AWB Chapter 167 Even if you're not a monk, I'll still arrest you.
Chapter 167 Even if you're not a monk, I'll still arrest you.
Not long after, the female shopkeeper reappeared at the door, carrying a basket of fruit as she walked in.
"Have some fruit to fill your stomachs first."
Upon seeing the fruit, Pigsy, who had been standing obediently to the side waiting, could no longer contain himself and rushed to the table in an instant.
Before anyone could react, he had already reached out his large hand and grabbed a banana without hesitation, putting it in his mouth.
"Mmm...delicious!" Pigsy mumbled incoherently as he wolfed down his food, his cheeks bulging.
When the female shopkeeper turned around and saw Zhu Bajie's bald head, her eyes widened and her face turned deathly pale.
She exclaimed in panic, "You...you are monks!"
Before she could finish speaking, she turned and tried to rush out the door.
In the blink of an eye, Sun Wukong rushed forward, quickly grabbed the female shopkeeper, and used his other hand to tightly cover her mouth.
Seeing this, Chen Yi hurriedly stepped forward.
He quickly waved his hands at the female shopkeeper and said, "Boss, boss! Don't shout!"
Immediately afterwards, Chen Yi took a deep breath and whispered to the female shopkeeper, "We are indeed monks, but we are not bad people."
"We are ascetic monks on our way to the Western Paradise to worship Buddha and seek scriptures. We have gone through countless hardships along the way and finally made it here."
"We have nowhere to go tonight, so please, boss, have mercy and let us stay here for the night!"
After saying this, Chen Yi hesitated for a moment, then took out a gold ingot from his spatial storage and placed it in the female shopkeeper's hand.
"Boss! Please have mercy!"
The female shopkeeper stared wide-eyed at the gold in her hand.
She looked at the gentle young man before her, then glanced down at the gold in her hand, and began to hesitate.
After a fierce internal struggle, she finally gritted her teeth and said as if she had made a great decision, "Alright! In that case, you can stay here tonight."
"But let me make this clear from the start: you must leave before dawn tomorrow and absolutely cannot linger!"
Upon hearing the female shopkeeper agree to take them in, Chen Yi nodded hurriedly and replied, "Okay, thank you so much, boss! We'll definitely leave before dawn!"
The female shopkeeper then told them not to go out before hurriedly leaving the room.
She went to the kitchen and ordered the cook to prepare some vegetarian food.
The waiter muttered, "Why eat vegetarian food? Everyone else is eating meat."
The female shopkeeper's son, who was drinking with his employees, seemed to have overheard something and pulled his mother aside to ask her.
The female shopkeeper whispered, "They are monks."
The shopkeeper's son exclaimed in surprise, "What?!"
Female shopkeeper: "Shh! Don't make a sound!"
The shopkeeper's son's eyes flashed with joy. The government had issued a notice that would reward one thousand taels of silver for each monk arrested. He had just seen it; the group his mother had served consisted of five people, five monks, which meant five thousand taels of silver!
Without hesitation, he went out and called the officers and soldiers back.
The people inside were eating when Sun Wukong was the first to hear the noise and immediately became alert.
Sha Wujing asked, "Senior Brother, what's wrong?"
Sun Wukong's eyes turned slightly cold: "The owner of this shop has told the soldiers about our whereabouts."
Pigsy exclaimed in surprise, "What should we do? Should we fight?"
Sun Wukong: "Of course we'll fight!"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Liuer immediately stopped him, saying, "No, we can't do it!"
“Those officers and soldiers are just ordinary people. If they were to fight you, who knows how many would die or be injured?”
Pigsy complained, "Master! Even if you don't hit them, they'll hit us!"
Sha Wujing chimed in, "Yes, Master."
Eleven raised his fist and said fiercely, "Beat up the bad guys!"
Chen Yi patted his son's bald head and laughed, "What are you fighting about? You're just a little brat, you're not even good enough to be someone's vegetable supplier."
Chen Yi suggested, "How about this, Brother Jiang and Wujing go hide in my space first."
"Bajie, you know the Thirty-Six Transformations, right? Transform into someone with hair, not bald."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Liuer nodded repeatedly and praised, "That's excellent. Brother Chen, you always have so many ideas."
Chen Yi smiled and put the two large and one small objects into his space.
Pigsy also transformed into a big fat man with hair.
Just as the group sat down, the soldiers pushed open the door and entered.
Sun Wukong glanced at the man behind the leading soldier and realized that the one who had tipped off the shopkeeper was actually the shopkeeper's son.
The female shop owner then rushed over and began to beat her son.
"You unfilial son! How dare you do such a heinous thing!"
"What...what am I supposed to do with this...?"
The leading soldier frowned as he looked at the three composed men. His hawk-like gaze fell on the shopkeeper's son, and he said in a deep voice, "Didn't you say there were monks? Where are they?"
The shopkeeper's son glanced at Chen Yi and the other two, and immediately panicked, because all three of them had hair and were not monks.
When the female shopkeeper saw Bajie's appearance, she was also very surprised. This person was bald before, how could he grow hair in such a short time?
However, she did not make a fuss; instead, she breathed a sigh of relief.
The shopkeeper's son anxiously explained, "Sir, it's absolutely true! There were originally five of them, but now there are only three left. Two ran away, so the other two must be monks!"
Pigsy snorted coldly: "There are no monks here, you're talking nonsense!"
The leading officer glared at the shopkeeper's son and shouted to his men, "Take them down!"
Chen Yi: "?!?!?!?!"
Are they arresting people who aren't monks?
Sun Wukong angrily retorted, "We are not monks, what right do you have to arrest us?"
The leading officer said, "If I say you are, then you are!"
We'll just shave their heads and the money will be ours.
Just as the soldiers were about to rush forward, Sun Wukong blew a breath, and instantly the room was filled with thick fog.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Sun Wukong grabbed Chen Yi and flew away, kicking Zhu Bajie before leaving to remind him to run.
The officers and soldiers groped around in the fog, but could only grasp at air.
When the fog dissipated, the three had already vanished without a trace.