At that, Bajie squeezed in beside Six-Eared Macaque.
"So that's what happened!"
He glanced at Six-Eared Macaque, then at Wukong, and could not help laughing. "Ha! That's the trouble with you fellows and your cheating powers. Usually, you can hear everything and figure everything out, then one day you suddenly can't hear clearly, and you get scared out of your wits."
Six-Eared Macaque raised his head.
Bajie went on, "There are plenty of things your second brother can't figure out. If I got as scared as you every time, how would I get through the day? Not hearing clearly, not figuring things out-isn't that just normal?"
"Idiot! Shoo, shoo! How could Little Six be like you?"
Wukong laughed and scolded him, giving Bajie's leg a light kick.
"Besides, is it that you can't figure things out, or that you're too lazy to think?"
Bajie hurriedly dodged aside. "Brother Monkey, that's downright heartless. I'm kindly trying to comfort Little Six, and here you are making fun of me!"
Wukong ignored him, stood up, and ruffled Six-Eared Macaque's hair.
"Don't be afraid. What could possibly happen to me?"
He grinned and patted his chest. "Your big brother is the chief disciple of the Holy Monk on the Journey to Obtain the Scriptures, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong!"
Six-Eared Macaque looked at him for a while without speaking.
Bajie chimed in with another laugh. "Little Six, listen to your Brother Monkey."
"Besides, even if you can't hear, you've still got your martial uncle, our master!"
Then he turned to Xuanzang. "Isn't that right, Master? You were watching that old bull all this time. Surely you noticed something?"
Little White Dragon and Sha Wujing smiled at that and turned to Xuanzang as well.
Now that the Bull Demon King had appeared,