Zhu Bajie did not catch the mockery in Sun Wukong's words, or perhaps he did but did not care. His mind was now filled with images of Lianlian, Aiai, and Zhenzhen. He twisted about and said:
"Didn't you all say you didn't want them?"
Then Zhu Bajie's expression changed.
He turned and bowed toward Tang Sanzang.
"Master, it isn't that Old Pig doesn't want to accompany you... It's just that Old Pig is indispensable at home. If anything happens to Master on the road, just have that stinking monkey fly over with a message. Old Pig will definitely come help!"
As he said this,
Zhu Bajie suddenly froze.
"Eh, that's right!"
"Though Old Pig doesn't have Monkey Brother's Somersault Cloud, I have my own ways of traveling... Perhaps I can discuss it with my wives. I can accompany Master to fetch the scriptures during the day, then come back to be with them at night?"
Sun Wukong immediately burst out laughing.
This idiot...
He was always dreaming of good things!
At this moment, Tang Sanzang's face was full of reluctance. Of his three disciples, Bajie might have been ugly, but he knew how to talk, and he was always calling him Master this and Master that, fawning over him. Tang Sanzang was truly quite unwilling to part with him.
That was why he had asked Sun Wukong first, then Zhu Bajie...
Yet this idiot had been bewitched by lust, determined to stay behind and become their live-in son-in-law. Now, hearing Zhu Bajie say this, he immediately sighed.
"Forget it. Since you wish to be their husband... you should honestly remain here. They need a man to support the household. You must work diligently every day and never be lazy again..."
Zhu Bajie realized that was true as well.
Just as