Sun Wukong nodded and said, "Okay."
Fang Jian then fell asleep, and Sun Wukong said to Erlang Shen a moment later, "I'll take a nap too. Call me when the lotus root soup is ready."
Erlang Shen nodded dazedly and said, "Okay."
Then Sun Wukong also fell to the ground and fell asleep. After an unknown amount of time, Erlang Shen looked up at the iron pot and saw that the water had boiled. However, he smelled it and found that there was no aroma of lotus root soup. So he shook his head and said, "It seems that I need more water."
Stew it for a while, Xiaotian Dog, you stay here and watch. Call me when the lotus root soup is done."
After saying this, Erlang Shen lay down on the jade table and fell into a deep sleep in less than ten breaths.
...
Time flies and three days have passed.
On the Yuhua Terrace, Fang Jian slowly woke up. He first opened his eyes, was confused for a moment, and then stared at the clear sky.
Then he seemed to remember something, sat up instantly and looked around.
Erlang Shen had already woken up and was sitting at the desk waiting quietly. When he saw Fang Jian wake up, he couldn't help but smile.
Fang Jian hurriedly stood up and tried to salute Erlang Shen, but Erlang Shen raised his hand and said, "You are now one of the Four Friends of Ling Xiao. There is no need to be polite in private."
Fang Jian was stunned when he heard this, and then memories flooded into his mind, and the scenes of that night instantly appeared in his mind.
Fang Jian was stunned when he saw the memory in his mind. He wanted to laugh but couldn't. Then he turned his head and saw Nezha still sleeping in the iron pot. The fire under the iron pot had been extinguished long ago, but there was still half of the water in the pot.
But Nezha is covered with a cassock. Isn’t that the purple gold cassock worn by Sun Wukong?
Fang Jian looked at Sun Wukong again, but saw that he was still sleeping on the table.
At this moment, there was a sound of splashing water. Fang Jian only saw Nezha turning over in the iron pot, and then muttered, "Why is it so cold even with the quilt covering it?"
'Puff'
Fang Jian couldn't hold back his laughter any longer, and this laugh also woke up Nezha. He suddenly stood up and looked around with confused eyes. After twenty breaths, he gradually regained his consciousness.
"Ah!" Nezha suddenly cried out, "My hand!"
He hurriedly looked at his left hand and breathed a sigh of relief when he found it was intact. Then he sat up from the iron pot and looked at Fang Jian angrily.
Fang Jian quickly said, "Don't look at me. I'm not the only one who wants to drink lotus root soup."
Then another voice rang out, "You snatched my robes away while I was sleeping."
Nezha looked at Sun Wukong, who was already sitting there awake, and threw the cassock in his hand back with a look of disgust, saying, "Who would want a tattered cassock?"
Sun Wukong was not angry. He just picked up the cassock and casually put it on himself and said with a smile: "This is my Buddhist robe. You don't need to be interested in it."
At this time, Nezha asked Erlang Shen with a murderous look on his face: "No one saw what happened when we got drunk that night, right?"
As Nezha finished speaking, Sun Wukong and Fang Jian looked at Erlang Shen with concern.
"I still want to stay in Buddhism, and I can't afford to lose face with this person." Sun Wukong also said to Erlang Shen.
Erlang Shen smiled and said, "Don't worry, no one else has seen it except me."
"That's good." Sun Wukong, Nezha and Fang Jian breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, Fang Jian suddenly exclaimed, "It's been three days. No, I have to return to Xitian Mansion immediately."
Sun Wukong raised his eyes and glanced at Fang Jian, then nodded and said, "It's time for me to return to the Buddhist kingdom of India."
Upon hearing this, Erlang Shen immediately stood up and said, "Okay, then we will meet again someday."
"Okay." Everyone nodded.
Afterwards, everyone packed up, and then Erlang Shen personally sent Sun Wukong and Fang Jian out of the Taoist temple. Sun Wukong directly rode his somersault cloud and flew towards the south of Jambudvīpa.
After bidding farewell to Erlang Shen, Nezha, the Six Friends of Meishan, Roaring Sky Dog, and Heidan, Fang Jian also rode on the Third Prince and headed straight for Xiniu Hezhou.
On the way back to Xitian Mansion, Fang Jian summarized his experience. He had gained a lot from this banquet. The first was becoming one of the "Four Friends of Lingxiao." The second was learning from Sun Wukong that there were differences within the Buddhist community regarding the Heavenly Court, and that he could win over some of them.
This would be of great help to what he would do in Xiniu Hezhou later. He could even use the differences within the Buddhist sect to divide and attack the Buddhist sect in Xiniu Hezhou.
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