Chapter 238

The Arhat who was holding the excrement—no, holding the excrement-scriptures—saw Rulai's expression and retreated in fright.

Rulai composed himself, trying to look as dignified as possible. "Destined One, you are not on the journey to seek scriptures, but have appeared in the Princess Mansion in the Great Tang capital."

"And the place where the scriptures were scattered is, coincidentally, right in the capital of the Great Tang."

"Furthermore, according to my investigation, the scriptures in the scripture treasury, although burned, all have traces. Only one collection of the Tripitaka Scriptures is empty, without a trace."

"Just now, I have checked clearly; those scriptures stained with filth are exactly the missing collection!"

"Don't you think you owe me a plausible explanation?"

Once this was mentioned, Tang An became spirited too.

"Explanation?" Tang An drank two sips of water to smooth things over, "Explanation for what?"

"What is there to explain? It would be fine if you didn't mention it, but since you did, I still have to ask you for an endorsement fee, a mental distress fee, and a labor fee!"

"Do you know that I was also hit by a pile of scriptures falling from the sky? It almost killed me!"

"When I saw that the scriptures should be Buddhist scriptures, I thought of my duty as the Destined One."

"As the Destined One, my mission is naturally to promote Buddhism."

She spoke eloquently, her expression one of great responsibility.

"At the time, I thought it was you, Rulai, opening a back door for me, not letting me go to seek scriptures, but directly letting me return to the Great Tang to promote Buddhism, so that's why I brought the scriptures back to the Great Tang."

Rulai just opened his mouth, but Tang An gestured for him not to be in a hurry to speak.

"Don't ask me why I didn't ask Lingshan's intention; after all, it's a matter of going through the back door, is it glorious to talk about it?"

"I am also thinking of you, Buddha; I am also preserving your image and reputation in front of your subordinates, Buddha."

The various Buddhas looked at Rulai; clearly, some people had been moved by Tang An, truly believing that Rulai had done this in secret.

It wasn't that Tang An was so convincing; it was mainly that Rulai's way of doing things sometimes really was...

Therefore, they were easily led astray by Tang An.

"Enough." Rulai scolded Tang An, "Just speak plainly, why did you let mortals use the scriptures to wipe away filth!"

"I gave them?"

"I'm wronged, Rulai; you really have wronged me here."

"Didn't you say that my Great Tang is vast and populous, full of deceit and fraud, unfilial and unloyal, unkind and unjust, and has committed boundless sins?"

"So I thought I would take them out to help everyone eliminate their sins."

"In order to promote Buddhism, do you know how much egg money I had to pay out just to get the common people willing to take the scriptures?"

"Hey, Rulai, let's not talk about other things first; can you reimburse me for the egg money?"

Rulai's expression was almost impossible to maintain; even the area around his eyes twitched.

"Tsk, if you won't reimburse me, then don't, you're stingy."

Tang An had a generous attitude of not holding it against them, and continued: "As for why they used the scriptures to wipe their butts..."

Speaking of this, Tang An almost couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Although she held back the laughter, the corners of her mouth couldn't be suppressed no matter what.

"I think you are right, Rulai, you are so right. They are indeed vast and populous, full of deceit and fraud; look, even you, Rulai, have been deceived."

She tried hard to purse her lips, not letting herself laugh too happily.

But she couldn't help it, she really couldn't help it; she was about to suffer internal injuries from holding it in.

Looking at Rulai's expression again, it was a stark contrast to Tang An's.

Rulai's face was so black that if you added some water, you could write calligraphy with it.

"Do you think that by saying this, I will believe you?"

Tang An shrugged and sat back in her grand master chair. "Whether you believe it or not is your business, Rulai; whether I let you, Rulai, believe it is my business."

"Don't worry about how much of what I said is true or false. But the matter, I have already told you exactly as it happened."

"If you ask again, who stole the scriptures, who has such great ability, and why would they give them to me?"

Tang An beckoned, and the Qingping Sword came before her. "Why don't you ask it?"

Once these words were out, let alone Rulai and the others, even Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha had extremely colorful expressions.

Everyone knows how to shift blame, but this move of shifting blame, except for Tang An, really no one dared to do.

After all, the one she was shifting it to wasn't someone else, but a Saint!

And among the Saints, the one who could least be offended.

In the void.

Tongtian Jiaozhu saw this scene and didn't have any anger; he even lay back eating immortal fruit, watching with great interest.

Back to the Princess Mansion.

Tang An gestured for Rulai to look at the Qingping Sword, "You dare to come to me with such a grand display, do you dare to go to him with such a grand display?"

This sentence could be said to have pressed Rulai's face and dignity into the ground and rubbed them fiercely.

Rulai's heart was already a storm, but with the Qingping Sword there, and the one who had just suppressed the myriad Buddhas, he was also incomparably clear that he could not touch Tang An today!

"Tsk, your state of mind is not well-cultivated either, Rulai; look at your face, it's almost the same color as the excrement on those scriptures."

"Also, look at how angry you are, you're almost as angry as a pufferfish; you won't explode, will you?"

She stared at Rulai with novelty, "If you explode, that's fine too; I haven't seen Buddha Qi explode yet, I'm quite curious."

Rulai Fozu took a deep breath; he was thinking about how to solve this matter.

Only he didn't notice that Tang An's expression had changed, and she was currently looking at him with a sympathetic gaze.

Because Tang An knew that Rulai had been talking about the scripture treasury the whole time, and he didn't even know that Lingshan's treasury was also empty.

Poor Rulai, why is his luck so bad? Of all people to meet, why did he have to meet her?

Feel sorry for him for two seconds, no more than that.

Just when the matter seemed to be at a stalemate, Guanyin Bodhisattva arrived.

Not only did she arrive, but she also brought the second thunderclap with her.

That second thunderclap was none other than Anatuo, who had had his treasury key snatched, been beaten half to death, and almost lost his life.

After Tang An finished her business, she threw him to Guanyin. She let Guanyin heal him, and then wait for the signal to appear.

What signal? Naturally, it was Tang An rubbing the flower ornament between her brows, used as a signal to notify Guanyin to come.

As for why Anatuo was so cooperative? Because he was seriously injured and not yet recovered, he could only be forcibly taken away by Guanyin.

"Buddha!"

"Buddha—"

When Anatuo saw the Buddha again, tears were almost falling.

Heaven knows what kind of hellish life he had been living since meeting the Destined One!

"Hi—" Tang An even greeted Anatuo with a smile.

Anatuo turned his head and saw Tang An; he was so scared he shuddered and subconsciously hid behind Rulai.

"Buddha, it's her! She conspired with Guanyin to set a trap, snatched my treasury key, and beat me into serious injury!"

"Buddha, you must absolutely..."

As Anatuo was speaking, he suddenly felt an aura so oppressive it was suffocating.

He looked up at Rulai and was so scared he knelt on the ground right then and there.

No, what happened? He had never seen Rulai Fozu lose his composure like this before.

"You just said, treasury key?" Rulai felt his blood almost flowing in reverse; his heart was already congested with a mouthful of blood.

"Quick!"

"Go check the treasury!!!"