第 20 回

The master and his two disciples left Gao Village and continued walking westward.

Sun Wukong led the horse, and Zhu Bajie carried the luggage.

It was summer at that time.

One evening, they arrived outside a village and saw an old man resting under a tree.

Tang Seng walked forward and bowed.

He said he was a monk from the Great Tang in the east and wanted to borrow a place to stay for one night.

The old man was initially very frightened when he saw the appearances of Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie.

Later, seeing that Tang Seng spoke politely and looked kind, he felt relieved and invited them into his home.

The old man prepared vegetarian food and invited them to eat.

Zhu Bajie ate a lot, consuming over ten bowls of rice in a row.

The old man's family secretly watched from outside the door, and they were all surprised.

After finishing the meal, the master and his two disciples packed their belongings and rested at the old man's house.

The next morning, they thanked the old man and set off on the road again.

Not long after walking, a very high and dangerous mountain appeared ahead.

As they were walking, suddenly a strong wind blew.

Sun Wukong sensed the smell of a demon in the wind, immediately took out his golden-hooped staff, and stood in front of Tang Sanzang to protect him.

At that moment, a tiger with very colorful fur jumped out from behind a large rock by the roadside, roaring loudly.

Zhu Bajie was startled, dropped his luggage, picked up his nine-toothed rake, and struck at it.

But that tiger did not fight him, turned around, and ran deep into the forest.

Zhu Bajie shouted loudly and chased after it closely.

Sun Wukong worried that this was the monster's trick, and he said to Tang Monk: Master, wait here, don't go away.

After saying that, he also flew up to chase after it.

The two brothers chased for a while, and the tiger suddenly stopped and turned around.

Zhu Bajie was very happy, raised his rake and struck.

Unexpectedly, when the rake struck down, the tiger turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared, leaving only a complete tiger skin on the ground.

Sun Wukong immediately shouted: Not good.

This is the monster's "lure the tiger away from the mountain" trick.

The two hurriedly ran back to the original place.

They saw the white horse and luggage were still there, but Tang Monk was already gone.

Originally, that monster used a fake body to lure away Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie, while its real body took the opportunity to return and captured Tang Monk.

Zhu Bajie saw that the master was gone and stomped his feet in anxiety.

He cried and said: This is over.

The master was captured by a demon and definitely won't survive.

The mission to fetch the scriptures can't be done, we might as well split up and each go home.

Sun Wukong heard this and got very angry, grabbed Zhu Bajie's big ear, loudly scolded him, told him not to talk nonsense, and to watch the luggage and horse carefully.

Then, Sun Wukong himself jumped onto a cloud, went to find the demon's cave, and went to rescue the master.