Mobile Meal Ticket as a Great Sage [Journey to the West]

"I also said, Miss Peach refuses to accept anything else, but only this pair of armguards." Zhu Bajie turned his head and glanced at the extra items on Monkey King's arms, and hummed, "It turns out that I gave it to you for personal gain. Brother Monkey, it’s convenient for you.”

To a certain extent, he was telling the truth, so Tao Zhen just smiled, lowered her head and said nothing.

Sun Wukong withdrew his gaze from the girl, and said with a sneer, "My old grandson borrowed this banana fan for myself?"

"Bajie, Wukong has spent a lot of effort this time, so please don't say a few words." Listening to their back and forth, Tang Seng shook his head helplessly on the horseback.

When he said this, Zhu Bajie could barely calm down, but his teeth were itching from the monkey's anger in his heart.Among the few of them, although they didn't say it publicly, Miss Tao was always the best to Brother Monkey.

Sun Wukong looked down at the armguard in his hand, then turned back to look at Taozhen, couldn't help but smile a little complacently.

... She must care about herself.

Along the way, everyone was still carrying the burden, leading the horse leading the horse, but Monkey King and Zhu Bajie alternated between leading the horse—anyway, Tao Zhen seemed to follow the Great Sage unintentionally every time, It seems like it's a coincidence to drift in front of the team from time to time.

One night, Tao Zhen suddenly had a dream. The moment she woke up, she couldn't remember the dream clearly. The only thing she could remember were the eyes of the Bull Demon King who were full of hatred.

But not to her, but to the Great Sage in the dream.

It was not yet dawn, but Taozhen was no longer sleepy, so she just kept her eyes open until the four of them woke up, and then the great sage reminded her to go on the road with the morning light all over her body.

Tao Zhen responded, and silently changed into her original form.

"Great Sage," Tao Zhen couldn't help asking the question she had been pondering for a long time, taking advantage of the fact that both of them were behind the line, "...what is the purpose of you escorting the elder to learn the scriptures?"

"Why do you ask this suddenly?" Sun Wukong was taken aback.

Tao Zhen immediately turned her eyes to look elsewhere: "Just ask casually when you think about it."

Just ask?Sun Wukong didn't take this question to heart either, he just snorted and said casually: "Does my old grandson have a choice?"

……indeed.Taozhen was dumbfounded, but she didn't want to understand it like a dead end, maybe what she wanted to ask more was——

"Then, great sage, do you... want to become a Buddha?"

The road to becoming a Buddha means being strangers to friends and brothers like the Bull Demon King in the past, cutting off everything in the world in the future, and being in deeper shackles.

"Becoming a Buddha?" Sun Wukong frowned, "I never thought about it."

He didn't seem to know what he really wanted.Maybe it's because the journey to learn the scriptures is too long, which makes him always feel that it is too far away to obtain the true results of the scriptures, so right now he has nothing to think about except Xitian.

I didn't think about it, but I didn't say I wanted to or I didn't want to.When Tao Zhen heard this answer, she couldn't tell whether she was relieved or felt more heavy in her heart.

"What's going on in your head every day?"

"I don't think about anything... I just don't know where I should go and what I should do if I wait until the day I arrive in Xitian."

Tao Zhen was really a little confused.

The story of Journey to the West, which she is familiar with, will stop forever after arriving in Xitian, and after that is the real unknown, the most frightening and hesitant unknown.

Monkey King replied without thinking, "Of course it's still the same as now."

Tao Zhen was startled when she heard the words, then she laughed and said, "How can it be the same? You will all become Buddhas at that time... Naturally, you don't have to stay together all the time like now working together to learn scriptures." At that time, each will have his own home.

"Then let the Buddha also grant you a Buddhahood."

Tao Zhen was taken aback for a moment, turned her head and just happened to meet the Great Sage with a careless smile.

I was made a little sentimental by the dream last night, why should I bother myself with these future things?And why use these things to make the Great Sage think about things that he didn't think about before.

Even if she will be separated from the Great Sage after arriving in Xitian... that will be in the future, at least they are still together now, and this memory is enough for her to cherish for a lifetime.

"But please don't, great sage," Taozhen smiled, but only she could understand the sourness in her smile, "I followed this road not to become a Buddha, and I want to go back to Taolin when the time comes."

"Back to Taolin?"

"correct."

"You...you are not my grandson's follower?" Sun Wukong turned his head to look at Taozhen, feeling a little nervous in his heart.

Taozhen was startled, then turned her head, and when she met those golden pupils, her heart beat faster and faster, and she suddenly smiled: "How could it be? Could it be that the Great Sage wants to drive me away again?"

Monkey King suddenly looked uncomfortable: "What do you mean I want to drive you away again."

"That was not the case before."

This sound seemed to be complaining, and he became more and more anxious when he heard it: "That time is not counted!"

Seeing his appearance, Tao Zhen couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help laughing out loud, the monkey froze for a moment, then turned around pretending to be vicious: "Are you kidding my old grandson?"

"Don't dare." He said so, but the smile on the corners of his brows and eyes did not fade at all.

Seeing her smiling almond eyes, Sun Wukong's embarrassment suddenly dissipated, he scratched the side of his face, pretending to be casual and said: "Then if my old grandson doesn't tell you, you won't leave, yes no?"

Tao Zhen smiled and nodded: "Yes."

"That's about the same." Sun Wukong grinned.

"Brother Monkey, Miss Peach, what are you whispering behind?" Zhu Bajie suddenly shouted, the sound brought both of them back to their senses, and Tao Zhen realized that they had fallen a little far, so she hurriedly replied: "Nothing, just come."

The journey to the west, said it was the same as usual... seems to be a little different.

Tao Zhen always felt that the Great Sage had changed.

She couldn't tell what the specific changes were, but many small things often caused some thoughts to flash through her mind, but after each incident, she felt superfluous.

For example, in the past, she tried her best to show her true nature as a "follower" in five or six times out of ten, and she would take the initiative to accompany the Great Sage whenever she had to, but now the Great Sage jumped onto the somersault cloud, then turned around and stretched out his hand to signal to pull her up.

In fact, there were several times when she was not going to go, but when the Great Sage stretched out his hand, she obediently put her hand in his palm as if she had drunk enchanted soup.

Another example is "extra" protecting her and the peaches on her tree.Now the peaches on her peach tree are only eaten by Tang Seng except him, and he is as stingy as a landlord and miser. Sometimes Tao Zhen can't bear to look at the aggrieved Zhu Bajie.And as soon as Zhu Bajie got close to her and talked to her, the Great Sage would kick the poor second senior brother away, or call her over directly.

Calling her in the past seems to ask her to help with something every time, but it seems a little strange.

"Peach tree spirit, my grandson's armguard is loose, come and have a look."

"Peach tree spirit, the white dragon horse refuses to eat grass anymore, come and have a look."

"Peach Tree Spirit—" Sun Wukong paused as if he was stuck in the middle of the shout, and then said directly, "Come here."

Tao Zhen has no doubts about him and walks to the river.

Sun Wukong handed her the bowl: "My old grandson doesn't like to touch water, please help me get some water to drink."

"..." Tao Zhen was at a loss for words, "Wouldn't it be good to just play the water-avoiding formula?"

"What do you do with water twisting to avoid water?" Sun Wukong looked at her inexplicably, looking at Tao Zhen speechlessly, but couldn't help but wondered in his heart that he used to fetch water well?

She took the purple gold bowl and walked to the river, the strange feeling in her heart came again.After scooping up the water, she got up and walked back, and finally walked to the great sage and handed the water over.

Monkey King took the bowl, and when he was raising his head to drink, Zhu Bajie came over again: "I'm thirsty, Brother Monkey, give me a drink too."

Monkey King paused, then drank the water, and finally the purple gold bowl fell straight into Zhu Bajie's arms.

"I want to drink and call myself."

"Brother Monkey, did you turn into a buffalo?" Zhu Bajie glanced at the empty bowl and couldn't help but sarcasm, "I saw it just now, Miss Peach is full."

"You idiot, you came here to take advantage because you saw that someone had already fetched water?"

"What do you mean by taking advantage, even taking a sip?"

"What's the matter." Tao Zhen had been silently watching the two bickering in front of her, but now she suddenly spoke out, and took the bowl from Zhu Bajie's arms, "It's just a bowl of water, anyway, I'm fine when I'm idle."

After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the river.

Tao Zhen faced the unignorable gaze behind her, her heart was beating fast but she pretended to be calm.

She doesn't know what she wants to test...

The river water was clear and sweet, Zhu Bajie was full after drinking, and sat down to rest contentedly, but before he left, he raised his face and smiled provocatively at Monkey King.

Sun Wukong gritted his teeth in his heart, this idiot...

It was simply against him on purpose!

"What are you doing to fetch water for him?" Monkey King snorted and sat down, "Be careful this idiot is getting lazy."

"It doesn't take much effort, besides, since you call me a senior brother, it is really regarded as a senior brother, but I only help you fetch water, the great sage, which is a little unreasonable." Taozhen couldn't help reaching out her hand while talking. Pull the stick of grass that grows exceptionally protruding by the foot.

Are they considered senior brothers?In the eyes of this peach tree spirit, is there no difference?

"Can my old grandson be the same as that idiot?"

Tao Zhen paused, the grass suddenly escaped from her grasp, and went straight up to the sky.

Dasheng thinks it should be different?Which is different?The kind of attendant?

"They're all senior brothers..." When she said this, she whispered a little, as if she was a little bit hopeless.

Sun Wukong frowned and retorted: "When did you call my brother Sun?"

Taozhen choked, and suddenly had an idea: "Didn't I never call the elder teacher?"

Having said that, her names for the four masters and apprentices are quite confusing, and no one has ever mentioned this matter, and everyone seems to accept it naturally.

Just mentioning this made Sun Wukong intrigued, he reluctantly forgot what he said just now, and took a moment to turn around and look at Taozhen with a grin and said, "Hello, senior brother?"

Tao Zhen was dumbfounded for a moment, and she couldn't speak fluently: "Ah? But, it's not the Great Sage who has been called all the time, why is it so good..."

"Just call and listen."

Sun Wukong leaned closer with his hands on his side, his eyebrows and eyes looked malicious, Tao Zhen just took a look at this look and then quickly looked away, the tips of her ears were burning rapidly, but her throat seemed to be stuffed with cotton, the three No words could be spoken.

Just an ordinary title, why is she so embarrassed?Is it because you are used to calling "Great Sage"?

"I can't change my words for a while..."

Sun Wukong seemed to be playing a rascal all of a sudden, he refused to let her go, and smiled mischievously: "Hurry up."

Tao Zhen's face flushed slightly, and she finally broke her can and said, "...Elder brother."

This cry was very soft, and Sun Wukong felt like a puff of smoke flew into his ears, and it was slightly itchy, just like she scratched his tail last time, and his whole body felt weak...

But I can't say what's wrong.He wagged his tail wildly behind him, retracted the hand propped by his side, turned and scratched his face uncomfortably, and finally gave a vague "huh".

The voice of "big brother" was soft and crisp, and the last sound seemed to have a small tail trembling upwards.

It seems to be different from when we shouted "Great Sage".

The two of them faced each other in silence in this suddenly strange atmosphere.

"puff"

Suddenly there was a slight noise, Sun Wukong's eyes moved, and he looked aside, only to find that the grass was torn off by a slender white hand.

Tao Zhen leaned back according to her inertia, and she found something when she tilted her head again and again.

The tail was wagging wildly.

Looking at the ears of the Great Sage again, is this... shy?

She is not the only one who is embarrassed, so there is nothing to be embarrassed about, but some mischievous thoughts suddenly appeared in her heart.

Tao Zhen suppressed her laughter and the last bit of pitiful embarrassment, and said deliberately: "Brother? What's the matter? Why don't you talk?"