Originally posted by barsoomcore:
They use Yan-Xi to get access to the rich merchants and powerful governors (cause their wives and daughters always want to invite him for dinner) -- but then make sure to send him off in the wrong direction while Yen "stumbles across and deals with" the "demon".
This is great! Here's some more detail:
Yan-Xi uses his sexy looks to get them invited to dinner. Yen Che-Hsia goes along, because it would be rude not to invite a Taoist monk like him to dinner, and who knows? He might spread some enlightenment while he's there. No rich person in their right minds would invite Chu Pa-Chieh to dinner, though. He's a barbarian and he's dirty. So, Chu stays behind - he tells Yan-Xi he's gonna go drink at a local inn.
During dinner, Yen makes sure that Yan-Xi goes off somewhere private. Usually this is pretty easy, because there's always some woman in the household who wants to take him off somewhere quiet and discreet, and he's always gone for a while because he's too dense to pick up on flirtatious remarks.
When Yan-Xi leaves, Yen gives a signal to Chu, who's waiting outside. When Chu gets the signal, he sneaks in, disguised as a demon, and begins to raise a ruckus, usually in the kitchen (so he can get the food that he missed out on). Of course, the host calls on Yen Che-Hsia, the famous demon hunter, for help. Yen feigns fatigue, laziness, and/or fear in order to extract an outrageous sum from his host. Then, he merely walks up to Chu, scowls, and recites a sutra. Chu runs off screaming, Yen collects Yan-Xi, and they go back to the inn, where they find Chu waiting for them.
If Yan-Xi ever finds it strange that almost every time they get invited to dinner, a demon appears while he's not there, Yen explains to him that demons love to torment the rich, because they have such nice things, but that they'd obviously never appear while the great warrior Yan-Xi was in the room.
