After hearing this,
Great King Yellow Wind furrowed his brow and pondered for a while.
In the original course of events, Great King Yellow Wind knew that Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie were not easy to provoke. That was only natural... after all, he had seen the world before the Buddha Ancestor.
The first time Tiger Vanguard had tied Tang Sanzang up and brought him back,
the Yellow Wind Monster had said not to eat him yet.
"You don't understand. Eating him isn't the issue... but if his two disciples come to make trouble, they'll be hard to deal with. Tie him to the Wind-Calming Stake in the back courtyard first. If those two don't come bother us after three or five days, then we can eat him..."
"First, his body will be nice and clean. Second, we won't need to waste our breath and invite trouble. By then, whether we fry, stir-fry, boil, or deep-fry him, won't we be able to enjoy him at our leisure?"
At that time, the Yellow Wind Monster still harbored a bit of wishful thinking.
What if Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie did not come looking...
Wouldn't he have gotten a bargain?
When Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie came knocking, the Yellow Wind Monster even felt somewhat resentful. This was what he had said to Tiger Vanguard:
"I told you to patrol the mountain and bring back some mountain cattle or wild boars to eat... so why did you bring that Tang Sanzang here? You've provoked his disciples into coming here and making a fuss. What are we supposed to do now?"
This scene was remarkably like the art of leadership in later generations.
When there was profit to be made, they would say:
Just get it done!
The bolder the man, the greater