noveltune Chapter 54: 2. Lang Shen takes on a whole courtyard of wanted criminals! So what if he's the Ja
Chapter 54: 2. Lang Shen takes on a whole courtyard of wanted criminals! So what if he's the Ja
Sun Wukong was squatting on the roof, eating a peach.
The moment she saw that silver figure, she stopped eating the peach.
His eyes narrowed.
A glint flashed in his sharp eyes.
"Yo."
A single word was squeezed out from the corner of his mouth.
"Our old rival has arrived."
Erlang Shen Yang Jian walked into the valley at a moderate pace, neither too fast nor too slow, neither too hurried nor too hasty.
Calm.
Calm and composed.
Like a knife drawn from its sheath but not yet raised.
The celestial hound followed behind, its nose constantly sniffing, all the way from the mouth of the valley to the gate of the manor.
After sniffing, it called out twice to Yang Jian.
Yang Jian patted the head of the Celestial Hound.
"I know."
He looked up at the villa.
A crooked signboard.
Vegetable garden.
Flower field.
A campfire.
Several clean clothes were hanging on the clothesline.
A few people were sitting scattered in the courtyard.
Yang Jian's third eye rotated slightly.
He scanned everyone in the yard.
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is squatting on the roof.
Nezha, the third prince of Heaven, sat at the doorway whittling a wooden stick.
Red Boy squatted by the fire, turning over sweet potatoes.
Princess Iron Fan is busy in the kitchen.
The Jade Rabbit in the Moon Palace is watering the flower field.
Marshal Tianpeng (Pigsy) is weeding in the vegetable garden.
General Sha Wujing, the curtain-roller, is sweeping the courtyard.
Yang Jian frowned slightly.
The three bodyguards of the pilgrimage team.
The prince who defected from Heaven.
A wanted criminal from the demon race and his mother.
The runaway fairy pet from the Moon Palace.
They're all in one courtyard.
Yang Jian's gaze finally landed on the young man sitting on the stone stool at the entrance of the courtyard.
Plain clothes.
Straw sandals.
He had a broken wooden stick tucked into his waistband.
He was holding a bowl and drinking something.
He looked like an ordinary person.
Yang Jian walked to the courtyard gate and stood still.
The three-pointed, double-edged sword was planted on the ground.
He looked at Lu Chen.
"You're Lu Chen?"
"Yes."
"Your manor is like a haven for criminals."
The sound wasn't loud.
But everyone in the courtyard heard it.
Nezha paused for a moment while whittling the wooden stick.
Red Boy's Samadhi True Fire erupted from his shoulders.
Pigsy poked his head out from the vegetable garden.
Princess Iron Fan stood up straight at the kitchen doorway.
Sun Wukong jumped down from the roof.
He pulled the golden cudgel out of his ear and slammed it into the ground.
"Yang Jian".
"Sun Wukong".
The two people looked at each other.
Back when the Heavenly Court besieged Flower Fruit Mountain, these two fought to a standstill.
Erlang Shen Yang Jian is the only person in Heaven who fought Sun Wukong to a draw in a direct confrontation.
Seventy-three transformations versus seventy-two transformations.
A three-pointed, double-edged sword against a golden cudgel.
That battle remains a classic that is still talked about with great interest throughout the Three Realms.
The relationship between the two is quite delicate.
Not friends.
They are not enemies.
It's the kind of relationship where both parties acknowledge each other's strengths, but their positions are opposed.
"What are you doing here?" Sun Wukong asked in a lukewarm tone.
"The Jade Emperor sent me to take a look."
"What are you looking at?"
"Let's see what's going on here." Yang Jian's gaze swept around the courtyard. "Now I see."
"What did you see?"
"A bunch of wanted criminals from Heaven and Buddhism are playing house in a mortal's courtyard."
Sun Wukong narrowed his eyes.
"Who are you calling a wanted criminal?"
"Nezha." Yang Jian didn't evade the question and directly called out, "The Third Prince of Heaven has abandoned his post and has not returned yet. The Heavenly Court has already issued three decrees."
Nezha stood up and spun the Qiankun Ring twice in his hand.
"What's it to you?"
Yang Jian ignored Nezha and continued speaking.
"The Jade Rabbit, a celestial pet from the Moon Palace, descended to the mortal realm without its master's permission. Chang'e has already reported this to the Heavenly Court."
The jade rabbit shrank back slightly.
"Red Boy, also known as the Mountain Demon King, should have been subdued by Guanyin on the pilgrimage list. Now that he's here, it's as if he was snatched from the hands of Buddhism."
Red Boy bared his teeth.
"Princess Iron Fan. Demon race, protecting Red Boy."
Princess Iron Fan walked out of the kitchen doorway, holding a banana leaf fan in her hand.
Yang Jian counted everyone in the courtyard one by one.
Then his gaze returned to Lu Chen.
"And you."
"A mortal destroyed the main hall of Mount Ling, stole the magic weapon of Li Tianwang of Heaven, and publicly insulted the Buddha."
"They blocked the pilgrimage route for over half a year and refused to budge."
"Taking in deserters from Heaven and Buddhism."
"Lu Chen".
Yang Jian's third eye flashed with golden light.
"What else could your manor be but a haven for criminals?"
The atmosphere in the courtyard was extremely tense.
Sun Wukong gripped his golden cudgel tightly.
Nezha stepped onto the Wind Fire Wheels.
Red Boy's Samadhi True Fire began to heat up.
Princess Iron Fan slightly raised her banana leaf fan.
At the touch of a hair.
Lu Chen held the bowl.
I took a sip.
lay down.
"Erlang Shen."
"Um."
"Are you finished speaking?"
"That's all."
"Then come in and sit down."
Yang Jian was taken aback.
"Would you like a sweet potato? It's freshly baked."
Yang Jian stared at Lu Chen.
He was trying to determine whether the person was being provocative or genuinely treating him to a meal.
I looked at it for three seconds.
get conclusion.
This person was genuinely treating us.
Yang Jian put away his three-pointed double-edged sword and slung it over his shoulder.
I stepped into the courtyard.
The celestial dog followed behind, its nose still sniffing.
When it smelled the sweet potato, it wagged its tail.
Sun Wukong watched Yang Jian walk in, then looked at Lu Chen.
The corner of his mouth twitched.
"You just let him in like that?"
"Since we're already here," Lu Chen picked up a sweet potato from beside the fire and handed it to Yang Jian. "We can't just let him stand at the door in the wind."
Yang Jian took the sweet potato.
I looked down.
I didn't eat.
I sat down at the stone table.
The three-pointed, double-edged knife leaned against the stone table.
The Celestial Dog lay down at Yang Jian's feet, its nose nudging towards the sweet potato.
"Those people you were talking about earlier." Lu Chen also sat down, facing Yang Jian across the stone table.
"Whether they are wanted criminals or defectors."
Have you ever thought about this?
Yang Jian looked at Lu Chen.
Why did they come here?
Yang Jian did not answer.
"Nezha was imprisoned under a tower by his own father for hundreds of years, and no one in Heaven cared about it."
"The Jade Rabbit was treated as a tool by her master, and no one in the Moon Palace spoke up for her."
"Red Boy is about to be forcibly taken away by the Buddhist sect, his demonic nature will be erased, he will be fitted with five golden hoops, and he will never see his mother again."
"Where else could they go if they didn't come here?"
"Has the Heavenly Court ever intervened in their affairs?"
"Has the Buddhist community ever interfered with them?"
"Who's been in charge?"
Yang Jian's hand tightened slightly on the sweet potato.
Lu Chen looked into Yang Jian's eyes.
"Erlang Shen."
"You yourself are someone who has been mistreated by the Heavenly Court."
Yang Jian's third eye suddenly contracted.
These words were like a needle, precisely piercing the spot he least wanted to be touched.
Yang Jian's background is known throughout the Three Realms.
His mother was Yao Ji, the Jade Emperor's sister.
Yao Ji secretly descended to the mortal realm and married a mortal named Yang Tianyou, giving birth to Yang Jian.
The Jade Emperor was furious and imprisoned Yao Ji under Peach Mountain.
Yang Jian split the mountain to save his mother.
But what happens after they're rescued?
The Heavenly Court didn't give him a single kind word.
He made so many contributions, so what kind of treatment did the Heavenly Court give him?
"Follow orders, not pronouncements."
To put it nicely, it's called "special treatment".
To put it bluntly, it's like "keeping them outside and not letting them in."
The Jade Emperor never officially acknowledged this nephew.
All of Yang Jian's merits and achievements are recorded in the Heavenly Court's Book of Merits as "Erlang Manifesting Saint True Lord".
It is not "Yang Jian, the nephew of the Jade Emperor".
This identity has been deliberately avoided for thousands of years.
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