After listening, Sha Wujing nodded and pressed his palms together toward Xuanzang. "Master, is that how it is?"
Wukong, Bajie, and Little White Dragon all looked at Xuanzang as well.
Xuanzang did not answer directly as he usually did.
He merely glanced at A-Hu, then climbed down from his back.
Then he raised a hand and gently patted the back of A-Hu's neck.
"A-Hu, what do you think?"
Bajie froze.
"Huh?"
"What?"
"Master, who are you asking?"
Little White Dragon, however, smiled at A-Hu and nodded. "Right, A-Hu hasn't spoken yet."
Wukong smiled too. "A-Hu really ought to say something. He's always keeping himself apart from everyone!"
Seeing this, Sha Wujing also nodded and said in his guileless way, "Master and my senior brothers are right. I'd like to hear Senior Brother A-Hu speak too."
Bajie looked utterly bewildered.
He looked at Xuanzang.
Then at Wukong, Sha Wujing, and Little White Dragon.
Then he looked at A-Hu and pointed at him.
"What's going on? What are you all talking about? A-Hu can talk now?"
Wukong burst out laughing, threw an arm around Bajie, and said, "You really are a blockhead. Use your brain."
"A-Hu was already clever. Guanyin Bodhisattva personally enlightened him, and he's been listening to Master's lessons for so long."
"Did you really think he still couldn't talk?"
At that, Bajie slapped his forehead.
"Tsk, right! You're right, Brother Monkey."
But as soon as he said that, he suddenly sucked in a breath and pointed at himself.
"No, hold on."
"You all knew?"
"He could already talk ages ago?"
"I was the only one who didn't know?"
Sha Wujing hurriedly waved his hands and shook his head. "No, no, I only just found out myself."
"Last time, at Chen Family Village, Senior Brother A-Hu spoke up to remind