Searching the Cave to Capture the Fiend They Meet Longevity

Searching the Cave to Capture the Fiend They Meet Longevity The Reigning Monarch Saves the Little Boys The story tells how the royal aide dragged the imitation Tang Priest out of the government hostel and marched him, heavily surrounded by royal guardsmen, straight to the gates of the palace, where he said to the eunuch gate officer, "Please be so good as to report to His Majesty that we have brought the Tang Priest." The eunuch officer hurried into the palace to pass this on to the deluded king, who ordered that they be brought in. All the officials knelt at the foot of the steps to the throne hall, leaving the imitation Tang Priest standing alone in the middle of them. "King of Bhiksuland," he shouted, "what have you summoned me here to say to me?" "We are sick with a chronic illness that has dragged on for many a day without any improvement," the king replied. "Now the Elder of the Nation has to our good fortune presented us with a prescription that has been made up. All that is needed now is an adjuvant. The reason we have sent for you, reverend sir, is to ask......