horse from Tianting.
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Tianting, Lingxiao hall.
Bai Wei reported the matter of the West Tianmen gate to the Jade Emperor in the hall. He said it was the report. In fact, the jade emperor called Bai Wei to open it in order to cover Lu Chuan's action.
”Tell the jade emperor that the Guanyin Bodhisattva of the South China Sea is coming.”
Then suddenly a spiritual officer came in and reported.
The Jade Emperor's eyes moved: ”please!”
He also knows that Lu Chuan has been busy recently, which means that the plan has officially begun.
Guanyin entered the hall and said, ”I've seen the Jade Emperor!”
The Jade Emperor said, ”I don't know what Guanyin is doing here today?”
Guanyin said, ”to the Great Buddha, my Buddha, the Tathagata, created the three Zang Sutra to enlighten all living beings. Now I have selected a Buddha to go to the west to worship the Buddha and seek Sutra. That person must be familiar to you. It is the reincarnation of the golden cicada.
It's just that there are thousands of mountains and rivers between the western sky and the eastern earth, and there are many demons, tigers and leopards on the road. Therefore, I hope that in the future, when they encounter difficulties and ask for help, the Jade Emperor will allow all fairy friends to lend a helping hand. I'm very grateful. ”
At last, Guanyin raised his palm.
”It's the matter...”
The immortals looked around and suddenly realized that they wanted to pat their chest and agreed, but when they saw that the boss Jade Emperor had not spoken, they resolutely closed their mouth, eyes, nose and heart.
After ”careful consideration”, the Jade Emperor nodded: ”yes!”
Guanyin said: ”thank you, great God. Thank you, immortal friends. In addition, I have one more thing to discuss with emperor Zhenwu...”
In Xuantian palace, Lu Chuan also received Guanyin.
”Mount?” Lu Chuan looked at Guanyin in surprise.
But when he thought about it a little, he knew that the whole dragon family didn't bird the heaven, and there were constant small frictions. There was basically no little white dragon in the journey to the West.
Guanyin said: ”yes, Zhenwu, your mount is a dragon horse. How about lending it to the poor monk and returning it to you intact after the scripture acquisition is completed.”
”Ah, don't worry, I'm not worried about the incomplete horse, but about the incomplete Scripture reader...”
Lu Chuan said, ”let me tell you the truth. We have sent a lot of mounts down to the earth to test the Scriptures. This road should be very interesting.”