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Tang Seng and the others heard a sound, walked over to look, and saw Zhu Bajie tied to a tree, shouting loudly in pain.

Tang Seng immediately asked Sha Seng to untie the rope.

Sun Wukong smiled and showed Bajie the note written by the Bodhisattva.

After reading it, Bajie realized that the Bodhisattva was testing him, and he felt very embarrassed.

He knelt on the ground and apologized to his master.

Sha Seng laughed at him from the side: "Second brother is really amazing, able to marry four Bodhisattvas."

Upon hearing this, Bajie's face turned red, and he hurriedly said: "Good brother, don't say anymore."

From now on, I will definitely protect our master well on the journey to the Western Heaven.

Seeing that he had admitted his mistake, Tang Seng forgave him.

They packed their things and continued walking westward.

After walking for a long time, they saw a tall and beautiful mountain.

This mountain is called Longevity Mountain, and there is a Taoist temple in the mountain, called Wuzhuang Temple.

The temple master is Zhenyuan Daxian, and he and Tang Seng were good friends in the past.

On this day, Zhenyuan Daxian had something to do and needed to go out.

Before leaving, he said to his two young disciples: "Soon, a Tang Seng will pass by here; he is my old friend."

You must treat him well and also give him two ginseng fruits to eat.

The ginseng fruit is the most precious fruit in Wuzhuang Temple.

It looks like a small baby; smelling it can make one live for a long time, and eating one can make one live for tens of thousands of years.

This tree bears fruit only once in a very long time, making it extremely rare.

Not long after Zhenyuan Daxian left, Tang Seng and his disciples really arrived at Wuzhuang Temple.

The two little disciples saw the person their master mentioned had arrived, so they invited them in to rest.

Tang Seng told Sun Wukong to go to the back to watch the horses, told Sha Seng to watch the luggage, told Zhu Bajie to go make food, and sat down to rest himself.

The two little disciples saw that Tang Seng's three disciples were all absent, so they went and took two ginseng fruits, inviting Tang Seng to eat them.

Tang Seng saw that the fruit looked like a child, was very scared, and refused to eat it no matter what was said.

The two little disciples said many times that this was an immortal fruit, but Tang Seng just didn't believe it.

They had no choice, so they took the fruit back to their own room.

One said: This monk doesn't recognize a treasure.

Leaving the fruit here is useless, so why don't we eat it?

The other agreed.

They then stayed in the room, each eating one.

These words were heard by Zhu Bajie, who was cooking in the kitchen.

Bajie heard that there was such a good fruit and really wanted to eat it.

He immediately ran to the backyard and quietly told Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong was very happy to hear this, so he made himself invisible and entered the little disciple's room.

He saw a golden mallet on the table and took it away.

Sun Wukong took the golden mallet and went to the back garden, where he indeed saw a big tree with fruits that looked like little children, very fragrant.

He jumped onto the tree and used the golden mallet to hit a fruit.

The fruit fell to the ground and disappeared in an instant.

Sun Wukong was very puzzled and called out the local earth god to ask the reason.

The earth god said: "When the ginseng fruit touches the soil, it will burrow into it."

You need to use cloth to catch it below.

Sun Wukong knew the method and climbed up the tree again.

He asked Bajie to use clothes to catch below, and he himself hit three fruits on the tree, all caught.

They returned to the room, Bajie was anxious, picked up a fruit, swallowed it in one bite, not knowing what it tasted like.

Sun Wukong and Sha Seng ate slowly, the fruit was very sweet and delicious.

After Bajie finished his own, seeing them eat deliciously, he still wanted to eat, so he asked Sun Wukong to go steal again.

Sun Wukong said with a smile: "You fool, being able to eat one is already good enough, don"t be too greedy."

Bajie didn"t listen, kept begging him, and spoke loudly.

The sound of their talking was heard by the two little disciples next door.

The two little disciples were suspicious in their hearts and immediately ran to the back garden to count the ginseng fruits.

Counting, they discovered four fruits were missing.

They were very angry, thinking that Tang Seng's disciples stole them, so they ran ahead to find Tang Seng and tell him about this matter.

Tang Seng had no idea at all, so he had to call out his three disciples to ask.