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    Default Chapter 18 - Part 7

    Tweety, Sky, Crazee, you are welcome. You'll get the answer below.

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    Sure enough, approximately one hour later, a large group of people swarmed toward the back of the mountain, and arrived outside the little temple. Someone called out, "Go in and search!"

    Xing Dian suddenly sprang up, grabbed his golden pestle, and stood on the vihara's doorway. Wei Xiaobao went to the window and peeked outside. Under the moonlight he saw a dense mass of heads. Turning his head around, he saw Yulin and Xing Chi were still sitting motionless. Shuang'er quietly said, "What should we do?"

    Wei Xiaobao replied in low voice, "When those people rush in, we'll save the Old Emperor, and go out from the back door." After a short pause, he continued, "If along the way we get separated, we'll meet again at Ling Jing Temple."

    Shuang'er nodded and said, "I am only afraid I can't carry the Old ... the Old Emperor."

    "We might have to drag him away," Wei Xiaobao replied.

    Suddenly the people outside shouted one after another, "Who's there randomly breaking through here?" "Grab them!" "Don't let them in!" "Damn it, get them!"

    Shadows of people flashed, two men entered the door, swept past Xing Dian's body. They put their palms together toward Yulin, and then sat cross-legged on the floor. Turned out they were monks wearing gray robes. The door to this vihara was actually narrow, plus Xing Dian's bulky body was blocking it, there was really no gap between Xing Dian and the door, yet these two monks lightly and easily slipped through and came in, it seemed that they did not even touch Xing Dian's clothes. Indeed, nobody knew how these two entered the room.

    Outside, the people were shouting again, "Someone is coming!" "Stop him!" "Get him!" But they heard a series of 'bang! bang! bang!' noise, some people flew out and fell to the ground. Two more monks entered the room. Without saying anything, they sat down a little bit lower than the two monks who came in first. In this way, a pair by a pair, several monks successively entered the room.

    Wei Xiaobao was amused, he wondered how many more monks would come in; if several more pairs came, very soon there would not be enough room to sit in that meditation room. But after the ninth pair, no more monks came in. To his surprise, one of the ninth pair of monks was the Qing Liang Temple's Abbot Cheng Guang. Wei Xiaobao was baffled, but was grateful at the same time. "If these seventeen monks' martial art skill is more or less the same as Cheng Guang's, we don't have to fear even if more enemies were coming," he mused.

    Outside, the people were still making a lot of noise, but nobody dared to rush in. After a while, an old-sounding voice said, loud and clear, "Since Shaolin Temple is determined to stand up for Qing Liang Temple, are you going to take the responsibility over this matter on your own heads too?" In the meditation room, nobody answered.

    After another moment, the old man outside said again, "Very well, since they have showed off the faces of Shaolin Temple's Eighteen Luohan, we'd better leave!" Shouts and yells outside repeated continuously, everybody withdrew down the mountain.

    Wei Xiaobao sized up the eighteen monks; the old ones were approximately sixty, seventy years old, the young ones were approximately in their thirties, some were tall, some were short, some were handsome, some were ugly. Their Buddhist robes were bulging, apparently they all carried weapons. "They are the Shaolin Temple's Eighteen Luohan," he thought, "In that case, Abbot Cheng Guang is also one of the Eighteen Luohan. The old bald thief Yulin is secure in the knowledge that he has a strong backing, turns out he had early on arranged these formidable helpers to escort the Emperor. These monks are meditating in here, I don't know until when they are going to do this. Laozi cannot waste my time with them, sitting here for nothing. Wei Xiaobao must not sit here until he turns into Wei Laobao[8]!"

    Standing up, he went to Xing Chi and knelt down in his presence, saying, "Great Monk, with the Shaolin Temple's Eighteen Luohan escorting your holy self, you, the Great Monk, is as safe and unmovable as Mount Tai. I am prepared to go back, I wonder if you, Senior, have any instruction?"

    Xing Chi opened his eyes; he smiled and said, "Thank you for your trouble. Go back and tell your master: he does not need to go up Mount Wutai and disturb my peaceful meditation. Even if he is here, definitely I won't meet him. Tell him this: if he wants the whole world at peace, 'never raise taxes', these four words [yong bu jia fu] should be firmly planted in his mind. If he can accomplish these four words, it is good enough for me, my heart will be happy."

    "Yes!' Wei Xiaobao replied.

    Xing Chi reached into his bosom and took out a very small bundle, he said, "Give this copy of scripture to your master. Tell him: in the matters of the world, he must let nature take its course, nothing can be forced. It would be best if he could benefit the common people of the Central Plains. But if the common people wanted us to leave, then from the place we came, there we should come back to." While saying that, he lightly patted the little bundle.

    Wei Xiaobao recalled what Tao Hongying had told him; he mused, "Could it be that this is another copy of the Forty-two Chapter Sutra?" Seeing Xing Chi was handing him the bundle over, he reached out and received it with both hands.

    After being silent for half a day, Xing Chi said, "You may go!"

    "Yes!" Wei Xiaobao said. He crawled down and kowtowed.

    "I do not dare," Xing Chi said, "Benefactor, please rise."

    Wei Xiaobao stood up and walked toward the door. Suddenly his mischief arose, he turned his head toward Yulin and said, "Old monk, you have sat for a long time, don't you need to pee?" Yulin acted as if he did not hear anything. Wei Xiaobao giggled, and took a step over the threshold.

    Xing Chi said, "Tell your master, even if his mother is at fault, she will always be his mother, he must not fail to observe etiquette, he also must not harbor grudge toward her."

    Wei Xiaobao turned around to respond, but in his heart he said, "I am not going to pass on this words of yours."

    Xing Chi said, as if he was muttering to himself, "Tell your master to be careful in everything."

    "Yes," Wei Xiaobao replied.

    Back at the Ling Jing Temple, Wei Xiaobao closed the door and opened the bundle. As expected, it was the Forty-two Chapter Sutra, only the envelope was made of yellow silk. He pondered over what Xing Chi had said, and thought that it corresponds with what Tao Hongying had told him. Xing Chi said, 'If the common people wanted us to leave, then from the place we came, there we should come back to.' From outside the mountain pass Manchu people came to the Central Plains; if want to return, naturally they should go back outside the pass. Xing Chi patted the little package once, obviously he was saying that when the Manchus go back, they could rely on this little package to live their lives. Wei Xiaobao also thought, "The Old Emperor told me to give this sutra to Xiao Xuanzi, should I give it to him or not? I have already had five copies in my hands, with this one, altogether I have six. Of the eight copies, I only short two. If I give this to Xiao Xuanzi, I am afraid the five copies I have will be quite useless. Luckily he did say that even if Xiao Xuanzi goes up Mount Wutai, he won't meet him; dead men tell no tales. This is a good thing dropped in front of my door, if I don't embezzle it, I am letting my Wei family's ancestors down." But then he thought about how the young emperor had complete confidence in him, embezzling his stuff means he was unworthy to be his friend, that he was being tactless and impulsive toward a friend, not the character of a hero or a warrior. Besides, even if he embezzled the book, he could not read it anyway, so giving it to a good friend seemed to be the right thing to do.

    By daybreak the next morning, Wei Xiaobao led Shuang'er, Yu Ba, and their retinue going down the mountain. In going to Mount Wutai this time, he managed to see the Old Emperor, and thus achieved the mission Kangxi entrusted to him. Along the way, he acquired Shuang'er, such a good-looking, tender girl [or servant girl] with superior martial art skill; his heart was very happy.

    After walking about a little over ten li, they saw a toutuo [see footnote 1 (on the title of this chapter)] coming from the opposite direction on the mountain road ahead. This toutuo was very tall, compared to that giant monk Xing Dian, it would be difficult to tell who was taller, but he was strangely very thin. Abbot Cheng Guang was already very thin, but this toutuo was at least half as thin as him. His face looked like skin wrapping a skull, his eyes were very deep, he really looked like a zombie. Perhaps it would take four of this toutuo combined to equal one Xing Dian. His long hair was draped across his shoulder, with a steel hoop on the top of his head to control his hair. He wore an oversized cloth robe, which was fluttering in the wind, as if it was hanging on a clothes-hanger.

    Seeing this kind of appearance, Wei Xiaobao was rather scared, he did not dare to look too much, thus he turned his head away and evaded to the other side of the road, letting him walk pass. As the toutuo walked to him, he halted his steps and asked, “Did you come from Qing Liang Temple?”

    “No,” Wei Xiaobao replied, “We came from Ling Jing Temple.”

    The toutuo reached out with his left hand toward Wei Xiaobao’s left shoulder and turned his body around, so that Wei Xiaobao was face-to-face with him. “Are you the little eunuch Xiao Guizi from the Palace?” he asked.

    His big hand pressed on Wei Xiaobao’s shoulder, immediately Wei Xiaobao felt his body went weak, he was unable to move a single step. “Rubbish!” he hastily said, “You think I look like an eunuch? I am Wei Gongzi [young master, son of nobility] of Yangzhou.”

    “Let go of him quickly!” Shuang’er shouted, “How can you be so rude to our family’s Xianggong?”

    The toutuo stretched out his right hand to press on Shuang’er’s shoulder. “Listening to your voice, you must be a little eunuch too,” he said.

    Shuang’er dropped her right shoulder to dodge, her finger swiftly pointed toward his tian huo acupoint, ‘plop’ it hit right on target, but she felt as if her finger was touching am iron panel, her fingertip was in a lot of pain, even her finger was almost broken. “Ah!” she could not help but crying out. And then she felt her shoulder was in pain too, because the toutuo’s hand, which was as big as a palm-leaf fan, had grabbed her.

    “Hey, hey, hey!” the toutuo laughed three times, before saying, “You, this little eunuch, has a very good martial art skill. Formidable, really formidable.”

    Shuang’er’s left leg flew up, ‘Bang!’ it landed on his crotch; this time, she felt as if she was kicking a large rock. “Aiyo!” she cried out, tears flowed out of her eyes.

    “Little eunuch has amazing martial art, really formidable,” the toutuo said.

    “I am not a little eunuch!” Shuang’er shouted, “You are the little eunuch! Aiyo!”

    The toutuo laughed, “Do you think I look like a eunuch?” he asked.

    “Let me go!” Shuang’er shouted, “If you don’t, I am going to curse you.”

    The toutuo said, “You sealed my acupoint, you kicked my thigh, I am not afraid of you; do you think I will afraid your cussing? Your martial art skill is superior, you must be sent out from the Palace, I must search you.”

    “Your martial art skill is even higher,” Wei Xiaobao said, “So you must be sent out from the Palace even more.”

    The toutuo said, “You, little eunuch, muddle things together." With left hand carrying Wei Xiaobao and right hand carrying Shuang’er, he rushed up the mountain as if he was flying. The two young people shouted and screaming, the toutuo did not pay any attention, he carried the two people as if they were nothing, his footsteps were very fast. Yu Ba and the others were dumbstruck, nobody dared to make any noise.

    The toutuo rushed several zhang along the mountain path, suddenly he turned towards the hill; there was no real path there, but he tread on it as if treading on a plain ground. Wei Xiaobao felt the wind whistling past his ears; he thought, “This toutuo is very formidable, could he be he is a mountain god or some demon?”

    After rushing for a while, the toutuo dropped the two people on the ground. He pointed up and said, “If you don’t tell me the truth, I am going to carry you to that mountain peak and toss you down.” What he was pointing at was a very high peak, the top of the peak is hidden in the clouds and mist.

    “Alright,” Wei Xiaobao said, “I’ll tell you the truth.”

    “If you are sensible,” the toutuo said, “Tell me truthfully, who are you? And who is this kid?”

    Dashi Fu [Great Master father],” Wei Xiaobao said, “She is not a kid, she … she is my … my …”

    “Your what?” the toutuo asked.

    “She is my … wife!” Wei Xiaobao said.

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    [8] 'Xiaobao' - little/young treasure, 'Laobao' - old treasure.

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    lol, here comes the good part...

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    Yulin continues to be so frustrating! Poor Xangxi - growing up without a father, wanting to rely on somebody just for once in his life for guidance, then finding his father who only leaves him with four words [in chinese] "Never Raise Taxes".

    Thanks Foxs!

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    Quote Originally Posted by smurf120 View Post
    Poor Xangxi - growing up without a father, wanting to rely on somebody just for once in his life for guidance, then finding his father who only leaves him with four words [in chinese] "Never Raise Taxes".

    Thanks Foxs!
    Thanks Foxs. So it turns out the Old Emperor is a Republican. : )

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    wow, another update Thanks Foxs....always appreciative of the dose.

    If only ruling a country is so simple, never raise Taxes.
    How I wish our Govt take this advice...
    cheerio..

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    Quote Originally Posted by tweety365 View Post
    Tian Di Hui's group meeting sounds an awful lot like my department meetings. A whole lot of talk, but nothing substantial gets accomplished

    The novel has so much more detail than the tv adaptations. Thanks for keeping us so entertained, foxs.
    hahahaha! That's why I never met a meeting I couldn't bluff my way out of....

    After being away for a while, it's good to see that Foxs is still kicking a__ and taking names over here. Great job, man.

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    actually shunzhi had a point. during the last years of the ming dynasty, chongzhen kept on raising the taxes, leaving people with no money and no food. thus, li zicheng garnered support and rebelled, leading to the end of the ming dynasty (see sword stained with royal blood)
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    Thanks for the update foxs.

    How is WXB going to lie his way out of this one I wonder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lzydude View Post
    actually shunzhi had a point. during the last years of the ming dynasty, chongzhen kept on raising the taxes, leaving people with no money and no food. thus, li zicheng garnered support and rebelled, leading to the end of the ming dynasty
    I found the translated ending somewhere on the internet. Spoiler for those who haven't read the Deer and the Cauldron.

    Wei Xiaobao held the collected copies of the forty-two sutras in his hands. Following the dying words of Shen Long Jiao's jiaozhu, he arranged them in the correct colour order. On the bindings could be seen some words which he couldn't read, so he called Shuang-er over to read for him. She read out the secret message hidden in the scriptures.

    "Xianggong, so the secret of the forty-two sutras is this. The words say, "It's the economy, stupid.""

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    Quote Originally Posted by pannonian View Post
    I found the translated ending somewhere on the internet. Spoiler for those who haven't read the Deer and the Cauldron.


    "Xianggong, so the secret of the forty-two sutras is this. The words say, "It's the economy, stupid.""
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    Eh ? How I wish it's so simple. A country run by economist...at least that's what the leader majored in but still it's getting from bad to worse ??
    cheerio..

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    Default Chapter 18 - Part 8

    Lzydude, what's so good? Smurf, Single Whip, crazee, Pannonian, LOL ... I chuckled audibly when I read your comments. At least Shunzhi did not say 'Read my lips'. KChill, welcome back! Sky, go ask Lzydude ...

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    As soon as these two characters ‘wife’ [lao po] came out of his mouth, both the toutuo and Shuang’er were shocked. Shuang’er’s face blushed deep red. “What?” the toutuo asked in surprise, “What wife?”

    “I am not concealing anything from Dashi Fu,” Wei Xiaobao said, “I am a young master of a rich family in Beijing, I fancied this young lady of the family next door, thereupon … we privately agreed to marry each other in the back garden. His father did not agree, so I took her out and we ran away. Look at her, she is a girl, how can she be a little eunuch? You are really doing her injustice. If you don’t believe me, take off her hat and look for yourself.”

    The toutuo took off Shuang’er’s hat, exposing her long beautiful hair. At that time, in the whole of China, other than monks, Taoists, toutuo, nuns and people who had left home, everybody must shave the half front part of their heads. Shuang’er’s long hair rolled down, it hung down straight pass her shoulder, no doubt she was a woman.

    Dashi Fu,” Wei Xiaobao said, “I am begging you, if you hand us over to the government authority, I will lose my life. I’ll give you a thousand taels, just let us go!”

    “In that case,” the toutuo said, “You really are not an eunuch; which eunuch would take other family’s girl to elope together? Humph, humph, you are very young, but your courage is indeed not small.” While saying that, he let him go. He also asked, “What are you doing going up Mount Wutai?”

    Wei Xiaobao replied, “We are going up Mount Wutai to worship Buddha, to ask Bodhisattva to bless and protect us, to let me escape difficulties and become the zhuangyuan, in the future she … my wife, will become a real Madame.” All these ‘privately agreed to marry each other in the back garden’ and ‘escape difficulties and become the zhuangyuan’ and so on he heard from the storytellers when he was still in Yangzhou.

    The toutuo thought for a moment, he nodded his head and said, “So I mistook you for someone else. You may go!”

    Wei Xiaobao was greatly delighted, “Thank you Dashi,” he said, “When we worship Bodhisattva later, we will ask Bodhisattva to bless and protect you, bless and protect Dashi that in the future … you will also be a great Bodhisattva, that you will rise and sit on the same level with Wenshu Pusa [Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness] and Guanyin Pusa [Bodhisattva of Compassion].” Taking Shuang’er’s hand along, they walked down the mountain.

    They only walked for several when the toutuo said, “Something’s not right, come back here! Little miss, your martial art skill is amazing, you sealed my acupoint, you kicked me.” While saying that, he rubbed the tian huo acupoint on his waist, and then he asked, “Who taught you martial art? Which school do you belong to?”

    Shuang’er could not lie, she blushed and shook her head. Wei Xiaobao said, “Her martial art skill is handed down in a family, it was her mama who taught her.”

    “Little miss, what’s your surname?” the toutuo asked.

    Wei Xiaobao said, “This, hee hee … it’s rather inconvenient to say.”

    “What do you mean inconvenient?” the toutuo said, “Tell me quick!”

    “Our surname is Zhuang,” Shuang’er said.

    The toutuo shook his head. “Surname Zhuang?” he said, “That’s not right, you lie to me. There is no such martial art expert among those with surname Zhuang in the world, who can teach a girl with such martial art skill.”

    Wei Xiaobao said, “There are extremely many people with good martial art skill in the world, how can you know?”

    “I was asking this little miss,” the toutuo angrily said, “Don’t interrupt.” While saying that, he pushed lightly on Wei Xiaobao’s shoulder.

    This push was very light, for fear that this youngster could not stand it. When his palm touched Wei Xiaobao's shoulder, he felt Wei Xiaobao easily evaded it. Although his movement was without any strength, the style he used was the move 'grass stooping down by the wind'; where the shoulder turned around, left palm protecting the face and the right palm ready to strike down, actually it was somewhat similar to the toutuo's own school.

    The toutuo was surprised, he tried to grab Wei Xiaobao's chest. Wei Xiaobao sent out a right palm stab with the move 'spirit snake went out of its hole'; the execution was not the least bit inaccurate. 'Plop!' it hit the toutuo's neck. But Wei Xiaobao felt like his fingers were stabbing an iron panel. "Aiyo!" he cried out in pain.

    Shuang'er's pair of palms fluttered in the air to attack the toutuo. The toutuo concentrated his strength at the center of his palm and sealed the acupoint on Wei Xiaobao's chest before turning around to face her. Shuang'er leaped high and crouched low, her movements were light and graceful, but after seven, eight moves, the toutuo's two hands managed to catch her arms. With his left elbow he struck her acupoint to immobilize her, and then he turned around and asked Wei Xiaobao, "You said you are a young master of a rich family; how do you know the qin na [grappling technique] of Shen Long Dao [divine dragon island] of Liao Dong peninsula?"

    "I am a young master of a rich family," Wei Xiaobao replied, "Why can't I know the martial art of Shen Long Island of Liao Dong peninsula? Are you saying that this skill is supposed to be known by only kids from poor family?" While his mouth was uttering whatever he could come up with to buy some time, his mind was racing, "What kind of martial art is the Shen Long Island of Liao Dong peninsula's martial art? Ah, right, the old turtle Hai said that the old wh0re impersonated Wudang Pai's martial art, but actually it was the Snake Island of Liao Dong peninsula's martial art. That Shen Long Island is most likely the same as the Snake Island. That's right, the old wh0re is in cahoots with Shen Long Jiao people, they must dislike the name 'snake' and thus changed it to 'divine dragon'. Xiao Xuanzi's martial art skill was taught by the old wh0re and I often had martial art match with him, unconsciously I learned these several qin na techniques."

    "Rubbish!" the toutuo said, "Who is your Shifu?"

    Wei Xiaobao thought, "If I say I was taught by the old wh0re it's the same as admitting that I am a little eunuch from the Palace." Thereupon he said, "It was my Shushu's [younger uncle] good acquaintance, a fat lady, Liu Yan Gugu who taught me."

    The toutuo was greatly surprised. "Liu Yan?" he asked, "Miss Liu is your Shushu's good acquaintance? Who is your Shushu?"

    "My Shushu is Wei Dabao [da - big]," Wei Xiaobao [xiao - little] replied, "He is Beijing's well-known distinguished and accomplished young master, each time he spends money, it would be a thousand taels, his appearance looks like an actor on the stage. That fat lady was enchanted by him as soon as she saw him. The fat lady oftentimes came to my house in the depth of the night, jumping over the wall of our flower garden. I nagged her to teach me martial art, and so she taught me these several moves."

    Half believing and half doubting, the toutuo asked, "Does your Shushu know martial art?"

    Wei Xiaobao laughed aloud and said, "Does he know farting martial art? He often gets his neck grabbed by Miss Liu Yan, who lifted him up back and forth, without him being able to move the least bit. My Shushu became anxious and cursed her, 'The child is lifting the father'. Liu Yan Gugu laughed and said, 'It's only the child lifting the father, even if the child is lifting the grandfather, it is still not a big deal'."

    He was cursing the toutuo in a roundabout way, but the toutuo did not realize it the least bit; he asked in detail about Liu Yan's appearance, which, surprisingly, Wei Xiaobao was able to explain without the slightest mistake. Wei Xiaobao said, "This fat Gugu loves to wear red embroidered shoes. Dashi Fu, I am guessing that you are in love with her, are you not? When you see her, take her to sleep with you, it would be best if you could sleep with her and would not wake up forever." How would the toutuo know that Liu Yan had already died? On the surface it sounded like Wei Xiaobao was babbling nonsense, while actually he was cursing him with the most poisonous curse.

    The toutuo angrily said, "Little child should not talk nonsense!" But he actually believed him. He reached out toward Wei Xiaobao's lower abdomen and patted it lightly, to unseal his acupoint. Unexpectedly his hand touched the Forty-two-chapter Sutra in Wei Xiaobao's bosom, when he patted, the acupoint was not opened. "What is that?" the toutuo asked.

    "It's a big stack of banknotes I stole from home," Wei Xiaobao replied.

    "Braggart!" the toutuo said, "How can there be that many banknotes?" Reaching into Wei Xiaobao's pocket, he groped around and took the package out. When he untied the package, to his utter amazement, he found a sutra. He was dumbstruck for a moment, and then his face showed utter delight. "Forty-two-chapter Sutra! Forty-two-chapter Sutra!" he called out. Hastily he wrapped it back and put it inside his own pocket. Grabbing Wei Xiaobao by the chest, he raised him high and in a stern voice asked, "Where did you get it from?"

    This question was not easy to answer, Wei Xiaobao laughed. "Tee hee ... hee ... are you asking me? It's complicated and not easy to explain succinctly; I won't be able to tell you everything just in this short moment." He was stalling, while trying to think about some 'covering the sky and seamless' story to swindle this toutuo. Naturally to make up some wild story about where the sutra came from was extremely easy, but now that the book had fallen into the toutuo's hand, to deceive him into handing it back would be extremely difficult.

    The toutuo said in a loud voice, "Who gave it to you?"

    Wei Xiaobao's body was hanging in the air, he suddenly saw seven, eight monks in grey robes on the hillside coming toward them. From their appearance, he knew they were the Eighteen Luohan of Shaolin whom he had seen at the small vihara behind the Qing Liang Temple. Turning his head around, he saw several more monks, together with several monks coming up from the western hillside, there were a total of seventeen, eighteen monks. He was delighted and said in his heart, "Thief toutuo, even if your martial art skill is stronger, you are no match for the Eighteen Luohan of Shaolin."

    "Tell me quick, tell me quick!" the toutuo said. Noticing that Wei Xiaobao was glancing to the east and looking to the west, he followed his gaze and saw on the hillside to the east, north and west, three directions more than a dozen monks were slowly coming up, but he was unconcerned at all. “What do those monks come here for?” he asked.

    Wei Xiaobao said, “They heard Dashi Fu’s martial art skill is superior, they are full of admiration, hence they come here to take you as their master.”

    The toutuo shook his head and said, “I have never received any disciple.” Raising his voice, he called out, “Hey, get the hell out of here quickly, don’t come here to make trouble!” His shout echoed from the mountains on all sides, showing off his astonishing might.

    The eighteen monks did not seem to hear, they continued going up the mountain. An old monk with long eyebrows put his palms together and said, “Dashi, are you the Fat Revered Monk[9] of Liaodong?”

    Wei Xiaobao was still hanging midair, hearing the question, he could not help but burst out laughing. This toutuo was so thin that he was a rarity in the world, yet the old monk asked if he was the Fat Revered Monk; Wei Xiaobao thought that he was ridiculing him.

    To his surprise, the toutuo replied in loud voice, “I am indeed the Fat Toutuo! Are you all here to take me as your master? I don’t accept any disciple! Whom have you studied martial art with?”

    The old monk replied, “Lao Na is Cheng Xin of Shaolin Temple, the humble head of Damo Hall. These are my seventeen Shidi, all are my companions in the Damo Hall.”

    “Ah!” Fat Toutuo exclaimed, he slowly let Wei Xiaobao down. “Turns out all eighteen luohan of Shaolin Temple’s Damo Hall are here. So you are not here to take me as your master. I am alone cannot beat all of you.”


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    [9] Orig. Pang Zunzhe – fat ‘honored sir’, can be referring to a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk

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    thank you foxs!!

    are girls usually married when they're 13yr old??

    this Fat Monk of Liaodong sounds like another naive, crass, follower of Shen Long Jiao.

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    I think everyone is naive when compared to WXB - who must still look like a harmless preteen at this point of the story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wuxiagurl View Post
    thank you foxs!!

    are girls usually married when they're 13yr old??

    this Fat Monk of Liaodong sounds like another naive, crass, follower of Shen Long Jiao.
    In those times, you're supposed to have a few babies when you're 16 as a girl.. 13-14 is normal to be married.
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    Thanks foxs.

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    it appears that most members of TDH and SLJ are not very smart.

    Thanks for the update, foxs!

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    Thank Foxs.
    I love the update..looks like the skinny monk is called fat heh heh heh.....
    so will we see a fat monk called skinny ???
    cheerio..

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    crazee, the answer is yes

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    Quote Originally Posted by athlonkmf View Post
    In those times, you're supposed to have a few babies when you're 16 as a girl.. 13-14 is normal to be married.
    Wow, then isn't Fang Yi considered an old maid then? Why isn't she married eventhough she is so beautiful and has a boyfriend? Lemme guess, they're all about restoring the Ming Dynasty and have no time for personal lives?

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    Quote Originally Posted by wuxiagurl View Post
    Wow, then isn't Fang Yi considered an old maid then? Why isn't she married eventhough she is so beautiful and has a boyfriend? Lemme guess, they're all about restoring the Ming Dynasty and have no time for personal lives?
    I suppose the prettier a girl is the older she get's married, in hokkien it's called "tiau kay"
    or "tieu kar" in cantonese aka "hang price" "diào jie»·" waiting for better suitors ?
    cheerio..

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